Was Happy Being a Despised F-Rank Healer, You Know? - Chapter 119

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15. A Story Jin Hali Doesn’t Know (11)

In Goi-deun’s opinion, Isang Hee was about to explode.

Recently, she had been whispering about something with students from other classes who agreed with her opinions, so it seemed like she would cause trouble soon.

‘Whatever she does, it’ll most likely be during the festival.’

Shaking off the ominous thoughts from earlier, Goi-deun proudly straightened her posture.

And she watched as a few more opinions came out and the choices narrowed down to Hali’s store part-time job and the trashy play, thinking to herself.

‘But would Isang Hee really be able to harm Hali?’

It was truly a thought that just crossed her mind.

But an inexplicable certainty began to wash over her.

Hali was hiding her healing abilities from Isang Hee. And that alone would surely create a major error in Isang Hee’s perception of Hali.

‘Hali’s healing is definitely something special.’

Goi-deun had also received healing yesterday.

How fortunate it was that they didn’t need to move to a different location since Isang Hee kept disappearing to talk with students from other classes whenever she had the chance. If they had needed to find a new place, it would have been more complicated, like having to ask the teacher for help.

Anyway, she couldn’t forget the sight of the healing she witnessed yesterday.

‘…She looked like a saint from a fairy tale.’

She wasn’t talking about beauty. While Hayan would praise Hali’s appearance, Goi-deun wasn’t that type.

What Goi-deun focused on was Hali’s touch.

It might sound a bit strange to say this, but the way her hands carefully approached the wound area, her calm and serious gaze, and the fundamental gentleness that permeated her expression made Hali look like a saint.

‘I can understand why Yuhan Seong’s group can’t get their heads straight.’

The higher the rank, the more animalistic senses become maximized. The same went for emotions. What did this mean?

It meant that the higher the rank, the stronger primitive desires like possessiveness became.

They were the ones who became friends with Hali from the beginning, and it seemed they hung out during vacation too…

The more time they spent together, wouldn’t they have experienced more of what Goi-deun experienced yesterday – that feeling of pain completely disappearing just by looking at Hali’s expression?

It wasn’t limited to romantic attraction but could make anyone lose their composure regardless of gender.

‘Though Hali doesn’t seem to realize how much of an effect she has.’

It seemed she was convinced that there was no way anyone would be that obsessed with an F-rank healer.

So even just the people around Hali would prevent Isang Hee from carelessly touching her, but Goi-deun recalled another thing she realized yesterday.

“There’s definitely something more…”

The wound that Hali treated for Goi-deun yesterday happened to be one that occurred when her potions had completely run out.

It was a wound serious enough that she could barely make it to the classroom while hiding it, but Hali healed it in one go without showing any signs of difficulty.

‘And the poison too.’

That girl is not an ordinary healer.

It was common knowledge that when simple wounds and special potion-category wounds overlapped, treatment took a bit more time, but in Hali’s case, there was no time difference.

‘I should look through some old books.’

Actually, in the early days when she didn’t know much about Hali, she had been anxious on one hand while keeping Hali’s potion secret.

She had thought that if Hali’s identity wasn’t that of a simple healer, in the worst case, she might be close to a monster.

But that hypothesis was quickly discarded.

Monster or whatever, Hali was definitely an existence that the Annihilation Dungeon defined as an enemy.

Since Goi-deun was convinced that the Annihilation Dungeon had self-awareness, she was able to put down many suspicions at this point.

And the new assumption she made was 【Saint】.

She had a vague memory of seeing records about the early awakeners from 200 years ago.

At that time, there were said to be more awakeners who were the only one of their kind in various places around the world than now. Those with unique special abilities that were difficult to categorize by type.

Most of them were later classified as spiritual realm ability users in modern times, but there were also special individuals whose identities still couldn’t be clearly determined.

Records about them remained in more variety than expected, and one of them was Korea’s saint.

An existence called 【Saint】 or 【Saintess】. A being whose body size was different each time they appeared, with different combat methods, making it impossible to know if it was one or two people, or even what gender they were.

Among the characteristics this person showed was that everything they made showed 1.5 times or more efficiency inside dungeons compared to outside.

‘And they were a healer too.’

Unusually, they were a combat-type healer, but their healing skills were also unique.

Similarly, their efficiency was maximized inside dungeons, making area healing possible, and any wound would heal instantly, greatly helping in combat.

Since that person’s rank wasn’t S-rank, they weren’t particularly notable among the early special awakeners, but they were somewhat famous among those researching healer types.

‘Hali might be of that lineage.’

The light particles mixed in her mana itself seemed to be Hali’s unique trait, and there were many more peculiar aspects than that person, but the commonalities with that individual were worth noting.

And if her thoughts were correct, depending on how Hali developed in the future, she might become a hunter that someone like Isang Hee couldn’t even compare to.

Her researcher instincts, strengthened by becoming A-rank, stirred.

‘I should investigate once and let her know if there’s any meaningful information.’

Goi-deun didn’t want Hali to fight inside dungeons.

She knew that her gentle friend was afraid of killing.

However, being able to do something but choosing not to was different from being unable to do it at all.

Cases of accidentally getting caught up in dungeons could happen anytime. What if she unluckily ended up alone with Isang Hee at that time? The possibility couldn’t be ruled out.

‘Besides, seeing how the influence of the Annihilation Dungeon follows us around, something is likely to happen to Hali too.’

Goi-deun wanted Hali to return alive in any situation.

No matter what unique traits she had, Hali’s value in Class 8 wasn’t in those traits.

‘Having you behind us makes us feel stronger.’

Though they didn’t say it openly, all the Class 8 kids had something they suspected about each other.

That they were all people who had no one waiting for them.

She didn’t want to ask a friend to play that role, but she couldn’t deny wanting to have someone to protect behind them.

Even when in crisis, they could only hope to return.

‘So I’ll do my best to help in my own way.’

Wait, there seemed to be exactly one record about that saint’s fighting style.

‘Hmm. They surprisingly preferred close combat… Perfect. I’ll give Isang Hee a good smack on the back of her head too.’

What’s so special about barriers?

If she just broke them all like that saint did…

It was a thought that would make Hali faint if she heard it, considering she had been doing all this work worried about bleeding in dungeons.

Mumble mumble.

“Why is Eden acting like that?”

“She must be obsessed with something again.”

When Goi-deun started muttering incomprehensible words with vacant eyes in sounds that resembled snake hissing, the kids sitting nearby whispered among themselves.

Yu Hee threw a memorization tool between the whispering kids.

“Leave her alone and let’s focus.”

And she said with a bright smile.

“Then we’ll decide that four people will take turns working at Hali’s store for one hour each day, and we’ll do the Simcheong play twice, morning and afternoon. I’ll organize the morning and afternoon cast assignments and deliver them later, and the one person not in the play will be in charge of guiding outside visitors. Since it’s three days, we’ll take turns with the guide duty, one person per day. Sounds good?”

“Great!”

“Nice that we have plenty of time left.”

As the atmosphere turned to dismissal, they got up from their seats one by one.

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Isang Hee watched Yuhan Seong leave the classroom with his usual companions.

Every time she saw him, she was amazed by his perfect beauty.

‘They said he was originally S-rank. I knew it.’

Several months had passed since entering Narin.

When talking to people, she couldn’t speak well, so she tried not to approach them if possible, but her eyes had been persistently watching only him.

If someone asked her why, Isang Hee would answer without hesitation.

That she had noticed from the first time she saw him.

That such a beautiful human couldn’t possibly be a low-rank awakener.

That only she had recognized him.

And at this point when her prediction had proven correct, Isang Hee was filled with baseless confidence.

‘Han Seong must definitely have feelings for me too.’

But the problem was that Jin Hali, that worthless F-rank who deserved to be beaten to death, had shown excellent ability in potion making.

If Jin Hali hadn’t been there, the treatment Jin Hali receives in Class 8, which has no healer, would have been hers instead.

Isang Hee was certain of this.

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