Was Happy Being a Despised F-Rank Healer, You Know? - Chapter 2

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1. Surviving as an F-Rank Healer (2)

Actually, it would have been fine if those kids did something worse than gossiping behind my back, since I’m nothing but baggage. It’s true that I’m a nuisance, and it would be more beneficial for me. But.

For some reason, the kids didn’t do anything other than whispering like that.

Ignoring and cursing at me?

That much, well.

‘Considering they might die because of me, it’s only natural.’

Come to think of it, the kids in this class had something different about them even in the original work.

This class has many kids who have lived particularly rough lives even by Narin Academy standards.

People who have no criminal record but have experienced various dark aspects of society.

Yet they haven’t lost their goodness, so in the original work, more than half of them die because of that goodness.

And this becomes the catalyst for the original protagonist’s corruption after graduating from the academy.

‘That was also their role.’

They’re probably just angry about having to take the exam while protecting me, but they wouldn’t even consider the easy option of just leaving me to die.

‘Not knowing that the class assignment was screwed from the start.’

An F-rank being mixed in?

As they said, according to the rules, I wouldn’t enter a dungeon unless S-ranks stepped up to take me.

So those kids should be worrying about something other than the F-rank.

If they want to survive until taking the final exam.

“Sigh.”

I let out an unconscious sigh while carefully reading the <Dungeon Monsters> class textbook.

‘How annoying, why did I have to enter this kind of novel!’

While everyone had withdrawn their attention from me, I relaxed a bit and recalled my first day here with a worried expression.

‘So, was that a week ago?’

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<My SSS-Rank Party Alone>.

That was once a popular work that ranked in the top three on a certain serialization site.

Though it failed toward the ending.

I was one of the handful of readers left for that novel.

‘I believed the author would give us a plot twist in the final episode.’

A world where the danger of destruction approaches every 50 years since the first dungeon appeared.

There, Yuhan Seong was the protagonist who underwent infinite regression to prevent this destruction that began in Korea 50 years after the last destruction dungeon.

Through dozens of regressions, he grasped the true nature of this ‘destruction’ and reached a conclusion.

That this was a massive flow that couldn’t be stopped alone, no matter how great a hunter he became.

And he made a decision.

‘To gather S-ranks!’

Since hunters become more rough and belligerent as their rank increases, S-ranks never formed fixed parties.

Even the parties temporarily formed right before destruction dungeons would all disband after preventing the destruction, which was common sense.

But the scale and number of destruction dungeons were increasing every 50 years.

And the number of destruction dungeons that would erupt in Korea this time was expected to be ten, unlike the previous three, with each one being on a scale comparable to the Final Dungeon.

As if all the destruction dungeons so far were merely advance forces.

‘And that was also true.’

According to Yuhan Seong in the story, only by conquering nine without sacrifice and preserving their strength could they attempt to conquer even half of the tenth destruction dungeon.

In other words, Yuhan Seong had the secret to bloodless conquest up to 9.5 dungeons.

‘And if he succeeded in creating a fixed S-rank party as intended, he was confident that clearing the Final Dungeon would also be possible.’

But in the original work, he doesn’t achieve his goal perfectly.

‘Because the academy graduates he raised in the early stages all die before the Final Dungeon comes.’

Yuhan Seong succeeded in creating a close-knit S-rank party with good teamwork through Narin Academy and Eden Guild.

And while clearing seven dungeons, he brought hope to a world that had been despairing about destruction this time.

But unexpected sacrifices continued until the ninth.

‘It would have been great if he had won in the tenth, Final Dungeon with the remaining S-rank party members.’

The author started spewing crap here.

Right after clearing the ninth destruction dungeon, a traitor appeared among the team members.

Moreover, unexpected problems erupted from outside, and even though they managed to handle it and entered the Final Dungeon, everyone died except Yuhan Seong and the heroine!

Victory?

What victory, the protagonist gave his life to the final boss to save the heroine.

Even thinking about it again made me let out a hollow laugh.

That process even took over 100 episodes. Why did I keep reading that? Was I temporarily(?) insane!

“If I go back, I’ll read it more carefully.”

That day, while recalling the situation when only curses came out, I muttered those completely out-of-context words.

While looking in the mirror.

The skinny, depressed-looking high school student reflected there was wearing a school uniform.

The uniform, modified based on hanbok design for hunters to move easily, was pretty to look at and quite comfortable to move in, and the durumagi-style outer garment had white hibiscus emblems embroidered on it.

It felt like wearing clouds.

But I didn’t have the mental capacity to get excited about uniform goods, declaring ‘I’m a fan!’

Well, because I’m Jin Hali.

I sighed while staring intently at the name on the name tag.

At least Jin Hali’s name had appeared in the original work, and some of the body’s memories remained, so I knew brief information.

Like when she was destined to die, damn it.

‘Seventeen years old, scheduled to enter an awakened academy this year. An F-rank healer who would only be bullied if she went, so why enroll in an awakened-only school instead of a regular school?’

To escape from her ghostly family.

This unfortunate youth was an outcast of this world who belonged nowhere.

Being despised just for being F-rank, and a healer with no ability to face monsters at that.

By rights, it would have been more beneficial to live as an ordinary person.

According to the original work’s description, an F-rank healer couldn’t even make low-grade potions properly, and even her heal, which was a healer’s identity, was F-rank and could only be used three times a day.

With the widespread trend of openly despising F-rank healers, Jin Hali wouldn’t have an easy time just living at the academy.

But Jin Hali couldn’t live as an ordinary person either.

Because her family had accumulated too much debt in Jin Hali’s name.

Since there was a system that forgave debts incurred as an ordinary person if you became a hunter, Jin Hali had no way to live other than enrolling in Narin Academy.

‘Die, or spend your whole life consumed by debt. What hellish choices.’

Anyway, even knowing the original work, I had no other method. I had already registered for the academy and couldn’t cancel it.

To cancel this, I’d have to pay the administrative costs incurred, and there’s no reason to increase my debt.

‘I’m stuck having to watch the original work firsthand.’

It would be terrible if things flow according to the original.

‘I should avoid entering dungeons as much as possible.’

Do you know what role Jin Hali played in the original work?

‘Bait.’

Jin Hali dies in the early part.

After providing Yuhan Seong with the crucial information that F-rank healers have magic power that monsters from the Other World go crazy for, making them perfect as bait to lure monsters.

‘That happened in the First-year Final Dungeon, wasn’t it?’

This information was also a device to reveal the protagonist’s personality change in the early-to-mid stages.

In the early part, even knowing this information, he doesn’t make it public. It was for the good reason that no matter how crazy he was, he couldn’t use people as bait.

But in the mid-part, he becomes a bit different. Because he had already failed the bloodless clear he had aimed for.

He maintained the attitude of still using them as bait but protecting the bait as the top priority.

‘And in the later part.’

He hires bait by paying with their lives to protect his team members.

That bait died without even having their name mentioned, and Yuhan Seong didn’t even care.

He only said it was regrettable that there were so few.

“Ugh.”

I clicked my tongue and prepared to leave.

“Whatever happens, I need to survive first.”

For now, I’ll be extremely careful from every angle to avoid entering dungeons.

At the same time, since the world can’t be destroyed, I’ll have to help the protagonist clear the Final Dungeon.

‘Well, that should be manageable by just delivering a few special potions and information at the right time.’

Special potions.

It’s not exactly a field that gets much attention in this world.

Still, it should be enough as a foundation to make a living after graduation.

By the time I graduate, the value of special potions will be reevaluated anyway.

‘The problem is my skill level. If I had the ability, I’d directly supply the potions essential for clearing dungeons. But for that to work, I’d need to roll around and barely scrape by.’

Material costs are also a problem.

There are many issues with this and that.

I shook my head.

For now, let’s aim to graduate safely while only performing the role of delivering useful information for later.

As for potions, I’ll see how things go and deliver them if I succeed.

I hope both the world and I remain safe.

That was what I thought on my first day.

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