The Owner of the Healing Therapy Shop Is Ranked 0th in the World - Chapter 38

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The Owner of the Healing Therapy Shop is World Rank 0

 

Chapter 38

 

Click.

 

As soon as the door locked, Jinseong’s body, which had been standing upright, collapsed like a sheet of paper.

 

He buried himself in the chair Ean had brought and gasped for breath.

 

“Are you okay?!”

 

Nara approached in shock, but Jinseong pointed to the bed with trembling hands.

 

There lay Yebichnna, unconscious.

 

“When I opened my eyes, she was collapsed next to me. I think she absorbed the nightmare demon instead of me… but I’m not certain.”

 

Jinseong’s voice was terribly cracked. Professor Seong silently approached Yebichnna’s side.

 

Professor Seong’s eyes reddened as she saw Yebichnna’s nape dyed a deep purple.

 

“How did this happen…”

 

She held back tears and placed her fingers on Yebichnna’s slender wrist.

 

[Skill Activation: Pulse Reading of All Living Beings]

 

Mana with a subtle herbal fragrance emanated from Professor Seong’s fingertips. Nara also opened all of her mana.

 

“Professor, I’ll take responsibility for the mana supply. Use your skill without worry!”

 

Nara poured her vast mana into Professor Seong like a transfusion. Simultaneously, she surrounded the entire hospital room with the aura of ‘Sanctuary’, forcibly binding Yebichnna’s life force.

 

Professor Seong’s mana carefully traveled through Yebichnna’s blood vessels toward her head. She had confirmed there were no abnormalities in the body.

 

Just as she continued the mental pulse reading with all her nerves on edge.

 

“…!”

 

Professor Seong’s body jerked up as if having a seizure. She couldn’t even scream as she removed her hand from Yebichnna’s wrist and collapsed backward.

 

“Professor!”

 

Nara hurriedly supported her. Professor Seong trembled like an aspen leaf as she looked down at her own hand.

 

Her lips, pale with terror, trembled violently.

 

“Wh-what on earth is this…”

 

“Professor! What’s wrong?”

 

Professor Seong couldn’t answer. What she had just felt wasn’t the mana flow of an ordinary Hunter. No, it felt like something that wasn’t human.

 

Something indescribable had traveled up through Professor Seong’s mana in reverse, making her feel as if she would be devoured.

 

The situation flowed differently than expected. With Professor Seong paralyzed by fear, they eventually called in Erica, WHP’s mental-type Healer who had been waiting outside.

 

-You want me to treat that person instead of Gangjinseong?

 

Even Erica, who had been complaining, shut her mouth at the murderous atmosphere inside the hospital room.

 

More than anything, her pride was stung by the fact that this Healer had awakened Gangjinseong, and quite perfectly at that.

 

Erica recalled Steven’s terror-stricken face, but quickly erased it from her mind.

 

-I’ll wake her up right away.

 

It was the moment she confidently placed her hand on Yebichnna’s forehead.

 

-Kyaaaaaaah!

 

She hadn’t even fully used her skill yet.

 

Erica let out a piercing scream and tumbled backward. Drops of blood gushed from her nose and ears.

 

-Sa-save me! Aaaah!

 

Erica crawled to a corner of the hospital room, wailing like a beast.

 

Though she had faced countless traumas and vile illusions from monsters as a mental-type Healer, the shock she encountered inside Yebichnna’s mind was on a different dimension.

 

Ran Ran from China, who was called in next, suffered the same fate. She too lost consciousness and was carried out.

 

The hospital room was filled with desperate despair. The world’s greatest Healers had rushed in, but none could even succeed in facing whatever had burrowed into Yebichnna’s unconscious.

 

“…Senior.”

 

Jinseong called Nara with a dying voice. Even with his vision blurred from a splitting headache that felt like he might faint, he continued speaking while looking at Nara until the end.

 

“Please, somehow save her. At least Yebichnna…”

 

With those words, Jinseong’s head drooped. He had reached his limit.

 

Nara and Professor Seong, who rushed over in shock, checked Jinseong’s condition and breathed a sigh of relief.

 

“His mana is completely depleted, so he just fell asleep…”

 

“Hah… Why did he speak like it was his last words and scare people like that.”

 

The news that Jinseong was safe immediately spread outside the door.

 

The Chinese and American representatives breathed sighs of relief. They felt relieved thinking that as long as he woke up, there would be no chance of the Gate bursting open.

 

But the hearts of those who knew Yebichnna were heavy as if weighed down by lead.

 

* * *

 

A subtle herbal fragrance tickled my nose.

 

I slowly opened my eyes. It was a familiar smell, but the ceiling I saw wasn’t familiar.

 

‘What? Where is this?’

 

I tried to retrace my memories, but my head hurt as if it would split.

 

Then, feeling a heavy weight on my stomach, I lifted my head to look down.

 

Wondering why my stomach felt heavy, I saw Mimi curled up lying there.

 

“Mimi?”

 

Mimi’s round head popped up and her yellow eyes stared directly at me.

 

“You woke up early.”

 

“Is this Professor Seong’s Hospital?”

 

“Yes.”

 

Seeing me, Mimi stretched and raised her long tail straight up. She walked up to my chest and brought her face close to mine, asking.

 

“You saw it, didn’t you?”

 

“Saw what…?”

 

Asking if I saw something out of the blue.

 

I asked back in a daze.

 

My thoughts were already slow from just waking up, so answering such an unhelpful question was quite difficult.

 

“That thing, did you see it?”

 

Yellow eyes with vertically slit pupils stared at me intently.

 

“Ah.”

 

Only then did I remember.

 

The ‘something’ I had seen inside Senior Jinseong’s consciousness.

 

As soon as the thought reached me, I sat up in surprise.

 

“Senior, what about Senior?! Is Senior okay? Did he wake up?”

 

Mimi, who had rolled off me due to my sudden movement, looked at me with displeasure.

 

“He’s fine, thanks to you.”

 

“Hah, thank goodness.”

 

I let out a long breath and buried myself back in the bed. No, it was the moment I was about to.

 

“The time limit! What about the time limit? The Gates?!”

 

At that, Mimi, who was about to put her paws on my chest, finally jumped down to the floor.

 

I immediately opened my status window, and whether it was unfortunate or fortunate, there was still time left.

 

“40 hours…?”

 

Less than two days left. I hurriedly checked the number of remaining Gates, and ended up having to cover my mouth.

 

The Gates in China and the United States hadn’t been conquered yet.

 

‘The distance between the two countries is far, and excluding flight time…’

 

It’s too tight.

 

I bit my lower lip and looked for my phone. I needed to contact Senior immediately and see his face in person.

 

As I rummaged through the cool-feeling patient gown pockets and the cabinet, Mimi spoke again.

 

“Aren’t you going to ask what you saw?”

 

“Huh? Ah, right. What was that?”

 

Mimi made an expression of disbelief.

 

“Whether you’re carefree or have good mental strength.”

 

“Why?”

 

Found it. I took out my phone and looked for Senior Jinseong’s contact.

 

“Do you even know what the identity of that thing you saw is?”

 

“Isn’t it the alien creature that made the Gates? You told me that.”

 

Mimi’s triangular mouth gaped wide open.

 

“You know that? How? No, how can you be so calm knowing that?”

 

“Calm? I’m so shocked I’m calling right away like this.”

 

“What a fascinating human.”

 

Watching me make the call, Mimi muttered quietly.

 

“I can’t tell if I chose well or not.”

 

Even so, I could tell. The fact that Mimi was relieved seeing me wake up fine.

 

Otherwise, that tail wouldn’t be standing upright and trembling like that.

 

But there was something Mimi didn’t know.

 

Though I was acting as if nothing was wrong, the truth was that whenever I recalled ‘that thing’ I saw in the dream, a chilling pain would rise from deep within my heart—that’s how terrified I was.

 

The being I encountered for the first time in my life truly made me feel like I had become dust in this world, like I was helplessness itself.

 

Even now, when I closed my eyes and faced the dark ‘void’, I still shuddered as if those burning giant eyes were dissecting me completely.

 

Nevertheless, I stood on my two feet and straightened my back.

 

Because I knew there were people who would collapse even more if I crumbled now.

 

Crash!

 

The hospital room door burst open as if it would break.

 

Into my vision, so startled I almost dropped my phone, Senior Jinseong came rushing in, gasping for breath.

 

I wondered why he wasn’t answering his phone—it must have been because he was coming straight here.

 

I lowered my hand holding the phone and smiled broadly.

 

Because seeing Senior’s unharmed appearance brought a wave of relief washing over me.

 

“Sen…!”

 

I couldn’t finish calling out to him. Because he came walking almost at a run and pulled me into a tight embrace.

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