The Female Lead Saves the World - Chapter 361

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Yeo Joo Saves the World
Part 2, Episode 182

Two kids I’d never seen before suddenly started calling me Master and Teacher.
What’s the appropriate response in this situation?
“Um, I think you might have the wrong person.”
“Aren’t you Yeo Joo the Healer?”
The girl asked as if there was no way I could be anyone else.
“Well… my name is Yeo Joo, that much is true.”
These kids didn’t seem like they’d gotten the wrong address.
Both of them had bright, intelligent eyes and distinct features—the kind that would make them popular among their peers.
The boy standing on the stairs was tall enough to meet my eye level, with a model-like appearance, while the girl had porcelain-white skin and large, dark eyes like grapes.
I searched through my memories using their physical features, but I was certain I’d never seen them before.
“Wait, are you my house’s twin friends?”
“Lee Yu Eul and Lee Yu Chan, right?”
“Senior… yes, so you’re my twin juniors.”
These kids who looked infinitely younger to me were calling me senior.
The two of them were starting to look like helpless infants in my eyes.
“Ahem, what brings you two here?”
Bae Do Yoon, whose nose had turned strawberry red by now, sniffled as he looked at the teenagers.
“Bae Do Yoon Hunter, do you know them… or rather, these people?”
“Oh, you’re meeting them for the first time? They’re both Healers. That one’s Lee Dan Woo, and that one’s Moon Na Rin.”
“Healers… oh!”
Now I understood who they were.
They were the names of the other A-rank Healers I’d heard about.
“Hello! I’m Moon Na Rin, a Healer from the Dongbaek Guild!”
“I’m from Fantasia! Lee Dan Woo!”
“Right, I’m Yeo Joo, nice to meet you. But what brings people from Dongbaek and Fantasia here?”
In response to my question, Moon Na Rin and Lee Dan Woo stood at attention and shouted with determined voices.
“Please take us on as your disciples!”
Disciples, they said.
I barely managed to grasp my scattering thoughts and asked.
“Wait, what exactly do you want to learn from me?”
“We want to become S-rank Healers!”
Moon Na Rin answered in a bright, clear voice.
“You re-awakened from A-rank to S-rank! Please don’t abandon us, Master!”
Lee Dan Woo went even further.
“You can’t discard something you never had in the first place. Besides, I don’t have some secret method for becoming S-rank either.”
I tried to persuade them as rationally as possible.
“You seem to have watched the press conference, but there’s no royal road to re-awakening like some exam cheat sheet.”
But it was futile trying to sway the hearts of teenagers already fixated on one idea.
“Still, it has to be better than fumbling around in the dark alone!”
“There are right ways and wrong ways to put in effort!”
“Sigh.”
A helpless sigh escaped me.
It wasn’t that the young healers annoyed me.
‘They’re draining my energy.’
After just a few exchanges, I was being drained of my vitality in real time by these eager sprouts.
Watching two pairs of eyes gleaming with earnest anticipation, I turned to Bae Do Yoon and spoke.
“I’m sorry, Hunter Bae Do Yoon. I think I need to handle these two students first.”
Bae Do Yoon readily agreed.
“Those two are incredibly persistent. I’ll be looking around the guild with Yo Na, so take your time with them.”
Sung Yo Na nodded beside him and led Bae Do Yoon toward the Training Facility.
I watched their retreating figures as they chatted softly, then turned my attention back to the young healers.
“Alright, you two, give me your guardian’s contact number.”

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“This is the Guild Dining Hall. Just come during breakfast, lunch, or dinner hours. When it’s not mealtime, there are snacks in the refrigerator over there.”
“Wow, the facilities are way better than I expected!”
Bae Do Yoon grinned widely as he looked around the dining hall.
“Is the food here good?”
“Yeah, the chefs are really skilled.”
“Still, I was hoping you’d make me those candied sweet potatoes again.”
“I have a small kitchen in my Research Lab. I’ll make them there.”
“A Research Lab? You have one of those too? You should have shown me that first!”
Bae Do Yoon wasn’t the only one in a good mood.
Sung Yo Na nodded awkwardly but with evident excitement, then led Bae Do Yoon to her Research Lab.
“What do you think?”
This was the first time I’d invited someone other than Yeo Joo into my Subspace.
When Sung Yo Na asked hesitantly, Bae Do Yoon burst out laughing.
“It’s so you. You’ve always said you wanted to live in a cozy little place like this. Wow, there’s even a fireplace!”
As Bae Do Yoon sat in the rocking chair in front of the fireplace, Sung Yo Na spoke carefully.
“Do Yoon, I’m sorry.”
“…You know you should be?”
At the sound of Bae Do Yoon’s sigh, Sung Yo Na lowered her head further.
“Were you really trying to cut all ties with me? Because you hated me?”
“No! That’s not it. I just… couldn’t face you.”
“…Because of your brother?”
At the mention of Bae Jung Yoon’s name, Sung Yo Na flinched slightly.
But only for a moment—her body, stiff with tension, soon melted back into Bae Do Yoon’s embrace.
“I knew you’d be like this, Sung Yo Na.”
“Do Yoon.”
“I had a feeling you’d be burying yourself alive. Man, I should have just come find you sooner.”
Bae Do Yoon roughly mussed her hair and pulled her closer.
“Listen to me. You didn’t do anything wrong.”
“But…”
“That day was an accident. And I’m genuinely grateful you came through it safely. Truly.”
Though they couldn’t see each other’s faces, tears welled in both their eyes as if sealed by an unspoken promise.
“If something had happened to you too that day, I would have… So stop blaming yourself now, you fool.”
Thud.
Finally, thick tears spilled from Sung Yo Na’s eyes, staining Bae Do Yoon’s shoulder.
I thought everything was going to be okay now.
“You didn’t do anything wrong.”
Bae Do Yoon spoke again, each word deliberate and clear.
“Hic, hic…”
At last, Sung Yo Na wept bitterly in her old friend’s arms, like children crying together on the playground where they’d first met all those years ago.

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I arrived at the Conference Room in the administrative building with the young healers in tow and immediately summoned Kang Han.
“What were you up to?”
“I was overseeing the juniors’ training… but why are these two people here?”
Unlike me, Kang Han recognized Lee Dan Woo and Moon Na Rin immediately and asked in bewilderment.
“I don’t know. Well, I do know, but anyway, I’ve called their guardians, so we’ll explain once they arrive.”
Though initially as puzzled as I was, Kang Han surprisingly got along well with the young ones.
“Oh, it’s Guild Master Kang Han! I’m Lee Dan Woo!”
“Nice to meet you! I’m Moon Na Rin!”
Like children raised with such care by the Dongbaek Guild and Fantasia Guild that they’d come running at a whistle, they showed no intimidation whatsoever in Kang Han’s presence.
Instead, they chattered away, eager to ask questions.
“Guild Master, could you show us a spark just once?”
At Lee Dan Woo’s request, Kang Han readily conjured a small bolt of lightning in his palm.
“Ooooh!”
“That’s so cool!”
Kang Han chuckled at their enthusiastic response.
Since returning from the Dream Dungeon, he’d been smiling more often—a sight I saw frequently these days.
But Moon Na Rin, who had been staring intently at that smiling face, murmured softly.
“I’m going to support the Justice Guild starting today.”
“Are you even aware that you’re a Dongbaek healer?”
Lee Dan Woo asked flatly, but Moon Na Rin didn’t budge an inch.
“I think I’ve fallen for Guild Master Kang Han at first sight, so there’s nothing I can do about it.”
“Cough!”
Of all the timing, I happened to be drinking water and choked so hard my eyes watered as I coughed.
“Are you alright?”
“Yes, I’m fi—cough!”
Kang Han rubbed my back, but once the coughing fit started, it wouldn’t stop easily.
“Hey! You scared Master because of you!”
When Lee Dan Woo shouted indignantly, Moon Na Rin raised her voice in turn.
“Master must have been thirsty and drank too quickly! And with my heart pounding like this, it can’t be anything but love!”
Confessing her love right in front of the person she claimed to have fallen for at first sight.
I was at a loss for words at the boldness of kids these days.
“Ha ha.”
Meanwhile, Kang Han laughed without any sign of embarrassment.
It seemed he found Moon Na Rin’s actions both endearing and absurd.
“Look at the Guild Master’s face! He’s totally my type!”
“Moon Na Rin.”
“He’s like sunshine incarnate! I didn’t realize it before, but I guess you really do need to see someone in person to know.”
Moon Na Rin, who was about to pull out her phone to join the Justice Guild supporters, added with an “Oh right!”
“I’m just a fan, so don’t feel burdened, okay? But… I’m seventeen this year, so in about three years, if you’re still single, Guild Master… well, who knows what might happen then!”
“Hmm, that’s a bit problematic.”
“Why? Don’t you like people who are too young?”
“I already have someone I like.”
Kang Han spoke with a hint of amusement in his voice.
“If that person doesn’t accept my feelings by then, things will be quite difficult.”
Suddenly, I became acutely aware of Kang Han’s large hand still resting on my back.
I tried to shift my body away, but Moon Na Rin sighed while resting her chin on her hand.
“How did you even know I like devoted men, and now you’re giving me this kind of fan service…”
Moon Na Rin was muttering “This is cruel, so cruel” when she was about to finally sign up for the Justice Guild Supporters website.
Knock, knock.
The conference room door opened with a soft knock.
“Excuse me. I received your message and came.”
Yoo Myung Hwa, the Guild Master of Dongbaek Guild who exuded tremendous presence just by appearing, stepped into the conference room.
Her face, which had been smiling warmly when greeting Kang Han and me, quickly turned cold as she looked at the healer from her own guild.
“Moon Na Rin.”
Moon Na Rin, who had just been talking about being a fan to Kang Han moments ago, suddenly rushed over and hid behind me, shouting.
“Please save me, Master!”
“…Master?”
Yoo Myung Hwa’s gaze fixed on me.
No!
I’m not a master!

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