Was Happy Being a Despised F-Rank Healer, You Know? - Chapter 27

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4. The Value of Potions (4)

The fact that Yu Hee had already reached that level meant her senses were developing much faster than in the original story.

‘Why?’

However, since faster progress wouldn’t be bad for this side, I quietly smiled.

It was practically the same as reducing the chances of Yu Hee getting hurt.

“You came here because you were worried about me? In the middle of all this?”

“Yeah. I thought… Hari would be alone.”

“Really. You guys are too kind. Normally people would run away first in situations like this.”

At those words, Yu Hee let out a hollow laugh and ran her hand through her hair, then sat down quietly next to my seat and whispered.

“I just… thought I shouldn’t leave you alone at a time like this.”

I took a moment to catch my breath and spoke gently.

“Thank you. But since this is an urgent situation right now, take this first.”

Hee received the potion pouch I handed her and blinked.

“Let’s go to Han Seong.”

“Ha, you.”

“I was already worried because Han Seong came back with a scratched cheek yesterday. So I prepared this. It’s good to carry it around with this kind of body-attachable pouch, right? I put in as many useful potions as possible. How is it?”

Hee’s golden eyes looking at me deepened.

“…Hari.”

She said quietly.

“Actually, this is my first time with something like this.”

“Huh? What kind of thing?”

“Mine. My friend.”

“Hee, you’re popular though.”

“I am. But this is my first time.”

Yu Hee chuckled and tried to say something more, then shook her head.

And she said.

“You’re curious why I came running, right? It wasn’t simply because I was worried. It was a feeling that you’d become in danger. A feeling that someone was trying to take you away. So I came without thinking twice.”

I was surprised by her unexpectedly honest words.

But they were also words I couldn’t overlook.

It was surprising that Yu Hee seemed to have let me into her circle, but her expression was a bit…

Someone trying to take me away.

Since it was something a future S-rank said, it didn’t sound like just simple anxiety.

“Actually, I came as a representative too. Since the dungeon is only showing signs and we’ve just entered the observation phase, there’s some leeway.”

“Representative?”

“All the kids I was with felt it. The same feeling as me.”

Could everyone’s senses be stimulated by the Annihilation Dungeon’s influence? That’s strange.

I answered slowly.

“Hmm. I’m not really the type of person who would experience something like that. You know that, right?”

Both my rank and position.

It had a double meaning.

“I know.”

Hee said immediately.

“I know that, but strangely, that’s how it was. After that, I couldn’t stand it anymore. So I pushed everyone away and came here.”

Pushed everyone away? For a moment, the angry faces of the other kids flashed before my eyes. When I smiled awkwardly, Hee smiled as radiantly as an angel.

Hee’s fingertips touched my box.

Those small fingertips were strangely hot.

“Hee, I’ll come to where you guys are soon, so can you take the prepared things first and distribute them?”

When I said this partly to change the subject since we didn’t have time, Hee’s eyes, which had been growing somewhat dark, became clear again.

She raised the corners of her mouth and nodded.

“I will. Come as quickly as possible.”

“Yeah!”

And after sending that girl away.

When I turned around at the sound of footsteps, silver eyes were quietly looking for me.

It was Yuhan Seong.

And in his hand was the practice potion bottle I had given him earlier.

“Hari.”

He said in a low voice.

“This.”

Showing the potion

“What the hell is this?”

His gaze was the deepest and most sensitive it had been all day.

“Didn’t you hear from Hee?”

“I did.”

He stared at me intently, then sighed and extended his hand.

“It’s dangerous, so let’s go out first.”

I grinned and finished gathering the potion pouches before coming out.

Students were gathered in small groups in the hallway.

The sound of murmuring continued for a long time.

Static came from the broadcast speaker, then the student affairs teacher’s voice rang out.

“This is an announcement for all students. Please refrain from going outside the school after 6 PM today. Abnormal reactions have been detected in nearby magical terrain, so access outside the dormitory and main building is temporarily restricted.”

The hallway became quiet for a moment, then noise immediately erupted.

“Whoa, is a dungeon breaking out?”

“Then what about classes?”

“What about students going home?”

I stepped aside slightly toward the wall.

I see.

The school has noticed too.

It was an announcement a bit earlier than the original route.

‘Though the actual dungeon opening date was delayed by a day.’

The student affairs teacher’s voice continued from the speaker.

“Details will be explained again by each class’s homeroom teacher. From now on, please refrain from unnecessary movement and only move within the campus at designated times.”

The announcement content was standard.

A tone that hid specific details and calmed the students.

But at this level, news articles would appear soon too.

I returned to my class.

The classroom was already full of talk about the announcement.

Hee came to my seat and pulled my chair toward her.

“Hari, really don’t go outside the dormitory.”

“I won’t go out.”

I said with a smile.

“You know I don’t usually go out much anyway. And right now doesn’t seem like the time to worry about me.”

Hee looked at my face for a moment, then nodded.

She still looked like she couldn’t feel at ease though.

Then the homeroom teacher entered the classroom and knocked on the desk.

“Quiet. You’ve all heard, but from this evening you can’t go outside the dormitory building. Students who need to go home now can only leave after confirming parental consent, and everyone else must wait in the dormitory.”

The class kids simultaneously let out sighs.

I quietly folded a corner of my notebook.

If it’s inside the dormitory… it’s not bad for moving around.

Lee Hae-sol said he was staying behind today too.

During break time, I turned on my phone and opened a portal.

As expected, an article was floating at the top.

The title was something like <Magical terrain instability near Narin Academy… Small-scale rifts detected>.

When I clicked on it, there was a faint photo of the sky around the Moonring area.

In the middle of the article, there was an analyst interview attached.

<Due to the characteristics of the Moonring area, psychic attack patterns characteristic of hidden monsters may appear strongly. Intermediate-level and above awakeners need to be careful.>

I read that sentence one more time.

This is it.

Around the end of evening study hall, I could see Yuhan Seong talking with a few class representatives at the end of the hallway.

It seemed like they were hearing about team formation from the teacher.

I deliberately packed my bag leisurely, then timed my exit to the hallway to coincide with theirs.

“Han Seong.”

Yuhan Seong turned his head.

His expression looked a little less stiff than before.

“Yeah.”

“Did you happen to see this article yesterday?”

I lightly waved my phone screen.

“What article?”

“It says magical terrain is becoming unstable in various places… something about ‘psychic’ something.”

I deliberately made the words a bit vague.

It would be strange if I was too precise.

“There are cases where psychic dungeons have burst too. Is that what’s happening to us?”

Yuhan Seong looked at me for a moment.

The screen light faintly reflected in his silver eyes.

“…We’ll have to see to know.”

“Someone like me at F-rank wouldn’t know much.”

I slightly shrugged my shoulders.

“Looking at the article comments, they say fog keeps splitting and people collapse from hallucinations and trauma and stuff like that. There were photos from old incidents attached too.”

At those words, Yuhan Seong’s expression stiffened very slightly.

All the kids who had recently formed a temporary party with Yuhan Seong seemed to be listening to our conversation.

All the kids who would become the original S-rank party.

“Old incidents?”

“Yeah. I don’t remember well… but something kept appearing like whispers in the fog.”

I tried to laugh lightly.

“Of course, it might be exaggerated. That incident happened when it was an S-rank Crescent Dungeon back then. Still, it’s unsettling.”

While saying that, I pushed my phone screen a little closer toward him.

After confirming he quickly skimmed through a few lines of the main text, I immediately turned off the screen.

If I held it out too long, it might arouse suspicion.

Yuhan Seong, who as a regressor would know that this Crescent Dungeon would change to S-rank, fell silent for a moment.

Then he looked at me with complicated eyes once, nodded, and asked.

“Send me the link too.”

“Got it.”

I answered naturally.

“I’m just scared… so I’m sharing it for no reason.”

He nodded very slightly.

That was enough.

I greeted them lightly and went down the stairs first.

‘This time too, the school will ask for student volunteers.’

Not all irregularly formed dungeons are dangerous, and those occurring in safe areas like this are often low-grade.

‘In the original, that’s why the damage was so severe.’

The dormitory common lounge had even more students gathered than before.

Since they couldn’t go outside, they had no choice but to chat inside.

On TV, a news channel was briefly covering magical fluctuations near the Moonring area.

The sound was turned down, but subtitles with words like ‘Potential S-rank candidate dungeon’ kept scrolling by.

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