I Became The Only Healer In The Academy [EN]: Chapter 176

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“Oppa. Please live.”

“…”

Yein’s eyes were closed as she said that, but tears continued to fall.

“Ye, Yein-ah?”

“Oppa. Please live.”

Yein was speaking while shedding tears, but she didn’t make a sound of crying.

She just shed tears from her eyes.

“This will continue until I hear the answer I want.”

“The answer you want?”

“Yes. The answer Yein wants.”

What answer does Yein want?

Should I just say yes?

“…No one will die. Not me, not you, not anyone.”

“…”

After hearing Sung-hyun’s answer, Yein stopped shedding tears and went back to her room.

“What kind of dream is it?”

“That’s also a problem. I remember all the happy dreams I had at first, but now I don’t remember anything about that nightmare. It was just a dream that was scary enough to make me cry. Only in such fragments.”

“Hmm…”

No matter how I thought about it, it was a power.

Otherwise, I wouldn’t have felt mana from Yein, who had just come out.

I don’t know if it’s because she’s still young, or if it’s because the amount of mana is severely lacking, but it seemed like she couldn’t remember the most important part.

“Is there anyone else who knows this fact?”

“No. Right now, only you, me, and Hayeon know.”

“Good job. Don’t tell anyone else in the future.”

“What about Sangyeon?”

“Sangyeon is okay.”

Considering the peculiarity of the dream and what Yein said, I could roughly guess what Yein’s ability was.

Maybe the dream is related to the future.

Yein didn’t know the details of the dream, so I couldn’t figure out the details, but considering what she said, it seemed like a pretty big danger was coming to Sung-hyun.

“Sung-hyun, don’t you have any idea?”

“…”

Sung-hyun hesitated for a moment to answer.

Should I tell you about what I saw and experienced?

“You don’t have to say it if it’s hard to say. But if it’s a problem we can handle together, I wish you would.”

This was the problem.

Is it a problem we can handle together?

Even if I only look at the owner of the 5th level gate I met before, I wasn’t sure if Inhwan could handle it now.

Not to mention, I felt like Rich would have a hard time dealing with the 3rd and 4th level gates.

“To be honest. It’s a problem you can’t handle right now.”

“…Is that so.”

Inhwan showed a look of disappointment for a moment, but he didn’t show a look of resentment.

He knew better than anyone that the reason Sung-hyun wasn’t talking wasn’t because he suspected him, but because he was trying to protect him.

“Isn’t there a way to stop her from having that dream?”

“I don’t know either. In the first place, I can’t talk to anyone, so I can’t get any advice.”

“I also looked into it separately, but there were limitations when I was alone. And the results weren’t certain.”

Mana is essential to use one’s ability.

But Yein had so little mana that it couldn’t be felt normally.

‘Is it a unique constitution?’

As I continued to think, one hypothesis was reached.

The amount of mana felt from Yein was absolutely impossible with the usual amount of mana.

Then, I thought that Yein might be receiving mana from somewhere outside, not from inside her body.

But Yein was Sung-hyun’s object of faith.

A being who can share Sung-hyun’s infinite mana.

‘I forcibly inject mana…?’

In normal cases, it meant killing the opponent, but Sung-hyun thought that the object of faith would be different.

“Is there any way?”

Inhwan spoke to Sung-hyun, who was lost in thought, but Sung-hyun couldn’t hear the conversation as he continued his series of assumptions.

‘The reason why I can’t remember the contents of the dream is definitely because I don’t have enough mana to use the ability.’

There probably wouldn’t be any other reason.

Yein was young, and as young as she was, the imprinting of shocking things would be clear, so if it was a normal nightmare, even a recurring nightmare, there was no way she wouldn’t remember the contents.

The problem was the injection of mana.

Based on my experience so far, there was only one case where Sung-hyun’s mana was shared.

Both Inhwan and Sangyeon used all of their mana and recovered.

It wasn’t a method where Sung-hyun directly put it in.

“Hoo…it’s complicated.”

“Is there a way?”

“I think it might be possible if I directly inject my mana…”

“Yes? Inject mana? Everyone has different mana, so there will definitely be a conflict…”

Inhwan stepped forward to explain at Hayeon’s surprised appearance.

“Sung-hyun is okay. I don’t know what the conditions are, but at least me and Sangyeon are okay even if we receive Sung-hyun’s mana.”

“How can that…”

It was an incomprehensible statement with common sense, but I couldn’t say anything more since I had experienced it myself.

“Anyway, is that the only way?”

“Yes. Because that condition you mentioned includes Yein too.”

“Hmm…”

Inhwan also fell into thought.

Although it was a different method than usual, it was a possible method.

Besides, Sung-hyun’s safety had already become too great of an existence to be considered a personal matter.

With the number of 1st level gates increasing, not only in Korea, but also in the current situation, I didn’t know what the absence of the top hunter and the only healer would bring.

“So…are you going to inject mana into Yein?”

“…”

The reason why Sung-hyun kept worrying was simple.

What if Sung-hyun’s assumption was wrong?

What if the process of delivering mana itself didn’t exist other than that method?

And to think extremely, it was like sacrificing Yein’s present to know Sung-hyun’s future.

Besides, I didn’t even know for sure if it was the future.

“Okay. Let’s stop.”

Sung-hyun always thought that knowing was power, but today was different.

Today, it’s better not to know.

“Can you sleep with her from now on? With Yein?”

“That’s not difficult. But it’s just a temporary measure…and I don’t know what kind of impact that nightmare is having on Yein.”

“Yein’s nightmare will end someday.”

“When?”

“The day that nightmare comes.”

Sung-hyun, who doesn’t usually show a soft attitude, couldn’t do such a thing as experimenting on Yein.

“And it’s easy to think like this.”

“How?”

“I’m not ignoring Yein…but the dream she saw with that little mana of hers must have limitations.”

Inhwan burst into laughter at Sung-hyun’s words.

Maybe it was the closest answer to Sung-hyun.

“Yes. That’s like you.”

“Then, are you planning to leave right away, Sung-hyun?”

“Hmm…that’s not it. I’m not going to inject mana into Yein, but I have one question left.”

“A question?”

It was the source of mana that Yein draws when using her ability.

Whether she was just drawing mana from the atmosphere to use her ability, or whether she was drawing mana from Inhwan, who lives in the same house and has a lot of mana.

If it was the former, Sung-hyun would spend a day together and scatter his mana in the air, and even if it was the latter, Sung-hyun was planning to spend a day at Inhwan’s house today, so it was clear that it would be affected.

The only way to find out without harming Yein at all.

If either of them hit the mark, there would be some progress.

When I explained the assumptions like this, Inhwan and Hayeon both nodded.

“Certainly…it’s the best way.”

“I think so too. Because you can check without harming Yein. Even if there is a slight problem, Sung-hyun, who has healing abilities, is right next to you, so I don’t think an irreversible situation will occur.”

Now that the situation was roughly settled, Inhwan clapped his hands to change the atmosphere and said.

“Then, shall we play some games for the first time in a while? With Hayeon too?”

Since it was a late breakfast, there was still a lot of time left until night to check Yein’s condition again.

“That’s not bad. Try to win today.”

“…I’ll kill you.”

Inhwan brought back the game console that he had put deep in the room, thinking that he would never take it out again.

“I haven’t practiced since that day, but.”

Inhwan put the game console on the table with a bang and looked down at Sung-hyun and said.

“I realized one thing since that day.”

Sung-hyun smiled lightly as if he was dumbfounded at Inhwan’s eyes, which looked like he had already won, and responded.

“Isn’t everything planned until you get hit?”

“…Hayeon?”

“Yes?”

“I think we need to settle the score between the two of us for a while.”

“Ah…yes…”

Hayeon took a step back as if she had no interest in the game at all and watched the two’s serious match.

“…Ahem!”

At first, my hands were just not loosened.

“…Huh?”

Next, there were some mistakes.

“A, again!”

But after that, all my hands were loosened and there were no mistakes.

But why?

“Th, this is…”

“Are you feeling it now? The difference between you and me?”

Sung-hyun said with a smile with only one corner of his mouth raised, and Inhwan said, holding the game console tightly as if he would break it.

“This is a bug! It’s a bug! This crazy game!”

“Yes, my skills are a bit like a bug. Even I think so.”

The match lasted until dinner.

The game continued for more than 10 rounds, but I couldn’t win even one of them.

There wasn’t even a round that felt regrettable.

“Did you practice this game in secret?”

“Inhwan. There is only one reason why you lost.”

“…What is it?”

Inhwan, who was listening with his ears perked up, thinking that he was trying to give him a hint, trembled at Sung-hyun’s words that followed.

“The difference in talent.”

“Th, th…”

But what can I do? I lost.

I wanted to shout no, but the results that happened today made it impossible to argue.

“Ugh…what are you guys doing?”

“Did you wake up?”

When I checked the time, it was already dinner.

I looked at Inhwan, wondering if I was taking such a long nap, and Inhwan whispered softly.

“I slept a lot today. Maybe something has changed since I met you directly?”

Hugging Yein, who was rubbing her eyes and coming to me, Sung-hyun used healing and purification at the same time.

“Hehe…it’s warm…”

Since I didn’t feel like anything had improved, it seemed like I was just a little tired.

“Yein-ah. Oppa is going to sleep here today too.”

“Really? Really?”

“Yeah. Shall we sleep together?”

“Yeah! I like it!”

Yein snuggled a little more into Sung-hyun’s arms, perhaps because she was happy at Sung-hyun’s words.

Sung-hyun stroked Yein’s head and looked at Inhwan and said.

“What are you doing?”

“Uh, uh?”

“Go and bring dinner.”

“Wh, what?”

“You lost all the games, so cook dinner yourself.”

“…”

Inhwan trembled as if he was upset, but since he had lost, he turned around.

And Sung-hyun’s voice was heard again behind Inhwan’s back.

“Don’t order delivery~”

With those grumbling voices, Inhwan’s homemade dinner came out, and the four of them enjoyed dinner and went to bed.

With a little mana scattered in the air.