Was Happy Being a Despised F-Rank Healer, You Know? - Chapter 151

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17. Treading on Shadows (13)

Hunters in Korea, unlike those in other regions of the world, were well-informed about the Annihilation Dungeons if they reached a certain level of strength.
Yet most of them, surprisingly, didn’t fear the Annihilation Dungeons and lived much as they always had.
Like the Clan Leader of the Yoo Clan does now.
It wasn’t that they weren’t tense, but rather that they hadn’t succumbed to panic and terror.
Korea had always produced an exceptionally high number of high-ranking hunters, and the previous Annihilation had been resolved by high-ranking hunters who were Narin Alumni, so this calm made sense.
Those hunters from back then hadn’t died yet, after all.
In fact, starting with those hunters, Korea’s average hunter rank had risen dramatically.
At this point, excessive fear might have seemed strange.
Of course, this composure was only possible because they didn’t know that this Annihilation would be ten times over and that its intensity would be on an entirely different level from anything before—but that was a fact only Yuhan Seong and Jin Hali knew precisely.
The direct bloodline of the Yoo Clan shared their Clan Leader’s attitude on this point.
Because of this, their perception of Yuhan Seong was formed based on the Clan Leader’s and the public’s evaluation.
S-rank Dark Attribute Mage Yuhan Seong.
He was someone who deflected some of the attention away from the other Class 8 students, serving to protect them from excessive scrutiny.
From his admission itself, there were whispers—that he’d already been S-rank upon enrollment, that the Principal had accepted his proposal to avoid discord and had quietly hidden his rank, and other sensational stories were being subtly circulated.
Add to that a striking appearance that broke through even the low-resolution strategy videos.
The public had every reason to be enthusiastic.
Of course, that alone wasn’t enough to suppress interest in the other Class 8 students.
After all, these students were receiving intense attention not just from the public, but from well-informed circles worldwide. Merely reducing public focus wasn’t sufficient.
When a handful of influential figures from around the world first learned that an Annihilation had appeared in Korea, they were shocked that it had begun at an academy where children were studying.
Since then, they watched as the students cleared it, saw that no one had died yet, and observed their terrifying rate of growth—all with a mixture of amazement and subtle dread.
In other words, the attention of those select few in the world who knew of the Annihilation, combined with the public’s interest sparked by strategy videos, which had first responded to Class 8’s star potential.
Because they were receiving this dual spotlight, the direct bloodline of the Yoo Clan couldn’t move recklessly right now.
It wasn’t fear, exactly—more like caution to avoid backlash.
In any case, this became the reason for narrowing the target to Jin Hali alone.
What do I mean? Well, to be honest, it’s a bit complicated.
‘If we kill more than one, things will get messy.’
Regarding the appearance of the Annihilation Dungeons, all high-ranking hunters in Korea now knew.
It was information open to the direct bloodlines of the Four Major Clans.
No matter how important the Succession Test is, would there be reason to weaken the fighting force of hunters who could stop the Annihilation now that it’s broken out?
The condition for passing the Succession Test that the Clan Leader had set was, of course, to dispose of everyone—starting with Jin Hali and extending to all those Yu Hee had come to care for. But the Clan Leader also said something else.
After killing Jin Hali, immediately report Yu Hee’s reaction.
That’s an inappropriate task for something happening during the Succession Test. And it was a sign that the Clan Leader was willing to change the course of events depending on how Yu Hee reacted.
So the bloodline members decided to end things by disposing of Jin Hali alone.
Even if the Class 8 students cared for Jin Hali, surely they wouldn’t follow her to death or abandon the Annihilation Dungeon clear just because she died.
……Though the more they observed, the more they thought: would that really be the case? That was their only real concern.
Still, they had no better answer than this right now.
And yet.
“……Is she dead?”
“Ah, no. Her biometric signal is still active?”
Though they weren’t direct bloodline, the team members were outstanding even within the clan. When three such people vanished in an instant, even the bloodline members couldn’t help but be shaken.
“They just used some kind of spatial displacement? This quickly? Where are they being detected from now?”
When Yu Seop asked irritably, Yu Young, who had been the team leader of those three, answered with a trembling voice.
“……It looks like they’re back at the clan?”
When the Yoo Clan’s assassins venture out on a kill team, the team leader is equipped to monitor the biometric signals of team members.
So they knew immediately.
“What is that.”
“……We never heard any information that Yuhan Seong had special skills like Teleportation.”
That young S-rank possessed more than what had been revealed.
“The problem is he hid his skill? Damn it, to operate like that, how much mana does he have? The skill rank must be high too?”
“……”
Perhaps the scale of what remained hidden far exceeded what they could imagine.
To move that enormous distance without a trace of blood left behind, completely intact—that’s what it meant.
Lee Hae-sol and Gong Seo-yun had demonstrated their mana level by crushing them with raw power indirectly.
They’d been overwhelmed at the time, but since the two hadn’t openly deployed their skills, there was relatively little to discern.
But Yuhan Seong did the opposite—by revealing a skill rather than raw mana, they gleaned additional information.
Depending on interpretation, you could say he used the skill to clean it up because handling it with pure mana would’ve caused a problem……
They withdrew from Jin Hali’s vicinity immediately.
And they realized something.
None of their concealment had worked the entire time.
“……You knew about this too, didn’t you?”
Yu Rim, whose throat had been damaged by poison and whose voice was always rough to match, spoke meekly around Yu Hee—like a docile lamb—now saying this despondently.
Normally, he would’ve comforted him saying that even if she knew, Yu Hee wouldn’t kill him with poison. But now he couldn’t say that.
From what they knew, Lee Hae-sol and Gong Seo-yun were people who had grown through experiencing the Annihilation.
Whether that was thanks to Yuhan Seong or thanks to Jin Hali as the world loudly proclaimed in tales……
And the thought reached them belatedly.
That Yu Hee had also come here and grown through experiencing the Annihilation just like them.
“Why hasn’t she killed us yet?”
“If it’s her, she might be scheming to do it all at once.”
“Given her personality? Why bother? She probably just let us be observed since Jin Hali’s death doesn’t really matter.”
“It could be the opposite. Maybe she won’t kill us as long as we don’t lay a hand on Jin Hali……”
Yu Bin and Yu Seop, too—the bloodline members murmured their opinions despondently among themselves.
The conclusion they reached: for now, don’t kill Jin Hali outright, but inflict wounds severe enough to bring her to the brink of death, then observe the reaction.
They weren’t planning to spare her permanently, but confirming and deciding after gauging Yu Hee’s response wouldn’t be too late.
‘Maybe we should even observe the other kids’ reactions.’
Fortunately, Yuhan Seong took no action beyond sending those three people away that day.
Whether that was truly fortunate remained to be seen.
Harboring these complicated circumstances, they observed Jin Hali.
And finally, they caught precisely the right moment.
Strangely, Yuhan Seong, Lee Hae-sol, and Gong Seo-yun were nowhere to be seen right now.
It was a suspiciously fortunate situation.
In fact, most of Class 8 had been unaccounted for since five days ago, but strangely, Jin Hali didn’t look anxious at all.
It was truly puzzling.
They were trying to protect Jin Hali, yet they weren’t telling her the important facts.
Was it overprotection?
Pointless?
He unconsciously believed that if the students in Yuhan Seong’s Party didn’t tell Jin Hali, she would remain ignorant of them.
‘I’m not sure if this even counts as luck.’
Something felt ominous.
But really, at Narin Academy, unusual things aren’t that rare.
‘They must’ve found some hidden training ground.’
Still, they weren’t in a position to freely roam every corner trying to confirm the location of every Class 8 student and trail them.
So they decided to ignore the other Class 8 kids.
They monitored only the area around Jin Hali, waiting for a moment when there was no one near her, and they spotted her heading to a remote place where no one would hear her even if she screamed.
After the long wait, the time had come.
They sent the remaining ten bloodline members ahead first.
They urged the team members to take only a small number if possible.
It would be good to interrogate her about her relationship with her sister before disposing of Jin Hali.
Or rather, maybe they should interrogate everyone in Yuhan Seong’s Party.
Just make sure she doesn’t die, and wait five seconds.
If there’s no reaction from Yu Hee in those five seconds, then we kill her!
Up until that point, they hadn’t anticipated it.
“The Yoo Clan. That’s right, isn’t it?”
They hadn’t expected her to ask them that, as if she’d been waiting.
And they would soon come to know.
That this entire wait had been a trap conceived in the mind of that F-rank Healer.

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