The Owner of the Healing Therapy Shop Is Ranked 0th in the World - Chapter 11

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The Owner of the Healing Therapy Shop is World Rank 0

Chapter 11

As I entered the research lab, Professor Seong greeted me barefoot with a bright expression along with the scent of herbal medicine.

“Yebichnna! I was just about to contact you since I’m developing a new medicine.”

In her hands were herb items obtained from a newly discovered type of dungeon.

“As expected, the medicine I prescribed last time didn’t suit you, did it?”

Professor Seong, who had been greeting me brightly, soon let her eyebrows droop.

Seeing me standing silently without a word, she seemed to think it was another medicine problem.

I shook my head with a slight smile to reassure her.

“No, I came because I have something to tell you.”

“Hmm?”

Professor Seong, sensing something subtle in my tone, withdrew her gentle smile and blinked.

I answered with a bright smile instead.

“I… awakened.”

“…What?”

The professor froze on the spot. She frowned as if unsure whether she had heard correctly.

“So now I don’t need the mask, earplugs, or medicine anymore.”

“My goodness… my goodness.”

“I was surprised too.”

“Y-Yebichnna, you’re 26 years old… aren’t you? To awaken at this point? My goodness, what is this about.”

The professor, who had been blinking in disbelief, said this wouldn’t do and hugged me tightly.

I hugged the professor back and smiled brightly in her warm embrace.

“Congratulations. You won’t be in pain anymore.”

Professor Seong, who had wished for my awakening and health more than anyone. I could feel her warm sincerity from the warmth that reached me.

“Professor, you saved me.”

“No, Yebichnna, you saved yourself.”

The professor’s voice saying this was moistly wet.

“This calls for a celebratory drink.”

The professor took out tea leaves and cups she had been carefully saving. I had heard it was high-grade tea received from that famous S-rank Saint.

“Yebichnna, may I ask what type you awakened as?”

“Ah, well.”

This is really difficult to explain.

Since I couldn’t say “a store owner,” I hesitated and then blurted out words that suddenly came to mind.

“It’s a healer type, but a bit unusual.”

“Hmm, in what way?”

“I can’t heal external injuries or mana.”

“Hmm, then what do you treat?”

The professor tilted her head. Her expression seemed to ask what kind of healer can’t heal external injuries or restore mana.

I understand completely. Even I, who read the status window directly with my own eyes, couldn’t believe it.

“Well…”

I leaned toward the professor and whispered softly.

Along with a request that only the professor should know.

“Mana addiction. Only one person at a time though.”

Crash-!

As soon as I finished speaking, the professor dropped her teacup to the floor.

“M-mana addiction.”

Her expression was 100 times more shocked than when she heard I had awakened.

Her pupils shook wildly and she seemed incapable of normal thinking.

“Y-Yebichnna. Did I hear correctly? You just said you can treat mana addiction?”

“Yes, that’s right. Complete recovery isn’t possible, but I can do it to some extent.”

“Yebichnna wouldn’t lie to me…”

Professor Seong buried herself in the sofa as if fainting, like someone who had forgotten that her precious teacup had broken.

“If that’s really possible… the whole world would go crazy.”

“That’s why you have to keep it secret.”

“Of course. Though I don’t think anyone would believe it even if I told them. Haha.”

The Professor Seong I know isn’t someone who would carelessly spread words around. She’s truly trustworthy enough that Mimi judged her to be a good person, which is why I confided this secret.

“Professor, I want to meet a patient who urgently needs mana addiction treatment. However, they must be an active hunter, and the higher grade the better.”

The professor answered immediately.

“If it’s a hunter who most urgently needs addiction treatment, it would definitely be Hunter Gangjinseong.”

“…”

As expected, the professor pointed to senior Jinseong.

But unfortunately, I had burdened him with too much, so I was feeling guilty and it was an awkward situation.

“He’s already beyond his limits. It wouldn’t be strange if he collapsed at any time, that person.”

“Really…?”

I didn’t know his condition was that bad.

He’s South Korea’s greatest military asset. So his health condition is naturally a state secret that I wouldn’t know, but judging by his activity level, he seemed like someone with no problems at all.

“If Yebichnna is okay with it, I’d like you to treat Hunter Gang first. He’s such a pitiful person that I can’t help but have personal feelings involved.”

I couldn’t readily give a positive answer.

Hearing that his addiction symptoms are severe, I desperately want to save him with the employment contract item.

It’s not that I don’t want to help him. Senior Jinseong is Korea’s greatest asset and pillar, and we’ve even shared hardships together for several years.

But he’s receiving worldwide misunderstanding that he cleared the Maze Gate because of me, and it’s uncertain whether he’d agree when he hears the condition that he must conquer the remaining gates in my place.

Who knows what might happen in the remaining 21 gates.

If he has the same personality as me, someone who seeks safety, he might want to maintain his current state rather than risk uncertain dangers.

“Um, the skill activation conditions are tricky… just in case, please recommend someone else too.”

I couldn’t confess my sins to Professor Seong and just mumbled through it.

The professor just looked disappointed but didn’t ask any more questions. She just said she’d select suitable candidates and let me know.

I was thinking I should quickly contract with the candidate she selected and produce the oil needed for conquering the Japanese Gate when I was about to leave the research lab.

“Oh my? Jinseong, you came earlier than your appointment time?”

Why is the patient who was supposed to have plenty of time before his appointment in front of me?

My steps froze at this completely unexpected encounter.

I think this is exactly when you should use the saying “a guilty conscience needs no accuser.”

But I need to be confident.

Mimi said she completely erased my traces, so even the Hunter Association wouldn’t be able to find me quickly, didn’t she say that?

If I act awkwardly for no reason, it might arouse suspicion.

‘…Let me greet him first.’

We’re seniors and juniors from the same Training Academy, so the junior should greet first.

“Ah, hello?”

It’s been years since I’ve seen this person in real life.

Though I often saw his face on the news, facing him like this in person brought only one thought intensely to mind.

‘He’s handsome.’

I know it’s not a thought that fits this situation, but as if my brain had malfunctioned, only that thought came to mind.

It was a face so handsome it made me sigh.

His rigidly hardened face felt so cold it seemed robotic, but even that came across as attractive.

How can even carelessly disheveled bangs be handsome? His high nose bridge and sharp jawline looked like they could cut through monsters.

I could instantly understand why Nara Unni was going crazy trying to recruit Gangjinseong to her guild.

However, admiring the sculpture had to be intense and brief.

After an awkward eye contact, I quickly averted my gaze.

He’d been staring at me with eyes that seemed ready to pierce through me, making me break out in cold sweat.

“Well then, goodbye.”

I bowed at the waist in greeting and was about to turn around naturally.

“Yebichnna.”

A voice lower and firmer than I remembered called out to stop me.

“You must have something to say to me.”

“….”

My breath caught in my throat.

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