Was Happy Being a Despised F-Rank Healer, You Know? - Chapter 90

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13. Ten Treasures (3)

After that, Jung Mi-hyeong changed his approach.

Now he didn’t only target me when I was alone.

To be precise, he started bothering me in places with many people, but only to a degree where no one could say anything definitive about it.

It was in the hallway.

It was right after lunch break, so there were many people but it wasn’t noisy.

I was returning to the classroom carrying my textbooks.

I encountered him in the middle of the hallway.

Jung Mi-hyeong deliberately looked at me and stopped.

And very naturally said.

“Oh, am I blocking the way.”

His tone was polite.

His voice was also low.

To those around us, it wouldn’t seem like he was picking a fight.

“It’s fine.”

I said while stepping aside.

At that moment,

His foot caught mine.

Tap.

Very lightly.

Not enough to make me fall, but enough to shake my balance.

“Oh.”

Jung Mi-hyeong said.

“Sorry?”

I regained my balance and stood up.

A few textbooks fell to the floor.

“It’s fine.”

I said again.

He pretended to bow his head.

Then very quietly, so only I could hear, he said.

“You’re not throwing potions this time.”

I didn’t say anything and picked up the books.

Meanwhile, several gazes turned toward us.

It was Yu Hee.

Hyun I-seo was there too.

Lee Hae-sol was watching the situation from a little distance away.

Jung Mi-hyeong immediately backed away when he noticed this.

He raised his hands and said.

“Ah, I’m really sorry.”

“I’m a bit clumsy.”

He said that and passed by.

With a face as if nothing had happened.

Yu Hee approached.

“Hali, what was that just now?”

“It’s nothing.”

I answered.

She looked at my feet once, then looked once in the direction Jung Mi-hyeong had disappeared.

“For just falling down.”

Yu Hee trailed off.

I smiled.

“I fall down easily originally.”

After that day, similar incidents happened several more times.

A desk getting slightly pushed.

Deliberately overlapping with the timing of a door closing.

A bag strap getting caught on someone’s elbow.

Everything looked like coincidence.

Everything was within the bounds of being excusable.

But when repeated, it became a pattern.

I calculated that pattern.

Time.

Place.

People around.

And I became certain of one thing.

This wasn’t bullying through force.

It was bullying using skills.

The next day it was in front of the gymnasium.

We were moving as a class during class transition.

Jung Mi-hyeong brushed past me again.

This time it was with his elbow.

Tap.

“Ah.”

He said.

“Sorry again.”

At that moment,

I took out an hourglass from my bag.

The hourglass of balance collapse.

When flipped,

It was an item that forcibly shook the ‘balance of power’ in the surroundings.

I flipped the hourglass without saying anything.

Click.

It was a very small sound.

A sound no one could have heard.

But right the next moment, Jung Mi-hyeong’s foot slipped.

“Huh?”

He tried to regain his balance but his body reacted a beat too late.

Thud.

It wasn’t enough to make him fall.

But it was noticeable enough.

There were sounds of people holding their breath around us.

Someone burst into quiet laughter.

Jung Mi-hyeong raised his head.

His expression was stiff.

“Are you okay?”

Hyun I-seo asked first.

Jung Mi-hyeong couldn’t give any answer.

His face showed that his body’s center hadn’t returned yet.

The hourglass’s effect was fair.

The greater distortion returned to the one

who intentionally shook the balance.

He took another step forward.

This time his shoulder bumped into the wall.

“Hey.”

Yu Hee said.

“Are you really not feeling well?”

At those words, the surrounding gazes definitely focused on him.

Now it was a situation that couldn’t be hidden.

Jung Mi-hyeong gritted his teeth.

He glared at me.

I made no expression.

I just stood there.

All the sand in the hourglass had fallen.

At the same time, the distortion stopped.

Jung Mi-hyeong’s body barely found its center.

But it was already too late.

Lee Hae-sol said quietly.

“Similar things have been happening continuously since earlier.”

“It’s too many to be coincidence.”

Jung Mi-hyeong couldn’t say anything.

He turned his gaze away.

After that day, he couldn’t easily approach me.

And the students, albeit very late, began to notice.

That this wasn’t coincidence.

And as if noticing such signs, Jung Mi-hyeong no longer openly bothered me.

Instead he pressed with his gaze.

When we met in the hallway, he would lock eyes for a long time.

During class when I came into view, he would deliberately roll his pen.

He would gradually push his chair in my direction.

It seemed like nothing, but it was a method that gnawed at a person when continued.

So this time I decided not to avoid it.

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That day was a day with practical class.

It was the shooting range used jointly with other classes.

It was Jung Mi-hyeong’s domain.

He was definitely the type who shined in this place.

I deliberately stood at the very back.

And took out the last item from my bag.

The Mask of Self-Conviction.

It was the reward obtained from the final trial of the Jester’s Dungeon.

The moment you wear it,

it was a tool that fixed your chosen attitude so it wouldn’t waver.

It wasn’t an item that made you stronger.

It wasn’t an item that gave courage either.

It was simply an item that made you ‘not doubt your current self.’

I briefly placed the mask on my face.

So no one could see, I used it very briefly.

My breathing settled evenly.

My heart became strangely calm.

‘I did nothing wrong.’

That thought was fixed so it wouldn’t waver.

When the practical began, Jung Mi-hyeong deliberately came in front of me.

“Wasn’t it regulation for F-ranks to stay back?”

He said.

His tone was the same as usual.

To those around, it sounded like a reasonable point.

I looked at him quietly.

And shook my head.

“That’s a recommendation. Not a regulation.”

Jung Mi-hyeong’s eyes wavered slightly.

He had the face of someone who didn’t expect me to answer.

“But it’s dangerous.”

He said.

“That’s why I’m here. Inside the safety management zone.”

At my words, the teacher looked this way.

“That’s right.”

The teacher said.

“Jin Hali is not violating regulations.”

Jung Mi-hyeong closed his mouth.

But his expression hardened further.

During practice, he deliberately made the shooting recoil large.

Bang.

The sound was loud.

And one shell casing bounced on the floor and rolled to my feet.

“Be careful.”

He said.

“You’ll get hurt if it hits you.”

I didn’t move.

Instead I pointed to the shell casing on the floor.

“This isn’t supposed to leave the practice area. Jung Mi-hyeong, you threw it over on purpose, didn’t you?”

Suddenly, the surroundings became quiet.

Yu Hee looked at me.

Hyun I-seo also raised his head.

Lee Hae-sol was looking toward the teacher.

“What are you talking about?”

Jung Mi-hyeong said.

“It was an accident.”

I nodded.

“That could be.”

And I took a step back.

From my ankle, a very faint scale sensation rang out.

The snake’s contract scale reacted.

While recording the danger.

I said nothing.

Instead I raised my hand.

“Teacher. Please check the position of this shell casing.”

The teacher hesitated for a moment then approached.

And looked at the floor.

“You crossed the practice line.”

He said.

“This is a point deduction.”

Jung Mi-hyeong’s face hardened.

For the first time, it was a clear disadvantage.

After that day, Jung Mi-hyeong became even more blatant than before.

The more he did so, the more people around began to react.

Yu Hee sat next to me.

“Isn’t it getting a bit too much lately?”

She said quietly.

Hyun I-seo also nodded.

“Everyone can see it.”

Lee Hae-sol said quietly.

“Let’s keep a record.”

I took a breath at those words.

And nodded.

It was thanks to the mask of self-confidence.

I no longer thought, ‘Am I just causing unnecessary trouble?’

And then came the long-awaited day when Jung Mi-hyeong thought I was left alone.

The empty practice room.

I heard the sound of the door closing.

“This is really annoying.”

He said.

“Because of you alone.”

I quietly looked at him.

And said.

“What you just said, could you say it again?”

Preferably loud enough for the people outside to hear.

Jung Mi-hyeong’s face completely hardened.

The door opened.

The instructor and student guidance teacher were standing there.

Behind them were Yu Hee, Hyun I-seo, and Lee Hae-sol.

Jung Mi-hyeong couldn’t say anything.

This time he couldn’t make excuses.

A few days later.

Yu Hee said.

“You worked hard, Hali.”

Hyun I-seo smiled.

“Now we can finally breathe.”

I nodded with a strange feeling.

It was the morning I heard the news that Jung Mi-hyeong had been expelled.

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