The Heroine Saves the World

The heroine saves the world
episode 48

“Is this really okay?”

“I told you so? Oh, what is that?”

“……Bat grass oil. It’s a D-grade herb and is good for the skin.”

“Wow. This will sell really well.”

“……I guess that’s true.”

What I asked Im Cheong-su to do in exchange for cleaning out the monsters in the dungeon was to help me gather herbs.

“What is that? I don’t have to mine mana stones or anything?”

“You can do that next time. Here, what is this?”

“I told you earlier, it’s called the Matika fruit. When someone speaks, listen to them.”

“They all look the same to me.”

“Oh, how do they look! Jah is sharp and Yah is round!”

At first, he pretended to be indifferent to everything, but then he started talking a lot because he knew a lot about things.

It’s a good thing.

Anyway, it means that they are opening their hearts to us little by little.

And there were people who discovered talents they didn’t even know they had.

“Cheongsu, isn’t this whirlwind grass? I think it’s supposed to have a fever-reducing effect.”

“Giyu. I’ll teach you just once, but you’ll know it well. Unlike others.”

Im Cheong-su answers Han Ji-seong’s question with the same look he gives me as a pitiful cousin he met on a holiday.

Yeah, if you want to chew, chew.

If I can become friends with the people from the Justice Guild, that’s what I want.

“But then, Cheongsu, are your skills like an encyclopedia?”

“Hey, when you see something like a blade of grass, it’s like a book opens before your eyes.”

“Wow, that’s amazing. So, you can learn about other things besides herbs in that way?”

“That’s something like that. My father-in-law once went out of town and brought back a hairpin as a gift for my grandmother. I saw it then too.”

“What a truly incredible skill. Right, Jang Su-ho.”

“That’s right.”

Jang Su-ho, who had been loitering around, answered with genuine surprise.

“If Cheongsu joins the guild, there will be no more emotional costs……”

“Hey, this is good for you. Try it.”

“Epee, ugh ugh ugh! There’s dirt all over my mouth!”

“Yeah, that’s what I meant.”

Where are you going to stick your nose into a cooked meal!

You still shouldn’t bring up things like recruiting a guild member or anything like that to Im Cheong-su.

Lim Cheong-su, who appeared like a comet in , was 20 years old at the time.

“Cheongsu, how old are you this year?”

“Seventeen indie.”

“Then you’re a first year high school student.”

“I don’t go to school, but, you know, I guess that’s it.”

So, that means it would be three years before he would be recruited as Maestro.

If we let it flow naturally, it will take a long time for this child to leave this mountain valley.

And there must have been a reason for that that wasn’t described in the novel.

‘You can’t leave it like that.’

After three years it’s too late.

There’s a mountain of things that need to be done in the meantime to prevent the end of this world.

And if Im Cheong-soo is in the process, it’s like giving Lamborghini X wings.

Because I am the Lamborghini X that will stop the apocalypse.

“Oh, sis! I said that was a weed, didn’t I!”

“No, it looks exactly like this.”

“Oh, why is it always the same? It’s frustrating. Just leave it alone and go over there.”

In the end, he was stripped of the hoe he had borrowed from Im Cheong-su and was driven out into the shadows.

… … You can’t tell the difference between the original Lamborghini X and the full-size one.

I’m going to order some fresh water.

Anyway, the time I spent in the shade under the tree wasn’t long.

“There’s so much more than I thought?”

Just as Im Cheong-su pointed out, he picked only useful herbs and quickly gathered them, just like fallen leaves piled up in the fall.

“Wouldn’t this work?”

Han Ji-seong asked, taking out a large black plastic bag that he had brought with him to collect trash after camping.

But soon bitter criticism began to arrive.

“Then you won’t be able to use all the herbs!”

At that, Im Cheong-su clicks his tongue.

“But I can’t just leave all this behind.”

“……I guess I can just write something like this.”

Im Cheong-su took out a few nets identical to the ones he was wearing from the subspace and handed them to us.

“But I don’t think it’ll all fit here… What is this?”

It certainly looks like a roughly woven bag made of rags, but it feels different when you put your hand inside.

[ Mantaegi ( B )

: A net containing a subspace that reduces its volume.

Producer – Lim Cheong-su ]

If it’s this kind of nonsense, then the real nonsense grandpa could catch the kid too.

Although it was not a type that ignored both volume and weight, but remained at the B-class, this alone was proof that Im Cheong-su’s production skills were already quite advanced.

“The weight can’t be ignored, so strong people should lift it.”

“Cheongsu, you…….”

It looks really delicious, doesn’t it?

“Take this and that and everything.”

Originally, I was going to leave it behind because I had no choice.

“No, should we dig a little more?”

“I’ll be back in a few days anyway. I can dig more then. I’m greedy, so go ahead.”

Oh, you figured me out right away?

Anyway, Im Cheong-su’s words made sense, so I decided not to collect any more herbs.

First of all, there is something more important than herbs.

“Let’s go home, Cheongsu.”

I slung the heavy bag over my shoulder and spoke to Im Cheong-su.

“I should go and eat the delicious food that my grandmother makes.”

Then, finally, with the familiar ‘Pporororong-‘ sound, a bubbling heart and speech bubble appeared above Im Cheong-su’s black head.

《 ♥ 5 》

“……Go quickly.”

* * *

When I came out of the dungeon, it was already sunset.

When we left early in the morning and returned late in the evening, the old couple welcomed us back like their own grandchildren.

“Oh my, I’m full.”

“Okay, let’s have some oatmeal for dessert. Summer oatmeal is very sweet.”

Before the table was even cleared, my grandmother brought out a tray full of boiled corn.

“No, Grandma, we’re so full…….”

“I have no thoughts.”

Cheongsu, that cowardly bastard.

Are you running away alone?

I glared at Im Cheong-su’s back as he quickly ran away to his room, but in the end, we had to eat dessert as if we were shoving corn into our stomachs one by one.

“Jug…….”

“Grandma, if we eat any more, I think our stomachs will explode.”

“No, that’s not it.”

Grandma glanced at Grandpa, who was watching the news.

Soon the living room, with the TV turned off, became so quiet that even the sound of bugs chirping outside could be heard.

“Jugg… What about our Cheongsu?”

“I think he is a very bright and smart child.”

The grandparents were frustrated by Kang’s orthodox answer.

“No, not that. I think Gya is an Awakened One or something.”

As expected, the two of them knew.

The fact that Cheongsu has awakened.

Well, I dug up some herbs I’ve never heard of before and made some medicine for them, so there’s no way the two of you wouldn’t have noticed.

In the end, my grandfather brought up the main topic first.

“I was wondering if the Justice Guild could accept Gya…….”

“To our guild?”

Kang-han was silently lost in thought.

The grandfather, who was becoming impatient, quickly added, perhaps interpreting that appearance as Cheongsu being troubled by something he was not satisfied with.

“What is that little kid going to do in this mountain village? Right? I don’t ask for much. Just give him food and make it possible for him to go to school in Seoul. That would be very grateful.”

“…….”

The answer did not come easily.

That goes without saying.

Grandma and Grandpa don’t know the value of being the Awakened Ones of Cheongsu, but we do.

To be exact, I know exactly what it is, and the rest I can only vaguely guess from what I saw in the dungeon.

But that alone was enough.

It can accurately appraise the dungeon’s products, and the nets it creates even have subspace skills attached to them.

It’s a prickly feeling in my conscience to accept Cheongsu, who would be welcomed in any other large guild, into the Jeongui Guild.

I also somewhat agree with that strong thinking… … What the heck!

I have to get it right away!

Kang Han’s gaze turned to me.

After all, I am the manager of the guild.

Strictly speaking, accepting new guild members was a matter that both Kang and I had to agree on.

Of course, my heart was already set on transferring Cheongsu to Yongsan Awakening School, but there was something I wanted to confirm before that.

“Excuse me, but why hasn’t Cheongsu registered as an Awakened Person yet?”

“I guess it’s because we live in the mountains. I don’t know about Seoul, but here, you have to drive two hours to get that kind of machine. So, you only get it done twice at the hospital: once when you’re born, and once when you become an adult when you’re twenty.”

This is why Im Cheong-su first appeared as a member of the Maestro Guild when he was twenty years old.

We discovered Im Cheong-su three years earlier.

It’s Hongbok, it’s Hongbok.

“No matter how bad the world is, it’s right for young people to go to Seoul. So please take Cheongsu with you.”

“Uhm, then.”

I smiled and said to the two old men, as if to reassure them.

“We’ll talk about it separately. I’ll try to help Cheongsu as much as possible.”

* * *

First, Kang Han and I came out.

“Wow, the stars are really falling.”

Because it was a dark mountain valley, the pitch-black night sky was full of stars.

Feeling the chilly night air, I asked Kang Han.

“What do you want to do?”

“……Cheongsu will probably receive a fairly high rank. So he will be a great help to the Justice Guild.”

“but?”

“But that’s the problem. Perhaps Cheongsu would be treated better if he went to a big, good guild.”

“So, our consciences are pricked if we act rashly?”

“It’s not wrong to express it that way….”

Kang-han nodded with a look on his face that said he had given up on nagging her again.

“How was it when you brought the Eulchan twins? Did you worry as much as you do now?”

“No. I brought them here with me with the intention of protecting them until they become adults.”

“Then what’s different about Cheongsu?”

“Cheongsu is……”

“Surely not, our Eulchans are of a low rank and Cheongsu is of a high rank. Are you doing some kind of heartless ranking system like that?”

Kang-han just kept his mouth shut and looked at me with eyes full of discontent.

That’s the kind of face you have when you have a lot to say but don’t say anything.

“Do you know how the guild masters handle hunters who are not adults in large guilds?”

Large guilds operate solely for profit.

The absolute number of hunters is small.

However, most of them want to belong to a large guild.

So the guild uses a competitive system to score the hunters’ performance, and based on that, they constantly change the dungeons they can conquer, their salaries, and the benefits they receive.

The contract is for one year, or at most two years.

Those who have not yet awakened are grouped into a group called ‘youth’ and are given at least some legal protection.

Cheongsu is already an awakened hunter.

If you go to a large guild, you’ll probably be thrown into that cold-blooded competitive system naked.

Of course, since Cheongsu is S-class, the story is a little different.

In any case, it is obvious what kind of things a country boy who lived alone with his grandparents would experience in the middle of a large guild.

“What would a large guild do with a 17-year-old kid who just came from the countryside and doesn’t know anything about the world? And that kid has both emotional and crafting skills.”

In order to get the principal back, they’ll wring out the new S-class like a rag.

“……I overlooked that point.”

“There’s only one thing that bothers me.”

“What is that?”

“I wonder if the other guild members will adapt well.”

The Justice Guild was a group of people who had survived by sticking together since Jang Su-ho joined two years ago.

But if other members come in now, will they be okay?

“It’ll be okay.”

Kang-han answered in a voice that showed no sign of doubt.

“Because everyone is used to accepting someone unfamiliar as a guild member.”

Oh, right. That’s right.

These were the people that Kang-han brought in when everyone else had nowhere to go.

“Didn’t you receive it well, Miss Na Yeo-ju?”

This kid was doing well and then again.

“The guild leader can be a bit annoying sometimes, you know?”

“I know. That’s what I’m telling you to do.”

There was a faint smile on Kang Han’s lips as he spoke like that.

Wow, you know how to laugh like that.

“Well, anyway, does that mean the guild leader is okay with it? Cheongsu’s opinion is the most important, though.”

I have no intention of peacefully seeking Cheongsu’s consent.

My money turned into cyber money, what kind of consideration is that?

I have to boil it somehow.

“And you, Miss Nayeoju.”

“Yes, why?”

“It’s good to recruit new guild members, but let’s take care of ourselves first, Ms. Na Yeo-ju.”

Then, as if he had brought it at some point, he draped my jacket over his shoulders and ran into the house.

“Don’t be so needlessly affectionate.”

I looked at Kang-han’s back and then turned around, thinking of taking a walk around the house.

‘How should I roast and boil this mountain squirrel so that it will be said that I cooked it well?’

That was when I started thinking like that and started to roll my head.

“It’s dark at night. Where are you going?”

Im Cheong-su walked out from behind a large jujube tree near where Kang and I were talking.

shit.

It looked like he had been standing there the whole time.

I asked anyway just in case.

“Are you by any chance……”

“Hey. I heard everything.”

AC.

That damn stealth skill.