The Female Lead Saves the World - Chapter 420

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Yeo Joo Saves the World
Part 3, Episode 24

“What are you doing right now?”
The sight of Marrow Mayor, flustered and abandoning all pretense of formality, was quite the spectacle.
The PR Director slammed the table and cried out indignantly, “Lock the door? What kind of rudeness is this!”
I’d thought his palms had worn smooth from constantly rubbing them together to appease the mayor all this time, but apparently they were still intact.
Regardless, I had no intention of responding to these trembling bureaucrats.
Click!
I confirmed with Ryu Sang Eun as he locked the Mayor’s Office door with a heavy sound, just as I’d requested.
“Is it locked securely?”
“Yes, it won’t budge an inch.”
Ryu Sang Eun grasped the locked handle and shook the door to demonstrate, confirming his words.
True to his word, the large door was locked so firmly that it didn’t even rattle.
“Good. That should provide decent soundproofing.”
“W-why soundproofing all of a sudden…?”
They said Marrow Mayor, whom the PR Director admired, had the head of a crocodile-like lizard grafted onto him.
The PR Director, equipped with the keen instinct of a creature that cuts off its tail and flees, flinched.
“Are you curious about the reason?”
“N-no! Not at all!”
Sensing the ominous, menacing atmosphere, the PR Director waved his hands frantically and pressed his rear back onto the sofa.
Without anyone telling him to, he sat as far into the corner as possible, shrinking his body—a pathetic sight.
For a civil servant drawing the nation’s salary, his courage was woefully inadequate.
As I clicked my tongue, Marrow Mayor asked without hiding his hostility.
“What are you two?”
“So the mayor is indeed different.”
Regardless of what lay beneath the surface, the eyes staring at me from where he sat deeply reclined on the sofa were oppressively menacing.
I seemed to amuse him.
“You have a keen eye, Mayor.”
He saw correctly.
I am, after all, quite defenseless.
“I asked who you are!”
Whoosh—!
Marrow Mayor, whose patience was sorely lacking despite his considerable stature, swung black tentacles toward me.
Even without taking the hit, I could tell it was an attack capable of ending someone like me in a single blow.
Even without bothering to test it, I could tell it was an attack powerful enough to send someone like me out of this world in a single blow.
But what good are the eyes of an A+ rank monster when it fails to see what truly matters?
I’d been so focused on me that I’d overlooked the most powerful being in this room.
Screech—!
The spear blade, wreathed in brilliant sparks, severed the black tentacle in one clean stroke.
There was no way Kang Han would stand idle while an attack came at me.
“Ugh!”
Marrow Mayor seized the severed tentacle in rage, but it wouldn’t last long.
The moment the Guild Master stepped forward, the constraints binding the Hunters dissolved, and they drew weapons hidden in the Subspace, each assuming an offensive stance.
“I thought I’d die holding back.”
“Should we test whether getting hit by a primitive creature actually kills you?”
Lee Yu Eul and Ryu Sang Eun, whose chemistry was remarkably sharp, and even the good-natured Sung Yo Na were all seething with fury.
“O-outside intruders! Mmph!”
The PR Director, crouched in the corner trembling as he viewed the Dungeon Break as an opportunity for expansion, gasped in terror and clamped his own mouth shut.
I gestured to Lee Yu Eul, whose body was most primed for action, to handle the rest, then stomped hard on the armrest where Marrow Mayor sat.
“I was planning to just cleanly take your head and leave, but I’ve changed my mind.”
I was aware that my smiling face looked rather like a thug’s.
But it didn’t matter.
This creature intended to exploit the Dungeon Break to develop humans into chimeras.
I’d happily sever as many crocodile necks as needed.
“You should have watched your mouth more carefully.”
While “mouth” might be disrespectful to say of a person, this creature had already abandoned its humanity.
It was a crocodile, after all. Mouth it was.
“Mayor, you have wings, don’t you? Eagle wings hidden inside your body.”
“H-how did you—!”
“We’re in a hurry, so pull them out now. I can give a magical girl time to transform, but not a crocodile head.”
I wasn’t about to let him waste time with some mid-battle wing-extraction performance.
“Ugh, I won’t let you get away with this!”
Even as I took on the villain’s role, I watched Marrow Mayor leap high and extract his wings while spouting the tired clichés of a villain, then turned to Kang Han.
“Ten minutes.”
Ideally, I’d have liked to roll him around for an hour and turn him into a complete crisp, but unfortunately, time was short.
Still, a mid-boss monster that would spit out card fragments deserved about ten minutes of my attention.
“That’s enough, right?”
At my question, Kang Han cracked his neck side to side, loosening up, and nodded.
“I didn’t want to kill him in one blow, so ten minutes should be enough to vent some frustration.”
As he swung the thick spear shaft instead of the blade, it marked the beginning of Marrow Mayor’s gruesome end.
And exactly ten minutes later.
“Grraaahhh….”
Marrow Mayor lay collapsed on the ruined floor of the Mayor’s Office, his jaws hanging agape.
As even a single crumpled feather from his wings turned to ash and vanished, a card fragment remained in its place.

[ Security Card Fragment (?)
: A fragment of the security card that grants access to the Research Complex.
( 3 / 3 ) ]

A fragment of a security card that can be used to enter and exit the Research Complex.
( 3 / 3 ) ]
I clutched the piece of card tightly, feeling a slight sense of accomplishment and relief, and the tension brought on by the last remaining hurdle.
“I found them all.”

A mixture of slight accomplishment and relief, tempered by the tension of the final hurdle ahead, made me grip the card fragments tightly.

Accomplished what the characters in 【Sejong’s Last Days】 could not.
She gripped the card fragment tightly, overwhelmed by a sense of slight accomplishment and relief, mixed with the tension brought on by the final hurdle that lay ahead.
Now all that’s left is to enter the Research Complex.
Snapping.
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I think if you make good use of the battle with the boss monster that will take place inside the research complex, you can pretend it was an accident.
The Justice Guild, which had been torn into three teams, promised to meet again in front of the Research Complex entrance at 【18:00:00】.
However, about two hours earlier, Sa Ma Young lowered his gaze from the red countdown numbers displaying 【 20 : 13 : 58 】.
“Here it comes.”
Among the auras rapidly approaching from a distance, those of Kang Han and Yeo Joo were mixed in.
Crunch.
Sa Ma Young gritted his teeth at the sight of Yeo Joo approaching without hesitation, nestled in Kang Han’s arms.
“Should I just kill that bastard right here?”
If I make good use of the boss monster battle that will take place inside the Research Complex, I think I can make it look like an accident.
In that process, I will surely be badly hurt, but as long as I don’t die, it doesn’t matter.
If I deal with Kang Han first and then take the opportunity to handle the Master, only I will be left by Yeo Joo’s side.
Woo Jun Kyung quietly approached Sa Ma Young, who continued his cruel thoughts, led by his nature.
“My lord.”
It wasn’t only Kang Han who sensed Sa Ma Young’s murderous intent.
Woo Jun Kyung, who was always carefully observing his master’s mood, spoke in a voice so quiet it wouldn’t be picked up by the camera.
“Not right now. Please be patient.”
“Why should I take the long way around when there’s a simple and easy path?”
“It is loyal advice I offer because Yeo Joo’s existence is that important to my lord.”
Sa Ma Young fell silent.
But a slightly softened killing intent answered in its place.
“We cannot afford to lose him. We must be careful.”
Ever since awakening his abilities, Sa Ma Young had always lived consumed by fiery desires.
But he was terrified knowing that fire would one day consume his master as well.
It was due to such a weak will to live that he could easily throw even himself into the fire as fuel.
That’s why Yeo Joo was irreplaceable to Woo Jun Kyung.
Because you’re the only one who can keep Sa Ma Young tied to this land.
“When the opportunity comes, I will offer my life if necessary to place him in the lord’s arms. So until then.”
Despite Woo Jun Kyung’s pleas, Sa Ma Young, whose eyes had been filled with murderous intent, suddenly put on a clean expression as if nothing had happened when Team A approached.
Then, with a slight smile, he walked toward Yeo Joo, who was just getting down from Kang Han’s arms.
“You did well, Yeo Joo.”
“Sa Ma Young, are you hurt anywhere?”
The sudden concern directed at him made Sa Ma Young’s nape tingle with exhilaration.
The pleasure was so intense I could have died right then and there.
But I couldn’t die while leaving behind Yeo Joo, who gave me anything I asked for so prettily.
Sa Ma Young deliberately presented his left hand—the one he had injured earlier and left untreated without using a trauma healing potion.
“Here.”
“What? How did you get hurt like this! The wound is quite deep?!”
“Was it a stray dog or a wolf? Either way, some monster did this.”
“There’s no way creatures like that could leave a mark on Sa Ma Young’s skin—they’re not nearly strong enough.”
“It was such a chaotic battle. You won’t heal it for me, Yeo Joo?”
“Oh, what am I thinking.”
She carefully took Sa Ma Young’s injured hand and activated her ability.
Her skin was as soft as the warmth that bloomed from her power, and I found myself breathless once more.
In the past, I would have held her hand for much longer.

‘I should have injured myself more.’
I could have even asked Woo Jun Kyung to slash my entire body.
Sa Ma Young laughed deeply, lamenting how briefly her hand lingered before slipping away.
It was because Kang Han’s hostility was just as sharp and amusing as the killing intent Sa Ma Young had unleashed moments before.
“Now then, let’s gather the fragments!”

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