The Magical Hunter Girl Decorates the Dungeon! - Chapter 96

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The Magical Hunter Girl Decorates the Dungeon! Episode 96
After that, the scene was tidied up slowly.
The medical team arrived first.
They gave those who had emerged from the Dungeon a quick examination, then loaded three or four exhausted people into ambulances.
Sang-chul, the first victim from Basketball Class, was among them.
“Oh, my poor Sang-chul…….”
“He’s conscious and has no injuries. Please reassure him from beside him that he’s safe now.”
Sang-chul left for the hospital with his mother.
Jun-seo’s parents embraced him tightly from both sides. They were both so tall that Jun-seo, sandwiched between them, disappeared from view entirely.
And Lee Ji…….
“Unnie…….”
Hyun-ji examined each of Lee Ji’s fingers carefully with a desperate expression. Then she interlaced Lee Ji’s hands and asked urgently.
“You’re not in any pain right now, are you? Let’s go to the emergency room.”
“Unnie, I’m fine. Really, I’m fine.”
Except for being a little tired from using Magical Power, she was perfectly well. She could even walk home.
But her sister only grew more serious.
“You can’t say you’re fine. You can’t possibly be fine.”
……
“This was a C-rank Dungeon, they said. If you say you’re fine, that’s what’s terrifying. Look how hard everyone else is struggling.”
The disaster alert had only been sent until the Dungeon upgraded to C-rank. It was a blessing in disguise.
And conveniently, there was still an excuse nearby. Lee Ji pointed at Ji-hyeok and shouted.
“I’m really fine because he protected us!”
Jun-seo chimed in from beside her.
“That’s right! He protected us!”
“We didn’t see anything creepy!”
“He only had us do fun things! Thanks to him, I even rode a winged horse!”
“Yeah! He even dressed us up as princesses!”
“He defeated the bad dinosaur and punched the asteroid away!”
“It was like being at an amusement park!”
A brief look of bewilderment flashed across Ji-hyeok’s face.
‘Me? I’m supposed to bear that much dignity?’
But the children’s sparkling eyes, the worried suspicion written across Lee Ji’s sister’s face, and Lee Ji’s own words about wanting to pamper her sister—
Ji-hyeok had no choice but to affirm everything.
“Don’t praise me for something so trivial. It’s annoying.”
The children probably never imagined he’d set the beat in such an infuriatingly ungracious way.

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May 9th.
Lee Ji belatedly discovered the flowers she’d brought yesterday drooping. Her shoulders drooped too.
‘I killed the flowers so carelessly! Now I’m no different from Clovis’s brother!’
“I’m sorry……. I forgot to water them.”
“They’re still beautiful, and I can make them even more beautiful. Want me to show you?”
“Really? How?”
“Wait a few days.”
Hyun-ji bundled them carefully, hung them upside down on the calendar, then gathered fresh flowers to bring to their parents.
Saturday. The road toward the Ossuary was quite congested.
“Unnie…….”
“No apologizing for things you didn’t do. Are your friends all okay?”
“Yeah, Jun-seo’s perfectly fine. Sang-chul was discharged too.”
“Sang-chul? That’s from Basketball Class, then.”
“Yeah. We’re not that close.”
But it was a secret from her sister—
According to what Jun-seo had told her, it seemed Sang-chul was the cause of the Dungeon.
The next day, Sang-chul confessed to the children who came to visit him.
‘I failed my basketball test and was crying on the way home when someone called out to me. They said there was a stone that would make you good at anything.’
‘Since it was Parents’ Day, I really wanted to show Mom. I made a wish on the stone to do well on the test, but then it suddenly started glowing and……. I fell into the Dungeon.’
The stone merchant, instead of taking money, had told him to come pray at their Prayer Room. It turned out the merchant was part of a Cult Group.
It seemed the stone merchant himself got caught up in the Dungeon, suffered along with everyone else, and was hospitalized.
‘To give dangerous material to a child, that’s a truly terrible adult.’
“Ah, traffic’s clearing up. Lee Ji, grab the flowers.”
“Okay!”
The Ossuary the day after Parents’ Day was a riot of Carnations in all materials and colors. It looked just like a rose garden, and Lee Ji felt strangely delighted.
‘I should make my own flowers bloom at Mom and Dad’s place too!’
“Hm? Looks like we had a visitor.”
“Huh?”
Before Shin Je-seok and Kim Yeon-ju’s altar, a yellow card was placed. Hyun-ji opened it.
Hello.
I thought I might meet your whole family today, but the timing didn’t work out. I came and left.
I’m always rooting for your family and wishing for a beautiful future.
-Lee Sa-
‘It’s Uncle Lee Sa!’
The card even had a real four-leaf clover attached to it.
The clover not being fully dry suggested he’d left less than a day ago.
Her sister’s expression, however, was ambiguous.
“Unnie. What’s wrong? Who is he?”
“Someone Mom and Dad know. I’m not sure why he came by.”
“Maybe he came to see a friend?”
“From what I know, they weren’t quite that close. Mom and Dad seemed a bit uncomfortable with him.”
“……Is that so?”
“Don’t worry about it. Come on, give me the Carnation. Let’s present it to Mom and Dad.”
While her sister was arranging the Carnation, Lee Ji took the card for a moment. And she noticed something strange.
Looking at the four-leaf clover, an information window appeared. It wasn’t a normal clover—it was an item.
[Four-Leaf Clover of Special Possibility]
: Increases probability of special encounters!
A special encounter! Just reading it made her heart race.
‘I want it…… but!’
“Lee Ji. Do you want the four-leaf clover?”
“……No! It’s a gift Mom and Dad received, so I’ll just give it to them.”
“All right.”
Hyun-ji attached the card again to the outside of the glass. For some reason, even though it was an object that summoned luck, she didn’t want to keep it right beside Mom and Dad.
On the way back after greeting their parents for the first time in months since New Year’s.
“Hum hum—”
“Feeling good, Lee Ji?”
“Yeah. A little.”
She’d met Mom and Dad, and she’d been half-successful in giving flowers to her sister.
Though yesterday was tough, and there was a sad farewell…….
‘They said you mustn’t just sit in that place after experiencing separation.’
Taking one step at a time increases the probability, even slightly, of meeting again with those you’ve parted from.
Of course, she’d learned that from .
‘I’ll be able to meet new allies from now on! I’ve gotten stronger!’
But then, right at that moment, her sister forced out a cheerful voice.
“You know, Lee Ji.”
The moment she heard it, goosebumps rose all over Lee Ji’s arms.
‘This is the tone Unnie uses every time she takes me to the dentist!’
“Why……?”
“Because Dungeons keep popping up here and there lately, and you’ve already fallen into one twice, so I’m a bit scared.”
“……Yeah.”
“So that’s why I’m asking—would you go to just one academy in the afternoon?”
A sad premonition never lies.
The harsh adult world was encroaching on the magical girl’s free time.
Even so…….
“Anything you want to do is fine.”
There was an undeniable charm in those words—anything at all.

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The top-floor Meeting Room of the Hunter Association.
The Vice Association Chairman, who’d gone without sleep for two days over work related to the Dungeon ‘The Dream Above Ground Blooming Below’, opened his mouth looking like a corpse.
“The analysis results for the Cult Dinosaur Dungeon have come in.”
No one had called the Dungeon by its official name.
“An E-rank Mana Stone from an F-rank Dungeon flowed into a Cult Group’s hands, and the Cult sold it as a ‘Wish-Granting Stone.’ A Basketball Class student bought the stone, made a wish, and accidentally dropped it into a cup of instant noodles. The moment it hit the broth, the Dungeon opened.”
“What kind of noodles?”
“It doesn’t matter. By chance, at that exact moment when the Dungeon opened, the Cult Group nearby was also making wishes in front of a Mana Stone. Perhaps multiple ‘wishes’ activated the stone.”
Another Hunter in his forties responded seriously.
“You mean ‘heart’ opened the Dungeon? I didn’t expect you to think something so unscientific, Vice Chairman.”
“And instant noodles makes sense?”
“……Temperature perhaps, or some specific seasoning acting as a catalyst—”
“There’s one more piece of analysis that’s more certain than that.”
The Vice Association Chairman held up a transparent ziplock bag. Inside were the threatening claws of a beast…….
And Magical Power that only Hunters could recognize swirled around it.
“We’ve infused the Magical Power of the entity running the Dungeon, ‘Dinosaur Scholar’ Deinonychus, into his claws. Hae-cho the Hunter brought them back.”
The moment the Dungeon Break was resolved.
Hae-cho rushed to the Research Lab faster than anyone and, beside the collapsed Dinosaur Scholar lying there, briefly used the Pool of Hae-cho skill.
She drained a portion of the Scholar’s Magical Power.
The exhaustion had been an act to guard against Si-heon. She still had plenty of strength left to pull off that kind of move.
Afterward, if she tore off a piece of the unconscious Dinosaur Scholar’s body and absorbed Magical Power into it—
She could partially recreate part of the Dinosaur Scholar and create a clue to analyze the Dungeon operator.

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