The Tone-Deaf Healer Kills with a Song - Chapter 113

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Tone-Deaf Healer Kills with Song – Episode 113
Flames erupted violently before my eyes.
“…Ye-ah, what is this?”
“It seems to be a newly learned skill.”
Jung Hwan-jae stared at me with an astonished expression.
While he was inside the Dungeon handling his own affairs, I hadn’t been idle either.
The things affected by my skill began to pulse and move. Green flames erupted at the end of the blank paper where nothing had existed before.
And countless songs began to pour forth.
“…Is this a song?”
“I don’t understand it either, but apparently it is.”
The flames flickered, emitting bizarre sounds.
It wasn’t particularly chilling to listen to, but there was definitely something strange about it.
A miracle that determines the beginning of an element transmits its data.
The pure green flames began to incinerate the monsters.
Gradually, but once ignited, unstoppably.
Beginning the performance.
This “performance” created through mana research.
Until now, I had only ever sung all the songs myself directly.
So without realizing it, I became increasingly obsessed with the Singing skill, and when it wouldn’t obey my will, I grew furious.
Even now, honestly, I’m angry that the Singing stat won’t increase as I wish.
‘Desire for Growth’ fuels your Singing.
‘Desire for Growth’ is approaching its second awakening.
I was angry that I couldn’t control those things and had to find alternatives instead.
The flames resonate with your anger.
You’ve become capable of an even more explosive performance!
Perhaps because they were flames.
The bizarre music created by the flames burned even more fiercely. The papers began to burn with silent screams.
They couldn’t even resist the pure flames.
“…Ah.”
As my anger at my own limitations grew, the flames burned ever larger.
As if they would consume us at any moment.
“Ye-ah!”
I came to my senses only after Jung Hwan-jae’s crimson flames had completely engulfed my green ones.
Right beside me stood Harp with an awkward smile and Lucy’s avatar form towering protectively.
When I opened my eyes, Sung Ji-wook’s skill was also enveloping us completely, shielding us.
“Huh?”
“I thought you had lost your reason.”
As the flames subsided, my anger gradually diminished as well.
It was certainly true that I felt wronged because of the limitations I had experienced myself. But if asked whether I was angry enough to react this intensely, I could only answer that I wasn’t sure.
It might be similar to the sorrow I felt when I inherited the data before.
I exhaled a long breath.
“I’m sorry. I almost hurt all of you.”
“Don’t worry about it. I stopped it.”
Lucy regarded us without concern.
The crimson flames had seemed incredibly powerful just moments ago, but it appeared Jung Hwan-jae had halted my skill by drawing upon Lucy’s divine power as well.
Without thinking, I fidgeted with the ring and sighed.
“I’m sorry. It seems my skill proficiency isn’t quite there yet. But I shouldn’t have volunteered so carelessly….”
“That’s not true. You were trying to help us with good intentions.”
“And besides, no one got hurt.”
Harp, who had been listening to our conversation, quietly added his piece.
I hadn’t expected him to take my side, so I couldn’t help but show my surprise.
“I can at least distinguish between right and wrong, and recognize a mistake when I see one.”
His slightly sullen tone made me laugh despite myself.
I clenched and unclenched my fists.
When I first fell under the debuff, I thought removing it would change something fundamental, but it’s one mountain after another.
If I become emotionally unstable or threaten their safety, I should find a way to help them regardless.
[Liri: Ye-ah, are you alright?]
‘This way, it doesn’t seem so different from when I used to knock out my own allies with my song. No, it feels even worse.’
Honestly, it is worse.
Back then, they would just assume I was terrible at singing or that they’d simply been knocked unconscious.
Now I inherit the emotions of the people who created the song directly—I cry, I laugh, I rage, and I even lose my reason.
I want to simply heal, but when I try to perform large-scale healing, I worry that my emotions might distort the song’s resonance.
Because different things are transmitted depending on which song I sing.
But now that I think about it, the system window has been appearing less frequently lately.
[Liri: Now that Ye-ah has become somewhat accustomed to skill operation and the new user buff period has ended, we only provide system windows for skills that are necessary or possess truly special abilities.]
[Liri: Since vast amounts of data are being transmitted toward the Awakened right now, we’re preventing any potential errors that might occur.]
I think I’ve heard this explanation from Jung Hwan-jae before.
Once you become a seasoned Hunter, such things become invisible.
I felt both relieved and unsettled. Hadn’t I just nearly caused a major disaster?
“Ye-ah, let’s go now.”
“If you keep wallowing like this, how do you plan to handle things going forward?”
Jung Hwan-jae and Harp each offered a word from either side of me.
Right. This wasn’t the time for me to be engaging in self-reflection.
A person who had become a Dungeon was waiting right before us.
We needed to resolve the situation as quickly as possible. I nodded and moved to follow the group.
“By the way, Lucy, you manifest far more often than I expected. I heard it was exhausting.”
“Well, this creature has an ability that requires me to manifest, so there’s no helping it.”
“It seems….”
He had no choice but to supply mana, and that was only possible after considerable effort.
“And….”
“And?”
“He gets bored without me around. Things have been a bit cold since Ye-ah showed up, but still.”

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“The resonance here feels strange.”
How long had it been since we all conspired to tease Jung Hwan-jae about being lonely and bored? At some point, the peculiar aura flowing through the Dungeon had suddenly grown dense.
It was far more corrupted than when we’d first entered.
“Could it be ahead?”
“There’s a high probability it’s beyond this point. In the Fusion Dungeon that suddenly appeared in Japan, a hybrid creature emerged after a trap around this location.”
“Ah, the place you went into with Hunter Dante?”
“Dante?”
Harp, whose expression was inexplicably filled with hostility, made a retching gesture.
Even at the Research Institute, I’d sensed it—this person really did have a way of making their feelings and opinions abundantly clear.
I nodded quietly and moved forward, but Sung Ji-wook’s arm blocked my path.
“Wait.”
In that instant, his barrier unfurled in all directions like a constellation of stars.
If he was deploying his defenses this comprehensively, it signaled genuine danger—yet I found myself momentarily entranced by how beautiful it was.
“I’m not sure if I should say this, but your skill is really beautiful.”
“My sister was jealous of it too.”
Sung Ji-wook smiled briefly, then his gaze sharpened as he peered beyond the barrier.
As the constellation of stars delicately probed the ground, something gradually revealed its outline.
“A web?”
“It’s a web.”
Cloaked in light now, it shimmered like beautiful golden threads—but the atmosphere suggested that if one were actually caught in it here, beauty would be the last word anyone would utter.
I found myself frowning slightly without thinking.
“Why suddenly? Why would a web appear?”
What possible connection could a person who draws pictures have with spider webs?
I stared at Harp with an expression of utter bewilderment.
He was gazing at something beyond the web.
“Do you know what the condition is for a Staff Member to transfer all their power to their Contractor?”
“Isn’t it making the Contractor know the Staff Member’s true name?”
“Exactly.”
Harp pointed beyond the web—a distance too far for me to see.
So this is how far one can see with a dragon’s eyes.
Even when I opened my eyes wide, I couldn’t make out anything. Just in case, I clenched my fists and unleashed a shout, and the web rippled as it absorbed the magical force.
Normally, at this level, a B-rank Dungeon would clear in one go.
This place is definitely dangerous.
Harp watched my display with a bewildered expression, then recovered his usual composure and spoke.
“The Staff Member beyond this point is named Arachne.”

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