The Female Lead Saves the World - Chapter 80

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Yeo Joo Saves the World – Episode 80

Han Ji Sung handed a warm bowl of instant porridge to Sung Yo Na.
“Here, at least have some of this.”
“Th-thank you so much.”
Sung Yo Na, who had initially hesitated and eaten just a spoonful or two, soon began devouring the porridge with desperate urgency.
The sight was so pitiful that even Lee Yu Chan, the very embodiment of callousness, brought her water.
“Here, noona. Have some water.”
“Thank you…”
The last time I’d seen her, she’d looked anxious, but at least she’d been neat and put-together.
Now she looked like a vagrant.
‘Well, it makes sense. How long has she been running?’
She still wore her items, but the hat and hood covering her face were tattered and caked with dust.
She hadn’t properly washed herself while fleeing, leaving her grimy—far more like a homeless person than a hunter.
It was unimaginable that she was the same rank as hunters who typically owned at least one building in Gangnam.
“Th-thank you for the meal…”
After gulping down the water Lee Yu Chan had brought, Sung Yo Na bowed politely.
“How many days have you gone without eating?”
“About three days…”
One bowl of porridge wouldn’t be enough.
Once we finished talking, I’d need to buy her a proper meal.
Kang Han, who had quietly sat beside me and given Sung Yo Na time to fill her stomach, asked a question.
“You are Hunter Sung Yo Na, correct?”
“Y-yes, that’s right. I’m so sorry for showing up like this…”
Sung Yo Na wiped her mouth with her sleeve and answered in proper posture.
She removed the hood and hat she’d been wearing the whole time.
The ordinary face with downturned eyes that looked somewhat timid—it was indeed the Sung Yo Na I’d met before as Gua Ri.
“Remove your items so we can verify your identity.”
At Kang Han’s still-cold request, Sung Yo Na hesitated for a moment.
But soon she rolled up her sleeves and unfastened the silver string bracelet.
‘Ah, so that’s how she transformed.’
The moment the bracelet came off, her appearance began changing from head to toe.
Though still disheveled, her short black hair grew long and turned blonde, while her ordinary brown eyes soon shifted to a brilliant emerald green.
It was like watching a plant grow rapidly, and I observed the transformation with fascination.
In the meantime, her face had changed too.
The vaguely blurred impression she’d had was gone, and her features became sharper and more defined.
Now, anyone walking down the street would point and cry out, “It’s Sung Yo Na!”
Anxious about revealing her true appearance, Sung Yo Na kept rubbing her fingertips, which were stained dark with grime, but she didn’t put the bracelet back on.
“…I’ve confirmed it, Hunter Sung Yo Na. If it’s uncomfortable, you can wear the item again.”
“Oh, no. It’s fine.”
Sung Yo Na shook her head slightly as she answered.
“I know that just letting me in like this puts the Justice Guild at great risk. Thank you, thank you so much for accepting me.”
Her voice was as small as her hunched shoulders.
It was the kind of appearance that would stir sympathy in anyone, including the Justice Guild members watching her, but Kang Han showed no sign of wavering.
After a brief nod, he simply asked a question in his characteristically blunt tone.
“Why did you choose to run away instead of returning to the guild after the dungeon accident, Hunter Sung Yo Na?”
“That, that is….”
“Similarly, if it’s uncomfortable, you don’t have to answer.”
But if she didn’t answer, Kang Han wouldn’t trust Sung Yo Na.
Sensing this instinctively, Sung Yo Na clenched her jaw so tightly that a small dimple formed on her chin before she opened her mouth.
“I was… scared. There was an accident inside the dungeon….”
“What kind of accident?”
It was almost like an interrogation, but no one in the Justice Guild tried to stop Kang Han.
While they had fed a starving person out of basic human decency, much would depend on Sung Yo Na’s answer.
“It was… the dungeon where the accident happened was my first dungeon, and Kim Min Jung, the hunter who came along as my guardian and team leader, went berserk, went berserk….”
“Kim Min Jung? The A-rank hunter who specialized in four-element magic…?”
“Does Ji Sung oppa know her too?”
Han Ji Sung nodded at my question.
“She was a veteran hunter. I’ve received her help a few times myself.”
The fact that Han Ji Sung, who had once belonged to Fantasia, spoke of her that way suggested she was truly a skilled hunter.
“Min Jung unnie was really a good person.”
“But you’re saying that hunter went berserk?”
“Min Jung unnie said she wasn’t feeling well even before we entered the gate, and that it would be best to clear it as quickly as possible and leave. But because I was inexperienced, the strategy took longer. And of all times, unnie started going berserk during the boss monster battle…. Instead of attacking the boss monster, she started attacking the team members. So I tried my best to trap her in the Subspace to stop her….”
If an A-rank hunter skilled enough to be designated as Sung Yo Na’s guardian by Fantasia had lost her reason, the eighteen-year-old Sung Yo Na at the time couldn’t have possibly handled it.
“So all the team members died, and only unnie and I were left. B, but Min Jung unnie did try to stop attacking in between. In the end, she told me to run, to run away….”
Tears welled up in Sung Yo Na’s large eyes as she recalled that time.
“Then why didn’t you return to the guild and reveal the truth?”
Well, well.
Kang Han wouldn’t be shaken by tears.
I’ve grown so accustomed to the much softer Kang Han lately that seeing him like this after so long feels strange.
But that’s Kang Han’s true nature.
Fortunately, Sung Yo Na didn’t stop answering Kang Han’s piercing questions even as she wiped away her flowing tears.
“I managed to escape the gate on my own, but because I used a skill in haste, I ended up falling into a strange mountain, and it took several days to reach a place where people lived…. I went into a store to borrow a phone, and on the news, Min Jung unnie was in a coma, and I might be the culprit who killed other people….”
“Still, Hunter Sung Yo Na is the younger sibling of Guild Master Sung Ro Sa. If you had returned properly, you wouldn’t have been falsely accused of a crime you didn’t commit.”
“That’s… that’s what should have happened. But actually, we weren’t… that close as sisters. I, I understand why. I’m such an inadequate younger sibling compared to unnie…. And.”
Sung Yo Na’s body shrank even smaller.
“Since then, I haven’t been able to use my abilities properly.”
“You’ve lost your skills?”
“No, it’s not that exactly. But whenever I try to use my spatial teleportation skill, I keep remembering that day….”
I checked Sung Yo Na’s status window.

Sung Yo Na A
1. Spatial Compression ( A )
2. Subspace Creation ( A )
3. [Empty]
Status Abnormalities – Fear, Anxiety, Guilt, Social Phobia, Addiction 5%
Equipped Items – None

Her skills weren’t sealed like they had been for Kang Han or the Yu siblings.
So the reason was.
‘Fear, anxiety, guilt, social phobia. One of these four.’
Or perhaps all of them combined.
For someone so young to experience such a tragedy, it would be strange if they hadn’t developed severe trauma.
I wasn’t the only one thinking this.
Every guild member was looking at Sung Yo Na with even more pity than before.
But Kang Han, Justice Guild’s last remaining voice of reason, was different.
“We should reveal the truth now. The circumstances are certainly mitigating enough….”
“No, that can’t happen!”
Sung Yo Na shook her head violently and cried out.
“Why not? We could resolve everything….”
“Because then, then Sister Min Jung would become a murderer.”
A thick tear rolled down Sung Yo Na’s parched cheek.
“It’s better if I take the blame. Sister Min Jung helped me even though she was in poor health, and she’s been in a coma for years now. Even if she miraculously wakes up, if she becomes branded a murderer….”
One word could end this fugitive life.
If I were in her position, I would have revealed everything that happened in the Dungeon without a moment’s hesitation.
Regardless of who became the murderer in my place.
Sung Yo Na blamed herself for delaying the clear, but it was natural for a high school student on their first Gate entry to be inexperienced.
That’s why Fantasia Guild must have assigned an experienced hunter to her.
If such a person pushed into the Gate recklessly while ignoring their own condition and caused a rampage, that was also the result of Hunter Kim Min Jung’s own irresponsible decision.
‘Well, everyone thinks differently anyway.’
Perhaps Hunter Kim Min Jung was more like family to her than Sung Ro Sa.
Enough so that she would take the blame for being a murderer and hide for years.
And Kang Han asked.
“Can you stake mana on everything you’ve said so far?”

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