The Tone-Deaf Healer Kills with a Song - Chapter 84

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Tone-Deaf Healer Kills with Song – Episode 084
“…Yes! Is there a Dungeon we need to clear right now?”
I wasn’t sure why he had to ask about going to a Dungeon in such an embarrassed manner.
Isn’t clearing Dungeons what Hunters do anyway?
It’s embarrassing to admit, but I could never tell Jung Hwan-jae directly—yet I found myself hoping he might be asking me out on a date instead.
Hoping for that when we didn’t even have time for such things. If anyone had heard that, they would have laughed out loud.
The problem was that I had one person who could hear it.
[Liri: I’m grateful that this man lacks conversational skills just as much as Ye-ah is oblivious to such things.]
‘What do you mean by that, Liri?’
[Liri: I won’t tell you.]
Lately, my Staff Member had been sulking and refusing to explain things that seemed like they should be explained.
Of course, I assumed there was a clear reason why he wouldn’t say anything, so I didn’t press him about it.
Just as I was about to turn my head and ask which Dungeon he was thinking of entering, our eyes met.
“Um, well…”
“Are you perhaps thinking that I must be tired after visiting the Library of the Tomb and handling various matters?”
“Well, that’s…”
“It’s fine. You let me rest well yesterday, and I actually slept far more than necessary.”
He smiled gently.
After sleeping comfortably that day and waking up, my condition had definitely improved.
Most of the stress people carry tends to be resolved by getting good sleep and eating well.
I had slept very well and eaten quite a lot. I had eaten plenty of meat, and after returning, I rested twice—once when Jung Hwan-jae put me to bed, and once when Liri did.
There was certainly frustration about those I couldn’t save, but it wasn’t enough to hinder my progress forward.
“Which Dungeon is it? Is it very difficult?”
He had resolved most Dungeons through his own strength alone.
If he was bringing me along, it might not be an ordinary challenge. Perhaps I should prepare myself as well.
I moved forward with determination. I thought it would be fine to hear the explanation as we descended the Mountain path.
Beneath my feet, a twig snapped with a sharp crack.
“There’s a Dungeon that’s said to be perfect for Hunter couples on a date. Would you like to go together?”
“Huh?”
I wanted to answer with “What?” but suddenly my words got tangled.
A Dungeon perfect for Hunter couples on a date? Had I really just heard that correctly?
The twig I had just stepped on scattered in all directions, and my feet slipped without my realizing it. Was this some kind of romance fantasy cliché fall?
Just one second before I could fall ungracefully in front of him after receiving an actual date proposal, Jung Hwan-jae was faster than me in catching himself.
“Are you alright?”
“Yes, of course!”
He quickly came to my side and caught me by the waist, preventing me from falling.
It was quite a dramatic pose.
A man who doesn’t know how to properly ask someone out and a woman who doesn’t know how to properly accept are now facing each other closely on a remote Mountain with mud-covered feet.
At a distance where our noses could touch at any moment, Jung Hwan-jae blinked in apparent confusion before gently lifting me up.
“It would be better to descend the Mountain this way since you could fall.”
“What if you slip too, senior?”
“My feet have an anti-slip buff applied to them.”
‘She really does have every buff imaginable.’
[Liri: If Yea wants, I can grant her that level of buff too.]
[Liri: We’ve become very close now, after all.]
I let out a short, involuntary cough at Liri’s message.
“From what I hear, that dungeon doesn’t involve hunting monsters—you have to solve puzzles instead. And apparently there are traps that absolutely require two people to solve.”
“Oh, I think I’ve heard about that too.”
“And I’m not entirely sure, but the herbs that drop there are excellent for stamina recovery, so it’s best to cook them right after harvesting, and…”
He began rambling on.
Watching his face, I found myself laughing without meaning to.
It was strange.
I’m usually nervous when I speak too, but when I see him more flustered than me like this, I can’t help but feel reassured.
I can tell that his flustered demeanor is filled with goodwill toward me.
“Yes, let’s go together.”
“…Is that really alright?”
“Yes, we’re going on a date, just the two of us. And I get to build my record at the same time—I really am a lucky person.”
As I whispered with a cheerful tone, he smiled faintly.
His earlobes flushed a delicate shade of red. But there was no time to point it out.
Because he suddenly took off running toward the dungeon at a terrifying pace.
[Liri: Why isn’t he using teleportation and acting like this instead, the pervert!]
I couldn’t agree with the “pervert” assessment.
But I didn’t understand it either.
“Why are you running, please!”

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“This area naturally has a shallow poison debuff spread throughout.”
“That’s fortunate….”
We’d received complete immunity to mental and poison debuffs as the reward for ranking first.
Considering that each hunter typically had at least one vulnerability to certain debuffs, having two people walk away with such benefits was a significant loss for Baldur.
But since joint first place was still first place, there were no exceptions—even I received the reward.
“If your mana is below E+, we don’t really recommend it.”
They glanced at my stat window before turning away.
The dungeon, initially filled with fog on all sides, cleared beautifully as we advanced slowly after entering.
A path bloomed with pink flowers like cherry blossoms stretched out beautifully like a promenade, and animals made of light frolicked about.
The sky flowed with a leisurely aurora of five colors.
“This place really feels like a fairy tale.”
“Yes, that’s why many people come here to take photos.”
“For something that looks like a fairy tale, some pretty realistic things happen…. We don’t have to catch all those cute creatures, do we?”
The animals made of light, which had been bounding about, suddenly stopped and looked at us.
They approached without any sign of aggression and rubbed their bodies against us. I carefully extended my hand and gently stroked them, as if petting a puppy.
“No, there’s no need to attack them. When Kim Hwa-hyun first awakened, she spent time with them to practice a teaching skill. They’re very docile.”
To clear this place, we apparently only needed to solve a few simple problems.
Sometimes dungeons had difficulty levels that were almost unbelievably low.
Liri had told me this before I even registered as a hunter—that all dungeons are calamities, but sometimes calamities that are bearable come along.
“Now that I know, it seems easy, but they must have all worked really hard to discover such a strategy, right?”
“Mi-ju and Ji-wook discovered the strategy for this dungeon. After they completed a mission together, they both threw up.”
“I see.”
They did make an effort, but not in the way I was thinking.
I sent my respect toward the noble sacrifice of these two people, who steadfastly completed a mission together with their siblings—the kind of thing only lovers would do for a greater cause—and then vomited it all up.
“For now, you just need to keep walking along this promenade. You’ll come across a yellow tree, and precious medicinal herbs grow beneath it.”
“Do we have to chew the herbs raw and eat them?”
Jung Hwan-jae shook his head.
As he walked alongside me, he kept checking something in his inventory and moving past it.
After some time passed, he pulled out a small bag.
“It’s a dungeon cooking kit.”
“A cooking kit…?”
“Difficult dungeons sometimes require spending several days inside, so this is like a mini kitchen prepared for those situations.”
I nodded vaguely.
I see.
If I hadn’t spotted the golden tree in the distance, I would have asked why he was carrying around a kitchen when he clearly had no intention of cooking anything.
I pointed to the distant tree and grabbed Jung Hwan-jae’s hand, starting to run.
I pretended not to notice his body stiffen.
“I don’t know how many herbs will grow, but we’re eating together. And since you brought it, I’m not going to be the only one eating!”
As I spoke loudly, he answered a beat too late.
“…Yes.”
Her voice trembled with an emotion I recognized all too well.
How did I know her chest was churning like that?
Because my own heart was doing exactly the same.

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