The Tone-Deaf Healer Kills with a Song - Chapter 75

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Tone-Deaf Healer Kills with Song – Episode 075
“You’re speaking metaphorically, right?”
“No.”
“If you say it’s a metaphor now, I’ll forgive you.”
“I want forgiveness, but it’s not.”
Jung Hwan-jae shook his head with a composed expression. He wanted to deny reality itself.
Of course, the clear condition wasn’t to illuminate every map. This place had a simple condition—defeat two boss monsters and it would be cleared.
But the problem was that we hadn’t come here to hunt boss monsters.
“How are we supposed to find them in this vast space? Honestly, no, I mean… Ji-wook! No, wait.”
“You can call me Ji-wook. Besides, Dante isn’t really my name anyway.”
“Yes, Hunter Yeom Ye-ah, feel free to call me Dante as well.”
“No, that’s not the important part here.”
Whether I called these people Ji-wook or Dante didn’t matter.
They wore expressions as if they possessed some clever stratagem, but their silence suggested they still lacked the words to express it.
I furrowed my brow slightly in frustration.
“Anyway, Ji-wook. Just as you found me by examining my wounds, isn’t there a way to locate people?”
“Most of that information pertains to Hunter Kim Kyung-hoon, so I can’t track his traces from here.”
We learned from the Hunter Association that a hunter named Dan Myeong-ah had gone missing about thirty minutes before entering the Dungeon.
The so-called staff killer wasn’t targeting rankers directly. They were systematically eliminating those below them first.
“Did many Hunter Association people die?”
“In absolute numbers, Hunter Association staff died at roughly the same rate as other guilds.”
But unlike hunters active in guilds, Hunter Association staff had no reason to die, and that was the problem.
People were easily deceived by those comparable numbers alone. When the Hunter Association should naturally experience far fewer deaths.
Word had already spread within the Association. That anyone entering the Dungeon would almost certainly be kidnapped.
The atmosphere that had always favored desk work intensified, and even beginners’ dungeons saw reluctance to enter.
-Hunter Dan Myeong-ah was someone who voluntarily entered despite all this, and she was my mentor!
It was Kim A-jin who contacted me about Dan Myeong-ah’s disappearance.
Actually, when I visited the Hunter Association building that Wednesday, I hadn’t been able to meet her, which I regretted somewhat.
‘Lately, the workload for Association staff handling external duties has increased.’
The manager said so with a troubled expression, then casually handed me pamphlets for national event ambassador promotions as if it were unimportant. I threw them away as soon as I got home.
‘I think it would be better to reach out separately to hunters who mainly work outside rather than making a formal request to the Association. Rather than discussing the staff killings…’
‘I’ll frame it appropriately—that we’re investigating suspicious deaths, so please contact us if there are any hunters you can’t reach.’
‘It’s also fine to mention that Nike is investigating this matter as well.’
That was the strategy we devised by putting our three heads together.
The Hunter Association was the only place Hanttae’s information network couldn’t reach, so we had sent word to contact us immediately if anyone went missing.
Indeed, when Kim A-jin couldn’t reach Dan Myeong-ah, she called me abruptly at dawn.
-The Association says she probably disappeared after drinking, but I know better. Hunter Dan Myeong-ah can’t drink at all. She’s definitely been kidnapped.
So we rushed into the Dungeon at that ungodly hour.
When we entered the Dungeon’s interior, dawn was breaking dimly from behind our backs.
I was actually a bit drowsy on the way here, but seeing the library’s vast expanse jolted me completely awake.
“So you’re saying that Dan Myeong-ah, a Hunter, might be somewhere in here, and we need to search through a space that’s the size of Seoul or possibly even larger?”
I don’t know much about the structure, but no matter how I look at it, searching through this place like we’re combing it with a fine-tooth comb is incredibly inefficient.
Even if we find Dan Myeong-ah, it seemed likely she’d already be dead by the time we located her. I hadn’t inserted myself here to attend her funeral.
There had to be some method.
Something.
A song that could find her—did such a thing exist?
The Valkyrie Algorithm responds to your detailed search request.
Search results: ‘85,125 entries’ have been retrieved.
The results came back before I’d even actually activated the search function.
I stared at the retrieved results in a daze.
Yes, this is the Valkyrie Algorithm.
Even as a healing-class Hunter, I wasn’t limited to just treatment—it was because I possessed the adaptability, information, and knowledge to use it in diverse ways.
And I’d forgotten that I could leverage it.
‘A song that can find memories’, ‘a song that can find a forgotten lover’, ‘a song that can find lost history’, ‘a song that can find the way’….
Among the countless search results, I found more specific search terms.
‘A song that can find magical power.’
The ultimate objective of eliminating the Handler was when the Handler directly engaged in combat.
Each Handler’s strength differed, but somewhere in this Dungeon, Dan Myeong-ah’s Handler was definitely emitting magical power.
I selected the song.
Vocal Performance (B+) receives a buff from Creative Technique (A+).
Vocal Performance (B+) and Creative Technique (A+) receive a buff from Aspiration for Growth (S—).
Green musical notes unfurled, enveloping my body.
Those who quickly sensed what was happening cleared a path for me.
“I told you that no matter where you hide, I will find you. I foolishly believed those words.”
The ‘accompaniment’ begins!
Sacred Rendezvous (A)
The remnant of a wave that once dreamed of love with a god wishes to pass its backup data to the soprano of healing.
Contrary to the tender lyrics, a sticky jazz-like yet rapid drum beat laid the foundation.
The story of a spirit who enjoyed secret meetings with a god and willingly revealed its hiding place to him unfolded through my voice.
The soprano of healing is prepared to inherit the data.
The data responds.
The god, who knew not the path of primordial insignificance, became able to read his magical power under the spirit’s guidance.
In return, the god taught them the method to pursue their traces, and with the consequence of breaking the taboo, their secret meeting came to an end—such was the tale.
Becoming the spirit myself, singing while feeling all the tenderness and secrecy of that day, emerald light blazed across this vast space.
The sinister magical power of the monsters lurking here, the power of knowledge possessed by the books—such things overwhelmed me and made me dizzy.
With synchronization already greatly amplified through data inheritance, if I kept my eyes open here, I felt I would lose consciousness.
“Ye-ah.”
Jung Hwan-jae naturally extended his arm to support my body.
My mind eased slightly, and I closed my eyes. At that same moment, as if it had been waiting, Liri’s message window appeared beyond my closed eyelids.
[Liri: You mustn’t forget what you’re searching for. There are far too many things in this place right now, so you must focus directly on the one single thing you wish to find.]
The one thing I had to find.
Despite possessing the power to track gods, the Spirit of the Waves had sought out only one deity that mattered to her heart.
The lyrics made it abundantly clear.
“I didn’t want to find a god. I wanted to find you. I’ve been searching for you all along.”
Yes, I was searching for Dan Myeong-ah and her Staff Member.
Desperately hoping to find and save them. I gritted my teeth and raised my voice even higher.
The accompaniment quickly caught onto my intentional key shift and elevated the octave as well. Electric elements wove through the music, intensifying the passionate atmosphere.
And I saw it clearly.
The moment I stopped singing, the accompaniment cut off, and my eyes snapped open.
Strength (S) blocks the strain being placed on your body.
Your Staff Member’s divinity blocks your mind from collapsing.
Something touched my lips, and I reflexively opened my mouth. A sweet peach flavor flowed down my throat, and my tension immediately eased.
Jung Hwan-jae had fed me a potion. Before I could even register my surprise, I opened my mouth.
“I felt the waves. Let’s go!”

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