I Became The Only Healer In The Academy [EN]: Chapter 22

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The man, practically fleeing from the room, didn’t look back as he headed straight for his hideout.

‘That bastard… he tricked me!’

He had clearly stated that there wouldn’t be anyone else inside the room, but that was completely wrong.

Arriving at the hideout, a colleague asked with a puzzled expression.

“What, already? Did it go well?”

“Well, so-so.”

At the vague answer, the colleague looked at the man suspiciously but didn’t press further.

The man immediately returned to his room and made a call.

“Hello?”

“…Hey! You said something different.”

“Pardon? Different? What are you talking about?”

“Let’s meet and talk. Where are you now?”

“…I’ll come to you.”

Having already told Seonghyun who the client was, the man wasn’t particularly worried about being followed. He called out Taehyun and waited with a very displeased expression.

Perhaps because he was nearby, Taehyun arrived where the man was in about ten minutes.

“What happened? Did you fail?”

“Fail? Hey, didn’t you say there would be no guards inside the room?”

“…That’s right.”

Taehyun recalled his memory.

He hadn’t just sensed that Seonghyun had no guards.

His brother worked at the Association, and he had heard it directly from him.

It was information directly from inside the Association, so it couldn’t be false.

“Bullshit! There were guards inside the room!”

“…Does that matter?”

“What?”

Taehyun looked at the man with a rather displeased expression and said.

“If there’s even a slight discrepancy in the client’s words, do you just give up? Haa… what a level…”

“What, what did you say?”

It wasn’t wrong, so the man couldn’t retort.

“The commission fee is fine. You must have been very surprised, so use it to buy some tonic or something.”

“…You, be careful. There was someone incredibly skilled next to Kim Seonghyun. So much so that I couldn’t even sense them.”

“That’s good information. Is that all you have to say?”

“…Yeah.”

Taehyun got up and sighed.

“Hah, to make such a big deal out of failing. I should have commissioned someone else.”

“…”

The man just clenched his fist and watched Taehyun’s retreating figure.

Leaving the building, Taehyun took out a cigarette with an annoyed expression.

“Hoo… should I commission someone else again?”

This place was the most skilled, but with this result, Taehyun was a bit complicated.

Leaving the building, Taehyun took out a cigarette with an annoyed expression.

“Hoo… should I commission someone else again?”

This place was the most skilled, but with this result, Taehyun was a bit complicated.

“My brother wouldn’t have been mistaken…”

Taehyun’s brother was in a decent position within the Association, so he couldn’t have been wrong about this.

“I should call him once he gets off work.”

There was still some time before his brother’s 퇴근 [quitting time], so Taehyun finished his cigarette and returned to the Academy.

Some time after Taehyun left, a man in a black suit entered where Taehyun had come out.

“Commission?”

“Yes.”

Seeing the man’s appearance, which clearly showed he had a lot of money, the man forgot about today’s failure and welcomed the guest.

“I heard you failed today’s commission, can I trust you?”

“W-well, there was an unexpected variable…”

“Anyway, it’s true that you failed, right? That hunter with healing abilities?”

From the way he spoke, it seemed like the commission was related to that crazy hunter, so the man nodded and answered confidently.

“Yes, I’m probably the only one who knows that guy well.”

“Is that so? I came to the right place.”

“So, what kind of commission…”

The man, who was full of smiles at the thought of receiving money, soon had his face stiffen as he felt his breath being cut off.

Soon, his body floated into the air, and all he could do was kick his feet in the air.

“Keuh…”

The man left the room only when even the groans that burst out could no longer be heard.

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The time quickly passed until the day of the competition to determine the class representative.

In the meantime, Seonghyun and Inhwan had matched their skills a little, and whether the time spent in the 문 [gate/portal] was meaningful or not, Inhwan’s skill improved rapidly, and he was able to handle his abilities much more freely than before.

On the day of the Academy’s class representative selection competition, all students could attend the competition without attending classes.

“…”

An awkward atmosphere flowed through Seonghyun’s team, making it seem like they weren’t a team at all.

“If you use healing on me, I’ll kill you first.”

Seonghyun didn’t answer Sangyeon’s words and looked at Inhwan and said.

“Let’s just do as we practiced.”

“Yeah, at least the ability won’t miss.”

Whether he was quite upset by the fact that he was being ignored, Sangyeon frowned and approached Seonghyun, putting his finger on his chest and said.

“Did you understand?”

Only after hearing Seonghyun’s answer did Sangyeon show a satisfied expression, and he sat down a little away and waited for the competition to begin.

Soon, one of the professors came in and began to briefly explain the class representative competition.

“I will explain the rules. The rules have changed slightly from this competition. The three of you should choose a leader right now.”

At the word leader, the three exchanged glances.

“You can give it to me shortly before the competition starts.”

The professor placed his cell phone on the table, and the cell phone screen had a blank space where the name of the person to be selected as leader today would be written.

“Then I will explain the rest of the rules.”

The professor stared at Gu Sangyeon as if he was being summoned, and Gu Sangyeon reluctantly took a seat next to Seonghyun and Inhwan.

“…The rules are simple. The side that defeats the leader first wins.”

Whether the word defeat bothered him a little, Inhwan asked cautiously.

“Defeat means…”

“Ah, I chose the word too aggressively. I’m sorry. The team that incapacitates the opposing team’s leader first wins.”

It was a very simple rule.

“Of course, you won’t know who the leader is until the battle starts. It’s important to figure out the opponent’s leader and neutralize them first.”

The rules themselves were simple.

The side that finds and neutralizes the opponent’s leader first wins.

“Then good luck. Professor Hwang Gi혁’s class has never had a class representative before… I’m both looking forward to it and worried about it.”

The professor left the words and got up from his seat.

“…”

Only silence flowed inside the room.

If it were another team, they would have already been discussing who to make the leader, but such unity could not be found in Seonghyun’s team.

“T-then who should be the leader…”

Inhwan, who wasn’t on bad terms with Gu Sangyeon, brought up the topic.

“Anyone can do it. Isn’t it a simple problem if you neutralize all the opposing class representatives?”

“…”

Seonghyun and Inhwan simultaneously thought that Gu Sangyeon didn’t seem to be a very planned person.

“Then… should we make it Sangyeon?”

“Do whatever you w… what? Are you out of your mind?”

Inhwan chuckled at Sangyeon’s answer and continued.

“You said anyone can do it, right?”

“Don’t joke around. How important is this competition right now.”

“If it’s that important…”

Inhwan, who was about to say something more, replaced the last words with a sigh and looked at Seonghyun and said.

“What should we do? No matter how I think about it, it seems like you or I should be the leader.”

“Yeah, Gu Sangyeon… doesn’t seem to want to discuss it.”

Gu Sangyeon had already returned to the seat he was sitting in a moment ago.

“Then the representative is…”

Inhwan looked at Seonghyun and asked for his opinion, and Seonghyun answered immediately.

“It’s obvious. It’s already decided.”

Seonghyun wrote the name on his cell phone and submitted it to the professor.

“…Now the competition will begin. Go inside.”

Following the professor’s guidance, they went inside, and the voice announcing the start of the competition was heard.

“From now on, we will begin the Academy class representative competition.”

The place where the competition started was the combat training room inside the Academy.

It was different from a simple training room, it was a place where a virtual space could be created to conduct battles.

“Today’s competition is being broadcast on the screen in each class, so if you commit fraud, you will be immediately disqualified.”

Fraud in the class representative competition was nothing but using equipment.

“…So, who’s the leader?”

Gu Sangyeon asked, clearing his throat for no reason, and Inhwan answered instead of Seonghyun.

“Um, maybe it’s better if you don’t know?”

“What? Ha… I’m going to come out like that. I’ll do whatever I want too.”

“Huh? When didn’t you?”

“…”

Gu Sangyeon closed his mouth as if there was no need to talk anymore.

The competition between class representatives did not predetermine the opponent.

In other words, the opponent in the competition that will start soon can only be known by meeting them in person.

“Don’t hold me back.”

Gu Sangyeon said, looking at Seonghyun and Inhwan, and soon the interior scenery began to change.

“It’s completely barren.”

Inhwan was dissatisfied with the 펼쳐진 [unfolded] scenery.

Due to the nature of his abilities, if it was a vast space without any cover like this, he could be easily exposed to those with fast speeds.

“In front, I see them.”

At a distance of about 50m, there was the opposing class representative.

“Ha… this isn’t good.”

“Why?”

Inhwan’s expression hardened when he saw the opponent.

As if he already knew who it was.

“The opposing class representative is the professor who just guided us. And they are… people with abilities specialized for personal combat.”

“Abilities specialized for personal combat?”

“Yeah, don’t you know that the Academy doesn’t just gather hunters who are good at dealing with 마수 [monsters]?”

As Inhwan said, the Academy simply uses the excellence of talent as the criterion for admission.

The talent of that ability could be excellent at dealing with 마수, or it could be excellent at dealing with people.

“So, what are their abilities?”

“I don’t know the details, but the woman on the far right gives physical ability enhancements to her teammates. It takes a little time to cast, but once she casts it, it’s quite troublesome.”

“What about the others?”

“The one on the left is specialized in close combat. Our Gu Sangyeon will take care of that. The problem is the one in the middle. It’s a sniper.”

Whether he was listening to the story, Gu Sangyeon asked with a puzzled voice.

“What? Sniper? There’s no gun?”

“If you need a gun to snipe, what kind of ability is that? It’s just a sniper.”

“…”

“Fortunately, the proficiency is still low, so the accuracy itself is low.”

“Then can’t he shoot at me? He’ll be fighting in close combat with his team.”

“Do you know why that ability is only for personal combat? There’s no damage even if allies get hit.”

“…”

After listening to the explanation, it was clear that only abilities that maximize their abilities in personal combat were present.

“But we’re okay too.”

Inhwan looked at Seonghyun with a confident face and said.

“We have a healer with 사기 [overpowered/broken] abilities for both 마수 subjugation and personal combat, right?”

“Hmph, what’s the use of an ability that can’t be used in the front row…”

Before Gu Sangyeon could finish speaking, the floor right next to him shattered from the impact of something.

“…Your greetings are a bit rough.”

“Gu Sangyeon, you won’t cooperate with us, but you still want to go out as a class representative, right.”

“…So. You’re telling me to listen to you?”

“No, it’s the opposite. Do whatever you want. As you please.”

“Ha, you’re saying something I like for the first time.”

As soon as Gu Sangyeon finished talking, he ran forward.

“…You’re really hopeless. Seonghyun. But who’s the leader?”

“Ah, the leader? He’s running over there, our leader.”

“…What?”

At Seonghyun’s words, Inhwan looked back and forth between Seonghyun and Gu Sangyeon’s 뒷모습 [back view/figure].

“…Ha, you weren’t normal either.”