I Became The Only Healer In The Academy [EN]: Chapter 285

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“Kkeueuk…”

The groan that unconsciously burst out filled the room.

A sound not of pain, but of blood bubbling near the vocal cords of a dying person.

The Delegate’s form was so mangled that it was hard to recognize its original shape.

He didn’t feel joy in the sight itself, but he could visually feel that he had succeeded in his revenge, which brought him joy.

“Is your father watching this?”

If so, it wouldn’t be welcome news for Seonghyun.

He would probably raise the standards a little higher than originally expected.

But he hoped he was watching.

From beginning to end, until the very moment of his last breath.

He wanted him to know how painfully his son had died, and how he had turned to dust.

Seonghyun looked down at the Delegate, who was on the verge of death, with cold eyes.

The Delegate, who couldn’t even meet his eyes now, had nothing left to the point where he couldn’t even take his own life.

Because Seonghyun was constantly using weak healing magic, just enough to keep him from dying.

“Now, I’ll grant you what you want.”

After hours of pain.

Seonghyun intended to put a definite end to it.

Seonghyun straightened the Delegate’s body, which was sprawled on the floor.

So that he could look straight up at the sky, so that he could see his face.

Then he lowered himself and looked into the Delegate’s eyes, which were about to close.

He could feel joy in the eyes of a dying creature.

The Delegate might resent, hate, and despise him, but his fading eyes couldn’t hold those emotions.

Seonghyun placed his hand on the Delegate’s heart.

Now, only a faint amount of the Delegate’s magic remained near his heart.

He injected a very small amount of magic into the heart area.

Only enough for the Delegate’s magic to repel.

That’s how the outline of the heart began to be felt.

He didn’t know if the body resembled a human or imitated one, but it was the size of the heart he had expected.

Seonghyun’s hand, which had been placed on the heart, slowly moved along the outline of the heart he felt.

To extract the heart as uncertainly as possible with five fingers.

“They say that prisoners who have committed unimaginable crimes were not beheaded with a single blow.”

Just because the pain he had felt so far was unimaginably great, he had no intention of letting him go comfortably at the end.

The last of the Delegate’s life force would be used only to utter groans of pain.

Soon, Seonghyun’s magic power focused on the tips of his fingers.

Deliberately not sharp, the magic power, made as blunt as possible, slowly began to dig into the Delegate’s heart outline along Seonghyun’s hand.

“Kuaaaaak!!!”

As Seonghyun had hoped, the Delegate’s last life force was being converted into a groan full of pain.

The growing groan seemed to want to get rid of the remaining life force as soon as possible.

‘Not going to happen.’

Seonghyun continued to heal the Delegate.

So that he could stay alive until the hand containing the magic power grabbed the heart and pulled it out.

The sensation of tearing through the skin and the sensation of the ribs crumbling behind it were felt through his fingertips.

Just a little more.

Slowly savoring this feeling, Seonghyun’s fingers, which had settled on the outline of the heart, slowly began to take the shape of a hook.

Tududuk, tuk.

Things felt after being snugly wrapped in his hand.

The sound of taut things breaking because they couldn’t withstand the tension.

The blood vessels connected to the heart were all severed, and the Delegate’s heart was being torn out along Seonghyun’s hand.

“Keuheok… keok…”

Finally.

At last, the Delegate’s heart lost its original place and came out along Seonghyun’s hand.

He didn’t like that it was still maintaining its original beat.

“I can’t take it with me. I’m sorry.”

Feeling the fading beat, Seonghyun headed to where the Vice President had died.

Now, his body was slowly losing heat and becoming cold.

“…”

He dug a small hole next to him and threw the Delegate’s heart into it.

“This is all I can offer.”

Seonghyun paused for a moment as he was about to bury the heart.

“I can’t leave any aftermath.”

The Delegate’s father was the master of the 2nd dimension.

And the master of the 2nd dimension was the master of Seonghyun’s power.

He didn’t know what would happen if he left the heart intact.

Seonghyun roughly stepped on the buried heart, injected magic power one more time to dispose of it completely, and even finished checking with his own eyes.

“Let’s get out of here.”

Hugging the Vice President’s body, Seonghyun slowly walked out the door.

Before leaving the door, he lightly stepped on the Delegate’s head lying on the floor.

He thought he would only be happy when he came out of the door.

Because he expected to solve the problems that were happening inside neatly.

Also, because he had been doing that until now.

Outside the door, many reporters and people from the Association were waiting.

To welcome Seonghyun, who would always finish the situation perfectly and return.

“He’s out!”

“As expected, this time too…”

The sight of the Vice President being carried out in Seonghyun’s arms.

This time too, Seonghyun must have saved those in danger and returned.

No one expected that the Vice President, who was being held in his arms with a peaceful expression, was dead.

They probably just assumed that the Vice President had encountered an opponent so strong that he had lost consciousness, and Seonghyun had appeared and resolved the situation.

“Is the Vice President okay?”

Restraining the reporters, a person from the Association approached first and examined the Vice President’s complexion.

The person from the Association naturally tried to take the Vice President from Seonghyun’s arms, seeing the Vice President’s peaceful complexion, as if he didn’t feel any pain.

“Wait, just a moment…”

Then, he suddenly touched the Vice President’s fingertips.

But the end was only cold.

“No, way…”

“…I’m sorry. I couldn’t protect him.”

Of course, no words came back.

Who would have thought that the strong and upright Vice President would meet such an end?

Even with Seonghyun there.

“What on earth happened…”

“When I got there, everything was already over.”

“The other two top-ranked Hunters too…”

“Yes.”

The Vice President was carried out the door in Seonghyun’s arms, and the other two top-ranked Hunters could not return.

“I’ll contact the Guild… What happened to the monsters inside the gate?”

Even though the Vice President had died, the person from the Association did not forget their duty.

“They’re definitely dead.”

“I understand. It’s all thanks to Hunter Kim that we were able to recover even the Vice President’s body.”

“…”

“I hope you don’t think, ‘If only I had been a little faster,’ or ‘If only I had waited until Hunter Kim returned in the first place.’ I didn’t see the Vice President’s end myself, but that end must have been the end that the Vice President so desperately wanted and yearned for.”

“I can’t deny that.”

The person from the Association bowed deeply to Seonghyun and slowly led the Vice President’s body away.

“The Association will handle the media. Is that okay?”

“Yes. Please do so.”

Seonghyun also left the scene without shaking off his gloomy expression.

The next day, an article was published about the Vice President and the top-ranked Hunters.

[Great Stars Fall.]

As Seonghyun had conveyed, the Vice President fought bravely against the monsters more than anyone else, and met the end befitting the name of a Hunter more than anyone else.

There was no mention anywhere of Seonghyun’s late arrival at the scene.

Many people expressed regret over the decision not to wait for Seonghyun, but no one blamed or criticized it.

Everyone knew very well what kind of person the Vice President was.

The Vice President’s funeral was held over five days.

Not only people working at the Association, but also the Guilds that had been competing for profits put everything down for this day.

Even ordinary people who were not Hunters.

Everyone mourned the end of the Vice President and sent blessings to the journey that would follow.

Thus, the next Vice President was none other than Section Chief Cha.

From the Association’s point of view, they wanted to appoint someone who had a relationship with Seonghyun as the Vice President, and the most suitable person for that was Section Chief Cha.

Not for the purpose of control, but for smooth and easy mutual cooperation.

Section Chief Cha had been with Seonghyun until now, and his ability to create and move through rifts was also suitable for the position of Vice President.

‘I’ve learned a lot so far.’

Section Chief Cha’s last greeting.

He hadn’t taught him anything in particular, but Section Chief Cha was a talented person, so he must have learned on his own.

But as with everyone else, as time passed, things about the Vice President were gradually forgotten.

It only took a few days for everyone to vaguely recall the Vice President, except for those who were so distraught that they couldn’t eat or drink.

“…”

Seonghyun couldn’t shake it off so easily.

He had unknowingly regarded him as a father.

He was a little resentful and envious of those who easily shook it off, but he could understand.

Still, it was a happy thing to receive mourning and blessings from so many people.

Seonghyun visited the place where the Vice President’s body was laid every day and mourned every day.

“I wasn’t late…”

To be honest, he thought he could protect everyone.

It wasn’t unreasonable to think this way because of his healing ability, which could restore even severed limbs.

He was sure of it, but he couldn’t protect him even though he wasn’t late or careless.

Could he have protected him if he had been a little stronger?

If he had made it so that the Delegate couldn’t even react, maybe he could have protected him.

Regret was meaningless.

Seonghyun found something else instead of regret in the sad past where he couldn’t protect the Vice President.

Something Seonghyun didn’t have until now.

A sense of revenge and hatred for what had caused him to lose something precious.

If this was too much, it would be poison, but controlling emotions was nothing to Seonghyun.

“I couldn’t protect you, who I cherished, but I will protect the things you cherish.”

Seonghyun took out a small, solid, and beautiful crystal and placed it in front of the Vice President’s grave, which not many people visited anymore.

The owner of this crystal was none other than the Delegate.

He couldn’t keep his promise to bury his heart with the Vice President, but the Vice President would understand if the crystal was with him near his heart.

As he carefully buried the crystal in front of him, rain began to pour down little by little at the right time.

“…How strange.”

Of course, that couldn’t be the case, but for some reason, it felt like this rain was falling for him.

As if to desperately cover something of Seonghyun’s.

Seonghyun continued to stay in that spot.

Even as the rain grew heavier and gradually stopped.

Even as the rising sun set again.

“…I’m leaving.”

Seonghyun bowed slightly and left the spot as it was.

Leaving everything in this place as he had visited every day.