The Female Lead Saves the World - Chapter 345

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Yeo Joo Saves the World
Part 2, Episode 166

“Why are you smiling like that? Whenever Sa Ma Young gets angry, he always smiles exactly like that.”
“You notice that too?”
Phew, thank goodness.
I’d successfully changed the subject.
Sa Ma Young’s face, which had broken into a slight smile, no longer looked as irritated as it had moments before.
“How could I not? Your eyes go like this, and your mouth just smiles like this.”
Even at my best, my average face had its limits in perfectly mimicking Sa Ma Young’s beauty, but I did my best to imitate it as closely as possible while speaking.
“I thought you had no interest in me at all, but it seems that’s not the case?”
“Come on, if I had no interest, I wouldn’t look after you.”
I listed everything—how I’d saved him when he was dying in a Dungeon because of my half-brother’s schemes, how I’d brought him together with Hong Joo, and so on.
I enumerated just how much care and attention I’d given Sa Ma Young all this time.
Sa Ma Young, who had been listening to me with his arms crossed, nodded his head.
“Yeah, you know me that well—so why did you save that other guy?”
“Ah….”
I thought I’d gotten past this.
At this point, I might as well be shameless about it.
“I’m a healer, remember? Saving people is literally my job.”
“You know that’s not what I’m talking about, right?”
“Geez, aren’t Hunters people too!”
I raised my voice, insisting that I couldn’t just stand by and watch someone dying right in front of me because of a runaway ability.
“Besides, Jin Ga Ram is alive now, so that’s a good thing for the Sama Guild! You should be grateful to me!”
“You even know his name?”
“That’s…!”
I couldn’t say the status window had told me.
Sa Ma Young stared at me with an intensity that felt suffocating as my lips fumbled wordlessly.
“Surprisingly interested in me—so much so that you even know the name of a single Hunter in the Sama Guild, Yeo Joo.”
“Why?”
“What do you think I’ll do with someone who’s received your touch?”
“…No way.”
Sa Ma Young, whom I’d saved so he wouldn’t be reborn as a villain, had instead become corrupted in a different way.
In the form of an obsession with me.
So, what will Sa Ma Young do with Jin Ga Ram?
1. Kill him.
2. Sweeps it away.
3. Erases it.
…Let’s stop this.
I fixed Sa Ma Young with a blazing stare.
“I’m warning you—leave Jin Ga Ram alone. I went through all the trouble to save him, so don’t you dare kill him.”
“…Ha.”
Sa Ma Young laughed.
Just like I had mimicked moments before.
“I wasn’t planning to kill him, but when you make that face because of him….”
“Sa Ma Young, let’s think like modern people here. Killing someone is murder.”
Sa Ma Young answered silently with his expression.
‘What does that matter?’ it seemed to say.
As I felt a chill at Sa Ma Young’s shattered sense of ethics, he asked in a quiet voice.
“What should I do?”
“What do you mean what should you do! Just leave him alone!”
“I’ve blocked the press for now, but it’s already becoming a hot topic online.”
I couldn’t follow the conversation as it suddenly shifted directions.
As I stared blankly at him, Sa Ma Young offered a simple answer.
“Your phone.”
“…Oh!”
Following his movement as he stretched his neck long from exhaustion, my scattered thoughts snapped back into focus as I caught sight of the wrinkles pulling taut across his vest and shirt.

1. Gangnam Berserk
2. Yeo Joo
3. Justice Guild Yeo Joo
4. Samsung Station Accident
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My name was climbing and falling on the portal site’s real-time search rankings.
True to Sa Ma Young’s word that he had blocked the press, surprisingly there were no official news articles yet, but the problem was the online communities.

Hunter Supporters – [ Free Board ]
Hunter goes berserk in Gangnam;
Jjak and Kkong | Views: 786691

(video.mp4)
A Hunter went berserk and threw himself into the road, causing an accident
How could it be that only an ordinary driver was injured?
Fortunately a passing Healer is helping
The berserk Hunter is from the Sama Guild, Jin Ga Ram

Comments
Comment 1 ㅅㅂ Do you want to live with anxiety ㅠㅠ Just lock up the runaway hunter ㅠㅠ
Comment 2: Sama Guild confines Berserk Hunters; looks like he escaped
That3, please don’t upload this horrible video ㅠㅠㅠㅠ
Comment 4: The driver survived though, that’s fortunate… the passing Healer is amazing
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Comment 33: Healer info coming through, Justice Guild Yeo Joo
Comment 34: Wow, if it wasn’t Yeo Joo, that person would’ve died
Comment 35: S-rank Healer is insane

Hunters – [ Free Board ]
How is Jin Ga Ram even alive?
RareItemSeller | Views: 113441

Did you watch the video?
Everyone’s only talking about the injured civilian
But I think Jin Ga Ram is more amazing
At that level, he was literally one foot in the grave
How is he even alive?

Comments
Comment 1: I guess today wasn’t his day to die
– (Author) No, I berserk often and at that level he should already be dead;;
Comment 2: Am I the only one seeing his berserk suddenly stop?
– (Author) Right?!!! What is it?? Is he just incredibly lucky?
If someone unfamiliar with the comments sees this, they’d think Yeo Joo is doing something weird lol
Comment 4: Huh?
Comment 5: Now that you mention it, it does look that way;;
Comment 6: No way, how would a Healer stop a berserk?
Comment 7: Didn’t something similar happen before?

Hunters – [ Free Board ]
Spilling the tea on today’s Gangnam Berserk incident
Mengae | Views: 1008833

Went to meet a friend and ended up witnessing it firsthand
The situation was way worse than the videos showed;
It’s not like there was no suppression team, but since it was A-rank, control just wasn’t possible
Anyway, suddenly it bolted onto the road like a startled deer and caused an accident
The civilian was basically in a state where death would’ve been a blessing, you know?
But then suddenly Yeo Joo the Healer showed up and went to work (it was seriously cool)
Fortunately, he woke up by the time he was taken to 119.
Sa Ma Young showed up after getting the call and took Yeo Joo away
Maybe because she saved someone who was basically dead, but the Healer looked in worse condition than the patient
But he was carrying her like she was some precious treasure—what’s their relationship?
(No hate, I’m just genuinely curious)

+ After reading other posts, this is kinda interesting
Not just the civilian driver, but Jin Ga Ram was also literally on death’s door
Makes me wonder if Yeo Joo did something?
Yeo Joo saved Dong Baek and Lee Cho Rok too;;>

Comments
That1 Public opinion is getting better now, so why is it flooding again? ㅠㅠ
Comment2 Is this gonna turn into another Pangyo disaster…
Comment3 Thanks for spreading rumors;; How’s a Healer supposed to stop a Berserk
I have no idea if a skill like that even exists lol
Comment5 I’m Dong Baek and Lee Cho Rok calmed down way after the Berserk started, nothing to do with that
Comment6 But even if it’s not a skill that stops Berserk, does healing help at all?
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Comment103 What if the System recognizes Berserk as an illness? Then healing might work, right?
Comment104 Healer market prices about to skyrocket;;>
Comment105 Our Guild’s Healer said it’s not possible
Comment106 So Jin Ga Ram just got lucky then?

“Ugh….”
My head throbbed as I moved forward.
When I discovered a comment mentioning there was a skill to stop Berserk, I truly felt a pang of regret.
I thought it would be fine to use the skill via Bluetooth.
It seemed that no matter where you went, there were always people with sharp instincts.
“What should we do?”
Sa Ma Young asked me as I held my forehead.
“If we leave it as is… won’t it naturally die down?”
“There were too many witnesses. If we’re lucky, it might just end with people discovering an accident scene by chance and calling me a hero who saved lives, but if not.”
Society was already sensitive about Hunter Berserk incidents.
Right now, there was only minor chatter on Hunter-exclusive communities, but the quick-moving media outlets wouldn’t miss this opportunity.
It happened in broad daylight in Gangnam, there were civilian casualties, and the Hunters involved happened to belong to the Sama Guild and Justice Guild.
Speculative articles would undoubtedly flood the news.
And if someone wrote an article about the “Healer who stops Berserk” that had been circulating in the community.
Crunch.
Without realizing it, I brought my fingernail to my mouth.
From the moment I realized I possessed a skill to purify Darkness, I had steeled myself.
That someday I would have to reveal this ability to everyone.
‘I don’t regret it.’
I couldn’t simply stand by and watch someone die from Berserk right before my eyes.
I did what I could do, and if I returned to that moment, I would make the same decision again.
Before Jung Je Hwa distributed Scanners as Guild Cup participation prizes, he asked me repeatedly.
If this was really okay.
The higher the Hunter’s rank, the greater the damage and aftereffects of Berserk.
That’s why Scanners were distributed to prevent unavoidable misfortunes, but circumstances had changed somewhat in the meantime.
‘I’m not fully prepared yet.’
I decided to confide my skill to Seo Yu Baek and seek his help.
If possible, I wanted to delay the moment everything was revealed until the serum potion he promised could be created.
Crunch.
Lost in thought, unaware of the eerie sound of my fingernail being bitten, a large hand approached and pulled my finger from between my teeth.
“You’re bleeding.”
It was Sa Ma Young, his refined brow furrowed.
Before I could stop him, he wrapped my thumb—where blood was beading—with a tissue and poured trauma treatment potion over the wound as he spoke.
“You just need to say one thing.”
Ask for help.
It was frustrating, but Sa Ma Young possessed a strength I lacked.
The power to cover my mistakes and buy me time.
“I….”
His crimson eyes pierced through me with their gaze.
And reflected in them was me, hesitating.
I had despised Sa Ma Young so much for manipulating the press and information as he saw fit.
But I had to admit it.
Right now, I needed to borrow that power of his, at least for a moment.
“Block it for me.”
For a brief instant, something flickered across Sa Ma Young’s eyes.
“Got it.”
After confirming that the raw wounds on my fingers had finally healed, Sa Ma Young turned around immediately.
Then he picked up the telephone on his office desk and ended the call quickly.
“Public opinion in online communities will shift soon. Jin Ga Ram is merely stabilized for now but still showing signs of berserk state and is confined, and Yeo Joo exhausted herself from the aftereffects of healing the innocent bystanders caught up in it.”
“Sigh.”
Thank goodness.
Everything resolved with just one phone call.
“Thank you. I owe you for this…”
“The Kang Han Guild leader is coming, so go meet them when they arrive.”
Really?
He’s just letting me go like this?
I hadn’t wanted it, but since I’d walked into Sa Ma Young’s office on my own two feet, I’d expected to be tormented through a long back-and-forth.
Sa Ma Young turned cleanly and left without a backward glance, showing no lingering attachment as he departed.
“[Idiot.]”
Hong Joo, who had been watching our conversation with a swishing tail, muttered with a small sigh.
A rebuke.
“[Don’t hate him so much.]”
Hong Joo, who had by now grown to the size of a black puma, followed his master out and left one final remark.
“[He’s just a coward.]”

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