The Tone-Deaf Healer Kills with a Song - Chapter 2

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Tone-Deaf Healer Kills with Song – Episode 002
Welcome to Hunter Hunting, the nation’s largest hunter recruitment application!
Today, your profile and resume for Yeom Ye-ah have been viewed 12,498 times, up 147 from yesterday!
Your total view count is 3,946,895, marking the 227th day since your resume was first posted. To date, 1,341 guilds have viewed your profile, 107 have conducted actual interviews, and you have successfully joined 0 guilds.
Currently, 12 guilds are actively interested in your background, down 162 from yesterday.
Ever since that record-breaking incident yesterday, even the number of people browsing my resume has dwindled.
The guild I visited yesterday was quite a promising enterprise, recruiting hunters through public recruitment roughly once a year. Word of a healer who knocked out an interviewer at such an important place had apparently spread across the entire guild community.
That interviewer was at least A-rank, judging by the sheer force required to incapacitate him in a single strike.
After that incident, I was detained at the guild and subjected to interrogation-like ordeals.
‘I never realized someone could be this tone-deaf. The moment that song reached my ears, a sharp ringing accompanied by nausea washed over me—it transcended mere tone-deafness.’
Because of the interviewer spouting such words the moment he regained consciousness, I even underwent testing to determine whether my singing imposed a curse-related debuff.
Naturally, the test results showed nothing abnormal.
After suffering through it all, I managed to leave with a modest apology payment. Though I called it modest, for someone like me living alone in poverty, it was a week’s living expenses.
“Status window.”
I’ve heard that with proficiency, you can summon the window without speaking aloud—but will such a day ever come for me?
The area has been confirmed to be unrelated to Ragnarok. Your assigned service representative will now be summoned.
[Liri: Hello, Ye-ah! What brings you here today?]
I only learned after awakening that awakened individuals each have their own dedicated staff member. I suspect this system that appeared in this world might be related to that.
Apparently, if you build affinity like in some dating simulation game, you can command them like familiars. It’s part of the service provided from a place called Balder.
For a year, I haven’t managed to properly join any guild, which meant I couldn’t enter dungeons either, leaving me with nothing but idle conversation.
My staff member Liri, with her gentle and warm personality, worked tirelessly day and night trying to comfort me, a struggling job seeker.
“I think I’ve failed to get hired again this time. Don’t you think it would be better if I found a different assigned awakened individual, Liri…?”
[Liri: What are you saying, Ye-ah! There are still plenty of guilds you can apply to. Yesterday’s incident was unfortunate, but that was because that hunter didn’t meet the specific skill requirements for you.]
“I’ve been hearing that all year—isn’t it just that I’m too tone-deaf?”
[Liri: No! Objectively speaking, by human standards, you are quite—I mean, if you appeared on a variety show, the panelists would all fall backward—you are extremely tone-deaf, that’s true.]
[Liri: But what happened yesterday, like someone fainting, should be attributed to your skill’s effects. After all, before your awakening, no one ever fainted from hearing your singing, right?]
Her words were kind yet cruel, leaving me uncertain whether she was giving me medicine or poison. But what could I possibly say in response?
“Yes, that’s right.”
[Liri: This is a matter of various circumstances, but primarily, it’s likely that you haven’t been able to enter gates because you haven’t been hired by humans. For that to happen, you need to join a guild, and to join a guild, you need to resolve your skill issue, and to resolve your skill issue, you need to enter a gate…]
[Liri: Oh.]
Only now realizing the problem, Liri was sighing through text alone. To others, it might have been something to laugh off, but for me, it was a matter of survival.
Was there anyone out there who would simply trust me and let me enter a gate?
Lately, due to various incidents where private companies occupied gates through hunters, entry required registration as a business-registered guild.
If my casting method weren’t music, I would already be living a life of unrestricted activity, receiving extreme treatment somewhere.
[Liri: Still, you mustn’t lose hope. Unexpectedly, there might be someone who can tolerate your condition, right? Or perhaps someone generous enough to hire you anyway and bring you along.]
Liri really didn’t seem to have much talent for consolation, probably because she wasn’t human.
When my worries became excessive, her words would grow longer, and from that, I could roughly gauge her mood.
I let out a bitter laugh. Perhaps it would be better not to talk at all.
Just then, an alarm popped up on my phone. Reflexively bracing myself for news of a card charge or loan interest, I caught sight of the alarm icon.
[Hunter Hunting: You have 1 guild interview request.]
[The guild Hanttae is requesting an interview with Yeom Ye-ah!]
Hanttae.
The nation’s premier guild—so shrouded in secrecy that rumors circulated about it operating solely through academic connections, blood ties, and regional networks, with virtually no public information about recruitment.
I’d heard whispers of selective casting through personal connections, but I’d never genuinely believed an opportunity would come my way, even knowing they were registered as a business on job sites like this.
I blinked and tapped the notification. The moment I did, a chat window opened directly with the interview coordinator.
Someone with the name “.” had entered—and despite the official Hanttae guild mark displayed, that anonymous-looking name stirred suspicion in me.
.
Hello
Yes, hello
.
I am
affiliated with Hanttae guild
Got it
This didn’t seem like a place accustomed to handling ordinary inquiries. Or perhaps Hanttae had no dedicated recruitment department and truly contacted candidates individually. Or maybe…
[Liri: Ye-ah! Look at the screen!]
.
I am guild master Jung Hwan
Yeom Ye-ah
I want to hire you
This person clearly wasn’t comfortable with written communication.
I blinked slowly.
Jung Hwan, Hanttae’s guild master—his ambiguously Korean name left it unclear whether it was a Hunter alias or his real name, and his age remained a complete mystery.
When he entered gates, all of Hanttae’s members would emerge to oversee his entry, and he himself would use some form of concealment to go in.
Thank you so much! Where should I visit for the interview? If you could provide the location and schedule, I’ll head over right away. Thank you again!
I wasn’t entirely free of suspicion, to be honest.
Hunter Hunting’s platform was operated by Hunters skilled in online management, making fraud impossible, but identity forgery seemed feasible enough.
Still, even if this wasn’t Jung Hwan, the fact that Hanttae had extended a casting offer to me meant I should be grateful.
.
I’ll send you
the details through the app
Writing messages
is difficult for me
Yes, understood. Thank you!
I had an instinctive sense that if I continued this conversation any longer, I’d burst.
After the read receipt appeared, reality slowly seeped back in, and only then did my hands begin to tremble.
For my entire life, I’d resigned myself to worrying about this month’s rent, next month’s groceries, rising movie tickets and gas bills.
But now, having awakened as a Healer—a class the world deemed so precious—yet unable to change my circumstances, I finally felt as though light was breaking through into Yeom Ye-ah’s life.

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