The Tone-Deaf Healer Kills with a Song - Chapter 69

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Tone-Deaf Healer Kills with Song – Episode 069
Kim Kyung-hoon turned out to be far worse than I’d imagined.
Just thinking about it makes my head throb. I don’t even know how to react when faced with someone who isn’t merely bad, but catastrophically, extraordinarily bad.
I should head back to my room and have a serious conversation with Liri to prepare some countermeasures….
“How about trying some dancing, Ye-ah?”
“Dancing, you say?”
“Singing alone is nice, but dancing makes it so much more lively!”
What on earth is happening?
Let me explain the situation. We need to rewind about two hours.
After finishing my conversation with Jung Hwan-jae without incident, he left me to rescue the siblings trapped by reporters, moving away from my side.
Standing alone and dazed, rather than return to the Dormitory, I entered the Guild Building to adapt to my stats and abilities that had skyrocketed exponentially.
The moment I found the Training Room, there was someone waiting for me inside.
A blue-eyed woman with wheat-colored hair twisted up on top of her head, gazing out the window.
Was she a foreigner?
I blinked slowly, wearing a puzzled expression, when she spotted me and rushed over with delight.
“Hunter Yeom Ye-ah! What an honor to meet you right after I’ve returned home!”
“Ah, well, I….”
“Oh, I’m Kim Hwa-hyun. I didn’t make it into the top 100 rankings, so you might not have seen me before. I oversee skill training here.”
Just as I specialized in healing and Jung Hwan-jae specialized in combat, there were hunters dedicated to battle, while others excelled in crafting and similar pursuits.
Though they were all grouped under the title of “Awakened,” hunters each had sharply defined specializations, and Kim Hwa-hyun’s specialty was “development.”
Unlike buffs, she identified weaknesses and issues in others, then elevated their strengths—a trainer hunter.
“Until now….”
“Oh, aside from ranking matches, I spend most of my time inside Dungeons. This time too, but the Guild Master specifically contacted me asking me to come.”
In Hanttae’s case, most hunters had already spent considerable time in the profession and were seasoned, so there were rarely situations where Kim Hwa-hyun could be useful.
“So what do you usually do in Dungeons?”
“Well, it’s a kind of taming? Development isn’t limited to people alone. It’s more like contract work—I go into Dungeons with hunters who handle summoned creatures and train them.”
While Hanttae was listed as the top priority, she also earned supplementary income from other summoners and similar hunters.
Even so, Hanttae wouldn’t simply let go of a development specialist. Kim Hwa-hyun, too, had found no guild that treated her as well as Hanttae did, so she remained here.
“Ah, so you rushed back because of me?”
“It’s nerve-wracking to do my main job after so long. I heard your stats suddenly shot up. Don’t worry—I can read them without you showing me.”
A skill that could read others’ stats and scan their condition? It seemed almost like cheating.
And it wasn’t limited to just people either!
Kim Hwa-hyun tapped the ground with her foot, staring intently at me, then picked up a tablet PC that lay nearby and began checking something.
“These stats are completely different from what I was told. At this level, I’d be confused thinking you were someone else?”
“But since my stats suddenly jumped up like this, my body seems like it can’t quite handle it.”
“That makes sense. Stats are difficult to adapt to even when they rise gradually, but now you’ll need to completely overhaul your skill usage.”
Still, as if it were no problem, Kim Hwa-hyun clapped her hands together sharply.
Her eyes gleamed brilliantly.
“Then shall we get started?”
And so, right now.
What Kim Hwa-hyun provided me was grueling training.
Running dozens of laps around the Training Facility was nothing, and I even practiced vocal techniques while seated.
Every time I wondered if this would actually help, the system window appeared swiftly.
Your Strength stat has increased slightly.
As your stats rise, your special stats will also change accordingly.
‘Campus Ruler’ suppresses the shock from your physical changes.
‘Campus Ruler’ is Kim Hwa-hyun’s class name.
It must mean professor.
‘Campus Ruler’ suppresses the mental damage from stat increases.
‘Campus Ruler’ grants synergy to your stat growth.
Despite never having formally learned singing, her teaching ability was genuinely professional-grade.
“Ah, if my student needs a particular skill, I can acquire it at an instructor’s level for a certain duration.”
“Is it something like a copying skill?”
“Hmm, it’s a bit different from copying. I’d say I temporarily store information from Baltworth in my body? I essentially become a USB drive.”
Kim Hwa-hyun, who had just performed a professional-level musical number, laughed with satisfaction.
USB—an apt description, since she could absorb necessary information and transfer that data to others.
“But since this only works when I’m teaching someone, I can’t use it in actual combat.”
She swayed her body loosely, explaining that without activating her training program, her physical stats were merely average.
After just two hours of intense work, I’d made more progress than I had singing sixty songs at the Coin Karaoke.
Perhaps that was only natural.
Kim Hwa-hyun wiped the sweat from her forehead and smiled proudly at me. She drank some bottled water, wiped her mouth, and asked.
“It helped, didn’t it?”
“Yes, tremendously! Honestly, I was worried I’d become someone completely useless in actual combat at this rate.”
“What?”
“The Guild Master gets tense whenever he’s beside me, and whenever I try to do something, he overprotects me… I was worried whether he really trusted me at all.”
My heart felt anxious.
I wanted to become someone worthy of the title “exclusive member,” but he not only overprotected me—he wanted to stay by my side.
And though I tried to brush it off, his words about getting tense whenever he was near me wouldn’t leave my mind. I should be supporting him steadily from behind.
If I kept making him tense, I’d only cause him to make mistakes.
“….”
“I’m s-sorry. I said something completely unnecessary….”
I’d just dumped way too much information on her.
My face flushed red as I waved my hands frantically, but Kim Hwa-hyun’s eyes studied me intently. Had I upset her by suddenly saying all this?
My mood deflated quickly. Her indecipherable expression seemed subtly exasperated with me, yet also bewildered.
It took a long moment before she spoke.
“Um, Ye-ah. Listen carefully.”
A window appeared before my eyes. Interestingly, Kim Hwa-hyun said that whenever she had a student, the skills she cast would appear in their vision.
But since most of those skills had effects I couldn’t decipher, I was usually helpless against them.
This time was no different.
‘Campus Ruler’ casts the skill ‘Interested in Graduate School?’
“Y-yes?”
“You’re an exceptionally talented person, Yeom Ye-ah. Honestly, even with your stats suppressed, if Hanttae had cast you, I’d find it incomprehensible that you’d lack confidence in yourself.”
“…R-really?”
My self-esteem soared.
[Liri: I support this class. That’s exactly what I wanted to say.]
“When the Guild Master asked me to give you private lessons, I genuinely thought you must be going through something incredibly difficult. But unlike other hunters who give up halfway, you never do. Your perseverance is remarkable. And your drive to improve is evident.”
“Ah, well, I suppose I do have some perseverance…”
My self-esteem climbed higher.
The effect of ‘Are you interested in graduate school?’ made my ears perk up.
My self-esteem soared even further!
“The Guild Master has such discerning eyes. Honestly, the reason he keeps watching over you is probably to protect you until others recognize your true worth and come running.”
My self-esteem! Skyrocketed!
[Liri: Woohoo!]
My heart began to race without my realizing it.
Is that so? Am I really that valuable? Am I truly that precious? Well, I am ranked first, after all.
So that’s how it is?
Kim Hwa-hyun, who had been observing my expression, smiled softly. I found myself smiling back, and she continued.
“Though your romantic intuition seems a bit… off.”
My self-esteem was rising up…?
[Liri: No way!]

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