The Female Lead Saves the World - Chapter 237

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Yeo Joo Saves the World
Part 2, Episode 58

It felt as though he could see right through me.
That was why I hadn’t told Je Hwa, who I’d entrusted with the scanner invention, or Ji Jung Hwi, who I’d requested cooperation from, or even Kang Han, to whom I’d revealed all my skills.
I hated the way Sa Ma Young acted as though he’d found a weakness simply because he knew about my skills.
So I’d entrusted the scanner invention earlier than planned, and arranged to reveal my skill window accordingly.
Of course, I couldn’t claim that was the entire reason, but I couldn’t deny it played a significant part.
“You know that, right? You and I think much more alike than you’d expect.”
I know.
As much as I disliked admitting it, Sa Ma Young and I shared similar thought patterns.
Instead of answering, I wrapped the bandage tightly—perhaps a bit too tightly—applied a hasty bandage, and pushed him away.
“Treatment’s finished.”
I deliberately pushed his hand away without much care, but Sa Ma Young didn’t step back.
Instead, he spread both arms wide toward me and spoke.
“Give me a hug, Yeo Joo.”
“…Have you lost your mind?”
“My body’s been feeling terrible lately.”
“If your body feels bad, take supplements. Stop acting like a pervert.”
My sharp words only made Sa Ma Young laugh.
Yet even as he laughed, he didn’t lower his outstretched arms.
“Ideally, you’d just hug me for no reason at all, but I know that’s asking too much. I was asking you to use your skill. My body really has been feeling off lately.”
“How long has it been since I purified you… seriously?”
I wondered if Na Baek Ho had struck him on the head rather than the hand.
Sa Ma Young’s addiction rate was quite high.

Sa Ma Young S
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Abnormal Status – Desire 91%, Darkness Addiction 88%

“What on earth have you been up to?”
“Just been living a busy life, I suppose.”
Sa Ma Young deflected.
But if I thought about it for even a moment, what he’d been doing was obvious.
“Don’t tell me you’ve been searching for Double Dungeons?”
“Ah, as expected—you really do know me well, Yeo Joo.”
Sa Ma Young’s voice turned sweet as he toyed with the bandage I’d wrapped around him.
“I want to enter a Double Dungeon too, but they won’t let me.”
For a moment, I recalled Sa Ma Young’s face from the broadcast—the moment he’d discovered a Double Dungeon, his expression radiant with exhilaration.
To be that excited, only to have the Gate slam shut before his eyes because he didn’t meet the conditions—I could understand his frustration.
“Curiosity killed the cat, you know.”
I offered my advice to Sa Ma Young in all sincerity.
Having read the 【Sejong Records】, I knew.
What world the Double Dungeons connected to.
It was a warning tantamount to revealing heaven’s secrets, yet Sa Ma Young failed to grasp its deeper meaning.
Instead, he asked with a rather moved expression.
“Are you worried about me right now?”
“If you die a dog’s death, it’ll be inconvenient for me too.”
I’d merely stated a fact, but somehow, filtered through whatever lens he used, Sa Ma Young responded with childlike delight.
“You’d hate it if I died? Oh no, what do I do now? Do I have to be careful every time I enter a Gate?”
Ding—

⟪ ♥ 41 : Mine ⟫

Right on cue, my affection rose.
I regarded him with pitying eyes for a moment before taking Sa Ma Young’s hand.
“Don’t say strange things like asking me to hold you again. A hand is enough.”

[ Using skill ‘Dark Purification’. ]
[ Purification efficiency increases due to special constitution 【 Mine 】. ]
[ Purification efficiency increases due to high affection. ]

By now, I should have grown accustomed to it.
Yet the sensation of my stamina draining away while I remained still was something I still found deeply unsettling.
I considered drinking a stamina tonic before using the skill, but deliberately chose not to.

“You drink a stamina tonic every time you use a skill before starting. How could you not know that?”

Sa Ma Young, being perceptive, might have already figured it out.
‘Better safe than sorry, right?’
Fortunately, the skill activation finished before dizziness could set in.
“Feeling better now?”
“…That’s strange.”
Sa Ma Young murmured, gazing down at my hand he was still holding.
“Now it’s all over….”
I was about to ask him to let go since we were done, when—
Quick footsteps echoed from the Emergency Staircase, and Kang Han appeared, evidently in the middle of joint training.
His confused gaze immediately fixed on our intertwined hands.
“No, I was just using a skill…!”
I cried out without thinking, then suddenly realized something.
‘Why am I even explaining myself?’
My vision blurred with panic, and through the haze, I caught sight of Baek Young Ee coiled around Kang Han’s neck.
“Whoosh!”
So that’s where it had gone—it must have disappeared to fetch Kang Han.
An inexplicable sense of betrayal made my teeth chatter.
Thud, thud.
Kang Han’s approaching footsteps echoed heavily through the Break Room.
I felt his green eyes sweep across the first aid kit and bandages on the table.
“The wounds seem to have been treated with medicine.”
Though it might have been my imagination, Kang Han’s voice sounded considerably lower than usual.
“Were you treating Darkness Addiction?”
“Yes! That’s what I was trying to tell you earlier!”
“Is it finished?”
“It is…, right?”
“Then let go of that hand now.”
Kang Han spoke curtly, firmly prying my hand away from Sa Ma Young’s grip.
‘I was still holding hands?!’
I’d been too flustered to notice.
But then I heard Sa Ma Young click his tongue beside me.
He’d been aware of it all along.
Sa Ma Young went further, speaking to Kang Han with a mocking tone.
“Does the Justice Guild leader really meddle in guild members’ private lives?”
Kang Han, who had been gently massaging the hand he’d taken from Sa Ma Young, responded coldly.
“Treating Darkness Addiction isn’t a private matter—it’s volunteer work.”
Gone was the respectful formal speech he always maintained with everyone.
“It’s purely official business with no personal aspect whatsoever, and besides, if the other party is you—”
Kang Han looked Sa Ma Young up and down as he continued.
“Protecting my guild members is also my responsibility.”
“….”
Kang Han and Sa Ma Young stared at each other in silence.
The murderous tension stretched taut as a bowstring ready to snap at any moment—far more intense than the Familiars’ scuffle from moments before.
Yet unlike Sa Ma Young, who burned with barely contained fury, Kang Han maintained his characteristic composure.
As if eye contact itself was meaningless, he turned his gaze toward me.
“But why is the Sama Guild master injured?”
“Oh, that. Na Baek Ho did it. I think he startled when I suddenly tried to touch him.”
Na Baek Ho, who had been sitting silently with his rear pressed against my back while I treated Sa Ma Young, rushed toward Kang Han the moment his name was mentioned.
Then he proceeded to complain as though he’d suffered a terrible injustice.
“Whine, whimper.”
The way he rubbed his forehead against Kang Han’s knee was pure troublemaking tattletale behavior.
Kang Han dropped to one knee in front of Na Baek Ho, meeting him at eye level, and spoke in a low voice.
“You can’t hurt people, you know. Na Baek Ho was wrong.”
Good job, Kang Han!
While I was the primary guardian, Kang Han was proving to be an excellent secondary guardian as well.
But Kang Han’s words didn’t end there.
Glancing subtly toward Sa Ma Young, he added in the softest voice imaginable.
“Good job, Baek Ho.”
“Growl!”
I could see Na Baek Ho rubbing his head against Kang Han’s hand, grinning smugly at having his side taken.
After I’d just scolded him!
I decided this wouldn’t do and shot up from my seat.
“Since we’re done here, I think it’s best if you head back now, Sa Ma Young….”
I was about to dismiss him and confront Kang Han about his questionable parenting methods.
Trrrrrr—
That is, until my phone in my pocket began ringing loudly.
But the moment I reached into my pocket to check the caller, both Kang Han’s and Sa Ma Young’s phones began ringing simultaneously.
Unlike me, who went rigid with an ominous premonition, Kang Han pressed the answer button first.
“Yes, go ahead.”
Soon after, Sa Ma Young answered his call as well.
“This is Sa Ma Young.”
In the end, my phone—which had started ringing first—fell silent last.
I swallowed hard once before speaking.
“This is Yeo Joo of the Justice Guild.”
[ “This is the Gate Prediction Division. A Double Dungeon has opened.” ]
Ah, so it finally happened.
As I squeezed my eyes shut, darkness filling my vision, the voice on the other end of the line continued urgently.
[ “According to Awakener Association protocol, Yeo Joo, the healer closest to the Double Dungeon, has been requisitioned.” ]

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