The Owner of the Healing Therapy Shop Is Ranked 0th in the World - Chapter 64

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The Owner of the Healing Therapy Shop is World Rank 0

Chapter 64

Sohee kicked the empty chair where Alice had been sitting and irritably swept her hair back.

It seemed her anger toward Alice wasn’t over yet.

“Why hasn’t Oppa changed one bit even after nearly dying? I’m going to die of frustration, really!”

Sohee was about to point accusingly at Seondonguk, who sat in his wheelchair silently smiling, but stopped herself.

Seondonguk’s innocent smile always had the magic power to calm Sohee’s anger. But this time, Sohee didn’t seem ready to back down easily.

“Being too kind for your own good… How did you even manage to work as a Hunter all this time? When a fox-like girl like that comes up to you all smiles, are you just going to give her everything? Why doesn’t Alice resemble her sister at all? I don’t know how her personality got so twisted. Did you see her smiling while hugging you just now? I thought some snake was slithering over my body. She’s getting more and more sinister, really.”

Sohee shuddered her shoulders, making a genuinely disgusted expression.

Then she irritably picked up the pink coat that had been placed beside the bed, putting it on while glaring fiercely at Seondonguk.

“Oppa, I’m asking you one last time – you’re not really going to visit the grave, are you? You’re not going to just go running when she tells you to come? With that body of yours?”

“I have to go. Song-i was a precious colleague to me. I was the only one who couldn’t attend the funeral, so shouldn’t I go now?”

“Ha, this guy is serious.”

At Seondonguk’s unhesitating answer, Sohee let out a hollow laugh as if she no longer had the strength to be angry.

She knew well that there was no one in this world who could break Seondonguk’s stubbornness.

Sohee looked pleadingly at Seo Eunhae who was standing nearby, but she too just nodded with a faint smile, seeming to respect her son’s decision.

Seondonguk locked the wheelchair wheels and carefully moved from the wheelchair to the bed using only the strength of his arms to lift his body.

Though it looked somewhat difficult since the sensation in his legs wasn’t fully restored yet, there was determination in his movements.

Having settled on the bed, Seondonguk looked out the window and spoke quietly.

“Before that, I want to see Yebichnna. Even though the situation isn’t great.”

Sohee’s shoulders visibly flinched for a moment.

She shouted with exaggerated gestures like someone whose foot had fallen asleep.

“Why are you suddenly looking for that sister? When you should be focusing all your attention on rehabilitation?”

“Sohee, I already know that you weren’t the one who healed me.”

“Huh…?”

At Seondonguk’s calm but firm voice, the hospital room instantly fell silent.

Because the secret they had decided to keep from Seondonguk, the person most involved, had been exposed so suddenly and matter-of-factly.

Sohee rolled her eyes and began searching her mind for countless excuses.

‘Who told him? Was it Jinseong? Or was it the director?’

Flustered, Sohee rambled incoherently.

“Uh… well, when Oppa woke up, Yebichnna was there! But she was just there to cheer you on. The ones who actually put in the magic power were me and Professor Seong…”

Before Sohee’s desperate excuse could finish, Seondonguk quietly shook his head.

His eyes were deep and clear, as if they could already see through everything.

Finally, Sohee dropped her shoulders like a deflated balloon and pressed her lips shut.

Seondonguk quietly gazed at the pale yellow chrysanthemum bouquet in the vase by the window.

He remembered that final moment when he had been wandering in the depths of consciousness.

When everything around him was pitch-black darkness and the cold fear of sinking into water dominated him, what pierced through that darkness was dazzling light along with transmitted ‘warmth.’

‘The magic power… was really warm. Like Yebichnna.’

Beyond simple healing power, Seondonguk couldn’t forget the afterimage of that magic that seemed to comfort his wounded soul.

* * *

Top floor of a luxury building in downtown Seoul.

Jang Dohun was looking down out the window, rhythmically tapping the desk with his thick fingers.

In front of him stood two WHP Hunters with their heads bowed.

They were Steven and Erica, who had directly encountered Yebichnna when she was using the fake identity ‘Yebichnna.’

“I read it in the report, but I want to hear it directly. Explain once more the sensation you felt when you looked into that Hunter’s mind.”

Jang Dohun’s low bass voice echoed through the room.

Steven and Erica glanced at each other and searched their memories. But they soon frowned as if in pain.

Despite the considerable time that had passed, the primal fear imprinted that day was never forgotten.

“It’s… difficult to describe in words, Branch Manager.”

Steven swallowed dryly and spoke with difficulty.

“It was a sensation I never, truly never want to feel again. As if I had become smaller than a speck of dust before an infinitely vast existence… that kind of absolute overwhelming pressure. The moment I tried to penetrate the mental barrier, I felt the terror that my soul would be torn apart.”

As Steven trailed off and trembled, Dohun clicked his tongue loudly.

“Tsk, getting scared like a damn dog. There’s no credibility to your statement.”

Disappointed by his subordinates’ terrified appearance, Dohun took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth.

But now that Alice wasn’t cooperating, he had to gather even these fragmentary pieces of information to catch a lead.

He resolved to quietly start independent work behind the scenes and asked another question.

“Then tell me about other characteristics of that ‘Yebichnna’ Hunter. What kind of relationships she seemed to have with others, her way of speaking, things like that.”

“That… Branch Manager, wasn’t it already publicly revealed to be Enchanter Shinnara? I’m curious what you intend to do with such information.”

At Steven’s puzzled question, Dohun widened his eyes and slammed the desk.

“That’s why you’re no good! You believe that show that’s obviously deception? Gangjinseong wouldn’t be so accommodating as to show all his cards. Shinnara is just a shield. The real one is hiding behind her!”

As Steven quietly closed his mouth, Dohun stood up, exhaling cigarette smoke in a long stream.

“Anyway, the fact that you, Steven, couldn’t look into that person’s mind means they have at least S-rank mental barriers or higher.”

Dohun walked to the window and looked down at Seoul’s night view.

In his mind, he compared Korea’s S-rank Hunter list one by one, gauging future growth potential.

‘Did a goddess of fortune really appear in Korea? Having such a monster with Korean nationality is a major variable.’

He tried contacting Alice again, but still only heard dial tones.

“Damn it.”

Dohun irritably stubbed out his cigarette.

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At the same time, Alice coldly turned off her phone that was vibrating noisily and crying out from her pocket.

Having temporarily set aside her mask as France’s saint, her eyes were sharper and more persistent than ever.

She stopped in front of a quiet, dilapidated alley in Mapo-gu. A 5-story commercial building with peeling paint.

Alice looked up at the building her magic net had pointed to yesterday, narrowing her prettily made-up eyes.

“Isn’t this too careless? Keeping that precious body in a place like this.”

A bloody smile mixed with strange interest and possessiveness spread across her lips.

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