The Tone-Deaf Healer Kills with a Song - Chapter 20

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Tone-Deaf Healer Kills with Song – Episode 020
Not feeling the ground beneath my feet was a profoundly strange sensation. Dim light filtered down from the Water Surface above, illuminating my vision, while below stretched an unfathomable darkness.
As I struggled to take confident steps, he positioned me behind his back and began walking forward.
“Simply follow in my footsteps. In this place, those with low mana cannot even perceive the path.”
“Yes…”
I fixed my gaze downward and began walking, carefully placing my feet directly in his footprints, step by deliberate step.
Breathing wasn’t difficult, and my movements had grown slightly sluggish, but it was still manageable. Probably.
A whistling sound echoed from somewhere. My head turned toward it of its own accord.
“Guild Master, don’t you hear that sound?”
“A sound?”
The moment he turned to face me, a piercing bird cry erupted, and something slammed into my body. I plummeted into the deep darkness below.
I had to keep my wits about me. They said that even if a tiger dragged you into its den, you could survive if you kept your mind sharp.
The panic lasted only a moment. I couldn’t afford to stop thinking. It had always been this way since childhood. Whenever I let my guard down or panicked, the situation spiraled beyond control and consumed me.
Fortunately, thanks to my equipment’s protection, I hadn’t lost consciousness or sustained serious injuries. I stared at the creature that held my body and plummeted downward with me.
…
A human head. A bird’s body. The legendary Siren.
Monsters that sang to lure sailors and devoured them whole. I had never imagined encountering them in the water like this…
One deep breath. My lack of panic was partly due to my equipment’s fear resistance.
It wrapped its massive talons around my body and burrowed deeper into the Deep Sea.
“Hey! Let me go!”
But a legendary monster had no reason to respond to the screams of a mere human.
Siren opened her mouth wide and began to sing in response to my cries, as if excited. Her face was so beautiful that even I felt my heart flutter.
With eyes devoid of pupils, she gazed toward some distant point in the Deep Sea, her enchanting voice continuing the song.
It was an incomprehensible language, yet somehow the lyrics seemed to reach my ears. As if answering my confusion, a window materialized before my eyes.
Special Stat ‘Creation Technique’ activates.
Current Stat: E-
“On the day the world’s destruction accelerates, I shall flow upon the tidal wave. When the tsunami rises to the heavens, I shall soar. On the day the world’s destruction continues, I shall ride the tempest…”
These were lyrics I had no desire to understand.
Siren, as if intoxicated, sang endlessly with an enraptured expression as she descended deeper.
It was less flight and more of a plummeting dive.
As the song continued without pause, my consciousness began to blur. It felt as though something was piercing through my mind.
And she wasn’t singing alone. From somewhere unseen in the Deep Sea, something harmonized with Siren.
Below, there must be countless creatures swarming in numbers I couldn’t possibly handle.
‘I can’t win.’
I knew nothing. What could I do besides pray that Jung Hwan-jae would come to rescue me before they arrived?
A brainwashing sensation—was destruction truly so undesirable? I knew this despair wasn’t my own will. Yet the hopelessness was so overwhelming it paralyzed my body.
And simultaneously, another window appeared.
Special Stat ‘???’ opposes Ragnarok’s Resonance.
Special Stat ‘???’ cannot be activated. Only basic functions operate.
Current Stat: Unmeasurable
Something wedged itself between the despair. Memories surfacing like whispered incantations forced me to consciousness.
This felt like an intensely primal will to survive.
‘I need to learn how to attack.’
‘Don’t worry. You’ll be fine. No matter what happens, I’ll get there before it’s too late.’
I recalled the words people had spoken to comfort me. Even if they were platitudes, they helped in a situation as dire as this.
I drove out the stray thoughts tangled in my mind. Think, Yeom Ye-ah is not helpless right now. I began repeating those words like an incantation.
If I can’t handle these things, I just need to desperately heal myself until someone comes to rescue me.
Feeling myself pulled deeper into the Deep Sea, I clenched my fists.
‘You know what? When you watch dramas or movies with dramatic music, you can’t help but feel the urgency, and the situation feels more real, doesn’t it?’
‘Right. When you’re gaming too, hearing that theme song makes you focus more on the battle. I think that’s what it is.’
I couldn’t remember who had said that. It was a conversation between strangers on the Subway when I was half-asleep.
Back then I’d thought it was just sleep-stealing chatter, but why does that comment come to mind now? Was it really that important?
‘That’s why choosing a song that fits the situation and moment is so crucial. That’s why I listen to songs so many times before doing anything.’
I couldn’t remember that person’s face, their demeanor, their actions—nothing. But why does that statement surface now?
As if my brain were directly searching for and retrieving the memories I needed.
The theme song from a game I’d played countless times on the bus to and from high school flickered through my mind. A song I’d listened to dozens of times through wired earbuds every single day to remember that overwhelming story.
I opened my mouth wide and began singing, enunciating each syllable with crisp precision.
“When the sun set crimson, like the world….”
My voice began to tremble slightly. Even though my heart remained calm.
Perhaps it was because of the chaos around me. Or perhaps because Siren was singing with even fiercer intensity, as if defying my will.
A battle between a celestial-voiced monster and a tone-deaf human risen from hell—this wasn’t a fair fight at all.
Yet I couldn’t stop singing.
“I, I will burn like blue flames and surpass miracles. Forever, forever, becoming a dream that never extinguishes… will become….”
I couldn’t precisely understand what the act of attacking meant. How to land an effective blow.
Honestly, I was afraid that singing like this would only fuel Siren’s fighting spirit further.
Do all Hunters battle this kind of fear? Come to think of it, those who die in their first Dungeon still account for over 10% of all Awakened.
A skill activation window materialized before my eyes. Reflecting the urgency of the moment, not multiple windows but only one.
Activating Conductor of the Battlefield.
An effect different from before spread in all directions. Until now, every effect had radiated outward from my body to find those I needed to heal.
But this time it was completely reversed. Whether in the Deep Sea or at the Water Surface, musical staves materialized everywhere, then surged fiercely toward me.
The various staves flying from all directions connected to my body and shimmered brilliantly. Not notes, but dynamic markings began appearing one by one.
Mezzo-forte. Moderately strong.
Forte. Strong.
Fortissimo. Very strong!
As these flowed into my body, I felt an inexplicable power enveloping me.
Like dynamic markings, certain sensations within my body were being amplified. They were all urging me forward.
They pressed me to scream right now, to release everything that had accumulated in my body.
‘Let me go.’
A desire that filled my heart. Even as the song could no longer continue, the accompaniment of the piece I’d been singing filled my surroundings.
As the Deep Sea water vibrated all at once like ultrasonic waves, my heart began racing so violently I couldn’t sing another note.
Unable to string together even a single coherent thought, I simply opened my mouth and unleashed a raw, primal cry: “Ahhhhh!”
Fortissimo! Louder, ever louder—let the sound tear from my throat!
In that same instant, white light erupted across the pitch-black Deep Sea, illuminating everything with such brilliance that even the coral scattered across the seafloor became vividly visible.
A torrent of light—as though a flashbang had detonated in the depths below—cascaded down and engulfed Siren, who had been singing in defiance against me.
From that beautiful creature’s throat came a sound entirely new: a desperate, anguished shriek. Within mere seconds, Siren dissolved into smoke, as though being consumed by the light itself, and vanished.
“Ah….”
I had destroyed it.

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