Please Give Me A Kiss, Healer! Chapter 92

─ We’ve arrived. Get off now.

“Whaaaat… already?”

It felt like it hadn’t even been a minute. Whitebird, which had flown through the sky at a speed comparable to a fighter jet, landed in an open area.

─ There’s a battle going on nearby. So far, we’ve been fine, but if we get any closer, we’ll be discovered.

After landing, Jiwoo deactivated the <Homeowner’s Guard> skill and sent Whitebird back.

Following the direction that Whitehawk31 had given her, she ran for a while before spotting Hunters engaged in battle. They were Hunters from the Osan Guild.

Among them, Jiwoo recognized someone familiar.

“Cheolsu Oppa!”

“Jiwoo?”

Kim Cheolsu was blocking a monster’s attack with his shield. At the moment his concentration slipped, a rat-like monster, a Rat Man, struck Kim Cheolsu’s forearm with its sharp claws.

“Ugh!”

“[Shield!], [Heal!], [Heal!].”

Jiwoo quickly used her skills and moved to Kim Cheolsu’s side. Around him, Hunters from the Osan Guild lay unconscious on the ground.

Fortunately, the only monster left was the single Rat Man.

Jiwoo helped Kim Cheolsu take care of the remaining Rat Man.

“Phew, you saved me. Thanks, Jiwoo.”

“What are you thanking me for? Wait a bit, Oppa. I’ll use Heal on them one more time after I finish treating everyone.”

They couldn’t move somewhere else until the fallen Hunters woke up. After treating the Osan Guild members one by one, Jiwoo sat down on a rock.

Kim Cheolsu handed her a canteen filled with water.

“Thanks.”

“But how did you end up here alone?”

“Oh, well… I got separated. I was part of the support team, but when I came to, I was alone.”

It was a made-up excuse, but Kim Cheolsu believed her without question. There wasn’t really any reason for him not to.

“So your situation is the same as ours. Our team’s Healer disappeared too, sigh…”

“The Healer disappeared?”

“Yeah. I guess they got separated during the battle, just like you.”

Unlike Special Team 7, which had two Healers, the Osan Guild relied on a single Healer for support.

They had been worried because they couldn’t reach the Healer by radio, and then they encountered a group of Rat Men and ended up in a battle.

“Since we couldn’t get treatment, it got harder and harder as time passed. I never realized how important a Healer was until now.”

“Do you think the Healer who got separated is okay?”

“We can’t do anything about it. All we can do is hope they’re okay.”

But both of them knew.

The chance that a Healer who had been separated during a battle was still alive and well was close to zero.

Kim Cheolsu then told her about the last radio message they had received from the Donghae Guild.

The last radio message reported the appearance of two or three Krakens, a change in the dungeon, and a request for support.

“When we got the message, everyone was scattered, so we decided to gather separately on the northern coast.”

“I see…”

“But Jiwoo, what were you doing that you didn’t even hear the radio?”

“Huh?”

What, what should I do?

Startled, Jiwoo blinked.

After encountering Blackdolphin, she had turned off her radio in case her location could be tracked.

“M-my radio broke. It keeps working and then not working!”

“Really? That’s the first time I’ve heard of a radio breaking.”

For a Hunter, it was equipment as important as their life. Radios were supplies built to withstand a tremendous amount of damage. Kim Cheolsu narrowed his eyes.

“Let me see your radio. I’ll check what’s wrong, and if I can fix it, I should…”

“Ah! Oppa! Look over there!”

“Hm?”

Jiwoo desperately tried to change the subject. Luckily, there was a large bush in the direction she pointed at randomly.

“T-that bush over there! Doesn’t it look suspicious?”

“Not really. I don’t see anything strange.”

Jiwoo got up and approached the bush.

She planned to pick up any random leaf and say, ‘Oh, look, there are bug bites here, hahaha!’

“Oppa, look closely. If you look here, like this…”

Before she could finish speaking, a system window suddenly flashed before her eyes.

 

System

Pet Skill [Search Far and Wide for My Owner (F)] has been activated.

 

A yellow foot suddenly poked out from between the bushes.

“…There’s a yellow foot sticking out of the bush… AAAAAH!”

The moment she came to her senses, Jiwoo’s mind froze.

‘Those tiny yellow webbed feet can only belong to…’

─ Nya-nya! This one has arrived, nya!

Aaaaaaaah! Dongsik, you idiot!

Why are you here?!

Terrified, Jiwoo immediately tried to hide Dongsik with all her strength. But it was already too late.

“M-monster?”

Kim Cheolsu, who had been behind her, had already spotted Dongsik. He immediately raised his shield and shouted.

“Jiwoo, come over here! It’s dangerous!”

“No, Oppa…”

“Do Jiwoo, get over here right now! Put that monster down!”

─ Nya-nya-nya. Juuu-woo, what’s that guy, nya? He looks like the type Kangwoo would hate, nya.

“A m-monster is talking…?”

─ Stop pointing at me like that! You inferior human!

“I-inferior human? Is that thing talking to me right now?”

Shocked, Kim Cheolsu looked back and forth between Jiwoo and Dongsik with an expression that demanded an explanation.

Jiwoo held her dizzy head and closed her eyes.

“Oppa, the truth is…”

 

“I can’t believe you’re a second Awakener…”

“Oppa, could you stop looking at me like I’m a monkey at the zoo?”

“Ah, sorry. This is my first time seeing a second Awakener in person.”

Kim Cheolsu smiled awkwardly and patted Jiwoo on the back.

“Anyway, that means you’re one of the fewer than ten S-rank Hunters in our country now. Whoa, I’m so proud of you. My little sister!”

“I’m only your little sister when you say things like that, huh?”

“That hurts, Jiwoo. How can you say that to your Oppa?”

Unlike Jiwoo’s worry that he might doubt her or ask a lot of questions, Kim Cheolsu simply accepted the news of her Awakening.

A penguin squeezed between the two of them as they smiled warmly at each other.

─ Nya-nya-nya! Be careful! If Kangwoo sees you, human, you’re in big trouble, nya!

“Kangwoo? Who’s Kangwoo?”

“Oh, there is… someone like that…”

A very handsome and very dangerous person, that is…

Jiwoo’s voice trailed off. Kim Cheolsu’s attention shifted to Dongsik.

“So this is your Summon, right?”

“Yeah.”

“Hm. Well, other than being a talking penguin, he doesn’t seem particularly special. He doesn’t look dangerous, either.”

─ What do you mean I’m not special, nya! If you’re talking about Dongsik, I’m the guardian and mediator of the Safe Zone… Nyauuup!

Jiwoo quickly grabbed Dongsik’s beak.

‘No, no. The Safe Zone is a top secret.’

It wasn’t that she didn’t trust Kim Cheolsu. She simply wanted to avoid letting too many people know about her abilities.

“Jiwoo, then you still haven’t reported your Awakening to the Association?”

“Uh-huh. Well, somehow…”

“That’s good. Don’t report it. You might get dragged into the Emergency Disaster Team for no reason.”

“What? You’re saying the same thing, Oppa.”

Just how infamous was the Emergency Disaster Team that everyone she met kept saying the same thing?

Was it really such a terrible place that even a serious crime would be better?

At first, she had only been afraid, but now her curiosity was slowly starting to rise.

‘Anyway, thank goodness. Everything worked out without any problems.’

Dongsik, the cause of the problem, had to be sent back before the Osan Guild Hunters woke up.

Of course, the process didn’t go quietly.

─ I’m never going back, nyaaaak! Guarantee penguins the right to rest, nya! Guarantee it, nya!

Dongsik rebelled with foam at his mouth. He claimed that after taking in Antman, Whitebird, and now even Blackdolphin as unwanted houseguests, the amount of work he had to do in the Safe Zone had increased tremendously.

‘Sigh, what a mess my house has become.’

Once this dungeon is cleared, I need to clean up <My House> first.

Jiwoo grabbed Dongsik by his flapping wing and whispered.

“Dongsik, I have something to ask you to do. It’s something that only you among our family can do.”