Was Happy Being a Despised F-Rank Healer, You Know? - Chapter 106

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14. I Was Happy Being a Despised F-Rank Healer? (15)

“Oh, Han Seong.”

“Yuhan Seong?”

Seo Jeong-u flinched without realizing it.

Since when had he been standing there?

“I told the people who were waiting in line to come back during the unmanned sales time later. After an hour.”

“Oh my, it’s already come to that. Thank you.”

Hali answered as she stood up.

“I didn’t hear the door opening.”

Since they had been discussing important security matters, Seo Jeong-u muttered worriedly, and Yuhan Seong replied.

“Don’t worry.”

Seo Jeong-u nodded at those words and glanced at Hali, who was busily putting things for the class kids into her subspace bag, then said.

“I heard the teacher gave you that?”

Yuhan Seong looked at Hali’s bag—no, backpack.

“How unexpected. Anyway, I’ll go ahead first.”

“Yeah. Thanks.”

It was easy to understand what he was grateful for without having to ask.

However, it was a bit puzzling that Yuhan Seong’s gaze toward Hali was complicated.

‘It’s not just worry.’

Is there something else?

With such thoughts, Seo Jeong-u headed toward Class 8.

Definitely feeling his body lighter than usual.

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Purifying mana circuits, huh.

‘That sounds kind of. Ominous, doesn’t it?’

There had been precedents for production-type skills being unusual or high-ranked.

So potions had some room for acceptance in current society.

‘Regardless of what their effects might be.’

Then it would become easier to hide problems that could become research subjects, like the phenomenon of effects becoming unusually good inside dungeons.

Though that couldn’t remain a secret forever either.

‘But healing is different. Ugh, though I half-expected this.’

This was also why I’d been cautious about using healing.

“Sigh.”

My potions alone had become a hot topic for potentially elevating an A-rank party to S-rank, but now I have a healing ability that can temporarily make an A-rank individual 1.5 times stronger?

Maybe not entering dungeons won’t make me safe after all.

Instead of being caught for having blood as bait, if I’m caught being a living elixir, isn’t that the same thing?

The only thing that would change is the location of my death—from a dungeon to a laboratory.

“Are you worried?”

I was frantically putting the things I’d made for our class kids into my bag while worrying about what Seo Jeong-u had said, when Yuhan Seong asked.

I belatedly noticed his presence and turned around.

“…Han Seong? Didn’t you go ahead first?”

“Let’s go together.”

“Okay!”

Just when I thought he’d naturally deflected the question, he spoke again.

“…I won’t tell you not to worry.”

“…”

When I hesitated and looked at him, he slightly raised the corners of his mouth.

Just looking at his actions, Yuhan Seong seems somewhat like an emotionless doll or an animal due to the composure and way of moving characteristic of someone who’s lived long.

Of course, he loosens up a bit when he’s with us too.

But right now, he had a different expression from when he was with us.

“Hali. What do you want to do?”

“…What?”

“Should I take care of Isang Hee for you?”

His voice was very cold, but his tone was gentle. He closed the door and leaned against it, speaking without approaching me.

“She’s a light attribute mage, and now she’s A-rank so she has high external value. That’s why if you get entangled with her, you’ll definitely be the one who gets hurt more, so we’ve been preventing her from approaching you on our own.”

“…I see. No wonder.”

I had thought it strange that she seemed like she might approach but only glared from afar, not picking fights or creating atmosphere like before.

I felt a bit dazed.

It wasn’t that I was completely unaware, but it seemed they had put up an iron wall defense beyond what I had noticed.

For my sake.

I belatedly widened my eyes and stared blankly at Yuhan Seong, then approached and firmly grasped his right hand with both of mine.

And I said.

“So that’s what it was. Such,”

Troublesome work.

I was about to say that but swallowed the words.

“…Thank you.”

The potions playing a big role seemed to have also helped reduce the distance between them and me.

No matter how close they were to me, if I had really been dead weight, they wouldn’t have moved like this.

‘Rather, if it were Yuhan Seong, he might have let me get bullied to some extent and then urged me to drop out.’

Because he would have believed that was the only way to survive.

That would have been the action he’d take because we’d become close.

But the fact that he chose to protect me was both grateful and somewhat gratifying.

Now that not entering dungeons has been almost officially mentioned, I can get involved only to the degree I want, so it seems like it would be okay to become a bit closer!

“I’ll really do well.”

I said it with sincerity, but…?

But Yuhan Seong, who had been strangely stiff the moment our hands touched, flinched and then looked at me with slightly angry eyes.

“I didn’t do this for you to do well.”

“Ah.”

I expressed this wrong.

“Sorry, I mean.”

I thought carefully and chose my words cautiously.

“I also want to protect you guys.”

“…”

I could see his eyes instantly melt from the front.

While his expression remained somewhat stiff, which was a little funny.

Did his muscles stiffen?

That’s not it. In the original work, Yuhan Seong was a protagonist with quite a lot of facial expressions (cringeworthy ones) in the early stages.

“Let’s stop thinking about us.”

Then Yuhan Seong broke the brief silence and spoke.

“Could you tell me what you want to do?”

While turning the hand caught in mine and clasping hands with me.

…Huh?

“I’ll ask again. Should I take care of Isang Hee?”

“No no! No!”

“Hmm.”

Suddenly, I realized that he was an extremely fox-like handsome man.

It was a part I felt less because it was usually overshadowed by his conduct, but at this moment, somehow.

“Even if Isang Hee ends up killing you later?”

A calm but strangely coaxing voice quietly burrowed into my ears.

“What do you mean?”

That wasn’t in the original story!

More importantly, those eyes!

The way his humorless silver eyes tilted his head and narrowed just slightly was truly strange.

“It’s within the expected range. Even if we can maintain this inside the Academy, we go in and out of dungeons, so there will be gaps. It’ll become more dangerous after graduation.”

“…That might be true.”

I acknowledge that.

This world has a slightly different perception of murder than the world I used to live in.

Killing an unawakened person is a serious crime, but killing an F-rank isn’t treated as quite that serious—a strange atmosphere.

“After graduation, I’ll probably have to join a guild too.”

“Do you have a guild in mind?”

“Not yet.”

“…I see. What if having a guild doesn’t change the situation?”

“Still, killing isn’t okay.”

Isang Hee is the heroine of the original story.

Although our relationship is flowing in the complete opposite direction now, what I couldn’t overlook was that she had played an important role as a member of the hero’s party.

This was also one of the reasons I wasn’t taking private revenge on Isang Hee.

“You know too, Han Seong, that the destruction started in Korea.”

Yuhan Seong narrowed his eyes slightly.

“Light attribute barrier. She said she awakened as a mage, but her basic skill is barrier. If she became A-rank, S-rank is also possible, and then.”

“Not that kind of thing. I’m curious about what you want to do. Aren’t you angry?”

He seemed to be talking about what happened during the Azure Dragon Dungeon.

Both he and I knew that Isang Hee was behind Jung Mi-hyeong’s incident too.

“I am angry, but more than that, I’m busy.”

“…Huh?”

He hesitated.

It seemed like it wasn’t the answer he expected.

“My stats are low so I lack stamina. Being angry also requires energy. And I’m the type to think about later things later.”

When I said this with a grin, Yuhan Seong looked at me quietly.

“And I hate killing people. If a situation comes where I have to, I’ll prepare so I can react immediately.”

If they really try to kill me directly, I’ll respond right away!

When I mentioned a couple of poison-type potions with a sinister smile, Yuhan Seong’s face became strange, then soon spread with amusement.

“I can’t keep being a burden to you guys forever, so I’m preparing in my own way too. So don’t worry too much. Got it?”

“…You’re not a burden.”

“Yeah, I know, I know. Thanks. But this kind of thing needs to be clear. Even if I’m not a burden now, there’s a possibility I could become one someday. I hate that.”

When I said this firmly, he moved his lips and laughed, “Ha, ha.”

“Then what about healing? Do you really only want to use it on Class 8? Or.”

“Hmm.”

I looked around briefly.

I checked if anyone might be eavesdropping outside the door, and when I let go of his hand for a moment to do so, Yuhan Seong watched what I was doing a beat late.

“What are you doing?”

“Just wait.”

Good, it’s still just us even after looking again.

Only after checking the hallway did I close the door and look at him.

Then I stood on my tiptoes and whispered in his ear.

“I’m still going to pretend I can’t use healing, and use it secretly.”

“…Secretly?”

“Yeah. So, Han Seong.”

There was one thing I needed his help with.

“Could I borrow that magpie again?”

The summoned creature he hadn’t revealed since showing it in that Jester’s Dungeon where we obtained ten treasures together.

That magpie whose only ability seemed to be bringing good luck.

Yuhan Seong, who had flinched at the breath touching his ear but hadn’t changed his lowered posture, met my eyes at my words, then slowly smiled the deepest smile I’d ever seen from him.

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