Magical Hunter Girl Decorates the Dungeon! Episode 002
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‘They don’t even know she’s a child. It’s a good ability, but one must never let their guard down.’
Black King Rabbit meticulously checked the newly uploaded posts to see if any of Daisy’s information had been leaked.
It was to eliminate any potential risks.
‘It makes no sense for someone like me to be unable to protect a single novice hunter.’
Though he was currently trapped in the body of a rabbit, his true identity was an S-rank hunter.
Reminiscing about his days of invincibility, Black King Rabbit tried to close the internet browser on his smartphone.
However, his rabbit paws, lacking any fleshy pads, merely slipped uselessly across the screen.
Black King Rabbit threw a fit, searching for a smartphone stylus.
“Damn it, how long do I have to live in this body!”
Daisy answered earnestly.
“What do you mean, ‘this body’? Black King Rabbit is a very wonderful rabbit! You defeated the villain so coolly today, too!”
“……Thanks.”
He didn’t care about the villain and only wanted to return to his original body, but Black King Rabbit gave up on arguing.
There was no need to pour cold water on an elementary schooler’s innocence.
He offered a grown-up farewell.
“Good work. Go and study hard.”
“I’ll call you right away if I find another strange dungeon. You get some good rest too, Mister!”
“I’m still in my twenties…… No, never mind.”
When he’s already being treated like a rabbit, does being called “Mister” even matter?
Black King Rabbit’s shoulders slumped.
And the sight of a weary rabbit is bound to tug at anyone’s heartstrings.
‘Mister must be exhausted!’
Daisy hurriedly tapped her book. The black rabbit vanished in a flash of light.
At the same time, Daisy’s pretty outfit reverted to a hoodie and cargo pants, and the flying book turned back into a dictation workbook.
Just like that, the magical girl turned hunter, Daisy, returned to being Shin Iji, a second-grader in elementary school.
Iji puffed out her chest with pride.
‘I lived hard as a magical girl today, too!’
Stopped the villain!
Bonded with a mysterious animal friend!
‘……Though I’m not sure about the hunter part.’
Anyway, magical girls and hunters must be similar.
The smallest kid in Class 3, Grade 2 at Cham-sae Elementary School.
The quiet kid who doesn’t stand out.
The kid who lives alone with her older sister.
The reason Iji awakened as a cool Magical Hunter Girl was—
Because of a promise she made on Parents’ Day last year.
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Early this year, on a day that was still chilly.
As soon as Iji got home, she headed to the veranda.
It was to do the homework her homeroom teacher had assigned.
Let’s help our family with chores
It just so happened to be recycling day.
‘Let’s get this organized before Sister gets home from work!’
Her sister would surely be happy.
However, while sorting the paper, a mint-colored shopping bag tucked in the corner of the veranda caught her eye.
‘I wonder what was inside such a pretty bag?’
It was bound to be empty anyway, but Iji grabbed it with the same feeling one might have when picking up a cicada shell—
And discovered a pretty card inside the bag.
The first line, written in neat, careful handwriting, caught her eye.
To Hyunji, who always makes my side shine
“Gasp!”
Iji immediately closed the shopping bag.
Her heart pounded.
‘It was an adult man’s handwriting!’
Hyunji was her sister’s name.
To call her sister’s name so affectionately, and to send a handwritten card in this day and age…….
‘Sister must have a boyfriend!’
Iji’s face flushed bright red.
‘A boyfriend……. Yes. Sister is an adult, so that’s possible! My sister is all grown up!’
Stay calm. Nothing to be surprised about. Let’s go back to sorting the recycling!
Iji tried to act as if nothing happened and opened the shopping bag, but upon encountering the card again, she squeezed her eyes shut.
‘I shouldn’t look! It’s Sister’s private life!’
She tried to put the shopping bag back like nothing happened, but that was difficult to do with her eyes closed.
After opening and closing the bag about five times, Iji shouted inwardly.
‘Teacher…… I can’t do my chores!’
I can’t stop thinking about Sister’s boyfriend!
Her body tingled from her fingertips to the soles of her feet.
Having bolted out of the veranda, Iji spun around the house for a long time before pressing her cheek against the cold refrigerator door. Right next to it, she saw a family photo taken during her first birthday party.
Iji shouted silently at her parents in the photo.
You know what! I think Sister has a boyfriend!
He says Sister shines! I think he even gave her a gift!
Since Sister is an adult…….
‘……Will they get married?’
Boyfriends and girlfriends are people who love each other.
Sister is twenty-eight. She’s an adult.
Adults who love each other get married!
‘Just like Mom and Dad!’
Hmm, perfectly deduced!
Iji was satisfied with her reasoning skills and pulled her face away from the refrigerator.
Now she could see her parents’ faces clearly.
The people she only remembered through photos, as they passed away when she was five.
After caressing their faces with her gaze, another memory caught her eye right next to it.
‘Oh, this letter. I wrote this.’
Right next to the family photo.
A letter she had written to her sister on Parents’ Day last year was taped up.
Hello, Sister Hyunji
I’m greeting you because it’s Parents’ Day
Thank you for raising me
She remembered how her sister’s eyes had turned red the moment she received this letter.
Recalling that moment, Iji felt her own nose sting…… almost.
That was before she read the rest of the letter.
I’ll be a good daughter to you from now on
When you get married, I’ll buy you a house as pretty as this one
A real, real promise
②Ⓩ②Ⓩ②Ⓩ
-From Iji-
Her head rang with a dull thud.
What was this massive promise?
She had even meticulously drawn a house under the word “this.”
It was a two-story house with a garden full of blooming roses, sunflowers, and forsythia.
First-grader Shin Iji must have wanted to give her the best house in the world.
‘Houses are so expensive!’
But she couldn’t just ignore it as a mistake from her immature days.
‘Look. I even signed it three times.’
A promise must be kept.
If a second-grader breaks a promise that even a kindergartner knows to keep, what would that make her?
Iji moved her brain coldly.
‘How much is my total net worth?’
First, she received her allowance on Monday.
‘The rice cake skewer I ate on Monday was a thousand won, and what I ate today was…….’
Before she could finish calculating, she heard the sound of the door lock.
It was her sister.
As soon as she hurriedly hid the letter behind the family photo, her sister poked her head in.
“Iji! What are you doing in the kitchen?”
“Pika!”
“Huh?”
“……I was wondering if there was any pork cutlet left.”
“Oh dear, we finished what we made last time. How about some dinosaur nuggets?”
“I like those too!”
“I’ll make them for dinner. Tell me if you think of anything else you want to eat.”
“Okay! Wow, yay!”
Pretending to be excited about dinosaur nuggets, Iji skipped back to her room, stealing a glance at her sister.
Her sister, who was opening the window to ventilate the room, let out a short sigh on the veranda.
“Whoa, I’m so scatterbrained.”
Then, her sister entered her room while hiding something with her body. It was definitely the mint-colored shopping bag.
During dinner, her sister asked.
“How is second grade?”
“The textbooks got a little harder, but it’s okay! I’ve never gotten a dictation wrong even once, you know?”
Iji had been smarter than others since she was little. She learned the alphabet and multiplication tables in first grade. She even knows what the twelve zodiac signs mean!
She wanted to chatter away, but her sister changed the subject.
“That’s amazing, Iji. ……Is there anything else going on? Anything you want to ask?”
Her sister added, watching Iji’s reaction. Was she worried that Iji had discovered the shopping bag on the veranda?
Iji shook her head.
“No. I can look up anything I’m curious about.”
“You’re so cool, Iji.”
Her sister smiled brightly.
The prettiest sister in the world.
The coolest, most diligent, and kindest sister.
……And a sister who is hiding something from Iji.
Until she went to bed, her sister didn’t bring up the topic of a boyfriend.
Late at night. Iji looked at her sister’s bedroom door and thought.
‘I hope Sister is happy.’
When will she get married?
……Marriage.
That sparkling word awakened Iji’s old memories.
Was it at their parents’ funeral?
When her sister was busy running around, and Iji, only five years old, lay down exhausted from crying without knowing what was going on.
In her sleep, she heard her relatives whispering.
‘It’s a relief Hyunji is sensible.’
‘I’m more worried about her future. Will she be able to get married?’
‘True. Who would like a woman with baggage, when she’s practically raising a child?’
She didn’t know what that meant back then.
Now that she was nine, Iji replied inwardly.
‘I am not baggage.’
I will only bring happiness to my sister.
……She knows that a child buying a house is a pipe dream.
But she hated even more that her desperate heart would be treated as a cute and trivial dream just because it was a promise made by an elementary schooler.
‘I will definitely make it happen.’
She decided to start by making a plan.
Adults said that being a doctor or a lawyer was the best way to be a good child. They said you rake in the money.
‘Since I’m good at studying, I’ll study harder and get into a good university early.’
Then I can become a doctor or a lawyer by the time I’m twenty!
‘……But will Sister wait until then?’
Plan revision.
Let’s become a study influencer. She heard somewhere that famous people can sell enzymes.
‘But what is an enzyme?’
Actually, she didn’t even know exactly what an influencer was.
Iji buried her face in her pillow.
‘Sister…….’
I need to get smarter faster. I want to make things easier for Sister…….
And at that very moment.
A strange sound echoed in her head.
Language-Korean
Magic Aptitude Confirmed
System Opening Pending
‘……Huh?’
The mechanical sound soon began to manifest as text before her eyes.
Aptitude loading…… 3%
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