The Female Lead Saves the World - Chapter 419

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Yeo Joo Saves the World
Part 3, Episode 23

“The Public Relations Department, you say?”
One of the Bird-Head Gatekeeper’s feathers trembled slightly.
Quite startled, aren’t we?
As I nodded in confirmation, yellow eyes rolled back and forth, scrutinizing each member of our party.
In the brief silence that followed, an unavoidable tension hung heavy in the air.
It was an intense battle of wits between an A-rank City Hall gatekeeper and a group of potential troublemakers.
I was squeezing out every ounce of effort to maintain an expression as benign and harmless as possible.
‘Please let this work, please!’
I hadn’t given the Guild members a detailed explanation of the situation.
Because I didn’t know myself whether this approach would succeed.
Pretending to be a citizen visiting City Hall on official business was an enormous gamble.
One that absolutely had to pay off.
‘Oh, goddess of fortune!’
Bless this mega lottery winner once more!
While I was unknowingly seeking divine intervention, the monsters in the City Hall lobby who had been conversing among themselves began turning toward the desk one by one.
It was a bad sign.
‘Even if they all rush us at once, we won’t lose.’
The immediate problem wasn’t surviving a single battle.
“Um, well…”
“Ah, you’re here on official business!”
Just as I was about to speak out of desperation, the Bird-Head Gatekeeper fortunately smiled with even greater warmth than before.
“I apologize for the wait! I’ll guide you to the Public Relations Department right away!”

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I had wondered if the Bird-Head Gatekeeper would guide us personally, but fortunately, it was a different employee who led us to the Public Relations Department.
Unlike the Bird-Head Gatekeeper, whose original form was difficult to discern, the D-rank monster—smaller even than me—bore a remarkably human appearance.
Aside from the flowers blooming like a blush on its cheeks and the stems sprouting where hair should be, it was almost human.
“Please follow me closely! Wakellas City Hall is quite vast, and you could easily get lost!”
“Thank you for guiding us personally.”
At my greeting, the Flower Employee nodded bashfully, small blossoms blooming beneath her eyes as she took the lead.
As we followed, something strange began to happen.
The surrounding scenery shifted at a speed far exceeding our pace.
Within mere steps, we traversed an extraordinarily long corridor, passed through a doorway, and continued through another hallway lined with dozens of doors.
Yet there was no wind as if we were running at high speed.
It felt like walking through a well-crafted virtual reality, or treading upon a treadmill.
“Ugh.”
Lee Yu Eul’s face contorted, whether from nausea caused by the discrepancy between her body’s movement and the distance traveled.
I felt equally queasy, but paradoxically, my mood was excellent.
‘It worked.’
The gamble I had thrown out on a whim had paid off perfectly.
“It really is vast… I couldn’t have imagined this.”
Sung Yo Na was right.
The City Hall was enormous.
It made even modest-sized Dungeons seem trivial.
And that was only the beginning—the interior consisted of countless doors and corridors.
Had we attacked the monsters immediately upon entering the City Hall, we would have had to search this massive interior on foot to locate the Mayor’s Office.
All while fighting battles along the way.
While the Justice Guild members could theoretically handle the unexpectedly high-ranked monsters, the time wasted would be inevitable.
This was why the Guild that originally conquered the Jongno Gate ultimately failed to obtain all the card fragments before the Dungeon exploded.
They had exhausted all their time running through the City Hall building.
‘That’s why they stopped after obtaining the second card fragment.’
For me, it was fortunate.
Though I couldn’t know the entire conquest process, at least the description revealed which entity possessed the card fragment in this area.
“Here is the PR Department!”
The employee, who had been looking straight ahead, stopped before a door and spoke.
“The people of Wakellas City Hall are truly kind. Thanks to you, we arrived comfortably.”
“Of course! But…”
As the employee blinked, petals fluttered with the motion.
“What brings you to the Public Relations Department? Oh, I’m sorry if that’s an impertinent question!”
“It’s not impertinent at all.”
Along with the Flower Employee, the Guild members were also looking at me.
They were equally unaware of why we had sought out the Public Relations Department.
“Actually, we’re a PR company from outside. See that camera over there?”
I pointed to the camera crew filming the conquest like shadows.
“I came to interview the Mayor of Wakelas.”

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Seoul Jongno District A-rank Gate Conquest Broadcast / Justice Guild

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I barely escaped from the Grassland after setting it on fire for the tenth time, that’s so creepy.
– Looks like we can clear it..!
Oh no, please… T_T
– If the Mayor isn’t S-rank, we might actually have a real shot!!

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I had worried just in case, but surprisingly, the Mayor of Wakelas met us readily.
And immediately at that.
I thought I could obtain the card fragment quickly—at least until the PR Director came out and led us to the Mayor’s Office.
“Hmm, the tea aroma is particularly pleasant today.”
That was before the Mayor started making excuses and dragging out the time.

[ Aldric Marrow ( A+ )
: Mayor of the bioexperimental city Wakelas.
Rank in flux. ]

I tried not to stare at the information window floating above Mayor Aldric Marrow’s head.
Grade in transition?
What does that even mean?
And the fact that there’s even a ‘+’ after the letter is seriously suspicious.
Clink.
The small sound of a teacup being set down on its saucer pulled me from my thoughts, breaking through the anxiety I’d momentarily forgotten.
“I heard you wanted to do an interview with me.”
He’d deliberately played coy for quite some time before finally getting to the point—the reason was obvious without asking.
He’d been enjoying watching my nervous reactions, and now that I’d focused my attention elsewhere, he wanted me to concentrate on him instead.
“The timing is quite remarkable, isn’t it? Or perhaps you’re just fortunate.”
The gatekeeper was the Bird-Head Gatekeeper, and the mayor was a crocodile head.
True to Chimera Town’s nature, the variety was truly impressive.
I nodded while looking at Mayor Aldric Marrow’s vertically slit crocodile eyes.
“I’ve heard so much about how wonderful a place Wakelas City is that I’ve always wanted to meet you.”
“Heh heh, is that so?”
His already long snout split even wider in a smile, becoming all the more grotesque.
“Of course. There’s hardly anyone who doesn’t know of Mayor Aldric Marrow’s reputation. But what did you mean by saying the timing is remarkable?”
“Ah, well, you see.”
Mayor Aldric Marrow exchanged a meaningful glance with the PR Director seated beside him.
“This is classified information, but….”
“We’re very discreet, Mayor.”
As if he wasn’t going to tell me anyway.
Mayor Aldric Marrow cleared his throat with great deliberation before finally opening his snout to speak.
“Wakelas is planning an expansion soon.”
“An expansion… you say?”
Was this some kind of scenario this Gate possessed?
Based on the various dungeons I’d experienced so far, it was a highly plausible assumption.
But the moment I heard the word ‘expansion,’ my instincts told me this wasn’t something to dismiss lightly.
“Are you perhaps referring to some kind of redevelopment project?”
“It is a form of redevelopment, in a sense.”
Mayor Aldric Marrow stretched out his right arm, which was grafted with black tentacles, and lifted his teacup while chuckling.
“As I mentioned, it’s classified, so I can’t give you the details. But let’s just say that the opportunity to spread our Wakelas’s advanced technology to the outside world and to develop those primitive life forms won’t last much longer.”
“Primitive life forms, you say….”
“Well, those poor humans who have no choice but to maintain their original forms because they lack Chimera synthesis technology.”
There was nothing more to ask.
Their expansion meant a dungeon break, and those primitive life forms they spoke of were us.
I smiled faintly, drained the tea I hadn’t even touched yet in one gulp, and stood up without hesitation.
After one last look at Mayor Aldric Marrow, who was staring up at me with bewilderment, I gave an order to Ryu Sang Eun, who was standing closest to the Mayor’s Office door.
“Lock the door.”
I’d spent precious time hoping to gather more information about the Research Complex, but it had been worth it.
It seems I’ll need to handle this through proper channels rather than dismiss it as a malicious complaint.

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