The Female Lead Saves the World - Chapter 107

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Yeo Joo Saves the World – Episode 107

After returning from Gangwon Province, we spent several days resting without any schedule.
Today was one of those days.
“Yo Na, how do you manage to cook Korean food so well?”
“Oh no, everyone’s just being kind about it.”
“Don’t say that. This kimchi stew carries the touch of someone who’s just pulled out three-year-old kimchi from a backyard earthenware jar—that’s the kind of soul it has.”
“Oh, unnie!”
Sung Yo Na’s face flushed at my effusive praise, but I meant every word.
It was the kind of taste that healed the soul itself.
I could tell just by watching the others sitting beside me eating frantically without saying a word.
Bzzt—bzzt—
The phone in my pocket was interrupting this nourishment for my weary spirit.
“Ah, I think my phone’s broken.”
I pulled out the phone that had been bothering me for days and placed it on the table.
“Your phone’s broken?”
Jang Su Ho, sitting beside me and on his fourth refill, asked.
“Yeah. There’s nothing wrong, but it keeps vibrating. And because of that, the battery keeps draining.”
“That doesn’t make sense. Isn’t it just notifications coming in?”
At Lee Yu Chan’s question, I turned on the phone, but I couldn’t figure out what notifications they were.
Then Lee Yu Eul swallowed the food in her mouth and spoke.
“Isn’t that Staragram DMs?”
“DM? What’s that?”
“Messages, you know, messages.”
“Messages?”
Staragram had that feature?
As I was poking around at the screen trying different things, Lee Yu Chan, growing impatient, took the phone and showed me something.
“Yeah, that’s it—DM. See that red notification in the corner?”
“But if it’s a message, shouldn’t it pop up right on the screen?! How am I supposed to know if it’s hidden like this!”
Just as Lee Yu Chan said, there were quite a few DMs waiting for me.

[ We love the Justice Guild!! ♥ ]
[ Hello, we are an online viral marketing agency…. ]
[ Account administrator! To send a gift to the Justice Guild…. ]
[ Greetings. I’m a resident of Gangwon Province. Regarding this Gate…. ]
[ Kang Han is so cool! Can you give me his number? Or his personal account…. ]

“These days, people send business partnership proposals via DM too.”
“Huh? They do that through messages? I had no idea.”
“The account owner really doesn’t know how to manage things.”
Lee Yu Chan teased me with a giggle.
“This bastard…. Huh?”
“What? Did you get a chain letter or something?”
“No, that’s not it.”
I set down the spoon I’d been holding and rubbed my eyes.
Then I looked at the screen again.
“Why are the follower numbers like this?”
I showed the screen to Jang Su Ho.
“163,000? Oh, that’s gone up quite a bit.”
“Gone up quite a bit? Is that all? It suddenly became like this in just a few days?!”
Expecting Jang Su Ho to react more dramatically than me, I cried out, but Im Chung Soo, who had been quietly eating rice until now, shrugged and spoke.
“Other guilds do about that much too.”
No, that’s different for other guilds!
We’re the Justice Guild!
The neighborhood punching bag Justice Guild!
The hated Justice Guild!
I couldn’t bring myself to say such things out loud.
But as if Im Chung Soo had read my innermost thoughts, he chuckled.
“It’s just that our guild has received a lot of criticism up until now, but mid-sized guilds do that much too.”
“Chung Soo, just eat more rice. There’s more pork over there.”
“Yes, yes.”
Growing teenagers don’t need to worry about such things.
I redirected Im Chung Soo’s attention to the meat in the kimchi stew and scrolled through the message box, reading only the previews.
“Hmm.”
Just as I expected.
There weren’t only positive messages.
There were messages with outright curses, and others spewing hexes like “Do you really think you’ll keep doing well?”
‘I shouldn’t let the kids see these.’
The shock could be significant.
But I wasn’t bothered at all.
If anything, I just wanted to eat more rice.
Because being able to spew insults at the Justice Guild like this requires us to first be ‘recognized’ for who we are.
In other words, we’ve entered the public’s radar.
“Phew, that meal tasted absolutely divine.”

* * *

After eating, I spent some time digging through the internet.
That’s when I discovered why our follower count had suddenly skyrocketed.
One of the civilian survivors from the Gangwon Guerrilla Gate had posted a vivid firsthand account.

Hunter Supporters – [ Free Board ]
I’m someone who survived the Gangwon Guerrilla Gate
BlackMamma | Views: 5,684,207

I got to that point when I went to the MT mountaineering club ㅠㅠ
At first, I really thought I was going to die
I was drinking with friends and on some reckless whim, we suddenly left the hiking trail and wanted to climb the mountain
I’m really reflecting on it now, so please don’t curse me…
Anyway, that’s how we ended up climbing the mountain where there were absolutely no people
.
.
.
Suddenly, the Taesan hunters were exiting the Gate
Whether they forgot about us or what….
I thought we were done for
So I hid my friends and myself in a rock crevice
The kids kept bleeding, and the pain from our injuries was unbearable
I miss my mom and dad too ㅠㅠㅠ
After a long time with no sound, and since phones don’t work here, I was thinking about how to leave a final message (in hindsight, I’m glad I didn’t)
Hunter Lee Yu-chan and Hunter Na Yeo-ju found us.. ㅠㅠㅠㅠ
Even thinking about it now, I feel like I’m going to cry again
I don’t know where you are, Hunter, but I’m bowing in all directions.
As soon as they arrived, they immediately treated my friends first, and even though I was in pain but couldn’t say anything, they healed my back wound too..
Taesan flatly told the civilians to go outside and get treatment
He got angry and said I shouldn’t do that ㅠㅠ
It was truly moving
After coming out and looking into it, I realized that civilian rescue really is the priority
I wonder why Taesan acted that way…
Anyway, thanks to them, my friends and I are all safe and sound
Everyone, please never climb mountains while drinking!!

“The comment reactions are pretty good.”
It felt odd saying it myself, but the most common comment was “Yeo Joo Hunter is so damn cool.”
“Ahem.”
There were also quite a few comments cursing out the Taesan Guild.
“They deserve the criticism.”
It wasn’t even a Gate with a structure where you couldn’t escape once you entered.
And it wasn’t like a Dungeon Break was imminent either.
Unlike us, Taesan had plenty of personnel, so they could have simply pulled a few rear-guard members to evacuate those three civilians first, then rejoin us afterward.
In the end, there was no explanation other than their desire to clear the Gate outweighed their concern for civilian rescue.
“Im Chung Soo, did you see that college student’s review post that went up online? I guess that’s why your followers increased.”
I held up my phone to show Im Chung Soo as he entered the Training Facility.
“Oh, really? I’ll check it later since I’m busy right now.”
“Busy? Busy with what?”
I called out to Im Chung Soo’s back as he grabbed a bottle of water from the refrigerator and headed toward the Secret Workshop.
“There’s just something I need to do.”
“But what exactly is this something you need to do?”
When I pressed further, Im Chung Soo let out a heavy sigh and stopped walking.
“…I’m trying to make a wound-healing potion.”
“A wound-healing potion? You can just buy those.”
“You won’t buy them because they’re expensive.”
“Right. Why would you buy them when I’m here?”
General potions are expensive, but wound-healing potions are really expensive.
One of the advantages of being in a Guild with a Healer like me is that you don’t need to stock wound-healing potions separately.
“Hey, forget about that—why don’t you make the concentration potion like you mentioned last time? It’s a brilliant idea. Crafters would go crazy for it, right? You could sell it for way more.”
At my words, Im Chung Soo finally turned to face me.
“What? Why are you looking at me like that?”
Im Chung Soo’s expression could be summed up as “Is this unnie really…?”
After staring at me with that money-obsessed gaze for a few seconds, Im Chung Soo turned back toward the Secret Workshop and said,
“I’ll make the concentration potion too. But the wound-healing potion comes first.”
“But that’s…”
“I’m busy, so don’t bother me.”
With only those words, Im Chung Soo shut the Secret Workshop door with a bang and disappeared inside.
Why is he suddenly acting like that?
“…Is this what they call our kid’s rebellious phase?”

* * *

After clearing the Guerrilla Gate, Im Chung Soo wasn’t the only one whose behavior had changed.
“Na Baek Ho, it’s so hot with this furry lump. Can you move over there?”
“Whimper.”
Baek Ho returned to me as soon as I gently pushed him away, pressing himself firmly against my leg and whining stubbornly.
It was his way of saying no.
“Since when does he have separation anxiety?”
It wasn’t just Na Baek Ho.
The familiars refused to leave their owners’ sides from that point onward.
Click—
Just then, Kang Han emerged into the living room after finishing his training, with Baek Young Ee coiled tightly around his neck.
“Are you done training?”
“No. I came out to take a brief rest.”
These days, Kang Han was training in pure spearmanship without using skills.
To put it in general terms, it was like a right-handed person training exclusively with their left hand.
Perhaps because of this, Kang Han looked even more exhausted as he settled onto the sofa today.
‘It would be nice if there were a teacher to instruct him in spearmanship.’
No matter how capable the protagonist might be on his own, it couldn’t be easy for him to master an unfamiliar weapon entirely through self-teaching.
“Yeo Joo, could you help me recover my stamina?”
“Of course.”
I sat up from where I’d been lying at an angle and took Kang Han’s hand.

[ Using skill ‘Body Heal’. ]

As I restored his stamina, Kang Han’s complexion brightened considerably.
But that wasn’t the end of it.
Ding—
Along with a sound like bubbles gently forming, affection increased.
Not Kang Han’s affection, but Baek Young Ee’s.

[ ♥ 17 ]

Oh, would you look at that?

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