The Magical Hunter Girl Decorates the Dungeon! - Chapter 89

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The Magic Hunter Girl Decorates the Dungeon! Episode 89
“Hm. How in the world did this creature’s tail end up like this?”
“…….”
“The tail is really…… sturdy. It has scales. Rough and tough. Hmm.”
He pretended to be uninterested, arms folded across his chest, but his eyes refused to leave the tail that resembled a dinosaur’s.
“Prrrt.”
Pegasus swished his tail as if annoyed. In that instant, the Dinosaur Doctor flopped flat on the laboratory floor and examined the underside of the tail. His mouth stretched into an enormous grin.
“Ah, magnificent! Yes. With that tail, facing down a Tyrannosaurus……!”
“Oh, you just said it was magnificent!”
“Ahem!”
Lee Ji pointed it out, and the Dinosaur Doctor sprang to his feet, clearing his throat. But it was already too late.
“You said it was cool, didn’t you? Our little chick.”
“……The tail is.”
“I know you think the wings and body are cool too. Please complete the quest.”
“Sigh…….”
The Dinosaur Doctor scratched the back of his head vigorously. The way his tongue was clicking didn’t bode well.
‘People who stall like this usually make some villainous proposal.’
This doctor probably wouldn’t be any different.
Lee Ji positioned herself in front of Jun-seo, preparing her Transformation.
The doctor opened his mouth.
“Right. Among all the chicks I’ve seen here, you were the most impressive! It may not be perfect, but attempting a Hybrid itself is progress.”
“…….”
“Which is why it’s such a shame to let you go like this.”
“Are you going to lock us up?”
“What a terrible thing to say! I simply wish to ask for your cooperation.”
The doctor pointed at the egg incubator.
“Would you mind raising a few more eggs? Between the two of you, which one had an interest in dinosaurs?”
Jun-seo raised his hand, his face slightly flushed.
“I only liked them until last year! I don’t care for them much anymore.”
“That’s fine. I’d like you to put in more effort and produce chicks with a high dinosaur content. Other animals mixed in are acceptable. It might even draw the interest of adults who’ve lost their fascination with dinosaurs.”
“…….”
“Of course, there will be compensation. Well now…….”
The doctor opened a machine beside him that looked like an electric rice cooker. The padlock fell away, and from beneath the thick lid came—
“Magic Stones.”
They lay neatly stacked inside the inner pot.
The opaque color didn’t suggest high quality, but the rainbow light that shimmered continuously within drew the eye irresistibly.
Most of all, there were many of them.
“Wow…….”
“The Awakened child has discerning eyes, doesn’t she? Hehehehe.”
The doctor closed the lid.
Jun-seo muttered from beside him.
“That rice cooker lid has ‘For the Master’s Use Only. Forbidden for Ordinary Believers’ written on it.”
“Wait, Doctor. Where did you get that from?”
At Lee Ji’s question, the Dinosaur Doctor shrugged.
“When I opened the Dungeon, it fell out from somewhere.”
“Then it belongs to someone!”
“It’s mine now! Humans use things they dig from underground without permission, don’t they? Oil and coal and such!”
“…….”
“Anyway, I’ll give you a handful of these for each chick, so please hatch the eggs a few more times. I’m asking nicely.”
The Dinosaur Doctor bowed his head. All the while, Jun-seo’s eyes remained fixed on the rice cooker. Any elementary school student knows that Magic Stones are more expensive than gems.
The moment Jun-seo was about to say ‘Maybe one egg….’ Lee Ji’s clear voice cut through his.
“No.”
“Huh?”
“Hatching even one egg was incredibly difficult. I felt like sitting on an actual egg for twenty-one days would be easier.”
If Jun-seo had to incubate another one, he might actually collapse.
And…….
“This Dungeon keeps growing stronger, doesn’t it? Isn’t it possible the eggs are draining our energy and feeding it to the Dungeon?”
Jun-seo swallowed his shock.
But the Dinosaur Doctor simply smiled and laid out his logic.
“Raising young ones consumes tremendous energy, naturally. And since children aren’t the possessions of their guardians, it’s only natural not to reclaim that energy.”
“I never agreed to this. I won’t incubate any more eggs. Let us out.”
Lee Ji refused to say anything more. All that mattered now was making her wishes clear.
The Dinosaur Doctor seemed taken aback by her firm stance—
and muttered in a low voice.
“……Agree? Do you need agreement?”
“Of course—
“If you don’t like it, what will you do about it? You have no choice. You’ll keep giving me energy until I get the chick I want! Khahahaha!”
The Dinosaur Doctor revealed his true nature completely. He took an egg in each of his front claws and began to walk.
Lee Ji cried out.
“What do you want?”
“To fill this beautiful world with diverse and magnificent creatures.”
“Isn’t it already like that?”
The doctor answered firmly.
“There are no dinosaurs. Only me.”
“…….”
“Of course, mammals, crustaceans, rodents and the like are wonderful too. I respect the appearance of all living things. But…… honestly, is there any creature more magnificent than a dinosaur? No! There isn’t!”
Good heavens.
‘More childish than a kindergartener!’
Even a kindergartener would know humans aren’t the coolest thing in the world!
“I can’t agree with your dream!”
“That’s not my concern.”
The Dinosaur Doctor removed his coat and stepped forward. Beneath his short pants, hind legs with threateningly long claws were revealed.
The doctor grinned widely and spoke.
“Hehehehe! So, will you become my meal, or the incubator for our eggs?”
Lee Ji answered calmly.
“I’ll become a magical girl.”
“……Ma, what?”
“Transformation!”
Even indoors, pure white light enveloped Lee Ji. Each time the spring breeze touched her skin, ruffles spread across her arms and legs.
There was one concern.
‘Enemies can’t move during my Transformation. Will it work on dinosaurs too?’
Not attacking during Transformation was human common sense, not dinosaur common sense.
‘If I get attacked while transforming, I’m in danger!’
Her worries were half-confirmed.
“What is this……?”
The Dinosaur Doctor stared at Lee Ji with a blank expression for a moment. The skill didn’t work on him. Soon his eyes sharpened and he raised his hind legs.
“No way!”
“Woof! Woof!”
“Squeee-eek!”
Jun-seo, Puppy, and Pegasus tried to block Lee Ji’s path.
But with just one fierce, rumbling growl and step from the Dinosaur Doctor, Puppy curled his tail and sat down in fear.
Pegasus succeeded in spreading his wings to shield Lee Ji.
……But.
The person who ended up standing at the very front, protecting them all, was Jun-seo.
Between Pegasus’s wings, Jun-seo’s small hands were visible, and the Dinosaur Doctor’s claws moving toward him.
‘No!’
There were only seconds until Lee Ji’s shoes touched the ground. But could she push that dinosaur back alone? Could she summon a friend?
And in that moment.
An unexpected ally arrived.
“Hraaaaah!”
The person swinging a weapon at the Dinosaur Doctor’s head was surely—
Jun-seo shouted.
“Ji-hyeok!”
Crack—!
Ji-hyeok’s Mace came down on the Dinosaur Doctor’s wing joint. Just before the weapon struck the back of his head, the dinosaur lifted his wings, dodging the killing blow.
The creature shrieked in a torn voice.
“Squawk!”
There was no follow-up. Ji-hyeok, worn from fighting somewhere else, dropped to one knee, his clothes dirty with dust and cobwebs.
Just as the Transformation finished.
“Black King Rabbit Summoning! Geum-hee Summoning!”
Thump, and boom!
Si-heon asked the most important question the moment he landed.
“Who’s the enemy?”
“That dinosaur there!”
“Should I drive it to extinc—”
Si-heon belatedly noticed Jun-seo and Ji-hyeok’s presence.
‘Why are those two here?’
“……Meow.”
As he hastily added a concept word, his already unsteady stance lost its balance.
The moment the rabbit’s hind legs slipped helplessly, Geum-hee grabbed the dinosaur from behind. His claws couldn’t defend against the bear who’d closed the distance in an instant.
“Hup-cha!”
Back Drop—!
The Dinosaur Doctor was thrown to the ground by the professional wrestling technique Geum-hee had casually picked up.
“Squawk!”
His head hit the floor, and the impact knocked his glasses flying. They shattered on impact. Geum-hee clicked her tongue.
“Tsk, if you had glasses you should’ve said so. I would’ve gone easy on you.”
This statement lacked conviction, seeing as she was tightening the Dinosaur Doctor’s joints as she spoke.
Even though his body structure differed from a human’s, the Dinosaur Doctor, being a creature with bones, screamed.
“Stop, stop! Violent one, please, let’s talk about this!”
“I don’t care. Lee Ji, what in the world is all this? I got texts saying the F-rank Dungeon became E-rank, then D-rank, then C-rank.”
“……It’s like this.”
“Just tell me what needs to be done. We can talk about the longer story back home while eating roasted sweet potato.”
“Here, we’ve done everything we can.”
After all, they’d subdued the source of the problem, the Dinosaur Doctor.
Lee Ji watched Ji-hyeok breathing heavily beside her and asked.
“How did you end up like that?”
He’d said he was going to find the missing civil servant earlier.
Covered in cobwebs, Ji-hyeok finally caught his breath and opened his mouth.

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