The Heroine Saves the World

The next day, I was discharged and returned home.

I won the lottery and became rich, but with my limbs intact, I had no money to waste on a hospital suite.

There are so many places I need to spend money on in the future.

“But it’s amazing the more I look at it.”

I took off my shoes and looked around the house.

“It really is my home.”

Not a single thing had changed.

Even the bed looked like I had just gotten up from it.

But there was no time to get lost in sentimentality.

There was something much more important I needed to check.

“First, let’s take a shower.”

Without thinking any longer, I took a thorough bath from head to toe.

Then, I sat on the bed and opened my mouth with a very reverent heart.

“Status window.”

**Hana A**

As Much as You Know ( EX ) – Inactive

Even a Dried Squid Will Yield Water When Squeezed ( A )

Strengthen Body and Mind ( A )

▼ Expand

[Empty]

**Engraved Recovery** – None

**Equipped Items** – None

“Whoa!”

It appeared! It appeared!

After hearing the doctor say I had awakened, I felt like I was dying to check, but I had held off until I was completely alone to look at it calmly.

I tried what the protagonist had done in the novel, and a translucent skill window rose right in front of my eyes.

Generally, awakened individuals cannot see their own status window.

That’s why they need the help of awakening scanners owned by the association.

Those who show signs of awakening or hope they have awakened, aspiring hunters would frequent the registration centers for awakened individuals until the doorways wore out.

However, like a select few hunters including the protagonist, I could call up my status window.

Just that alone was enough to be encouraging.

I checked my status window with a bit of hesitation, feeling like I was poking at it with a needle.

“Let’s see, let’s see….”

**Hana A**

As Much as You Know ( EX ) – Inactive

Even a Dried Squid Will Yield Water When Squeezed ( A )

Strengthen Body and Mind ( A )

▼ Expand

[Empty]

**Engraved Recovery** – None

**Equipped Items** – None

For a moment, I couldn’t say anything.

“…This is good?”

The condition of my status window is unbelievably good.

“Okay, let’s calm down for a second.”

I rubbed my sweaty hands on my pants and started going through the status window again from the top.

“First, first, it’s A rank.”

My rank is stamped like premium Korean beef.

It’s a very sad reality, but 90% of all awakened individuals are D rank or lower.

In other words, it means they’re awakened, but they can’t stand out in any particular way.

They are stronger than non-awakened individuals but still too weak to enter a gate and battle monsters.

They are even classified as non-combatants and cannot be called ‘hunters.’

As a result, most of these people live lives no different from non-awakened individuals or act as miners in dungeons where safety has already been secured.

“But I’m A rank?”

Hehe.

Even being C rank would allow me to strut around, and if I were B rank, I could gain enough experience to be a core member or even a guild leader of a small to medium guild.

So if I’m A rank, that’s enough to join an important raid team of a large guild immediately.

Of course, this depends somewhat on what abilities I have awakened… 

But just being A rank means I’m within the safety line.

If I were F rank while having to prevent the end of the world, buying instant lottery tickets with 25 billion would probably be the best option.

**Hana A**

As Much as You Know ( EX ) – Inactive

“The first skill is EX rank?”

Haha, now I can’t help but laugh.

EX rank is even higher than S rank.

Exceptional, in other words, it’s outside the norm.

It can evade the awakening association scanner’s detection up to S rank.

So while it has a slight drawback of not affecting personal rank, 

I noticed the description next to the skill that said ‘Inactive.’

Hmm, usually in books, when this happens…

“Activate skill.”

[‘As Much as You Know’ skill has been activated.]

With a short notification, I instantly understood what this skill was used for.

“Wow!”

In an instant, my vision changed.

It seemed to be a skill that provides information about objects.

“It’s not about everything; only items that come out from the gates or things made by awakened individuals have descriptions attached.”

For example:

[ Health Recovery Potion ( E )

Aids natural recovery and increases health.]

A small information window appeared above the tiny potion I had received when I was discharged.

“But this seems too inconvenient. Is there no way to see just what I want?”

Then, as if the system heard my voice, it responded.

[‘As Much as You Know’ – Switched to Selective Visualization Mode.]

At the same time, the potion’s description window disappeared.

And when I ‘wanted’ to see it, a small window reappeared.

Now I understand why this skill is EX rank.

In a world where most hunters cannot even see their own status windows, being able to know the information of items as I wish is a powerful ability.

There are occasionally awakened individuals with emotional skills that ‘see information,’ but those are also limited based on their rank.

So there are many instances of incorrect readings or completely missing them.

In other words.

“A money-making skill!”

If there were awakened individuals with absolutely accurate readings, hunters and guilds would line up with bags of money.

But I have no intention of doing that.

“Not now; it’s too dangerous.”

At least, it’s a power that I must keep secret until I can create an environment where I can protect myself.

But that doesn’t mean I have no way to make money.

“I could buy undervalued items and sell them for a higher price.”

I could hear it. The sound of money being made!

Smiling contentedly, I moved on to the next skill.

Even a Dried Squid Will Yield Water When Squeezed ( A )

“What kind of skill name is this?”

But I had a rough idea of what the skill was about.

Monsters drop items when they die.

But this kind of skill would yield a little more of that item.

In other words, it’s about squeezing them for more.

That said, it would mostly be junk items like monster skins or teeth.

But collecting and selling those could be quite profitable.

I could almost taste the salty flavor of dried squid in my mouth as I moved on to the next skill.

However.

Strengthen Body and Mind ( A )

▼ Expand

“…A healer?”

Just from the skill name, it’s clearly a healing skill.

“Phew.”

I let out a big sigh of relief.

“Wow. Thank goodness.”

By nature, I’m a coward.

If I had to fight at the front after awakening in a combat class, I’d be trembling, closing my eyes, and swinging wildly.

I’d become a terrifying hunter in another sense.

And in Korea, where the ratio of awakened individuals is particularly high, being an A rank healer means I’d be a valuable asset, receiving offers no matter where I go.

“Hahaha! …Haha, ha…”

I tried to laugh it off as if it were nothing, but I couldn’t turn away.

My gaze fell to the bottom of the skill name.

▼ Expand

It felt ominous. I didn’t want to expand it.

Can’t I just be a happy healer?

Then the expansion button on the status window flickered and shone.

“Ugh. No.”

[Press the ▼ Expand button to view detailed information.]

Now even the system window is pressuring me.

Reluctantly, I raised my finger and pressed the black triangle.

[ 2. Strengthen Body and Mind ( A ) – Growth Type

▷ Body Healing: Consumes my health to heal the target.

Current Stage – Beginner I

▷ Dark Poison Healing ( EX ): Reduces the target’s dark poison level.

The efficiency of poison healing is proportional to the favorability the target has for ‘Hana.’]

As a healer, it’s a common rule that healing skills consume magic power.

I should have been angry at the outrageous setting of ‘consuming health,’ but my eyes were caught by the word ‘Growth Type.’

“Nothing is given easily, huh?”

They say it’s a growth type, but they won’t just spoon-feed me good abilities from the start.

Judging by the fact that it’s ‘beginner,’ it seems I can only heal minor wounds.

Unlike regular hunters who typically gain abilities suitable for their ranks upon awakening, I have to work my way up from the bottom.

“Then I guess I’ll have to do that…”

Just as I was about to lament, my breath caught on the word ‘Dark Poison Healing’ that followed.

“Is it real?!”

I shot up.

“I can heal dark poison?!”

I had even written in the comments that had cursed the fated beam I had received for being reincarnated into a world facing its end.

[Me: No. Author.. …Then either throw away that ridiculous dark poison setting or give the kids the ability to block the darkness that flows out from the gate!! …Honestly, this is just a lack of ability on the author’s part….]

The setting of dark poison was that dreadful.

As the poison level rises, individuals would ultimately go into a frenzy, and the way it manifests

 itself is unique to each person.

In the novel, many times when dark poison levels went up, several people had lost their minds, leading to chaotic situations.

Moreover, there were no healing skills for dark poison.

The only known way to reduce the dark poison level was to rely on rare potions, and they could be bought for a fortune.

But now, I had that skill, and what’s even better is that it had ‘EX’ rank attached to it.

“Okay. This is amazing. It’s amazing!”

I smiled broadly as if I’d just won the jackpot. I was a bit worried about the last line, but since I hadn’t met anyone who’d become my enemy yet, I thought it was fine.

“I’ll protect them with my healing!”

I clenched my fists.

“Now I just need to figure out what to do next.”

***

That day I spent going through the status window, was the moment when my fortune began to unfold.