Was Happy Being a Despised F-Rank Healer, You Know? - Chapter 118

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15. A Story Jin Hali Doesn’t Know (10)

“Where’s Hali?”

Hyun I-seo, who was immersed in gaming as usual today, suddenly asked.

He sometimes suddenly checked on Hali’s whereabouts.

“At this time, she’d be in the potion room.”

Gong Seo-yun answered.

“She’ll probably come in about 30 minutes?”

“Perfect. Hey everyone, gather around for a moment.”

Gong Seo-yun and Hyun I-seo smiled like angels as they watched Yu Hee enter the classroom.

The other classmates who hadn’t left yet also gathered.

“Yuhan Seong will come later, and Hali will be here soon. …Since everyone’s here for once, I’d like to have a meeting. The student council is starting to pressure us to submit our plans.”

Yu Hee spoke with an expression that showed great regret about joining the student council.

“The dungeon schedule is complicated, and they’re asking me what to do about it.”

Only her laughter seemed gentle, but her words were blunt.

“So let’s decide soon. What our class will do for the festival.”

“…Festival?”

“Oh, right. There’s less than a month left now.”

“Wow, I completely forgot about this.”

Class 8 had high-difficulty practical training.

The academy didn’t intentionally adjust the difficulty.

It was just that Class 8 students would usually turn C-rank dungeons into B-rank, and sometimes even A-rank.

Recently, dungeons showing anomalies had become frequent nationwide, but it was definitely unusual for every dungeon that Class 8 students entered to get upgraded.

Because of this, all sorts of rumors were circulating lately, but setting that aside.

Everyone’s level had improved, and thanks to Hali’s potions, they weren’t dying and barely getting injured while holding on, but they worried what would happen if an S-rank suddenly appeared.

The Class 8 students instinctively grasped the truth.

Unlike the various opinions of people gossiping outside, it wasn’t because there was something special about Class 8, but because the Annihilation Dungeon itself was searching for the adversaries it first encountered.

The dungeon was acting with its own will.

Even if they didn’t know the word “adversary,” everyone felt the dungeon’s persistence in tracking them as adversaries.

That’s why they had been so busy.

Busy enough to forget about Narin’s festival!

Hyun I-seo, who had been staring at the screen showing “FAIL” with tired eyes, put down his device and muttered gloomily.

“We’ll still be here in our third year, so this time we could just get by…”

“No way. Snap out of it, guys.”

Yu Hee tapped the podium.

“Let’s think of it as going back to kindergarten and doing a talent show.”

Talent show…

She had a point.

The festival was an event where students showed off their skills and ranks to outsiders, bragging about their abilities and appealing to them.

Of course, some people just had fun, and others conquered the small dungeons within the festival dungeon that only opened during the festival period.

“Like kindergarteners? Dancing and acting, then it’s over? If we can get through 3 days with something briefly embarrassing, I could do it.”

When Goi-deun spoke in a sharp tone, Yu Hee shook her head and said.

“If we’re going to dance and act, we’d have to do it for all 3 days.”

“Th-that sounds terrible. It doesn’t look easy at all…”

Seo Jeong-u spoke timidly, but Yu Hee didn’t budge.

“Let’s hear whatever ideas you have.”

Baek Ha-yan raised her hand high.

“Group part-time job at Hali’s potion shop! There’ll definitely be crowds there.”

“So you want to do a talent show for the crowding customers. We should hear Hali’s opinion on this too. Good for now.”

When she wrote that as number 1 on the board, Baek Ha-yan grinned and nodded. Seeing this, Tak Jeong-eun raised her hand next.

“Is it okay to do a talent show in a small dungeon?”

“In a dungeon? How?”

“There are material dungeons too. Let’s show how well we can mine ore.”

For B-rank Tak Jeong-eun, whose specialty was niche skills, this was a very advantageous opinion that could also make money.

“Unfortunately, the student council would probably restrict that.”

“Tch.”

“Other opinions?”

Kim Myeong-hyeon, who had been dozing and nearly died from Yu Hee’s glare, spoke with a suddenly alert posture.

“Whatever we do, leave the promotion to me.”

Since he was a B-rank with sound wave skills, he could make small sounds loud and spread them widely.

As Yu Hee nodded, Yuhan Seong entered with Hali.

“You’re here?”

“Yeah! Huh? Everyone’s gathered?”

Jin Hali exclaimed with eyes sparkling with joy.

“No dungeon schedules today?”

“I have one at night.”

“Me too.”

Hyun I-seo and Seo Jeong-u said. The rest answered that they had none today.

Yuhan Seong looked at what Yu Hee had written and seemed to grasp the situation, muttering.

“Festival season, huh.”

“Right. So we’re having a meeting.”

Hali replied as she sat in her seat.

Isang Hee, who had been looking out the window with a disinterested attitude, suddenly turned her head to follow Yuhan Seong with her eyes.

“H-Han Seong, hello…”

“Yeah.”

It had been a while since Yuhan Seong bothered to return her greetings.

It would have been since the Azure Dragon Dungeon.

Isang Hee bit her lips tightly. Then she suddenly started glaring at Jin Hali.

Goi-deun glanced at that scene from the corner of her eye, then inwardly snorted and turned her head away.

“Sigh.”

Actually, if things had gone according to principle, Hali might have been the one ostracized in Class 8.

Not just because she was an F-rank healer.

‘Participating in the Azure Dragon Dungeon was the key factor.’

Even if someone’s usual behavior was disagreeable, that alone wasn’t grounds for ostracizing them.

This was an academy that trained hunters.

Rather than Isang Hee’s personal issues, not participating in the Azure Dragon Dungeon, which was the beginning of the annihilation, became the biggest reason for her ostracism.

If Isang Hee had also been in the Azure Dragon Dungeon, they would have treated her as a comrade regardless of their feelings toward Hali or being indebted to her.

But Isang Hee’s petty scheme to try to kill someone was completely contrary to the basic spirit of Narin Academy students.

Even though there were occasionally strange individuals like Jung Mi-hyeong, this was fundamentally a place that trained awakened ones to save people.

Unless they were pushed here unwillingly, it was a place where people with basic sense of justice and moral standards gathered.

Of course, that was only compared to other awakened ones.

No matter how much there was a trend of looking down on F-rank healers, that was based on not being able to recognize them as comrades, not hatred to the point of wanting to kill them.

Isang Hee had sent someone into a dungeon where F-ranks had a high probability of dying based on personal emotions, and when everyone barely survived after it escalated to the Azure Dragon Dungeon, she didn’t even apologize. She spouted unbelievable nonsense about doing it out of goodwill and was only busy creating an image for herself.

That was unacceptable behavior toward Hali, but it was also behavior that the other Class 8 students couldn’t accept as comrades.

‘Moreover, after the Azure Dragon Dungeon, our class developed a bond from becoming the dungeon’s target.’

That was probably a bond that wouldn’t break until the annihilation ended, maybe even after that.

‘If we manage to survive, that is.’

Honestly, wasn’t surviving the Azure Dragon also thanks to Hali being there?

They had become destined to share fate with Hali, whether they wanted to or not.

In such a situation, Isang Hee’s attitude remained consistent.

From what she said, it seemed like she was even more conscious of being an F-rank Healer than Hali herself was.

While there were severe rank supremacists out there, Isang Hee was particularly extreme. To ignore everything visible before her eyes and say she absolutely couldn’t acknowledge someone just because they were an F-rank Healer was…

‘Putting aside whether I dislike it, I just don’t understand it.’

A healer is a lifeline.

If it’s a healer who plays a role that even S-rank healers wouldn’t envy, then regardless of what methods they’re using, they should be treasured.

The problem was that Jin Hali didn’t particularly dislike Isang Hee.

She had felt this with Jung Mi-hyeong too, but Jin Hali seemed to have little awareness of being looked down upon and tormented.

‘It’s because she’s too used to it.’

Yet the fact that she didn’t become shabby herself was what made Jin Hali admirable.

That’s why Goi-deun liked Jin Hali as a person too. Beyond just having favorable feelings, there were moments when she strangely became someone to rely on.

For Goi-deun, who possessed a memory skill, the world was often more vivid and more cruel.

Goi-deun couldn’t easily forget those painful moments either.

It was fortunate enough that she could now communicate with her surroundings, even if sharply.

So both from personal feelings and as a professional colleague, if Isang Hee tried to harm Jin Hali again, she wouldn’t let it slide.

Of course, it would likely be resolved before she needed to step in.

‘If she comes to her senses even now, she probably won’t die.’

Looking at how Jin Hali, the person involved, looked at even Isang Hee with the affection of viewing a younger sibling, there was a high possibility she’d forgive even the attempted murder.

While those around her would be frustrated, if the person involved said it was fine, there was no reason to openly antagonize Isang Hee.

But she knew well that things wouldn’t flow that way.

In the worst case, if unlucky, that good-natured Hali might get hurt trying to save Isang Hee…

‘No way, surely not.’

No matter how much that’s Jin Hali, there’s no way she would do that…

‘…Would she?’

No, no way.

Goi-deun vigorously shook her head, trying to shake off the strangely rising sense of unease.

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