The Tone-Deaf Healer Kills with a Song - Chapter 201

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Tone-Deaf Healer Kills with Song – Side Story 3-1
Side Story 3-1. My Husband’s Getting Fluffy
― I’m telling you, this is serious.
“I know it’s serious, but on a scale of one to ten, how serious are we talking?”
― About a hundred.
It was dawn, before the sun had properly risen.
I was scrambling up the outer wall of the Guild Building with a panicked expression, scaling it like a madwoman.
I couldn’t bear to waste time taking the stairs or waiting for an elevator—my heart was racing too fast.
To anyone watching, it would look like a small figure suddenly crawling up the Guild Building’s exterior wall.
But I had no mental space to worry about such things.
I stepped on a faintly protruding window frame, pushed my body upward into the air, and shoved an earpiece deep into my ear.
Though the voice coming through wasn’t particularly clear.
― Where are you? This is really urgent.
“One floor left!”
At Hanttae, the peaceful Guild.
I had panicked the moment Lucy contacted me.
[Liri: Ye-ah! Don’t think about this so frantically.]
[Liri: In any situation, your safety comes first.]
[Liri: Even if you fell from here, you wouldn’t die, but taking the stairs or using the elevator would have been much safer.]
“And besides, taking the stairs doesn’t even take that much time!”
When I focused solely on climbing the wall without responding, the snowman Liri burst out in exasperation.
By his logic, even if I fell from here, I wouldn’t die or get hurt, so what was there to worry about?
“Something happened to Jung Hwan-jae!”
Something incredibly serious!
Lucy wasn’t the type to worry much about others in general.
Even though he was assigned to Jung Hwan-jae and seemed to care for him deeply, sometimes he appeared almost negligent.
But for him to wake me up and send an SOS like this—this was an emergency!
And how did I not notice my husband disappearing from beside me while we were sleeping?
Was my sleep that heavy? Yeom Ye-ah, have you lost your mind?
“Open the window!”
― Yeah, yeah, it’s open.
I screamed as I leaped straight up into the air and dove through the half-open window.
I rolled my body and landed on the floor, then looked around.
He rolled his body and landed on the ground, then looked around.
“You made it?”
Lucy was sitting casually in Jung Hwan-jae’s usual spot, resting his chin in his hand.
His expression looked somehow troubled.
The fact that he was sitting in the place where my husband always sat felt so unreasonably wrong that I couldn’t believe it.
If he was here, it meant there wasn’t a life-threatening problem with Jung Hwan-jae.
“Where is my husband!”
I let out a sharp cry, and Lucy flinched at the sound, his whole body shrinking back.
Here I was, having forcibly woken a sleeping man and urgently called his husband about some emergency, yet he had the audacity to remain so unfazed.
If he weren’t an Assigned Staff Member, I would’ve pinched his cheek without hesitation.
“Over there.”
“Over there?”
Lucy trembled at my expression and pointed to one side.
“There’s something that shouldn’t be here. Normally, I’d use my power to contain it, but I can’t.”
“You can’t use your power?”
The first thing that crossed my mind was a Dungeon Break.
No matter how airtight the security of this Guild Building was, emergencies had a way of striking without warning.
If it was something like a boss monster that Lucy had been containing with his power inside here.
I immediately summoned a microphone from thin air and spun around sharply.
If necessary, I’d let out one piercing cry and finish it off.
“Squeak…”
And there was nothing before my eyes.
Or rather, there was a small black fluffy mass so tiny it seemed like nothing was there at all.
It was truly just ‘placed’ on the ground. Or more accurately, it seemed to be resting there.
“Huh?”
“Squeak, whimper…”
The incomprehensible sounds—whether cries or whimpers—revealed that this was no mere cotton ball, but a living creature.
What is this?
All my fighting spirit evaporated as I let my arms drop and hunched over.
“Ye-ah, don’t get too close. Judging danger by size alone is foolish.”
Liri, standing right beside me, offered her wise counsel.
She was right, but still.
Strangely, I couldn’t sense the sinister aura I usually felt from monsters emanating from this small creature at all.
“A puppy…?”
After hesitating for a moment, I opened my mouth, and the fluffy mass trembled and flinched.
Its curled body seemed to unfurl slightly, and a pair of gleaming red eyes looked up at me.
They were eyes that looked as though they might burst into tears at any moment.
A puppy with black fur and red eyes.
As far as I knew, no such breed existed. Was it a monster? Could a monster be this harmless?
More than anything, the fact that I felt such affinity toward this creature was strange, wasn’t it?
“It’s a puppy.”
Lucy’s calm voice came from behind me.
Unlike when he’d called me urgently, his face now looked like he was having the time of his life.
I snapped my head around to stare at him.
He stood there with his hands cupped together, grinning from ear to ear.
“A completely harmless puppy, at that.”
“I understand it’s a harmless puppy, but I called my husband saying something was wrong because…”
“So here’s the thing.”
“Yes?”
“Look at that one.”
Liri swept her hand through the air, tracing a perfect circle.
Her body spun in sync with the arc she’d drawn, moving with fluid grace.
Sometimes I forget these people are absurdly powerful Staff Members.
Stupidly still facing sideways, I stared intently at the black fluffy creature—no, the puppy.
“Um… baby?”
Since she said it was safe, it should be fine.
I lowered myself and extended both hands.
The puppy hesitated for a moment before climbing onto my palms.
It was warm, heavier than I expected, and above all, so fluffy and utterly adorable.
Apparently, I’d grinned without realizing it.
“What do you think?”
“It’s cute.”
Could this “big deal” be that my husband suddenly brought home a puppy?
Or perhaps he brought this little one back from a Dungeon.
If there’s no danger involved, we could probably keep it. Though, we don’t even have children yet, so it makes sense to be flustered…
“That’s Jung Hwan-jae.”
“I… what?”
The shock was entirely mine.

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Lucy laughed for a good ten minutes after I made some gorilla-like sound in response, before finally settling down.
Or rather, he only quieted down after Liri, who had materialized in human form, smacked the back of his head with a sharp crack.
Even if it didn’t hurt, his pride must have taken a hit.
Those two really were like colleagues who had been drifting in and out of closeness for an eternity.
“So after I took the medicine Hwa-jon gave me, things kept getting worse, which is why I came to the Guild Building.”
“Right, I came to the Guild Building, and the moment I arrived, my body started shrinking, and then I turned into a dog like this.”
“Oh… you’re asking me to believe that right now?”
“Do you really have so little faith in me?”
What should I do?
If I said yes here, Lucy would definitely get hurt.
I bit my lip firmly and shook my head, and a look of bewilderment crossed Lucy’s face.
“How do you plan to survive in this world when you’re so terrible at lying?”
“No, it’s not a lie—I really do… trust you.”
“Anyway, it’s true. But don’t worry. His sense of self is intact. Your husband’s mind is perfectly fine.”
“What?”
I looked down at the fluffy ball curled up in my arms, trembling sweetly.
The moment our eyes met, he nuzzled his face against my chest in relief, which made it clear he simply thought of me as his mother.
Did he not know I was a married woman?
“So what do we do? Is this a debuff or a curse?”
Then I could just lift it for him right here.
While curse removal wasn’t my specialty, I could handle most debuffs with my healing skills.
Lucy chuckled as he watched me immediately start searching for a song.
The more I looked at him, the more he resembled Jung Hwan-jae, and precisely because of that resemblance, he was quite handsome.
If he were just a hundred million years younger, I would have asked him to come as my son.
“But are you really going to waste this opportunity?”
“What?”
“I mean, your clumsy husband has turned into a dog right now, so are you going to lift the curse immediately? He’s not even in pain—it’s just a temporary event.”
A temporary event.
That phrase hit my mind with intense force.
“Mmm…”
“Uh, uh…”
An event…?
My conscience as Yeom Ye-ah, telling me to turn my husband back immediately…
crumbled.

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