Please Give Me A Kiss, Healer! Chapter 50

‘Well… if it’s a Blank Guild partner hospital, this really is the only place.’

<Daewoon Hospital>

A hospital owned by the Daewoon Group.

Standing in front of the very hospital where Hee-seong had once been hospitalized for a long time, Ji-woo passed through the main entrance as if by habit.

At the reception desk, Ji-woo gave Mina’s name and headed to the ward.

[Room 1404]

It didn’t take long to reach Mina’s room.

Holding a paper bag with a bouquet and gifts inside, Ji-woo stopped in front of the door.

‘What should I say to comfort her?’

Surviving a dungeon was already a miracle, yet now a moment had come where an even greater miracle was needed.

Just as Ji-woo took a deep breath, the door suddenly opened in front of her.

Creak.

“Oh my, who are you?”

A middle-aged woman with noticeable freckles took a step back when she saw Ji-u.

Ji-woo was just as startled.

“Uh, um… I heard Mina was hospitalized here, so I came to visit her.”

“You know our Mina? Then who are you…?”

“Mom, is there a guest?”

A young, childlike voice came from inside the room.

Over the woman’s shoulder, Ji-woo could see Mina lying on the bed.

“Huh? Hunter unni?”

“Mina, do you know her?”

“Mom, this unni is that unni. The one who saved me in the dungeon!”

“What? That Hunter Do Ji-woo?”

Two pairs of identical eyes stared straight at Ji-u.

Ji-woo smiled awkwardly.

“Haha, hello. Hi, Mina too…….”

It took quite a while to calm Mina’s mother, Min-young.

“H-Hunter, thank you! Thank you so much! I should have come to thank you in person, but goodness… I was so out of it….”

“Oh, of course. I understand. You must’ve had such a hard time.”

She wasn’t just being polite.

Illness doesn’t torment only the patient.

The guardian caring for them is pushed to the edge too—mentally and physically.

Ji-woo knew that painfully well after taking care of her younger sibling for years.

“Unni, what’s this?”

“Mm, it’s a present for you, Mina. Want to open it?”

Ji-woo took out a ribbon-wrapped box from the paper bag.

When the wrapping paper was removed, a green princess dress—super popular among kids these days—popped out.

It was an item the store clerk had strongly recommended while Ji-woo was looking at teddy bears.

“Wow! It’s the Summer Kingdom dress! Unni, is this really for me? Thank you! Thank you so much!”

“Next time, want to wear this dress and go see a princess musical with unni?”

“Yes! I’d love that!”

Humming happily, Mina spun around the hospital room.

Min-young tightly held Ji-woo’s hands.

“Thank you, Hunter. I was grateful just that you came, but you even brought a gift… How can I ever repay this kindness?”

“Oh, it’s nothing. Seeing Mina happy makes me happy too.”

“Yes, and I think she’s even happier because you came. She talks about you all the time, saying she wants to become a hunter like you when she grows up.”

“Really?”

“Yes. She used to dream of becoming a ballerina, but suddenly she said she wanted to quit the ballet academy she’d been attending so well.”

No wonder her turns looked so impressive.

To think she was a future dancer in the making.

“Mom, look! A 360-degree turn!”

Mina laughed nonstop as she ran around the room.

Then she dashed into the attached bathroom, saying she wanted to try the dress on.

“Oh my, what am I doing. Hunter, please stay here. I’ll bring you some fruit.”

There was no time to stop her.

Min-young soon returned with a full plate of neatly cut fruit.

Suddenly, Ji-woo was reminded of when Hee-seong had been hospitalized.

No relatives ever came to visit the two siblings, but when former patients visited Hee-seong, Ji-woo would often serve them fruit as well.

‘It still doesn’t feel real that Hee-seong is healthy now.’

If he hadn’t miraculously awakened, Hee-seong would probably still be in the hospital—just like Mina.

While eating the fruit, Ji-woo asked carefully,

“Um, ma’am… what exactly is Mina sick with?”

She didn’t need to hear the answer to guess. Min-young’s face twisted in pain.

“They say it’s a heart condition. Sometimes dungeon sickness causes problems with the heart.”

Listening to her, Ji-woo let out a heavy sigh.

‘Heart… that’s exactly what Hee-seong suffered from.’

Dungeon sickness affected different body parts for different people.

Some lost movement in their arms or legs, and in severe cases, even the brain was affected, leading to brain death.

Heart-related symptoms were extremely rare—second only to brain cases—and the disease progressed very quickly.

It seemed Min-young already knew this from the doctor.

“Wouldn’t it have been better if I were the one who got sick? It’s all my fault. What did my child ever do wrong?”

Tears that had been held back spilled from her reddened eyes.

Just then, Mina came out of the bathroom wearing the dress and stopped at the doorway.

“Mom, are you crying?”

“Mina?”

“Mom, what’s wrong? Don’t cry…….”

“Mom’s not crying. Why would I cry?”

She hurriedly wiped her tears, but it was too late.

Mina ran into Min-young’s arms as she tried to dry her eyes.

“Mom, I’m sorry. I’m really sorry.”

“No, Mom’s the one who’s sorry. Okay?”

The tears that had been drying up burst out again.

Is there another mother as useless as me?

My child is in pain, clutching her chest, and all I can say is that she’ll be okay soon.

Even that “she’ll be okay” is a lie.

And worse—my daughter knows it’s a lie too.

That truth mercilessly tore apart Min-young’s already shattered heart.

Once the crying started, it wouldn’t stop easily.

In the end, Mina, who had been sobbing, curled up like a ball, saying her heart hurt, and began to convulse.

Medical staff rushed in.

As Mina was given a sedative and rushed to the emergency treatment room, Ji-woo could only turn her back quietly.

 

 

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As if she’d been stung by a bee, Jiwoo’s eyes were swollen and red.

She’d gotten home and washed her face several times, but there was no hiding how much she’d cried.

‘It’s a good thing Hee-seong isn’t home.’

If her little brother had seen her, he definitely would’ve pointed at her, laughed, said she looked like a goldfish, and even filmed a video.

Jiwoo sat down on the sofa and hugged her knees.

What had happened at the hospital kept replaying in her mind, making her feel heavy and depressed.

‘Hee-seong was in the exact same situation not long ago.’

He had even collapsed right here in this living room.

Back then, Hee-seong had been in a temporarily awakened state, so she’d been able to use heal on him—but if that hadn’t been the case, she would’ve had no choice but to stand there helplessly and watch.

‘Haa… what’s the point of awakening as an S-rank if I can’t even cure something like dungeon sickness?’

All I have are weird skills like ‘Ho~ I’ll make it better♥.’

Even back then, when she tried to use the skill, what did it say again?

[Error: Unable to remove status ailment.]

System

Tip: There is no such thing as “impossible” in a supporter’s dictionary! Try more diverse methods.

Right.

All it ever showed was that useless tip— ‘Try more diverse methods.’

…Huh, wait.

‘More diverse methods?’

Jiwoo sucked in a sharp breath.

Then she quickly summoned the system and checked her skill window.

System

Skill: ?????

= Locked skill.

Skill: ?????

= Locked skill.

Skill: ?????

= Locked skill.

“That’s right—I still have locked skills!”

Jiwoo jumped up from the sofa.

How could she have missed something so obvious?!

No matter how distracted she was by Hee-seong’s awakening, this was just stupid!

“Skill unlock. Let’s try unlocking a skill. Come on, Do Jiwoo, think. How can I unlock the next skill?”

Biting her nails, Jiwoo paced back and forth across the living room.

The answer came quickly.

‘I was able to awaken because I healed Kang-woo.’

And when she got a kiss from Kang-woo, the next skill—the Safe Zone—was unlocked.

…Then what if it’s even more intense skinship than that?

Skinship beyond a kiss!

All kinds of thoughts started rolling around in Jiwoo’s head.

Normally, she would’ve been blushing and wildly punching a cushion by now.

“But is embarrassment really the problem here?!”

This might let me cure dungeon sickness!

A kiss like that—I could do it hundreds, thousands of times more!