Please Give Me A Kiss, Healer! Chapter 76

Hee-sung

Sis, where are you?

Main building, 1st floor

 

Ji-woo texted Hee-sung back and walked out of the building.

After getting the message, Hee-sung ran over, breathing hard.

“Sis! What happened? Did you give her the potion?”

“Shh, keep your voice down!”

Ji-woo moved with Hee-sung to a quiet walking path.

Sitting on a bench, Ji-woo explained what had just happened.

“I gave her mother the potion. I told her it might help Mina’s illness, so she should give her one drop a day.”

She asked Min-young not to tell anyone about the potion.

Thankfully, Min-young only cried and didn’t ask for details.

She gave the potion to Mina right there.

When she used the ‘Holy Eyes’ skill, she could see that Mina’s condition was different from before.

Status

Status

Name: Kim Mina
Race: Human
Awakening Type: Not Awakened
Condition: Very Weak
Abnormal Status Being Cleansed (3%)

 

Looking at the numbers, the cleansing would be finished in about a month.

She told them to give only one drop a day because she was worried about drawing attention.

It is very rare for dungeon sickness to be completely cured.

To make it look natural, the illness needed to recover slowly.

If Min-young kept giving the potion to Mina, she would eventually overcome dungeon sickness.

“What if she stops giving the potion halfway?”

“Well, I don’t think she will.”

Ji-woo trusted Min-young.

Even if she gave up, there was nothing more Ji-woo could do. The rest depended on Mina’s mother.

Hee-sung tapped the wooden bench with his fingers.

“Sis, can’t you make that potion in large amounts?”

“Why?”

“What do you mean why? Why would you even ask that? It’s obvious.”

There are at least hundreds of people in this country suffering from dungeon sickness.

Hee-sung and Ji-woo were once among them too.

“I want more people to get treated. I wish they could get treatment even if they don’t have money. …Even if others don’t know, we do, sis.”

…….

After a long silence, Ji-woo spoke.

“It’s not something we can handle, Hee-sung.”

She could help Mina and Min-young, the mother and daughter.

But mass-producing the potion to help countless people was a different matter.

No matter their intentions, it would turn into a large medical business, and Ji-woo had no experience for that.

“Couldn’t we gather people to work with us?”

“How would we do that? If we reveal it carelessly, do you want to get kidnapped somewhere and spend your whole life making potions in a basement?”

Of course, that would be the worst-case scenario, but Ji-woo was firm.

Especially when it involved large amounts of money, it was always better to be careful.

“Then if someone capable of running a business and trustworthy helped us, would you do it?”

“Well, I guess we’d think about it when that happens. I don’t know if such a trustworthy person even exists.”

“Why wouldn’t there be? Brother-in-law— I mean, Mr. Kang-woo is there.”

“What do you mean? Kang-woo left home a long time ago saying he wouldn’t see me.”

Ji-woo grumbled.

Not understanding what she meant, Hee-sung fanned himself, saying it was hot.

“Sis, I’m going to the vending machine. What drink do you want?”

“Do they still sell Doremisol’s Tears here?”

“Ugh, why do you drink stuff like that?”

“You’re too young to understand, but that drink contains the lessons and emotions of life.”

Hee-sung pouted.

“You just like weird food.”

“Let’s not judge each other. Your favorite ice cream is basically frozen toothpaste.”

“Sis, don’t say something so outrageous! Frozen toothpaste? Mint chocolate isn’t weird food!”

“Fine, just hurry and go buy the drinks.”

After Hee-sung left, Ji-woo stayed alone on the bench.

‘About half the people in this building probably have dungeon sickness, right?’

Daeun Hospital was the first in the country to introduce dungeon sickness treatment using byproducts, and it was a top-level hospital even worldwide.

Among the people walking along the path, some might be suffering patients themselves, and some might be their family or friends.

‘Honestly, if I could, I’d help as much as I can.’

But it wasn’t as easy as it sounded.

Unless the person was as desperate as Mina’s mother and someone who would protect the source of the potion.

Sacrificing yourself for strangers whose faces you don’t even know is foolish.

Thinking of her parents, who were forgotten without even leaving their names behind, made it feel even more so.

While waiting for Hee-sung, Ji-woo watched the people passing along the path.

She saw a familiar person in the distance.

“…Oh, Grandpa?”

The grandfather she had met on the path before was walking toward the hospital entrance.

“Grandpa! Grandpa!”

“Oh, aren’t you the tangerine girl from before?”

“Hehe, yes, the tangerine girl! Did you enjoy the tangerines?”

Ji-woo ran over and smiled warmly.

The grandfather looked completely different from when she had met him before.

‘He’s not wearing a hospital gown anymore.’

Dressed in a dark suit from head to toe, he gave off a strong charisma.

“Grandpa, were you discharged?”

“Ahem, it wasn’t that serious, so I was discharged quickly. What brings you here, miss?”

“I came to visit a younger friend in the hospital.”

“A younger friend? Didn’t you say your younger sibling was sick last time?”

“Yes, somehow that’s how it turned out.”

“Oh dear, all the kids around you are sick. What a shame.”

The grandfather frowned sadly.

“But Grandpa, why are you at the hospital after being discharged? Are you waiting for your grandson?”

Instead of answering, the grandfather looked gloomy.

The dignified and charismatic man was gone, and in his place was just an old man longing for his grandson.

“My grandson is busy dating these days, so he doesn’t pay any attention to this old man.”

“What? Oh my, even so….”

“It’s my fault. When you get old, you should just die. You shouldn’t trouble young people.”

“Grandpa, please don’t say that!”

Moved, Ji-woo grabbed his wrinkled hand.

His clothes didn’t look shabby, but thinking back on their conversation, she could guess his situation.

‘He must be struggling. He probably doesn’t have family to take care of him.’

She remembered the documentary she watched the day before about elderly people living alone.

Having no one by your side when you’re sick and struggling is truly heartbreaking.

Cursing his cold-hearted grandson in her mind, Ji-woo took out a memo pad from her bag.

She wrote down her number and placed it in his hand.

“Grandpa, if anything happens or if you need help, please call me. Don’t hesitate, okay?”

“Huh? No, miss. You must be busy. You don’t have to go this far….”

“Call me when you feel lonely or bored. I happen to work at a nearby guild, so I have plenty of free time.”

“A guild? Miss, did you join a hunter guild?”

“Yes, it’s called the Blank Guild. You see that building over there? That’s the headquarters where I work.”

Ji-woo pointed to the Blank Guild building sticking up in the distance.

Blank Guild and Daeun Hospital were both under the same Daeun Group, so their buildings were close to each other.

“So you’re a hunter working at our Blank Guild….”

The grandfather muttered meaningfully.

Just then, Hee-sung called.

[Sis, where are you? Why aren’t you at the bench?]

“Oh, I’m at the hospital entrance. I ran into someone I know by chance.”

[Then I’ll head over there.]

After hanging up, Ji-woo looked at the grandfather.

“Grandpa, I think I have to go now. My brother is waiting.”

“Yes, I’ve kept a busy person too long. You should go. I should be going as well.”

“Yes, please keep the number I gave you. If anything happens, make sure to call me!”

“Hoho, alright.”

The grandfather walked away from the hospital step by step.

He looked much healthier than when he had been in a wheelchair before, which made her feel relieved.

“…But why is Hee-sung standing over there like that?”

Hee-sung, who had just passed by the grandfather near the hospital entrance, was standing far away.

His face had turned pale.

“Hey, Do Hee-sung. Why are you standing there like—”

“S-Sis! Sis! What was that just now? You were talking to that person, right?”

“Yeah. He’s a grandfather I got close to at the hospital.”

“What? Close? With him? Really?”

“Yes, I told you. Why are you making such a fuss?”

“A fuss? A fuuuss? How can I not be shocked? My sister knows Seo Chang-seok, the chairman of Daeun Group?!”