Was Happy Being a Despised F-Rank Healer, You Know? - Chapter 68
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10. We Found a Strange F-Rank. (3)
“Jin Hali.”
Another small whisper reached my ears.
This time it was Hae-sol sitting in the front row.
He turned his body slightly back and asked in a small voice.
“Are you okay?”
“…I’m fine.”
I answered briefly.
Hae-sol narrowed his eyebrows and spoke in an even smaller voice.
“But what was that in the hallway just now? Those were Administration Bureau people, right?”
“They were just checking something.”
I turned my gaze to the blackboard.
“It’s nothing serious.”
Hae-sol didn’t ask any more questions.
But his expression still carried the feeling of ‘It doesn’t look like nothing serious to me?’
I got up from my seat immediately after class ended.
I decided not to study at the library today.
I needed to organize my thoughts.
And I needed to… catch my breath a little.
Walking down the short path leading behind the building, I unexpectedly encountered someone there.
“Oh. You came.”
Lee Kang-u, the Eden Guild’s prospective researcher who always wore a carefree expression, was sitting on the bench.
He waved his hand first.
“What? Did you get investigated too?”
“…No.”
I answered quietly.
“How did you know?”
“I saw the Administration Bureau guys coming.”
He said while shaking a carton of milk.
“But that expression of yours, it wasn’t just a simple check, was it? Do you… have something you’re hiding?”
I smiled lightly.
“No. What would I be hiding?”
“I suppose so.”
Kang-u nodded his head.
Even so, he slightly lowered his eyes and observed me.
His eyes were a bit sharper than usual.
Well.
Lee Kang-u was originally an observer.
His ability was like that, and so was his disposition.
He was the type who might speak lightly but never missed important information.
“But you.”
He showed a subtle smile at the corner of his mouth.
“Your potion skills were above average level, weren’t they?”
I almost stopped breathing for a moment.
Kang-u crumpled the carton and threw it in the trash can while continuing.
“I can tell just by eyeballing it, but that wasn’t for student practice use.”
“…”
“I don’t mean it in a bad way.”
He said while raising both hands.
“But you know. Lately you’re… becoming more noticeable.”
I turned my head away.
“I don’t want that kind of thing.”
“I didn’t say you wanted it.”
Kang-u chuckled.
“But regardless of what you want, the situation is already moving in that direction.”
I didn’t answer.
The moment he brought up those words, something inside my chest sank coldly.
The Administration Bureau wasn’t the only problem.
There were too many eyes gathering information in this school and this guild too.
Kang-u got up from his seat and said.
“Be careful. You’re exactly the type that’s prone to becoming dangerous.”
I bit my lip hard while watching his back as he turned and walked away.
One by one, the ‘invisible moments’ from the original work were revealing themselves before me.
I was touching the shadows of the center too early in a story where I should never become the center.
That’s why ‘staying quiet’ was even more necessary.
But fate seemed to be moving as if it had completely different thoughts from mine.
At the corner where I was turning back, a message arrived.
[Guild Notice: Student Jin Hali, Final Dungeon follow-up interview request. Please visit the Management Office tomorrow after 2nd period.]
I stared at the phone screen and let out a short sigh.
“…Why is this coming to me.”
Really, I didn’t do anything.
I checked the notice again.
Management Office visit.
Interview.
This was definitely not a ‘formal investigation.’
Even in the original work, interview requests were directly connected to technical anomalies or discovery of risk factors.
Even that was an event that came to only one person.
That one person was a supporting character completely unrelated to me.
‘It’s not me. It shouldn’t be me.’
I put my phone in my pocket and entered the building.
The hallway was bustling with students, but I felt like the passing glances were subtly avoiding me.
Hae-sol immediately ran over.
“Hali.”
He said while catching his breath.
“You got the interview notice, right?”
“Yeah.”
I answered briefly.
Hae-sol bit his lip and whispered.
“Are you… really okay?”
“…For now.”
I nodded my head.
“It’s probably just a confirmation or something.”
The Final Dungeon interview could become the fuse for the following ‘Administration Bureau episode.’
‘I want to postpone that episode as much as possible.’
Yu Hee was walking from afar and narrowed her eyes when she saw us.
“Did you guys see the notice? Hali’s interview… isn’t that a bit strange?”
“No, there were just some unusual things in the dungeon.”
Hyun I-seo nudged Yu Hee’s elbow.
“Like using potions or finding that string.”
“But even an interview?”
Yu Hee looked at me and said.
“Are you okay?”
I forced a smile.
But all three of them were perceptive.
They seemed to notice that it was a forced smile.
And it wasn’t just them.
Someone was watching us from a little distance away.
It was Yuhan Seong.
He silently met my eyes.
That gaze was neither cold nor warm.
A look that calculated danger.
I turned my gaze away first.
Yuhan Seong passed by without saying anything.
However, as he passed, the slight tension in his shoulder muscles told me he had grasped the situation before I did.
The bell rang.
We each entered our classrooms.
But even after the first class started, my mind became increasingly complicated.
There was only one thing I needed to do now.
Reduce information.
Reduce movement.
Don’t provoke the observer.
So as soon as class ended, I deliberately moved alone.
I didn’t hold onto Lee Hae-sol, I-seo, or Yu Hee.
If talk started circulating around me in the crowd, it would only make things worse.
I quietly went outside the building and checked near the management office.
There was no one there yet.
But suddenly I heard a familiar voice from behind.
“Student Jin Hali.”
I raised my head.
It was that man I had seen at the Administration Bureau in the morning.
He stood there wearing a gray cardigan with no expression.
“We need to confirm a few things before tomorrow’s interview.”
His tone was neither kind nor rude.
It was just truly ‘business’ in tone.
I quietly asked.
“Do we have to do it right now?”
“It’s simple.”
He turned and said.
“It would be better to do it somewhere quieter.”
I swallowed.
There had never been an ‘unofficial confirmation’ before an interview.
And the moment those words ended, I realized.
This was an investigation directed at me.
Not about the dungeon.
An investigation to confirm what I had done.
The man opened the door and said.
“Come in. It’ll be over soon, so don’t worry.”
I took a deep breath and entered through that door.
And the moment the door closed, my heart sank heavily once.
As the door closed, the air changed.
It was much quieter and drier than outside.
A space with almost no human scent or dust smell.
The Management Bureau official pointed to a small room with a single desk.
“Sit here.”
I quietly sat in the chair.
He didn’t sit across from me but spread out documents from the side.
Only the sound of turning pages seemed oddly loud.
“Student Jin Hali.”
He said while looking down at the documents.
“I heard that you took the lead in discovering something in the final dungeon.”
I answered briefly.
“I just saw something.”
“Saw something.”
He repeated those words.
“What you saw was a ‘string,’ wasn’t it?”
For a moment, my breath caught.
If it was simply content written in a report, he wouldn’t speak so definitively.
In other words, it meant they already knew something about the ‘string’ internally.
The final dungeon was officially processed as closed.
The school wrapped up the incident without any additional explanation, and the process was faster and more matter-of-fact than expected.
Fortunately, there were no subsequent incidents of them cornering us as suspicious or strongly demanding individual investigations.
The school immediately entered early winter break for the shocked students.
It was a quieter conclusion than expected.
There were no investigations or calls to write separate reports.
Rather than managing the chaos after the dungeon, the atmosphere chose to cover it up.
Perhaps everyone was too exhausted to wrap everything up under the name of final dungeon.
Students packed their bags one by one and left the school.
The dormitory hallways emptied day by day.
The sight of floors that usually never turned off their lights even at night becoming completely dark within a few days felt strangely unreal.
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LêMon
oh my god, is the author allergic to writing logic by any chance? I feel like the protagonist is being dumbed down a lot – she cant even lie properly and we dont even get an excuse on why she’s bad at lying. And now, finally there’s an interesting interview and i was looking forward to what would happen . HOW TF DID IT GOT SKIPPED HUH THATS NO FUN :(((((((((((((((