Was Happy Being a Despised F-Rank Healer, You Know? - Chapter 121

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15. A Story Jin Hali Doesn’t Know (13)

‘My Hali, if you’re disappointed in me, you’ll have to follow me around.’

Still, if possible, let’s make sure she doesn’t find out about me.

If I act affectionately like I have been, like something drawn in a picture, Hali will also relax and grow more attached to me.

Isn’t affection a scary thing?

While I was having such thoughts, Hali spoke warmly to the being on her palm.

“Thank you for asking, Lion. This kind of talk is a bit embarrassing to say to the people involved. But it feels good to say it, doesn’t it?”

[…Hmm… If you say so, this lion is also pleased, my lord.]

Really.

It seemed Hali didn’t feel any wariness toward that thing.

Yu Hee herself was sensitive to magic power, so she had lowered her guard to some extent, but still couldn’t trust it completely.

For Hali to blindly trust something suspicious, weren’t her stats too low? If that thing suddenly went crazy and did something, Hali could die before she could do anything.

‘I’m starting to think I should drop it after all?’

However, hearing Hali’s voice as she whispered affectionately with joy, as if they’d known each other for a very long time, that feeling kept disappearing.

If something happens, I’ll protect her.

Yu Hee didn’t doubt that those three people had reached the same conclusion through the same process as herself.

That’s when it happened.

[But my lord, when did that wicked thing start clinging to you?]

“It’s not a wicked thing, it’s Erich. Erich.”

[Hmm…]

Setting aside how annoying it was that the ‘Lion’ was pretending to be sulky and cute in such a pathetic way.

Erich? What’s that?

Yu Hee suddenly thought she might catch a glimpse of Hali’s secret.

Is it okay to hear more?

She could easily pretend not to know even after knowing. It was just that she didn’t feel like doing that with Hali, so she was hesitating.

A hint of trouble briefly crossed Yu Hee’s cheerful face.

“Erich is a being that helps me when I practice crafting. I met him after coming here.”

[Then that thing is only half a year old too? Yet it presumptuously acts as if it’s very close to my lord, which is quite laughable.]

“We, we are close. He helps me, you know?”

[He must be receiving compensation! Isn’t that right, my lord?]

Hali made a troubled expression but burst into laughter as if finding it cute.

However, Yu Hee couldn’t laugh.

She also couldn’t leave as she had decided to do just moments before.

‘…A demon sword? A demon sword is attached to Hali?’

Demon swords, holy swords, L-grade sacred artifacts, and so on. Among things with such grand titles, there are no proper ones.

This was a fact proven by the world’s 200-year history.

If you get involved with such things, they mortgage your life and you die according to their purposes.

While those things shamelessly seek new contractors when their contractors die, the people who made contracts invariably walked the same path and died.

…Died.

“He does receive compensation. Um, it’s okay. I just need to be able to graduate, so HP is fine…”

[What?]

Yu Hee’s face, which had been expressionless as always when tailing, sank even more eerily.

[You mean the compensation is HP? My lord! That’s!]

“I gave permission. And it doesn’t make sense to receive help for free, does it?”

HP is literally stamina and life force.

At first glance, one might think it’s fine since it’s an element that fills up over time anyway, but there was something Hali didn’t know.

Goi-deun, who seemed to have recently completely awakened to her researcher aptitude, had been gathering information about various decent artifacts with Hali in mind.

While Yu Hee and Lee Hae-sol were investigating based on their families’ information, there were limits since they had to hide information about Hali from their families as much as possible, so this was a great help.

Among the information Goi-deun provided was something like this.

“It seems we need to be careful with sacred-grade artifacts. Especially those that take magic power or life force as compensation are generally said to demand the power of one’s origin as payment, so they’re supposedly more rotten inside.”

Yuhan Seong, who had been listening along, seemed to know about it, but Yu Hee and Lee Hae-sol didn’t.

It had given them chills.

If they had found such a thing for Hali, it would have been no different from killing Hali with their own hands.

“So we should consider it as demanding life force, um, HP if we must say. This type especially shouldn’t be touched. …There’s a high possibility they’re dangerous things sealed for some reason.”

Those things generally don’t need a next host either, and they completely use their first host as prey, inevitably leading them to death.

‘But not only is it such a thing, it’s a demon sword of all things.’

Has she already made a contract?

“I have no intention of receiving help from you for free either.”

[…But we belong to you, my lord?]

…Why on earth.

What are you doing all this for?

Did she really do it solely to practice potion crafting?

There was nothing good in it for Hali.

Unlike now, when Hali first enrolled, she might have been cursed at, but she didn’t even need to enter dungeons.

The potions she created through such desperate practice were saving Class 8, no, all the first-years, not herself.

“Well… First of all, I don’t really like the idea of owning living beings.”

[…]

“…I also can’t stand being in debt, so I have no choice.”

The lion’s legs stopped dangling under Hali’s hand.

It looked up at Hali blankly.

Its eyes were all black, making it hard to read its thoughts, but she could tell that the strange being was curious about Hali.

[I see. Is that so. Hmm.]

After a moment, it nodded and muttered in a sulky voice.

[…What kind of school keeps a demon sword on campus anyway? The management is utterly poor. To think my lord has no choice but to be entrusted to such a place is lamentable. But if that wicked thing tries anything, this lion will handle it, so it should be fine now.]

It was a tiny bit of self-promotion.

Yu Hee thought coldly. Her intuition told her that the possibility of that thing betraying Hali didn’t seem very high for now. Rather, it seemed to treat her quite preciously.

Then for now, let’s also utilize that thing to protect Hali from that demon sword.

If it’s a demon sword, it would be dangerous enough that even a cat’s paw would be precious help.

Hali laughed “ahaha” and stroked its head.

Yu Hee wanted to go out right away and confront Hali. No, it seemed like she just wanted to ask.

Why do you go that far, are you…

‘Are you yourself so worthless?’

It was hard to explain, but she felt hurt.

It was someone else’s business.

Yet seeing herself get upset as if it had happened to her, she wondered if that’s what friendship was like.

Yu Hee stopped tailing at that point and quietly left.

She felt like that thing called Lion might notice her if she stayed longer.

And as soon as she returned, Yu Hee moved her belongings to the room next to Hali’s, located in a corner of the dormitory’s first floor.

She had been planning to ask Hali to move next to her room soon, but that feeling disappeared.

‘Hali won’t say anything about me moving my room. It’ll be less burdensome too.’

She seemed to be feeling a bit twisted inside.

Suppressing her desire to immediately get angry at Hali and demand she give up that demon sword, Yu Hee prepared for bed in the room next to Hali’s and closed her eyes.

However, she couldn’t fall asleep due to the sounds that soon reached her ears.

“To be honest, I don’t have many memories.”

[What?]

“Actually, I hit my head pretty hard before entering school. I couldn’t go to the hospital then, so maybe it’s aftereffects? My memory became patchy.”

[My lord, why couldn’t you go to the hospital?]

“Well. There was no one to take me there when I collapsed.”

Yu Hee tossed and turned, then quietly opened her eyes.

[Those inconsiderate humans. Ah, for me to dare speak of your family members… I apologize.]

“No. They really are inconsiderate people.”

At the calm words, Yu Hee bit her lips.

“As soon as they found out I was an Awakener, they took out an Awakener guarantee loan under my name.”

And she gritted her teeth.

‘So this is it.’

An intuition that she could understand why Hali treated herself so carelessly.

There was no need to enhance her hearing with magic.

With just an A-rank assassin’s hearing, she could hear all the conversation from the next room.

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