The Female Lead Saves the World - Chapter 363

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Yeo Joo Saves the World
Part 2, Episode 184

Bae Do Yoon and Sung Yo Na had just finished their tour of the Justice Guild and returned to the entrance.
After surveying the expansive guild grounds, Bae Do Yoon suddenly spoke.
“I’m relieved.”
“About what?”
“The Justice Guild seems like a good place. There must be a reason your face has brightened up.”
“Yeah, it’s a good place with good people. You’ll come to like it soon too, Do Yoon.”
“Me? I’m popular wherever I go.”
Light laughter flowed between the two.
Until a cold voice cut through it.
“Sung Yo Na.”
“…Sister?”
Sung Ro Sa, who had just emerged from the administrative building where the conference room was located, approached them.
“Amusing, and you look happy.”
For a greeting directed at a sister they hadn’t seen in a long time, it was far too cold and sharp.
Yet Sung Yo Na nodded readily.
“Yeah, things are good lately. Do Yoon came to the Justice Guild too.”
“So you two finally met. Your wish came true, Hunter Bae Do Yoon.”
“Yes, though not thanks to you, Guild Master.”
Bae Do Yoon answered without hiding his hostility toward Sung Ro Sa, who had once been his guild master.
Yet the way he naturally shielded Sung Yo Na behind him revealed how well he understood the deep-seated resentment that had accumulated between the two sisters over the years.
“Do Yoon, I need to talk to my sister for a moment. Go on ahead.”
“…Are you sure?”
“I’m sure. Go on.”
At Sung Yo Na’s gentle push, Bae Do Yoon hesitated before stepping away.
Moments later, it was surprisingly Sung Ro Sa who broke the awkward silence between the sisters.
“That’s unexpected. I thought you’d keep hiding behind Bae Do Yoon.”
Though the remark was worse than saying nothing at all.
Sung Yo Na smiled bitterly at the conversation flowing exactly as anticipated.
“I have something to ask you.”
“What?”
“Why did you try to kill me?”
“What?”
Sung Ro Sa’s face twisted menacingly.
“I never intended to kill you.”
“You gathered the guilds and had them hunt me down.”
“You were a suspect at the time. If I hadn’t stepped in, the Awakeners Association or the authorities would have.”
“So that’s why? Whether I lived or died didn’t matter—you just wanted to drag me to Fantasia?”
Sung Ro Sa faltered for a moment.
Those were indeed her own words.
Yet as always, the more cornered Sung Ro Sa became, the sharper her edges grew.
“Besides, even if you lived, it wasn’t really living, was it? Hiding and running like a rat in the sewers for years, constantly hunted.”
“Still, I wanted to live.”
That was why I endured those lonely, terrifying hours.
When I hid my body in the Subspace where no one could find me and tried to sleep, I would lose myself in vague fantasies.
I imagined a day when all misunderstandings would be resolved and I could return to Fantasia to live my old life again.
“…Are you asking me to apologize or something?”
But now I understood.
Fantasia could never be home to me.
“No, I’m not going to accept an apology from you anyway, so there’s no need.”
“Ah, Sung Yo Na, here we go again.”
Sung Ro Sa shook her head dismissively, her tone weary.
“You’re always the victim, and I’m always the villain. How long are you going to keep using that? Can’t you stop playing the pitiful one now?”
“Playing pitiful?”
“Yeah, want me to be honest? If you’d just reported that incident properly to the guild from the start, it would’ve caused a brief commotion and blown over. Runaway accidents aren’t exactly rare. Why did you run like an idiot?”
“Because I couldn’t trust you. Just like you couldn’t trust me.”
“You…”
We were sisters, yet we couldn’t trust each other.
“Still, I’m grateful to you. Thanks to you, I became a member of the Justice Guild, and now Do Yoon is here too. Now there’s truly nothing left for me in Fantasia.”
Blood relations—such a grand word—meant nothing without affection.
“You know what it means to be worse than strangers, right?”
Sung Yo Na approached Sung Ro Sa as she spoke.
Or rather, she was simply passing by.
“From now on, you don’t even need to greet me, sister.”
Sung Ro Sa stood frozen while Sung Yo Na walked away.
I had always thought that if such a day came, it would be terribly sad.
Sung Yo Na felt that the gaze of her blood relative finally seeing her clearly had come far too late, and she moved forward with light steps.
She was heading to find Bae Do Yoon, her newly acquired family member, and bring him to the Justice Guild members.

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“Sung Yo Na, Hunter Bae Do Yoon, come over here. One wrong step and you’re dead, seriously.”
From outside the Training Facility, I could hear Yeo Joo calling out to the others.
Both of them possessed far sturdier bodies than she did, yet she was the one looking after everyone else—so very like Yeo Joo.
As a flower turns its attention to the flutter of a butterfly’s wings, I found my focus inexplicably drawn to that voice, and Yoo Myung Hwa’s fist swept past my eyes.
“Looks like you have the luxury of letting your mind wander?”
Her laughing face was as fierce as the sharp sound of her fist cutting through the air.
Considering we were still in the middle of the Guild Cup, this was a pure unarmed bout—no skills, no weapons.
Unlike the leisurely exchange of blows in the early rounds, beads of sweat now dotted both my forehead and Yoo Myung Hwa’s.
Boom!
My fist met her palm with a thunderous crack as she blocked my strike.
“We should probably wrap this up! At this rate, we’ll bring down the whole expensive building!”
As the Underground Training Facility—constructed from Dungeon materials and sturdy enough to withstand most natural disasters—resonated as if it might collapse at any moment, Yeo Joo raised her voice in alarm.
“A proper match should perhaps be postponed for another time.”
“Right. Any longer and the Kang Han Guild leader’s back won’t survive.”
After that brief exchange, Yoo Myung Hwa and I threw punches at each other simultaneously.
Crash—!
Two S-rank fists collided with full force, and a violent shockwave erupted between us.
Rumble…
The sound echoed through the spacious Training Facility like a reverberating wave, until finally—
Crack!
“Ugh! The glass cracked!”
The glass door that the Spacetime User had proudly boasted would never break—even giving a thumbs up as proof—shattered, and only then did we two guild leaders end our sparring, collapsing to the ground without ceremony.
“Ha, impressive.”
“I learned much. Ha.”
Yoo Myung Hwa, watching me breathe heavily and dripping with sweat, soon let out a quiet laugh.
“I’m glad the Justice Guild came up. We have our pride in the Jung Dong Alliance, don’t we?”
With my stamina finally depleted, I lay flat on the Training Facility floor, and the well-maintained ceiling filled my entire field of vision.
For a training facility that had stood on the brink of closure not long ago, it was remarkably impressive.
“The Association Director seems to think the Guild Cup will unite the hunters who’ve been split into two factions, but I don’t. The wounds left by the government’s actions last time run too deep.”
“But we cannot remain divided between the Jung Dong Alliance and the Gong Gil Yeon Alliance forever, can we?”
“That’s true too. That’s why we need a decisive catalyst—a reason for Awakeners to unite, one that lets us set aside minor differences of opinion.”
“That won’t be easy.”
“Won’t it?”
Yoo Myung Hwa turned her head, gazing at both me and Yeo Joo outside the window, and murmured.
“For some reason, I have a feeling that her height will become the Justice Guild.”

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There’s an old saying: strike while the iron is hot.
The very next day after those young healers came seeking me out, I summoned them both.
The meeting place was the Awakened Hospital, not far from the Justice Guild.
“Master, why did you want to meet here?”
“Are you hurt, Teacher?”
Their bright, innocent eyes were filled with concern for me.
“Is a hospital only a place where sick people come?”
“Isn’t it?”
“Moon Na Rin, Lee Dan Woo—listen carefully. What was your reason for seeking me out?”
“We wanted to become S-rank healers!”
“We wanted to awaken again!”
Their crisp, eager responses sounded like chicks chirping.
“That’s right—because I became an S-rank healer. But there’s someone who became S-rank before me and has been active as a healer far longer than I have, isn’t there?”
It was just as I reached that point in my explanation.
“Huh?”
“Whoa!”
Moon Na Rin and Lee Dan Woo spotted something behind me and reacted first.
Turning around at their response, I saw a man emerging from the hospital building and walking toward us.
“Hello, Yeo Joo.”
It was Seo Yu Baek, looking as sharp as ever in his white coat.

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