The Female Lead Saves the World - Chapter 346

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Yeo Joo Saves the World
Part 2, Episode 167

The corridor before the Isolation Chamber—a place most hunters from the Sama Guild dreaded.
In that underground space where a chill perpetually lingered, a razor-sharp tension hung thick in the air.
“We sincerely apologize!”
The suppression team hunters who had let Jin Ga Ram slip away today cried out loudly, bowing their heads.
It was rare for a rampaging hunter to escape the Isolation Chamber, but it happened occasionally.
However, today’s mistake was in a different league entirely.
It had nearly resulted in civilian casualties.
What made it worse was that the healer Yeo Joo had collapsed.
‘Damn it!’
The suppression team hunters, knowing how specially Sa Ma Young regarded Yeo Joo, wanted nothing more than to die.
Or perhaps death would have been preferable.
What had happened when the Guild Master assembled a team of only team leaders and entered the Jungle-Type Dungeon with the healer Yeo Joo?
He had thrown team leader Ju Sa Eun to an A-rank Mystic as food, claiming she had nearly endangered the healer out of cowardice.
And that was to a team leader he kept by his side and used like an extension of himself.
The supervisor’s body trembled with an ominous premonition.
Yet the youngest member, notorious for lacking social awareness, had gone and caused an incident.
“I will accept punishment for my mistake!”
“Mistake?”
A voice so cold and low it seemed to belong to an ice-attribute user rather than a flame-attribute one echoed back.
And after the silence that followed, Sa Ma Young laughed.
“How amusing.”
They were finished.
Guild Master Sa Ma Young did not get angry.
No, anger was actually a good sign.
The real nightmare was when he laughed like this.
“Go inside, my lord. I’ll handle things here.”
Pervert, psychopath, sadist.
As the woman known by every vile epithet instead of her name, Bang Ri Ri, drew steadily closer, the suppression team’s complexions grew even paler.
Click.
At the sound of the door opening, Jin Ga Ram, who had been sitting on the Isolation Chamber bed, shot to his feet.
“Guild Master!”
His complexion was still poor, but the haggard appearance from his rampage was gone.
His cleaned-up face showed only bewilderment at Sa Ma Young’s arrival.
“How’s your body feeling?”
“I-I’m perfectly fine now!”
Jin Ga Ram answered like a fresh recruit standing at attention, yet couldn’t help but voice his curiosity.
“Um, but why am I still in the Isolation Chamber?”
“What do you mean?”
“Ah! Since the rampage has ended, I thought I’d regain consciousness at the Medical Center…”
The Sama Guild’s Medical Ward was renowned for facilities rivaling the Awakened Healer Hospital.
It was why hunters showing signs of rampage would voluntarily enter the Isolation Chamber.
Yet here I was, still confined even now that I was perfectly fine.
Wasn’t this a breach of contract?
A hint of resistance colored my vague response.
“How much do you remember?”
“Pardon?”
Jin Ga Ram blinked at Sa Ma Young’s sudden question.
The Guild Master’s inquiry felt abrupt, especially coming from someone with his hands thrust into dress pants that must have cost a fortune—so expensive it was difficult even to imagine their value.
The tension of being alone in this cramped Isolation Chamber with someone who was the object of fear—someone it was never good to face—made my already poor mind feel like it was creaking.
“Well… that is…”
Jin Ga Ram struggled to recall his memories.
“My last memory is entering the Isolation Chamber on my own two feet. After that, I don’t remember well… According to what my seniors told me, I apparently ran into the road and there was an injured person. Are they alright?”
There was no response.
Sa Ma Young, wearing a faint smile, simply stared at Jin Ga Ram intently.
“And, and also… Ah! There was a woman!”
The moment Jin Ga Ram mentioned the ‘woman’, Sa Ma Young’s eyes narrowed almost imperceptibly.
But Jin Ga Ram was too busy searching his memories to notice—his misfortune.
“I was in such agony I thought I was dying, but suddenly my whole body became languid and warm! It felt incredibly soft and wonderful… Ahem!”
As the sensations came rushing back, Jin Ga Ram’s face flushed red.
“I don’t know who she was, but I’d like to thank her at least. I’m curious if she left any contact information…”
Jin Ga Ram’s chattering mouth snapped shut.
Guild Master Sa Ma Young was smiling.
It was a smile so beautiful that even another man would be momentarily dazed by it.
“You remember everything.”
The piercing that had been sleeping on Sa Ma Young’s right earlobe glowed a deep crimson.

[ Using ‘Whispering Earring (A)’, casting skill ‘Enchantment’. ]

Jin Ga Ram’s pupils began to glaze over hazily.
“Why do you need her contact information? What are you planning to do after finding that woman?”
“Well, that’s….”
Jin Ga Ram hesitated at Sa Ma Young’s question.
Grade-A Jin Ga Ram was fighting against the Charm skill.
But as Pierce shone once more, his pupils finally lost all focus completely.
“I just want to treat her to a meal. Since she, she saved my life….”
“Is that merely gratitude?”
“No, after that I’d like to go for a drive somewhere with a nice atmosphere. I’d like to spend time together.”
“Why?”
“It was so, enchanting. I can’t forget that feeling… Cough!”
A hand with cyan veins bulging mercilessly strangled Jin Ga Ram’s neck.
Thud!
As Jin Ga Ram’s body suddenly lifted and slammed against the Isolation Chamber wall, he thrashed helplessly in terror that his neck might break, when a low voice pierced his mind.
“Forget.”
Red eyes commanded.
“Forget that feeling and the woman’s existence. All of it.”
“…Yes.”
Jin Ga Ram answered dreamily, his face flushed crimson from the strangling, blood pooling in his head.
“Listen carefully, Jin Ga Ram. You remember nothing.”
“…I don’t remember.”
“You’ll continue suffering from rampage, and only regain consciousness five hours from now.”
“Five, hours from now.”
“You should also apologize to the driver who nearly lost his life because of you. That thought alone should fill your mind. Understood?”
“…I’m, sorry….”
When Sa Ma Young released his grip on the neck, Jin Ga Ram lost consciousness and crumpled to the floor.
Sa Ma Young gazed down at him with cold eyes for a moment, then pulled out a handkerchief to wipe his hands before leaving the Isolation Chamber.
“Ugh.”
“Stop….”
Faint groans from somewhere blended with Sa Ma Young’s footsteps down the corridor, but his mind held only one woman.
Yeo Joo.
Weak and kind Yeo Joo.
Walking down the long Isolation Chamber corridor, his mood was surprisingly not unpleasant.
Until now, Yeo Joo had been an enigma to Sa Ma Young.
She approached first, made him see only her, yet refused to let him close.
Guarding, pushing away, drawing lines.
Then at some point she’d appear again, making escape impossible.
But now.

“Block them for me.”

At the sound of my voice ringing out clearly once more, Sa Ma Young’s footsteps came to an abrupt halt.
Long fingers that occasionally captivated his gaze without my awareness traced slowly across my neatly closed lips.
Round eyes that held only him, as if we two alone existed in this entire world.
A body trembling faintly.
And what shook Sa Ma Young most of all was the fact that I had made a request.
Yet when he offered his hand, I had carelessly pushed it away.
“What do I do.”
I want to see him again.

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At last, the day of the quarterfinal match against Muwoon Guild had arrived.
We had arrived in Mokpo yesterday where the Gate would open, and made it to Sanjeong-dong on schedule.
Watching the crowds swarming outside the car window, I let out a sigh.
“Why are they making such a grand pre-event spectacle? Coming an hour early like this.”
As the Guild Cup response grew increasingly heated, the Awakeners Association began moving swiftly.
Before entering the Gate, they had officially planned an event.
They said they were so busy with skill correction reports.
The competent Association Director had added more tedious schedules to our plate.
“But it’s good for us.”
It was an opportunity to properly imprint the existence of the Justice Guild—standing as the underdog—into people’s minds.
“Justice Guild, are you all set? We’ll be moving to the front of the Gate!”
I got off the bus following the Association Staff member who had come to collect us.
After that, my memories became hazy until we arrived at the venue.
I seemed to hear people calling out the Justice Guild’s name and cheering for us.
If I let my guard down even slightly, people would push in from all sides, so I kept my eyes forward and walked steadily.
“Please come up onto the stage! Sit in the prepared chairs and wait!”
As I stepped onto the small platform following the event staff’s guidance, I could see the Muwoon Guild members who had arrived earlier.
They were people we would compete against, but that didn’t make us enemies.
“Hello, it’s nice to meet you for the first time….”
It was a greeting I offered first as a gesture of good sportsmanship.
But Muwoon Guild didn’t return the greeting—they didn’t even turn their heads in our direction.
Even though my eyes clearly met with Shin Se Hee’s, she coldly turned her gaze away as if she didn’t know me.
‘So this is how they’re playing it.’
I calmly sat in my chair and stared directly at Muwoon Guild across from us.
This was the moment I understood Sa Ma Young’s habit of smiling when in a bad mood.

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