Was Happy Being a Despised F-Rank Healer, You Know? - Chapter 160

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17. Chasing Shadows (22)

About five hours before Hali woke.
The three of them had brought back the corpses of all twelve Direct Line Members, along with their belongings, and carelessly dumped them down.
The twelve Direct Line Members lay there, surrounded by Class 8 students in a position far more disheveled than when they’d collapsed inside Hali’s Domain—nowhere near the composed, hands-clasped posture of the dead.
“……Let’s begin.”
After glaring at the Direct Line Members for a moment, with the Lion’s wailing—[Ahhh, my bow! You ignorant humans! Even restoring that is difficult! Wahhh]—as background noise, Yuhan Seong opened his mouth.
“Right.”
Since it was Yu Hee’s job to manage them, she nodded and stepped forward.
Then she poured the Resurrection Potion that Hali had given her beforehand into the mouths of the twelve corpses, one by one.
“I’m starting to worry whether Hali mixed her own blood into that Resurrection Potion too.”
At Gong Seo-yun’s muttered comment—spoken with a wry smile—several agreed enthusiastically.
“Ha.”
“Ugh, heh…….”
Then the breath burst from those who had been dead.
One by one, their eyes opened.
As their lungs met air again, coughing erupted from all around.
Even though Yu Seob and Yu Bin received the potion last, they were the first to open their eyes.
“Cough, cough—where on earth…….”
“Hali…….”
Before their words could finish, Yu Hee spoke.
“Silence.”
While the other students were waking, both of them flinched and looked at Yu Hee.
Their respected senior stood with arms crossed, leaning to one side as she looked down at them.
With an atmosphere far more murderous than any time they’d seen her before.
A gaze cold as frost descended sharply upon them.
Both shuddered.
“Yu Hee.”
“Senior!”
“I said silence.”
Their mouths clamped shut, but their expressions remained innocent and lost.
“Assess the situation first.”
Her soft voice sent chills down their spines.
Both thought she was about to kill them.
They were entranced.
Such attention.
“……This can’t be. Yu Hee was the sanest one in the Yoo Clan. What on earth is wrong with that family…….”
At Hyun I-seo’s half-joking mutter, a Short Sword flew from Yu Hee’s hand.
Hyun I-seo flinched and dodged the blade, then shut his mouth.
The other Direct Line Members who had awakened began clustering toward Yu Hee one by one, reacting exactly like the first two.
Yu Seob and Yu Bin, meanwhile, assessed the situation as Yu Hee had told them to.
And only then did they go pale.
“Class 8……?”
“Y-Yuhan Seong…….”
From what Lee Hae-sol, Gong Seo-yun, and Hyun I-seo had each done to them, every time their eyes met those three, their faces grew increasingly ashen, as if descending through levels of fear.
They were the first to understand.
We’ve gathered here to bury us.
The other Class 8 students might not have cared, but if those three had gathered and were watching them—the situation was different.
There was no escape.
Not even for Assassins who had followed an elite path.
“Now that’s better. I nearly killed you earlier—you kept your eyes open so boldly.”
“But you didn’t kill us! You showed us mercy!”
“I only held back because Hali would be angry.”
“Pardon?”
So she hadn’t spared them because she wanted to use them.
The Direct Line Members simultaneously went dejected.
Yu Hee brushed past their reaction with ease, then pulled taut the Silver Threads she’d already laid out, leaving a thin line across the cheek of Yu Rim, who had just been gazing at her with ardent eyes again.
“It was also Hali who made you dead and brought you back to life here.”
“That p-person…….”
Yu Bin and Yu Seob seemed to be beginning to grasp the gist of what Yu Hee was saying.
Shock spread across their faces.
“Hali said not to just kill you, but to make you her limbs, so I agreed to the plan at first……. You dared touch Hali?”
Though it had been they who knew the Direct Line Members would touch Jin Hali and had half-abandoned them as part of the plan, that was one thing and this was another.
The mere fact that they’d considered touching her was unforgivable. As that sentiment continued, Yu Bin raised his hand and carefully opened his mouth.
He had no desire to die, after all.
“S-Senior. Are you saying that person told you to make us your limbs?”
And besides, the real issue wasn’t that they’d done something deserving of death.
It was that they’d learned what Jin Hali had done for them(!)
“Hali actually did something like that…….”
“Hali…….”
Seo Jeong-u repeated the word quietly and then looked at Yu Seob with the eyes of someone witnessing something bizarre.
Now the Class 8 students had half-entered spectator mode.
“A nickname, no less? How dare you use a pet name I don’t even use? You?”
“Ah. I meant Hali. Just Hali.”
In fact, from the moment they opened their eyes here, the Direct Line Members of the Yoo Clan had already withdrawn their initial judgment of Jin Hali as “merely an F-rank Healer.”
There was jealousy regarding her relationship with Yu Hee, but it was no longer incomprehensible to them.
And watching Yu Hee’s reaction, they’d come to understand it wasn’t just closeness—it was something deeper.
Then, hearing about what Hali had done for them—or rather, against them—they were moved completely.
“Anyway, I’d decided to think it over based on what Hali said. But after seeing what you people did to Hali this time, I’ve lost the inclination.”
Yu Hee spoke with the smile of an angel.
“Why! No, we were wrong, Senior!”
“Sister, I can do anything. I’ll do whatever you tell me to!”
“I swear I’ll repay Hali’s kindness someday. I’ll apologize properly!”
“Her blood smelled so fragrant—that’s proof she’s healthy! I’m sure she’ll recover soon, er.”
A thin line was drawn across the throat of the vampire who’d misspoken.
Yu Hee said nothing more after that, focusing entirely on making sure they couldn’t think casually about Hali, and spent several hours putting the Direct Line Members through their paces.
The things the Lion had done to them, amplified viciously in directions that held no training value whatsoever…….
Only after everyone had finished their individual training and watched the Direct Line Members rolling about did Yuhan Seong speak to them.
“Your master may be Yu Hee, but understand this—if you touch Jin Hali, you’ll face not just Yu Hee but everyone in this place.”
A hollow “yes” echoed back.
In the end, since they had all been unconscious when Hali woke, she never learned what they had endured that day.

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“……What did you say?”
Yu Wan-yeong, Clan Leader of the Yoo Clan, doubted his ears.
“All dead?”
“……Yes, Clan Leader.”
A deathly silence fell over the Clan Leader’s quarters.
After a moment, Yu Wan-yeong asked with an odd heat in his voice.
“What of Yu Hee?”
“Unharmed, they say.”
“Is it confirmed that they died attacking an F-rank Healer?”
“According to the Academy, the F-rank Healer sustained serious injuries, but is under protection by Yu Hee, Yuhan Seong, Lee Hae-sol, and Gong Seo-yun.”
“Does it look like Yu Hee was involved?”
“By our assessment, yes.”
“Is the Academy hiding the truth under the pretext of protecting a student such an uncommon occurrence?”
These were not carelessly raised children.
Every one of them was more than capable of becoming a successor.
There was no way all of them had died at the hands of a mere F-rank Healer.
That was a lower probability than an S-rank Dungeon suddenly appearing on expensive land where Dungeons had never spawned.
A special potion?
No matter how remarkable a potion, what use was it if they couldn’t employ it?
Therefore, the Healer must have simply been lucky.
“So that Yu Hee is hiding something from me.”
A more satisfied smile than ever before drew itself across Yu Wan-yeong’s lips.
“Recklessly concealing her true strength. The A-rank claim might also be an understatement.”
Perhaps—just perhaps—Yu Hee was S-rank.
It would be impossible to discard such a successor, even if the Clan Leader desired it.
Yet this alone did not displease him.
“If she merely belongs to the clan, there could be no more substantial blessing. Is that not so?”
“Indeed, Clan Leader.”
“And Seong-jung will eventually become sufficiently cruel, now that she’s reached S-rank.”
The greatest reason he had wanted to cast Yu Hee out was Seong-jung.
But an S-rank Hunter’s position could transform even a timid person into a fighting enthusiast or something peculiar.
What if Yu Hee, raised in an Assassin’s family and not without an Assassin’s nature, became S-rank?
Those who became S-rank when they weren’t before tended to have their strongest influence-giver’s nature amplified.
Who, then, had been the greatest influence on that child’s life?
Yu Wan-yeong considered it.
‘Seong-jung will no longer be a problem.’
Soon afterward, Yu Wan-yeong abandoned all previous plans and began devising new ones, his face alive with excitement.
“In fact, this works out well. A few Direct Line Members are nothing compared to an S-rank Assassin—they’re expendable. Ah, didn’t you say the team members returned?”
“Yes.”
“Dispose of them.”
Having grasped the truth(?) of what happened at the Academy to some degree, it was best to bury this for now.
To give Yu Hee time to build respectable connections as a successor there.
‘That F-rank Healer—I should naturally dispose of her before she becomes too close, depending on the situation. Though for now, I’ll need to keep her around.’
Hoping that Yu Hee would become a splendid blade for a Yu Wan-yeong who cared nothing for peace, he raised his cup in toast.

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