I Became The Only Healer In The Academy [EN]: Chapter 239

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“It might be a hyperbole, but in a way, it could mean you’re the only one who can change the future.”

“I’m the only one who can change the future…”

No one can know if Kal’s words are true or not, but they both instinctively felt it.

The shared experience of being unseen is something no one else in this world possesses.

“Then does that mean the path I’m walking is the right one?”

“I don’t know about that. However, the fact that two futures have appeared simultaneously doesn’t mean one is absolutely determined.”

“Ah, let me rephrase the question. Isn’t the path I’m walking closer to the correct answer than the path you’re walking?”

“That’s…”

Kal couldn’t answer Sung Hyun’s question.

He already knew the answer, but the moment he spoke it, it would be no different from denying everything Kal had done so far.

If, after so many sacrifices, he ended up with nothing, he felt like he wouldn’t be able to bear it.

So Kal couldn’t answer, and Sung Hyun knew why Kal couldn’t answer.

“I didn’t expect an answer anyway. The answer is already determined.”

“…I see.”

Kal looked as if he had lost his goal.

The expression of someone who has lost their purpose, their objective, and the reason for their life.

“So, what are you going to do now?”

“What do you mean, what am I going to do? Isn’t all that’s left for me to do is to remain?”

When he first realized he had the ability to see the future, Kal felt like he had become something special.

The ability of a value that no one could dare to approach,

Moreover, an ability that a god might possess, capable of changing the future, unlike simple precognition.

So, even after watching the final future remain unchanged for a long time, he didn’t let go of that thread.

Believing that someday, that final future would also change.

As Kal wished.

But the one who actually brought about that change was Sung Hyun.

Sung Hyun wasn’t even aware of that fact, but when the unseen being appeared, Kal didn’t pay much attention to it.

He thought that since he had healing abilities, he must have something special.

“It’s been a long time. This sense of helplessness.”

The fact that he couldn’t do anything made him feel so powerless.

Switching from a coordinator who sees and changes the future to a mere bystander, only questions arose about what he should do now.

“Kal. Let me ask you just one thing. What is it that you want?”

“What I want? Isn’t it simple?”

Just looking at what Kal had done so far, what he wanted was simple.

It was to change the predetermined future that could happen at any time.

Not just changing it, but also making that future move in the direction he wanted.

This was what Kal truly wanted.

“No, more fundamentally.”

“Fundamentally?”

Kal was telling him what he wanted right now, but Sung Hyun, who had asked the question, was denying it as the wrong answer, so Kal also began to wonder.

‘What do I truly want…’

“The reason why you’re feeling so helpless right now.”

“The fact that I can’t do anything?”

“That’s right.”

After hearing Sung Hyun’s words, Kal slowly pondered.

Changing the future.

Is this really what Kal himself wants?

Thinking about it slowly, changing the future was a goal and an objective.

‘That’s right. What I truly want.’

Now he could realize it.

What Kal wanted was not to change the future, but to strive to change the future.

The fact that he had the power to change that future was the driving force for everything for Kal.

Now that that driving force had disappeared, he was feeling helpless.

Sung Hyun, seeing Kal’s expression as if he had realized something, said with a serious look.

“Knowing that, are you just going to stand still like that now?”

“What? What does that…”

What does this mean again?

“Haha, I see.”

The answer came more easily than he thought.

It wasn’t certain, but Sung Hyun was the one with the most potential to change the future, and he had actually shown some results.

“So, will you join me?”

If he walked the same path as Sung Hyun, he wouldn’t be at the forefront of those who could change the future, but at least he would be able to see the same scenery as him.

But did he really deserve that?

In the name of the greater good, he sacrificed not just a few, but many.

Rationalizing himself by saying that they would all disappear someday anyway.

“Do I… deserve it?”

Sung Hyun stared intently at Kal.

Was this really sincere?

Even using the piercing eyes he had obtained before to check, Kal’s words were sincere.

He was sincerely asking Sung Hyun if he was qualified.

“Of course…”

Kal momentarily looked at Sung Hyun at the first kind voice he had ever heard.

What words would come after that?

“Not. You don’t have any qualifications.”

“…I see.”

Was he expecting it?

No one would think he was qualified.

“But you can atone.”

“Atonement, huh…”

It was a word he had never even thought of.

Someday, when that unseen future came, and if that future was a changed future, that would be the end.

There was no reason to atone, and he didn’t feel the need to.

“What should I do?”

“It’s not much different from what you’ve been doing so far.”

“…? What does that…”

If it was what he had been doing so far, it was various things targeting ordinary people.

To continue doing that? Kal looked at Sung Hyun with a puzzled expression at Sung Hyun’s incomprehensible answer.

Of course, he thought that Sung Hyun would have spoken with a different meaning.

“I’ve seen and heard a lot of things about the future from you, but what I have to do and what I should do are not much different. What I want is the extinction of all magical beasts.”

“The extinction of all magical beasts, huh.”

To be honest, it was an absurd goal.

Even at this moment, gates would have been created somewhere, and recently they had even doubled.

But because it was Sung Hyun who said it, for some reason, he began to trust him.

It felt like this man in front of him would really exterminate all the magical beasts.

“Does that mean I should do to the magical beasts what I’ve been doing so far?”

“It’s not much different. If it’s against magical beasts, I can fully support any experiments you do.”

“What you mean by not much different is…”

“That’s right. I don’t want any interference in dealing with magical beasts.”

What this meant was simple.

Remove in advance anything that would interfere with Sung Hyun in dealing with magical beasts.

“You… you’re more cold-blooded than I thought.”

“Even if I don’t know the future, would those who try to interfere with me for their own power be any different later on?”

“That’s certainly true.”

Kal also knew better than anyone.

If he had a completely different thought from what Sung Hyun said, he would have revealed his abilities when he first found out about them.

Asking to be protected and treated well.

But Kal also couldn’t trust anyone.

Because he had the same thought as the reason Sung Hyun just said.

Those who have a lot are not docile even in peaceful times.

In a time with no threats, they ponder what more they can take, how they can take away from those who have, and how they can be worshiped by those who don’t.

They were people who would never, ever share what they had.

And that was the same even when a threat loomed.

Even when the time came when they had to share what they had to solve the problem, they pondered how they could protect what they had.

Moreover, the most efficient way they chose in this situation was to take something from someone else.

“I’m cold-blooded, but I’m not a cold-hearted person.”

If Sung Hyun’s goal was to be a righteous avenger who would assassinate these people, he would have found and dealt with even those who were hiding, but Sung Hyun didn’t go that far.

The reason was simple.

Because they didn’t interfere with Sung Hyun.

But, if they interfere with Sung Hyun.

The story changes at that moment.

The method they chose was mostly to threaten the people around Sung Hyun.

Because everyone had already realized that there was no chance of winning by confronting Sung Hyun head-on.

And Sung Hyun showed no mercy to these people.

“Yeah. I see.”

Perhaps it was because Sung Hyun was this kind of person that he was the one who could change the future.

Kal now realized that he had no choice.

If he didn’t accept Sung Hyun’s offer now, he wouldn’t be able to resolve his sense of helplessness.

Not only that.

The moment he rejected Sung Hyun’s offer, it was no different from saying that he would continue doing what he had been doing so far, and there was no way Sung Hyun would leave him alone.

Because he would judge that he had already obtained all the information he needed from him.

“Okay. Let’s do that.”

Perhaps it was the first time.

That Kal himself reached out first.

“But what about Envy and Sammy? Do they agree with your opinion?”

Looking at the two’s actions so far, it seemed like they might not agree with Kal’s opinion.

“Ah, don’t worry about those two. Envy has been doing what he has been doing so far because my goal was like that.”

“What about Sammy?”

“What about Sammy… haven’t you already experienced it? There are many sloppy points for someone who researches. Sammy only needs to be satisfied with one thing. Being able to research steadily.”

“Sammy, who used to research humans, will he really be satisfied?”

Sung Hyun couldn’t do anything about the tamed magical beasts either.

Cases where magical beasts could be taken out alive were not common.

“Don’t worry about that. Sammy only needs to be given research that he can’t accomplish.”

“Research that he can’t accomplish?”

Come to think of it, Sammy had been researching continuously from the beginning until now, and the things he created as a result of that failure had rather been helpful.

“Now that humans can’t be used as test subjects… well, it would be good to give him a goal such as giving personality to magical beasts.”

“…It really doesn’t seem possible.”

“It has to be. Sammy does.”

Now there was nothing to worry about.

Envy and Sammy would take care of Kal as they had done so far, and Kal would also do what was needed, recalling what he had shown so far.

“Now the conversation is over.”

“How was it, was it a satisfactory conversation?”

At Kal’s question, Sung Hyun got up from his seat as if the conversation was over.

Then, as Kal had just done, this time Sung Hyun reached out to Kal and said.

“Congratulations.”

“For walking the same path?”

At those words, Sung Hyun burst into laughter as if he was dumbfounded.

Then he hardened his expression and replied.

“For not dying.”

“…Thank you.”

Kal could only say thank you at the sincerity that felt so terrible.

“I hope we don’t have to contact each other separately in the future.”

“I’ll try.”

So that Sung Hyun has nothing to worry about.

So that he can focus solely on eliminating all the magical beasts.