The Magical Hunter Girl Decorates the Dungeon! - Chapter 95

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The Magical Hunter Girl Decorates a Dungeon! Episode 95
The bad feeling had come true.
While searching the Research Institute for the black pegasus, she caught glimpses of farewells unfolding here and there.
“My little one…….”
“Coo, coo!”
The raccoon, leaning its head against the Convenience Store Owner one last time, vanished with a soft pop. The owner touched the empty space where it had been with trembling hands.
The zebra departed. The pigeon departed.
And so, naturally, the child Lee Ji had raised…….
“Neigh, neigh, neigh.”
Jun-seo stepped forward first, accepting reality. He’d been stroking the pegasus’s head, but the moment Lee Ji approached, he swallowed hard as if downing bitter medicine and took a step back.
Lee Ji reached out to touch the pegasus’s head, wrestling with the thought.
‘Could I possibly take it with me?’
The most certain method—Decoration Points—had already been exhausted.
The next option that came to mind was bringing it to the Greenhouse. If she dug it up with a transplanting spade, it might be treated as a seedling.
But the moment Lee Ji raised the spade, the pegasus shook its head as if it understood exactly what that meant.
“Little foal…….”
Behind her, the sound of others holding back sighs rippled outward. Sometimes she could hear quiet sniffles. She’d thought adults wouldn’t be shaken by one mere animal, over such a brief span of time. But it seemed she was wrong.
Then again, how could anyone ignore eyes so full of love?
The pegasus nuzzled against Jun-seo.
“Neigh, neigh, neigh.”
“……Was I cool?”
“Whinny!”
“Yeah. I’ll keep being cool from now on.”
The pegasus’s tail draped over Jun-seo’s shoulder. He stroked it without a word, but made sure Lee Ji never saw his face.
Moments later, the pegasus itself faded thinly into the air.
“…….”
The sky distorted into a dull haze. Most certainly, it was because of that pegasus.
Those who’d said their farewells slumped to the ground one by one. Even for Lee Ji, the exhaustion that had accumulated while incubating and raising the eggs caught up with her belatedly.
Still, before she could sit down,
“……You waited so long, didn’t you? The best, coolest puppy there ever was.”
she managed to pet the head of the great dog that had been waiting obediently beside her all this while.
In the space left by the dog’s departure, as Lee Ji hastily wiped her tears, Jun-seo spotted someone.
“Hey, Hong Sang-chul!”
It was a boy in a uniform stained with ramen broth. Probably the child who’d gone missing from the convenience store. He wailed and clung to Jun-seo.
Meanwhile, beyond the dungeon landscape growing ever fainter, the real world came into sharp focus.
‘Ah…… Taekwon-ro Intersection.’
Red sirens rotated, flashing urgently.
In front of the pavement, the Basketball Coach continued bowing to a weeping middle-aged woman. She appeared to be the family of the child who’d been dragged into the dungeon first—Sang-chul’s mother.
‘Cheer up, everyone! We’re all right!’
Si-heon came over beside her and spoke.
“Lee Ji, deactivate Transformation soon. If the people here start talking about your achievements, they’ll blame Han Ji-hyeok in a heartbeat.”
“Ah, yes! Are you all right, sir?”
Unexpectedly, Si-heon looked fine—as if lying sprawled on the ground earlier had been a lie.
He glanced at Hae-cho, who looked equally unharmed, and whispered.
“Don’t worry about me. You look exhausted and get ready to return to the adults.”
Just then, behind the police, several adults with distinctly grim expressions came into view. The tall one standing out like a giraffe was Jun-seo’s father. Clinging to him was presumably Jun-seo’s mother. And further back…….
‘Sister!’
A face unmistakable even as the world darkened around her.
The moment she recognized it, tears nearly burst forth.
Sister. She’d wanted to make today her day…….
‘Ugh…… Get a grip. Can’t let them know you’re an Awakened One!’
She couldn’t add more worry to her plate.
Lee Ji immediately deactivated her summons.
As a result, she didn’t notice Si-heon staring at Hyun-ji with eyes that looked about to pop out of his head.
Transformation, deactivated.
A message appeared in succession.
[Final reward obtained upon Dungeon Erasure (scheduled)]
: Basic Ability Enhanced by 20%
Error!
Reward effect minimal due to low basic ability
Individual balance adjustment…… Reward approved for Hunter “Shin Lee Ji” only
Basic Ability Enhanced by 50%
[Partial random distribution of remaining Dungeon resources]
Additional rewards obtained
: Unrefined Crude Oil—5L
: Amber Fossil—1ea
Thud—!
A plastic container dropped right in front of Lee Ji. She grabbed it before anyone could see and stashed it in her Inventory.
‘Oh, it’s lighter than I expected!’
Though the numbers don’t show it, her strength has increased as well.
And what was visible had grown too.
Her maximum MP had increased to 93!
[Gardener’s Song]
: Remaining Decoration Points 4/12
‘I can add more pretty things!’
Energy surged through her in an instant!
Meanwhile, the dungeon landscape had faded completely—
“Oh…… Look, someone’s appeared!”
“Huh? Hey, Officer Kim! Control the crowd, quick!”
The people gathered in the Research Institute courtyard were suddenly placed at Taekwon-ro Intersection.
Freedom didn’t arrive immediately.
As police controlled the crowd, a middle-aged Civil Hunter rushed over to the Civil Hunter who’d first entered the dungeon.
“Those two there—can you file a report right now?”
The two Civil Hunters couldn’t speak for a moment.
Between incubating and raising two chicks, and having their energy drained while trapped in eggs, they were exhausted, and besides, this wasn’t a situation that could be summed up in a sentence or two.
Then one civilian survivor from the dungeon pointed at Lee Ji.
“That, that girl seemed to accomplish a lot…….
Lee Ji panicked internally.
‘This can’t happen!’
It was unavoidable.
What those people might have seen and heard through the eggs was an encouraging girl’s voice and the flutter of a dress’s shadow.
The exhausted Ji-hyeok, the rabbit, the brown bear, and Hae-cho—they wouldn’t have been seen at all.
Just before even the Convenience Store Owner beside them could nod in agreement,
Lee Ji rushed over to Ji-hyeok, who lay sprawled on the ground.
“Right, that’s right! I did accomplish a lot! So, Hunter sir, please make me transform awesomely like before, quickly!”
“Huh?”
“I want to show you how impressively I accomplished things! Hurry!”
The moment the Civil Hunter and police tilted their heads in confusion,
Hae-cho, who’d been standing back, approached. The middle-aged Civil Hunter recognized her.
“Ah, you’re an Association member! Are you all right?”
“Of course.”
Hae-cho stretched as if she’d just returned from hiking. The Civil Hunter was taken aback.
“A Dungeon Break did occur…… correct?”
“Yes. This person solved it, so I just watched. They created Princess Dior and animals with a skill.”
“This person is…… Han, Cheon, Hyeok?”
Ji-hyeok, hearing the fake name from his ID, turned his head. He’d already regained consciousness when his abilities were enhanced by the dungeon reward.
The moment their eyes met,
“……Huh?”
The Civil Hunter seemed to notice the boy’s age, his expression growing peculiar. That’s when Ji-hyeok realized his mask had been knocked off—
Just before he could lie back down and hide his face again,
his eyes met Lee Ji’s, anxious and searching.
“…….”
Now Ji-hyeok couldn’t back down.
Just then, the Unrefined Crude Oil container—a reward he hadn’t managed to stash in his Inventory—caught his eye.
Ji-hyeok hastily poured its contents and smeared it across his face, then straightened up. His voice, hoarse from fatigue, rumbled low.
“Yes. I resolved the Dungeon Break that occurred at Taekwon-ro Intersection.”
“Really?”
“Of course.”
Hae-cho stepped back. Jun-seo and Lee Ji hid behind her.
“I handled everything myself.”
Click! Click! Smartphone cameras began flashing from all directions. The police’s shouting was useless.
“Put down your phones! Don’t come closer!”
“Wow, that’s cool.”
“Never seen him before. Is he a strong Hunter?”
Meanwhile, the freed survivors were somewhat bewildered.
That girl had definitely been running around impressively. Hadn’t the chicks said so themselves?
Then Ji-hyeok glared at them, and a confident, obnoxious tone naturally flowed out. The concept of following a clear role model came across smoothly.
“Well, of course everything was done with my skills. You could say it was essentially Solo Play. If I’m S-Rank, this much is expected, right?”
The only person who could refute it, Hae-cho, was too busy clutching her abdomen and trembling with suppressed laughter to let anyone throw in a counter-argument.
As a finishing touch, Ji-hyeok swept back his bangs. The sticky crude oil pulled the boy’s hair up into a 1970s pomade style.
Ten minutes later,
Korea’s Hunter internet communities erupted with the topic: “Now that Jin Si-heon is gone, a new lunatic has appeared—does the Korean Hunter world have some kind of conservation law for crazy solo players?”

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