The Tone-Deaf Healer Kills with a Song - Chapter 204

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Tone-Deaf Healer Kills with Song – Side Story 3-4
Side Story 3-4. My Husband’s Getting Fluffy
On the way back after seeing Rosalind Brown and Dante off to the Hotel, I whispered softly against his ear while holding him close.
“What if you suddenly agreed like that? I nearly died of embarrassment.”
“Woof.”
Jung Hwan-jae responded confidently, as if asking what was wrong.
I found it unbearable—the fact that I had suddenly become an excessively good person to him, and that he had accepted this without hesitation.
I cleared my throat several times to cool my flushed face and quickly returned to the Guild Master’s Office.
Inside, not only Lucy but also Liri had manifested in human form.
“Liri!”
“Ye-ah, you’re back?”
“What are you both doing here?”
“Lucy was being scolded for playing such a malicious prank on someone under his care.”
Liri shook her head.
It seemed he had acquired a high position among those who built this Network, so he could express his anger directly.
Though it appeared he occasionally faced discipline himself for such things.
I didn’t fully understand or agree with their disciplinary regulations, but I nodded along for now.
“Does Lucy get in trouble then?”
“I’ve already been scolded enough. Honestly, punishing someone this harshly just for playing a prank seems pretty unfair, doesn’t it? Did I do it for my own benefit? He actually enjoyed it too, didn’t he?”
Lucy grumbled while pointing at me.
Ugh, how could he make me an accomplice like this?
I did enjoy it too, though. At first, I only wanted to restore the situation to normal.
But Lucy had seduced me with his cunning tongue, hadn’t he?
I quickly made a pitiful expression and looked at Liri.
“Liri, you know I didn’t do anything wrong…”
Fortunately, my Assigned Staff Member was ready to take my side completely.
She quickly frowned and began raising her voice to scold Lucy again.
“Instead of reflecting on your own mistakes, you’re dragging Ye-ah into this and making things worse—I really can’t tolerate it. Do you want to get chat restrictions or something?”
“Yeah, seal me. Seal me. Just seal me already. Cut my belly open if you have to.”
Lucy spat out grumbling words and spun his chair around with a huff, showing his back.
I could see exactly how hard he was trying to suppress his laughter with that pouty attitude.
His muffled giggles and trembling shoulders were plainly visible.
And Jung Hwan-jae’s gaze, which made anyone pity Lucy, made this entire situation utterly absurd.
“I just saw Dante and Rosalind Brown off. They couldn’t recognize Hwan-jae at all. How is that possible with red eyes?”
“Well, it’s possible.”
“What do you mean it’s possible?”
“People’s eyes come in red, green, purple, odd-eyed, and every color imaginable. Is it really so strange that a dog’s eyes are red?”
“…”
Now that Lucy mentioned it, it actually made sense.
Perhaps I was the narrow-minded one.
Liri burst into laughter as she watched me surrender so easily to persuasion.
“Well, now that I think about it, you’re right….”
“Anyway, Jung Hwan-jae has been receiving an enormous amount of affection from those two.”
“I know—I’ve been watching carefully this whole time.”
In that instant, he bolted from my arms.
Until now, he’d been nestled against me as if this were his rightful place, but suddenly!
Before I could even react in surprise, Jung Hwan-jae tore through the Guild Master’s Office and bit Lucy’s ankle.
Lucy’s ankle was clamped between his teeth, and he let out a yelp.
“You think biting me like that is going to get you a response? And your teeth haven’t even come in properly yet.”
But the effect was negligible.
Watching the world’s number-one-ranked Hunter subjected to this treatment was certainly a rare sight….
Jung Hwan-jae, dangling limply from Lucy’s single hand, wore an expression of utter exasperation.
It was astounding how such a look could emerge from a face that had seemed so docile until now.
Without thinking, I blinked repeatedly, staring at the scene like an idiot.
Lucy was laughing so hard he looked like he might topple backward.
“Please don’t tease him so much.”
It wasn’t until I finally spoke up that the teasing stopped.
Teasing him to this degree was something only I could do, not anyone else. Lucy set Jung Hwan-jae down.
“If you glare at me like that, even I’d be scared.”
“I know you’re not actually scared.”
“I am too.”
“If I were really scared, I wouldn’t have snuck my husband away at dawn.”
“Do you know how shocked Ye-ah was? Climbing up the wall like that….”
Liri let out a deep sigh.
I wasn’t sure whether she’d been frightened by me scaling the wall, or whether she’d feared I might demolish the building in the process.
I gazed at Jung Hwan-jae as he returned to my arms, then gently tapped his nose.
“Jung Hwan-jae, do you want to turn back into a human?”
“Woof.”
He tilted his head this way and that as he responded.
Until now, I’d understood his words as easily as if they were truth, but now I was uncertain.
What was he trying to say?
Did he want to change back, or did he want to stay like this for a while longer?
Without thinking, I tilted my head along with him, mirroring his movements. After a long moment, he finally stopped moving.
My gaze drifted to his swishing tail.
“Are you saying it’s okay to stay like this a little longer if I’m happy about it?”
He answered silently, gazing up at me with gentle eyes. It seemed he’d grown quite accustomed to remaining in his canine form.
After watching him for a while, I turned away without a word.
“Ye-ah, are you leaving now?”
Liri opened her mouth with a slightly disappointed tone, as if she knew she couldn’t stop me.
“Yes, I’ve given it serious thought, and our wedding anniversary is tomorrow. Being stuck in the Guild Building just doesn’t make sense.”
“Ah, I see…. Congratulations.”
“Thank you. As always, I’d appreciate it if neither of you contacted me tomorrow. It’s mandatory unpaid leave.”
Not that I was receiving a salary in the first place.
I waved one hand dismissively and quickly made my escape.
The sound of the two Staff Members bickering, abandoned in the Guild Master’s Office, echoed behind me.
When I returned there two days later, I had an uneasy feeling that something would be badly broken, but I decided not to worry about it.
Future Yeom Ye-ah would handle the cleanup.
Fighting!

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“Why does it feel like it’s been so long since I came home? I literally left here just this morning.”
Of course, Jung Hwan-jae this morning had been human.
Now there was just one very small difference—one human and one puppy had returned.
When I set him down in the living room, he stood blankly on the doormat, gazing around the home.
Everything suddenly seemed enormous, which appeared utterly strange to him. I crouched beside him and gently stroked his head.
“The day Jung Hwan-jae becomes smaller than me…. This really is a marriage anniversary event.”
The small head turned toward me.
Being shorter than my peers, I was among the shortest in the Guild, so I was subtly thrilled about this.
“Anniversary, I’ll turn you back to normal right at midnight. Just enjoy today with me.”
“Woof.”
He nodded in understanding and walked solemnly toward the bathroom.
Since he’d come home, he probably intended to wash his hands out of habit.
A thoroughly wicked plan suddenly occurred to me.
“Jung Hwan-jae.”
When I called him in the soft tone I usually used to coax him, the puppy struggling with the high sink turned his head.
I scooped him up and set him on the sink.
“You see, I’ve been watching a lot of dog YouTubers lately.”
“Whine…?”
Unlike the soft woofing sounds from before, a startled whine escaped him—he seemed quite alarmed.
Along with the alarm, it seemed he’d instinctively sensed what fate was approaching….
“Have you ever heard of puppy eye makeup?”
“….”
“I’ve always wanted to try that.”
A look of resignation crossed his face.
With a pitiful squeaking sound, I closed his eyes and shut the bathroom door with a wicked smile.

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