I Became The Only Healer In The Academy [EN]: Chapter 213

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‘That is…’

This wasn’t everything.

Perhaps those in urgent need were deeper inside, as Sammy led Seonghyun further in.

Inside, Seonghyun saw faces that were vaguely familiar from his memories.

Others might not have remembered them, but these faces had been briefly discussed even before Seonghyun’s regression.

‘Owners of rare abilities.’

Hunters with rare abilities, regardless of nationality.

And all of them were hunters who had gone missing.

“Oh… they seem to recognize us? I thought our Pilgrim was just stuck in the mountains, but he’s quite up-to-date with the world?”

Sammy was even more intrigued by Seonghyun’s reaction, as if he recognized them.

Seonghyun didn’t even glance at Sammy.

“I see an American hunter as well. One who was declared dead after disappearing.”

“You look quite curious? Shall I tell you?”

“Sammy…!”

Envy tried to stop Sammy from speaking again, but Sammy continued as if it didn’t matter.

“As our Pilgrim knows, I worked for the American Association, changing various hunters to American nationality. Well, I still do.”

As such, Sammy had more information about hunters with diverse abilities, and unknown hunters, than anyone else.

Sammy was the one who could use this information best and fastest.

“And I have my own group of hunters. They’re outside right now. The Association thinks they organized them and assigned them to me, but that’s not true.”

When Seonghyun met Sammy, he saw those hunters while dealing with the uncle’s affairs.

If there was one unique thing about them, it was that they were emergency forces.

They didn’t operate unless something special happened.

However, they were always on standby.

Naturally, they didn’t join the gate subjugation [dungeon clearing] schedule, and only started operating when something special happened, like someone going missing.

“If I kidnap and investigate… well, you know the result, right?”

After pretending to investigate, they would announce that a group like Red Eye had commissioned the work, just like this.

Anyone could plan something, but only a few could put it into practice.

However, only a very small number of people could decide the outcome in advance and then act, like these people.

“Was Sammy also behind the hunter with the taming ability?”

“Oh… the Pilgrim’s question. Sharper than I thought? But no. Strictly speaking, I should say I commissioned it.”

Now all the pieces of the puzzle were starting to fit together.

The dead deputy director of the American Association was a mole planted by this group, and the deputy director was related to Red Eye.

‘Red Eye probably didn’t know that the deputy director was connected to this group.’

“Are your questions answered a bit? How is it? Are you satisfied with the answers?”

“Yes. I’m satisfied.”

“Haha. I really like the way Pilgrim talks. It’s fun.”

Seonghyun, as the Pilgrim, didn’t say anything.

Seeing the scene unfolding before his eyes, and hearing about the things they had done and planned, he felt like his blood was running backward.

‘Should I just… kill them all?’

Is it really helpful for them to be breathing in this world?

Seonghyun barely suppressed his growing murderous intent, took a deep breath, and opened his mouth.

“Is Sammy’s ability related to research?”

“If I tell you one thing, I have the ability to disassemble and assemble.”

“Disassemble and assemble?”

This group seemed to rank themselves based on the value of their rare abilities; Envy and Sammy both had tremendous abilities.

Seeing these two working like this, they didn’t seem to be the leaders, so he wondered what kind of ability the leader would have.

“I had my ability re-manifested once. At first, I could only use this disassembly and assembly on inanimate objects, but after the re-manifestation, I could use it on living things as well.”

“Is that when you joined?”

“That’s right. I couldn’t resist the surging curiosity and kept going in and out of the gates until I met Envy here. At first, I joined because of Envy’s ability, but now I’ve joined entirely of my own will.”

While talking with Sammy, the selection of those who needed the Pilgrim’s healing was all finished.

“Now the Q&A time is over. So, please!”

Seonghyun took another deep breath.

He really didn’t like using his ability for them, but if he didn’t use it, those who had lost consciousness while postponing their deaths would accept their postponed deaths.

“I understand.”

Seonghyun wanted to make the difference between the Pilgrim and Kim Seonghyun clear.

Originally, he could have healed everyone inside this building with a single gesture, but he deliberately didn’t.

“It will take some time.”

“It’s okay. The Pilgrim isn’t Kim Seonghyun.”

Seonghyun began to heal them one by one, very slowly.

It was a different sensation from when he healed the collapsing bodies of the monsters.

It felt like someone was picking apart each cell of the skin with very small tweezers.

If it was just this feeling alone, the pain wouldn’t be great, but the problem was that this pain was felt all over the body.

Hearing one person felt like healing more than 10 injured people.

But what was important to Seonghyun was not the size of the pain.

The fact that these countless innocent people were being experimented on without even being conscious.

‘I’ll get you out soon.’

As long as they don’t die.

As long as they don’t die, he can heal whatever pain follows.

Seonghyun couldn’t erase the memory of the incident that started this, but he could erase everything from the pain they had suffered since then to the traces of it.

Seonghyun began to heal them one by one, making this promise to everyone.

This was a promise, a promise to them, and an oath to himself.

“…It’s all done.”

“Really? Wow… you’ve worked hard. Thanks to you, I can breathe a sigh of relief.”

Sammy tried to pat Seonghyun on the shoulder, but Seonghyun instinctively avoided the touch.

“What… are you doing?”

The look in Sammy’s eyes instantly hardened.

The Pilgrim in front of him was under Envy’s mind control, and the fact that he avoided his touch in that state meant that there was a very small sense of rejection.

A subject under mind control has a sense of rejection?

This meant that he was not under mind control.

“…Were you trying to disassemble me?”

Sammy’s expression, which had been coldly hardened by Seonghyun’s answer, quickly relaxed.

“What? Hahaha! Envy. This recruitment seems to be a great success.”

“Well… I think so too.”

Envy looked at him with a suspicious look, but since there was nothing particularly suspicious, he nodded and replied to Sammy’s words.

“Is everything I need to do finished?”

“Yeah. Thank you. Thanks to you, there will be no disruption to the experiment. Thank you, Envy, too.”

“Is that all?”

“Tsk, I know, I know. You’re impatient. Wait.”

Sammy clicked his tongue briefly and disappeared somewhere.

“Pilgrim. Is there anything wrong with your body?”

“No. I don’t take on physical pain like Kim Seonghyun Hunter.”

“I was a little worried because it was a serious condition, but I’m glad. You take on mental pain instead, but it doesn’t seem to have any emotional changes.”

“They are unconscious. There was no mental pain they were feeling.”

At Seonghyun’s answer, Envy made a small sound and asked.

“Is there no other ability in that healing? Or any other ability besides healing…”

At the same time as the question, an order was heard in his head.

An order to answer the questions without hiding anything.

“Yes. There isn’t. Just as Kim Seonghyun’s healing and purification are different abilities, I have no other additional effects. I have no other abilities either.”

At Seonghyun’s answer, Envy looked at Seonghyun with eyes that didn’t believe everything, but since there was no problem with mind control, he nodded.

“I see. I understand.”

After Envy’s question ended, Sammy appeared.

With something in his hand.

“What did you invent this time?”

“Heh, don’t be surprised. This is a device that can copy the target’s ability.”

“Copying abilities? I heard that the boss’s ability in the recent 1st-grade gate subjugation [high-level dungeon raid] was to copy abilities.”

“Really? That doesn’t matter. I found it while conducting experiments this time too.”

Sammy handed small spheres to Envy and Seonghyun.

It was a slightly ambiguous form to be called equipment.

It wasn’t in a form that could be attached to something, and it was an inconvenient shape that had to be carried around or put in a pocket.

“How do I use it?”

“The condition is simple but a bit tricky. You can copy the ability you were directly subjected to.”

“…Why are you giving this to…”

Envy looked back and forth between the spheres in Seonghyun’s and his own hands with a serious face.

Since the Pilgrim was the most self-aware of the mind-controlled hunters, he could use mind control if necessary.

“Ah, don’t worry about that. All the experiments have been completed, including the fact that it can’t be used on the owner of the ability.”

“That’s a relief then.”

“I’m not that stupid, you know? Anyway, it has the disadvantage of having to pay twice the amount of magic power that flowed into you while being subjected to the ability.”

“That’s not a big disadvantage. It’s a bit disappointing that you can’t copy the abilities of top hunters like Lich.”

“It’s not over yet. If there are disadvantages, there must be advantages, right?”

Sammy took out a sphere of the same shape from his pocket, as if he had one too, and pressed a small button on the top.

“If you press this button, it emits light, and if you time it right, you can capture that ability intact in this sphere. You don’t have to consume twice the magic power to copy it.”

“You’ve made an excellent invention for the first time in a while.”

“What? For the first time in a while? Envy, there are few talents who invent as well as I do. How about giving some respect to the greatest inventor of modern times?”

“I will.”

“…Tsk. The Pilgrim is much better than you after all.”

While the two were talking, Seonghyun looked at the sphere in his hand.

‘This is an unexpected gift.’

Envy and Sammy seemed to think that they wouldn’t be able to copy mind control, and that even if they did, no variables would occur, but they were mistaken.

With endless, infinite magic power, not just a lot.

Nothing was impossible for Seonghyun now.

“Pilgrim. You’ve worked hard. Now, you can move according to the orders I gave you before.”

“I understand.”

“As I said before, you must forget everything you reported today from your memory.”

“Yes.”

Envy couldn’t help but believe it, even though Seonghyun’s expression didn’t change even a little.