Please Give Me A Kiss, Healer! Chapter 5

Jiwoo briefly considered trying that bizarre hand-kiss-heart move again.

But—

‘No, let’s not do anything stupid!’

—she quickly gave up.

Earlier, things had been urgent so she’d had no choice, but now she needed to buy time.

She had to figure out what had changed in her before this man fully came to his senses.

“Status window!”

 

Status

Name: Do Jiwoo
Alignment: Good
1st Awakening Class: Healer (E)
2nd Awakening Class: Everyone’s Supporter (S)
HP: 4999/5000
Mana: 3000/3000
Strength: 3
Agility: 17
Wisdom: 9
Luck: 99

Nothing looked very different from before.

Her pitiful Strength, her low Wisdom, and her unusually high Agility for a healer were all the same.

Only one thing had changed: her Luck, which used to be a measly 5, had shot up to 99.

‘If you’re going to give me something, give me a useful stat!’

Why max out the one useless stat?

Jiwoo opened the skill window next.

 

Skill

Ho~ I’ll Make You Feel Better♥

= Greatly increases the power of Heal.

Perk 1: No mana cost
Perk 2: Movement speed +10% for a short time
Perk 3: Can heal enemies

 

‘N-no way! No mana cost?’

Zero mana cost.

That was an incredible perk.

It meant she could cast Heal infinitely!

Jiwoo’s eyes sparkled.

She could already see herself striding through dungeons, dramatically shouting “[Heal!]”— or so she thought, until her dream was crushed immediately by two lines written below.

Skill – Ho~ I’ll Make You Feel Better♥

Casting Method: Blow air at the target.
Activation Words: Jiwoo’s hands are healing hands! Filled with love~ Ho~♥

 

“…Are you kidding me?”

Crack.

A vein pulsed at the back of Jiwoo’s head.

“If you’re gonna give me a skill, just give it! Why attach a ridiculous chant like this?!”

Earlier she’d been too panicked to read it properly and just did as told, but now that she looked at it— there was no way she could say something like that out loud.

If she had to shout, “Jiwoo’s hands are healing hands! Filled with love~ Ho~♥” in front of people?

‘That’s the day I throw away my entire life and disappear on a deep-sea fishing boat.’

What awful luck!

Dumb, petty system!

Grinding her teeth for a good moment, Jiwoo moved to the next skill.

 

Skill

Translation (Auto-active)

= Allows communication with monsters.

Effect: +10% favorability with all monsters

 

“Ten percent…? Wait, this is a growth-type skill!”

One of those rare, rare growth-type skills the entire world barely had any of!

The more favorability she gained, the stronger the effect would become.

‘Okay, maybe this isn’t so bad after all.’

Who knew— maybe someday a monster would wag its tail and trot up to her.

‘Let’s at least be grateful I got a second awakening. And an S-rank one at that!’

Jiwoo took a happy deep breath and scrolled down.

Then—

[Skill: ?????]

= This skill is locked.

[Skill: ?????]

= This skill is locked.

[Skill: ?????]

= This skill is locked.

[Skill: ?????]

= This skill is locked.

 

“Ha… haha… locked? Don’t tell me… this is it?”

Reality hit her in the face.

What was the point of being a second awakener?!

She had nothing usable!

“Why is my life like this? Even after awakening…!”

She was stranded in a dungeon for no reason, there was a gorgeous pretty boy clinging to her, and all her awakened skills were locked.

‘And I’m hungry on top of that.’

Feeling depressed, Jiwoo lowered her head.

Her mouth opened and closed like a confused goldfish when—

The man leaning on her shoulder slowly lifted his head.

Then he pressed one of Jiwoo’s cheeks with a firm finger and—

Smooch.

Smooch, smooch.

He kissed her.

Three times.

Stamping her cheek like a seal. Firmly, one-two-three!

“AAAAH!!”

Jiwoo’s vision flashed white.

She shrieked and jumped to her feet.

At the same time—

 

[You have gained a hidden title.]

System

Title: ♥A Kiss-Stolen, Never-Been-Kissed♥
Effect: +100 favorability with all monsters

 

“You… YOU—!”

There had to be a limit to shamelessness! Being handsome and buff doesn’t mean you can do whatever you want!

Right? RIGHT?!

But then—

 

[A hidden achievement has been completed.]

System

Achievement: ★Kissed a Monster★
Due to the extraordinary achievement, a skill has been unlocked.

Skill

Welcome to My Home (SSS)

= Creates a safe zone inside the dungeon.

 

A locked skill…

‘…Unlocked?’

While Jiwoo stood frozen, touching her cheek blankly, the man whispered.

“Shall we go home now.”

“Home?”

“Yeah, our newlywed home.”

Smiling innocently like a child, he rubbed his cheek against Jiwoo’s frozen shoulder.

Thump-thump, thump-thump.

Every time his sensual red lips brushed near her collarbone, her heart thrashed like it might explode.

‘W-what do I do now?’

Jiwoo’s face turned bright red as she squeezed her eyes shut.

It wasn’t because she was swooning over his stunning looks. It wasn’t because she was giving in to his provocative temptation.

It was because the system window she’d seen earlier kept floating around in her mind.

‘★Kissed a Monster★’

‘…Is this man really a monster?’

Sure, he was blindingly beautiful, but he obviously looked human.

But the system wouldn’t make the same mistake twice.

So in the arms of this handsome man—human or monster, she didn’t know—Jiwoo trembled as she clung to him.

A little later.

Even after a good amount of time passed, the man still waited quietly and patiently for Jiwoo.

Thanks to that, she finally calmed down enough to look again at the system window that had been blinking non-stop.

‘A safe zone…’

Safety, inside a dungeon—no matter how she thought about it, it didn’t match at all.

It had already been 30 years since the Great Hunter Era began, and in that time, major corporations had developed specialized weapons and potions that drastically reduced hunter fatalities.

But that only applied to hunters like Jiwoo who entered low-level dungeons.

The higher the dungeon rank, the faster the risk skyrocketed.

Even the strongest elite hunters could die from one moment of carelessness.

And yet it was possible to create a “safe zone” inside such a deadly dungeon.

‘And it’s my skill?!’

Not only had she awakened to a second class by accident, she’d ended up with a skill that was clearly broken.

Jiwoo stared blankly at the floating window before her.

Because her entire attention was consumed by her new skill, she completely failed to notice how the expression of the man standing in front of her began to change.

“Jiu.”

“……”

“Jiu?”

Even after calling her several times, Jiwoo didn’t respond, and a chilly coldness slowly settled over his face.

His displeased eyes drifted from her expression to the slender line of her neck revealed between her shirt collar.

Whatever he was thinking, he slowly ran his red tongue over his lips.

Then, without a trace of hesitation, he pressed those lips to Jiwoo’s thin, pale neck.

Lick.

A hot, damp tongue grazed her sensitive skin.

“Wha—agh! What are you doing?!”

Startled, Jiwoo shook and struggled, and he pulled away with a bright smile.

At the same time, the arms wrapped around her waist tightened.

“Don’t focus on anything else. Focus on me.”

“Wa-wait—!”

“Focus. On me.”

Under his persistent urging, Jiwoo’s wide, clear eyes naturally drifted up to him.

The tall bridge of his nose, the perfectly curved lips, the sharp jawline carved like stone—

And the moment her gaze was caught by that red tongue that had just licked her neck—

Only then did Jiwoo remember again that this man had kissed her cheek.

Gulp. She swallowed hard without meaning to.

‘Come to think of it, everything that happened was because of him.’

When she tried to heal him, she awakened to a second class. When he kissed her, a new skill unlocked.

‘Wait… hold on. Could it be?’

Jiwoo’s eyes suddenly sparkled brightly.

Then, as if possessed, she carefully inspected the flower-boy—no, the lucky charm—before her from head to toe.

‘A single kiss gave me a skill. Then if I did something even more than a kiss…?’