The Owner of the Healing Therapy Shop Is Ranked 0th in the World - Chapter 35

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The Owner of the Healing Therapy Shop is World Rank 0

Chapter 35

A bead of sweat formed on Chairman Maeng Seokwoo’s forehead, hanging precariously at the tip of his chin.

To add weight to Chairman Maeng’s deliberation, the WHP Team Leader stepped forward.

He whispered respectfully, but his momentum was as persistent as a venomous snake.

“Chairman, our proposal is for the Korean Hunter Association and all of humanity. If you miss this golden opportunity… the Korean Association will bear full responsibility for the consequences. Are you prepared for that?”

A threat disguised as concern. Chairman Maeng’s complexion turned pale. The Team Leader didn’t miss the opportunity.

“Our healer Erica is a top-tier healer guaranteed by the United Nations. I trust you understand that entrusting the treatment to her is the most rational choice, Chairman.”

The Team Leader gave Erica a meaningful look. Just as Erica drew purple mana to her fingertips again and was about to approach Jinseong.

“Wait a moment.”

A firm voice broke the precarious silence.

Ean, Jinseong’s chief secretary who had been guarding Jinseong’s bedside, blocked Erica with a cold voice.

“Chairman, you must be cautious. You know very well what their real purpose is.”

“…”

“I think we should look for another way.”

Ean’s eyes trembled as he looked at Jinseong’s sleeping form, but his voice remained resolute.

In truth, he wasn’t certain there was another way either.

But he was gambling on the thread-thin hope that Yebichnna, who had awakened Jinseong at the French Gate, might be able to break this nightmare curse as well.

The WHP Team Leader’s eyes narrowed.

“If there were another way, Hunter Kang wouldn’t be lying here like this. There’s no hunter superior to Erica, so where else could there be another solution? I cannot overlook such a dangerous gamble with Hunter Kang’s life at stake, no matter who I am.”

When the Team Leader gestured to Erica, she drew up her mana once again.

“Please step aside. If you interfere any further, I’ll have no choice but to arrest you for obstruction of official duties.”

Just as the WHP agents were about to step forward to pressure Ean.

Whiiiiish-!

A sharp wind from somewhere sliced past the agents’ feet like a blade.

“Obstruction of official duties? What pleasant bullshit to hear.”

It was Ohyeongtaek who ended this tense standoff first.

[Skill Activated: Storm King’s Slash]

As he uncrossed his arms and lowered his hand, a sword materialized in his grasp. The moment he gripped the handle, every object in the hospital room trembled as if about to be sliced apart.

“I told you to wait, mister.”

Ohyeongtaek planted the massive blade into the floor, blocking the Team Leader’s path. His eyes looking at the Team Leader had turned coldly calm. His casual demeanor was nowhere to be found.

“…Hunter Ohyeongtaek, do you understand what this action means?”

When Ohyeongtaek playfully swung his sword, invisible vacuum blades stopped just inches from the WHP agents’ noses.

Overwhelming force that would have severed necks with just 1cm of wrong movement. Horror spread across the agents’ faces.

As the Team Leader frowned, even Shinnara, who had been grinding her teeth beside him, stepped forward.

[Skill Activated: Saint’s Vigil]

Despite being a healer with no attack skills, the amount of mana she emanated was beyond standard. The entire hospital room filled with brilliant platinum light.

It wasn’t the soft, warm mana typical of healers, but a pressure resembling an impenetrable sacred sanctuary.

An ornately patterned holy rod was summoned above Shinnara’s head, and vast mana poured from its tip, forming a powerful barrier around Jinseong’s bed.

“If you’re going to heal him, break through this barrier first, healer lady over there. Though I don’t think the colleagues you have here will be enough.”

Here, Ean drove in the final nail.

[Skill Activated: Absolute Vacuum Wall]

As Ean drew his hand through the air, the space between the WHP agents and Korean hunters distorted.

A wall that cut off sound, air, and even the waves of mana the opponents emitted.

The Team Leader raised the veins in his neck saying something, but that sound couldn’t cross the barrier surrounding the agents.

Ohyeongtaek with his wind blades raised, Shinnara who built a sanctuary of mana, Ean who blocked the flow of mana.

When the three hunters came forward with full power, they were an unbreakable solid fortress itself.

“How dare you oppose WHP…!”

The incensed Team Leader flicked his finger, and the waiting agents also drew their weapons and gathered their mana.

A hair-trigger situation.

If anyone breathed wrong, this hospital room would become a blood-soaked colosseum.

“This act is tantamount to considering WHP an enemy…!”

Just then.

The closed bedroom door opened.

As if mocking the deadly mana collision, an eerily clear and fresh fragrance flowed into the room through the air.

A scent that instantly washed away the thick smell of disinfectant and the stench of killing intent. The smell of a forest holding morning dew and the fragrance of unknown wildflowers gently calmed the turbulent air.

Everyone’s gaze turned toward the door.

Breaking through the black-suited guards, a man walked in guided by Kim Jinwoon.

He was an ordinary-built man with his face hidden behind large glasses and a mask.

“…You’ve come.”

As soon as he entered, Ean relaxed his stiff expression and greeted him warmly.

The WHP agents, who had been in battle stance with sharp killing intent, looked bewildered.

Because as this man with no detectable mana who looked utterly harmless took each step, Ohyeongtaek’s wind, Shinnara’s light clusters, and Ean’s barrier all made way for him.

‘To receive such welcome from those S-ranks?’

The WHP Team Leader frowned as he looked at the man.

Short stature for an adult male, a slender build, and delicate features. He wasn’t particularly eye-catching at first glance, yet somehow looked familiar.

A low exclamation escaped the Team Leader’s lips as he searched his memory.

‘The Japanese Gate incident, that healer.’

The hunter who had been held in Hunter Kang’s arms.

The Team Leader narrowed his eyes and tilted his head.

This mysterious figure, who had no proper information or profile, was known as an A-rank healer belonging to the Korean Hunter Association.

Cases where countries deliberately hide a hunter’s existence before exposing them often occurred, usually when they possessed skills too special to reveal to other countries.

The Team Leader now realized why this healer had appeared with Hunter Kang at that time.

‘He was Hunter Kang’s dedicated healer.’

For that reason, it made sense that the Korean Hunter Association would keep him tightly wrapped and hidden. Nothing would be more important than managing the mental state of Hunter Kang, called Korea’s pillar.

An ambitious gleam appeared in the Team Leader’s sharply narrowed eyes.

‘Just how amazing must his mental-type healing skills be to receive such treatment?’

Team Leader Steven Kim was someone who trusted his instincts. His intuition, honed through facing countless hunter criminals, had never been wrong.

But the moment that man approached closer, Steven’s instincts all stood on edge.

At first, he thought he was just an ordinary hunter. But something was strange.

That peculiar fragrance tickling his nose was like a territory skill that expanded one’s sacred domain. Indeed, hadn’t the deadly mana rippling in this hospital room instantly subsided the moment he appeared?

Steven’s eyes met the man’s.

‘His eyes…’

There was none of the common hunter emotions like killing intent or competitive spirit. Instead, they felt like they contained a vast, quiet forest of unknowable depth.

‘I can’t sense any mana, so why am I getting goosebumps?’

Steven swallowed dryly. And simultaneously realized.

The fact that he had unconsciously stepped backward.

“A-rank healer, Yebichnna. May I begin the treatment?”

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