The Tone-Deaf Healer Kills with a Song - Chapter 164

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Tone-Deaf Healer Kills with Song – Episode 164
I recalled the memory of Sung Mi-ju playfully relaying to me what she had discussed with Dante.
I wasn’t one hundred percent certain I could pull it off, but accomplishing it left me with peculiar emotions.
She said such words had emerged during her conversation with Dante.
“…Honestly, I’ve never considered a development like this before.”
Even the incomparable Lucy seemed bewildered by the unfolding situation before his eyes, his words faltering slightly.
I couldn’t suppress the sound. Compared to what I’d witnessed in the previous dungeon, my scream possessed far too much destructive power.
Not inside a dungeon, and without defense-specialized abilities or even Liri to contain it, I couldn’t have unleashed such a thing.
What if I’d screamed relying solely on destructive force and a building had been obliterated or Jung Hwan-jae had been injured?
That’s why I employed what I’d learned in the United States.
“I didn’t expect it to work either.”
“You attempted this in such a situation when you weren’t even certain of the probability?”
“Yes….”
“If Liri heard this, she’d fall backward in shock.”
Lucy, regarding me with an expression of utter bewilderment, shook his head.
I acknowledge it was a gamble.
But even Jung Hwan-jae, who had attempted to stop me, likely didn’t have any better alternative.
His priority was simply to protect me.
“Honestly, I thought the dungeon would rupture. If it did, it would be advantageous for me to step forward.”
Jung Hwan-jae wore a somewhat dazed expression, equally taken aback.
But now wasn’t the time to indulge in surprise.
Sharing the same thought, he strode past me with purpose.
Kneeling on one knee, he examined the person who had been engulfed in black smoke until moments before.
There was also the urgency of acting on a small glimmer of hope that this person might be saved.
“They’re dead.”
But the final words that reached my ears were quite cold.
The person’s breathing had ceased, as if they were merely asleep.
It was difficult to believe this was the same person who had been writhing in agony moments before, consumed by that smoke.
“I couldn’t save them.”
“Ye-ah, are you alright?”
“Yes, well….”
In truth, saying I’m fine would be a lie.
Even witnessing a stranger’s death is unsettling.
I wasn’t born with an inherently virtuous, compassionate, or philanthropic nature.
It was merely a reflexive rejection of the fact that someone had died.
A person had died before my eyes, and the manner of their death seemed to foreshadow events yet to come.
Jung Hwan-jae examined the corpse with composure.
Then, after a moment of apparent confusion, he opened his mouth.
“It appears they were attempting to consume a dungeon fragment.”
“They were trying to consume a dungeon fragment?”
“Yes, it seemed like something was stuck in his mouth earlier, so I checked inside and found a large quantity of fragments suspected to be Dungeon shards.”
If someone hadn’t deliberately forced them in, he must have bitten and swallowed them himself.
It was something I’d never heard of in my entire life.
Dungeon fragments were prohibited items—not only forbidden to trade, but generally forbidden to even touch.
Normally, you had to wait for a fully prepared Staff Member to arrive and collect the fragments.
“What happens if you consume them?”
“I don’t know either. Dungeon fragments aren’t something you see easily, and the data on them is extremely limited.”
I searched for ‘what happens when you eat Dungeon fragments’.
No results found matching this search query.
Alternative search suggestion: ‘Ragnarok body absorption’
I was debating whether to use the search term floating before my eyes when Lucy’s voice cut in.
“You two are probably curious why he tried to eat this in the first place.”
Lucy leaned against the wall and crossed his arms.
It was clear he had something he wanted to say.
“Lucy, do you know something about this?”
As I gently broached the subject, he strode across the building with long steps.
He passed the corpse and stood in the place where my magical power still shimmered.
“That would be faster to ask over there than to hear it from me.”
He snapped his fingers once, and simultaneously, a mysterious staff materialized in the empty air.
As if passing judgment on something, he brought it down three times through the void, and the building’s interior began to tremble.
Weren’t we going to collapse?
I barely maintained my balance when the surroundings suddenly began to transform.
It looked exactly like a courtroom.
“Lucy…?”
“Lucy, what is this?”
Jung Hwan-jae seemed equally bewildered, moving closer to my side.
Lucy turned to face us.
Until moments ago his face had been clearly visible, but now I couldn’t make out his features at all.
The elongated shadow resembled a long robe, and crimson embroidery was stitched across it.
【Baldur’s purpose is to prevent Ragnarok. The use of Dungeon fragments constitutes an act of hastening Ragnarok and is strictly forbidden under Baldur’s ordinances.】
It was the same voice as before, yet it seemed to echo from a great distance.
Hearing the majestic voice that filled the courtroom, I found myself lifting my head involuntarily.
Lucy ascended to the judge’s seat and sat with his legs crossed.
His bearing seemed more suited to the title of emperor than judge.
【All Awakened individuals and Staff Members who condoned this act are subject to disciplinary action. However, the death of the current Awakened individual is confirmed.】
At the same moment, countless chairs materialized with a thunderous sound.
Shadowy figures of unknown identity filled those seats.
Among them, a seat was prepared for Jung Hwan-jae as well.
“Let’s sit for now.”
“A Staff Member can do something like this?”
“Not everyone can do this. I’m actually seeing it for the first time myself.”
“What is this?”
“You understand that a stronger Staff Member can exercise power over a weaker one, correct?”
I’d heard that a few times before.
I’d even watched Liri defeat Rosalind Brown’s Staff Member in a battle of wills.
Lucy laughed, legs crossed and one arm draped over the armrest, his head tilted at an odd angle.
【The hearing for the Staff Member begins.】
Lucy’s voice rang out clearly through the space, and a seat materialized almost instantly.
An elf who had vanished from sight at some point now sat at the center of the courtroom.
Unlike when he’d been half-conscious, his eyes now gleamed with clarity.
Yet what consumed his face was sorrow.
The emotion was so intense that merely meeting his gaze transmitted it to me.
The voice filling the space gradually faded, soon becoming the familiar tone of Lucy we knew.
“Your Awakener, Lee Hyun-min, violated Baldur’s regulations and chose the path of accelerating Ragnarok. Is this true? Were you unable to stop him?”
A voice heavy with profound sorrow answered.
“It is true. I possessed the divine power to stop him, but I could not prevent the fragment’s absorption into his body.”
“Why?”
“The absorption of a fragment of Ragnarok into his body occurred suddenly, and his physical transformation was too rapid to suppress.”
“Then there was truly no opportunity to stop him even once?”
“….”
As I listened to the exchange between these two beings, my vision began to spin.
The Staff Member hadn’t even stopped him before he swallowed the fragment and began to change.
Could that truly be blamed on the Staff Member?
Lucy’s expression grew bored before he shifted his posture.
“I asked if there was no opportunity to stop him.”
“No. There were far too many warning signs. When he sought to harm another Staff Member, when he purchased the fragment. I could have stopped him through force, not just words.”
“Your indecisive choice led to the Awakener’s death. Disciplinary measures will be determined later by Baldur. However, the fact that the Awakener’s actions amounted only to an attempted acceleration of Ragnarok will be taken into consideration.”
“….”
“Regardless, you won’t escape data sealing for some time.”
“I understand.”
This wasn’t merely a matter of hierarchy.
That nameless Staff Member, and the countless shadows present here, all recognized Lucy as judge.
Lucy’s gaze turned toward us sitting in the back.
As if commanding us to listen closely.
“Should I explain what would have happened if those Awakeners behind you hadn’t stopped the situation?”
If an Awakener were to directly consume a Dungeon fragment.
A heavy voice continued.
“…He would have fused with that fragment, his body transformed into a peculiar mana, and absorbed into the body of the calamity itself.”

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