I Became The Only Healer In The Academy [EN]: Chapter 93

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“How did you get here?”

The guard at the entrance looked at Inhwan and Sangyeon and asked. Inhwan, unsure how to answer, hesitated, but Sangyeon frowned and replied.

“Are you asking how we got to the bar?”

“Oh… please, come in.”

Inhwan and Sangyeon easily passed the guard and entered the bar.

It was still early, so there weren’t many people, and Taehyun, who had arrived earlier, was nowhere to be seen.

The bartender greeted Inhwan and Sangyeon, saying,

“I don’t think I’ve seen you here before.”

“Because it’s our first time.”

Sangyeon led most of the conversation here.

He seemed to know the ins and outs of this kind of place.

“Two of your best.”

“Yes, sir.”

Sangyeon, with a relaxed expression, took a seat in front of the bartender, naturally turned to face Inhwan, and looked around.

“…It looks like it’s over there.”

Sangyeon pointed with his eyes to the most suspicious-looking room, and Inhwan also slightly turned his head to check the room.

“I think it’s better to watch the situation a little more.”

Sung Hyun hadn’t arrived yet, and they hadn’t figured out what was happening inside, so they sipped the best-selling cocktails while watching the situation.

As they emptied their glasses by half, Taehyun came out of the room they had been watching closely.

“Everything will proceed without a hitch, right?”

“Haha, of course. Spreading such false information is our specialty.”

“…It’s not false.”

“Ah, yes. Of course.”

Taehyun was about to leave the place.

“Taehyun?”

Sangyeon grabbed Taehyun’s shoulder as if he knew nothing about it.

“Goo… Sangyeon?”

Taehyun looked back and forth between Inhwan and Sangyeon with a very embarrassed voice at the unexpected faces.

“But what was going on in there? I heard something about spreading false information…”

“…It’s none of your business.”

He tried to shake off Sung Hyun’s hand on his shoulder and leave, but the hand wouldn’t budge.

“Hey! What are you doing to our customer?”

The surrounding guards also gathered, and with a creaking sound, the door at the entrance of the bar opened.

Everyone’s attention was briefly focused on the entrance, and Sung Hyun entered.

“What’s going on?”

“Nothing much. He was trying to run away.”

“Ki, Kim Sung Hyun?”

Taehyun, who met Sung Hyun’s eyes, was at a loss, as if he had done something terribly wrong.

“What, what? It’s really Kim Sung Hyun?”

The man who had received Taehyun’s request was also surprised to see Sung Hyun.

The target of the job he had to do was right in front of him.

“Wait a minute. I need to talk to the boss.”

“Okay.”

“Don’t worry. I’ll hold him so he can’t go anywhere.”

“No, who said I was going to talk to you…”

The boss looked at Sung Hyun with a dumbfounded expression, but he figured Sung Hyun must have a lot of influence, so he didn’t think he would lose anything by talking to him.

“Well, a conversation… Follow me.”

The boss took Sung Hyun to the room where he had just talked to Taehyun.

“I roughly know what you do… What brings you here?”

“I have only one question. What conversation did you have with that student just now?”

“You don’t think I’m going to tell you, do you? Protecting client information is very important. Of course, it’s a little different if there are special circumstances.”

The boss openly demanded money from Sung Hyun.

“Then I’ll change the question. Is the request to spread the information that ‘The reason why South Korea was disqualified from the national competition is because Kim Sung Hyun took illegal drugs’?”

“Th, as I said just now, it has to be a little special…”

Looking at the boss’s expression, it seemed to be roughly correct.

“Boss.”

“Hmm?”

“Who… am I?”

“Kim… Sung Hyun Hunter…”

“No, no, what abilities do I have?”

“…”

The boss’s head was spinning.

Which is the priority, Taehyun, who paid the commission right now, or Sung Hyun, the only healer?

“Well, even so, you have to show some sincerity…”

Sung Hyun sighed and rummaged through his pocket.

Then, he flicked his finger and threw the object he had just taken out in front of the boss.

“A… coin?”

A 500 won coin [approximately $0.40 USD].

“Isn’t this enough?”

“Ha, do you think I’m a beggar? Get out!”

For the boss, it was the smartest decision he could make.

There was no way a great hunter like Sung Hyun would do anything for him, and it was better to just take the money to avoid any future problems.

“I see. I understand.”

Sung Hyun didn’t press further and immediately got up from his seat.

As he left the room, there was a loud knocking on the door from the outside.

“…Who is it?”

One of the employees, looking at each other, opened the door to check, and men in black suits were standing in front of the door.

“…H, how did you get here?”

“We’re from the Association. Step aside.”

The man, frozen at the word ‘Association,’ was lightly pushed aside, and the people from the Association began to enter the bar.

“Wh, what is it?”

Even Inhwan and Sangyeon didn’t know what was going on, so they looked at Sung Hyun, and Sung Hyun took out his phone and showed it to them, saying.

“It’s an illegal business.”

All Sung Hyun did was report the illegal business to the Association [a governing body for hunters and supernatural affairs] .

Of course, reporting it wouldn’t cause this many people to come out, but Sung Hyun used his reputation this time.

“That’s the boss over there.”

Sung Hyun pointed to the boss who had been talking to him, and soon the people from the Association took the boss into the room that had been his reception area until just now.

Meanwhile, Sung Hyun sat down next to Taehyun with a relaxed expression.

“Heo Taehyun. I let it go last time, but not this time.”

“Wh, what last time? What are you talking about…”

“You put out an assassination request. Did you think I wouldn’t know?”

Inhwan and Sangyeon, who were listening to their conversation, were also surprised and looked back and forth between them.

“Wh, what? Assassination? This crazy bastard.”

“You’re completely out of your mind. An assassination request.”

“Ha! So what are you going to do? Are you going to kill me? Try it!”

Sung Hyun chuckled lightly at Taehyun’s appearance, like a hedgehog with thorns all over him.

Then, he immediately hardened his face and replied.

“Don’t rush me.”

“…”

Just in time, the boss came out of the room, as if the interrogation was over.

“I see you cooperated very well?”

At Sung Hyun’s words, the person in charge from the Association nodded.

“Yes. Well, of course, that doesn’t mean the existing crime disappears.”

“Wh, what’s going to happen to me?”

Usually in this situation, the person who made the request only received a light punishment.

That punishment was usually just a fine.

“Well, you’ll be punished like in other cases.”

Taehyun breathed a sigh of relief.

Sung Hyun had brought a lot of people, but it seemed like he couldn’t use his power beyond that.

‘If I just make a phone call to my brother…’

Even if he couldn’t reverse the situation, he could smooth it over.

“Ah, are you perhaps that brother’s younger brother?”

“Yes? Ah, yes! That’s right.”

“Ah… this is a little difficult…”

The person in charge from the Association looked at Sung Hyun, and Sung Hyun nodded.

“This is the only time. Go back. I won’t let you off next time.”

“Th, thank you!”

Heo Taehyun ran out of the bar as if he were escaping.

“Wh, what? You’re just letting him go like that? You said he even requested your assassination!”

“…I’ve never questioned your choices until now, but today is an exception. What’s your intention?”

Sung Hyun simply shrugged his shoulders at their questions.

As they were about to ask again, the person in charge who had just sent Taehyun away approached Sung Hyun and said.

“Then I’ll handle it as you said.”

“Yes. Thank you.”

The person in charge bowed to Sung Hyun and left the bar, leaving only the three of them in the bar.

“Wh, what’s going on?”

“I want an explanation.”

Sung Hyun emptied the remaining half of his cocktail and explained.

“Heo Taehyun… is going to die.”

“Surely… not by the Association?”

“This is much cleaner.”

If Taehyun had only committed this one act, he might have gotten away with just a light warning.

However, Taehyun was someone who had previously requested an assassination.

In addition, Taehyun’s brother was inside the Association, and there was no telling when he might be caught.

“Do you remember a while ago? When you fainted while hunting monsters at the gate.”

“Ah… ah! Don’t tell me that time?”

Inhwan, who could never forget his dark history, naturally remembered that time very vividly.

“Yes, back then, it wasn’t a monster attack, but an assassin’s attack. Of course, I won and sent him back.”

“You sent him back then?”

“The Association handled it back then too.”

At that time, it was an assassin, and it wasn’t that complicated to deal with a man who would spend his life in the back alleys, but now it was different.

He was a student attending the Academy, and the brother of someone who held a position in the Association.

So he wondered if killing him was a bit too much, but Sung Hyun knew very well that there was nothing as foolish as showing kindness to someone who tried to kill him.

“We went to the gate with Heo Taehyun.”

“And?”

“While hunting separately, he died.”

“…There will be a suitable alibi.”

Sung Hyun got up from his seat and went to the bartender’s seat.

After taking out a suitable liquor and a glass, he sat back down and said.

“Just stay here for about an hour and then go back.”

The fact that he was even slightly involved in someone’s death was not a clean situation, so Sung Hyun poured one of the liquors he had brought into a glass.

“Let’s have a drink together.”

“This kind of alcohol is good too.”

The three of them toasted and began to pass the glasses.

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“Arrogant bastard. Who does he think he is, calling people?”

Heo Taehyun was returning home, fuming, but he couldn’t do anything about it.

“Excuse me…”

“What is it?”

“Ah, I’m not trying to bother you, but I’m trying to ask for directions.”

“I’m busy.”

The moment he ignored the man who asked him for directions and passed by, he felt a tingling shock in the back of his neck.

Of course, he couldn’t remember anything after that.

“It’s over.”

The man who had asked for directions picked up the unconscious Taehyun and headed to the prepared location.

A gate with few people.

The man who arrived at the gate where Sung Hyun had met Choi Hoon before immediately entered the gate.

“You can’t hear me, but…”

The man left the unconscious Taehyun somewhere deep in the gate and sat next to him, lighting a cigarette.

“Malice that doesn’t suit you will only eat away at your life.”

The man, exhaling his last breath and putting the cigarette butt in his pocket, took out a sword from his chest.

“Well, that’s that, and this is this.”

You have to do the job properly.

If he left him like this and he woke up faster than expected, he might escape.

Just in case, the man, who had given him more sleeping pills and completely severed the tendons of both ankles, looked down at Taehyun with pitiful eyes.

“If you wanted to play the villain, you should have been smart or had a lot of backing.”

The man patted Taehyun’s chest and immediately came out of the gate.

After confirming that the monsters were heading to where Taehyun was.