The Female Lead Saves the World - Chapter 430

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Yeo Joo Saves the World
Part 3, Episode 34

“How did you know that?”
“I told you, I saw it in a dream!”
Yu Ga Young, frustrated at having to repeat herself, struck her chest with her fist in exasperation.
“Ah, a dream.”
A skill name came to mind—something like “Happy Dream.”
If that dream was truly the skill’s ability.
I glanced at Yoo Jin Rok, who looked visibly troubled, then turned to Yu Ga Young.
“If you’ve really awakened, you should be able to see your status window. Could you write down what you see there?”
I handed her the notepad and pen from the hospital room, and Yu Ga Young opened her mouth with a tense expression.
“My… status window.”
Then she stared blankly into empty space.
She was probably reading her own status window that had appeared before her.
After a moment, what Yu Ga Young wrote down was identical to what I had confirmed.
“She’s awakened, my daughter.”
“Her rank is… S.”
Though I’d suspected as much, Yoo Jin Rok staggered as if he might collapse on the spot upon confirming his daughter’s awakening, while Sa Ma Young’s expression grew peculiar as he mentioned Yu Ga Young’s rank.
“Dreaming Child.”
Like me, Kang Han was the one who focused on the skill name itself.
I nodded, feigning surprise.
“So that’s why you mentioned the dream.”
“Now that I think about it, the dream was… kind of different.”
“Different how?”
“It wasn’t really a dream, more like watching a 4D immersive movie experience?”
“I see.”
It was a difficult analogy, but I understood what she meant.
She could see someone else’s entire experience, but she didn’t receive the shock as if she were the one experiencing it.
“Like a theme park ride?”
“Yes! That’s why it was kind of fun!”
Given the skill name mentioned something about children, it seemed safety was definitely guaranteed.
I tried to comfort Yoo Jin Rok, whose face was still etched with worry.
“Anyway, it doesn’t seem to be a combat-type skill, so don’t worry too much, sir.”
“Right, that’s… at least a relief.”
Yoo Jin Rok managed a forced smile.
As a hunter who had navigated countless perils, Yu Ga Young’s father naturally wished for his beloved daughter to live an ordinary, peaceful life.
“Yu Ga Young, do you think you could try using a skill?”
As Kang Han asked this, I felt him subtly drawing up his own energy.
Sa Ma Young, standing on the opposite side of the hospital bed, did the same.
They were preparing for any dangerous situation that might arise.
Yu Ga Young squeezed her eyes shut and called out loudly.
“Skill activation!”
….
Nothing happened.
“Skill activation! Skill activation!”
No matter how many times she called out, the result was the same.
Embarrassed and disappointed, Yu Ga Young’s face crumpled.
“Sniff, the System says I can’t use it right now.”
“The System?”
“Yes, and it won’t even explain why.”
Damn System.
Couldn’t it at least be a little kinder to a child?
I was clicking my tongue inwardly when Yu Ga Young suddenly tilted her head.
“But, um, those doctors said I had ‘Dark Vulnerability’ and ‘Runaway Syndrome’ as status abnormalities, right? It seems like they’re gone now?”
What?
I checked Yu Ga Young’s status window again carefully.

Yu Ga Young S
Dreaming Child (Happy Dream) (S)
[ Empty ]
[ Empty ]
Status Abnormality – Dark Addiction 3%

It was true.
‘Why didn’t I notice this sooner?’
I’d been so focused on the fact that Yu Ga Young had awakened as an S-rank and on her skill name that I hadn’t even thought to check her status ailments.
When I met a child who’d been hospitalized from illness, I should have checked on that first!
With so many eyes watching around us, I couldn’t even bang my head in frustration—a shame, really.
While I was berating myself, Kang Han immediately contacted Seo Yu Baek.
Seo Yu Baek, who hadn’t yet heard the news of Yu Ga Young’s awakening, came rushing over in a flurry at the words “Ga Young has awakened, and it seems her status ailments have disappeared.”
After catching his breath and testing various skills, he spoke.
“That’s correct. Both have vanished.”
“Then, Teacher….”
“We’ll need to observe a bit longer to say for certain, but at least it seems she won’t experience runaway episodes as frequently as before.”
“Ah.”
Yoo Jin Rok’s legs finally gave out, and he sank to the ground.
His trembling hands cradled his lowered head.
“Dad….”
Yu Ga Young watched her father with tears brimming in her eyes, yet she didn’t rush to comfort him.
The others gathered in the hospital room did the same.
Every time Yu Ga Young suffered, Yoo Jin Rok suffered even more.
After a moment had passed, Yoo Jin Rok rose and pulled his daughter into a tight embrace without a word.
But the hot tears that fell onto her patient gown showed no sign of stopping for a long time.

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I didn’t return to my home within the Justice Guild until the evening had grown dim.
“Good grief, I’m exhausted.”
I let out a weary groan as I unlocked the door with my fingerprint and stepped inside.
Sa Ma Young and Kang Han had been summoned back to the Awakeners Association.
The Gate had been exceptional in multiple ways, so the Association wanted the most detailed information possible, and since the operation had involved splitting into several teams with different routes, Han Ji Sung had gaps in his knowledge that couldn’t be helped.
In the end, Sa Ma Young’s muttered threat about “burning down the Association” was the last thing I heard before both of them were dragged away by a spatial transfer user who’d come to collect them.
“Is anyone here?”
The Common Space was quiet, illuminated only by minimal lighting.
I wondered where Je Hwa had gone.
Lately, he’d been juggling work with Maestro and the Justice Guild’s item development department, so busy he barely had time to breathe—I simply nodded to myself in understanding.
The door suddenly burst open!
The door connecting to Je Hwa’s quarters swung open urgently.
“Boss! You were home?”
I suppose I really had been wanting to see Je Hwa.
Though only a few days had passed in reality, after what felt like an eternity, seeing Je Hwa again brought a wave of relief—the comfort of truly being home.
I didn’t hide my joy and strode eagerly toward him.
“Boss! I’m so glad you’re….”
Je Hwa was always the one who’d run two or three steps toward me whenever I took one step forward.
But now he was backing away instead.
Je Hwa, maintaining his distance, asked me a question.
“Are you hurt anywhere…?”
“No, I’m perfectly fine.”
I answered and stepped closer again.
But the distance between Je Hwa and me didn’t narrow.
He retreated by the same amount I advanced.
“Did I do something wrong?”
“No, rather, I’m the one who made a mistake.”
“You, Boss? Did you go to that restaurant alone without me that time we planned to go together?”
That was the only mistake Je Hwa could conceive of himself making.
He was as strict with himself as he was demanding of others.
“I need to apologize to you first. But if I get close now, I don’t think I’ll be able to hold back.”
“Hold back what?”
“The Gate prediction system malfunctioned, and you nearly got caught in a Dungeon Break.”
“But that’s….”
“You’re right, it wasn’t the first or second time it happened.”
“That’s not what I meant.”
The problem wasn’t with the prediction system Je Hwa had created, but rather the Apocalypse Process itself was inherently erratic.
And as the Apocalypse accelerated, it had only gotten worse.
“You don’t need to console me. My negligence is the real issue.”
“Negligence? How many people has the prediction program you’ve created saved all this time? Without it, humanity wouldn’t even still exist on Earth.”
“But I nearly lost the most important person of all.”
Je Hwa smiled with frightened eyes.
“I’m sorry, Yeo Joo.”
This was bad.
Je Hwa had clearly caught the creator’s occupational disease—”tunnel digging.”
If I left him alone like this, it could spread to the even more serious condition of “I’m garbage” syndrome.
“Still, if I may offer an excuse, I found the source of the error.”
But something about Je Hwa’s next words felt off, so I closed my mouth and pricked up my ears instead of offering comfort.
“The reason predictions kept missing the mark was because the program based its grade calculations on data accumulated over a long time. But recently, Gate energy has been fluctuating so erratically that the data has become practically useless. So now, instead of just the quantity of energy wavelengths, I’ve been analyzing the patterns themselves….”
Je Hwa seemed to be explaining it relatively simply for my sake.
But honestly, I couldn’t understand a single word.
“In other words, boss, you’re saying you upgraded the entire prediction system in the short time I was out clearing a Gate?”
“Less of an upgrade—I changed the prediction algorithm itself.”
“And going forward…?”
“Prediction accuracy will improve. I’ve also subdivided the grades from SS+ down to E-. And in case there are various terrain types mixed together, you’ll be able to check a rough internal map before entering. Of course, that will only be possible after the Gate is fully formed.”
A creator’s tunnel digging—maybe it’s actually a good thing?

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