The Female Lead Saves the World - Chapter 362

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Yeo Joo Saves the World
Part 2, Episode 183

I swear on my life—not once, not a single time, have I ever wanted to become a teacher for young Healers.
This was a vow I’d stake my blood-earned lottery winnings of 25 billion won on.
Yet somehow, circumstances had spiraled to this point, and I found myself owing Yoo Myung Hwa some form of explanation.
“I’m just as bewildered as you are, Guild Master Dong Baek. Sigh, please, have a seat for now. We’re still waiting for one more person.”
I gestured toward one of the chairs in the Conference Room.
“…Moon Na Rin, come over here for now.”
“No way! You’re going to hit me if I do!”
Yoo Myung Hwa pointed to the seat beside her, but Moon Na Rin only clung more desperately to my sleeve instead.
There was no way we could have a proper conversation like this.
I dragged over an empty chair and offered it to Moon Na Rin, then gestured again for Yoo Myung Hwa to sit down.
“Moon Na Rin, we’ll talk later.”
“…Yes, Master.”
After all the commotion, Yoo Myung Hwa finally settled into a seat across the large Conference table.
Lee Dan Woo, witnessing the chaos, quietly dragged his chair over toward me with a sigh escaping my lips.
Watching Moon Na Rin and Yoo Myung Hwa, he seemed anxious about meeting his own guardian who would arrive shortly.
Right, you might as well sit down and get comfortable.
“So here’s what happened.”
With the two seventeen-year-old Healers flanking me on either side, I began my explanation piece by piece.
When my brief account finally ended, Yoo Myung Hwa pressed her forehead and shook her head.
“Moon Na Rin.”
“Yes? I mean, yes, Guild Master.”
“You just showed up out of nowhere and asked Yeo Joo the Healer to become your master?”
“Not master, but teacher… Yes, that’s right.”
“Sigh.”
A deep sigh finally escaped Yoo Myung Hwa’s lips.
“Yeo Joo the Healer, I’m sorry. I have no face to show Guild Master Kang Han either.”
It was uncharacteristic of her usual confident and cheerful demeanor, but entirely understandable.
Raising children is tough, after all.
“I thought I was teaching her strictly, but now it seems I’ve been far too lenient.”
Moon Na Rin visibly flinched at the pointed remark.
Though judging by her reaction, she clearly understood that the Guild Master was someone to fear.
“If you get any stricter than that, Moon Na Rin might actually die…”
“You stay quiet, Lee Dan Woo.”
My timid defense of my friend was immediately cut short by another figure who opened the door and stepped inside.
It was Sung Ro Sa, dressed in comfortable jeans and a sweater, having been summoned on short notice.
“Sung Ro Sa…”
“Lee Dan Woo.”
What followed was a lengthy lecture from Sung Ro Sa.
As stern rebukes rained down, Lee Dan Woo’s frame seemed to shrink smaller with each word, while I found myself struggling to maintain composure and avoid showing discomfort as I exchanged glances with Kang Han.
Honestly, I was uncomfortable.
Sung Ro Sa was clearly furious at the young healer’s reckless actions, and as I listened, the scolding seemed harsh enough to make me think, ‘Isn’t this a bit too much?’
Yet anyone could tell that beneath it all lay genuine affection for Lee Dan Woo.
‘It seems like she cares for him even more than her own blood sister.’
Though such a thought inevitably crossed my mind, I quickly dismissed it with a shrug.
It wouldn’t be right to pity Sung Yo Na simply because her relationship with her biological sister wasn’t good.
Besides, Sung Yo Na now belonged to the Justice Guild, not Fantasia.
‘I can just care for her more to make up for it.’
Family isn’t determined by blood alone.
“I’m so sorry.”
“We apologize, Master.”
The young healers, having been scolded by their respective guild masters, offered me their apologies.
Their sudden arrival had caught me off guard, but I had to admit there was something admirable about their courage.
“Just don’t make the same mistake again.”
The real problem wasn’t the children—it was the adults.
The guild masters who had scolded Lee Dan Woo and Moon Na Rin so severely that tears had welled up in their eyes, yet remained seated in their places.
A sense of foreboding made me narrow my eyes, and then Yoo Myung Hwa and Sung Ro Sa spoke in turn.
“We adults have something to discuss, so you two step outside for a bit.”
“Play quietly. Don’t go poking around where you shouldn’t.”
The two dejected healers were eventually ushered out of the conference room.
I wanted to leave too.
The fact that both guild masters were sending the children out made it painfully obvious what they were about to discuss.
“Yeo Joo is busy.”
Kang Han’s preemptive remark made Yoo Myung Hwa laugh, her eyes crinkling with amusement.
“I know, I know. I’m not asking for free help. I’ll pay the tuition properly.”
“That’s not the issue. Teaching doesn’t work that way.”
I only take students when I actually have something to teach them.
“Wouldn’t it be far more effective to take them into lower-ranked Gates multiple times rather than leaving them with me?”
“Dungeons are out of the question.”
Yoo Myung Hwa answered firmly.
“It’s true that combat-type Awakeners start entering Gates around high school age, but healers are too vulnerable to be trained that way, aren’t they?”
“…Is it because of their age, or because they’re healers?”
“Both.”
This time, Sung Ro Sa spoke.
“Those two seem quite impressed by how Yeo Joo, the healer, performs in the Gates. They’re throwing such tantrums about wanting to join the raid parties themselves. I was hoping you could step in and talk them out of it.”
“You want me to discourage them rather than teach them?”
The two guild masters nodded.
Watching them, a question arose in my mind.
“But if a Double Dungeon opens, won’t those two have to enter whether they like it or not? What’s your plan for that?”
When the second Gate opens, the nearest healer based on distance is automatically conscripted.
Only Seo Yu Baek, who operates the Awakened Healer Hospital, was exempt from that obligation.
“Until now, I’ve been fortunate enough to keep entering, but who knows what will happen in the future.”
“Then I’ll have to go in with you. We’re already making some preparations on the guild’s end anyway.”
Since they were determined to handle it themselves, I had nothing more to add.
Of course, I had plenty I wanted to say.
Being cautious isn’t everything.
What would happen to those kids when they eventually entered a dangerous Gate like the Double Dungeon and faced the shock of it?
But I held my tongue.
‘I won’t be looking after them forever anyway.’
It was true that as trauma treatment potions became more widespread, there was less reason for healers to venture into dangerous places alongside the parties.
“Talk them out of wanting to enter Gates…”
I’d only seen them briefly, but both seemed incredibly stubborn.
Rather than telling them not to do something, it seemed better to show them something else they could do instead.
I looked at the two guardians of the young healers and asked.
“What do you think about volunteer work?”

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“I need to prepare for tomorrow’s match, so I’ll be heading out. Please take good care of Dan Woo, Healer Yeo Joo.”
As Sung Ro Sa finally rose from his seat, unable to ignore his continuously ringing phone any longer, Yoo Myung Hwa, who had won her quarterfinal match early, spoke with a teasing tone.
“You’re working hard, our guild master Sung Ro Sa. Fantasia needs to make it to the semifinals too, right?”
“You talk too much, Yoo Myung Hwa.”
Despite Sung Ro Sa’s cold parting remark before leaving the conference room, Yoo Myung Hwa simply burst into laughter.
“He’s nervous too, it seems.”
“Huh? He didn’t seem like that at all to me.”
Yeo Joo tilted her head in confusion.
“Sung Ro Sa is secretly timid. He didn’t curse once today, did he? He must be really nervous.”
“…I guess that’s something you can tell from knowing each other for a long time.”
“We see right through each other. That’s why we annoy each other more, get tired of each other more. But these days, I don’t have time to be bored because of the Justice Guild.”
Yoo Myung Hwa’s gaze turned toward Yeo Joo and Kang Han, who sat across from her side by side.
Why was that?
Ever since some point, whenever Yoo Myung Hwa looked at those two, she couldn’t tear her eyes away.
It was as if they had a subtly different hue from their surroundings.
It was an animal instinct, a primal sense, that kind of intuition.
“Re-awakening at similar times—did you two go somewhere nice together?”
“…It was just a coincidence.”
Unlike Yeo Joo, who answered while averting her gaze, Kang Han didn’t even blink.
When Yoo Myung Hwa met those blunt green eyes, her smile deepened.
“It’s really remarkable.”
Kang Han had completely changed.
The aura that emanated just from facing him was so different that it was hard to believe he was the same person from before the Guild Cup began.
“He’s like a completely different person.”
Perhaps it wasn’t re-awakening but a shedding of his old self.
How else could someone grow so completely transformed?
The old image of him hovering anxiously around Yeo Joo like a mother dog protecting her pups was nowhere to be found.
The composure of one who had crossed the threshold between life and death, combined with the ease of someone aware of their own strength, stirred something in Yoo Myung Hwa.
Unable to resist the surging competitive spirit, she finally asked Kang Han.
“How about it? Want to have a match with me?”

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