The Female Lead Saves the World - Chapter 32

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Yeo Joo Saves the World – Episode 32

No one answered readily.
Each of them had their own reasons for the turmoil in their minds.
Especially Jang Su Ho.
“Jang Su Ho, you were originally with the Taesan Guild, right?”
“Huh? …Yeah.”
“Then you must know Gwak Ho Young pretty well. What do you think of him?”
“His personality is bad, but he does his job well.”
“He’s a veteran in his own way, isn’t he?”
Jang Su Ho nodded.
From our conversation, everyone seemed to recall their old guilds, and none of them looked pleased.
Except for Kang Han, who had belonged to the Justice Guild from the start.
His expression was more resigned than anything.
In the latter half of the novel, I only saw him
flying around like a demigod
but now, watching him look so dejected—like a homeless mouse—my heart aches.
It’s somewhat pitiful, really.
I threw out a topic to break the silence at the table.
“What was the problem with that strategy just now? I’m asking because I genuinely don’t know.”
Kang Han answered without hesitation.
“A lack of experience and strategy.”
“Experience is straightforward enough. But lack of strategy means there was no proper plan, right?”
“Correct. Since it was a Cave-Type B-Rank Dungeon, it was obvious that flying-type monsters would appear—particularly winged bats with the habit of capturing prey and taking it back to their nests—yet the preparation against them was insufficient.”
“If you had been the leader, what would you have done?”
“First.”
Kang Han looked at the few guild members present and spoke.
“I would have prioritized purchasing additional perfect defense items like the camera crew used to protect Yeo Joo and the vice guild leader. And I would have utilized Lee Yu Chan to disperse the monsters’ attention as much as possible….”
After that, Kang Han explained a series of rational strategies as if reading from a prepared answer sheet.
The guild members listened intently, nodding at times and tilting their heads in confusion at others.
But then, Jang Su Ho quietly raised his hand.
“Um.”
“Go ahead.”
Kang Han gave Jang Su Ho the floor.
“If our guild were to seriously attempt Dungeon raids…. I think I’d have to leave the guild….”
“What kind of nonsense is that?”
“Huh? No, Yeo Joo, you wouldn’t understand, but when I enter that Dungeon, my head gets a bit… strange.”
Jang Su Ho’s head drooped lower and lower.
Seeing his ears hang down limply, my heart ached.
How much underestimation had this kid endured to be like this?
“If I didn’t even understand that much, do you think I would’ve brought a fortune to the Justice Guild?”
“Things have improved a lot lately, but if you knew what happened the last time I entered a Dungeon, you wouldn’t say that either.”
I know everything, puppy.
He’d gone full Berserker mode and torn off the arms of two Taesan Guild dealers who tried to stop him, getting expelled as a result.
The important part here wasn’t that he’d cut them.
He’d torn them off with his bare hands.
Fortunately, the severed arms were restored with a Healer’s help, but it was absolutely no light matter.
“I’ve mentioned it before, but let me explain it properly. I’m going to bring the Justice Guild back to the very top. That’s when I’ll get back a hundred times, a thousand times the money I’ve invested.”
“But if you mean the very top, you mean as strong as the Four Major Guilds?”
“Are you joking? I won’t be satisfied with just that.”
“Then…?”
“Like the old days. The Four Major Guilds beneath the Justice Guild.”
Not satisfied being one of the Five Major Guilds.
Because that’s what it’ll take to prevent the apocalypse.
My words rippled outward like a stone dropped into a puddle.
Especially Kang Han’s green eyes burned as they fixed on me.
With golden electricity undulating within them.
But there was no threat in it.
Kang Han’s power would never be used to harm others.
I held his piercing gaze for a moment, then spoke clearly to Jang Su Ho one last time.
“And Jang Su Ho, you’re absolutely essential to this plan.”
“Me… me?”
I knew that deep-rooted self-doubt couldn’t be fixed by a few words from me.
But there’s a world of difference between knowing and not knowing that someone believes in you when you don’t believe in yourself.
Sometimes a difference so vast you couldn’t even imagine it.
‘And you’re going to become so useful going forward. I absolutely can’t let you go to another Guild.’
Right then.
Once you’ve raised a puppy, you keep it till the end—you don’t send it to someone else’s house.
“So, we’re making the Justice Guild the greatest Guild again. Hard to imagine, right? That’s how far we have to go, but when I said the Guild needs money earlier, I didn’t mean we’re so short on cash we can only do mining runs.”
The money I’d made from the Mana Stone auction was still left.
Anyway, the coffers were full.
“But then why are we attacking a Guerrilla Gate? I don’t understand!”
Lee Yu Eul raised her hand again and asked loudly.
“That’s an excellent question, Lee Yu Eul. I’ll buy you tteokbokki in a bit.”
“Yes!”
“I think the answer is what our Guild Master Kang Han mentioned earlier. We need experience in our Guild.”
“It might not be a bad idea.”
Han Ji Sung, who had been quiet until now, spoke up.
“Beyond combat experience, Guerrilla Gates have several other advantages.”
He explained while folding down his pale fingers one by one.
“First, when monsters are eliminated, the probability of them dropping items is slightly higher than in fixed Dungeons. And if you take on Guerrilla Gates that others avoid, your reputation naturally rises.”
Ah, how clever.
“And if you successfully close a Guerrilla Gate, the Awakeners Association even provides compensation.”
I didn’t need to exhaust myself explaining everything.
From the looks of it, everyone had accepted my proposal thanks to Han Ji Sung’s logical, lecture-like explanation.
“Then tomorrow morning when the sun rises, the Guild Master and Vice Guild Master should visit the Awakeners Association.”
To get our names on the Guerrilla Gate assignment list, the guild’s representatives would have to go to the Awakeners Association and fill out paperwork—tedious as it was.
What kind of era are we living in?
Bureaucratic society never ceases to baffle me.
But then Han Ji Sung raised his hand hesitantly, looking slightly uncomfortable.
“Um, I’m sorry, but could Yeo Joo go instead?”
“Huh? Why?”
“Actually, I just found a breakthrough in my current research…”
Ugh, how troublesome.
I had a feeling going there would lead to some kind of complication.
But there was no helping it.
Our precious talent had just found a way through a wall.
“Fine. It’s nearby anyway.”
“Thank you for understanding.”
True to his word, Han Ji Sung immediately locked himself in his laboratory, his research clearly no exaggeration.
“Come on, little brother! You need to exercise so you can grow taller!”
“Shut up. You’re only 2 centimeters taller than me.”
“But the fact that I’m taller doesn’t change! Haha!”
Wow, even I’d be irritated by that.
Lee Yu Eul’s hearty laughter echoed as she teased Lee Yu Chan—her daily source of amusement—and gradually faded away.
“Yeo Joo, I need to talk to you about something.”
“What is it?”
“No matter how much I think about it, I don’t think I should enter a Dungeon right now.”
“Yeah, I understand your concern.”
The fear of being consumed by madness again, of losing myself.
And the terror of potentially attacking my comrades.
Jang Su Ho’s fear was that heavy.
But I couldn’t leave things as they were forever.
Besides, I had a feeling I might possess a way to alleviate Jang Su Ho’s chronic condition to some degree.
But I needed an opportunity to test that hypothesis.
“But couldn’t we at least try once?”
“An attempt….”
Jang Su Ho clenched his teeth.
Then he suddenly held out his pinky finger to me.
“Promise me.”
“Promise what?”
“If I become a complete berserker and try to attack you and the others.”
“Then what?”
“That you’ll kill me.”
What in the world was he saying?
“Kang Han needs to promise too.”
I spun around to find Kang Han standing right beside us, listening to our entire conversation.
Kang Han, perched on the armrest of the sofa watching Jang Su Ho, nodded heavily.
“Yes, I promise….”
“What are you two saying right now?!”
These people were truly going to cause a disaster!
I swatted away Jang Su Ho’s pathetic pinky finger as I spoke.
“What’s with asking me to kill you, and then actually promising to do it?!”
Why were they being so extreme about everything?
“You just need to leave the Gate if you start showing signs of losing control, you idiot!”
“…Oh.”
“Ugh, seriously. I’m about to lose my mind.”
I felt like a dumpling left abandoned in dumpling soup.
I glared at the two oversized men as menacingly as I could and issued a warning.
“Don’t you dare mention death or anything like that in front of me again. I’ll kill you myself. Understood?”
“Yeah, okay.”
“Do you understand?”
“Yes, I’ll be careful.”
“Not careful—absolutely not! Never!”
“…Yes.”
At least they answered well.
“And Kang Han, your lightning control has been improving lately, hasn’t it?”
“I’m still developing it.”
“Then there’s a way. If Jang Su Ho really goes berserk, just fry him.”
“Yes, I’ll fry him…. Huh?”
Kang Han and Jang Su Ho blinked at each other.
“Your lightning control is good, right? Use the current to incapacitate him without killing him. As long as he’s still breathing, I’ll handle the rest.”
It was something like a taser operation, you could say.
It was admittedly a bit gruesome, but I’d been thinking of it as a last resort.
“Wow! That could work! There was a method like that!”
At least with a plan in place, that puppy would feel reassured.
“Kang Han! Make sure you fry him good! Don’t let him twitch even an inch!”
…He’s being way too trusting about this.
“You know that’s going to hurt. It’s going to hurt like hell.”
I warned him, didn’t I?
I told him it would hurt?
“Pain doesn’t matter. Now that I’m thinking straight, it hurts less than knowing I tore someone apart.”
Sigh, the kid’s got a good heart.
“Yeah, even I don’t know anymore.”
I need to get to bed early if I’m heading to the Awakeners Association first thing tomorrow morning.
I left Kang Han and Jang Su Ho still debating exactly where and how much current to apply, and returned to my room.

“Pain doesn’t matter. Now that I’m thinking straight, it hurts less than knowing I tore someone apart.”

A mutt saying things like that—honestly.
I wasn’t anxious about it anyway.
Just as I’d said, if things got serious, I could always kick Jang Su Ho out of the Gate before it escalated.
And somehow.
‘I have a feeling my hypothesis is going to be right.’
The only way to know for certain is to step inside the Dungeon.
Just like everything else about Sejong’s Barrier had been.

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But then an unexpected obstacle appeared.
“What do you mean I can’t?!”
“It’s a new Association policy.”
Damn.
That bald bastard of an Association Director—I’m going to burn his toupee.

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