The Female Lead Saves the World - Chapter 261

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Yeo Joo Saves the World
Part 2, Episode 82

Beyond the expansive window, the snow-covered landscape of the Awakeners Association came into view.
The heavy flakes fell so thickly that the entire world seemed blanketed beneath a white quilt.
Watching the scene where I could almost hear the soft whisper of accumulating snow, I recalled the conversation I’d had with Je Hwa last night.

“Is that really… the condition?”
“Yes. What do you think?”
“No, condition or whatever… are you serious?”
“Completely serious.”
“It feels like you’re only doing good things for us.”
“Well then, I’ll take that as your agreement and make a formal visit.”

I blinked slowly, watching snowflakes settle on the sharp needles of the evergreen, and spoke absently.
“Guild Master.”
“Yes, Yeo Joo?”
“Do you think I might have saved a nation in my past life?”
Otherwise, there’s no way I could be this fortunate.
Of course, being reincarnated into a world destined for apocalypse was a catastrophic stroke of bad luck, but everything had been going remarkably well since then.
Last night, hearing Je Hwa’s ‘condition’ had excited me so much I couldn’t sleep.
But even now, far from being drowsy, my heart was racing so fast I didn’t need morning coffee.
Kang Han laughed as he watched me take a small, deep breath.
“I’m not sure about past lives. But maybe Yeo Joo is getting rewarded because you do so many good things normally.”
“Good things?”
“You saved me and the Justice Guild this time around.”
“…Guild Master, why do you always say such pretty things?”
“Only Yeo Joo would say something like that to me.”
Kang Han’s ears were flushed red as he smiled lightly, feigning indifference.
Such an indirect man.
Still, it was cute enough that I pushed the sweet pastry in front of me toward him.
“If you two are going to flirt, go do it somewhere else.”
From across the table, Ji Jung Hwi, the owner of this office, was frowning as if he’d witnessed something he shouldn’t have.
“You barged in saying you had something urgent to discuss, and now you two are just cooing at each other right in front of an adult.”
His disapproving expression, complete with a tsk-tsk sound, looked like he’d bitten into an astringent persimmon.
I refilled Ji Jung Hwi’s cup with tea and spoke.
“Association Director, don’t go around joking that you’re eccentric elsewhere. Everyone already knows you’re a strange old man.”
“What did you say?”
“The tea’s getting cold. You said it tastes bad when it’s cold.”
At that, the Association Director clicked his tongue once more before downing the tea I’d poured in a single gulp.
“So it was the Apocalypse Cult bastards who destroyed the Justice Guild like that.”
“Yes, it seems they came to spy on the opening when the Justice Guild exposed itself to outsiders.”
“How sinister.”
“With people like that, it makes sense they’d spout nonsense about the world ending. Association Director, did you search the Awakener database?”
On the day of the Apocalypse Cult incident, I’d shared information about the three intruders—their descriptions, skills, and other details—with the Awakeners Association.
I was hoping the Association might have more accurate information about them.
“I only found that Bodyguard. The other two are unregistered, which means they’re not in our system.”
It was disappointing, but I’d suspected as much.
The Apocalypse Cult had a longer history than I’d initially thought, and they were an extremely exclusive organization.
Even I, having read the Chronicles of the Apocalypse, had almost no information about them.
Kang Han read the brief information about Bishop Yi’s Bodyguard from the documents the Association Director had handed over.
“Jang Jin Su, physical enhancement type A-rank, skill is… Immortality
(不死)
.”
“It’s not just about not dying. He can regenerate his body as well, from what I hear.”
“Then the arm Baek Ho severed must already be regenerating.”
Listening to the conversation between Ji Jung Hwi and Kang Han, I recalled the contents from the Chronicles of the Apocalypse.
It seemed like it had been mentioned only in passing.
A figure who had tried every method to die, only to despair when nothing worked, and eventually came to wish for the world’s end instead.
But why had this person tried to die in the first place…?
Then Ji Jung Hwi asked me a question.
“How did you know?”
“Know what?”
“That Apocalypse Cult leader. Turns out he lied about his specialty being illusion magic and even took an interview at the Justice Guild. You told me to search the database for anyone with a language command skill registered.”
“Oh, yes, I did.”
What excuse could I make?
Kang Han knew that I had the ability to see other people’s status windows.
But Ji Jung Hwi did not.
I shrugged as casually as I could manage and spoke.
“Come on, you’d notice something like that. Every time he ordered that Bodyguard to kill me, his eyes would go all feral…”
“He ordered him to kill you?”
In that instant, the temperature around Kang Han’s seat plummeted below freezing, turning bitterly cold.
I was done for.
I’d only told Kang Han that the Bodyguard—no, Jang Jin Su—had attacked me, and I’d completely forgotten about that detail.
There was no way to take back words that had already left my mouth.
Still, I desperately racked my brain for any possible escape route, but the moment Kang Han’s face came into view, my thoughts came to a complete halt.
“Yeo Joo, tell me. Did the Cult Leader order Jang Jin Su to kill you?”
I was defeated.
As that strikingly handsome face drew closer, I found myself nodding blankly without thinking.
This is why beautiful men are so dangerous.
“Why didn’t you tell me something this important sooner?”
“Well… I figured you’d just worry about it anyway.”
“Of course you would—!”
Kang Han, uncharacteristically emotional, clamped his mouth shut entirely.
This was bad.
He was truly furious.
And the Association Director’s disapproving click of his tongue seemed unusually loud.
“I’ll investigate everything about the Apocalypse Cult that I can within my reach.”
“…Thank you, Director.”
As expected, Kang Han’s voice had turned rigid and clipped.
I exhaled softly and retrieved what I’d prepared in the Subspace, setting it on the table.
It was a glass bottle containing a pale green potion, the color of weak tea.
“Actually, I came here today not about the Apocalypse Cult, but to discuss this.”
“What is this?”
“A wound-healing potion.”
“This… this is…!”
Ji Jung Hwi, the Association Director, shot to his feet.
Then he carefully picked up the small potion bottle with both hands.
His grip was so delicate that his fingertips trembled visibly.
“It’s finally complete…!”
“You’re that pleased?”
“Of course!”
A radiant smile bloomed across Ji Jung Hwi’s face.
“Just imagine how many hunters’ lives this potion could save! Not to mention inside the Gates, the efficiency of the Awakened Healer Hospital will skyrocket!”
“You truly understand its value.”
Since this was the result of Im Chung Soo and Seo Yu Baek’s hard work, hearing praise felt especially rewarding.
I’d have to tell them about this.
“How much injury can one bottle of this treat?”
“What I’ve shown you is the lowest-grade Stage 1 potion. They’re divided into five stages total based on purity.”
I answered while placing the remaining four bottles one by one on the table.
Compared to the pale tea-colored Stage 1, the final Stage 5 potion was so deeply colored it looked like green ink.
“I’ve heard that one bottle of Stage 1 can perfectly stop bleeding from minor wounds?”
“Extraordinary!”
The Association Director’s eyes gleamed with such intensity they seemed to drip honey.
“Since the Gates appeared, there’s been no invention more remarkable than this!”
For a moment, Je Hwa’s Darkness Addiction Scanner came to mind, but I nodded as if I hadn’t heard.
And while I was thinking of Je Hwa, I decided to mimic him a bit.
“Mass production is already underway at the Awakened Healer Hospital. I’d appreciate it if the Awakener Association could coordinate things during the initial launch to prevent excessive competition.”
“Of course, that’s only natural.”
“However.”
I smoothly reached out and retrieved the potion that Association Director Ji Jung Hwi was holding, then spoke.
“There’s one condition before that.”
“A condition…?”
“Since production is already proceeding smoothly, it’s just a matter of time until launch, isn’t it?”
“That’s true.”
“So I’d like all payments to be made upfront.”
Preventing the apocalypse requires far more capital than I initially thought.

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Kang Han remained silent the entire drive back from the Awakener Association.
He didn’t seem angry yet, but what was he thinking so deeply about?
As we approached the Justice Guild, I cautiously asked Kang Han, who had been driving in silence.
“Are you very angry?”
“…About earlier.”
“No, I wasn’t trying to hide it from you.”
“I know. You didn’t want to worry me.”
But that was separate from whether he was angry.
If our positions were reversed and Kang Han’s life had been in danger while I remained unaware, I would have felt hurt too.
Just as I was about to open my mouth to apologize properly.
“It appears we have a visitor at the guild.”
Kang Han was right.
In front of the Training Building, which served as the main hall, Han Ji Sung was conversing with someone.
But the figure’s back looked incredibly familiar.
“Workshop Sugar’s owner?”
The visitor was Je Hwa.

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