The Tone-Deaf Healer Kills with a Song - Chapter 67

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Tone-Deaf Healer Kills with Song – Episode 067
“Ah, so once you become a Ranker, you’re supposed to attend the Hunter Association regularly, aren’t you?”
“It’s not mandatory, but the fact that you’ve risen to Ranker status itself is often seen as an elevation of national prestige. To put it simply—you become a national representative of the Hunter world?”
Kim A-jin was explaining desperately, as if she desperately wanted me to understand easily.
I grasped the general context well enough.
For ordinary Hunters, the Hunter Association was a place you registered with and then had no real reason to visit again.
Even if your stats changed, the system window recorded them—the Association didn’t maintain those records themselves.
There was a reason people said that if the Association contacted you about anything other than Dungeon clears, you should reconsider your life choices. But it seemed that rule only applied when you weren’t a Ranker.
“Usually we don’t ask people to attend so urgently, but this….”
“It’s because of Dante’s arrival in Korea, isn’t it?”
Kim A-jin lowered her head as if she had no face to show.
She’d probably been standing in that crowd of reporters because someone higher up told her to, but I had no intention of accepting an apology from someone so blameless.
Apparently, among the reporters, they’d been waiting for several dozen minutes under the name of a Hunter Association staff member.
The woman I’d met when I first went for an interview at Hanttae was still wearing her deputy title and struggling in the field.
[Liri: Office workers always wear similar expressions.]
[Liri: It’s like they’re fiercely thinking about how to escape this, you know?]
I agreed.
Kim A-jin, who was bowing willingly before me, seemed to see me less as the Rank 1 Hunter and more as just “Person 1 who needs to be brought to the Association.”
Would she not even be able to leave work if I didn’t go there? I straightened her flustered, bowed form.
“Um, so when should I come? As you saw earlier, there are so many reporters that I can’t go right now.”
“I understand. It should be fine as long as you come before Dante arrives! But the date needs to be definite….”
The fact that a foreign Hunter, even from the immovable second-place position, was coming to Korea was quite significant.
It could easily spark conflicts between Hunters, or damage relations between nations.
Wasn’t this an era where every move of a powerful Hunter was treated as representing their country?
Of course, since Dante had clearly made the first move, our country wouldn’t be at a disadvantage.
Even if we didn’t respond immediately, we’d have nothing to say, but if Hanttae remained silent, there was a chance it would look like a battle of wills between Nike and Hanttae.
‘I absolutely hate getting dragged into tedious affairs.’
I knew it was shameless and contradictory to think I disliked being tired despite holding this ranking, but I’d never once imagined I’d climb to this position.
Jung Hwan-jae spoke on my behalf when I couldn’t answer easily.
“Then we’ll set up a schedule within next week and contact you.”
“Ah, yes, I understand. But without a specific date confirmed, it would be a bit difficult. I’m sorry to ask, but please.”
“Ah.”
Kim A-jin came on strong.
She seemed to believe that if things were left vague now, we’d later find excuses to reschedule or change the appointment.
I knew there were quite a few Guilds that made excuses to slip out and postpone official schedules.
Countless testimonial posts had flooded social media asking if being a Hunter meant you could do whatever you wanted.
“Wednesday! I’ll come on Wednesday!”
“Ah, yes!”
It wasn’t Jung Hwan-jae or Kim A-jin who couldn’t endure the subtle tension between them—it was me.
Kim A-jin nodded with a bright smile as if she’d been waiting for this, then recorded the schedule. I wanted to wrap this up as quickly as possible.
With instructions to contact her when she came to the Hunter Association on Wednesday, she left the building.
Her departing figure was remarkably light, as if she’d finally clocked out.
“Is there a particular reason it has to be Wednesday?”
“Well, I don’t want to schedule things starting from Monday, and I hate moving around on even-numbered days.”
Doesn’t everyone have days they’d rather not move, or days that feel unusually long? For me, it’s always been Tuesday and Thursday.
Though it might be because I only worked night shifts on Tuesday and Thursday.
“By the way, when is Dante arriving in Korea?”
“The schedule hasn’t been finalized yet, but that man is the type who needs to resolve things immediately once he’s made up his mind, so it’ll probably be soon.”
He sighed, saying that if his visit to Korea was just a casual tour rather than a concert, it wouldn’t take much preparation time.
That’s true enough.
A visit to Korea would just mean sightseeing or meeting with other hunters here.
[Liri: What if that person tries to fight Ye-ah?]
[Liri: In that case, I’ll come down! So don’t worry too much!]
‘What do you mean by “come down”?’
[Liri: Literally, I’ll use my incarnate body. Ye-ah lifted the debuff this time, so the range I can move in has expanded tremendously.]
Liri’s rapidly appearing messages seemed subtly excited.
So she could now come in a larger incarnate form rather than that cute little snowman. Like Lucy’s shadow.
I turned my head toward Jung Hwan-jae, who was quietly waiting beside me.
“Dante said he wanted to see me. By now, he must know I wasn’t cast, so what does he want to see me for?”
I didn’t want to be friends with someone who looked dangerous no matter how you looked at it.
Was he planning to kidnap me like Kim Kyung-hoon did? Even if Kim Kyung-hoon wasn’t as threatening as I’d thought and I could escape on my own…
Before my imagination spiraled further, Jung Hwan-jae cut through my thoughts.
“I suspect he might want to clear a dungeon together.”
“Clear a dungeon?”
“Of course, he does tend to be drawn to strong people, and he’d probably like to fight Ye-ah if possible.”
“…I don’t want to fight. Besides, Dante is clearly a pure offense type, and I’m just a healer who knows how to fight a little.”
Before Jung Hwan-jae could continue, I expressed my reluctance to fight with my entire body, and he finally burst out laughing.
When I laugh, I look like a broken Hahoe mask, but how does this man manage to smile so beautifully?
I stared at him in disbelief, as if enchanted, before suddenly coming to my senses.
“If he wants to fight Ye-ah, he’ll have to get through me first. If he can’t beat me, he can’t fight you.”
“Don’t worry, I’ll keep healing you from behind so you never fall!”
“…If it comes to that, I’m counting on you.”
Without realizing it, I’d spoken as if the two of them fighting was already a given.
It sounded like they’d keep fighting by knocking each other down and healing back up repeatedly—now that I thought about it, it did seem rather cruel.
Embarrassed, I cleared my throat and hastily changed the subject.
“But why the strategy? Hanttae and Nike aren’t actually on bad terms? Dante has a good relationship with Yeom Ye-ah and Jung Hwan?”
“Externally, we need to create that kind of image.”
“Well, I don’t want to build a good relationship with someone who completely exposed my name.”
I know this is my own stubbornness. I also know that when the actual situation arrives, I’ll be the first to step forward and try to resolve it.
As if I were wincing at Dante standing right before me, I leaned back, and Jung Hwan-jae’s hand immediately supported my waist firmly.
I writhed my body several more times as if he stood before me.
He waited patiently until I had vented my frustration sufficiently, then opened his mouth with a composed expression.
“But the primary objective likely lies in entering the Dungeon itself.”
“Inside the Dungeon?”
I blinked, then abruptly stilled my body and leaned toward him.
He nodded as though it were nothing, but I distinctly felt his voice drop an octave lower.
Entering the Dungeon was the primary objective?
A thunderbolt of realization struck me alongside him.
“Because no one can hear what happens inside the Dungeon.”
There was something only we needed to hear.

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