Was Happy Being a Despised F-Rank Healer, You Know? - Chapter 125

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16. Strange Omens (2)

Yu Hee widened her eyes as she looked at me, then burst into laughter while shaking her head, saying “You really are something.”

“Hali, but wouldn’t it be good to share information about that Lion and the demonic sword with the others?”

After chatting like that for a while, Yu Hee spoke with an expression as if she had just remembered something.

“I was actually planning to tell them, but I’ve been so busy lately.”

“Right, you said you’re preparing potions to sell at the festival in advance? How’s that going?”

“Almost finished.”

“Already?”

“Yeah, as you know, I don’t need to procure ingredients separately.”

“Ah, right, that domain.”

When I unfolded Baridegi’s Domain right before her eyes, Yu Hee’s eyes lit up.

“It’s gotten bigger?”

Actually, this was only a portion of it, but still.

If I mentioned that, I’d have to explain Erich’s operating principles to explain my mana capacity.

Yu Hee, interpreting my reaction as affirmative, looked at me with eyes filled with admiration and respect—though I wondered why.

“For it to expand this much, you… must have pushed yourself hard.”

“Pushed myself? What do you mean! Even if it’s a bit difficult, it feels rewarding once you achieve it. Don’t you feel that way, Yu Hee?”

“I wonder. I don’t think I can feel satisfaction even when I achieve something.”

Yu Hee tilted her head as she answered, then smiled brightly as she replied to me.

“But I understand what you mean. You enjoy the sense of achievement, right?”

“Exactly, exactly. Ah, want to take a look around?”

The scene spread before us was quite spectacular.

Though it was only large enough to fill the small clearing in the shaded spot where we were, it would look like paradise to anyone with an eye for recognizing the medicinal herbs planted there.

And Yu Hee had that discerning eye.

“My goodness… This all happened in just half a year?”

“How is it?”

“…To think I’d see Frontier stems and golden forsythia growing simultaneously in the same field. Isn’t temperature control difficult for these?”

“That’s why I divided the areas. Temperature control works like this…”

When I moved the fan slightly, the temperature of the grass blade Yu Hee’s fingertip was touching changed minutely.

Yu Hee, who was sensitive to temperature, detected that subtle difference and smiled deeply.

It was a much more naturally arising smile than the ones she usually made consciously.

“Amazing. Hali, you’ll probably be called a goddess of the potion world.”

“Ah, ahaha. Thanks for the compliment.”

Breathing in the fresh scent of grass, we explored Baridegi’s Domain for quite a while.

Having someone who appreciated it made me excited for the first time in a while.

[Hmm…]

[Our master is quite beloved, isn’t she.]

I heard Erich’s mysterious murmur.

I could vaguely understand Lion’s words, but Erich’s reaction was puzzling.

He seemed serious.

Anyway, after spending time with Yu Hee like that, I sent the domain back to subspace, and we left the shaded spot to sit side by side in a place where sunlight streamed in.

We burst into laughter several times while talking.

It reminded me of my school days.

Those times when I could laugh without thinking.

I was happy feeling like I’d grown closer to Yu Hee.

“So you’re going to that dungeon again?”

When we talked about Baridegi Dungeon, Yu Hee asked.

“I probably won’t need to go, but I think it would be good to go when making the contract.”

“Why?”

“It feels like home.”

That was an answer that came out unconsciously, but after saying it, I realized it was the truth.

“It felt like home? Inside that dungeon?”

“Mm… Rather than a dungeon, it felt more like an inviolable personal domain. I wanted to get my own place after graduation, but it felt like I achieved that early.”

Yu Hee widened her eyes as she looked at me, then slowly nodded.

“I see. So that’s how it felt.”

Muttering “A personal domain…” and pondering something thoughtfully, Yu Hee said,

“You’ll really be able to get a house to live in too.”

“Ahaha, you’re saying you’ll become a regular customer at my shop?”

“I’m already a regular. And I think it might happen before graduation.”

“Me?”

“Yeah.”

“…I have no intention of raising potion prices though…”

“Weren’t you planning to sell cheaply only to students?”

“Huh? Yeah. But who else would I sell to besides students? There will be outside customers at this festival, but I won’t sell expensively to them either…”

“Well, because I’ll propose a contract to you before the festival?”

“Ah. …What?”

“You can refuse if you don’t want to, but if possible, I’d like you to give me a chance for even half a year. I think that would be safer. The Academy can’t be completely trusted either.”

“Of course, if I were to make a formal potion contract, I was thinking of doing it with you, but this directly? Now?”

“It has to be done before the festival.”

She spoke with clear, bright eyes.

Her eyes sparkled so intelligently that I felt overwhelmed.

“You can make and sell everything as you want. However, anything sold externally would go through me. It’s completely different from the contract I proposed before.”

“In other words, you’d personally handle the promotion and mediation of my potions?”

“That’s right.”

For a moment, it seemed like Yu Hee’s gaze brushed past my earring.

But dismissing it as my imagination, I asked in bewilderment.

“Why?”

“Why, you ask?”

“Why… are you proposing a personal contract? Before, it seemed like you were trying to draft a contract involving your family.”

“You remember? Right, I did. And now, this would be more comfortable for you.”

When I stared at her, Yu Hee smiled subtly and added,

“Of course, it’s better for me too.”

“It’s better for you too?”

“Yeah. I realized this time. Even if we’re busy, doing this would create opportunities to meet.”

I couldn’t help but laugh at her grumbling that she was so busy with student council work that she barely had time to see my face.

“And it would help solidify my position within the family too.”

But the words that followed were unexpected.

When I looked at her in slight confusion, Yu Hee was smiling serenely with a nonchalant expression.

‘Why is she suddenly like this?’

Yu Hee never brings up topics about her family on her own.

That was true in the original work too.

The upcoming episode also begins when the Yoo Clan visits the Academy using the festival as an excuse.

If it weren’t for such an incident, Yu Hee’s past wouldn’t have been properly revealed in the original work either. After all, she would never have spoken about it until the end.

“…What does it mean for your position in the family to become solid?”

“It means the probability of long-term survival increases.”

“…Survival.”

But that same Yu Hee was now telling me about it.

“Yu Hee.”

I called her name seriously.

“Can you tell me why you’re sharing this with me?”

If it were her usual self, she probably wouldn’t have mentioned the family at all. She would have just given a feeling that there was something more, then kept her mouth shut.

But what was the different reason today?

‘No way.’

Yu Hee smiled at me with a bright yet mischievous expression and said.

“Well, it wouldn’t be fun if I’m the only one who knows about your past. It should be fair. …Of course, I can’t tell you the details since it could put you in danger.”

“You don’t have to if you don’t want to!”

Even speaking firmly was useless.

“Anyway. At times like this, you should just think ‘I see’ and listen carefully. All of this becomes information and power. You especially need to become a bit more cunning, Hali. No wait, this isn’t even being cunning. It’s only natural.”

“Uh, mm.”

What should I do?

The episode where Yu Hee, who had kept some distance from companions like Yuhan Seong, causes trouble and awakens, then has her past wounds healed by Yuhan Seong and his friends.

If that episode gets disrupted, Yu Hee and the other kids might still remain in a somewhat distant state.

‘Though they’re closer now than they were at this point in the original. But still, Yu Hee hardly talks about herself.’

That much distance was still being maintained.

I felt troubled, but showing discomfort itself could become a wound in this situation.

‘Most importantly, I shouldn’t try to control Yu Hee as I please.’

Since this was Yu Hee’s choice, what I should do now is probably just react as a friend.

“…Alright.”

As I swallowed a sigh and nodded, Yu Hee let out a light laugh and said.

“Good. Well, it’s nothing major though.”

Then she made a gesture showing she would listen with curious eyes.

Yu Hee used her other hand that wasn’t holding mine to slightly ruffle my bangs, then opened her mouth.

“Do you happen to know that our family is an assassin clan?”

“Yeah.”

“To survive as a direct descendant of an assassin clan, you have to constantly face assassination threats and prove your survival skills. That’s the first gateway. Many direct descendants fail here.”

“From what age does this happen?”

“From five years old.”

What a crazy Hunter world.

I had to struggle desperately not to say that out loud.

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