Lee Joohee

Joohee is a fair-skinned young woman with a curvy figure and striking blue eyes. Her hair runs long and a vivid orange, worn either loose or gathered into a high ponytail. A plain brown fur coat covered her when she first appeared. Notably, the anime swaps her bright orange locks for brown, a change whose intent has never been confirmed.

Warm and approachable, Joohee carries a deep dread of the perils that come with hunting. That fear kept her sticking to gentle raids despite her B-Rank healing credentials, and it ultimately pushed her into retirement once the Double Dungoen left scars she could not shake. Her bond with Jinwoo runs close; she often tagged along on his outings to keep him from getting himself killed and once snapped at him over how frequently he wound up hurt. A hint of romantic feeling surfaced when she offered to forgive a slight if he would simply treat her to a meal.

Joohee first crossed paths with Jinwoo again at a D-Rank Gate near a construction site, alarmed that the E-Rank hunter had been wounded once more. The two soon entered the dungeon together, where a hidden second entrance led the party into a sealed chamber lined with towering stone figures. There the Statue of God awakened and slaughtered hunter after hunter, leaving Joohee paralyzed by terror as Jinwoo and Song Chi-Yul scrambled to survive each lethal commandment. When escape finally became possible, Jinwoo gave up his own chance, handing her an essence stone and a promise of a future meal before Chi-Yul knocked her unconscious and carried her out, leaving Jinwoo behind. She emerged so traumatized that returning to hunting seemed unlikely.

Joohee nonetheless came back to the work, joining low-rank teams against a Stone Golem and other threats while quietly battling her fear. During the Dungeon and Prisoners raid she was reunited with a dramatically changed Jinwoo and nearly killed by the assassin Kang Taeshik, who targeted her precisely because her buffs made her allies dangerous. She kept Chi-Yul and Jinwoo standing with her magic through the fight, and after Taeshik fell, she chose to bury the truth of who had really defeated him. Walking with Jinwoo afterward, she admitted she lacked his will to push past her limits and returned his essence stone, announcing her retirement and plans to live with her parents in Busan.

Even retired, Joohee answered the call to guard Busan's shores during the Jeju Island Raid, steeling herself against an ant swarm only for Beru to wipe them out in an instant. After the Rulers invoked the Cup of Reincarnation at Jinwoo's behest, she lost every memory of the old timeline and began a fresh life pursuing nursing studies at a Seoul university, briefly sensing something familiar in a passing stranger she did not recognize as Jinwoo. In the Ragnarok continuity she reawakens as a B-Rank healer, earning the title Saint of Busan for treating the injured without regard for pay before later joining the Knights Guild.