Please Give Me A Kiss, Healer! Chapter 37

Whether Ji-woo was confused or not, the antman opened its mouth and let out a deep sigh.

─ This is a secret-gam. Since a while ago, all the paths leading out of the ant nest have been blocked-gam. There’s a transparent wall, so we can’t even get close-gam.

For the antmen, it was a bolt from the blue. Overnight, they had been trapped inside the ant nest.

─ For now, we’re living off the food storage-gam, but we don’t know how long we can survive while trapped in the ant nest-gam.

As Gam124 opened the final door to the treasure vault, it glanced at Ji-woo with a faint sense of hope.

She was the savior who had defeated the Ant Queen—maybe she could help them again this time.

But Ji-woo didn’t have the room to listen to the antman’s serious worries.

The moment the vault door opened, every thought she’d been having was completely blown away.

‘H-h-how much is all of this?!’

Inside a massive cavern the size of a hundred pyeong, piles of glittering gold and silver, precious gems, and artifacts were stacked like mountains.

She rubbed her eyes hard with the back of her hand, wondering if her vision was failing her, but the treasure mountain right in front of her didn’t disappear.

“Wow… wowww……!”

Shining gold bars, rubies, topaz, and raw diamonds were considered cheap here.

Weapons of unknown grade that radiated dignity, escape stones said to exist only a few in the entire country.

And even relics of ancient civilizations whose prices were literally whatever the seller named!

She didn’t even own any of it, but just looking at the treasures already made her feel full.

Once Ji-woo’s mouth fell open, it refused to close. Her round eyes sparkled like stars.

‘With just this, I could live off it for generations, right? Wow… when in my life would I ever get to touch things this valuable?’

Wooheehee, ehehhehe!

A bright, innocent smile spread across Ji-woo’s face.

It was easily one of the top three most pure, childlike smiles she’d ever worn in her life.

“…Ji-woo.”

“W-wow! Kang-woo, look at that over there! A staff! An S-rank staff! Wowww! Wooooow!”

Seeing Ji-woo’s cheeks flushed red with happiness, Kang-woo turned his gaze to the mountain of treasure.

‘Ji-woo really likes treasures.’

The list of Ji-woo’s ideal type that Hee-seong had emphasized flashed through his mind.

‘My sister’s ideal type isn’t anything special. A guy who looks good in a shirt, a guy with a pretty smile, and lastly, a guy who’s good at cooking. That’s about it? …Oh, right. Brother-in-law, there’s something even more important.’

As expected of Ji-woo’s younger brother, Hee-seong had clenched his fist with a grave expression.

‘He has to be rich. Like, really, really rich.’

Kang-woo firmly etched that list of ideals into his mind.

Then he recalled something Ji-woo had once said.

‘Kang-woo, I’m going to marry a chaebol.’

‘A chaebol?’

‘Yeah. Someone with lots of money, lots of land, and a proper company—one of those chaebols!’

At that, Kang-woo made up his mind.

When he returned to Seoul, he would inherit the Da-un Group.

Meanwhile, completely unaware of the emotions swirling between the two humans, the antman kept twitching its antennae.

Then, the antenna that had been trembling suddenly froze at one spot.

─ This is probably the special flower-gam.

What the antman pointed to was a large stone embedded in the dirt.

Just as Ji-woo crouched down and unconsciously reached out her hand—

“No, Ji-woo. Don’t touch that.”

Kang-woo quickly grabbed her wrist.

His vivid orange eyes shone with unmistakable seriousness.

It looked like Kang-woo had already guessed the true nature of the seed before them.

The antman flailed and chimed in urgently.

─ That human—no, human-nim—is right-gam! If you touch it carelessly, something terrible will happen-gam!

“What is this anyway? It doesn’t look like a flower, and it doesn’t seem like treasure either.”

─ This isn’t treasure-gam. It’s a seed-gam. And a very dangerous seed-gam. Some of us Gam-gams touched it without knowing and got hurt-gam. We barely managed to move it into the storage-gam.

After the tyrant Ant Queen died, a bell-shaped flower that gave off a mysterious light appeared where her body had been.

Originally, it was a very bright and precious flower, but as time passed, it changed into a round, ball-shaped seed like this.

“Hmm, so this used to be a flower…….”

No matter how she looked at it, it looked exactly like a basketball.

Ji-woo tried using a healer-only skill.

“[Holy Eyes!].”

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Special Flower (Seed State)

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“At least it really is the flower we’re looking for.”

It was a relief they had found it at all, but Ji-woo fell into worry once again.

What should they do with it? Wait until the seed fully grows?

But there was no guarantee it would bloom into a flower again if they just left it alone.

‘…Should I ask Kang-woo? It seemed like he knew something about this seed.’

Ji-woo looked up at Kang-woo with pleading eyes.

“…….”

But Kang-woo only curved his eyes and put on a harmless smile, just like always.

He didn’t explain anything in detail.

She was just starting to feel disappointed at how he went quiet at times like this—

Bzzzt.

A burst of static-filled transmission rang out nearby.

It was coming from the hunter communication device Kang-woo was carrying.

[Ah—ah. This is the dungeon raid team. This is the dungeon raid team.]

“It sounds like the rescue team arrived! Kang-woo, give me the radio, quick!”

But Kang-woo just stared blankly at Ji-woo.

Unable to stand it any longer, Ji-woo reached toward Kang-woo’s thigh and unfastened the leather strap holding the device.

It probably wasn’t intentional, but her hand brushed roughly over him through the thin layer of fabric.

Kang-woo’s firm thigh muscles tensed up instantly.

[S-rank dealer Shin Woo-hyeok, E-rank healer Do Ji-woo, and Triple S—no, emergency disaster team leader Seo Kang-woo. If you hear this transmission, please respond… bzzzt, crackle.]

Ji-woo hurriedly pressed the talk button.

But the transmission had already cut off.

Stunned, Ji-woo stared blankly at the now-silent device.

Then—

‘…Huh? I feel like I’ve been in a situation like this before.’

Come to think of it, when they first met, Kang-woo had crushed a communicator right in front of her eyes.

This time, at least he hadn’t broken it, but he also hadn’t handed it over right away when she asked……

Ji-woo narrowed her eyes and looked at Kang-woo, who was standing awkwardly.

‘I should probably let it go, but still… this is suspicious.’

Either way, even if the communication failed for now, as long as the dungeon raid team had entered the dungeon, they would eventually run into them.

Feeling a bit relieved, Ji-woo sat down in a corner of the treasure vault.

While the antmen busily organized the storage, Ji-woo and Kang-woo started chatting quietly.

“Kang-woo, um… by the way.”

“Kang-woo.”

Apparently unhappy with the way she addressed him, Kang-woo looked at Ji-woo steadily.

“Uh, okay. Kang-woo. Back then, you know… when we first met in the dungeon. What did you mean by what you said?”

“What part?”

“You said we always had to be together, remember? When you smashed the communicator.”

It was only now that Ji-woo brought it up, but back then she had been so scared her back was soaked in cold sweat.

Now she knew Kang-woo was a returnee from another world and the system had treated him as a monster, but at the time she had really thought he was a humanoid monster.

Kang-woo spoke calmly.

“I meant exactly what I said. Jyu, you said it yourself. That we have to stay together and never be separated.”

“Haaaah… No, I keep telling you, I’m really not that Jyu person.”

“…….”

“I don’t know anymore, I really don’t! Even if you blame me later, it’s not my fault. I clearly said it wasn’t me!”

“Ji-woo, I’ll never blame you. No matter what happens.”

As he spoke, Kang-woo reached up and touched his neck.

Then he pulled out an hourglass necklace that had been hidden under his clothes and held it up.

“Do you remember this?”