The Tone-Deaf Healer Kills with a Song - Chapter 155

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Tone-Deaf Healer Kills with Song – Episode 155
“It’s gotta be that, right?”
“Yeah, that’s it.”
“She’s been through too much in such a short span of time. The overwhelming pressure has broken her down, so she’s been pushing her body to its limits.”
“Right, that’s gotta be it.”
Hey, I can hear everything you’re saying…
The Guild members’ whispers kept pricking at my ears, and before I knew it, a bitter smile crossed my face.
That day, Liri promised me she would do everything in her power to help me reach my goals.
‘The most essential thing isn’t something else—it’s a healthy lifestyle pattern. Ye-ah has this habit where no matter how exhausted her body is, if she learns something new that day or finds something unsatisfying, she’ll ruminate on it until dawn.’
For ordinary people, that would be a healthy habit, but for someone like me with absurdly high base stats but low proficiency, it’s inefficient, she said.
And even more so for someone like me with such fragile mental fortitude.
She lectured me endlessly about how nothing was as necessary as proper sleep.
Anyone listening would think I suffered from insomnia or excessive worry far more than most.
Anyway, for those reasons, she established a daily pattern I needed to follow.
She also created ‘a training routine that Ye-ah must do every single day.’
It wasn’t particularly intense, but because it was practice and research I had to do daily, I’d been sitting in the same spot for days now, racking my brain.
Sleep like clockwork, eat healthily, wake up early, and take action.
It was the kind of routine ordinary people followed to find health, but whenever I expressed doubt, Liri kept emphasizing it was ‘the path to becoming stronger.’
‘A healthy mind comes from a healthy body, after all.’
‘But I didn’t want a healthy mind—I wanted to become stronger…’
‘If you don’t want to lose what you love, you naturally need a healthy mind to maintain yourself, don’t you?’
Since I lack conviction, when Liri persuaded me like that, I just thought, ‘Ah, I suppose that’s true,’ and accepted it.
So for just over a week now, I’ve been following the same routine every single day.
The Guild members had been leaving me alone for a while, busy handling their own affairs.
Sung Mi-ju and Sung Ji-wook were also busy rushing off to Harp whenever he called for them.
Jung Hwan-jae, feeling uneasy about leaving him as is, went to track down Kim Kyung-hoon’s whereabouts.
If anything, I had the most free time.
“Ye-ah has been pretty worried lately. Well, it makes sense—staff member murders, Kim Kyung-hoon, and all that. Hunters normally experience in a decade what she’s been going through for a whole year.”
“Plus, with Fusion Dungeons and dungeon fragments, honestly, nothing would be surprising anymore.”
“I agree. Before the Ranking Tournament, she was even kidnapped, and lately she’s been targeted by another hunter spreading inappropriate articles about her.”
“Hwa-jon, you think the same way?”
“Yes, I agree with what Hunter Mi-ju and Hunter Joke said.”
Did they really think I couldn’t hear them?
At this point, it seemed like they were speaking deliberately loud enough for me to listen. I lifted my head and stared at the three of them openly.
While I was sitting against one wall of the Break Room, intently researching something, the three of them were huddled by the door.
I thought they were speaking loudly, but it turned out they were whispering so only they could hear each other.
Before our eyes could meet, they hurriedly looked away.
[Liri: Ye-ah’s physical condition, including her hearing, has become so heightened right now that she can pick up even that.]
‘But being able to hear everything like this must make sleeping incredibly difficult…’
[Liri: Don’t worry. It’s not something else—it’s just that because those people are here, Ye-ah unconsciously thinks, ‘What are they talking about?’ which is causing this.]
So you’re saying that if I want to listen to a particular conversation, my mana or stats automatically sharpen that sense for me?
Hearing that can be turned on and off?
Since I’d never experienced anything like that before, I stared blankly into the empty air, unable to comprehend it.
[Liri: That’s why I said I’d make you stronger.]
At that time, he’d said that everything would be resolved if I just trusted him unconditionally.
Rather than doubting Liri, I’d spent a week questioning whether I could actually pull off everything—but now, just seven days later, I’d changed.
I bolted upright and approached them.
It was clear they were worried about whether I’d actually heard that conversation.
“I’m fine.”
“Ye-ah.”
“Oh, noona. If you… heard that…”
“I didn’t tell you to listen on purpose. We were just worried. Actually, I was the one who brought up being worried first, so if we’re assigning blame, it’s not these two—it’s me…”
Watching all three of them panic simultaneously was quite a rare experience.
Though I’d been skeptical, the actual probability of me hearing those things was genuinely slim.
Sung Mi-ju muttered that Jung Hwan-jae couldn’t hear from this distance either.
“Just how far can you hear? You couldn’t do this normally before.”
“Right. This is the first time I’ve been able to hear like this too…”
I shrugged my shoulders.
The moment I mentioned that I’d gained this ability by doing what the staff member told me, Sung Mi-ju and Sung Ji-wook’s eyes lit up.
I watched as they left the break room, saying they’d also consult with the staff member. Just then, Hwa-jon, who’d remained alone, extended his hand toward me.
“Actually, I came here today to give you this.”
“Huh?”
I held out my empty hand, and he placed something on my palm.
A crimson Okwanhdan glowed in my hand.
“I figured the two best ones should go to the Guild Master and you.”
Hwa-jon said he’d been studying various things lately, not just for making Okwanhdan but for other crafts as well.
Moreover, as the only person who remembered Kim Kyung-hoon from the old days, he seemed stretched thin helping to track him down.
On top of that, he had to reinforce his skill usage, which might have become awkward from not entering dungeons regularly. He must be incredibly busy.
He’d even awakened some ability while in the United States.
Yet he still refused to demonstrate it.
All he’d said was, “There’s no need to show it now.”
Knowing it was impolite to force a hunter to reveal their abilities, I didn’t press further.
“Isn’t this something you need to take?”
“I kept my portion. And it’ll be more necessary for you two than for me to use it.”
He seemed convinced that there would definitely come a moment when we’d need to use this.
“Do I just put this in my mouth and swallow it?”
“Yeah, I didn’t make a perfect elixir anyway. Just take it like you would any medicine. It doesn’t have any particular taste, and it dissolves naturally, so you don’t even need water.”
I placed the Okwanhdan in my inventory.
He nodded quietly, looking satisfied.
“How are things going lately? I feel like I’ve been so focused on my own training that I have no idea how everyone else is doing or what they’re up to.”
The second instance of “How have you been lately, anything troubling you?” service.
“I’m handling what the Guild Master asked of me while also working on my own self-improvement.”
He replied casually to my polite question.
He must be truly exhausted and struggling, yet he showed no sign of it. He’s a remarkable person.
“Now that I think about it, I haven’t seen my senior much lately…”
“The Guild Master has been extremely busy. He’s been handling all the matters that can’t be dealt with in the United States. I’ll probably need to go help him again soon. Though I’m not sure how much help I actually am.”
“The Guild Master doesn’t keep people around who aren’t necessary.”
Hwa-jon stared directly at me.
[Liri: I’m genuinely moved to hear such comfort coming from Ye-ah’s lips.]
After all, I had always doubted my own abilities.
Feeling awkward for no reason, I was rolling my eyes when he suddenly turned serious.
“The Guild Master also asked me to pass along a message.”
“What is it?”
It seemed he had made time to come to Hanttae not only to inform me about Okwanhdan but also to convey this.
He had carved out time from his busy schedule to see me, which made me happy. Yet I couldn’t help but wonder what could be so serious that he rushed over like this.
His lips moved.
“Happy birthday.”

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