The Female Lead Saves the World - Chapter 308

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Yeo Joo Saves the World
Part 2, Episode 129

“What are you doing?!”
Im Chung Soo rushed toward Yeo Joo and seized her bleeding hand.
The wound—clearly made by deliberately slashing with a blade—carved a deep line across her left palm.
Each drop of fresh blood that trickled down her pale skin sent Im Chung Soo’s heart plummeting.
“You’ve lost your mind, or… why would you do this…?”
So this is what it means for your mind to go blank.
Has she been suffering this much all along?
Since when has this been happening?
How did I not notice?
Unable to think coherently, his mind scattered like bullets in every direction at once.
“I’m fine, Im Chung Soo. Calm down.”
“How can I calm down! There’s so much blood!”
“…I’ll use a trauma treatment potion, so just step back for a moment.”
Yeo Joo gently pushed Im Chung Soo aside with her uninjured hand.
Im Chung Soo, whose mind had been focused only on stopping the bleeding and getting to the Hospital, went blank at the word “potion.”
“Oh… a potion.”
One he’d made himself, no less.
Yet he hadn’t even thought to use it.
That’s how scattered his mind had become.
A trauma potion would have healed that wound instantly.
Only then did his surroundings come into focus as relief washed over him.
“Baek Ho.”
At Im Chung Soo’s call, Na Baek Ho—transformed into a tiger cub and crouched on the bed—turned his gaze away from Yeo Joo.
Though not his own Familiar, the moment Im Chung Soo met those clear blue eyes, he understood.
Just as Maeng Yi had said—Baek Ho was grieving deeply right now.
It was strange, though.
Baek Ho was not the type to simply watch as Yeo Joo harmed herself.
So why…?
After pushing Im Chung Soo away, Yeo Joo retrieved a trauma treatment potion from her Subspace, opened the cap with her teeth since her injured hand was unusable, and poured it slowly over the wound.
She moved as though operating with one hand was second nature.
‘This isn’t the first time.’
A chill crept down the back of his neck—a certainty that felt like premonition.
Yeo Joo had done this many times before.
And just like now, she would have used a potion to hide the wound without a trace.
As her mind cooled, the trembling anxiety in her chest subsided as well.
Im Chung Soo suddenly rose from his seat, went into the Restroom, and returned with a water-dampened towel.
“Give me your hand.”
At his blunt tone, which had returned to its usual manner, Yeo Joo hesitated for a moment before obediently extending her left hand.
Fortunately, the wound had healed completely.
Im Chung Soo silently wiped away the blood.
From where the wound had been all the way down to the floor.
Though the marks remaining on Yeo Joo’s clothes bothered him somewhat, he erased every visible red stain.
Then he tossed the towel into the laundry basket and finally opened his mouth, which had been pressed shut for so long.
“Now tell me—why did you do something like this?”
“Well, you see, Im Chung Soo…”
“Don’t you dare lie to me.”
Im Chung Soo never took his eyes off Yeo Joo as she sighed.
It was an expression of his determination to hear the truth, no matter what.
In the end, Yeo Joo shook her head in surrender.
“First, there’s something you need to know.”
The story that began with those words continued for quite some time.
Im Chung Soo sat cross-legged on the floor with his arms crossed, listening silently to Yeo Joo’s explanation, and eventually his brow furrowed again.
“So you’re saying Awakened individuals go berserk because of Darkness addiction.”
“That’s right.”
“And you have the ability to purify it.”
“Exactly.”
“And a Darkness Addiction Scanner was invented.”
“Yes.”
“So eventually everyone will find out about your ability and ask for help, and while you’re worried about that, you wake up with a skill to create Darkness Purification Potions from blood?”
“See, Im Chung Soo is sharp. You understood it all at once.”
“Those bastards.”
“…Hey, no matter what, you shouldn’t curse at your sister like that.”
“Who are you calling a dog—or rather, a puppy?!”
Im Chung Soo huffed indignantly.
“I’m cursing at the System for throwing such garbage at us!”
“Ah, then I agree.”
They’re worse than dogs, then.
Yeo Joo nodded in agreement.
“Is that really a skill, anyway? How does blood just turn into a potion when you extract it…?”
Im Chung Soo’s mouth fell open as Yeo Joo smoothly held out a glass vial.
He had clearly witnessed red blood flowing directly into it, yet what lay inside the potion bottle was not blood but a transparent liquid.
It even had a lustrous sheen that rippled with light, as if gold dust had been mixed into it.

[ Dark Purification Elixir ( ?? )
: Upon consumption, stops rampage and reduces Dark addiction rate. ]

“Huh.”
I was left speechless by the clearly visible information window.
And soon after, the anger that had momentarily subsided surged back up.
“What kind of ridiculous skill is this?”
“Still, it’s better than nothing. If I gather them little by little in advance, I can use them effectively later.”
“No matter what, this is just too much…!”
It was the moment I was about to cry out in frustration.
A System window suddenly appeared in Im Chung Soo’s vision.

[ Would you like to develop ‘Dark Purification Elixir’ into ‘Dark Purification Potion (5 bottles)’? ]

“…Sister, is there anything else you’ve made besides this?”
“Hm? Yeah. Three bottles.”
Upon hearing Yeo Joo’s answer, Im Chung Soo cast the skill without hesitation.
The bottle containing the Dark Purification Elixir glowed softly, and with a clinking sound, it transformed into five small potion bottles, each no larger than a pinky finger.

[ Dark Purification Potion (S)
: Upon consumption, stops rampage and reduces Dark addiction rate. ]

Even after using the skill, the effect remained unchanged.
It was when Im Chung Soo confirmed this fact and let out a silent sigh of relief.
Tap!
Yeo Joo pressed down on Im Chung Soo’s shoulder and grinned wickedly as she spoke.
“Become my accomplice.”
And this morning, when I heard the news that Yeo Joo had finally been admitted to the Awakened Healer Hospital, I didn’t hesitate to head to Seo Yu Baek’s Research Lab and confess everything that had happened.

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“I thought I’d found an accomplice, but it turned out to be a tattletale.”
As I muttered this, Im Chung Soo’s eyes widened sharply, and he spoke.
“You’re always telling me to ask adults for help when there’s a problem. You’ve said it so many times my ears are worn out from hearing it.”
“So you only listen when it suits you?”
“You need to find an expert for anything like this.”
This time, I had no choice but to agree with Im Chung Soo.
While making trauma treatment potions with Im Chung Soo, I learned a great deal about the abilities that Seo Yu Baek possessed.
Beyond just his skills as a healer, Seo Yu Baek’s knowledge in this field was vast.
No matter how S-rank one was, there were limits to the number of hunters one could personally care for, so this was an effort to compensate for that limitation through research as much as possible.
With Seo Yu Baek’s help, I might be able to find another breakthrough regarding the darkness purification potion.
‘But I might die at Seo Yu Baek’s hands before then.’
Looking at the terrifying expression on Seo Yu Baek’s face as he stood beside Im Chung Soo, it seemed that path was not so distant after all.
“Yeo Joo.”
Look at this.
His voice was laced with a chilling edge.
“Don’t make the darkness purification potion.”
As expected, Seo Yu Baek firmly opposed it.
“I can’t do that. You’ve learned about darkness addiction too. Soon everyone else will know about it as well.”
“The potion’s ingredient is your blood. How long do you plan to keep squeezing out your blood to make potions?”
I shrugged my shoulders.
There was no other way, so what could I do?
Seo Yu Baek thrust a chart filled with English and numbers toward me and spoke.
“Your test results are a mess. The person who took the test when you came to the Hospital last time—they had the same name but were practically a completely different person. Do you know how many times I’ve verified whether the test was done incorrectly?”
Seo Yu Baek’s pale hands gripped both my shoulders firmly.
“Don’t think of it as simply drawing a little blood. I’m not sure exactly what mechanism your skill operates on, but important parts that sustain you as a person are being lost along with it. Do you understand what I’m saying?”
I knew it.
I’d suspected it to some degree.
I could feel my body growing weaker the more potions I made.
“This time it ended with just a cold, but next time, I don’t know what might break down or how, Yeo Joo.”
“Thank you for worrying about me, Teacher.”
I patted the back of Seo Yu Baek’s hand.
Then I asked.
“But if you’ve gained an ability like this, can you really hide it and not use it?”

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