The Tone-Deaf Healer Kills with a Song - Chapter 136

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Tone-Deaf Healer Kills with Song – Episode 136
I lay beside the snowman, gazing up at the ceiling.
Liri insisted on maintaining her snowman form, claiming it was her last shred of conscience.
I wasn’t entirely sure what she was enduring or what conscience had to do with it. She bounced playfully on the pillow beneath my head.
“Are you really that worried?”
“Yes, everyone else seems to think nothing of it, but I find it strange.”
Even for the strongest Hunter, entering a location where Ragnarok had manifested without a single companion felt oddly unsettling.
If it were an easy Dungeon, clearing it alone wouldn’t have been unusual.
But Korea’s Ragnarok zone was different.
Even I, who had lived a life completely detached from Dungeons and Hunters, had heard enough about its danger level to have my ears ringing.
“And the fact that he didn’t contact me is strange too.”
It felt odd that he’d told everyone except me.
He must have anticipated that this information would eventually reach me.
So was he simply trying to buy time?
What did he hope to learn by doing so?
“Liri, this is just my speculation. Listen to this.”
“Yes, go ahead.”
“Honestly, I suddenly thought—what if Kim Kyung-hoon is there?”
This thought had occurred to me after hearing that the Staff Member killers were near the Ragnarok Gate in the United States.
Those with such misguided thinking seemed oddly drawn to power they themselves didn’t possess.
So perhaps Kim Kyung-hoon was heading there as well.
“That’s possible.”
“Can’t you communicate directly with Lucy?”
“I can talk to him, but I can’t relay that information to Ye-ah. It violates regulations.”
“This isn’t even a real company—why are there so many regulations?”
“Right?”
She began taking my side unconditionally.
From complaining about how absurd Valkyrie and Baldur’s regulations were to declaring she’d start a revolution to fix the situation.
It was utterly unrealistic, but hearing it made me feel better.
“Still, if Jung Hwan-jae is risking his life to go there, he wouldn’t have left me without contacting me, right?”
“He wouldn’t have done that.”
“Right? I hope so.”
I exhaled softly.
He is strong. He possesses far more experience than someone like me could ever dare to approach.
He must have had some reason for entering that place.
“Ye-ah, it’s good that you’re concerned about him and Hunter Jung Hwan, but you’ve pushed yourself hard today. Why don’t you get some rest?”
“I suppose I should. I’m different from Hwa-jon…”
He had already disappeared to fetch materials for the Jade Restoration Pill, but I didn’t have the energy to move a single finger.
I stared at the stat window glimmering before my eyes. It was a result worthy of the toll I’d taken on myself.
“Oh, that’s right. Ye-ah. Congratulations on reaching A-rank.”
“Thank you. To be honest, I thought B+ might be my limit.”
“Might be?”
“It feels good to know that’s not the case.”
“I’ve said it many times—Awakened Ones have no limits. Humans simply tend to assign too much meaning to numbers.”
“When there’s a number attached, it somehow feels like it becomes harder to surpass it.”
“That’s another misconception I’ll need to correct.”
Liri puffed herself up, insisting I trust only her. Watching her like that, I couldn’t help but laugh helplessly again.
I slowly closed my eyes and gently touched the ring with one hand. I hadn’t been taking it off even when I slept anymore.
Once more, I transmitted mana through the ring.
This time, while praying for his safety.
“Ye-ah, but I have something to ask you.”
Drowsiness was beginning to creep over me when Liri opened her mouth with a solemn tone.
It was as if she were hesitating whether she should even tell me this.
Since she’d never shown such an expression before, I found myself tensing up and snapping my eyes open without meaning to.
“What is it?”
What if something had happened to Jung Hwan-jae and she simply hadn’t told me for the sake of my mental health?
My thoughts were already beginning to spiral.
Despite her simple snowman-like expression, I could see that she was deeply troubled.
I forcibly suppressed the urge to grab her with one hand and shake her.
“You were trying to keep contacting Hunter Jung Hwan through chat today, right? Having conversations that way?”
“Yes, I was.”
But I had no idea how disappointed I felt when I didn’t receive a response.
I honestly thought something must have happened and that’s why he couldn’t contact me.
The chat rooms used by Rankers never experienced connection errors, no matter what situation arose.
Liri let out a sigh.
“I initially thought you preferred chatting and used it that way, but now it seems like you’ve completely forgotten about it.”
“Why are you dragging this out? Whatever it is, it’s fine—just tell me quickly. I’m Korean, you know.”
I didn’t have the patience to listen to a story long enough to turn pages.
Just as my anxiety was amplifying from her continued hesitation, Liri’s round hand lightly tapped my earlobe.
“This.”
“This?”
I reflexively raised my hand and touched my earlobe.
There was a piercing I wore almost constantly on my ear.
“You can contact me by phone, but you might need other means too, so please keep this with you.”
“Ah, it’s just like wireless earbuds. But you can only contact me through mana, so if you suddenly enter a dungeon or something happens, you can reach out to me.”
“….”
“…I didn’t tell you because I thought you’d be shocked.”
I had completely forgotten about this.
I was on the verge of being shocked and collapsing from my own situation.
So all this time, I’d been wearing a means to contact Jung Hwan-jae on my body all day, yet I was thinking, “How do I reach him? Why can’t I get through?” This whole time.
“…Liri, I think I’m really stupid.”
“No, you’re not. When people experience so many things at once, it’s natural to forget what seems less important.”
“It was the first gift Jung Hwan-jae ever gave me.”
I really deserved to be called foolish for dismissing something so precious and letting it slip from my mind.
I made a show of wiping away tears that wouldn’t fall, then immediately activated the Pierce.

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“Jung Hwan-jae, some places are fine, but isn’t this area way too desolate?”
Lucy, walking alongside Jung Hwan-jae, voiced his complaint.
The scar left by the Ragnarok Gate wasn’t just a little wide.
Since the entire area had been sealed off, everyone remembered how much trouble it caused for the people living nearby.
Finding a needle in a haystack in Hanyang might actually be easier than this.
“That’s why I brought a tracking item.”
“No, but couldn’t we just go with the Hunters when they enter Korea in the first place?”
“I don’t want to take her to a more dangerous place.”
“What a devoted romantic you are. So that’s why you abuse me, the one who’s always pampered you?”
Lucy, who had been grumbling, swept his hair back.
His divine power crept slowly across the ground.
“In principle, we can’t track someone or capture another Awakened One through Assigned Staff Members, you know that.”
“I know.”
The justification Jung Hwan-jae presented now was a “rescue”—that the Awakened One was collapsing their own magical power.
Kim Kyung-hoon was probably destroying himself by pushing his Assigned Staff Member to the limit.
He was probably planning to become a Dungeon.
“How can you be sure of that?”
“I’m not sure. I just think there’s a high possibility.”
“You’re dragging in an Assigned Staff Member without even being sure. If this gets out, I’m the one getting disciplined.”
Lucy, who had been feigning tears, shook his head.
Though he was exaggerating, Jung Hwan-jae knew the truth. Lucy wasn’t the type to face discipline over something this trivial.
One of the strongest Assigned Staff Members he’d ever encountered.
“I have to find him before Ye-ah enters Korea.”
Whatever danger stood in Ye-ah’s path, Jung Hwan-jae would eliminate it.
A person who only speaks kindly to me.
As I exhaled, a beeping sound suddenly came from my ear.
“What is this.”
It was the Pierce I’d been wearing—the one I’d forgotten about.
The moment I wondered what it was, a sharp voice rang out.
―Get out of there right now, and I mean it!
Someone who really only speaks kindly….
Yeom Ye-ah.

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