The Female Lead Saves the World - Chapter 329

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Yeo Joo Saves the World
Part 2, Episode 150

“Yeo Joo.”
He simply called my name.
But I knew immediately.
It was Kang Han.
The same Kang Han who had endured countless hardships alongside me.
Not the Kang Han born with a silver spoon, enjoying everything handed to him—but the one who had been pointed at as the son of a murderer, lost everything, and desperately fought to protect the Justice Guild.
Tears that had barely dried welled up again, blurring my vision, but I forced myself to keep my eyes on Kang Han.
I was terrified that if I looked away even for a moment, he would disappear.
“Yeo Joo.”
After standing frozen in place for what felt like an eternity, Kang Han finally began walking toward me.
When his hand lifted me from the ground where I still knelt, I could finally accept the truth.
In this lonely world, the one person who truly saw me had returned.
“You came?”
My voice trembled pathetically, choked with tears.
Kang Han looked at my shoulder, still bleeding, and answered with an expression of anguish as if the wound were his own.
“I’m sorry I’m late.”
“It doesn’t matter now… you’re here.”
“I’m sorry for leaving you alone.”
Finally, the dam broke and I sobbed.
“Why did it take so long? Why?”
“I’m sorry, Yeo Joo.”
Wrapped in his warm embrace, the words I had kept locked in my chest began to melt away.
I thought I would die here.
This world, filled with things I could never have again in reality, was so heartbreaking.
And I was sorry for making you hold the compass.
With my face buried against his chest, I mumbled words I had never been able to say to anyone.
Even as Kang Han listened to my childish, unreasonable complaints, he simply continued to gently pat my back.
“…That’s enough now.”
After pouring everything out, all that remained was embarrassment.
As I wiped my tears and stepped back half a pace, Kang Han released me without resistance.
Then the landscape around us, hidden behind his large frame, came into view.
“Has everything stopped?”
The world that had moved with such vivid, profane realism was now frozen like a photograph.
Everyone seemed frozen in astonishment at the golden Gate that had materialized before the Tunnel.
Everyone except Kang Young Won, who stood with a hardened expression, staring at the spot where I held Ji Sung.
“Hmm.”
It was probably because a Double Dungeon had formed, just as I’d said.
I glanced cautiously at Kang Han.
That final farewell with Mom and Dad had been difficult for me—it would be just as hard for him.
Once we left the Dream Dungeon, we would never see Hunter Kang Young Won again.
‘I wish her last expression had been a smile.’
That regret weighed on me.
In the meantime, Kang Han had dropped to one knee before Ji Sung.
He gazed silently at Ji Sung, limp and cradled in Sung Ro Sa’s arms, tears streaming down his face as he glared at the Gate.
Then, slowly, he closed Ji Sung’s eyes.
The moment Kang Han finally accepted reality, I realized I had foolishly forgotten something.
Ji Sung in this place was precious to Kang Han too.
“Are you alright?”
I asked carefully as he returned, and he simply nodded.
“The Land of Dreams. So this world is inside my dream?”
“It’s a world where your desires come true. Recreated based on the memories we two carry and the System’s data from when we entered.”
“I see. So this is what I wished for.”
His calm green eyes held his mother’s image.
Faced with that quiet gaze, I couldn’t bring myself to say anything.
‘I should have taken the compass myself.’
No—I should have handled this alone without telling Kang Han.
Then only I would have suffered, and it would have ended there.
As if reading my heart, Kang Han shook his head.
“I’m grateful I could see her again, even like this.”
Despite his detached tone, Kang Han couldn’t tear his eyes from Kang Young Won.
He stood motionless, gazing as if to etch her into his memory.
Then, without hesitation, he turned back to me and asked.
“So how do we escape from here now?”
“Well… huh?”
Something felt off!
According to what I knew, the Land of Dreams Gate clears the moment the compass holder awakens to reality.
The world, as real as it seemed, collapses, and we return to Yeouido with reward items in hand.
So why are we still here?
“It’s different from what I expected, but could it be that?”
I pointed to the shimmering golden Gate.
“Maybe we can escape by passing through it, just like when we first entered.”
“Then shall we head back now?”
Kang Han took my hand and spoke.
Thud, thud—while only the sound of our footsteps echoed, he never once looked back at his mother.
So this is how the Dream Dungeon ends.
With that thought, I stepped toward the shimmering Gate.
Or rather, I tried to.
If the Gate hadn’t been blocked.
“What… what is this?”
I released Kang Han’s hand and felt along the Gate’s surface, solid as a wall, when a warning window suddenly materialized before my eyes.

[ ! WARNING !
The wishes of the Dream’s master, Kang Han, have not yet been fully realized. ]

[ All remaining wishes must be fulfilled for the clear condition to be satisfied.
Hint: Regret ]

“What does that even mean…?”
There’s another clear condition besides awakening to reality?
What could Kang Han’s unfulfilled wish possibly be?
“Guild Master, that message just now.”
“I saw it too. But ‘regret’…?”
Kang Han’s face showed he had no idea either.
“Could it be something he deeply regrets…?”
I was about to press the Dream’s master further to uncover the clear condition when it happened.
Suddenly, a torrent of sound rushed in.
The wind that had flowed ceaselessly, the trembling earth as the volcano above erupted—all of it.
As my ears, which had felt muffled, suddenly opened, I staggered, and someone shouted loudly.
“What are you two doing right now!”
It was Kang Young Won, her eyes wide with fury, directed at Kang Han and me.
Moving at a speed that stirred the very air, she rushed toward us and forcefully pulled Kang Han away from the Gate.
At the same time, she grabbed my hand as well, dragging me along with an “oof.”
“…Mother?”
Kang Han, as startled as I was, called out in bewilderment, and only then did Kang Young Won stop walking.
By now, we stood far from the Gate and separated from the others.
Kang Young Won released the hands she’d been holding and let out one long, heavy sigh before turning to face us.
‘She’s… furious.’
My mouth snapped shut at the sight of Kang Young Won’s smiling face—all that talk of a strong person’s composure evaporated.
Never before had Kang Young Won’s presence been so overwhelming.
Not like now, with fierce fire blazing in her eyes.
Without a word, as she glared at her son Kang Han, her first target was me.
“Is that the Double Dungeon that Healer Yeo Joo mentioned?”
“Yes? Well, that’s… that’s right. Since there’s a Gate within the Gate, that kind of structure…”
“Then you also know what’s beyond that?”
“That’s… yes.”
I hesitated for a moment before reluctantly nodding.
I’d expected the inevitable follow-up: ‘How did you know that?’
“Is it dangerous?”
This time, too, I could only nod.
“Yes… quite a bit.”
“And you two children are planning to go in there?! Knowing it’s dangerous?!”
Children?
My mind went blank for a moment.
Children? Who?
I’m twenty-four, Kang Han is twenty-seven.
Calling us children seemed a bit much… weren’t we adults?
Wondering if Kang Young Won somehow had different information about our ages, I could only roll my eyes.
“No matter how spirited people in their twenties are, this is reckless! Where do you think you’re going?!”
“Sigh.”
Finally, Kang Han let out a heavy sigh.
We weren’t trying to enter the Double Dungeon—we were trying to return to reality.
But we couldn’t tell her everything truthfully, and she seemed quite frustrated.
As Kang Han brushed back his disheveled hair with an exasperated expression, sparks flew once more in Kang Young Won’s piercing gaze.
“Stand up straight!”
That fiery rebuke jolted me awake as if I’d been struck, and only then did a distant childhood memory resurface, and I realized the truth.
The Guild Master of the Justice Guild, Kang Han, and its manager, Yeo Joo, were being scolded.

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