I Woke Up from Hibernation and Found a Husband - Chapter 79

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Chapter 79
“Ian Lloyd’s healing ability is truly that exceptional?”
“Yes, they say almost any illness vanishes like it was never there in front of Ian!”
The Lloyd Family had demanded an astronomical sum for their healing ability. Ilya, who had regarded the family head’s merchant-like demeanor with suspicion, soon paid the fee.
‘There’s no need to judge a healer’s character when it comes to treatment.’
As long as Geo could be healed, it didn’t matter who came.
But the moment Ian entered Geo’s Room with his bright face, my eyes widened.
A boy with a slender frame similar to Geo’s age. The child approached Geo, who bore clear signs of illness, without hesitation and smiled cheerfully.
The young boy possessed a remarkably upright character.
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“Geo, this is Ian Lloyd, who possesses healing abilities. He’ll take care of your health.”
I carefully led Ian into Geo’s Room. The terms of the expensive contract stipulated that Ian would visit Geo twice a week until his condition improved.
“Hello! I’m looking forward to working with you.”
A boy in his late teens with fluffy blonde hair and warm brown eyes, smiling brightly. Geo made an unfamiliar expression at the white hand extended toward him.
‘What if I hurt him by holding that hand?’
In the end, Geo chose to hide beneath the blankets as always. When alone, there was no risk of hurting someone, nor of being hurt myself.
But Ian scratched his cheek awkwardly.
“I can’t heal you if I can’t touch you.”
After a moment of consideration, Ian’s solution was.
“Aahhhhh!”
He simply yanked away the blanket wrapped around Geo and threw it aside.
“What are you doing!”
“What are you doing? You said you’re sick.”
“That doesn’t give you the right to do whatever you want!”
Ian shrugged as if nothing was wrong. Geo, standing there dumbfounded with his mouth agape, snapped to attention as Ian’s hand suddenly grabbed his wrist.
“Let go! It’s dangerous!”
Geo screamed so hard his parched lips nearly cracked, but Ian paid no attention.
“Hey, I’m actually really weak too, you know? But if you can’t pull your arm away from me, then you’re in serious condition! Just accept the treatment, yeah?”
“That’s not the point! You’re the one in danger, not me! Do you know what my ability does?!”
My heart raced. The ability, compounded by psychological distress, became increasingly difficult to control. I never knew when I might hurt someone again.
“I know. But my ability is stronger. So if I heal you faster than you can hurt me, it’s fine, right?”
This guy is insane.
Faced with such stubborn determination, my words failed me. Yet strangely, despite thinking ‘what kind of person is this?’, I didn’t feel bad about it.
“…Father really did that?”
Claire asked with disbelief as she observed the longing in Ilya’s eyes.
It was surprising that her usually quiet and gentle father had such a period in his past.
‘Wow, Claire really does take after her father.’
Theodore nodded in admiration, though for different reasons.
His actions, his words—they were an exact mirror of the reactions he himself had received.
“Hehe, it truly was. Perhaps it was because they were the same age. After all, neither of them had an environment conducive to making friends.”
Ian and Geo grew close rapidly. Their gentle, malleable natures shared certain similarities, and through the process of healing one another and conversing, they naturally developed into friends.
“Congratulations. You’re fully recovered.”
“Thanks to you, really.”
Even after Geo’s body had recovered, the two remained friends. Of course, their meetings became less frequent than during the regular healing sessions, but their friendship endured for years.
Yet each time Geo saw Ian, he could not smile with ease.
“Are you really sure you’re okay?”
Unlike Geo, who had become completely healthy, Ian appeared to be growing progressively weaker. The Empire’s sole healing ability—those desperate to escape death would fill an entire city and still not be enough.
“Yeah, I’m just a bit tired.”
Geo, who had once withered himself, could tell. Ian was pushing himself too hard now. But the environment surrounding him only drove Ian further into a corner, and their meetings, which had occurred three or four times a year, ceased entirely.
“Ian disappeared along with his escort on the way to recuperation, or so I heard.”
When Ian finally severed everything and fled. Geo understood his choice. A life swayed by one’s ability was unbearable.
‘Ian, you must be at peace now.’
After becoming an adult, Geo searched for a way to eliminate his ability. To become an ordinary human without any power at all—that was Geo’s purpose and dream.
“And it seems he finally found the method. He left only a single note in his room before running away for the first time.”
Ilya’s eyes, which had been filled with longing moments before, grew cold.
“He found the method. That’s what was written.”
A week after Geo disappeared. Geo suddenly returned to the Mansion. His ability had truly vanished, but the problem was—
“He returned in a comatose state.”
Once he had erased the very ability he despised so much, Geo no longer moved.
His body lived, but his consciousness was completely lost. As if his soul had been torn away, only the shell had returned.
‘Surely not.’
Claire and Theodore exchanged anxious glances. An organization that handled abilities using souls as material—there was naturally one place they could suspect.
‘Umbra.’
“A month after he returned like that, the child finally closed his eyes.”
The elderly woman, steadying her breath as she recalled the painful memory, lifted her head and looked at Claire.
“But actually, before Geo left, Ian came to visit once. With a companion named Veronica.”
Claire’s eyes widened.
‘Mother came too?’
A child who bore a striking resemblance to Veronica yet inherited Ian’s clear eyes.
When Ilya first saw Claire, she recognized her instantly. It was not merely her appearance, but Claire’s personality was so remarkably similar to Ian’s in his younger days.
“Is that true?”
“Yes, it was a blessing.”
When Ilya was desperately searching for a way to awaken Geo while drowning in despair, somehow Ian and Veronica quietly came to find her one day.
“Ian!”
Ilya shed tears of joy.
It was Ian, who had once saved Geo from the brink of death.
‘Perhaps this time too!’
But the hope that had been rising soon faded at the sight in Ian’s eyes as he examined Geo.
“His ability has completely vanished.”
He placed his hand upon Geo’s head, looking down at his friend with an anguished expression.
Drip. Drip.
Tears streamed down Ian’s jaw, wetting Geo’s cheek.
“What do you mean by that? Ian, please… our Geo…”
“Innate abilities are inscribed upon the soul itself. With Geo’s ability gone, his soul has…”
Healing abilities could only mend the human body. No matter how much Ian poured his power into it, he could not awaken Geo.
“Aaaaaaahhhhh!”
The Iron-blooded Woman of House Everett crumbled beneath the weight of that truth.
“Why… why must this happen?”
What method had Geo sought to leave? And what had befallen him to return in such a state?
Who could have done this?
Sorrow transformed into fury in an instant.
“Ian, you know something, don’t you? You possess this knowledge, and you were able to find our Geo so quickly. It’s because you know something, isn’t it?”
If you know, please… tell me.
Just as the crumbling noblewoman spoke, Ian carefully parted his lips to respond.
“Cough!”
Suddenly, Ian vomited blood in a violent gush.
“Ian!”
Veronica, who had been listening quietly until now, rushed to him in panic and steadied his body.
“Don’t. Don’t speak.”
The abnormal timing of the hemorrhage. Veronica’s reaction. This was…
“A restriction…?”
After years of political maneuvering among the Central Nobility and witnessing every conceivable depravity, she recognized it immediately.
Ian bore a restriction bound to his very life.

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