The Female Lead Saves the World - Chapter 105

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Yeo Joo Saves the World – Episode 105

Last time at the Gangnam Station Guerrilla Gate, I remember heading straight home after we cleared the Dungeon.
This time was entirely different.
The Dungeon boss monster was A-rank, and since creatures that freely traverse both ocean and land weren’t common, the Awakener Association had plenty of questions to ask us and records to compile.
After finishing my conversation with Lee Yu Chan, I dozed off and woke up, but nothing had changed inside the Temporary Medical Tent.
“Yawn, that was a good sleep.”
People really do need rest.
Potions and skills are wonderful, but there’s something they alone can’t restore.
I stretched luxuriously and got to my feet, pressing them against the ground.
I was bored, after all.
Everyone else was bustling about with their work, and lying there alone felt rather awkward.
But just as I was about to rise from the bed, someone grabbed my shoulder.
“You can’t do that.”
It was Lee Yu Eul.
She’d apparently showered somewhere in the meantime—her skin was soft and smooth, cute as a pebble.
“What? Why not?”
“The Doctor examined you while you were sleeping. He said you lost a lot of blood and your body is severely weakened, so you absolutely must rest. He said you need to eat a lot too.”
“But that’s something one dose of Chung Soo’s potion would fix.”
“He said natural recovery is best. Absolute rest!”
With that, she flipped me over like a hotcake and laid me back down on the bed.
“Come on, seriously. Even if he said absolute rest, he just meant to rest properly. I just wanted to stretch my legs a bit and walk around.”
“No way. What if you collapse?”
“Ugh, really.”
That’s when Lee Yu Eul and I were bickering back and forth.
“Yeo Joo.”
“Oh, Guild Master. Can you tell her to stop? She keeps insisting I stay in bed…”
“Yes, you should do as she says.”
…It’s him?
Thinking about it, only Kang Han would pull something like this with Lee Yu Eul.
“No, I’m fine, really?”
“You’re not fine. Your complexion is still pale.”
My complexion is pale?
Me, Yeo Joo, who’s nothing but a corpse without good health?
I looked up at the two of them with skepticism.
They both looked quite serious.
This is frustrating.
Without a mirror, I can’t even check my complexion.
Still, lying around like this makes my whole body itch.
“Then you could just walk around carefully.”
“…Is lying down really that difficult? You don’t spend all day lying around at the Guild.”
Kang Han struck a nerve.
“No, everyone’s busy…”
When I continued grumbling, Kang Han let out a small sigh before speaking.
“Then let’s do this. On the condition that you don’t leave the tent.”
“On the condition?”
“Once we return to Seoul, you’ll get a checkup from Director Seo Yu Baek at the Awakened Healer Hospital…”
“I’ll just stay lying down, right? The bed here is pretty comfortable.”
I quickly spoke while pulling the blanket over myself.
Of course, I didn’t forget to glare at Kang Han a little.
That bastard.
He knows I hate the Director’s nagging, so he does this on purpose.
“I’ve been careless up until now.”
Once I covered myself with the blanket again and lay quietly, Kang Han rubbed his forehead and spoke as if to himself.
“Yeo Joo, you’re not as sturdy as the other Guild members. I’ll be more careful going forward…”
“Don’t be careful. Why are you thinking such pointless things?”
I quickly cut off Kang Han’s words.
“You already removed Lee Yu Chan from the attack squad to guard me this time. That’s enough. Honestly, even that’s pushing it. In a small Guild like ours, each attacker is such a valuable asset.”
Now that Lee Yu Chan has re-awakened as an A-rank, it’ll be even more so going forward.
I looked up at Kang Han without blinking, my eyes filled with the resolve that I would never back down.
“…Let’s talk about this again later.”
Kang Han also took a step back.
“Then I’ll get some more rest as you two say, so go take care of things.”
“Sister, still…”
“Phew, shoo.”
Lee Yu Eul, looking like a dejected puppy, followed behind Kang Han and merged into the crowd of busy people.
Watching their retreating figures, I buried the back of my head deep into the pillow and gazed up at the ceiling.
Lying here like this, everything that happened inside the Gate feels like a violent dream.
The face of Lee Yu Chan, who squeezed out every last ounce of strength to safely protect me and three civilians, then re-awakened while blaming himself—it all came back to me.
I could understand his feelings completely.
I’d gotten annoyed at Sa Ma Young and the Association Director constantly blocking my path, so I’d deliberately come to this resort retreat and ended up losing the Gate.
If any of my Guild members had been seriously injured, I would have regretted it immensely.
Every time I enter a Dungeon, I’m reminded anew that it’s an act where I stake my life.
‘Thank goodness everyone is safe.’
I truly meant it.
Then suddenly, a system window appeared densely before my eyes, and a notification sound rang out.
Ding—

[ Your synchronization rate with this world has increased. ]
[ Your ‘Body Healing’ ability has advanced one stage. ]
[ Current Stage – Beginner III ]

“Huh?”
I leveled up even though I didn’t use my ability recklessly like last time?
At this unexpected moment, I examined the system window from every angle.
“Synchronization rate.”
This seems to be important.
It was still somewhat disappointing that I remained at Beginner level, but I felt quite proud nonetheless.
If someone got injured, I could now heal them far more effectively.

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We returned to the Resort.
“Ugh, I’m starving!”
Jang Su Ho stepped out of the van with a grimace.
Everyone seemed to feel the same way, as they began listing the things they wanted to eat.
“I want meat, meat.”
“I want soybean paste stew.”
“We seem to have eaten all the meat we bought yesterday. Should we go shopping again right now?”
It was when Han Ji Sung said that.
“My goodness, you’ve all returned safely!”
It was the Resort owner who had welcomed us yesterday.
“You worked so hard! You really did!”
The owner came running halfway out of the house, his face beaming with a broad smile.
And behind him, a woman we hadn’t met yesterday was also coming out in a wheelchair.
“We’re alive because of you. Thank you so much.”
“Not at all. Please don’t mention it.”
At Kang Han’s matter-of-fact response, the owner shook his head.
“You could have refused, you know. The news said so. The Taesan Guild even failed at the A-rank Guerrilla Gate—it was an extremely dangerous situation.”
“I simply did what needed to be done.”
Kang Han wasn’t being modest right now.
He meant every word.
Awakeners with power protecting ordinary civilians without power.
That was what Kang Han considered an ‘obvious duty.’
The owner gazed at Kang Han with pride, as if looking at his own grown son, and grasped his hand firmly.
“We wondered if we should evacuate, but we just couldn’t bring ourselves to leave our home….”
The man’s gaze drifted toward his wife, whose body bore the weight of her injuries, the puppies that had followed them at some point, and their mother dog.
There was a meaning conveyed without words.
Everyone seemed to feel it.
In the quiet that settled around us, the man spoke once more.
“I’m truly grateful. Thank you so much.”

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The owner insisted on refunding the accommodation fee we’d paid when we made the reservation.
It was his way of expressing gratitude.
But when we firmly declined, he returned as the owner, insisting on preparing us a delicious meal instead.
And so an unexpected celebration began.
The guild members were thrilled.
Pork belly, Korean beef, and spicy braised chicken.
A perfect spread of three varieties of meat with a bubbling pot of soybean stew in the center drew endless rumbling sounds of hunger from everyone around the table.
“Come now, eat plenty, everyone.”
“We’ll enjoy this meal!”
Having eaten nothing since breakfast, I was famished enough to devour two full bowls of rice.
“This is so delicious, ma’am! Truly the best!”
“Oh my, such pretty words. Would you like another bowl?”
“Yes!”
Lee Yu Eul beamed with a radiant smile, basking in the woman’s affection, while the other guild members ate without pause.
“We still have some beer left from yesterday. Should I grab it?”
“Oh yes, absolutely!”
The moment I agreed, Jang Su Ho burst from the accommodation at incredible speed, his arms laden with cans of beer.
Crack—
As I cracked open a can so cold it tingled at the slightest touch, my chest swelled with anticipation.
“You did great work, Jang Su Ho.”
“You too, Yeo Joo.”
We were just about to clink our cans together and take a sip when it happened.
Buzz—buzz—
My phone on the table vibrated.
The screen displayed “Gua Ri,” Sung Yo Na’s alias.
An unexpected call from the guild.
Everyone froze as if someone had hit pause.
“Hey, Ri.”
[ “Unni, can you come to the guild right now?” ]
“Why? What’s wrong?”
[ “I know the dungeon conquest ended safely. But the Awakened… something’s wrong with them.” ]

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