The Only Enhancer - Chapter 11

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Episode 11
Episode 11 – Reversed Positions (3)
No one found it strange that there was no backlash against healers wielding supreme power.
Because the Healer Protection Act existed.
This law had not always been in place.
Not long after raids had stabilized, as healers’ status continued to rise, conflicts erupted between tanks and dealers who voiced their grievances and the healers themselves.
The disputes grew increasingly violent, and during the protests, a healer was killed.
From that day forward, healers implemented a raid strike that lasted quite some time.
-How noble of you all! Did you think raids couldn’t happen without you?!
Initially, tanks and dealers scoffed, claiming healers weren’t necessary.
But public opinion soon shifted.
Tanks fighting monsters on the front lines found themselves in frequent life-threatening situations without healers to sustain them.
When tanks became vulnerable, dealers followed suit, and parties collapsed with startling inevitability.
All because a single healer was absent.
The moment raids had stabilized, they descended into chaos once more.
Simply because the healer role had vanished.
Fearing total party annihilation, hunters stopped venturing into raids without healers, causing monster populations to surge and dangerous situations to multiply.
Worse still, without the supply of mana stones and items, the economy collapsed.
Naturally, it was the government that felt the heat.
-Draft legislation immediately!
Thus was born the Healer Protection Act.
If a healer was injured or killed, the government conducted thorough investigations and imposed severe penalties on those responsible.
All to appease the healers even slightly.
Violence against healers or causing their death resulted in harsh punishment.
Especially for hunters—the penalties were far more severe.
Simply put, it worked like this:
Touch a healer, and you’re done for.
Not a single hunter was unaware of this.
The Hunter Association made certain to inform everyone before raids, and it was common knowledge.
That’s why Sung-jun’s face had drained of all color.
He had no choice but to react this way.
“A-a healer?”
“Oh, you didn’t know? I’m a healer.”
Because I had just touched a healer.
Not just Choi Jung-min, but the surrounding hunters regarded me with chilling stares.
As if to say: why of all people did you have to touch a healer?
After the Healer Protection Act was enacted, healers became absolute powers, and such healers banded together tightly amongst themselves.
Even if I was a rookie healer, a healer was still a healer.
Regardless of connections, the mere fact of being a healer meant the healer community would come to my aid.
For the sake of healer rights.
“You, you, you really….”
I couldn’t continue speaking.
The moment word spread of a dispute involving a healer, Hunter Association Staff stationed throughout Disaster Zone 1 came rushing over in droves.
They approached Kim Min-jun and immediately bowed their heads.
“We should have rushed over the moment we heard the commotion. Our sincerest apologies.”
Look at them—the moment they heard “healer,” they started apologizing.
These were the very ones who stood guard and watched when I threw punches and attacked multiple times.
I understand, though.
They’re hunters who fight against monsters, after all.
There are hunters who routinely clash over distribution or dominance.
Many overlook such incidents as customary practice.
That’s why the Hunter Association Staff didn’t come either.
Just to be safe, Kim Min-jun pulled out his hunter license, and the moment the staff member caught a glimpse of it, he waved his hand dismissively.
“Oh, no! Healer, I’ll handle this myself! What are you doing! Take him away at once!”
The moment I confidently presented my hunter license, they seized it immediately.
There were indeed those who impersonated healers, after all.
The staff member took one look and, confirming the hunter license belonged to a healer, proceeded with the procedure.
The procedure was straightforward.
“Ah, aah. Aaah.”
Sung-jun thrashed about, refusing to be dragged away, but the Hunter Association Staff’s movements quickly subdued him, and he was hauled out.
I hadn’t given much thought to revenge, but doing it myself—I couldn’t deny how satisfying it felt.
“Ah, so this is why people seek revenge.”
There’s a reason the phrase about enduring hardship exists.
It was refreshing, even exhilarating.
Of course, this alone wouldn’t settle everything from my school days, but the Hunter Association would handle that on its own.
There was the Healer Protection Act, more reliable than any meal.
Meanwhile, Choi Jung-min, witnessing the scene, quickly grasped the situation.
Even someone as reckless as Sung-jun wouldn’t have picked a fight without reason.
That meant only one thing.
‘Sung-jun and Kim Min-jun must have known each other.’
And deeply at that—with a grudge.
A chill ran down his spine.
If he hadn’t gone on a raid with Kim Min-jun today, if this incident hadn’t occurred, the Han-byul Guild would have accepted Sung-jun.
Accepting someone with a vendetta against a healer into the guild.
‘A narrow escape.’
A sigh of relief escaped him naturally.
Choi Jung-min swallowed hard as he looked at Kim Min-jun.
He’d seen it clearly too.
The unhurried movements as Kim Min-jun evaded Sung-jun’s attacks.
Impressive.
He likely used buffs to evade, but even so, it was an extraordinary feat.
He dodged every single attack from a tanker called a superhuman among all classes.
Such a thing would be impossible without overwhelming combat sense.
‘He’s going to become someone truly remarkable.’
Someone of such magnitude that I couldn’t even imagine.
Choi Jung-min unconsciously abandoned the idea of extending a recruitment offer.
He had thought Han-byul Guild was too small to contain Kim Min-jun, and yet he had considered it an opportunity for Han-byul Guild to grow.
But with such buff amplification rates and this level of combat sense, things were different.
Unless he joined one of the so-called top five guilds, there was nowhere that could contain him.
Choi Jung-min was certain of this.
“I apologize for involving you in such an unfortunate incident.”
The reason he had attacked Sung-jun first and apologized immediately was a gesture to clarify that they were unrelated and that it was his independent action.
But thinking it insufficient, he apologized again, and Kim Min-jun spoke as if it were no big deal.
“No, it’s not your fault, Party Leader Choi. Sung-jun is the one who made the mistake. Besides, we’re not even from the same guild.”
A chill ran down his spine.
Had he ever felt such goosebumps from listening to someone speak?
Choi Jung-min thought to himself.
Even his sense of judgment is exceptional.
This is someone who must never be made an enemy.
Choi Jung-min decided he needed to report this to Team Leader Lee Gang-yoon quickly and apologized to Kim Min-jun once more.
Kim Min-jun said it was fine, and Choi Jung-min quickly headed to the locker room to put on his gear, contacting Team Leader Lee Gang-yoon.
-What’s happened since this morning?
Team Leader Lee Gang-yoon, noticing that Choi Jung-min’s behavior was different from usual, questioned him.
Choi Jung-min reported to him.
“Sung-jun—that trash is finished.”
-What do you mean….
“He attacked a healer.”
-What the hell!
Even Team Leader Lee Gang-yoon, who usually maintained a gentlemanly demeanor, let out a curse.
Laying hands on a healer.
-…You handled it well, right?
“Yes, the guild will suffer no damage whatsoever. More importantly, I’ll give you a detailed report about that healer this afternoon.”
-Phew, understood. We’ll need to sever ties with that family too. They’re going to fall apart.
Team Leader Lee Gang-yoon spoke in an irritated tone rather than one of sympathy and ended the call.
Choi Jung-min agreed with that assessment and shook his head.
Of all the bad connections, he had to have one with a healer.
‘There’s no way he was ever going to amount to anything anyway.’
6.
Sung-jun, who had laid hands on a healer, looked around in confusion at the current situation.
A dimly lit room, a table and chair, and the man across from him glaring at him.
I knew exactly where I was.
The interrogation room of the Hunter Surveillance Bureau—a place where even innocent hunters trembled in fear.
Why was I here?
I had only been doing what I always did—trying to beat Min-jun.
“You haven’t come to your senses yet?”
“Y-yes?”
“You’re finished. You tried to attack a healer?”
“That, that was….”
“Since you’ve already been caught red-handed, there’s no room for excuses. And looking at you, your crimes are absolutely massive? You’ve been tormenting the ‘Healer’ since your school days.”
I wanted to scream that back then he wasn’t a healer.
But Sung-jun couldn’t do that.
The investigator’s eyes remained fixed, as if already certain.
And with a bitter smile, the investigator flipped through the pages of the file, shaking his head.
Clicking his tongue as if truly disappointed.
“Moreover, your father embezzled the insurance money of the ‘Healer’s’ parents. This won’t do. For now it’s this much, but more charges will be added in the future.”
“Ah, aah.”
I had simply done the same things I’d been doing since my student days.
Why had it come to this?
The answer was simple.
Our positions had reversed.
And the difference was staggering.
Min-jun was no longer my plaything.
It was the opposite now.
Had I finally come to realize it was over?
“Ahhh! Ahhhhhhh!”
I screamed in anguish, but the investigator’s gaze remained cold.
And he spoke.
“Don’t worry. We’ll strip your entire family clean, and everyone who conspired with you too. At least you won’t be lonely. Congratulations.”
I didn’t even find the investigator’s sarcasm irritating.
I simply had to witness the hell that awaited me.
Things that should have been impossible began to be processed in rapid succession.
Kim Kyung-jin, Min-jun’s uncle, couldn’t escape this either.
Not long after Sung-jun’s arrest.
Crash!
The front door of Kim Kyung-jin’s home—Min-jun’s uncle’s residence—was ripped off its hinges without any resistance.
With a thunderous roar, the sudden turn of events threw Kim Kyung-jin and his wife, Min-jun’s aunt Park Mi-jin, into panic.
“Ahhhhh!”
“Kyaaaaaah!”
Burly men in suits stormed through the torn door and into the house.
Each emanated an overwhelming sense of pressure.
Both of them stared in bewilderment at figures who looked like gangsters at first glance.
What was this about?
I had no memory of borrowing from loan sharks.
Even if I had, there was no way they should have shown up like this.
I looked at them with genuine confusion.
“Are you Kim Kyung-jin and Park Mi-jin?”
“Y-yes, we are.”
“W-what are you doing?! Good heavens! What are you doing to this entryway?!”
Ignoring Park Mi-jin, who failed to read the room and shouted instead, the foremost man pulled out some papers and spoke.
“We’re from the Hunter Surveillance Bureau. We’re now placing both of you under arrest for healer abuse, embezzlement, and thirteen other charges.”
Upon hearing they were from the Hunter Surveillance Bureau, both of them shrank back.
A national agency incomparable to the prosecution or police.
But since Kim Kyung-jin had truly done nothing, he spoke first.
“W-what are you talking about?! A-abusing a healer?!”
“Hmph.”
When he tried to deny it, the man with the menacing aura glared at him, and Park Mi-jin, who had been shrieking so viciously, had no choice but to lower her head.
The man clicked his tongue at both of them.
They still hadn’t grasped the situation.
Would it matter even if they did?
It made no difference to the man.
“You abused and persecuted the healer Kim Min-jun under the guise of guardianship, and even embezzled the insurance money left by Kim Min-jun’s parents. Yet you have much to say.”
“W-what? M-Min-jun is a h-healer?”
Thud.
“Good heavens! Honey! Why are you like this! What does it matter what that brat Min-jun is?! Why are you doing this to us?!”
Kim Kyung-jin’s legs gave out beneath him, and his complexion drained of color as he collapsed.
Ignoring Park Mi-jin beside him, who struck him while shouting as if demanding what he was doing, the man spoke to his subordinates.
“Take them away.”
“Yes, sir!”
They all dragged Kim Kyung-jin and Park Mi-jin away in custody.
Cries echoed through the air.
“Good heavens! Good heavens, you’re killing me! You’re killing me! Honey! Say something yourself!”
“…H-heh, hehehe.”
Unlike Park Mi-jin, who resisted so viciously, Kim Kyung-jin was dragged away in complete resignation.
He already knew well what the Healer Protection Act was.
After all, he had connections with hunters.
The neighbors were busy whispering as they watched the spectacle.
“My goodness, isn’t that the Hunter Surveillance Bureau?!”
“They must have committed serious crimes!”
“My word, she bragged so much about her son becoming a tank, but he turned out to be a criminal!”
“Goodness! I should have known from the start when the lady of the house was acting so arrogant and committing all those misdeeds!”
“What a pathetic sight!”
As the townspeople gossiped endlessly, Park Mi-jin was dragged away in custody, unable to lift her face, while Kim Kyung-jin muttered under his breath with his head bowed.
“Mi, Min-jun… Sigh. My older brother punished us. My older brother…”
Muttering incomprehensible words, my Uncle Kim Kyung-jin and Aunt Park Mi-jin were taken away just the same.
Not only my affairs but also the business Uncle had been running was seized, and countless charges were added to their indictment.
In an instant, an entire household was shattered.
But it was all of their own making.
The Hunter Surveillance Bureau did not fabricate crimes that didn’t exist.
They punished them solely for the crimes they had committed themselves.
The School, which had ignored me for being an orphan and turned a blind eye to school violence, could not escape this reckoning, nor could those who had tormented me alongside Sung-jun.
“W-what, what is this!? Why is the Hunter Surveillance Bureau—”
“W-we didn’t do anything! We’re not even Hunters!”
“Healer Kim Min-jun, we are filing charges against you for past assault.”
“W-what!? K-Kim Min-jun is a H-healer?”
“A h-healer?”
It took only ten days for all those who had tormented me my entire life to receive their just deserts.
Of course, I had long since stopped caring about such trivial matters, but the insurance money from my parents that the state returned with interest held profound meaning.
It was the moment all my past suffering was finally settled.

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