The Female Lead Saves the World - Chapter 20

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Yeo Joo Saves the World – Episode 20

The incident began like this.
After Kang Han left for the Office, the harassment from the other hunters intensified.
What made it even more petty was that the harassment was primarily directed at the twins.
Tap.
“What? Why are you C-ranks blocking the way?”
They would bump the shoulders of Justice Guild members who were simply doing their jobs and walk past.
“Oh, my mistake. I didn’t notice you because C-ranks have no presence.”
Or they’d pretend to drink water and spill it instead, as if their mouths had holes in them.
But when we didn’t react much, the harassment became increasingly blatant.
Instead of training, they gathered among themselves and began gossiping about the Justice Guild.
“We’re already dying from lack of equipment, and these guys are annoying.”
“Do they have no sense? What can C-ranks even do?”
“They have no sense? They’re just that desperate.”
“Hahaha. Isn’t that a bit harsh?”
“Did I say anything wrong?”
“No, that’s not it.”
Chuckle.
These guys were really something.
Acting like they were debutantes from some noble family in a romance novel.
They should just come and throw a punch instead of being so disgustingly cowardly.
For me, it was just a trivial attack that made me a bit angrier, but the twins were different.
Perhaps because they’d endured so much and accumulated so much resentment, Jang Su Ho began to seethe, and Lee Yu Chan made increasingly more mistakes.
Lee Yu Eul had completely stepped away from the training machine and was glaring at them.
Then they actually criticized Lee Yu Eul for that.
“What good does glaring do?”
“How arrogant for a C-rank.”
Eventually, the situation reached a critical point.
They approached us and spoke with sneering grins.
“Hey, you guys should get lost.”
The one leading them made a threatening expression, but it only made him look uglier rather than scary.
“Why do you defective bastards come here and cause trouble when no amount of training will improve your skills because of your defects?”
“You’re just taking up equipment that other hunters could use.”
“Should we suffer because of trash like you?”
Now even the ones standing in the back began chiming in with their own remarks.
As the guardian of the Hell Hounds, I spoke up in response.
“Why not? We’re hunters too, and we pay guild taxes to the Awakeners Association every year. There’s no reason we can’t use this facility.”
At that, laughter erupted from their side—the kind that dripped with condescension.
And the way they exchanged glances with each other was even more insufferable.
“Are you joking? Do you have any idea how many times more we pay in taxes than you? You don’t even clear Dungeons, so what taxes are you paying? You people have a real talent for being ridiculous.”
“And you have a real talent for talking out of your ass.”
“What did you just say? Oh, so you want to push your luck?”
“Look, only your guild and ours use this Training Facility anyway. If it’s crowded and we find it inconvenient, we can just go to another one. Don’t you know the saying—if you don’t like the temple, the monk leaves? Oh, I guess your brain capacity doesn’t allow for that kind of wisdom.”
Whether he genuinely didn’t know or his brain had been replaced entirely by muscle, the guy’s heavy breathing intensified.
Ugh, the stench.
“You keep going on about grades and all that, but you don’t look particularly impressive either.”
“Ha, this pipsqueak A-rank healer acting all high and mighty. Do you have any idea who we are?”
I was on the verge of laughing out loud.
How much longer was I supposed to endure this childish bickering?
I deliberately looked them up and down before speaking.
“You’re not even wearing a uniform, so how am I supposed to know?”
Then I turned to Lee Yu Chan standing beside me.
“Do you know what guild they’re from?”
“Titan Guild, sir.”
“Ah.”
I pretended to know, but honestly, I had no idea.
The guild name seemed vaguely familiar, but I couldn’t recall any specific information about them.
In other words, they hadn’t made any significant impact within “The Chronicles of Sejong.”
All I could think was that they’d at least chosen a guild name that suited them.
They were all massive, with rippling muscles.
I crossed my arms and pulled up their status windows.
Kim Do Ran (B), Lee Yeon Gu (B), Park Dae Gang (B)….
The names matched. And they were all B-rank physical enhancement types.
In short, they could hold their heads high among Awakeners, but among hunters, they were nothing special.
And yet they dared to pull rank?
“I thought you’d at least be A-rank, the way you kept going on about grades.”
Apparently, their own grade was a trigger, because the one who seemed to be the guild master’s voice rose sharply.
“Are you mocking B-rank?”
“Stop whining and speak clearly. I can’t understand what you’re saying.”
I picked at my ear with my pinky as I spoke.
“By your own logic, grades are law here, so you’re mocking A-rank?”
That’s right—you’ve got nothing to say now, do you?
Lee Yu Eul and Lee Yu Chan might be C-rank, but Jang Su Ho and I are A-rank.
By the grading system, they shouldn’t have dared to open their mouths to us.
But apparently, there was at least one person among them capable of thinking, because they’d found a new target.
“Can you take responsibility if Jang Su Ho gets too excited during training and loses his mind?”
Based on how he’d been picking fights with Lee Yu Chan just moments ago, the archer-looking man clicked his tongue disapprovingly at us.
That stung.
Frustrating as it was, his words weren’t entirely wrong.
Jang Su Ho had a past—he’d been expelled from his previous guild after completely losing control during a Dungeon raid and attacking his own guildmates.
But since joining the Justice Guild, Jang Su Ho had been making every effort to change.
He channeled his stress through intense workouts with Kang Han, meditated, sought counseling—doing everything he could to find ways to maintain control over himself.
As proof, he was taking deep breaths now and quietly stepping back.
Yet even that restraint was nothing but mockery to his opponent.
“Ha, look at the mad dog learning to hold back?”
Mad dog.
It was Jang Su Ho’s nickname—a man ordinarily docile as could be, but who transformed into something feral the moment combat began.
“What? Scared the mad dog might bite?”
Our dog bites.
“Tch, this guy.”
Finally, the Titan Guild master raised his hand toward me in a threatening gesture.
“If you’re so upset, why don’t you throw a punch?”

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And so it came to this.
To be honest, I hadn’t entirely avoided deliberately provoking them.
The Justice Guild could no longer be the neighborhood punching bag.
I needed to instill the belief that “if you touch us, we bite back.”
Without taking my eyes off the Titan Guild master, I quietly called out to Jang Su Ho.
“Jang Su Ho.”
“…Yeah.”
His voice came out low and strained, almost like a beast growling with barely contained fury.
“Go take a walk or something and come back.”
Jang Su Ho didn’t answer.
Instead, he shot the Titan Guild master one final warning glare before turning and leaving the Training Facility.
‘Good, I’ve cleared the first hurdle.’
If Jang Su Ho lost control and threw himself at them here, blood would spill, and we’d lose the battle of public opinion.
The Justice Guild’s reputation, just beginning to climb from the bottom, would be in serious danger.
Now that Jang Su Ho was gone, I could finally let loose.
“Stop yapping and actually fight me properly.”
I provoked Kim Do Ran, the Titan Guild master.
He grinned as if he’d been waiting for this and spoke.
“You don’t mean you want to get beaten by me. You’re suggesting a match?”
“If you want a dogfight, I’ll call Jang Su Ho back. But you can’t handle that, can you?”
“Fine, I’ll crush you in the match. You’ve got someone who can shoot a bow, so let’s do a 500-meter archery competition and a hand-to-hand combat bout. How’s that?”
Kang Han and Jang Su Ho weren’t present, and I wasn’t a combat specialist.
In other words, he was targeting the twins.
“Let’s settle this with two matches.”
“Hold on.”
Who did he take me for?
These bastards were playing dirty.
“Aren’t all of you B-rank hunters? Yet you think it’s fair for C-rank minors to compete against you without any handicap? Actually, don’t bother thinking. I’ll spell it out for you. That’s exactly what we call cowardice, you muscle-bound idiots who aren’t worth your own weight.”
“So what do you suggest?”
“If we win just one out of the two matches, we take the victory.”
“That’s not even—!”
“Losing your nerve?”
As expected, the simple-minded Titan Guild fell for such a transparent provocation.
Having strutted about with their meager B-rank title for so long, they couldn’t very well whine about unfairness now.
“Fine, bring it on.”
And so, a sudden match between the Justice Guild and the Titan Guild came to pass.

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Since the match was being held informally at the Training Facility rather than an official arena, the rules were straightforward.
The first match was between Lee Yu Chan and Lee Yeon Gu, the Titan Guild’s B-rank archer.
They would each shoot ten arrows at a target set at the maximum distance the Training Facility could accommodate—500 meters—and whoever scored higher would win.
But an unexpected variable emerged.
Word had spread somehow, and hunters from other training facilities began trickling into the First Training Facility one by one.
Lee Yu Chan’s face turned paler than a wall as he found himself competing before roughly thirty spectators who had suddenly gathered.
The Titan Guild’s muscle-bound brutes grew all the more arrogant.
They seemed to think this was the perfect opportunity to thoroughly humiliate us in front of everyone.
“Well then, shall we begin?”
At the Titan Guild leader’s words, Lee Yu Chan’s trembling hands raised his bow toward the target.

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