The Female Lead Saves the World - Chapter 139

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Yeo Joo Saves the World – Episode 139

A few days after finishing the mining operation in the Flame Dungeon.
I lay sprawled across the Training Facility sofa as usual, scrolling through my phone.
“Ugh, my back.”
I’d been lying on the same side for so long that it was time to flip over.
At this rate, I’d develop bedsores.
As I sluggishly shifted my body, my clumsy movements accidentally pressed the community app button that hadn’t opened in ages.
“Maybe I should search for the Justice Guild for a change?”
As I was about to move my fingers, a familiar name caught my eye on the community homepage.
“Gwak Ho Young?”
I’d actually been curious about what that guy was up to lately.
I quickly tapped on the post.

Hunter Supporters – [ Free Discussion Board ]
Tae San Gwak H.Y. Recent Updates;; (HOT!)
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( Back view of him entering a Gate with a pickaxe.png )

I heard he’s been going through hell lately as the youngest member of the Sama Guild’s Guerrilla Gate Team 4
Guess it was true ;;
Getting cursed out by all those older hunters while running around
“Is he even making them mine…? The pickaxe… creepy…”
I used to dig up some dirt on Tae San back in the day
Seeing him like this… serves him right lol
From what I hear from the old Justice Guild hunters streaming lately
That bastard deserves to suffer even more

Comments
Comment 1: Kang Han had a sharp face from the start, I recognized him immediately lol
Comment 2: Welcome to the sharp face club
Comment 3: But seriously, isn’t the 4th Squad known for being brutal?
Comment 4: Yeah that’s right, there are rumors that the hunters in that unit are ex-convicts
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Comment 66: It’s hilarious that he can’t even stretch lol
Comment 67: When he was guild master he used to yell so much lol

“Ugh, the 4th Squad.”
The Sama Guild’s Guerrilla Gate dedicated squad has six divisions, and the 4th Squad, being the fourth of them, is famous for gathering only rough hunters.
Not quite ex-convicts like the comments suggest, but it’s a squad assembled from the smaller guilds absorbed by the Sama Guild—specifically those who didn’t fit in with the other squads and caused problems.
It was only natural that Gwak Ho Young, who thought so highly of himself and treated guild members like his limbs, couldn’t assert himself there.
In the Sama Guild, where A-rank hunters were overflowing, rank-based pride wouldn’t work either.
“It’s all karma, pure karma.”
If only he’d been decent in the first place.
Then there might’ve been at least one person defending Gwak Ho Young among all these comments.
Everyone seemed to have lost interest after his true nature was exposed during the live broadcast of the dungeon raid we went on together.
I clicked my tongue in disapproval and moved on to the next post.

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Samaguild breaking news ㄷㄷㄷ
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It was a post that had just gone up, with nothing but a single news article link as content.
Normally I wouldn’t have bothered clicking it.
But the words “Sama Guild” made my fingers move.

[Breaking News] Sa Ma Young, Eldest Son of Sama Group, Returns to Korea via Incheon Airport

“…Sa Ma Jung?”
I bolted upright from where I’d been lying.
Sa Ma Jung is Sa Ma Young’s half-brother.
Recently, he’d been conducting some research with the American Awakener Association and hadn’t set foot in Korea at all.
Just to be sure, I examined the entry photo from the news article closely, and it really was Sa Ma Jung.
A man with a slightly smaller build than Sa Ma Young, dressed in a flamboyant white suit.
His face wore a relaxed smile as if he’d known about the cameras pointing at him beforehand—similar to Sa Ma Young’s yet entirely different.
Thump, thump, thump.
My heartbeat quickened.
“Sa Ma Jung’s returned to Korea….”
I quickly pulled up the search bar and typed Sa Ma Young’s name.
After all, the movements of Sa Ma Young, the Guild Master of the Sama Guild, were practically public knowledge twenty-four hours a day.
And at the top of the search results, there was a YouTube link labeled ‘LIVE STREAM’.
With trembling fingers, I clicked, and immediately the familiar excited voice of caster Lee Ki Dae burst through my phone speaker.

[ “Ah, what a spectacular display, Sa Ma Young!”
“The Tree Dungeon is exactly where a Flame-type Hunter can truly shine!”
“It looks like he’s chosen to burn everything to ash! Ah, the flames are rising even higher!”
“Even an A-rank Dungeon can’t stand against Guild Master Sa Ma Young!” ]

A vast grassland was burning.
And in the center of it all stood Sa Ma Young, alone and imposing.
Each time the flames intensified, the tails of Sa Ma Young’s suit fluttered, and wherever his unfocused gaze drifted, brilliant crimson fire consumed towering trees.
The colossal tree-type monsters—so massive that even craning one’s neck wouldn’t reveal their tops—shrieked in grotesque agony and desperately thrashed their roots, trying to escape the inferno, but by then the only escape route had already become a sea of flame.

[ “At this pace, he might even break the record for the fastest A-rank Dungeon clear!”
“I think that’s Guild Master Sa Ma Young’s goal. He does love breaking his own records, after all.”
“Haha, that could very well be! Ah, the moment I mention it! The final monster falls!”
“Wow, no matter how many times I see it, Guild Master Sa Ma Young’s skills are absolutely terrifying!” ]

In an instant, the inferno that had consumed an entire field of the A-rank Dungeon vanished without a trace the moment the last monster fell.
The verdant meadow that had flickered into view when I first turned on the broadcast was now nothing but black ash.
The camera captured Sa Ma Young standing solitary in the center, his profile filling the frame.
His shadowed eyes, framed by long lashes, gazed quietly at the blackened earth he had incinerated until nothing remained.
As if searching for something that had survived his flames upon that scorched ground.
But in the very next moment, Sa Ma Young’s crimson lips curved upward ever so slightly.
Clearly delighted with the black wasteland he had created.
“Of course it would be.”
What was there to search for?
It’s that dramatic, melancholic gaze of his that’s the real problem.
I turned off the raid broadcast the moment Sa Ma Young and the rest of the clearing party moved toward the next field.
Then I checked the time.
“Three in the afternoon.”
Soon the three high school students would be leaving school.
After that, we’d all gather for dinner together.
And then after that.
“Sigh. I won’t be sleeping again tonight either.”
I flopped back onto the sofa with an audible thud, muttering to myself.
Yet my heart continued to pound relentlessly in my chest.
Sa Ma Jung’s return to Korea, Sa Ma Young’s record-breaking clear of the A-rank Dungeon.
That day had finally arrived.

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“Yeo Joo, nothing unusual happened today, right?”
Ji Sung asked me abruptly as I finished dinner and was eating fruit.
“Today? Nothing unusual happened. Why do you ask?”
“I had a dream.”
Ji Sung continued speaking as he elegantly wiped his mouth with a tissue.
“I don’t usually nap, but today I felt strangely drowsy. So I closed my eyes for a moment during the day, and you appeared in my dream.”
“Me? That’s quite something.”
“No, you appear often enough. But that’s not the important part.”
Ji Sung looked at me with concern.
“In the dream, you were playing with fire.”
“Playing… with fire?”
I swallowed the strawberry I’d been chewing and asked back.
“Yeah, there was a huge fire blazing like a campfire, and you went right up to it and peered at it. I tried to stop you, but I couldn’t make a sound.”
“That’s usually how dreams work.”
Of all things, fire.
For someone like me who had something to do secretly at dawn tomorrow, it was an uncomfortably fitting dream.
“But then you suddenly picked up a branch from the ground and started poking at the fire with it. Just stirring it around.”
“Maybe I was trying to make the fire burn better?”
“That could be it. Because after that, you poured gasoline all over it.”
“Gasoline? On the fire?”
“Yeah, and a lot of it too.”
“Splash, splash splash…”
I coughed and pretended to eat another strawberry.
“So naturally the fire became as big as a house, and you didn’t even try to escape? So I kept calling you and woke up, but the dream felt so violent. Anyway, I’m relieved nothing happened.”
“Haha. Yeo Joo isn’t stupid! Why would you pour gasoline on fire!”
Jang Su Ho teased Ji Sung, calling it a nonsense dream.
The other guild members also joked with me, saying that since I was playing with fire in the dream, I should go to the restroom before bed.
“Haha. Yeah, I should do that…”
I laughed along while watching Ji Sung with narrowed eyes.
Does that oppa have some kind of ability?
I chewed the strawberry until its juice filled my mouth, then picked up a fresh fork.
And I stabbed the largest and most appetizing strawberry and handed it to Ji Sung.
“Huh? Why are you suddenly taking care of me, Yeo Joo?”
Ji Sung accepted the strawberry and tilted his head in confusion.
“Just because.”
I wiped the strawberry juice from my mouth with the back of my hand and answered.
“I suddenly felt like I should offer something.”
Please, please, please.
Let everything go smoothly without any problems.

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Past midnight, four in the morning.
My eyes snapped open.
From somewhere distant came the soft click of a door closing.
It was the sound of Kang Han and Jang Su Ho heading out for their early morning workout.
I rose quietly from bed and opened the wardrobe door.
“I can’t believe I’m wearing this again.”
With a melancholic sigh—as if I’d just run into an ex I never wanted to see again—I pulled out a concealment mask and hat.

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