The Female Lead Saves the World - Chapter 2

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Yeo Joo Saves the World – Episode 2

“Well, that’s why.”
Faced with this incomprehensible reality, words barely formed in my mouth.
“This is the National Awakener Hospital? The one near the Muaksan fixed Gate?”
Within 【The Chronicles of Sejong】, Muaksan was a place where a dungeon produced abundant mana stones—an energy source used as a fossil fuel substitute.
Rather than sealing it by defeating the boss monster, the Awakener Association managed it directly and kept it open as a kind of gold mine.
In the novel’s early chapters, the protagonist Kang Han worked as a miner in that very dungeon.
The Doctor, who had been looking at me as though I’d asked something obvious, paused in thought before turning the question back on me.
“Hmm, you do remember your own name, don’t you? Yeo Joo?”
“Yes.”
“And your age?”
“I’m 23.”
“Could you tell me your registered residential address?”
“Well….”
This time, I couldn’t answer immediately.
I understood that I was inside 【The Chronicles of Sejong】, but I couldn’t be certain that my residence in this world would be the same as before.
Still, I recited my original address.
“Mapo-gu, Seoul, XX Street, Building XXX.”
“For now, your memory seems to have no major issues.”
According to the Doctor, my name, age, and address were all identical—only the world had changed?
Seeing my bewildered expression, the Doctor spoke in a somewhat soothing tone.
“You did hit your head when you fell, so you may be confused for a while. You’re not experiencing any headaches or nausea, are you?”
“No, nothing like that….”
“Then let’s observe for now. Just rest.”
“Wait, just a moment.”
I called out to the Doctor, who was scratching his head and turning to leave.
“When you say I hit my head—was it in my bathroom at home?”
“You don’t remember the accident? When you were brought to the emergency room, I was the one who received you. From what I heard at the time….”
The Doctor glanced around as if checking whether anyone was listening, then whispered in a low voice.
“You won the lottery and were so thrilled you collapsed?”
“What?! The lottery?!”
I quickly checked the lottery ticket in my left hand.
Now that I thought about it, the name “Mega Lottery” felt unfamiliar, and the receipt looked a bit different too!
“Shh. What if someone hears you?”
Gulp.
When I covered my mouth with both hands, the Doctor spoke in an even quieter voice than before.
“To be precise, you collapsed from sheer excitement after receiving your lottery winnings and leaving the bank.”
“Gasp! Wheeze! I, I think I’m about to collapse again?!”
I’m impressed with myself!
At least I held on until I deposited the money in my account!
“Take deep breaths, deep breaths. By the way, you won the Mega Lottery, didn’t you? First prize—25 billion won.”
“2, 25 billion?”
I won 25 billion won in the lottery?!
“I’ve lost my mind.”
Following the Doctor’s instructions, I took deep breaths and then smacked my forehead hard.
“Ow!”
It hurts? If it hurts, then this isn’t a dream?
“Ah, you shouldn’t hit your head like that just yet.”
The Doctor clicked his tongue disapprovingly and retrieved water from a large refrigerator in the corner of the hospital room.
The crisp, ice-cold water seemed to clear my head a bit.
A truly premium hospital room really is different in every way.
“Ah, now that I think about it.”
There was one more question I needed to ask.
“But you admitted me to such a nice room because I’m a lottery winner?”
I’m Yeo Joo, and I’m no fool, you know.
If you’re trying to take advantage of me, you’ve got the wrong person.
“No, no. That’s not usually how it works.”
“Then why…?”
“Ah, you don’t remember that either. Right before you collapsed, you kept grabbing me and insisting on something.”
“What, what did I say?”
“That now that you have money, you absolutely must be put in a premium room.”
“Oh.”
That does sound like something I’d say.
“In any case, you’re really fortunate!”
“Ah, thank you. I suppose I’ve done enough good deeds in my life to deserve this reward.”
“…”
What, why, what?
“Anyway.”
The Doctor, who had been regarding me with a cold stare for a moment, flipped through the chart in his hand before continuing.
“There’s something else I need to tell you besides the lottery. Yeo Joo, where exactly are you right now?”
“At the National Awakener Hospital, like you said earlier… huh?”
Now that I thought about it, something was odd.
In the novel, large guilds each had their own medical centers, and this Awakener Hospital was where Hunters who didn’t belong to such major guilds came when they were injured.
I remembered it well because Kang Han and my Justice Guild colleagues used to come here frequently at the beginning.
So why was I here?
“Based on the preliminary liver wave analysis, Yeo Joo, you’ve awakened. We’ll need to get a detailed measurement at the Awakener Association to know more precisely. Since awakeners can’t receive treatment at regular hospitals by protocol, we’ve transferred you here.”
The Doctor glanced at the time, then rattled off his words in rapid succession.
“Get some rest for now, and if there are no complications, you’ll be discharged tomorrow. That’s all.”
“W-wait, Doctor…!”
What am I supposed to do if you just leave like that!
But the Doctor, with quitting time drawing near, left the hospital room without so much as a backward glance.
“Possession and a lottery win, and now I’ve awakened too?”
With so many things happening at once, my head throbbed with tension.
As I gripped my hair with both hands, the words “National Awakener Hospital” printed on the patient gown I wore finally caught my eye.
I stared blankly at it for a moment, then powered on my phone.
Just as only I remained at the center while everything around me changed, my phone was no different than before.
I opened the familiar banking app.
“F*ck, this is real…”
The bank balance that had been merely hundreds of thousands of won before I fell asleep had swelled to an eleven-digit number.
“22 billion, 508 million 300 thousand won…”
That was right.
Unlike reality, the lottery winnings—untaxed by the standard 33.3%—had been deposited into my account in full.
This was because the nation’s economy had expanded due to the countless Gates, the monsters within them, and dungeon byproducts, making the state so prosperous from taxes paid by Hunters and Guilds alone that it no longer needed to nickle-and-dime lottery winnings.
With trembling hands, I opened the search app to make one final confirmation.
After a few typos, I entered my search query.

【 Kang Han Justice Guild 】

Immediately, search results cascaded down as if they’d been waiting.

【 Justice Guild Cannot Escape Responsibility for Fifth Dungeon Break 】
【 Justice Guild Successor S-Rank Kang Han’s Downfall 】
【 Four Major Guilds Instead of Five—National Power Declining? 】
【 S-Rank Kang Han, Really S-Rank? 】
【 Justice Guild Sells Sejongno Building Due to Debt 】

“It’s really there.”
I can’t deny it anymore.
I woke up to find the world transformed into a 【Doomsday Scenario】, everyone but me.
No, I changed too.
Suddenly hitting the lottery as an Awakener.
A lottery. Yes, a whopping 25 billion won lottery.
A mega lottery with no taxes deducted.
“Ugh….”
I checked my bank balance once more with trembling hands.
Then I slammed the bed with both fists and wailed at the top of my lungs.
“F***!”
Still seething, I fell backward and thrashed about.
“My 25 billion! My precious 25 billion!”
Each time I flailed, the bed creaked loudly in protest.
“What good is a lottery?! What’s the point of 25 billion in my account?!”
I’m trapped inside a 【Doomsday Scenario】!
A 【Doomsday Scenario】 with no dreams, no hope!
A 【Doomsday Scenario】 that collapses entirely in a few years!
Even if I use this money to buy a building in Gangnam, it means nothing.
Why?
Because those buildings will all disappear anyway.
Even if I invested this entire fortune into spaceship development and escaped to Mars, it would be useless.
In 【Prevent the World’s End】, ‘the end’ means returning to absolute nothingness
(無)
.
This dimension itself ceases to exist.
“Absolutely not! Never!”
If it had never existed from the start, I wouldn’t care.
But to dangle 25 billion in front of me, then snatch it away?!
What’s the point of holding 25 billion in cyber currency for a game that’s shutting down soon?!
“Waaah! Wahhhhh!”
I was furious. I had 25 billion but couldn’t spend it.
After burying my face in my pillow and venting my rage for a while, I suddenly lifted my head.
“Did you really think I’d give up on 25 billion that easily?!”
If the world where I can spend 25 billion is destined to end soon, then I’ll simply prevent that end.
There’s even a cliché where a paying reader who’s been here since launch through the finale saves the world!
By any means necessary, I will save this world.

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