Was Happy Being a Despised F-Rank Healer, You Know? - Chapter 155

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17. Treading Shadow (17)

If you spray fresh blood before applying the Instant Death Potion, it temporarily acts as a Neutralizer while producing a special change in the Instant Death Potion itself.
A Comatose State potion is created that even Hunters cannot detect vital signs from.
The problem is finishing the task of spraying the right amount in the right places within five minutes.
That’s why I was frantic.
Frantic enough that I couldn’t respond immediately to what Lion had said.
‘I see.’
[……Are you alright, sir? Because that Yu Hee person just acquired a new skill…….]
‘Yeah, I’m fine…… Wait? What did you say?’
[Yu Hee has.]
‘No, before that. Look here? Who?’
[Everyone…… inside, sir.]
Everyone inside would be nearly all of Class 8, wouldn’t it?
Isang Hee, unaware that everything she’s doing is being relayed to us in real time, was probably wandering around with the upper-year Student Council and students from other classes.
But that’s not the problem.
With a sharp whoosh, I offered one forearm to a dagger that had been waiting for this critical moment, and quite a bit of blood spilled down.
The deep cut on my neck had already begun healing, which was awkward—but fortunately……not entirely.
‘What is this, why, what kind of skill is it!’
[It appears to be a skill that allows her to spy on specific locations through a mirror. She really is underhanded!]
Our Yu Hee is allowed to be underhanded.
So the skill is obviously amazing!
‘But why now of all times……!’
I looked down at my current appearance.
All of the Direct Line were watching me with nothing but their breathing, and they looked completely fed up.
With good reason.
Everything below my neck was soaked in blood.
An ordinary person would have already died from shock, but thanks to the potion’s effect and my deal with Erich, I was bleeding out only what was necessary, and my wounds were healing monstrously.
The Direct Line couldn’t find a single member whose body wasn’t stained with my blood.
Meanwhile, for the team members who weren’t Direct Line, I was using Lion’s strength to knock them out thoroughly, but unless they saw this part, it would look like I was being driven entirely on the defensive.
[……So you’re not alright, are you?]
After turning pale and hesitating, when I allowed an unintended attack and took another wound to my neck, Erich began cursing.
[You crazy bastard! ……! ……!!]
[Should I block it, Protagonist?]
Lion asked in a pained voice.
‘How do you block a skill?’
[It’s a skill that’s not yet a higher rank than mine.]
That sounded like it meant the skill’s rank would soon rise, but was that a misunderstanding?
I nodded while cold sweat dripped down my face.
‘Ah, wait a moment.’
[Yes?]
‘If you block it, nothing bad happens to Yu Hee, right?’
[Ummm.]
‘……You don’t have to explain. If there’s any harm, don’t do it.’
I spoke sharply, my brow furrowed.
‘It’s fine. Later, I’ll show everyone there aren’t even any scars and somehow…… calm down my friends…… or whatever.’
Would that work?
Looking at my blood-soaked state, I could already predict how frightened my friends would be, and how angry they’d get.
Still, better than something bad happening to Yu Hee.
[Yeees…….]
Lion answered in a regretful voice.
It seemed like the Lion had wanted to do something else while blocking the skill.
If I’d had the leisure, I’d have watched carefully and coaxed it out to confess, but right now I didn’t have that kind of time.
Looking around, the Yoo Clan members on the team all seemed to have been knocked out safely (?).
Of the twelve Direct Line, only Yu Bin sensed something off and hesitated.
‘Now’s the moment.’
But before he could say anything aloud, I plunged my hand into the potion bag with an intensity that suggested I was about to hurl a bomb, and spoke.
“You all turned out better than expected. At this level, you won’t die that quickly in a Dungeon.”
Teeth grinding sounds and a wary gaze shot toward me.
Even Yu Bin stopped what he was about to say and shouted to the Direct Line.
“Fall back!”
“Damn it.”
When Yu Seop gestured to his group of Direct Line, they stepped back one by one to stand behind him.
I sprayed potions I’d pulled from my pouch over both groups as they gathered.
Spray it into empty air and there’s no way it reaches where you want it to.
‘If this really were outside…’
I smirked.
With tears in my eyes, I’d left a portion of Baridegi’s Domain vacant. And that domain was now being summoned beneath the ground where both groups were standing, surrounded by spider webs.
Vines I’d deliberately planted grew quickly, binding their feet.
While the fallen team members were absorbed into the ground below.
Faced with that spectacle, the young assassins who had frozen now began hurling weapons indiscriminately—poison, saliva, strange ribbons…….
‘Is that bloodstain Yu Rim? He’s regained consciousness.’
When I landed on Yu Bin’s Great Sword, his Great Sword—which had been about to strike stealthily—stopped moving.
I smiled gently at his wide eyes, then coughed and spat blood. The side effects of potion overdose were starting to kick in.
The Instant Death Potion I’d sprayed earlier was settling in the spots I wanted, the places marked with my blood.
Cheeks, arms, the backs of hands, someone’s ears…….
All places where it would seep through the skin.
“Gasp.”
“Ah……?”
This was troublesome.
They were holding on better than expected. Moreover, they were all desperately trying to keep attacking…….
[Cursed wretches, every last one of them.]
I tilted my head slightly at the sound of Lion’s ominous muttering.
Then Lion spoke.
[Protagonist, if you’ll excuse me!]
Huh?
[I’ll do it secretly. Secretly!]
Do what……?
And before I could ask, Lion transformed its transparent energy into the shape of a hand—I could see it as a shadow—and began smacking the Direct Line members with flicks, thump-thump.
“…….”
[…….]
I watched it awkwardly alongside Erich.
[These guys don’t go unconscious from just one hit.]
If they took another flick, would they…… a-actually die, contrary to my goal?
I sealed my lips watching Lion reluctantly withdraw, then looked at the Direct Line.
And looking at the Direct Line members falling unconscious one by one, their breathing stopping, I whispered softly.
“You’ve worked hard. Rest for a bit.”
Yu Bin’s eyes, filled with shock and terror, slowly closed.
The last one clinging to consciousness was Yu Seop.
“……Rabbit…….”
“When you wake up, it’d be nice if you called me Hali instead of that.”
As I replied with a light laugh, Yu Seop’s green eyes—mingled with stubbornness and fear—contorted.
Thud.
With him gone, a chilling silence descended.
I watched wounds where the healing speed dropped significantly once the potion’s effects wore off, spitting blood several times from the backlash of potion overdose, despite the effects of my deal with Erich.
It was like that time I practiced healing myself…….
Anyway, what I needed to do immediately was move the Domain.
[Why aren’t you trading Mana right now!]
‘Ah, hold on, Erich. Not now.’
[What!]
After shaking my head at Erich’s cry, which somehow sounded sad, I mobilized some of my depleted Mana to move the Domain toward my target.
With Lion’s help, using the method of merging with and then separating from the Baridegi Dungeon, I was able to send the Direct Line’s team members outside the Academy with barely a whisper of Mana.
And I swallowed a few drops of the Poison Potion I’d made to use on enemies—one that slowed healing badly.
[No, Protagonist!]
[…….]
“Sigh.”
Don’t worry. This poison isn’t fatal…… I wanted to say that, if possible, so the people inside the Dungeon could hear too, but I couldn’t.
Once I conveyed it through thought, both fell silent.
‘Erich. What happens if I use up all my Mana right now?’
It was a question that suddenly occurred to me.
Looking at the situation alone, it seemed like I was asking whether I’d die or if I could use more Mana, but from Erich’s perspective, it must have felt like choices were being laid before him.
If I exhausted every last bit of Mana and faced death, the Demon Sword would gain a body and break free from the Seal.
Since I’d been subtly feeding him my potions all this time, maybe the Seal was already being prepared to break?
[You bastard…….]
Erich swallowed his saliva, then spoke coldly.
[If you use more, you die.]
……So the Seal isn’t ready to break yet?
Or maybe the Seal’s conditions changed because of the special circumstances like the Baridegi Dungeon.
Either way, it meant he wasn’t prepared, so I’d remember that information.
I wasn’t going to break him free yet anyway.
“Can’t be helped.”
I nodded slowly, then took in the Spider Web Dome that had begun to scatter as the caster approached death (Comatose State).
By now I’d collapsed on the floor.
[Protagonist, the people inside are blowing up the exit—what do we do?]
‘Oh.’
Right, I’d still blocked the exit.
It felt like cold sweat was flowing more heavily, but was that just my imagination?
After listening to the footsteps of people rushing over, and only after sensing my familiar Teacher’s Mana among them, did I close my eyes.
“……ri! ……Come to!”
The Teacher’s voice that had come to my side gradually grew distant.

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