The Tone-Deaf Healer Kills with a Song - Chapter 188

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Tone-Deaf Healer Kills with Song – Episode 188
Throughout my run through the Ruins, strange things caught my eye.
Scraps of fabric, flesh, and body parts crawling across the ground.
It seemed multiple squads had succeeded in eliminating So Yi-yoon, but the fragments that fell from him were moving with their own consciousness.
“That is….”
“It seems this wasn’t the time to go help the other squads.”
Liri spoke calmly. Certainly, if those pieces combined with each other, we’d face serious trouble.
Just watching them all move in the same direction was ominous.
“Liri, please help me!”
“Of course.”
I created a dome with my mana, trapping all the fragments in one place.
Liri’s power infused mine to smooth the flow of my mana.
My body warmed quickly.
“Do you think I can do this?”
“Are you asking about what’s possible and impossible?”
Liri’s voice was utterly serene.
This wasn’t a matter of possible or impossible. It was a matter of how desperately I wanted to succeed.
“No, I just need reassurance.”
“You can do it.”
Even if Liri was merely saying this to comfort me, it didn’t matter.
From the moment I entered this Dungeon, I had already resolved to transcend the impossible.
I simply reminded myself that I had to challenge this, bearing all those risks.
The countless fragments caught in my mana thrashed violently. More intensely than when I had blocked So Yi-yoon’s attack.
This is strange.
They’re only fragments of So Yi-yoon, yet each one is exerting the full strength of a complete being.
“Ye-ah, are you alright?”
Doubt colored my voice.
“Over 90% of him was destroyed, so why does his power remain unchanged?”
It felt like I was holding back multiple versions of So Yi-yoon by myself.
Unless I eliminate him without a trace, completely and perfectly, can I truly say he’s been destroyed?
If I don’t erase him down to the last fingernail, he won’t disappear—he’ll merely persist.
“Liri, can you check where these fragments are trying to go and come back?”
“But, Ye-ah. I can’t leave you alone.”
“I can endure this much. You’ll come back to me before anything truly catastrophic happens anyway.”
Liri’s expression twisted with worry.
But I couldn’t ask her to hold back these fragments instead. She was stronger and faster than me.
“If anything happens to you while I’m gone….”
“Nothing will happen.”
I raised my hand to show her the ring.
I felt Liri flinch.
“Mana keeps flowing into this place. Even though you must be struggling, there’s someone willing to divide their own soul to save me.”
So it’s fine.
That tender gaze Liri shows me, those wavering emotions.
Because I understand all the concern in their heart, I had no choice but to let them go.
“I’m sorry, Liri.”
“Don’t die.”
As if choosing not to hear my apology, they vanished swiftly.
I have no intention of dying here. Now it’s time for my dormant stats to awaken as well.
Stop displaying question marks.
Your ambition to grow responds to your will.
Creative technique responds to your determination.
Vocal prowess inevitably resonates.
If there’s a situation where one must transcend limits, it’s now.
The Valkyrie Network temporarily permits stat transcendence.
All stats are converted to S+.
If So Yi-yoon intends to shake me with the power of dozens, I’ll endure with the mana of hundreds.
Lyrics surfaced in my mind.
In my stead, the mana surrounding me—countless singers from the data—sang for me.
It’s okay, I’ll carry all of this
If your despair tries to devour the world
I’ll sink first, holding you in my arms
This was neither a sweet love song nor a beautiful elegy of sacrifice.
It was the song of a woman who destroyed with her own hands the lover who had become a calamity, before they could annihilate the world.
An obsession to never leave the other as a calamity, even if oneself crumbles.
Eternal bondage that defies even death.
Hello, this is a prison I made in the Deep Sea
Let’s stay here together
Let’s be together
Don’t think of anything else
Let’s stay here forever, just us
A deeper emerald green crushed So Yi-yoon’s fragments, rendering them immobile.
The crimson mana felt from the ring began to suppress So Yi-yoon, as if aiding me.
He harbors intense obsession with those he had been jealous of.
Beyond what I had grasped, So Yi-yoon’s fragments began gathering from other directions.
Some were nearly intact entities.
What happened to those fighting him? I don’t want to think about it.
As I seized them and stopped their movements, it begins to feel burdensome.
“Ye-ah!”
I hear Liri’s voice from afar, and I suddenly realize.
There’s no need to pull them toward me.
“…it’s coming for me.”
So Yi-yoon had changed direction and was heading straight toward me.
Was I the one he hated most?
Just then, black rain began falling from the sky. It soaked my body with a clammy wetness, and my limbs grew heavy.
“Be careful.”
Liri’s wings unfurled as if to shield me from the downpour.
She wove a protective barrier by redirecting the flow of mana around me.
“Liri, something’s wrong. So Yi-yoon was heading somewhere else, but now he’s coming straight for me….”
As if there were no other target left in the world but me.
That couldn’t be right.
Liri regarded me with an expression devoid of emotion.
“Why do you look like that?”
“Initially, half of them were heading toward Lucy and Jung Hwan-jae.”
“Yes.”
“But then Lucy’s divine power disappeared.”
Lucy’s divine power had vanished.
My mind understood what she was saying, but I couldn’t accept it.
“Then what about Jung Hwan-jae!”
“….”
“Where is he!”
My voice trembled uncontrollably with anxiety.
“Ye-ah, you need to listen to me carefully.”
“Where exactly is Jung Hwan-jae….”
The thought that something might have happened to him paralyzed my mind.
Now that I thought about it, his mana—the connection I’d felt through the ring—had been severed at some point.
I poured mana into the ring multiple times.
Asking if he was all right.
Asking if he was alive.
Begging him to answer.
In the midst of my panic, Liri’s voice reached me.
“Soon all the fragments of calamity will converge here. Other Awakeners are coming as well, but they’re being obstructed.”
“What do you mean by obstructed?”
“They’re warping the terrain and blocking the paths to isolate you.”
They were expending that much power just to isolate me alone.
Along with a hollow laugh came something unmistakably clear: fury.
Rage at all this senselessness.
“Is there a way? To end this calamity?”
Liri blinked slowly. After a moment, she gently wrapped her arms around my shoulders.
“If you hold on until the others arrive, they’ll resolve it. But Ye-ah, you will die.”
“….”
I couldn’t say that I would manage it.
Liri, who had always stood by me, spoke of defeat with unwavering certainty.
No matter what I tried, I wouldn’t be able to endure until that moment.
Then what should I do?
Liri looked at me, and from that gaze, I grasped her intention like a lightning bolt.
“No. You can’t.”
“Ye-ah.”
“No. How could you? There has to be another way. You promised me.”
“Listen to me.”
“You said you were the strongest Assigned Staff Member! You said you were the Source of Knowledge that holds all of history! So why can’t you find another way!”
My voice spilled out as though I were cursing.
I knew that because there was no other way, she had chosen this path.
I blinked slowly. I knew that what traced down my cheeks was not rain, but tears.
Liri spoke to me with an infinitely gentle expression.
“Will you promise me something?”
“What?”
“That you will surely win, and that you will survive.”
….
“Yes?”
She lowered her head and gently lifted the ends of my hair.
Liri, who pressed a kiss to the tips of my hair as though even direct contact were an apology, looked into my eyes.
I had no choice but to answer.
“…I promise.”
Liri smiled.
Your Assigned Staff Member fulfills the ‘special contract’.
Your Assigned Staff Member forcibly realizes divinity.
A white shadow enveloped me, and the rain ceased.
【I am the one who sacrificed Odin’s eye and dominated the tale woven by the three Fates of destiny.】
【I was the master of the Source of Knowledge, and merely a being who loves you…】
A name that passed through mythology, yet the figure who ‘witnessed Ragnarok directly and conveyed it’.
The Source of Knowledge, Mimir, transfers all divine power to you.

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