The Female Lead Saves the World - Chapter 70

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Yeo Joo Saves the World – Episode 70

With one foot barely touching reality, Kang Han spoke with an apologetic expression.
“Please, get up for a moment.”
“Huh? Why?”
I was feeling far too comfortable right now.
“Don’t do this here. Go to your room and sleep properly.”
“I’m comfortable here.”
“Even if it’s just a short nap, you should sleep properly, Yeo Joo.”
Kang Han spoke with unmistakable sternness.
He really did nag quite a bit.
“Alright, fine.”
I reluctantly tried to sit up.
Or rather, I tried to.
“Baek Young?”
But Baek Young, who had been sleeping on my chest, didn’t budge an inch.
Seeing the tip of his tail swaying gently, he’d clearly woken up.
“Baek Young, your dad is here.”
I tried coaxing him softly, but he wouldn’t move.
“Baek Young?”
Kang Han seemed quite taken aback as well, tilting his head while stroking Baek Young’s head.
Then something extraordinary happened.
Whoosh.
He dodged Kang Han’s hand and buried his face directly into my embrace.
“Baek Young….”
He was always the one who would scramble over eagerly whenever Kang Han arrived.
Clearly hurt by this sudden rejection, Kang Han’s eyes trembled.
But Baek Young remained stubborn.
His tail still swayed, yet he kept his eyes firmly shut, even letting out a yawn as if sleeping.
‘He’s definitely pretending to sleep.’
I couldn’t understand why.
Why he suddenly refused to leave my side.
“Did something happen while I was asleep?”
“No, according to Ji Sung, you ate snacks just fine next to Yeo Joo….”
Kang Han answered with a deeply serious expression.
He seemed worried the little one might be sick.
I decided to try and coax Baek Young Ee out of her mood.
“Pretty Baek Young, why is our Baek Young acting like this? Is something bothering you?”
This time, it worked.
Baek Young Ee cracked open one eye slightly.
“I see. So our Baek Young didn’t like something. But what is it? I’m not sure myself. Won’t you tell me?”
At that, she let out a small sigh and began to move.
Toward my neck where she had first settled, and then my face.
She rubbed her small body against me with earnest effort.
Like a furry creature trying to mark a family member returning from outside with her own scent.
‘Could she possibly know that I visited Jung Je Hwa’s Secret Workshop?’
There was nothing else different from usual.
As I was making this deduction, Baek Young Ee began to nuzzle her head against my neck, and my ticklish switch flipped on.
“Oh no, hehe. That tickles, it tickles!”
But Baek Young Ee showed no mercy.
Eventually, laughter burst out of me.
“Ahahaha!”
Honestly, I didn’t dislike it.
Whenever I felt something akin to loneliness, I had wanted to keep an animal to share body warmth with.
But given how difficult it was just to take care of myself, an animal was out of the question.
It seemed far too irresponsible, so I had only ever looked at other people’s pets on my phone.
“Alright, alright? Phew.”
“Haha.”
A laugh much deeper than my own echoed out.
When I lifted my head, Kang Han was smiling as he watched me and Baek Young.
At the same time.
Ding-
Along with the sound effect I was hearing for the second time today, Kang Han’s affection increased.

《 ♥ 15 : Colleague 》

I had no idea why my favorability with him had increased in this situation.
Perhaps Baek Young’s playful antics had simply put me in a good mood.
Well, good is good, after all.
I remained lying down, savoring the rare sight of Kang Han’s smiling face.
Goodness, he was handsome.
If he smiled like that in a commercial, it would definitely rake in money.
Though there was no chance Kang Han would ever smile in front of a camera.
That was when it happened.
With a soft rustle.
Baek Young, who had been eagerly fawning over me, had somehow shifted to Kang Han’s hand instead.
Look at that creature—not a shred of loyalty.
But why Baek Young had acted that way toward me remained a mystery.
The only thing I could confirm was that Kang Han’s favorability had risen.
‘Could that have been intentional?’
A mystical beast whose thoughts were always inscrutable.
Watching Kang Han’s hood grow plump as Baek Young burrowed inside, I shook my head in disbelief.

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The next day.
Kang Han and I arrived at the Awakener Association.
We headed straight for the Guerrilla Gate Conquest Department.
It was the very place where we had tasted bitter defeat due to the Association’s absurd obstruction last time.
“We’ve come to register as a Guerrilla Gate Conquest Guild.”
Kang Han, who had the better temperament of us two, spoke politely.
“Ah, the Justice Guild….”
The staff member’s expression grew reluctant. He glanced back at what appeared to be his superior, then handed over a single sheet of paper.
“Just fill out the application form here.”
Wait, it was this easy?
“There’s no section for work experience? Last time, we were rejected for lacking experience.”
“That regulation….”
The staff member cleared his throat and spoke.
“It’s been abolished.”
…Should I just kill the Association Director?
If I went and kicked him a hundred times, wouldn’t he die like someone whose stomach burst from eating too much medicine, no matter how much tonic he consumed?
Or perhaps I could burn that toupee he wore in public to make himself look like he had more hair—wouldn’t that be a fitting death by humiliation?
I never thought being a non-combatant class would be this frustrating.
As I was mentally plotting ways to kill the Association Director, Kang Han, who had already finished filling out the application and submitted it, tapped my shoulder.
“Let’s go.”
Kang Han’s expression wasn’t particularly pleased either.
I’m frustrated by this absurd situation, but I won’t cross the line.
“Sigh, fine. Let’s go.”
What fault could that mere salaried employee possibly have?
They’re just following orders from that bloated Association Director.
My fighting spirit suddenly plummeted to zero as I followed Kang Han outside.
When we emerged into the lobby, something I’d missed on my last visit caught my eye.
A massive screen was mounted on the lobby wall of the Awakener Association, accessible to outsiders.
“South Korea Guild Rankings.”
The names and scores of guilds from first to twentieth place were displayed in order.
One might wonder what scores these are, since we didn’t take any test, but this ranking is calculated based on standards fair enough that even Sa Ma Young couldn’t manipulate them.
For instance, contributions.
Guilds are scored based on how much they’ve contributed to national security and peace by clearing Gates.
The number and rank of Hunters belonging to a guild are also evaluation criteria.
Of course, the Justice Guild isn’t on the list.
Having cleared only two Guerrilla Gates, we’re probably competing somewhere outside the top hundred with newly hatched guilds just getting started.
“As expected, the Four Major Guilds keep trading places with each other.”
Here’s the current situation.

【 South Korea Guild Rankings 】
1. Dongbaek Guild
2. Fantasia
3. Sama Guild
4. Maestro
5. Cheongmun
6. Utopia
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They all displayed scores that were astronomically high.
“Now that your name is on the list, you simply need to accumulate merit points.”
Kang Han spoke to me as I stopped walking and gazed up at the ranking board.
“That’s right. We’ll climb into the top twenty in no time.”
“…Let’s do that.”
Kang Han let out a soft laugh, thinking I was joking around.
But I was serious.
I say with absolute certainty—the Justice Guild will secure a place in the top twenty rankings in the shortest possible time.
And eventually.
‘We’ll become number one.’
I took one last look at the brilliantly shining position of the Dongbaek Guild, then turned and walked away.

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A few days later.
Seven guild members, including myself, sat gathered in the Training Facility.
And on the table lay the Justice Guild’s phone.
Its screen dark and silent.
“It should have come by now.”
I tapped the screen with my fingertip, but no new notifications appeared.
“Why haven’t they contacted us?”
Several days had already passed since we added our name to the list, yet the Justice Guild had not received a Guerrilla Gate assignment.

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