The Owner of the Healing Therapy Shop Is Ranked 0th in the World - Chapter 100

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The Owner of the Healing Therapy Shop is World Rank 0

Chapter 100

The documents he handed me were essentially nothing more than a slave contract that would make me the Association’s exclusive property.

Rather than being flustered by his more aggressive and shameless attitude than expected, I felt a hollow laugh rising up.

‘To think he’d reveal his true colors this quickly.’

Just as I was about to open my mouth to speak about that injustice.

The store door opened urgently and a woman in a refined suit walked in confidently.

It was Nairan, who had recently agreed to take on my personal secretary duties.

“Please discuss related matters through me, Association President.”

Eran placed a thick bundle of documents on the table and stood beside me.

At her appearance, Jang Dohun’s gaze sharpened, but Eran continued speaking without batting an eye.

“The exclusive distribution rights you just mentioned cannot be established. Hunter Yebichnna has already concluded ‘individual item supply preliminary contracts’ with overseas countries and guilds from before her official Hunter registration. Since these are private transactions from before public Hunter registration, there is absolutely no way to enforce them under current Association laws.”

Eran began directly refuting Jang Dohun’s unreasonable demands as she turned through the documents page by page.

Her attitude as she recited penalty amounts and international Hunter law clauses was flawless.

“If the Association attempts to forcibly break existing contracts, the international lawsuits that overseas guilds will file and the trillions of won in penalties will fall entirely on the Association’s shoulders.”

Jang Dohun’s complexion instantly hardened.

He looked at Min Secretary standing beside him.

Min Secretary pushed up his glasses and reviewed the documents, then kept his mouth firmly shut as if there was no way to refute.

“Min Secretary, is this all true?”

At Jang Dohun’s question, Min Secretary stiffened his expression and nodded.

“…Currently, we lack sufficient grounds to respond legally. I apologize.”

“Haha, if Min Secretary says so.”

I stared directly at Jang Dohun as he let out a hollow laugh and added a word.

“My items aren’t consumables for shows. So I’ll decide who to sell to and who to save, now and always.”

Jang Dohun gripped the sofa armrest with trembling hands, then put on a smile as if nothing had happened.

“I didn’t know Hunter Yebichnna would be so thoroughly prepared. You really got me there.”

He looked at the luxury watch on his wrist and said he had an appointment and would leave first.

“Oh, and the doll the Federation sent is a K7 series no less. The Federation must think highly of Hunter Yebichnna. For a Korean Hunter to receive such unprecedented treatment, I’m very pleased as Association President.”

He turned his back and approached the store door.

Just before exiting through the door Min Secretary opened for him, Jang Dohun looked back at me with an expression colder than I’d ever seen and spoke.

“Don’t turn it into a mud clump this time, since it’s a precious gift from the Federation.”

Jang Dohun left the store after leaving that warning-laden farewell.

As soon as he left, the dolls standing outside turned their backs to the store and took up a strict guard formation.

“They sent K7s? That’s really something. Can’t I spar with them sometime later?”

Ohyeongtaek muttered with interest as he looked out the window.

Once Jang Dohun’s car completely departed, Mimi, who had been erasing her presence in the corner, slowly approached the store’s large window.

Mimi’s yellow eyes narrowed as she looked at the K7 series outside the window.

In those yellow eyes was neither curiosity nor doubt, but an indescribable eerie light.

Mimi’s tail swished violently left and right.

At Mimi’s unusual reaction, I naturally felt uneasy.

Mimi passed through the store window like a ghost and went outside.

Though I’d known Mimi for quite some time, this was the first I knew she had such an ability.

Mimi leisurely wandered among the K7 series dolls lined up in a row.

She sniffed them and tilted her head to stare up at their inorganic eyes.

Watching that scene through the glass window, Ohyeongtaek furrowed his brow and asked.

“What’s your cat doing, noona?”

“She seems displeased with the K7s.”

At my answer, Secretary Nairan standing beside me crossed her arms and sighed.

“Really, it sounds nice to call it security, but it’s no different from a prison.”

I nodded heavily at her disgruntled voice.

I had applied for registration with the World Federation to be protected from forces like Alice and Jang Dohun, but I never imagined Jang Dohun’s reach would extend even to the World Federation.

To think the K Series I’d considered a shield to protect me would now become Jang Dohun’s most faithful eyes and ears.

As I let out a low sigh, Mimi passed back through the window and came inside.

Her gait looked no different from usual, but her bristled fur and ominously sunken eyes were unsettling.

Mimi stood at my feet and stared up at me.

Even without speaking aloud, that gaze seemed to be telling me to follow her.

I asked Nairan and Ohyeongtaek for their understanding and headed to the inner workshop with Mimi.

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Eran and Ohyeongtaek, left in the lobby, watched Yebichnna’s retreating figure before turning their gaze back to the dolls outside the window.

“Those K7 things, can they handle S-ranks? Like that attacker from before?”

When Ohyeongtaek asked while scratching his chin, Eran searched her memory to answer.

“Well. The most recently released K6 on official record was B-rank Hunter level. The 7 probably could handle no-item A-rank Hunters.”

“Hmm, then what was that guy who went toe-to-toe with Jinseong hyung and Donguk hyung?”

At Ohyeongtaek’s question, Eran shrugged.

“Who knows. The one who attacked the store might not have been K Series, but an unknown S-rank Hunter not registered with the Federation.”

“Hunters matching S-rank can’t be that common. Except for our Yebichnna noona.”

Though Ohyeongtaek replied playfully, he soon wiped away all playfulness and stared at the K7s with cold eyes.

“These things might also turn and attack noona like that guy.”

“If their programming wasn’t set to protection, they wouldn’t be standing with their backs turned like that. For now, it seems like standard defense mode.”

At Eran’s rational response, Ohyeongtaek pouted.

“We don’t know what’s inside those dolls’ heads, and nothing is known about their manufacturing method or creator.”

“Well, that’s true. But their weakness is clear too.”

“Weakness?”

When Ohyeongtaek asked back, Eran bluntly stated.

“Those things can’t conquer Gates. Whether Gates don’t consider them Hunters at all, I heard that no matter how many boss monsters they kill, no Gate clear message appears and monsters respawn infinitely.”

“Ah, that.”

Ohyeongtaek nodded.

The higher the number, the more eerily human-like they became, yet the fact that Gates defined them as fake was strangely grotesque.

Ohyeongtaek pondered for a moment, then opened the store door and went outside.

“Where are you going?”

“I’m curious about something.”

Leaving behind Eran’s questioning expression, Ohyeongtaek stood before the lined-up K7 series.

Then he summoned a massive greatsword from the void and gripped it in his hand.

“I need to see if these fake heads are properly programmed.”

After muttering to himself, Ohyeongtaek suddenly swung his greatsword toward Yebichnna’s store.

[Skill Activation: Azure Sky’s Judgment]

Simultaneously, a tremendous pressure of vacuum wind blades shot toward the store wall.

At that moment, the K7 dolls that had been motionless moved with lightning speed.

They instantly formed overlapping defensive formations and deployed mana barriers.

Boom—!

With a thunderous roar, the wind blades collided with the barrier and shattered into pieces.

Ohyeongtaek slammed his greatsword into the ground with a thud and spoke with apparent disappointment.

“What, they won’t attack? Is that it?”

After blocking the attack, the dolls returned to their mechanical postures.

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At that moment, inside the workshop.

Making eye contact with Mimi who had climbed onto the table, I carefully opened my mouth.

“Mimi, what’s wrong? Is there a problem?”

Mimi’s nose bridge was completely wrinkled.

As if she might tear something apart with her sharp fangs at any moment, Mimi’s nerves were on edge to the limit.

“…The humans of Earth have crossed a line they should never have crossed.”

“What do you mean by that?”

Mimi’s tail struck the table harshly with sharp tapping sounds.

“Those things aren’t dolls crafted through synthesis like when you make items. They’re not machines molded from mana either.”

Mimi stared at me as if piercing through my eyes and murmured.

“Those are practically ‘mummies’ made by grinding up living humans as materials. It’s not just that their shells resemble humans.”

The moment I heard Mimi’s words, I froze solid.

“Th-they were made using humans as materials?”

“For humans to covet the Creator’s authority… How utterly presumptuous.”

Mimi’s chilling muttering sent goosebumps racing down my spine.

I was overwhelmed by indescribable shock at the fact that those intricate dolls were actually ‘living corpses’ created by sacrificing someone.

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