Was Happy Being a Despised F-Rank Healer, You Know? - Chapter 112

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15. A Story Jin Hali Doesn’t Know (4)

Yuhan Seong opened his eyes upon receiving the magpie’s alert.

The time was around midnight.

The magpie popped out without being summoned and poked his cheek repeatedly.

-Wake up, human.

“…What.”

-That human disappeared. What should we do?

A voice reminiscent of a resolute little woodcutter.

At the magpie’s dejected words, Yuhan Seong sat up.

“Disappeared? What do you mean?”

-I don’t know. You told me to just watch if she was okay, so I was only checking that she wasn’t dead, but she suddenly vanished.

He hadn’t told anyone that he could communicate with the magpie. Not even Hali, to whom he’d lent the magpie for use anytime.

After allowing Hali to form a temporary contract with the magpie, Yuhan Seong had commanded the magpie through telepathy.

“To be precise, I said to normally just check if she’s okay, and if it seems dangerous, step in even without being called.”

-Too long. I forgot.

The magpie sent its thoughts along with cawing sounds.

-Sorry, so I’ll give you seeds.

“You said they’re not even yours. Never mind that, hurry and find Hali’s presence.”

Yuhan Seong was already scanning the entire Academy, unable to sense Hali’s presence.

Though it would be troublesome if anyone caught him scanning with magic, he showed no hesitation.

‘Even though I haven’t decided what to do with that girl going forward.’

Like this, he kept acting as if he’d already decided to include Jin Hali in his future party.

But this had been going on for a while now, so it wasn’t that surprising anymore.

Yuhan Seong knew he harbored strong personal affection for Jin Hali and would treat her the same way even if he didn’t ultimately select her as a member of his future S-rank party.

…Because Jin Hali was showing possibilities he hadn’t seen in his long years.

There were other reasons too, but ultimately that reason would be the biggest.

That’s also why he lent her the magpie.

Since her F-rank magic and stats hadn’t changed, she needed something to protect her when no one was around.

“…Where could she have gone?”

At his anxious voice, the magpie paced back and forth on the bed before looking up at its master and saying.

-She’s not dead. She probably won’t be hurt either. Don’t worry.

“…That’s a relief, but kidnappers might have locked her up somewhere.”

-Yeah. Sorry.

“It’s okay. If it was something you couldn’t detect, then a being greater than you must have intervened.”

The magpie’s current rank is A-grade.

Perhaps because Yuhan Seong had cared for it since it was a baby, the magpie sometimes tended to regard him more as a guardian than a master. And thanks to that familiarity, its growth had been rapid too.

Even though he hadn’t been using it much in combat.

‘That’s why I thought it would be optimal for this kind of daily protection.’

It wasn’t impossible for something A-rank or higher to intervene, but… if it had been human, there’s no way Yuhan Seong or the other kids wouldn’t have known.

Especially the S-rank kids, since they were constantly keeping an eye on Jin Hali’s whereabouts.

Ah, come to think of it, maybe someone who was awake might be panicking and looking for Jin Hali by now.

“I should go out.”

-Yeah, let’s go together!

“Follow me invisibly.”

-Yeah, we’ll definitely find the fragrant human.

What’s with the fragrance.

Ever since the magpie had grown somewhat and began properly recognizing Jin Hali, it had called her the fragrant human.

‘Come to think of it, did it start talking after that treasure dungeon?’

It would have been in the Jester’s treasure dungeon that he cleared together with her.

It had started communicating even before that, but its ability to understand and the level of communication had probably improved around that time.

‘Hali is involved in rapid growth again.’

What Hali does is more focused on protecting people with potions.

So it would be difficult to say she directly influences rank advancement that breaks through barriers through things like combat experience and skill proficiency.

By common sense, that is.

But the problem is that wherever there’s rapid growth, Hali is always involved.

‘Fragrance. I could understand that as something like pheromones. I should remember this.’

Anyway, even Yuhan Seong wasn’t certain about what role Hali played in awakeners’ growth, but he knew there were countless humans who would target Hali recklessly, accepting baseless speculation as fact after seeing this.

The Academy’s protection alone wasn’t enough.

And he wasn’t the only one who thought so.

“Lee Hae-sol.”

“Yuhan Seong.”

Lee Hae-sol, who had been walking almost at a run across the dormitory hallway, whipped around to look at Yuhan Seong.

The neat boy with blue eyes had the bearing of a scholar raised preciously in a noble family when wearing the Academy uniform.

Lee Hae-sol was dressed not much differently from the uniform he wore during the day.

It seemed he’d come out after doing student council work.

Who else was in the student council again.

“Yu Hee too?”

Though much was omitted from his words, Lee Hae-sol quickly understood and shook his head.

“Hee went in early for family business. More importantly, Hali.”

“Yeah. I’m scanning now.”

“Tell me where you haven’t scanned.”

“The west side.”

As quickly as possible, but without using magic to avoid detection, the two continued their search while moving on foot.

If the teachers noticed, not only they but Hali could be in trouble too. If this wasn’t a kidnapping situation, it would unnecessarily escalate things, and if it was a kidnapping, the teachers couldn’t be trusted either.

To be able to block the magpie’s sight and kidnap someone instantly, excluding themselves, would require at least teacher-level ability.

“If we can’t find her by morning, I’ll inform the homeroom teacher.”

At Lee Hae-sol’s words, Yuhan Seong pondered before nodding.

Choi Ji-hyeong, who had never been like this in all those cycles, was somewhat different this time around.

The Choi Ji-hyeong of this period had never spent money and ability on unprofitable matters.

‘He was the type who only came to his senses after almost everyone died.’

But this time, he strangely looked after the Class 8 kids.

The fact that all of Class 8 hadn’t died in any dungeon during this unstable period was partly thanks to their homeroom teacher’s help.

Yuhan Seong knew that change had occurred centered around Jin Hali.

‘Jin Hali.’

What really was her identity.

It was too late to be wary. The situation had reached a point where he couldn’t even if he wanted to.

Now rather….

-Human!

“Han Seong. Something’s being detected in the west.”

“…That place is.”

The magpie suddenly called him. At the same time, cutting off his thoughts and responding urgently to Lee Hae-sol’s words by scanning that direction, Yuhan Seong let out a groan.

Because it was a place they both knew.

“Isn’t that where the Dungeon of Fortune was?”

“It’s where the passage we last entered was located. It’s not Hali’s traces, but the magic flow is definitely strange. Let’s go check it out.”

“Alright.”

With Lee Hae-sol’s calm words, the two headed there at full speed within the limits of not using magic.

And there.

“Oh, are you guys looking for Hali too?”

They met Gong Seo-yun, who was waving his hands back and forth.

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“Why are you here?”

At Yuhan Seong’s puzzled question, Gong Seo-yun replied with a slight smile.

“After the night dungeon ended, I was the only one held back to report on various things.”

Today, Gong Seo-yun had entered a dungeon that could only be accessed at night, together with several other kids from Class 8.

It was a C-rank dungeon that they had temporarily assembled a team for, selecting only those whose characteristics matched the entry requirements.

Was Isang Hee included in that group too?

“Was it okay?”

Though I knew that Isang Hee didn’t show hostility toward anyone except Hali, he wasn’t particularly close to Gong Seo-yun either.

When Lee Hae-sol asked out of concern, Gong Seo-yun gave an ambiguous smile.

“Well, rank changes are just part of daily life now, right? Everyone made it out alive, so it was fine.”

“So it wasn’t fine.”

Yuhan Seong retorted as he approached the ground that Gong Seo-yun had been examining, along with Lee Hae-sol.

Gong Seo-yun affirmed with a sigh.

“This time it changed to B-rank, so the dungeon itself wasn’t too difficult, which I guess is fortunate…? Anyway, I’ll tell you the details later. When I came out, I noticed Hali wasn’t around.”

Gong Seo-yun, who had grown much closer to Hali since last vacation, was nearly S-rank and often displayed beast-like instincts when it came to the few people he paid special attention to.

“So you came straight here after reporting?”

Lee Hae-sol asked incredulously.

Gong Seo-yun shook his head.

“Actually, I went to where the Ongdalsam Dungeon used to be first, then came here.”

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