The Owner of the Healing Therapy Shop Is Ranked 0th in the World - Chapter 8

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The Owner of the Healing Therapy Shop is World Rank 0

Chapter 8

Mimi’s attribute tutoring session began.

“Choose the sensory organ you want and make oil as usual.”

“If you need specific effects, you know you have to invest stat points in the corresponding sensory organs, right?”

“The grade of the granted properties changes depending on the oil’s completion level. If the completion level is high, additional properties may follow.”

“How do you raise the completion level? The more sincerely you craft it, the higher it will be. That’s the kind of skill it is.”

Having graduated from the Hunter Training School, I still retained knowledge of skill usage and application methods for each awakening type. This was because I had studied theory more diligently than anyone else.

However, since my class and skills were types that couldn’t be found in any papers or textbooks, I had coaxed Mimi into asking her to teach me about skill usage.

But contrary to my expectations, the skill usage method was incredibly simple.

‘Just make oil as usual. The end!’ she said.

It was a moment when all the knowledge I had learned at the training academy about how to operate mana and where to concentrate it became worthless scraps of paper.

“You really mean just make it as usual?”

“Yeah, so I’m going to sleep.”

Mimi settled in a sunny corner of the workshop and immediately closed her eyes. She couldn’t be anything but an irresponsible tutor.

Because of that, I stood in front of the workbench feeling like a lone boat floating before the open sea.

Since she told me to make it as usual, I decided to make oil using lavender, which I both loved most and was also a common ingredient.

Considering the possibility of failure, I planned to extract oil simply using the relatively quick distillation extraction method.

First, I filled a round flask with pre-dried lavender flowers. The fragrant floral scent pleasantly stimulated my nose.

“Just in case, should I try extracting just a little?”

Below the flask containing lavender, I connected another flask filled with boiling water. The steam generated from this flask would rise up to meet the lavender, causing the aromatic components to dissolve out.

The steam carrying the fragrance becomes lighter and moves upward, then meets cold water, at which point the steam transforms back into liquid.

This water becomes the ingredient for lavender essential oil.

Drip, drip, drip.

As time passed, the amount of liquid collecting in the receiver increased.

When I brought my eyes close, I could see that the liquid had separated into layers.

The slightly oily layer on top was the lavender essential oil, and the pure water below became floral water.

“Hmm, only this much has collected so far.”

The waiting time was torture.

I wanted to know as quickly as possible whether my skill had been properly infused into that oil, but since I was extracting it using natural methods, it inevitably took time.

“This won’t do. Let me just make a little.”

In my impatience, I removed the flask containing the liquid and placed it on the workbench.

When I carefully drew up only the oil layer on top of the liquid with a dropper, a very small amount of oil was extracted. I transferred it into a brown bottle the size of my pinky finger.

Would it even be 2ml?

I held up the bottle and examined it under the light. Just as I was chuckling to myself, thinking that even collecting tears from yawning would yield more than this.

A message window appeared before my eyes.

^[High-quality Lavender Essential Oil completed!]^

^[Vision Lv.1: Light Guide

Scans and displays the safest route on the ground to the ‘specific target’ the user is seeking. Areas with traps or monsters will show red warning lights.

Applied Effects: 85% increase in trap avoidance rate, 20% increase in movement speed

Item Form: Basic essential oil or eye cream]^

“Mimi!”

As soon as I read the message, I urgently called out to the sleeping Mimi. I called so loudly that the cat jumped up from her spot.

“Kyaak!”

“Th-this is made properly, right? It’s the same as the skill I used in the Gate, right?”

I grabbed the oil bottle and thrust it right in front of Mimi’s nose. Whether the cat bristled her fur or not was of no concern to me.

“I told you to just do it as usual, so why the commotion.”

“It’s a success! I really just did it as usual!”

I clutched the bottle, smaller than nail polish, tightly in my hand and beamed with joy.

“Now I just need to find a part-timer, right?!”

To my excited self, the cat’s disgruntled voice flew over.

“Such a fuss.”

I was dumbfounded by that.

“A fuss? Did you forget what kind of Quest you gave me?”

^[Time Limit: 480 hours 5 minutes 24 seconds]^

^[Upon Failure: You will lose someone precious]^

^[Upon Success: 2 stat points, class level up]^

I deliberately brought up the status window and read it aloud to Mimi.

“It says I’ll lose someone precious, so how can I not make a fuss?”

I may be someone who lost family and doesn’t have many friends, but I don’t have absolutely no one precious to me.

“…I’m tired, so don’t talk to me.”

The cat, who had been staring intently at me grinding my teeth, turned her head away and went back to sleep.

“Really…”

I wasn’t sure whether that cat was on my side or not.

She seemed to be on my side when she gave me a special class and skills to help me conquer Gates, but then she seemed not to be on my side when she set the condition of taking away someone precious to me if I failed.

‘I can tell she’s favorable toward me, but I just can’t figure out her true intentions.’

Though she’s a creature whose very existence is questionable to begin with…

While I was growing seeds of unsolvable doubt about the cat, I suddenly heard the sound of the store door bursting open.

I had forgotten to lock the store door, but it wasn’t business hours.

I hurriedly left the workshop and checked the clock – it was only 7 AM.

‘A customer at this hour?’

In front of the store door stood someone I never expected.

A woman with short blonde-dyed hair wearing a matching set of black leather jacket and pants. Her small stature and round eyes still didn’t match her clothing style.

“N-Nara Unni?”

Unni’s face crumpled as she ran over and hugged me tightly.

“Y-you idiot! Why didn’t you reply when you’re alive! Do you know how worried I was? Why couldn’t I reach you! Really!”

“Ah, I fell into a Gate so my phone…”

“What? You fell into a Gate?! How did you fall into a Gate! You’re the one who notices before sudden Gates even appear! What about the hospital! Ugh! Why is your leg like that!”

“Ah, this.”

Looking where Unni’s gaze fell, I could see scabs messily positioned on my knee, visible below my comfortable shorts.

While I quickly explained like making excuses, Nara Unni used her skill on me.

“Really, why do you have to get hurt and make me sad. Geez, I never even dreamed you’d get sucked into that Gate, but you did it trying to save grandma… that’s so like you, Binna. There, done!”

My completely healed leg was smooth without a single scar. The abilities of S-rank healer Nara Unni go without saying.

“Wow, Unni’s skills have improved tremendously.”

“Don’t even mention it, do you know how many Gates I’ve closed trying to establish a guild. What kind of establishment conditions are so demanding.”

Unni collapsed onto the sofa with an exhausted face.

“Ugh, why am I suddenly feeling so drowsy. Is it because I confirmed you’re fine, Binna. Yawn.”

From the way she was even yawning languidly, it seemed my passive skill ‘Relax (shop visitors feel an inexplicable comfort)’ was working well.

A passive skill that works even on S-rank Hunters isn’t common.

“But aren’t you busy, Unni? With Ohyeongtaek Hunter’s work and all… how did you come all the way here.”

“What do you mean! I came because I was worried about you!”

Nara Unni was an S-rank healer and the guild leader who established Shilla Guild a year ago.

Originally, she ran a kind of entertainment business that put Hunters with star quality on broadcasts like celebrities, then recently established a Hunter guild as well.

Because of this, the initial perception of Shilla Guild wasn’t good.

However, defying everyone’s expectations, Shilla Guild succeeded in recruiting Ohyeongtaek, one of only four S-rank Hunters in Korea, and instantly settled into the top 3 guild rankings.

I heard it was thanks to Ohyeongtaek’s recruitment that hunter job applications never stopped coming in.

I knew my sister was an amazing person since our Training Academy days, but I really had no idea she had such natural talent for business.

“Alright, I can see you’re fine so I should get going.”

“Already?”

“The world’s in chaos right now. Even leaving my post now took a huge effort to squeeze out time. I have to catch a flight later because of Hyeongtaek’s situation.”

“By any chance, how’s the situation inside the Gate…?”

Since my sister was a guild leader, she would definitely know news that hadn’t been reported in the media yet, so I moistened my parched lips and asked.

It was because I was worried that something might happen to him due to my delay.

“It’s a Gate unlike any we’ve seen before. Gate entrances close after a certain time, right? But this Gate is strange – people and supplies can keep being sent in.”

“Really?”

“Yeah, it’s fortunate. It means they can somehow hold out until they clear it as long as we keep sending food. That’s why I can breathe a little easier too. Otherwise, the Japanese Prime Minister’s head would already be in my hands.”

It’s definitely a strange Gate.

All the Gates that have appeared so far felt like they were made to kill humans, but why does this Gate seem to have a bit more fairness?

“I thought he’d come out soon since a Japanese search skill Hunter entered, but bullshit! That Gangjinseong kid is holed up in his room and won’t even come out! When this big sister tried to ask him a favor, he ignored all my calls! Shouldn’t he naturally help when a fellow Korean S-rank is trapped?”

My sister ground her teeth furiously but didn’t raise her voice. It was out of consideration for my sensitive ears.

“Ah, so here’s the thing, Bitna.”

My sister, who had been fuming angrily, suddenly changed her expression. While I was flustered by her sudden change in attitude, my sister drooped her eyebrows and gently took my hand.

“Could you please do your sister just one favor?”

“…What kind?”

“Tell Gangjinseong to clear the Japanese Gate first! He’s always listened well to whatever you said since way back! Please?”

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