The Female Lead Saves the World - Chapter 245

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Yeo Joo Saves the World
Part 2, Episode 66

“Let go of me! I said let go!”
“Please calm down, Director Seo!”
“What are you trying to do by going in there!”
Several Awakener Association staff members were restraining Seo Yu Baek as he tried to rush into the Mooak Mountain Fixed Dungeon Gate.
The commotion had been ongoing ever since the broadcast showed Yeo Joo, the healer, collapsing during the dungeon conquest.
For a healer to charge into a battle where even three S-rank hunters were struggling was essentially a death wish.
“So you’re telling me to just stand here and watch!”
Seo Yu Baek shook off the hands gripping his arm and shouted.
His throat burned with regret.
It shouldn’t have been Yeo Joo who went in.
The ominous mark inscribed above her head, the critical situation severe enough to make her desperately chug potions in succession before collapsing—all of it should have been something Seo Yu Baek himself had to endure.
Then, one of the Association staff members spoke to Seo Yu Baek in a soothing tone.
“If it had been you who collapsed in there instead of Yeo Joo the healer, it would have been far worse! So many hunters waiting at the hospital for treatment would have been put in danger! Director Seo, please calm down just a little….”
“What did you just say?”
Seo Yu Baek’s eyes gleamed sharply behind his glasses.
“Are you saying it’s fortunate that Yeo Joo the healer is in danger instead of me?”
“No, I didn’t mean—that’s not what I…. I’m so sorry.”
The staff member’s complexion turned ashen as he realized his slip of the tongue.
It was Ji Jung Hwi, the Association Director, who saved him from Seo Yu Baek’s increasingly frigid expression.
“Director Seo, the higher the gate’s rank, the more unstable the streaming broadcast becomes, doesn’t it? We can’t be certain whether what we’re watching happened minutes ago or hours ago.”
“But that doesn’t mean we should just sit idle with our hands folded.”
“I understand that feeling. You must be desperate enough to want to rush in. So let’s do something about it.”
Ji Jung Hwi firmly grasped Seo Yu Baek and gestured for the staff members restraining him to step back.
“The second gate connecting to the Double Dungeon is just a stone’s throw from here. Let’s wait here so that when the hunters who’ve been struggling inside emerge, they can receive treatment from you immediately in optimal condition. You are the only S-rank healer in our country, after all. If Yeo Joo the healer’s condition is as grave as it appeared, you’re the only one who can treat her.”
At Ji Jung Hwi’s calm words, Seo Yu Baek’s ragged breathing gradually settled.
Seo Yu Baek opened a Subspace, retrieved mana and stamina potions, downed them in one gulp, and made his request in a far more composed voice.
“Move the monitors here so I can keep watching the broadcast.”
“Yes! I’ll bring them right away….”
“The conquest team is coming out!”
At someone’s loud shout, Seo Yu Baek strode toward the gate.
The first to emerge was Kang Han, carrying Yeo Joo in his arms.
Seo Yu Baek removed the white coat he was wearing, spread it on the ground, and instructed urgently.
“Lay her down here for a moment!”
The moment Kang Han carefully set Yeo Joo down, Seo Yu Baek activated his ‘Awakened Medical Chart’ skill.

[ Yeo Joo A
Current HP – 80/150
Current Mana – 100/100
External Injuries – None
Status Abnormality – ???? ]

It was identical to when she had been brought in after clearing the Guerrilla Jungle Dungeon, when she suddenly began coughing blood before his eyes.
Yeo Joo was never simply suffering from stamina depletion or injury—she was always afflicted by some status abnormality.
Yet even an S-rank skill could not glean any further information.
Seo Yu Baek abandoned his attempt to grasp the exact situation and instead examined Yeo Joo’s condition.
Her heartbeat and breathing were extraordinarily slow, as though life itself had ebbed away, and her body, cold yet not rigid, suggested she was precariously balanced on the razor’s edge between life and death.

[ Healing skill ‘Oath of the White Coat’ has been activated. ]
[ It has no effect on status abnormality ????. ]
[ Healing skill ‘Emergency Treatment’ has been activated. ]
[ It has no effect on status abnormality ????. ]

As expected, his skills proved useless once again.
In that case, there was nothing more he could accomplish on this hillside.
Though S-rank healer Seo Yu Baek was powerless, the director of the Awakened Hospital was not.
The hospital possessed machines capable of artificially sustaining respiration and cardiac function.
Seo Yu Baek rose to his feet at once and spoke to Association Director Ji Jung Hwi.
“Yeo Joo must be transported to the hospital immediately. There’s no time for running. I request spatial transfer.”

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Seoul Moo Ak Mountain Double Dungeon Strategy Broadcast / Kang Han, Sa Ma Young, Han Ji Sung, Yeo Joo

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– Wait, what just happened?
– Why did Yeo Joo suddenly collapse?
– The atmosphere is seriously tense right now????
– The way she suddenly chugged that potion… did she get hit with a non-physical attack?
– Yeah yeah yeah that’s why she drained the health potion so fast
Oh no, Yeo Joo unnie, oh no!
– Damn, was it really the right call to bring a healer inside?
– Without a healer, combat classes are sitting ducks;;;
– What did Ji Sung just say??
– He said she’s not breathing???
– Oh my gosh ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ
– Is she dead??
– She’s dead??????
– Yeo Joo is dead?
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Comments
Comment 1 She didn’t die, you idiot
Comment 2 Didn’t you watch the broadcast to the end? Kang Han said she’s alive;
Comment 3 Easy to kill someone who’s alive;;;
Comment 4 But Kang Han could be wrong too?
Comment 5 Real talk, seeing her cradled in Kang Han’s arms at the end… she didn’t really look alive
Stop reposting articles like this, seriously.
Comment 7 They’re posting breaking news about Yeo Joo’s death left and right;;;
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Comment 544 No!!!!! Yeo Joo didn’t die!!! She was admitted to the ICU!!!!

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[ The drug abuse penalty ‘comatose state’ has ended. ]

The first message window I saw upon regaining consciousness.
I wanted to open my eyes and assess my surroundings, but not even my eyelids would obey my will.
All I could do was read the cascade of old system messages that flooded my mind.
But thanks to them, I could roughly piece together what had happened during the time I’d lost consciousness.

[ The damage the Death Knight received from the effect of ‘Mark of Finality’ has been transferred. ]
[ It does not apply to status abnormality penalties. ]

My gamble had paid off.
The drug abuse penalty was so vicious that neither a healer’s restoration skills nor a monster’s attack skills could penetrate it.
‘I almost died.’
There was no explanation for it other than sheer luck.
If an ambiguous status abnormality like ‘hemoptysis’ had appeared instead, I would have simply coughed up blood and perished as a healer.
And the messages that followed were equally promising.

[ You have defeated the master of the Corrupted Battlefield, the Death Knight ( S )! ]
[ Quest complete! ]
[ You have successfully prevented the collapse of the barrier. ]

In any case, the Double Dungeon had been cleared safely.
Kang Han would have immediately admitted me to the Awakened Healer Hospital.
As if to confirm my suspicion, a message related to Seo Yu Baek appeared next.

[ The healing skill ‘Oath of the White Coat’ has been used. ]
[ It does not apply to status abnormality penalties. ]
[ The healing skill ‘Emergency Treatment’ has been used. ]
[ It does not apply to status abnormality penalties. ]

…I told him healing skills wouldn’t work, but here we are.
Still, I would have tried anything in his position.
I hoped Seo Yu Baek hadn’t succumbed to despair again, and moved on to the next message.

[ Your synchronization rate with this world has increased. ]
[ The ‘Body Restoration’ ability has advanced one stage. ]
[ Current stage – Intermediate II ]

What kind of windfall is this?
My synchronization rate, which hadn’t budged no matter what I tried for so long, had finally increased.
It had improved considerably when I reached Intermediate I, but now it had climbed even higher than that.
Have I finally become a decent healer?
All I did was sleep deeply and wake up, yet I reaped such rewards.
It was worth dying and coming back to life for.
But it wasn’t a method I could use twice.
‘Everyone must be in an uproar.’
I wasn’t even attacked—I just collapsed suddenly while lying still, becoming a half-corpse.
It was an unavoidable choice to avoid dying, but either way, I felt I needed to wake up and offer a proper apology.
Once that thought crossed my mind, lying still became unbearable.
‘Open your eyes, come on!’
Who knew that lifting eyelids that blinked tens of thousands of times a day could be this difficult?
Forcing myself, I finally opened my eyes, and through my blurred vision, the familiar ceiling of the Awakened Hospital came into view.
I’d thought I might be admitted to the ICU since I’d fallen into a comatose state, but apparently that wasn’t the case.
Then suddenly, an ominous premonition struck me.
‘Could I have been lying here longer than five days… no, surely not?’
I thought I’d regain consciousness the moment the penalty ended, but what if that wasn’t what happened?
I could already feel blood dripping from my ears from the nagging that was to come.
“Ugh….”
A sound of anguish over the terrible future ahead escaped my lips without my realizing it.
“Yeo Joo.”
“Ms. Yeo Joo.”
“Are you conscious?”
I could tell the last voice belonged to Kang Han.
But who were the other two?
Forcing my eyes open again, which had already closed, I saw three familiar faces.
Yes, they were familiar, but—
they were absolutely not people who should be in the same place.
“Guild… Master.”
“Yes, Ms. Yeo Joo.”
“How long have I….”
“You’ve been unconscious for a week now.”
I knew it.
Why are bad premonitions never wrong?
“Could you… raise the bed a bit? And if there’s water… some water too….”
Kang Han promptly fulfilled everything I asked for.
Once I was in a semi-reclined position and took a sip of water, I finally felt somewhat alive.
I followed up with a second question.
“But why are the Workshop owner and Sa Ma Young, the Guild Master, here?”
You two aren’t close at all.
You’re completely at odds with each other.
Yet no one gave me a proper answer to my question.
Sa Ma Young kept his mouth firmly shut and stared at me intently, Je Hwa let out a sigh, and Kang Han furrowed his thick brows.
It seemed they had no intention of answering.
I’d learn what happened while I was unconscious soon enough anyway.
And there was a truly pressing question I couldn’t possibly ask these three men—something else entirely that I really wanted to know.
I slowly examined the space above their heads, starting with Sa Ma Young on the left, then Je Hwa in the middle, and finally Kang Han on the right.
First, Sa Ma Young.
⟪ ♥ 44 : Distrust ⟫
Workshop Sugar owner Je Hwa.
⟪ ♥ 42 : Precarious Muse ⟫
And Kang Han.
⟪ ♥ 46 : Separation Anxiety ⟫
…Why do all the keywords look like that?

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