The Tone-Deaf Healer Kills with a Song - Chapter 96

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Tone-Deaf Healer Kills with Song – Episode 096
A brilliant crimson light scattered in all directions with a flash. The faint drumbeat grew louder, and an anguished wail from an unknown source echoed through the air.
A sound like a mournful cry filled the space around Yuko, who stood towering before us, enveloping her completely.
Yuko opened her mouth as if to scream, but no voice emerged.
Instead, dozens of Oni crawled up from the ground in response.
Dante turned his gaze toward a hunter who seemed to have known her in life.
He spoke fluent Japanese.
“What kind of skills did Hunter Yuko originally use?”
“She was originally a summoner. She would contract with ancient Oni and fight using them, but she wanted to contract with someone far stronger than her own abilities allowed.”
Jung Hwan-jae, catching this explanation with one ear, began to think rapidly.
So it seemed she had overextended her divine power trying to command beings beyond her capability.
Every hunter must face it at least once—the limit of their talent. Most people accept it and move on, but some, like Yuko, believed they could overcome it.
Sometimes when you hit a wall, effort can resolve the problem.
‘But this was too much greed.’
When it became unmanageable, she must have already felt her own body becoming a Dungeon while fused with her handler.
The handler who could have prevented that situation had already become corrupted data, losing all function.
Lucy’s divine power spread throughout the entire Dungeon, forcefully suppressing the Oni that were crawling out.
With his own strength, he could have ended this Dungeon, but that would have been excessive.
Nia turned to look at Jung Hwan-jae and Dante.
“Please end the suffering of Yuko, who could have been our old comrade and your colleague.”
Their faces clearly bore sorrow, though it was likely directed at Yuko rather than at her handler.
The collapse of a precious Awakened One and their complicity in it seemed to weigh heavily upon them.
“Dante.”
“Yes.”
“If I cut her down, she will go to hell. I will prevent them from approaching, so I ask you to do this in that time.”
“You believe in superstitions, it seems.”
Even if he was the reaper of the underworld, did he truly believe in the existence of hell?
Though he spoke in jest, Dante’s gun barrel was aimed precisely at Yuko.
“From now on, this place will shake considerably. Everyone, construct defensive formations so that no one falls or is left behind if the ground collapses.”
In place of Jung Hwan-jae, who silently gathered his magical power, Dante informed everyone.
Those who had despaired at having no way to save their comrade began to move.
“There is no way to save Yuko…”
Jung Hwan-jae sighed and turned to face him.
The words flowing fluently from his lips were neither reproachful nor sympathetic, but delivered in a calm tone.
“If you had wanted to stop her, you would have had the chance already. When she was excessively obsessed with the Oni, when she was overusing her handler’s divine power.”
“…”
“Once everything is too late and you search for a way, those who have departed do not return.”
As Jung Hwan-jae finished speaking, the man before us swallowed his tears and began to deploy his defensive formation. His gaze never left Yuko.
But Jung Hwan-jae was right.
Those who depart do not return, and unless a miracle occurs, what is lost cannot be restored.
Dante’s gaze turned toward Jung Hwan-jae. He had already pivoted his body and was gathering mana.
He had clearly heard Jung Hwan-jae’s final murmur.
“If I had held on before losing it, I might not have missed it.”
Jung Hwan-jae rushed forward and unleashed a powerful blade strike toward the Oni being suppressed by Lucy’s divine power.
Dante’s bullet fired at the same moment. Nia’s golden divine power wrapped around the bullet and sent it flying with even greater force.
The instant Jung Hwan-jae’s scythe cut down dozens of Oni, the bullet pierced through the dungeon’s core.

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“How is your body feeling?”
“Much better.”
Dan Myeong-ah sat up with Kim A-jin’s assistance.
Though I had certainly treated her injuries, Kim A-jin forcibly admitted her to the hospital, insisting that detailed examinations were necessary.
And then a problem arose.
Naturally, the injuries I had healed were fine, but because she had overexerted her body so much, her mana had accumulated—she received what was called a mana fatigue diagnosis.
Normally in such situations, a staff member would step in to help, but since that wasn’t possible, she had no choice but to receive hospital treatment.
[Liri: To move with such willpower while mana circulation was completely blocked and stagnant like this… that’s truly remarkable.]
[Liri: If I could give an award, I would.]
I agreed.
This wasn’t something ordinary willpower could accomplish.
“Would you mind if I tried to do something about the stagnant mana? I might be able to help somehow…”
I broached the subject cautiously, but Dan Myeong-ah shook her head sharply.
She had already owed me too much from the Library of the Tomb and couldn’t accept help with something like this.
That was naturally something I should have done, yet she acted as though I had somehow placed her in my debt.
“The hospital says you’ll recover with rest, IV fluids, and such. The cost of potions and IV treatment isn’t cheap, though…”
“It’s fine. I can use the money I’ve been saving for marriage funds. I even took out insurance in case something like this happened.”
Dan Myeong-ah shook her head, saying that looking at her fate, she couldn’t see even an inch ahead, let alone marriage.
She seemed completely oblivious to the complex expression Kim A-jin was making toward her.
I decided to pretend I hadn’t noticed either.
“Did Hunter Jung Hwan and Hunter Dante enter the dungeon right away?”
“Yes, I heard it was supposed to be an S-Rank Dungeon, but when they actually went in, it didn’t seem to be that level.”
I recalled a few chat messages posted by Ray, a Japanese hunter ranked between 1st and 50th place.
Ray (11)
This isn’t S-Rank
But I think I’m really lucky to be able to observe various things like the staff members and divine powers of the rankers
Dante (3)
This is a special dungeon. Yeom Ye-ah, if you receive this outside, please request a correction from the Hunter Association
Yeom Ye-ah (1)
Me?
Oh yes!!!
But I had no influence within the guild.
I called the Hunter Association using the only staff member number I knew, and I rushed over after hearing that Kim A-jin was at the Hospital.
After listening to the explanation, Dan Myeong-ah said that place was a “Fusion Dungeon.”
“I’ve already heard the news that a Hunter named Yuko went missing. It seems the Staff Member in charge entered inside, which is why it was rated S-Rank on the outside.”
The actual internal difficulty fell far short of that, but since the exterior was wrapped in divine power, it became an absurd level of danger.
A Fusion Dungeon—the most desperate end for a corrupted Staff Member and contracted Hunter.
Dan Myeong-ah explained it to me and sent a status update.
Yeom Ye-ah (1)
I’ve sent the status update
When will you be back?
Jung Hwan (1)
Soon
Dante (3)
Even after defeating the boss, we have to find the exit ourselves or collapse the Dungeon itself, so it’ll take a while
Jung Hwan (1)
Leaving now
Dante (3)
That means he’s leaving soon
Yeom Ye-ah (1) has changed her status to ‘Away’.
“Our Hunter Association was preparing internationally in agreement with Baldur to prevent that, but now we have the problem of Staff Member killers, including those arrested this time.”
Kim Kyung-hoon’s face flashed through my mind.
Does he want to turn everyone stronger than him into Dungeons?
Logically speaking, it wouldn’t be easy to kill both me and Jung Hwan-jae. It would have been possible right after awakening, but now it should be considered impossible.
If he’s going to do it that way, he might as well just turn all of us into Dungeons.
“Then is the internal difficulty around B-Rank?”
“No, since divine power works even inside, I believe it would be at least A-Rank.”
I fell silent for a long time before asking carefully.
“If I or our Guild Master became a Dungeon, what would the internal difficulty be?”
Kim A-jin and Dan Myeong-ah, who had been making calls and sending messages back and forth, both looked at me simultaneously.
I could see indescribable emotions crossing their faces. But I felt I needed an answer to this question before I could think about what comes next.
Dan Myeong-ah answered only after a long pause.
“That would be the day the colossal Gate Ragnarok is revived. Even stronger than before.”

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