I Became The Only Healer In The Academy [EN]: Chapter 156

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“Clearing the gate feels pretty unsettling.”

It wasn’t a fierce battle, nor did I gain any special abilities.

Besides, I couldn’t forget the expression of the man who handed Sung-hyun a sword and stabbed himself in the heart.

“Why do they have to look so much like humans…”

Still, it wasn’t a complete loss.

In fact, it might have been the biggest gain I’ve had so far.

The origin of that gate, which they call a supply route.

“And why a supply route…”

It was a question I had put aside for a while, but now I needed to consider it a bit more seriously.

A supply route originally means a path for receiving supplies.

It was highly likely that they were receiving something through that gate, and that something was probably something humans possessed.

I don’t know what they want yet, but it seemed humans could satisfy that something.

“And a common tier at that.”

The owner of the gate just now was also of a common tier.

Since that owner had been the owner of the gate since the beginning, it was likely that the gate owners I would meet in the future would also be of a common tier.

And what kind of beings are those above the common tier?

The more I thought, the more questions arose that couldn’t be answered.

“Well, I need to do what I have to do first.”

The unquenched curiosity was a vicious cycle, so Sung-hyun took a short breath and headed to where the injured were.

“Oh, he’s here!!”

“Huh?”

But there was a strange energy swirling from the entrance.

Like people who had been waiting for Sung-hyun to come.

“Mr. Kim, the Hunter!”

As soon as he heard that Sung-hyun had arrived, Lich ran out.

Seeing other top-ranked hunters here, it seemed the situation had ended while Sung-hyun was in the gate.

“What’s going on?”

“Where have you been? It’s already been a week.”

“…What? A week?”

The time I spent meeting the man was only about an hour.

Even if I mistook the time for a short meal and a brief conversation, it wouldn’t have exceeded two hours.

“I thought you had secretly returned to Korea, but it looks like you were hiding somewhere?”

Padron’s voice, filled with anger, could also be heard.

“Well, I had my reasons. More importantly, how are the injured?”

“…Many couldn’t hold on. Many have already succumbed to the pain.”

“…”

A week might not have been a long time for some, but it would have been like an eternity for those who were seriously injured.

“Not knowing when Mr. Kim, the Hunter, would return, we already transferred the most critical people to the hospital.”

“How many are left?”

“We tried to gather as many injured as possible as Mr. Kim, the Hunter, requested, but there were many patients who couldn’t travel long distances. There are about 8,000 injured here now.”

8,000 in this place alone.

That was the number left after transferring the really critical patients to the hospital.

There would be more patients in other areas, and there would be similar patients in the hospital.

“Let’s start with the treatment first. Padron, gather those with severe injuries first.”

“What? Why me? Are you crazy?”

“Lich, I ask for your help too.”

“Okay.”

“Li, Lich! Are you listening to that bastard?”

There was no answer to Padron’s question.

Lich followed Sung-hyun’s instructions and moved, as if he were treating him like an invisible man.

“Ha…”

Padron, who sighed deeply in the spot where everyone had left, followed Lich into the place.

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Warm light and energy swirled in Sung-hyun’s hands, and the place that had been torn apart, leaving only a gruesome sight, began to sprout new flesh.

“It’s all done.”

“Sniff… Thank you, thank you so much, Hunter. If it weren’t for you, my father…”

“It’s nothing. Please get plenty of rest after recovery.”

“Yes!”

If Sung-hyun had become a doctor, would he have felt like this every day?

As I continued to have conversations like a patient and a doctor, I felt like I had really become a doctor.

The last injured person and their family left, and Lich came in.

“Are you okay?”

“Yes, I’m managing well.”

“…Don’t overdo it.”

Lich, who had been personally taking the patients as Sung-hyun had asked, couldn’t easily believe it, even though he had already seen it with his own eyes several times.

‘The only word is amazing…’

It wasn’t just because of the healing ability’s effect.

Sung-hyun’s ability was to feel the pain instead.

Listing the commonalities of the patients I’ve seen so far, they were people whose bodies were crushed under debris or torn apart by explosions.

‘How can he do that?’

They are people I don’t know.

Complete strangers who have never met in their lives and have no connection whatsoever.

Of course, Lich didn’t know how much pain people who had their arms cut off and legs blown off felt.

Because there was little chance that the situation would happen to him before or in the future.

But what was certain was that the pain was so great that it was hard to imagine.

Sung-hyun was healing those people.

While feeling the pain instead.

Each of these things was giving Lich a fresh shock that he had never felt before.

To be honest, I had never felt anything when I saw the hunters who were injured while subjugating the gates.

I only thought about how weak they must be to be attacked by such insignificant monsters.

That was the same for strong hunters and weak hunters, and this category included civilians who had no power at all.

“Doesn’t it…hurt?”

“Haha. Of course, it hurts. It’s painful.”

When Sung-hyun smiled lightly, Lich also smiled.

How stupid the question was, even he thought so.

“But why…do you heal so much?”

The most curious question.

I might not have had a very strong power as a hunter, but I was the top-ranked hunter recognized as the best in Korea.

As the deputy chairman of the organization had worried, there was no reason to endure this much pain to gain public opinion.

“Well…”

Sung-hyun pondered what answer to give.

I didn’t want to give answers such as the responsibility of having power or that I couldn’t ignore the weak.

“Because…I get stronger?”

I was just using the power I had, and I was just using it because the place where I could use this power was fixed.

And the biggest reason was that Sung-hyun gets stronger.

The biggest reason was that I could get one step closer to the extinction of monsters.

“Get…stronger?”

“Yes.”

Lich stared blankly at Sung-hyun with a dumbfounded expression.

‘Is it…sublimity [the quality of supreme excellence or grandeur]?’

Perhaps the saints and pilgrims who appeared in ancient history had this kind of mindset.

People who continue to create trials of pain for themselves and go their own way with sublime faith and conviction.

It didn’t matter what their end was like.

The process itself was sublime.

Sung-hyun was going through such a path.

That’s what Lich thought.

I couldn’t help but think so.

“Lich?”

“Ah, yes.”

“How many injured are left?”

“There are…about 7,000 left.”

The number of injured treated today was 1,000.

“Still, I’ve treated a lot.”

Sung-hyun’s expression was very refreshing.

It was inevitable because nearly 200 objects of faith had already been created today.

The number of objects of faith now exceeded 1,000.

A number that has become so large that counting it is meaningless.

“You worked really hard today.”

“No. I’m getting stronger.”

Lich bit his lower lip and turned his head, seeing Sung-hyun’s expression so bright as he said he was getting stronger.

“Then…rest. Are you planning to start treatment right away tomorrow?”

“I have to. There are 7,000 left, so I have a long way to go.”

How many more objects of faith will be created in the future?

Treating people and creating objects of faith at the same time, it was a perfect two birds with one stone, no, it was a situation that was like three birds with one stone because I was getting stronger, so Sung-hyun couldn’t help but smile.

Lich stared at Sung-hyun, who was showing such a happy and proud smile, for a while before leaving the spot.

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“Is 2.3 million all there is?”

“Yeah. There are more casualties than expected, but the problem is that there aren’t many deaths.”

“It must be because of Kim Sung-hyun…”

“Tsk, I was aiming for this time on purpose, but the US responded quickly. If it had been a little later, the tail would have been caught.”

Two men wearing masks were sitting in front of a rotten enemy’s wooden table, grumbling as they ate small pieces of bread.

“But isn’t it within the expected range?”

“Well, it is.”

“Then that’s fine. What about the next ones? Is it over?”

In response to the man who didn’t even touch the bread, the man who was gobbling up the bread became choked and coughed, raising one finger.

“Within a year.”

“A year? Isn’t it too long?”

“…Damn it.”

At the word long, the man threw the bread he was eating on the floor.

“Are you going to prepare it? Huh? I’m preparing against the whole world right now.”

“…”

“You’re not thinking to yourself, ‘Hmm, a month or two should be enough,’ are you?”

“…”

Looking at the silence, it seemed like it was probably right.

“Hey. America is America. This time, it was possible because I planted one of the executives in the position of vice president of the association.”

“Yeah.”

“…Anyway, just know that.”

“More than that, what about Kim Sung-hyun?”

“Hmm…”

As if representing deep contemplation, the man, who had not shown any movement until now, began to tap the table with his finger.

“It’s better not to contact him after all.”

“But didn’t Envy say he met him last time?”

Envy, the unit leader who worked in China.

I heard that he ran into Sung-hyun during the Academy Competition.

“Certainly…it would have been better not to contact him…”

“Envy couldn’t help it either. Who would have expected him to come under him there? I turned all the attention away.”

“It doesn’t matter anyway. It was a thing of the past. Don’t contact Kim Sung-hyun in the future.”

“It’s a little disappointing that the vice president of the association is gone. He was useful.”

“He was a card that would have been thrown away someday anyway. It’s just that the time was brought forward a little.”

“Are you going to fill it again?”

“Hmm…”

Conversations continued as if the vice president of the American association could be replaced as easily as breathing.

“That wouldn’t be bad either.”

“Then are you preparing that too?”

“Yeah. It would be even better if you put him up as the president of the association while you’re at it.”

“…You always have a knack for asking me to do impossible things?”

“Nonsense. There is nothing impossible for us. There may be things that are a little overwhelming.”

“Yes, yes. How could you not be.”

The man, who shrugged his shoulders, got up from his seat, snatched the bread from the man who hadn’t touched it, and said.

“The vice president of the association…should be done within two weeks. I’ll put a friend who knows how to do it well without having to worry about it. The old vice president of the association was good in every way, but he was too passive.”

“Yeah.”

The man, who took a bite of the bread, threw the rest of the bread on the floor and left the room.

“Hoo…it’s frustrating.”

It was going according to plan, but the man sighed with a frustrated expression.