The Female Lead Saves the World - Chapter 399

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Yeo Joo Saves the World
Part 3, Episode 3

“I deserve to be scolded.”
Kang Han answered firmly.
“No, people can be busy and not see each other often….”
“Yeo Joo, you look like you’ve lost weight. Have you been skipping meals?”
Ah, food?
“Well, I suppose that might be the case….”
“You’ve gone down a size.”
Je Hwa scanned me from head to toe with that characteristic piercing gaze of a crafter, and hit the mark perfectly.
Does he have a measuring tape attached to his eyes or something?
But when a mouse is cornered, even it will bite a cat.
I had things to say too!
“I’m not the only one who’s busy! Everyone’s in the same boat!”
I pointed at each person with my fingers as I spoke.
Kang Han.
“Re-awakening induction training program! New guild member recruitment!”
Je Hwa.
“Item development department building! Plus a packed schedule of item crafting!”
Sa Ma Young.
“Chung Soo potion and mana storage stone product development! Overall responsibility for shopping mall construction!”
I grew a bit smug and pressed my advantage.
“You all have so much to do. At least right now things are less hectic, aren’t they?”
In other words, I was saying we should get used to this situation—occasionally seeing each other’s faces and confirming we were still alive.
But it had the opposite effect.
Kang Han let out a deep sigh, and Je Hwa cracked his neck with an audible pop.
And Sa Ma Young smiled beautifully once more.
“Yeo Joo.”
“What?”
“Do you know what people call a situation like this?”
“…A healthy and beneficial relationship?”
“Neglect.”
“What?”
“Neglect. That’s what this is.”
Sa Ma Young’s long, pale finger tapped once, twice on the table.
“You shower me with affection, make me accustomed to your touch, and then when work gets busy, you just abandon me and neglect me. That’s exactly what abandonment is.”
“No, I’m not even an animal, what kind of—this is serious!”
But Je Hwa chimed in agreement.
“She’s right. Abandonment.”
I looked toward Kang Han, who still hadn’t said anything, and pleaded for help.
“Guild Master, say something, please.”
These two are turning me into an abandoner!
Kang Han maintained his silence for a moment before speaking with measured gravity.
“We’ll need to find some kind of solution.”

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Yes, that was exactly what happened.
That solution Kang Han had proposed back then was this very space.
This peculiar, sprawling residence built on land slightly removed from where the Justice Guild Doksan Branch buildings clustered together.
While it appeared from the outside to be a single connected structure, it was actually four two-story houses arranged cozily around the common space where we now sat.
When I first heard the plan and reacted with shock, the three of them presented two main reasons to convince me.
First, that it would be far safer with two S-rank combat hunters stationed right nearby, and second, the convenience of eating delicious home-cooked meals instead of dining hall food.
The real temptation was Je Hwa’s promise to personally cook whatever dishes I wanted to eat each time.
The dining hall food was certainly delicious, but meals prepared in bulk inevitably had their limitations.
And now, a month after moving here from the Dormitory Building, I was completely satisfied.
With good food, my stamina seemed to have improved as well.
As I nodded, Kang Han asked me a question.
“What are you thinking about?”
“Oh, when we first built this house. I was just remembering how perfectly coordinated those three were. Buying the land, designing it, rushing through the construction permits.”
Their division of labor had been so seamless.
Je Hwa shrugged and spoke.
“I’m not sure about perfect coordination, but when there’s a shared goal, temporary cooperation isn’t difficult.”
The other two nodded in agreement as well.
“I see.”
I drew out my words slightly while checking above the three of their heads.

《 ♥ 100 : Greed
(貪)
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《 ♥ 100 : Stigma
(Stigma)
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《 ♥ 100 : Separation Anxiety 》

The affinity of all three had reached ♥100 in tandem and showed no further change.
It seemed to be the maximum.
…So I was being abandoned after all.
There were reasons of safety and convenience, but I also had things to reflect on, so I moved quietly without complaint.
After a routine developed where we gathered together to spend the evening if there were no special schedules, that nagging talk of abandonment finally disappeared, much to my relief.
I glanced at the time—it was already 11 PM.
I was starting to feel drowsy.
It was just as I was slowly chewing the last grape Sa Ma Young had given me.
“Should we head in now?”
Kang Han, noticing my state, rose from his seat first and spoke.
“That seems like the right idea. I have an outside appointment tomorrow morning too.”
“Where? There’s nothing marked separately on the guild calendar.”
Sa Ma Young asked with a slightly sharp edge to his voice.
Tomorrow was the day I’d be having blood drawn for the purification potion.
But these three people must not know the raw materials of the potion.
Since they were all so perceptive, I’d already created a plausible external reason for needing to visit the Awakened Healer Hospital periodically.
“The hospital. I’m going for that Rampage Hunter Rescue Team meeting I mentioned last time.”

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The next day.
The blood draw took place in Seo Yu Baek’s Private Office, as always.
All I had to do was lie comfortably on the plush sofa.
“At first it was so dizzying and exhausting, but these days it’s nothing at all, isn’t it?”
“….”
“The medicinal tonic Chung Soo makes must be really effective. You say you feel perfectly fine, right?”
“No matter what you say, I can’t increase the blood draw amount.”
“You’re quite perceptive.”
I backed off at Seo Yu Baek’s stern voice.
Still, it felt like a shame to give up just like this.
“Isn’t the potion running short? There must be lots of requests coming in from various places.”
“The Association Director is handling it well, so we’re fine. And if we do run short, we’ll manage with what we have.”
Just as the blood draw seemed to finish, Seo Yu Baek pressed cotton firmly over the needle site and stared directly at me.
“What did I tell you before, Yeo Joo?”
“…That hunters originally lived without purification potions.”
“You remember. The potion you make should only be used in truly dangerous situations. Especially since the potion’s materials….”
Seo Yu Baek gazed at my blood he’d drawn, let out a small sigh, then spoke to me soothingly.
“We’re even establishing a rescue team so that no hunters die from going berserk, aren’t we?”
“Oh, that’s right! The ‘Rampage Rescue Team’! How’s it coming along?”
“Do you really want to call it that?”
“It just needs to be easy to remember and roll off the tongue, right?”
The Rampage Hunter Rescue Team, or ‘Rampage Rescue’ for short, was a project that Seo Yu Baek and I were ambitiously preparing.
Until now, Berserk Hunters had been left in the shadows.
The government hadn’t even created relevant laws, simply telling guilds and individual Awakeners to handle it themselves.
In a generous interpretation, it was leaving things to autonomy, but in reality, it was refusing to take responsibility.
So Hunters belonging to smaller guilds endured their berserker episodes locked away at home, while larger guilds—like the Sama Guild last time—chose to isolate their Berserk Hunters on their own.
It felt like a pre-modern, ad-hoc approach, but since waiting and enduring until the episode passed was the only solution available, there was no helping it.
But now things were different.
I had my skill and purification potions.
However, there were limitations.
The supply of potions was restricted, yet far too many Hunters wanted them.
The Awakener Association had issued guidelines to request potions only during actual berserker episodes, but the situation persisted.
Even in cases as mild as a common cold, many Hunters would preemptively submit purification potion requests, thinking it was better to be safe than sorry.
Ultimately, precise criteria for potion distribution and a structural approach were necessary.
So Seo Yu Baek and I rolled up our sleeves and got to work.
The Rampage Hunter Rescue Team.
Grandiose as it sounded, it operated on the same principle as the 119 emergency rescue service—you call the number and they come running.
When a potion request came in due to berserking, trained personnel would dispatch to assess the condition, and if deemed critical, bring the Hunter here to the Awakened Hospital where Seo Yu Baek would conduct a secondary evaluation and distribute the potion.
Since it was a project for public safety, Seo Yu Baek couldn’t bear all the costs and responsibility alone.
So a few months ago, we brought in the Awakener Association and secured government cooperation.
“What did the Association say?”
I watched Seo Yu Baek’s lips intently, tense with anticipation.
“They said they’ll begin official operations starting the 20th.”
“Ah, thank goodness.”
I exhaled a sigh of relief and lay back down on the sofa, and Seo Yu Baek chuckled softly.
“You really don’t need to worry so much.”
“There’s just so much riding on this. We need to kill two birds with one stone, catch the crayfish while digging the ditch—no, as long as the Rampage Rescue launches, that’s all that matters.”
“I brought something you like. Just rest for a bit.”
Seo Yu Baek gently stroked my head before heading into the Break Room.
Watching his retreating figure, I murmured without thinking.
“I’m really glad about this.”

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