The Female Lead Saves the World - Chapter 364

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Yeo Joo Saves the World
Part 2, Episode 185

“Good morning, Teacher.”
“Since you said morning, it seems you haven’t been awake long, Yeo Joo?”
“I slept in for the first time in a while. I figured I should rest when I get the chance.”
Seo Yu Baek laughed as he looked at my slightly puffy eyes.
Then he greeted the two Healers who were still staring at him with their mouths agape.
“Hello. We haven’t met before, have we?”
“Oh, hello!”
“Hi, *cough cough*!”
Unlike Moon Na Rin, who managed to greet him properly despite her hesitation, Lee Dan Woo even choked.
“Oh my, are you alright?”
“Yes, yes! *cough*, I’m fine!”
“Please understand. Lee Dan Woo is a fan of Director Seo Yu Baek.”
“A fan? Why do you like me?”
Seo Yu Baek tilted his head at my question.
He clearly had no idea why.
“You’re… amazing!”
“Me?”
“Yes! I saw it on TV when I was younger! The moment you awakened as a Healer!”
“Ah.”
I’ve seen it too.
The footage of Seo Yu Baek, still a medical student back then, witnessing a traffic accident and awakening as a Healer while providing emergency care.
Since this new Healer who appeared so heroically became the first S-rank Healer, there was every reason for Seo Yu Baek’s tremendous popularity.
“That’s a bit embarrassing.”
When Seo Yu Baek smiled with gentle eyes, Lee Dan Woo’s face turned even redder.
“That’s when I decided to become a Healer! I wanted to be like you, Seo Yu Baek!”
“It’s true! This kid’s room is full of Seo Yu Baek merchandise—mmph!”
“Mmmph, grrrr.”
Lee Dan Woo clamped Moon Na Rin’s mouth shut and growled through gritted teeth.
“Wait, there’s merchandise of the Director?”
I joined the official fan cafe for Director Seo Yu Baek, but I’d never heard of anything like that.
“Where can you buy it?”
“…You have to get an invitation to the group chat… I’ll just send you the link later.”
So there was a channel like that.
I gave a quiet OK sign with my finger.
“Yeo Joo? If you need my photo, I can just….”
“It’s not photos I want—it’s merchandise!”
I pushed Seo Yu Baek, who stood there looking bewildered, into the Awakened Hospital.
“We’ll be here all night at this rate! Let’s start the hospital tour right now!”

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The Awakened Hospital, where Seo Yu Baek served as both guild master and director, boasted a scale rivaling any major university hospital.
However, most of the facilities were dedicated to research, so there weren’t many areas we visitors could explore.
Still, with the director giving us a personal tour, we could examine every accessible corner in detail, and the two young Healers showed the most interest in the emergency room.
“The ward earlier looked similar to a regular hospital, but this place seems different!”
Seo Yu Baek smiled warmly at Moon Na Rin’s observation and asked.
“What specifically seems different to you, Moon Na Rin?”
“Well, usually hospital beds are lined up in rows with just curtains separating them in the middle. But here they’re divided into separate isolation chambers, which is unusual. I suppose it’s because the patients here are Awakened?”
“Exactly. Especially Awakened who come in due to rampage can be dangerous to medical staff and other patients. And beyond that, some show addiction symptoms or….”
Seo Yu Baek explained everything seriously to the young students.
Though my Healer career wasn’t particularly long, I’d thought I’d experienced various situations, yet even I found myself nodding along thinking, “Oh, that could happen too.”
Then Lee Dan Woo raised his hand with a question.
“But Director, what happens when a patient arrives with extremely severe injuries?”
He lowered his voice slightly as he added.
“Well, most Healers work as guild members, after all.”
It was a practical concern.
Still, while B-rank Healers were fairly numerous compared to A-rank and above, most of them except for a few worked as guild members.
That arrangement was advantageous for earning higher income through not just base salaries but also supplementary income from items and Gate conquest byproducts.
“That’s true. The fortunate part is that C-rank and above Awakened have such strong vitality and excellent self-healing abilities that they rarely reach the point of death unless it’s a truly critical injury.”
“So… there really are people who pass away?”
Moon Na Rin asked carefully.
“Unfortunately, it happens occasionally.”
“Oh….”
“But there haven’t been any deaths in the past month. Thanks to the Justice Guild here.”
Seo Yu Baek placed his hand on my shoulder and smiled.
“With trauma treatment potions becoming commercialized, primary emergency treatment became possible at Gates, which created this change.”
“Wow, as expected!”
“Master!”
The bright, eager eyes of the young Healers were quite burdensome.
“I didn’t do it. It was created thanks to Im Chung Soo, our guild’s Potion Master, and Director Seo Yu Baek here working hard.”
“But you approved the public release of the trauma treatment potion formula.”
“The creator wanted to open-source it, so there was nothing to approve or disapprove—it was just the right thing to do.”
“Right, of course.”
Im Chung Soo and Seo Yu Baek did all the hard work, so how could I possibly take credit for it with just a few words?
That’s why I explained it honestly, but seeing the Director’s gentle smile as he patted my head and the expressions on the two young Healers’ faces, I wondered if they truly understood.
“Anyway, trauma treatment potions prevent emergency situations like excessive bleeding, and once they arrive at this emergency room, we combine not just Healer abilities but modern medicine as well. The same applies to non-trauma cases. Awakened individuals can’t receive treatment at regular hospitals, after all.”
“I see….”
“That’s why we’re always short-staffed, so I can’t tell you how grateful I am that two Healers came to volunteer today.”
“…Volunteer?”
Lee Dan Woo and Moon Na Rin stared at me with wide, round eyes.
“Oh, I haven’t explained yet.”
I cleared my throat once before speaking.
“You both said you wanted to grow as Healers, right?”
“Yes!”
“Of course!”
“To do that, you need to use your Heal skill frequently.”
The young Healers wanted to increase their rank, and their Guild didn’t want to expose two children so young to dangerous situations like Gates.
In a situation where frequent skill use raises the probability of re-awakening, their positions conflicted.
But I had an idea.
‘As long as it’s not a dangerous situation, it should work, right?’
I brought Lee Dan Woo and Moon Na Rin to a place where they could freely use their Heal skill outside of Gates.
“You don’t have to enter a Gate to become a great Healer. Isn’t Seo Yu Baek, the Director here, a perfect example of that?”
I had already explained the volunteer work at the Awakened Hospital to the Guild Masters and received their approval.
There would be no pay, but it was still a safe environment where Healers could use their skills to their heart’s content.
“From now on, whenever you want to practice your skills, you can come to the Awakened Hospital anytime. Right, Director?”
“If two Healers like you come, we’d naturally welcome you.”
Then the hospital staff approached Moon Na Rin and Lee Dan Woo, who still looked bewildered.
“Would you like to come with me, Healer Moon Na Rin?”
“Healer Lee Dan Woo, let’s head to Treatment Room 1!”
I waved goodbye to the two of them as they were half-dragged away to their assigned areas.
“Since it’s your first day, let’s just do about three hours today. If it gets too hard, contact me anytime!”

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After handing the two teenagers over to the emergency room staff, Seo Yu Baek and I arrived at the director’s office.
“Since they’re still so young, we shouldn’t expose them to overly gruesome situations, right?”
“Yes, I’ve already mentioned it to them, so don’t worry.”
“Is this what it feels like to abandon a child by the water’s edge?”
It wasn’t inside a Gate where monsters could suddenly leap out, but they were still so young that I couldn’t help but feel concerned.
“We can’t ignore psychological trauma either.”
“Still, wouldn’t it be better to prepare them in advance?”
Seo Yu Baek, who asked this, wore a slightly cold expression.
“Is it because of the Double Dungeon?”
“You can’t have Yeo Joo go in alone forever, can you?”
That’s true, but.
“Teacher, do you know about the shrimp debate?”
“The shrimp debate?”
“Let’s say me, my friend, and my lover are eating shrimp together. If my lover peels shrimp for my friend, how would that feel?”
“Why are you suddenly asking something like that?”
“Just answer once, please.”
“…It doesn’t seem like it would feel very good.”
Is he unexpectedly the jealous type?
I nodded and continued speaking.
“Exactly. But since it’s already come to that, I’d probably ask him to peel all the shrimp on the table.”
“I still don’t quite understand….”
“There’s no reason for multiple people to get their hands dirty. Especially if one person is much better at peeling shrimp than the other two.”
“So what you’re saying, Yeo Joo, is that since you’ve already been inside before and have become S-rank, you’ll handle the Double Dungeon alone?”
“That’s it.”
As expected of someone intelligent—he understands immediately.
But what came back was a deep sigh.
“Sigh, I suddenly don’t want to give this to you.”
With a soft click, a small potion bottle was placed on the table.
At first glance it seemed to contain transparent liquid, but it sparkled like glitter mixed in depending on the light.
“No way.”
I quickly checked the Item Information.

[ Darkness Purification Potion (?)
: When consumed, reduces darkness addiction rate by 20%. ]

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