The Owner of the Healing Therapy Shop Is Ranked 0th in the World - Chapter 36

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The Owner of the Healing Therapy Shop is World Rank 0

 

Chapter 36

 

The hospital room door closed firmly. The WHP agents, pushed out by the deadly warning from the S-rank hunters not to interfere with the treatment, stood dumbfounded in the hallway.

 

Outside the building wall made of windows, dense high-rise buildings were positioned.

 

Erica crossed her arms and nudged Steven who was standing beside her.

 

-Team Leader, that man earlier… did you see? He asked if you’d tried using your skill.

 

Steven didn’t respond. He was looking down at his palm like someone whose soul had left their body.

 

-Team Leader?

 

-…I can’t read him.

 

-What? What are you talking about. Your skill is ‘Abyss Appraisal Eye.’

 

Erica’s eyes widened. Steven’s skill wasn’t simple ‘appraisal.’

 

It was an investigative skill counted among the best within WHP, capable of forcibly extracting fragments of past memories or reading thoughts from the opponent’s mana flow.

 

Even most S-rank hunters had to expose all their information as if stripped naked before his eyes.

 

Erica nudged Steven’s shoulder once more, telling him not to lie.

 

-My skill… doesn’t reach him at all.

 

-Are you saying he deflected your skill?

 

Steven swallowed dryly and lowered his voice. His focus blurred as if recalling the earlier situation.

 

-He didn’t deflect it. My skill couldn’t dare to reach him…

 

-What on earth does that mean?

 

-It felt like looking at a wall of a much higher dimension than S-rank hunters, no, not a wall but an endless forest? An ocean.

 

-…

 

Erica stared intently at Steven’s eyes. Though the time she’d spent with him was by no means short, she had never seen him speak so weakly.

 

But the Steven standing before her now wasn’t the man she knew. He felt infinitely powerless and small.

 

-Isn’t it because you were among S-ranks that you felt that way? What hunter could Team Leader not read?

 

-He didn’t seem like a hunter.

 

Steven cut off her words decisively. The humiliation and pressure he felt when his eyes met that man’s earlier weighed heavily on his chest.

 

-He seemed like… something wearing human skin.

 

Steven vigorously rubbed his goosebump-covered forearms.

 

Erica was flustered by Steven’s dazed appearance, but she didn’t fully believe his words.

 

Steven felt pressure because of the tremendous mana emitted by Korea’s S-rank hunters, and his skill simply misfired because of that, Erica thought simply.

 

Leaving the terrified Steven behind, she leaned her back against the wall in front of the hospital room where that fragrant young man had entered.

 

‘What could an A-rank treat anyway. It would be fortunate if he even realizes that the nightmare clinging to that hunter’s body isn’t an ordinary nightmare.’

 

Soon enough, they would surely come running out frantically looking for her.

 

Because there was no mental-type healer in this world superior to her.

 

Erica kept glancing at the closed door.

 

* * *

 

The thin ice-like confrontation inside the hospital room changed into a strange silence with Yebichnna’s appearance.

 

Maeng Seokwoo looked at Yebichnna with a dazed expression.

 

He certainly knew she was a healer affiliated with the Hunter Association, but he didn’t know why she had come here in this situation.

 

“Ean?”

 

Just as Maeng Seokwoo was about to ask a question, Ean quickly grabbed his forearm and led him outside.

 

“Chairman, I’ll explain everything to you, so shall we talk outside for a moment? Hunter Yebichnna is a hunter superior to anyone, so she’ll be able to treat Hunter Kang, so don’t worry.”

 

“Huh, what?”

 

Due to Ean’s characteristically brazen attitude, Maeng Seokwoo stepped backward and left the hospital room in bewilderment.

 

Now only Ohyeongtaek, Shinnara, Jinseong, and Yebichnna remained.

 

Ohyeongtaek sheathed his sword while staring intently at Yebichnna. One of his eyebrows rose crookedly.

 

‘So it wasn’t a lie that she’s a healer?’

 

What exactly was the identity of that woman whose very existence was fake, that she stepped forward to treat Jinseong hyung at this timing?

 

Moreover, this scent wafting from that woman. It was definitely the fragrance of that oil he had entrusted to Shinnara.

 

He had wondered, and his sensitive sense of smell was telling him it was unmistakable.

 

He had hundreds of curious questions. He didn’t know what to ask first.

 

When he, who had focused all his attention on Yebichnna, was about to move his lips, Shinnara grabbed the back of his neck.

 

“Let’s read the room. I understand you’re curious, but now isn’t the time, right?”

 

“No, did you know, noona…”

 

“That’s why I’m saying let’s go out. Don’t interfere.”

 

Shinnara headed toward the door, almost dragging the tall Ohyeongtaek.

 

Before closing the door, Shinnara briefly nodded toward Yebichnna. It was a silent signal of trust.

 

Click.

 

After closing the door and going out, they could see Ean explaining the current situation to Maeng Seokwoo.

 

“So you’re saying that young man did the same thing during the French Gate?”

 

“Yes. However, while consecutively closing the German, Spanish, and British Gates, his mana addiction accelerated, and the nightmare that couldn’t be uprooted gnawed at his mind more during that time, so the situation is a bit different from then.”

 

Maeng Seokwoo blinked.

 

“No, then…! You’re saying there’s no certainty?”

 

Maeng Seokwoo, who was about to shout, quickly lowered his voice while looking around.

 

Maeng Seokwoo criticized, asking what a mere A-rank hunter alone could do about something without certainty.

 

However, Ean firmly shook his head.

 

“No, the fact that healer came here itself means she has certainty. If she didn’t, she wouldn’t have come here.”

 

Before arriving in Korea, Ean contacted Yebichnna. He was going to ask her to come immediately since Jinseong’s condition had worsened compared to France.

 

However, Yebichnna’s phone didn’t respond.

 

He hurriedly asked Jinwoon, who knew of Yebichnna’s existence, to visit Yebichnna’s store and bring her, and she had just now arrived.

 

When asked why it took so long, Jinwoon said that when he arrived at the store, Yebichnna wouldn’t wake up even when he called her and was shedding tears as if possessed by something.

 

Then, as soon as she heard about Jinseong’s current situation, she said it took a bit more time because she was making a new item.

 

Ean could be certain after hearing his words.

 

That the item she made could save Jinseong.

 

That’s why he could speak confidently to Maeng Seokwoo as well.

 

“If things go wrong, you know it won’t end with just you losing your position, Ean.”

 

“Yes.”

 

At Maeng Seokwoo’s fierce warning, Ean calmly nodded.

 

Ohyeongtaek, who had been eavesdropping on their conversation, gave Shinnara a sideways glance.

 

“I want to stop feeling like I’m the only one being left out.”

 

Shinnara, who couldn’t take her eyes off the hospital room Yebichnna had entered, answered carelessly.

 

“Yeah, yeah. What are you curious about?”

 

“I don’t think you’ll tell me everything anyway…”

 

Ohyeongtaek crossed his arms and rolled his eyes.

 

“Question 1. Is that noona really an A-rank healer?”

 

“No.”

 

Shinnara answered readily. Since Yebichnna was a special case whose rank couldn’t be measured, she wasn’t A-rank or S-rank, so she answered no.

 

Moreover, while she did play a role similar to a healer, strictly speaking she was closer to an enchanter, so it wasn’t exactly a lie.

 

“As expected.”

 

Ohyeongtaek nodded without knowing Shinnara’s inner thoughts.

 

It was strange to call her A-rank after all.

 

The fact that woman stepped forward to heal Jinseong hyung, whom even S-rank healers couldn’t wake up, already meant she was above A-rank.

 

“Question 2. Why is she disguised? I suppose there’s a reason she can’t have her identity exposed?”

 

“She’s a very, very precious body worth keeping close and protecting.”

 

“Is she someone who makes things like new products for our guild?”

 

Shinnara finally looked at Ohyeongtaek. Even without her saying anything, Ohyeongtaek noticed. Shinnara’s thought of how did he know.

 

“Well, I have a really good nose.”

 

“Ah, I forgot about that.”

 

Hyeongtaek was someone with such an incredible sense of smell that he’d get asked if he awakened with a ‘dog’ class.

 

So Nara could easily accept the fact that he had recognized the item creator by scent.

 

“Now for the last question.”

 

“Why do you get to decide that on your own, sis?”

 

“Because it’s up to the person who’s telling you.”

 

“That’s unfair.”

 

It was the moment when Hyeongtaek was about to open his mouth after much deliberation.

 

“Chairman…!”

 

The top floor exclusive elevator doors opened, and a secretary with an urgent expression could be seen rushing toward Chairman Maeng.

 

The gazes of many people gathered on that floor turned toward the secretary.

 

The secretary, unable to even catch his ragged breath, whispered into Chairman Maeng’s ear.

 

“The Chinese Hunter Association President has visited the 1st floor…! And he’s with the nation’s top rankers!”

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