The Magical Hunter Girl Decorates the Dungeon! - Chapter 99

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The Magical Hunter Girl Decorates a Dungeon! Episode 99

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The Gunjairan Guild building, located in Seocho-gu, Seoul.
A roar erupted from the Human Resources office.
“Who the hell wrote that post on the internet trying to recruit a Hero?”
The office fell silent. The Section Chief raised his voice again.
“Don’t play dumb. We traced the IP and it came from inside this building. Are we so broke, so desperate for face that we have to resort to this? If we need talent, we buy information and make contact the proper way!”
“…….”
“No, we’ve completely lost face over this. Hunters Net—that’s a site crawling with trash-tier E and F-rank Hunters. What good does it do us if word gets out that we’re even looking there?”
Just then, a Deputy who’d been hesitating raised his hand.
“Sir.”
“What.”
“I checked the information trading sites too, but there was nothing useful. You’d think at least some garbage information would turn up for pocket money, but……”
“…….”
“The only place information circulates is Hunters Net. The Hero actually checks there from time to time. I’m certain of that much.”
“Checks there? You mean to find stories of struggling Hunters and help them out?”
“Yes, sir.”
The Section Chief let out a short laugh.
“Well, if you’re going to write a post anyway, there’s an easier way to get his attention. Why didn’t you use that?”
“Excuse me? What do you—awk!”
The Section Chief suddenly lunged forward and wrenched the Deputy’s arm behind his back.
“Why would you do that! Ow, stop!”
“You said he shows up for unreasonable situations, right? So if something unreasonable happens at our company, wouldn’t he come straight to us?”
The Deputy gasped.
“I’m kidding, just kidding.”
The Section Chief released the Deputy’s arm with a chuckle, then snapped back into a stern expression.
“Look, I’ll grant that our guild needs fresh blood, but we’re not desperate enough to bank on someone whose abilities and personality are unclear! That guy hasn’t even cleared any notable Dungeons!”
“…….”
“And recruiting through internet forums? Is a real Hero going to fall for that? All he’ll think is that this supposedly famous guild is so broke they’re scraping the bottom. He’ll run a mile.”
“Yes…… understood.”
“Then delete the post. And put out an official job posting—A-rank or higher preferred, special skills prioritized, or Hunters with the Mind Control ability given preference.”
The Section Chief left the office as if his work was done.
Moments later, the Human Resources staff slumped into their chairs and began gossiping.
“A job posting? Ha, the General Affairs Department already rejected us—said the first-half hiring budget was exhausted. This is just so we can both tell ourselves we did our part.”
“Our guild’s gotten too stale. That’s why we dropped out of the top five fastest of all.”
“……We really do need talent though.”
Talent that could shatter Gunjairan Guild’s stagnant atmosphere—that’s what they needed.
The Hero was precisely that kind of person.
The Dungeons he’d cleared were mostly low-rank, but among the Hunters he’d defeated were even some C-rank fighters. That’s why people estimated the Hero’s rank at B or higher.
Talent that would receive top-tier treatment at any ordinary company.
Moreover, the way he’d forced Dungeon operators to reform suggested he almost certainly possessed a Mind Control ability.
Rarity approaching the supernatural.
The staff exchanged desperate glances—
But desire alone couldn’t change a company’s culture.
“Sigh…… I don’t know. I’ll go ahead and draft the job posting as the Section Chief asked.”
“Damn it. Ten years in this industry and our company’s turned into stagnant water. The other top five guilds all seem to have such good energy……”
Meanwhile, in the office of the ATK Guild, ranked fourth.
An employee burst out laughing.
“That recruitment post from Hunters Net the other day—I’m telling you, it was definitely from Gunjairan Guild! Just got confirmation!”
“Pffahahaha! So they really are about to drop to sixth next quarter!”
“Those guys—only some of their staff are scrambling. The problem’s at the top; the leadership’s rotten. But did the Hero contact us?”
“As if. ……But say he did show up—who’d even take the call? Who’s our HR person again?”
“……We really should set up a Human Resources department.”
“People have been saying that for a year now, you bunch of fundamentally clueless idiots.”
The ATK Guild—famous for focusing solely on Dungeon conquest.
Lacking system and structure, but ranked in the top five guilds thanks to their distinctive aggressive spirit and solid performance.
However, as the guild had grown larger, internal friction had begun to show. They needed more diverse talent to maintain this scale.
Someone murmured aloud.
“I really want to know more about the Hero. Any intel?”
Then someone raised their hand.
“Nothing major, but I did find something.”
“How’d you manage that? The information markets were completely picked clean.”
“Legwork. I found Hunters who were working in the Dungeons on the days the Hero showed up and asked around. Anything unusual happen?”
“And? What came up?”
The employee pushed up his glasses sharply as he spoke.
“Multiple witnesses reported seeing a massive moth in the area around the Dungeon that day!”
“……Seriously? Large moths are everywhere in my apartment!”
“A moth the size of a hiking backpack, they said. It’s unusual enough on its own, but everyone who saw it apparently wanted to pretend they hadn’t.”
As if anyone would genuinely ignore a giant moth.
The guild members heard “hiking backpack-sized” and began working through the logic, each spinning out a theory.
“Could he turn into a moth? Maybe he’s a transformation-type Hunter!”
“What if moth wing powder is how he induces hypnosis? He can manipulate animal minds too!”
ATK Guild was younger and freer in atmosphere than Gunjairan Guild, sure—but they were still a wealthy top-ranked guild. None of them considered the possibility that the Hero might have used something as trivial as a moth-costume cloak, an F-rank item.
Regardless, they trusted their reasoning and pushed ahead.
“Skill effects get much weaker outside Dungeons. So for him to turn into a moth even smaller than a person—doesn’t that suggest the skill-caster has a small frame?”
“If he’s a Beast Taming Hunter, he’d be someone who likes animals. The type who wouldn’t even mind insects or bugs.”
The staff looked at each other and shook their heads.
“Ehehe. We’re really reaching on this one!”
“Yeah, seriously. Let’s investigate more systematically.”
An employee muttered.
“The way he always finds Dungeon entrances like he has supernatural senses—either he’s an infiltration genius, he’s got inside connections, or…… there’s a chance he actually got hired as daily labor to get in directly.”
That last sentence became a landmark moment for several staff members. A middle manager shouted.
“Pull together a list of Dungeons where the Hero’s shown up, contact the companies that own them, and get information on all the daily laborers hired on those days. If there’s even one name that overlaps, report it immediately.”

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Lee Ji had chosen a piano academy.
Hyun-ji agreed without hesitation.
‘I didn’t know Lee Ji was interested in piano. Hope she enjoys learning.’
The truth was there was only one reason for choosing the piano academy.
It was located on Taekwon Road.
‘That F-rank Dungeon on Taekwon Road…… I want it.’
But only corporations and guilds could participate in Dungeon Auctions.
Si-heon winced at the mere mention of guilds, and Lee Ji didn’t have a Hunter license.
Unless Geum-hui learned Body Multiplication, a guild was just a distant dream.
Still, she wanted to sneak glances at that F-rank Dungeon whenever she could.
So she’d walked into the piano academy with zero real expectations.
The first lesson was boring.
“To play piano, you need to learn the musical scale.”
Reading sheet music and notes was harder than memorizing multiplication tables.
Why did they have to thread circles through lines on the staff when you could just put a dot in any empty space?
‘They look like candy on a stick.’
This one’s green-grape-flavored, this one’s Concord-grape-flavored……
“Student Lee Ji. You are paying attention, aren’t you?”
“Oh, yes!”
“Copy each one ten times and wait for the others.”
“Yes……”
Still, while she sat at the desk studying, it was nice when kids who’d finished their practice came out of the Practice Rooms and started talking to her.
Which school do you go to, I know someone at Sparrow Elementary, when the teacher tells you to practice ten times if you only do nine she’ll let it slide—things like that.
She was nodding along when.
A particularly graceful piano melody drifted from one of the Practice Room doors, which then opened to reveal the girl playing it.
‘Wow…… so pretty.’
She looked just like an idol—mature for her age—and this girl also came over to Lee Ji and asked a question.
“What piece did you come here hoping to learn?”
There was only one answer Lee Ji could give.
“The theme song to ‘Hug Me ☆ Pink Me’!”
“……”
“……You don’t know it?”
How could anyone not know that manga?
While Lee Ji was flustered, the girl said something far more shocking than she’d expected.
“I know it. But that’s a baby anime. So you’re a baby?”
“I’m not a baby! I’m in second grade!”
I even have juniors, for crying out loud!
But the girl still wore that smile, and Lee Ji asked with a hint of nervousness.
“Then…… how old are you?”

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