The Owner of the Healing Therapy Shop Is Ranked 0th in the World - Chapter 4

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The Owner of the Healing Therapy Shop is World Rank 0

Chapter 4

“Oh my, she just won’t stop crying.”

On a snowy winter day, the 7-year-old child who entered the orphanage cried a lot.

So much that even veteran caregivers who had raised dozens, hundreds of children found it overwhelming.

Except when she fell asleep from exhaustion after crying, she was either whimpering or crying no matter what she did.

They were extremely worried that I might be sick somewhere, as I kept my mouth shut from the shock of losing my parents and just cried desperately.

But after I started speaking again, such worries completely disappeared.

“It’s too noisy.”

“My nose hurts.”

“It tastes weird.”

It turned out I had developed hypersensitivity as an aftereffect of being sucked into the gate.

Eventually, classified as an awakening candidate, I was transferred to a Hunter Training Facility and grew up receiving harsh training.

However, having failed to awaken even past adulthood, I had fallen to nothing more than a sensitive freeloader.

As the only one at the training academy who failed to awaken, I was always a target of bullying, and while all my peers entered good guilds and lived comfortably, I was abandoned by society. Without receiving any education necessary for ordinary people.

For a regular person who wasn’t an awakening candidate, extremely sensitive senses were nothing but poison.

“I hate to say this, but… how about getting a prescription for hunter nerve stabilizers? It’s illegal and quite expensive though…”

There was no way I, who couldn’t function properly in society due to my sensitive senses, could afford hunter medication costs. Besides, I was just a regular person.

“Then at least try smelling this Heragen oil scent. Hunters use it for emergencies in dungeons, so it shouldn’t be completely without calming effects.”

The bottle of oil the doctor offered me.

That became the turning point that determined the direction of my life.

[Wihyang, Comforting Scents for Sensitive People]

I opened a healing therapy shop called ‘Wihyang’ where I made and sold oils and perfumes using my more sensitive sense of smell than others.

Because I wanted to help regular people and hunters who suffered from hypersensitivity like me.

…And now, I was found collapsed in front of my store.

Meowww-.

By Mimi, the black stray cat I feed.

Pat, rub. Pat, rub.

Watching Mimi rub against my calf asking for food, I slowly closed and opened my eyes.

Why am I here… and not on the store sofa but lying in front of the door like a homeless person.

“So then…”

Without even feeling embarrassed about being sprawled on the street, I tried to recall my recent memories.

I was sucked into a gate, awakened, and used that power to find the exit.

[Gate Clear! Would you like to receive your reward?]

And I saw a gate clear message that I thought I’d never see in my lifetime.

…It didn’t feel real. Just a strange feeling like I had dreamed it.

I hesitantly moved my lips and spoke a certain word.

“…Status window.”

Flash-!

A status window appeared before my eyes.

^[Name: Yebichnna]^

^[Hidden Class: Healing Therapy Shop Novice Owner]^

“It’s real…”

I thought I had seen things because I wasn’t in my right mind when I found the exit, but a square status window with cat ears was sparkling enthusiastically before my eyes.

The status window I saw when being sucked into the gate was definitely an ordinary square shape.

But the status window that appeared when I used my awakening skill to find the exit was a bit… strange.

Just like now.

Why are there two cat ears attached to the top corners of the status window?

^[Title Acquired: Guide of Labyrinthos]^

^[Remaining Stat Points: 1]^

“Why did the status window shape suddenly change?”

I couldn’t be certain, but there was one thing I suspected.

Right before the gate exit appeared, a black cat statue suddenly appeared inside the moving maze wall.

The moment I saw it, I instinctively knew that statue was related to the exit.

Sure enough, as soon as I touched the cat’s head, an exit appeared. And at the same time, the status window changed its appearance too.

“There’s no law saying status windows can’t evolve… right.”

Meowww!

Since I wasn’t moving while lying down, the hungry cat’s voice grew increasingly sharp.

^[Hidden Class: Healing Therapy Shop Novice Owner]^

“Store owner… Is it like a peddler merchant?”

Like NPCs you can meet in games, or similar to monsters that carry treasure bundles?

Even while attending the Hunter Training School, I had never heard of such a class existing.

Besides special classes like summoners or enhancement mages… there were others?

‘An irregular class at that?’

“It seems like I drew something incredible… but I can’t tell if it’s good or bad.”

I moved my index finger to scroll down the status window.

“Maybe I’ll get a sense if I read the description…”

^[Healing and therapy for those tired of daily life! Earth’s peace and humanity’s salvation is…]^

“…Mimi, I’ll give you food.”

Meowww-!

I quietly pressed the X button on the stat window and got up.

I’ll just pretend I never awakened.

* * *

“Ah, haha. Ahahaha! Our Hunter Kang has! Excellent sense of humor too! Ahahaha!”

“…”

“Isn’t that right, Ean! If not Hunter Kang, who else would clear the gate! Right?”

Kuhahaha!

Chairman Maeng let out a cheerful laugh, but his pupils were trembling pitifully.

With desperate eyes pleading for the cold-looking hunter sitting in front of him to say it was just a joke.

However, only heavy silence flowed from Jinseo’s lips.

Chairman Maeng tried to ignore the chilling sensation down his spine and looked at Ean next to Jinseo.

Thinking that Ean, who was like Hunter Kang’s personal secretary, might call that unfunny joke a joke.

“…”

Ean shook his head with a troubled expression.

In that moment, Chairman Maeng’s heart plummeted to the floor.

“Hunter Gang! Hunter Gang, say it with your own mouth! If, if not you, then who could have cleared the gate…! Ugh!”

“P-President!”

President Maeng couldn’t control his surging blood pressure and grabbed the back of his neck.

Jinseong had maintained a coldly indifferent expression from the beginning until now.

“As I already said, it wasn’t me who cleared it.”

“…Then who was it!”

“It was a woman. Likely an unregistered hunter.”

“Unregistered?”

“Even though I was looking right at her, I couldn’t sense any mana, as if I were looking at an ordinary person.”

At Jinseong’s vivid testimony, the room gradually fell silent.

“I came here to ask you to find that hunter. She disappeared as soon as we left the gate.”

“Hah…”

President Maeng staggered and pressed his forehead.

“R-right now, not only the President but representatives from various countries are flying over to meet you…!”

“Tell them to go back.”

Feeling like his vision was going dark, President Maeng let out a groan.

The whole world is watching Korea right now…! If it’s revealed that it wasn’t Gangjinseong but some hunter whose whereabouts are unknown who cleared it…!

But that Gangjinseong would never participate in wearing false honors…!

Damn it! How embarrassing!

Then, Ean spoke up.

“If someone could escape Hunter Gangjinseong’s detection, there’s a high probability they’re an SS-rank hunter. If that’s really the case…”

“SS-rank…?”

“Yes, it would be the world’s first rank.”

“The world’s first…”

After blinking for a moment and organizing his thoughts, President Maeng suddenly shook his cheeks and shouted loudly.

“Right now! Find that hunter immediately and bring them before me! Don’t breathe a word to the media!”

Jinseong calmly left the chaotic Association President’s Office. Naturally, Ean was with him.

Ean handed him fresh milk and asked a question.

“If even you couldn’t detect and lost track of them, what chance does the Hunter Association have?”

“170cm, long straight hair, slim build.”

“There must be tens of thousands of women like that in Korea.”

“Find her. Or the gate will break.”

“…”

If a gate that even Gangjinseong, the world’s renowned hunters, and the few hunters with detection skills couldn’t clear were to break…

It could truly be humanity’s end.

They had to find that remarkable hunter by any means necessary.

“So how exactly are we supposed to find her…”

While Ean was pretending to cry, anticipating endless overtime, a message arrived on Jinseong’s phone.

After confirming the sender was some guild leader who bothered him, Jinseong was about to lock the screen when he paused at the preview content.

[Thank you for clearing the gate, Hunter Gang>【! Thanks to you, our Training Academy Alumni Association will proceed as scheduled! Participant list: Yebichnna, Kim Woojin, Kim Seongtae, Na Iran…]</p】

Training Academy Alumni Association and Yebichnna.

These were the words that caught his attention.

It was a gathering he wouldn’t normally have glanced at, but now it was different.

The back view of the woman he had lost at the gate momentarily overlapped with the back view of a certain girl he had met at the training academy.

That child who was always looking out the large window.

As that deliberately forgotten back view came to mind, the calm waves in Jinseong’s heart began to ripple faintly.

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