The Tone-Deaf Healer Kills with a Song - Chapter 29

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Tone-Deaf Healer Kills with Song – Episode 029
I carefully touched my earlobe. I’d heard that using mana was necessary to send a distress signal to Jung Hwan-jae. The only flow of mana I could manipulate was healing.
Deliberately hitting an odd pitch as if tone-deaf, I carefully gathered my energy and condensed it into my earlobe.
“If you only wanted to ruin my voice, there’d be no reason to drag me into a dungeon. And why my voice specifically?”
“Ah, well, the story about you knocking out an interviewer while singing at the Guild spread like wildfire. I couldn’t avoid hearing about it no matter how hard I tried.”
“So you tried to harm someone whose stats you don’t even know properly? Weren’t you supposed to be a healer?”
“Do healers have to possess some sacred sense of mission? Do you think I work with such noble intentions? Everyone’s just trying to make money.”
But I’d never heard of a doctor becoming successful and then harming other doctors at nearby hospitals to get ahead.
It was abundantly clear that he had absolutely no awareness that what he was choosing to do was grotesquely deformed.
Bewildered, I let out a hollow laugh, but he merely grinned back at me.
“So why did you bring me into the dungeon?”
“If you figured out I was a healer in such a short time, it must mean you have more than average intelligence gathering. It seemed like you’d joined a fairly large guild.”
“Are you trying to extract secrets?”
Kim Kyung-hoon laughed widely. His handsome face felt eerily grotesque.
The ground where we stood was muddy and squelching. Impossibly, his dress shoes made a clicking sound with each step.
“Different people have different ways of casting skills, right? Some can just wave their hands or blink their eyes, while others have bizarre requirements like singing or seducing their target.”
‘Intention.’
He was deliberately not answering my words. It was clearly a purposeful act.
If I responded to such behavior, it would obviously bring harm to me. Keeping silent with narrowed eyes, he leaned in until he was right in front of my face.
Kim Kyung-hoon whispered, his gaze locked with mine at a distance where our noses nearly touched.
“I am, hostility.”
“Hostility?”
“If my opponent harbors hostility toward me, I can use my skill. Both attack and healing. The reason I’m ranked as a healer in the first place is because that skill is the most useful—it doesn’t mean healing is my primary function.”
‘How utterly shameless.’
That explanation alone didn’t resolve the matter. He intentionally planted hostility in his opponent’s heart and based his skill casting on it.
I couldn’t possibly imagine someone like this being capable of healing anyone. I bit my lip hard.
It was meant to clear my head, but I must have failed to control my strength—a metallic taste spread through my mouth. Even with equipment buffs, I could feel fear gradually rising, which suggested my current state was far too unstable.
He lifted his body lightly into the air and laughed loudly. From all directions, sinister blue energy surged toward me.
“Every morning with you, Tail Food. The whole family healthy with Tail Food!”
Casting Water Surface Siren.
Creative Technique activates.
Additional properties are granted to Water Surface Siren.
I started belting out the YouTube advertisement song I’d seen on my commute this morning.
The surging blue mist bounced lightly off the musical staff extending from my body. A translucent membrane like a hard shell wrapped around me, steadfastly withstanding the incoming attacks.
Kim Kyung-hoon let out a short, tone-deaf hum. He clearly hadn’t expected me to resist like this.
‘She didn’t pass out.’
My expectations were modest. How could my singing stat have risen just this much?
I ground my teeth. The blue light pursued the gaps relentlessly, circling my body, while I repeated the same lyrics like a broken record.
His hostility grows, and my voice will eventually stop. If I don’t end this quickly, I’m at a disadvantage. But I can’t attack either.
‘What if I die?’
I still couldn’t execute skills at that level. Being someone with an utterly ordinary moral compass, I’d been worried Jung Hwan-jae might get hurt.
If this person in front of me got caught up in it, when would I clean up the aftermath? He shifted his stance as if preparing to attack again.
And then familiar message windows appeared in rapid succession before my eyes. He usually sent them out long and drawn, but it seemed his urgency had him firing them off in choppy fragments that bombarded me one after another.
[Liri: Ye-ah, look at what I’m saying.]
[Liri: I can’t manifest as an incarnate body with consciousness right now.]
[Liri: All I can do is give you a portion of my power. But with just that alone, you’ll definitely be able to control mana.]
[Liri: I’ll lend you my strength. So will you try? I hate to admit it, but Reaper will definitely come. To save you.]
[Liri: Until then, please let me help you.]
I couldn’t fully understand the undercurrent of feeling beneath his words. What was this reluctance he mentioned, and why was he asking permission to save my life right now?
I was desperate enough to grasp at straws. I nodded stupidly.
‘Yes, please help me.’
If Liri helped, I felt like I could end this fight.
May Baldur’s divinity be with you.
The Handler modifies the contract terms. The distance between you and the Handler decreases.
Awakened One Yeom Ye-ah moves one step closer to ■■■.
A status window shone before my eyes, brighter than either Liri’s message window or the casting of ordinary skills.
It blazed so brilliantly that I couldn’t help but squint. It scattered effects in all directions like fireworks before vanishing.
Without revealing anything truly important.
[Liri: Accept it. I’ll give you a part of myself and my heart.]
“I don’t know what trick you’re pulling, but you’ve already noticed your voice got quieter, right? Even if you heal, your throat must be parched right now.”
“Tailfood! Tailfood! My little chef upon my table!”
As I sang out like I was wailing, something fluttered down from empty air.
I reflexively pushed off the ground and leaped up, grasping for it.
A single feather fell into my palm, so brilliantly white that no color on Earth could ever express it. As I held it, as if it possessed life itself, something like a heartbeat pulsed within it.
The divinity of Handler ‘Liri’ is with you.
Special Clause: The divinity of Handler ‘Liri’ will eternally protect you for as long as the contract remains in effect.
I didn’t know if Liri was a being with a heart. But the pulse I felt from that feather was enough to calm me.
I took a deep breath. My song cut off for a moment. As if he’d been waiting for that instant.
The barrier from Creation Technique is maintained for 45 seconds.
[Liri: What do you need most right now? Mana control, mana amplification? Think of the function you desire most and use the feather.]
What I needed right now.
There were no other allies here to be attacked besides me. But I didn’t want to recklessly give myself the power to kill Kim Kyung-hoon either.
What should I choose to neutralize him and escape this place safely? If I’d wanted to harm him, there were methods available even now.
I conveyed my deepest desire.
‘I want to subdue him and leave this place. But I don’t want to take his life.’
[Liri: Understood.]
The feather began to pulse rapidly, like a heart beating in haste.

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