The Female Lead Saves the World - Chapter 60

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Yeo Joo Saves the World – Episode 60

True to its B-rank mutation, the blood-sucking Wingbat’s counterattack was fierce.
Though it could no longer fly, its razor-sharp talons and beak remained a formidable threat.
It was clear that a single strike would inflict a fatal wound.
Yet there was no fear in Lee Yu Eul’s eyes as she charged at the creature.
“Now!”
Whoosh!
“We have one too! A healer!”
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
With each swing of the Jungle Machete, Lee Yu Eul cried out.
“Screeeee!”
The blood-sucking Wingbat let out a long wail as both its front talons and beak were severed.
Its companions reacted immediately.
They ceased their leisurely circling and began diving down to attack Lee Yu Eul.
But Lee Yu Eul was not about to take the assault passively.
Moving at high speed across the Dungeon floor, she evaded all three attacks.
Three long claw marks were etched into the solid bedrock beneath them.
The moment the failed attackers wheeled around and spread their wings wide to charge at Lee Yu Eul once more.
Twang! Twang! Twang!
Three arrows were fired in rapid succession.
The arrows tore through the joints where the membrane connected to itself—the most critical point for stable flight—and vanished.
“Lee Yu Chan, nice shot!”
“Stop fooling around and focus on attacking, idiot!”
Giggling at her brother’s scolding, Lee Yu Eul swung the machete in a wide arc at the nearest creature attacking from behind, severing its beak.
“Screeeee!”
Though she wore an easy smile, this battle was clearly taxing for Lee Yu Eul.
She had activated a B-rank skill through re-awakening, but her proficiency was still lacking.
Moreover, aside from one Wingbat rendered completely combat-ineffective through her coordinated assault with Lee Yu Chan, three blood-sucking Wingbats remained.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
The attacks came straight at her neck, guided by the creatures’ primal hunger for blood, and a chill ran down her spine.
But the neck was not only Lee Yu Eul’s weak point.
“Where do you think you’re aiming!”
Slash!
The gleaming blade of the machete cut across one blood-sucking Wingbat’s throat.
“Screee… krrgh…”
Burrowing deep into the embrace of a monster several times her size—excluding its wings—Lee Yu Eul drove her machete upward, piercing it to the hilt.
“Kerrrgh….”
At last, one of the blood-drinking Wingbats expired, its body beginning to blacken and oxidize.
That was when it happened.
“Lee Yu Eul! Behind!”
As Lee Yu Chan’s urgent cry reached her, Lee Yu Eul spun around and saw a sharp beak rushing toward her face with terrifying speed.
She tried to swing the machete she’d just driven into another creature, but—
‘Too late.’
As her vision slowed as if in slow motion, Lee Yu Eul thought to herself.
‘Can Yeo Joo unnie fix this too?’
The moment the question formed, she remembered the truth: a healer cannot revive the dead.
‘What will happen to Lee Yu Chan?’
Sensing death approaching, she extended her machete one final time.
It was so that Lee Yu Chan could retreat to safety—so that she might land one last decisive blow before the end.
That was when it happened.
Crack.
The sharp beak that should have shattered her face simply stopped.
“Jang Su Ho!”
A massive hand, caked in black blood, had seized the Wingbat attacking Lee Yu Eul by the nape of its neck.
“Jang Su Ho oppa….”
Yet what shocked Lee Yu Eul was not Jang Su Ho’s speed in dispatching the goblin horde, nor the monstrous strength with which he subdued a B-rank monster with a single hand as if it were a misbehaving child.
“Your eyes….”
“Krrrgh, huuuh.”
The Jang Su Ho who usually smiled so brightly was gone.
In his place was something with two eyes—blood vessels grotesquely engorged and ruptured, stained a vivid crimson.
Jang Su Ho, who didn’t even spare a glance at the frozen Lee Yu Eul, simply gripped the Wingbat’s beak and head.
Crack.
Sinews rippled across his thick forearms, visible through the tears in his tattered clothes.
“Kaaagh….”
The Wingbat’s head began to bend slowly backward.
Flap, flap.
It thrashed its wings in resistance, but the movements were powerless.
Rip!
Finally, the completely reversed head tore free from its body.
It was not severed by a sharp blade.
From the ragged wound, an enormous torrent of thick black blood sprayed forth, drenching Jang Su Ho.
“Haaah.”
And Jang Su Ho drank it in with his entire being, as though savoring rain after a drought.
In that instant, Lee Yu Eul and Lee Yu Chan exchanged a silent look.
‘First, we need to eliminate all the Wingbats.’
Dozens of goblin swarms had long since been incinerated and vanished.
What remained were merely three combat blood-sucking Wingbats.
I had to continuously feed the next target to Jang Su Ho, now transformed into a Berserker.
After dispatching one creature—already crippled with both legs and beak severed—by driving my Mando through its neck, I kept counting.
‘Two left now.’
Meanwhile, Yu Chan punctured a hole through the wing of one attempting to flee skyward.
As it faltered, I hurled my Mando like a spear.
Shwack!
The flying Jungle Blade slashed across the creature’s shoulder blade.
Thud!
The blood-sucking Wingbat that crashed to the ground became Jang Su Ho’s prey.
“Krraaah!”
The third Wingbat was incinerated, its limbs shredded like black tissue paper.
The last remaining creature met the same fate.
The only difference was that it had lost one wing to Han Ji Sung’s Ice Spear attack—launched after he recognized the twins’ strategy—before plummeting to the ground.
Fsssssh—.
The sound of the final monster incinerating echoed through the now-silent Dungeon.
The battle had ended, yet no one moved with ease.
“Krr, krr.”
Jang Su Ho, now fully immersed in Berserker mode, remained.
“Krrrr.”
Emitting a sound like clawing at his chest, Jang Su Ho slowly turned toward one direction.
It was where I stood.
Step.
Kang Han immediately moved to block his path.
There was something Jang Su Ho had said before.

“When I become a Berserker, I become someone else. But the existence of Yeo Joo felt like it would erase that version of me—I felt such terror that my hair stood on end.”

Then it was highly likely that the current Jang Su Ho perceived me as his most threatening adversary.
Crackle.
Kang Han summoned electricity to both his palms, ready to unleash a lightning strike at Jang Su Ho at any moment.
But then.
“It’s fine.”
A hand pressed calmly against Kang Han’s shoulder.
It was me, Yeo Joo.
“Would you step aside for a moment?”
“Yeo Joo.”
“I said it’s fine.”
After a brief hesitation, Kang Han eventually stepped back one pace.
Yet the sparks of electricity crackling between his palms only intensified.
“Grrr….”
Jang Su Ho, who had been standing watching me from a distance, began to move.
The tension throughout the Justice Guild deepened further.
The twins quietly followed behind, ready to rush at Jang Su Ho at any moment.
Step, step.
With each step Jang Su Ho took, dark, viscous footprints were left behind.
“Grrgh.”
With his upper body hunched and moving in a way that suggested he could lunge into an attack at any second, Jang Su Ho no longer resembled a rational human being.
Yet I spoke in a voice as if soothing a wounded beast.
“That’s right. Come to me, Jang Su Ho.”
Step, step, step.
Finally, Jang Su Ho stood before me.
Standing before Jang Su Ho, whose shadow stretched long, I appeared impossibly small and fragile.
“Grrrrr….”
The growl deepened.
Just as everyone’s nerves tensed at this shift.
I slowly extended my right hand and opened my mouth.
“Hand.”
Jang Su Ho stared down at it quietly.
Would he bite that hand?
Or would he twist and tear it apart, as he had done to the monsters?
While countless thoughts raced through the guild members’ minds, I remained unwavering.
“Hand. Give it to me.”
It was a small but resolute command.
As if responding solely to that, Jang Su Ho, whose growls had now ceased, slowly extended his hand.
And he seized my small, pale hand and yanked me forward.
“Yeo Joo!”
“Sister!”
The startled guild members rushed forward.
But I raised my remaining hand, stopping them in their tracks.
There was no spray of crimson blood.
Jang Su Ho simply leaned his head against my shoulder as if exhausted.
Then, rubbing his forehead against the nape of my neck, he spoke in a voice barely above a whisper.
“Yeo Joo.”
Jang Su Ho—the one who had descended completely into a berserker state.
He had returned.

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