Was Happy Being a Despised F-Rank Healer, You Know? - Chapter 6

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1. Surviving as an F-Rank Healer (6)

Right, they’d be seeing this for the first time.

F-rank Healers are currently rarer than even S-ranks, called born failures.

They’re known to be even more useless than regular F-ranks.

Usually, the majority of ordinary people are clustered in D-rank and E-rank.

They’re hard to see even among non-Hunters, let alone an F-rank at the Academy. This would only be Jin Hali.

“This one? It’s a girl?”

One of them swaggered over after spotting me, following the gazes of the kids who reflexively turned to look at me.

Bang!

When he hit the desk, it cracked right away.

Since this is an Awakener Academy facility, it should be finished to withstand awakeners’ strength.

‘If hitting it lightly causes this much damage, he must be at least C-rank.’

How delightful.

I needed to lay the groundwork in front of as many people as possible.

“Hey, what kind of confidence made you come to the Academy? Just live as an ordinary person.”

“Team projects make up more than half the classes, and because of you alone, our entire grade is going to suffer. Huh?”

I smiled faintly while watching the thugs who started picking on me.

Looking appropriately dejected, as if I knew what they meant.

Then strangely, they flinched and started stammering.

“Why are you smiling creepily like that. Ah, it’s no use pretending you’re not scared, you know?”

“We won’t get disciplined even if we accidentally break one of your arms. You know that?”

“Why don’t you just quietly drop out?”

Maybe because awakener management is strict, but these kids’ words are quite mild.

‘Damn bitch! Worthless bitch! Ungrateful bitch! …!’

‘××, we raised you without abandoning you even when we had no money, and this is the result? Father died because of you too, huh? Going to the Academy? What are you going to do there. You’re trying to run away from here, aren’t you? Hey!’

Recalling what Jin Hali’s mother and brother said before I left home, these kids were just angels.

‘They’re actually saviors.’

Because they created the situation I wanted.

I deliberately spoke loud enough for all the onlookers who had gathered around to hear.

“I know. But I didn’t come here to be a hindrance. Even with this rank, I’m serious. My dream is to become someone who helps the world. I’ll do my best to be helpful in my own way, so will you watch over me?”

First, let me lay the groundwork for making and distributing potions.

“What, what?”

The thugs were flustered, not expecting me to respond so calmly.

Seeing these still innocent young kids made the whole world seem brighter.

They were cute, but separately, I didn’t forget to threaten them appropriately by mentioning awakener laws.

“And breaking my arm… I really hope you don’t actually do that. I’m worried about you guys more than myself. You might get misunderstood and lose points. Besides, the awakener law regarding minor violence was recently revised. What if you guys get punished.”

Do I really have to keep spouting this nonsense?

It’s a bit reality-checking, but strangely it seems to be working on the thugs.

“Huh?”

“I just said it just in case. Actually, I know everything. You guys are worried I might get hurt in the dungeon, right?”

When I gently narrowed my eyes and smiled sweetly, the thugs’ faces all turned red at once.

Why?

“Thank you. You guys be careful too.”

“Wh-what! Fine then.”

“Since the law is like that, we’ll let it slide! Hmph!”

“…You’re not even getting angry, how boring. Hey, let’s go.”

I managed my gaze that kept trying to turn sharp.

‘What kind of thugs are these?’

The broken desk wasn’t even visible to them.

The kids nodded meekly and just left some threats about watching me before turning away.

…Right, things were strange from this point on.

If I had known then that a gentle attitude actually stands out more in this school, I would have thrown punches instead.

The fact that everyone became a bit more wild as they got used to using their awakening abilities was an obvious social trend not even mentioned in the original work.

So I didn’t know, but it was already too late.

Because the protagonist was watching from over there.

“I’ll do my best to be helpful in my own way, so will you watch over me?”

Yuhan Seong was watching that kid.

Because he had returned thinking it was the last time, he had spent the week after enrollment more intensely than anyone.

There was much to do.

From laying groundwork to make those with potential to become S-rank into team members, to gathering various opportunities and magical tools to give them single-handedly.

But even in the midst of all that, that F-rank kept catching his eye.

A person he had never seen at graduation ceremonies through countless regressions.

Why was that.

‘No matter how hard an F-rank tries.’

Swallowing his doubts, he thought.

‘Even if they increase their mana through blood-shedding effort, at best they’d be D-rank with luck, or E-rank otherwise.’

Even if several miracles overlapped, C-rank would be the limit.

Unless they possessed an SSS-rank skill like himself, it would be impossible for that kid to become S-rank.

But that kid’s eyes were quietly shining with strange conviction.

“Actually, I know everything. You guys are worried I might get hurt in the dungeon, right?”

Was she stupid, or naive.

Yuhan Seong tried to turn his head away after watching up to that point.

Because he couldn’t yet understand why he kept being bothered by her, which made him feel wary instead.

‘You never know. She might have a skill that enchants people.’

He even had uncharacteristically baseless insulting thoughts.

That is, until he saw that genuinely gentle smile he’d never seen before in his life.

“Thank you. You guys be careful too.”

Then he suddenly realized.

Ah, right. That was it.

That kid had been like that from the beginning.

No matter what negative treatment she received, that characteristic soft and gentle atmosphere never disappeared. Sometimes it would dim a bit, and when it did, it bothered him even more.

That’s why when that kid was pretending to focus on her textbook alone earlier while darkening her expression, Han Seong inwardly clicked his tongue but couldn’t look away.

She was no help at all in preventing destruction, but she was certainly a strange type of human.

Han Seong suddenly thought.

‘…She seems like she’ll actually try.’

Somehow, that kid didn’t seem like she would speak empty words.

If she said she would do it, she seemed like she would.

Just like he had long ago.

Long ago, until the naturally born D-rank became B-rank, Han Seong had made blood-shedding efforts.

Did he want to become a good person.

Or maybe he was just consumed by hero complex.

What was certain was that when the time of destruction approached, he wanted to lend a hand in saving the world.

However, becoming A-rank required a miracle, and when he became S-rank….

‘I lost everything as the price for promotion.’

Before regression.

The destruction he witnessed was truly a hellscape.

So he barely managed to steal Yggdrasil’s wish-granting fruit and turned back time.

He had asked for the power to save the world.

Because reviving the dead was also meaningless.

Among the living, there were many whose minds had already been irreversibly broken, and there were not only those who died protecting him, but also precious ones who died cursing him.

Hell was endless.

The only power to save the world was infinite regression.

And so another hell opened.

He lost countless people repeatedly. Since S-ranks couldn’t unite, they all listened to his requests but died in places his hands couldn’t reach.

How much time had passed like that?

Only after counting the number of times had become meaningless, Han Seong was able to obtain two SSS-rank skills.

<Clairvoyance>, and <Veil of Night>.

The names were childish, but their abilities were incredible.

Clairvoyance allowed him to see everything regarding a person’s talent.

Veil of Night was the ability to control all evil things that awakened at night and all shadows visible during the day.

Because they were SSS-rank, the skills maintained their grade even after regression.

And at the end of all those experiences, as he remembered, the only time he hadn’t been a burden to those around him was when he became S-rank.

That was why he only sought S-ranks…

And why he considered that child endlessly foolish.

“…Meaningless.”

He rolled the F-rank’s name he had heard earlier around in his mouth.

Right. That gentle child would probably make futile efforts and before long, that spirit visible now would fade away.

“It won’t even last a year.”

Maybe she’ll die before that.

Only after muttering that carelessly did he realize that he was somewhat angry.

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