I Became The Only Healer In The Academy [EN]: Chapter 12

12

As soon as Ha-yeon arrived home, she called her secretary.

“Did you call for me, Miss?”

“Yeah, this was filmed today. How far can we publicize it?”

“Just a moment. May I take a look?”

“Okay.”

The secretary immediately received the video from Ha-yeon and checked it.

The video captured everything that happened at the mutated gate from beginning to end.

The secretary checked the video slowly and meticulously.

“How is it?”

“There shouldn’t be any major issues.”

“Really? So, there are minor issues?”

“Yes, what should we do?”

Ha-yeon tapped her fingers on the armrest.

The secretary knew this habit of Ha-yeon very well.

The course of action was already decided; she was just contemplating the degree of it.

“Should we just issue a warning?”

“Yes. Miss, may I ask you one thing?”

“What is it?”

“This ability… it’s not a synthesis [combining multiple abilities into one], is it…?”

At the question of whether it was a synthesis, Ha-yeon burst into laughter.

“Pfft, does it look like a synthesis? I didn’t do anything like that.”

“I thought you wouldn’t use your ability unless necessary because of the side effects, but I guess you’re not that kind of person.”

The secretary was genuinely surprised.

Who would endure pain to alleviate someone else’s suffering?

“…Kind, no, virtuous, but not foolish.”

Ha-yeon had a small smile on her lips as she said this.

“Looks like you’re quite fond of him?”

“…Stop gossiping and handle the healing part well.”

“I will handle it appropriately.”

“Okay.”

Ha-yeon had no intention of simply letting this incident pass.

From the start, he hadn’t done his job properly, and Seong-hyun had suffered so much because of it.

‘Don’t even think about glossing over this.’

Arriving home, Seong-hyun immediately started making potions.

“Take one each.”

“What is this?”

“What’s this?”

The younger sibling and mother, receiving bottles filled with an unidentified colored liquid, were examining them.

“Drink it if you get hurt.”

“Just drink it? Is this perhaps some kind of potion?”

“Yeah, think of it as a potion.”

“…Really?”

At the word ‘potion,’ the younger sibling looked quite surprised, wearing a dumbfounded expression, while the mother didn’t know what a potion was.

“Potion? What’s a potion?”

“Simply put, it’s something you drink when you get hurt, and it heals you.”

“Really? Just by drinking it?”

“Yes. It can easily heal minor injuries, and it’s not difficult to make, so use it freely.”

“Is there… any side effects or anything?”

The side effects the mother was referring to weren’t about what she might experience.

She was well aware of Seong-hyun’s side effects, so that was her concern.

“Don’t worry. There’s nothing like that in this.”

“…Okay, thank you.”

She had a doubtful expression, but she couldn’t refuse, so the mother just nodded.

“Oppa, have you seen the news?”

“What news?”

“A professor at the academy got disciplined or something? Anyway, they received some kind of punishment. Don’t you know, Oppa? You’re an academy student.”

“Discipline? Who?”

“Hwang… what was it? Check the video.”

Seong-hyun immediately took out his phone and searched for the information his younger sibling had mentioned.

[Academy Professor Hwang, Reduced Salary for Neglecting Duty]

“Huh…”

If it was Professor Hwang from the academy, Seong-hyun remembered only Professor Hwang Gi-hyeok, his homeroom teacher.

[According to the video released by the academy, Professor Hwang was found to have not properly performed his duties during the students’ subjugation. Accordingly, the academy is…]

“Video?”

Seong-hyun quickly checked the uploaded video.

He had used his ability because the situation was urgent, but it was a bit much to publicly reveal that Seong-hyun’s ability had already developed so much.

“Phew, that’s a relief.”

Fortunately, the video didn’t show Seong-hyun using his ability.

It was edited to focus on the homeroom teacher’s remarks.

“It’s only a matter of time before it spreads since I’ve already shown it, but there’s a big difference between rumors and a large-scale video release.”

Seong-hyun scrolled down to check the reactions.

-Is this really a big deal?

↳He’s the person in charge, so of course it’s a problem if he acts so dumb.

↳It’s not like he got suspended or fired, a salary reduction is just right. That should give him a sense of awareness.

The public opinion mostly criticized the professor’s actions.

“How was it before…”

Before the regression, the homeroom teacher had shown the same reaction as in the video, but the result was quite different from now.

The homeroom teacher had become a hero who saved even a few students from that hellish gate.

“But who released the video…”

The only differences from then were that Seong-hyun had saved all the students and that the video had been released.

“Well… it’s not important.”

Seong-hyun threw the phone he was looking at onto the bed and threw himself onto the bed as well.

“I’m tired.”

The pain in his body had long subsided, but perhaps because there was still a lot of mental fatigue, Seong-hyun fell asleep as soon as he closed his eyes.

The atmosphere in the classroom was quite different from before.

From the moment Seong-hyun entered the classroom, the commotion quickly disappeared, and only silence lingered.

“Um…”

“Yeah?”

As usual, he was sitting in his seat when a few people who had been in the front lines yesterday approached him, scratching their heads, and spoke to Seong-hyun.

“Thank you for that day.”

“I mean it. If it weren’t for you, we would have all died.”

They still couldn’t forget the miracle of that day.

It wasn’t just a simple thing of the pain disappearing from their skin.

The exhausted bodies had completely regained their energy as if they had woken up after a good night’s sleep.

It was also surprising that Seong-hyun, who had been an ordinary student in the class, so ordinary that it was almost an overstatement, had changed so much.

“It’s okay. I didn’t do it to hear words of gratitude.”

Seong-hyun felt a bit awkward in this situation itself.

When he tried to recall when he had last received words of gratitude from someone, all he had were very faint memories, if any.

“…Okay. But I won’t forget this favor. It’s our freedom, so it’s okay, right?”

“Uh… right.”

They bowed their heads once more and then returned to their seats.

“Then… that’s it for today’s class.”

With the greeting from the gloomy homeroom teacher, who had lost all energy, today’s classes were all over, and Seong-hyun was about to go straight home when a window suddenly appeared in front of him.

[Sage Exclusive Daily Quest Remaining Time: 1 Hour]

“…What?”

Seong-hyun doubted his eyes for a moment.

It had never even shown up before, and suddenly there was a 1-hour time limit.

“Sigh, let’s adapt. It’s my loss if I get stressed.”

It seemed like this unidentified window’s goal was to make him stressed, so getting stressed was no different from losing to this damn window.

“So, what’s the content?”

[Sage Exclusive Daily Quest: Use Healing Once a Day]

[Healing 0/1]

[Abilities Used Through Materialization Are Not Included.]

[Abilities Used on Yourself Are Not Included.]

[If the Help of Others Exceeds a Certain Level, It Will Not Be Recognized.]

“…What is this…”

It was absurd.

So, he had to use his ability on someone else unconditionally once a day.

“What’s the reward, then?”

[Reward: Increase in Proficiency of Healing Ability]

“Proficiency, huh…”

There was no way that proficiency was just there for no reason.

Even now, there was no separate preparation needed to use the healing ability, so there would probably be a change if he reached a certain level or higher.

[If the Daily Quest Fails, You Will Be Moved to a Designated Dimension.]

“Not a gate, but a dimension…”

It meant that he had to use his ability no matter what happened once a day.

He didn’t know what kind of place that dimension was.

“What should I do…”

Seong-hyun kept thinking.

How could he use his ability?

“Let’s stay calm.”

Seong-hyun thought of a place where he could use his ability within the next hour.

“Hospital?”

Hospitals were full of injured people, from those with major injuries to those with minor ones.

“…No. It could only cause chaos.”

If Seong-hyun suddenly appeared and used his healing ability in a place where everyone was waiting in line for treatment, it was obvious what would happen.

“Then there’s only one place left.”

Seong-hyun immediately returned to the academy.

He rushed into the infirmary, but unfortunately, it was already the end of the academy day, so there was no one except the professor in charge.

“What’s the matter?”

“Ah, it’s nothing.”

Seong-hyun bowed his head slightly and immediately left the academy again.

In front of the academy building, Seong-hyun thought of another suitable place.

A place where injuries were always bound to occur.

In this day and age, there was only one place that came to mind.

“There’s no other place but the gate.”

It was a place where war was waged every day, where someone died, and someone got hurt, and that was inside the gate.

Seong-hyun immediately headed to the always-open gate.

“Is this the place.”

The middle-aged man, who was forty years old this year, arrived at the gate for the first time.

Others opened their abilities at the age of 20, but strangely, he only opened his ability in his 40s.

Having lost his job, he miraculously gained an ability, creating a means to make a living.

“Let’s just do as we practiced.”

The man’s ability was humble to the point of being insignificant.

Just a strong downward slash with a sword.

Even that was only possible once a minute.

He had applied to several other parties, but there was a limit to such a flawed ability.

When he tested his ability, he easily cut down a tree, but the restriction of being able to do it only once a minute was too great.

“The crystal is worth a bit…”

Even selling a few goblin crystals would earn more money than working a day.

Of course, that was only possible if he caught at least five.

“I have to catch them no matter what.”

He was already running out of living expenses.

His wife had run away somewhere after losing her job, and all that was left was his high school daughter.

“Hoo.”

The man took a deep breath and entered the gate.

For the first time, he experienced an excessively dark vision where he couldn’t see anything even when he opened his eyes, and a feeling of floating in the air for a moment, and then a forest unfolded before his eyes.

“This is the gate…”

The inside of the gate was a completely different world from the outside.

A landscape unfolded that made him wonder if modern civilization even existed, and the man, who had been marveling at his surroundings, remembered why he had come here.

“Monsters. I have to find monsters.”

Strangely, there weren’t many hunters today.

He didn’t know if they had already finished subjugating and returned, but the man, thinking that there was nothing to gain by staying around here, went deeper.

Unaware of the fate that lay ahead.