The Female Lead Saves the World - Chapter 284

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Yeo Joo Saves the World
Part 2, Episode 105

“I’m dying….”
After enduring Kang Han’s merciless coaching, I’d been rolled around so thoroughly that the hard floor of the Training Room felt refreshingly cool against my exhausted body.
As I lay sprawled on the ground for a moment, gasping for breath, Kang Han approached with a composed expression and offered me a bottle of cool water.
“You’re not going to die from this.”
“How would you know? You said you weren’t pushing hard, but you’re a complete liar.”
I glared at him with all the strength I could muster, but Kang Han simply smiled and held out the uncapped water bottle.
My throat was parched as if every drop of moisture had been sweated out of my body, so I drained the entire bottle in one gulp.
“Ah, it’s sweet.”
“Water tastes best after exercise. Isn’t it rewarding?”
“I’d rather just skip the exercise and drink water that tastes bad.”
“You grow as much as you struggle.”
“Growth… Oh, that’s right!”
My foggy mind, which had exhausted every ounce of mental energy on the workout, suddenly lit up with clarity.
“I almost forgot!”
I scrambled to my feet on trembling legs and closed the door to the Physical Training Room.
I also remembered to use the controller beside the entrance to turn the glass window opaque.
“Yeo Joo…?”
I heard Kang Han calling my name from behind, but I waved my hand dismissively as if to say “wait a moment,” pondered for a bit longer, then locked the door.
In the silent Physical Training Room, the click of the lock echoed sharply.
I pulled the door once to confirm the lock was properly engaged, then turned around to see Kang Han still standing in place, staring at me blankly.
“Why… are you locking the door?”
“I can’t have any interruptions.”
“So what exactly….”
“I have something I need to do with you.”
As I gradually moved closer, I could see Kang Han’s expression growing increasingly tense.
One step, two steps, three steps.
I approached slowly, one step at a time, just like Kang Han had counted while I was doing planks earlier.
“Yeo Joo, wait, just stay right there….”
“Shh.”
I moved completely close and pressed my finger gently against Kang Han’s lips.
I could see him swallow hard, his body rigid with tension.
“Would you close your eyes for a moment?”
“….”
Kang Han’s long eyelashes trembled faintly as he stared at me in silence, and soon his green eyes disappeared beneath his eyelids.
I savored the sight of him keeping both eyes tightly shut as I’d instructed, then pulled it from the Subspace with a flourish.
“Ta-da!”
“…What is this, exactly?”
“It’s an item!”
“An item….”
I thought he’d be pleased.
Kang Han alternated his gaze between the green orb resting in my palm and me, his jaw clenching.
But that lasted only a moment—Kang Han slumped onto a nearby exercise machine and dropped his head down abruptly.
“What’s wrong?”
“I just wanted to sit for a bit.”
“Isn’t it because you’ve been training so hard lately that your legs have lost their strength?”
“No, it’s not that.”
“It absolutely is! You know what they say—excess is the enemy of good. Your lower body must be getting weak from overtraining!”
“Lower body getting weak… sigh.”
Kang Han’s head snapped up, and he gave me a half-glare while muttering something under his breath.
“Can’t even show this to anyone.”
“What did you say?”
“Nothing. So you locked the door because of this item?”
“Of course!”
I nodded emphatically in response.
“In martial arts novels, whenever someone consumes a rare elixir, they always secure the perimeter like this. What if this item loses its effectiveness if we’re interrupted?”
“That’s unlikely.”
“There’s no harm in being cautious, right?”
Despite my reasonably sound explanation, Kang Han still wore a skeptical expression.
I carefully placed the green orb in his hands and explained.
“I received it after clearing the Jungle-Type Dungeon with the Sama Guild last time.”
“Ah, that time.”
“Yes, that time. We went through so much trouble, so I got this as compensation instead of payment. Go ahead and use it.”
My heart racing, I took several steps back from Kang Han.
After obtaining the item, I’d considered using it myself, but ultimately decided it should go to Kang Han.

[ Blessing of Hemeres (A)
: A treasure of Hemeres, the god of verdancy and growth.
Awakens the latent potential of the one who shatters the orb. ]

As the item description clearly stated, this item had no ability to create talents that didn’t exist.
It merely awakened the latent potential that the user hadn’t yet tapped into.
If I shattered the orb and nothing happened, it would be a complete waste.
‘When I commit to pushing forward, I need to do it decisively.’
Kang Han didn’t shatter the orb immediately.
Lost in thought, he simply stared at Hemeres’ Blessing resting in his palm for a long while.
Just as I grew tired of waiting and was about to urge him on, Kang Han slowly clenched his fist and crushed the orb.
Crack.
The sound of the orb shattering was followed by a moment of silence.
Remarkably, nothing happened at all.
‘Could there be defective items?!’
I was just beginning to panic when—
“Ugh…”
Kang Han let out a low groan and hunched forward.
His muscular frame beneath the light athletic wear visibly trembled.
I, who had stepped back to avoid interfering and was barely breathing, was taken aback.
‘There was no mention of pain!’
In the scene that flashed through my mind from 【Sejong’s Seal】, when a hunter obtained Hemeres’ Blessing and shattered the orb like candy, their stats had simply shot up with a pop!
Crackle, crackle—!
Now sparks were even flying around Kang Han.
Something was wrong.
Just as I was leaning toward watching a bit longer, fearing that approaching carelessly might make things worse—
Zzzzzt—
Boom!
The electric current spiraling around Kang Han like a golden ring suddenly condensed, then exploded with a deafening roar.
By the time I realized my head was spinning, my body was already airborne, flying backward.
As everything stretched out in slow motion, I thought.
This is strange.
Je Hwa gave me a necklace, so I should be safe, right?
And then I remembered.
The necklace I had taken off before showering this morning was still sitting on my dormitory desk.
The bright lights of the Training Room ceiling blurred my vision.
At this point, all I could do was hope I wouldn’t die.
I resigned myself to my fate and squeezed my eyes shut, bracing for what was about to happen.
But the next moment, instead of a dull pain, I felt strong arms wrapping around my waist and warm body heat.
I gasped and reflexively opened my eyes.
There, I saw emerald eyes blazing with brilliant blue electricity swirling like a storm.
“Um, how are you?”
“It feels great.”
“Ugh! Tell me properly right now!”
“‘All attack skills increased by 25%.’ And.”
“A-and?”
“A new skill has appeared. ‘Information Access.'”
“Kyaaah!”
Jackpot! This is jackpot!
I threw my arms around Kang Han and cheered.
To be honest, I’d only given him the item hoping for one new skill through re-awakening, but I never expected the results to be this good.
I hugged Kang Han with all my strength and bounced up and down.
Then Kang Han, who had frozen in surprise for a moment, hugged me back.
“‘Information Access’ sounds like a pure information-type skill, doesn’t it?”
“It appears so. I can see the item description.”
“What about the skill level? S-rank?”
“Yes, S-rank.”
An S-rank skill awakened from an A-rank item—truly Kang Han.
The already incredibly powerful protagonist just got even stronger!
Isn’t the Guild Cup already ours?
I hugged Kang Han tightly once more, patting his back as I laughed.
“Let’s show them what we’re made of in this Guild Cup. Let them see that Justice Guild has returned.”
“I will.”
Kang Han held me close, just as I had done moments before.
“So you watch too, Yeo Joo.”
As I caught my breath, wrapped in what felt like a solid wall, his unusually low voice spoke.
“See how far Justice Guild has come—the guild that Yeo Joo rebuilt from the ground up.”
Without even seeing his face, I could tell how happy Kang Han was.
The Kang Han who once wore exhaustion in the dim Bunker Corridor, who didn’t even know how to sigh, was gone.
A bird that has finished spreading its wings and gauged the wind does not fear the leap.
In the end, all I could do was nod silently, hiding the tightness in my throat.

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