The Owner of the Healing Therapy Shop Is Ranked 0th in the World - Chapter 65

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The Owner of the Healing Therapy Shop is World Rank 0

Chapter 65

“What the hell, seriously.”

In a quiet alley in Mapo-gu, Alice paced back and forth in front of an old building, tilting her head in confusion.

The coordinates her mana had pointed to were definitely this exact location.

The tangled threads of mana were clearly indicating this building, but strangely, she couldn’t see an entrance.

No, rather than not being able to see an entrance, it was more like a thick fog had settled before her eyes, creating a bizarre sensation that made everything appear blurry.

“I don’t know what kind of trick they used, but now I understand why Jinseong oppa didn’t hide that woman away more thoroughly.”

Alice clicked her tongue while frowning as if her mood had soured.

A barrier powerful enough to disrupt even her cognitive abilities as an S-rank Search Hunter.

This entire building was either one massive disguise item, or had even more powerful spatial magic cast upon it.

“It’s been a while since I’ve gotten this angry.”

Just when her irritation had reached its peak from being unable to find the entrance.

The store owner from the flower shop across the street, wearing an apron and carrying a large bundle of chrysanthemums in her arms, crossed the road and naturally reached toward what appeared to Alice to be just an ordinary wall.

At that moment, a door appeared like magic in the space where there had only been a wall.

Startled, Alice focused her eyes and glared at the entrance, but the sense of unease still didn’t fade.

She could only perceive that a door existed, but information about what kind of structure lay inside or what kind of store it was kept slipping away from her mind.

It felt as if someone was artificially interfering with Alice’s thought processes, commanding her to ‘stop looking at this place.’

The store door opened, and a woman walked out from inside along with bright light.

The moment she faced that brightly smiling face as she received the flower bouquet from the flower shop owner, the fog blocking Alice’s mind lifted all at once like magic.

“Ah, found you.”

Alice smiled broadly and licked her lips.

That woman she had encountered in front of the cafe yesterday, the very ‘Yebichnna’ that Jinseong cherished and hid so preciously.

As her vision cleared, the store’s sign also came into view.

[Wihyang]

Alice, who had read Yebichnna’s store name aloud, approached with large strides like a predator that had discovered its prey.

Alice firmly grabbed the hand of Yebichnna, who was about to enter the store and close the door after receiving the flower bouquet.

“Hello? I didn’t expect to find you in a place like this.”

Alice, who had greeted her brazenly, enjoyed Yebichnna’s flustered expression while scanning the inside of the store.

“Wow, the store is really pretty. Wihyang? That’s quite an unusual name too.”

“How did you find this place…”

Yebichnna stepped backward as if frightened by the unexpected uninvited guest’s appearance.

Alice pressed her advantage and stepped one foot inside the store.

In her mind was only one thing: the desire to steal this treasure of a creator from Jinseong and keep her by her side.

It would be even better if she could break her beyond repair while she was at it.

Bang!

But the moment Alice’s foot crossed the threshold, a strange wave cut through the air.

Alice was mercilessly bounced out of the store as if she had collided hard with something.

It was an attack of such tremendous speed that there wasn’t even time for an S-rank Hunter’s light-like barrier to form.

“Agh!”

Alice, who had fallen hard on her bottom, screamed.

The impact was so great that the tips of her dazzling blonde hair, which she had cherished and maintained, were charred black as if burned by something, with smoke rising from them.

And a red system window flashed above her field of vision.

[Warning: Hostility detected. Intruder will be immediately expelled.]

It was the exact moment when the same status window appeared before Yebichnna’s eyes as well.

The air inside the store distorted, and an unbelievable scene unfolded.

Swoooosh!

A forced summoning scroll triggered by the condition of the store’s defense skill activating summoned Gangjinseong, who appeared as if blocking Yebichnna’s front.

But his appearance was somewhat different from his usual dignified look.

As if he had been summoned while resting at home, he was wearing comfortable homewear and had a half-eaten piece of bread in his mouth.

Though he seemed flustered by the sudden summoning, Jinseong instinctively sensed the surrounding threat and tensed all the muscles in his body.

Then he spat the bread he had been holding in his mouth onto the floor, quickly drew his sword, and watched the front with sharp eyes.

And as soon as he discovered Alice collapsed before his eyes, he furrowed his brow deeply.

“…Song-i.”

The safe house system only activates when an intruder harbors ‘hostility.’

Knowing this fact better than anyone, Jinseong had a colder and angrier face than Yebichnna had ever seen before.

Without sheathing his sword, he slowly approached Alice, who was sitting on the ground.

With each step he took, a murderous aura emanated as if the ground was freezing.

“I definitely warned you. I told you not to cross the line.”

Jinseong’s low voice pierced Alice’s eardrums like a sharply honed blade.

It was a chilling and ruthless voice that made one’s entire body break out in goosebumps just from hearing it.

Even Alice, who never lost her composure in any extreme situation, showed clear signs of panic this time.

She backed away while supporting herself on the ground, waving her hands dismissively.

“Hostility? Oppa, this is a misunderstanding! I just came to say hello!”

“Shut up.”

But there wasn’t a trace of mercy in Jinseong’s eyes.

He looked down at Alice and spoke his cruelly cold truth.

“The reason I’ve tolerated your selfish behavior until now was my final courtesy toward your dead sister. But you ignored my warning and touched Yebichnna?”

At those words, Alice’s face flushed bright red with shame and anger.

Tears gradually welled up in her large eyes and her speech became rapidly faster.

“No, oppa! Just listen to me! I just stopped by to say hello since I came to Korea. You know I don’t have any friends my age in Korea! I just wanted to become friends, but you say I’m touching her. We’re just acquaintances who met in France…!”

But it seemed as if not a single word of her excuses reached Jinseong’s ears.

He pointed the tip of his unsheathed sword directly at Alice’s white nose.

“Go back. Never lurk around this area again. If you touch Yebichnna one more time, then I really won’t spare you, even if it’s you.”

“Oppa…”

“Don’t make me say it twice.”

Alice’s breath caught from the chilling sword energy emanating from the blade’s tip.

She stubbornly pressed her lips tightly together.

Her round pupils filled with tears brimming with injustice and sorrow.

Alice raised her trembling body to stand.

As if trying to preserve her last bit of pride, she roughly brushed the dust off her designer skirt.

Then she looked back and forth between Yebichnna standing inside the store and Jinseong pointing his sword at her.

“I won’t say it twice either.”

Alice shouted in a voice choked with spite.

Her cracking voice echoed through the air of the quiet hallway.

“I still like you, oppa! So I’ll never give up!”

After shouting that, she strode out of the alley without looking back.

But her eyes as she walked away were already flashing with hatred.

‘If I can’t have him, no one can. Absolutely not.’

Twisted affection and possessiveness began spreading through Alice’s heart like black poison.

Meanwhile, Jinseong, who remained in front of the store, sheathed his sword and turned toward Yebichnna.

A single piece of bread spat on the ground lay there forlornly, as if symbolizing this tense commotion.

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