chapter 33
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Seong-hyeon got into the ambulance and looked at Seong-wook’s body, even though the pain was still there.
Seeing that he no longer felt like he was being healed, he seemed to be in good shape.
“are you okay?”
Seong-hyeon asked the paramedics because it was more comfortable to keep a clear answer, and the paramedics answered with a slightly nervous expression.
“Oh, yes! Thanks to your treatment, I am now in a normal state.”
“That’s fortunate.”
The paramedics continued to check Seongwook’s physical condition while heading to the emergency room, and also checked Seonghyeon’s condition.
‘This person was a healer.’
As a person who works to save people’s lives, he could not be unaware of the emergence of a healer.
The paramedics knew very well that the healer was a student at the academy, and that when he used his powers, he felt pain instead.
‘If I had fallen from that height, my whole body would have broken bones…’
It was said that he felt the pain of breaking bones, even the pain of those bones piercing organs throughout his body.
How big was the pain?
The paramedic recalled the worst injury he had ever suffered.
When you broke your leg while crossing a building when you were young?
Or when you lose your hospital stay for a while in a car accident?
I don’t know much about the pain that person felt after falling from that high place, but one thing was certain that it was an incomparable level of pain.
“It seems that both of you are fine, but I think it would be a good idea to get tested.”
“That’s fortunate.”
After checking the condition and chatting for a while, the ambulance arrived at the emergency room.
Sung-wook and Seong-hyeon were immediately inspected, and as the paramedics had said before, they were able to get a reply that there was nothing wrong.
“I don’t have any injuries, but I must have lost my mind from the pain I experienced for the first time. You will wake up in a little while.”
“thank you.”
Seong-hyeon now sits next to Seong-wook, who is lying down with a calm expression.
I thought for a while whether I should tell Seongwook’s parents, but when asked why he was hurt, he wasn’t confident enough to answer.
“…let’s just go back.”
Originally, I wanted to be by your side until I woke up, but I didn’t want to burden myself that much.
“There, Hunter.”
“yes?”
An ambulance crew who had been in the ambulance with me earlier called Seong-hyeon.
“I wonder if this is Hunter-sama…”
What the paramedics gave me was a cell phone.
‘Oh, come to think of it, I dropped it and didn’t pick it up.’
“thank you.”
“Haha, no. Are you dying now?”
“It should be. You never know when you’ll wake up, and there’s nothing good about being by your side for nothing.”
“Today…you worked hard. You saved your life.”
The paramedics bowed their heads toward Seonghyeon.
Because I knew very well how big of a mission it is to save a person’s life.
Sung-hyun looked at the hospital building for a moment, then turned around and went back.
where nothing can be seen.
Seongwook, who fell alone in the middle, tried to look around, but it was not simply invisible, it seemed like a place where nothing existed.
Seeing that no body pain is felt at all, the afterlife
“After the death… world?”
Seongwook remembered the situation very clearly before coming here.
Looking at the darkening sky for a while in an empty classroom at the academy, and then throwing himself into the sky as if he was about to fly.
In addition to the tremendous pain I felt when I closed my eyes, Sunghyun’s voice I heard right before I lost my mind.
“…”
As I recalled the memories of that time, I now saw the faces of others.
From the face of Hwang Ui-hyeon, the cause of this torment and the cause of this, to the face of his parents, whose conversations disappeared someday.
“Now…what will happen?”
I thought that I had given up a lot and got rid of my fear, but then a new fear came upon me.
“Mom and Dad… it’ll be fine.”
Seongwook thought he would be able to endure without confidence.
You may fall into sadness for a while, but emotions are always temporary.
“Temporary…”
Thinking like that, I thought that maybe all the things that Sungwook himself went through were temporary.
“No, no. I remember everything from the beginning…”
Seongwook bit his lower lip quite strongly.
All the words they say now are just excuses for taking their own lives.
Emotions may be temporary, but the scars left by them were never temporary.
It may heal well, and even if it does, it will only leave a scar.
“Uhhh…”
I tried to hold back somehow, but I couldn’t easily hold back the tears that were pouring out.
“I…why did I do that?”
Regrets began to creep in.
It seemed that he had made a choice that should not be guided by hasty judgments and temporary emotions he was already familiar with.
I wanted to turn everything around.
Before jumping out of an empty classroom, when I first met Hwang Eui-hyun, and before entering the academy.
Then, all of a sudden, a light began to come in.
It was not that I could see anything, but seeing the light in the far-off darkness was as if I was facing hope.
Eventually, when the light completely engulfed the darkness, the surroundings began to come into view.
“Rice, hospital…?”
For a moment, Seongwook thought that this was really the afterlife.
“Are you okay?”
A nurse passing by just approached and asked Sung-wook who had woken up, and Seong-wook did not answer and just looked at the nurse.
“Uh… are you okay?”
“Oh…yes…but what happened…?”
“You fell… from a high place.”
The nurse worked hard to hide the fact that Seongwook was about to commit suicide.
I didn’t have to tell someone who couldn’t remember what happened that I was trying to commit suicide.
“But why isn’t your body okay…?”
“Ah, that’s because Hunter Kim Seong-hyun cured him.”
“Yes Yes? Are you Seonghyun?”
Seongwook knew very well the amount of pain he felt when the incident happened.
It was such a pain that it is difficult to describe it with simple and short words such as pain and suffering, but it was quite shocking that Seong-hyeon took the pain instead.
“Looking at his condition, he just passed away.”
“Ah…were there any injuries to that friend?”
“Yes, are you okay?”
Seongwook bit his lower lip and got up from the hospital bed.
“Are you okay? There is no pain, but you should rest a little…”
“it’s okay.”
Seongwook barely supported his trembling legs and ran towards the entrance of the hospital.
He said he had just left, so he wouldn’t have gone that far.
“Oh, thank you.”
Just then, Sunghyun’s voice was heard from the front.
Seong-hyeon, who was handed the cell phone to the paramedics, tried to leave the hospital.
“Seo, Sunghyun-ah!”
“uh? Did you wake up soon?”
Seonghyun’s expression didn’t matter.
He looked so calm to see that he was the only person who said he had felt that great pain, and his eyes were not greedy to think that he would ask for the price he deserved.
Seonghyeon and Seongwook sat down on a bench in a quiet neighborhood.
Seong-hyeon bought the first drink that Sung-wook had bought, and started talking to him.
“Why did you make that choice?”
“…”
It was a short question, but Sungwook could not find a proper answer, so he answered silently.
“It’s because of Hwang Eui-hyun.”
“…actually…”
Seongwook explained to Seonghyeon everything he had been through.
From the moment I entered the academy until now, less than a year is a short time if it is short, but for Seongwook, the times are longer than ever.
Seong-hyeon listened to Seong-wook’s story from beginning to end without a slight change in expression.
It was clearly a face without any expression, but with an expression as if he understood everything, Sungwook had no choice but to suppress the things that made him cry.
“It must have been difficult.”
It was a very short word, but it came closer than any other words of consolation.
“Did I hold on too much? Let’s go now.”
Seongwook got up and went back to the hospital as if everything was fine.
Seonghyeon, who was looking at such a back view, also got up and left the seat.
While looking at the new window that appeared in front of me.
After finishing the treatment, Seongwook headed home with a much lighter expression and heart than before.
“Huh… I’m getting tired of waiting.”
“Hwang Eui-hyun…?”
Hwang Eui-hyun witnessed Seong-wook falling from the classroom window today.
And even Seong-hyun’s direct treatment.
“Thank you for coming back to life.”
Goosebumps all over his body for a moment at the words that did not match his young expression.
“Hey, leave me alone!”
“What? haha! What did you say that made you so courageous all of a sudden? Oh, did you turn the courage that threw that insignificant body here?”
“Shut up.”
Ui-hyeon’s face, which had been ridiculed until recently, hardened at the word “Shut up”.
“Are you crazy?”
After that, no further conversation was necessary.
Ui-hyun tried to prove the life he was holding, and Seong-wook tried to shake off that pressure.
‘I can’t win, but…’
At least I can show the least will.
If I had to live like this every day anyway, wouldn’t it be okay to resist every day?
As I was preparing for the pain to come, I heard a familiar voice from behind.
“I knew this would happen.”
It’s Seonghyun’s voice.
“Kim Seong-hyun? Why are you here…”
“Wow, are you really here?”
“I know.”
It wasn’t just Sunghyun.
There was even Inhwan and Sangyeon.
“Let’s try 3:1…? Cowardly bastards.”
“3:1? gibberish. You don’t deserve to put so much effort into it.”
It was none other than Seonghyun who spit these words out.
“Hey, if you had the only ability, did you think I would take care of you?”
“You must have been a little nervous as the words were getting longer?”
“…this bastard…”
Ui-hyeon’s rattling sound reached the place where Seong-hyun was.
“Are you okay?”
“…are you okay?”
“yes.”
Compared to Ui-hyeon, who was fully prepared, Seong-hyeon approached Ui-hyeon without taking any stance.
“Hey, are you going to hit me until I’m tired?”
Ui-hyeon regained her lost smile and moved with a relaxed look.
‘Do you believe in only one cure and attack me?’
It was ridiculous and I just laughed.
To be able to believe in one of those great stamina and jump on a subject that is all about healing others.
“You said you felt pain instead, so did your attitude change that way?”
“Can you do more than a pervert that makes you stronger by feeling pain?”
Sung-hyeon had already heard information about Ui-hyeon from Sung-wook.
“…Kang Seongwook, this little bastard… it’s all over. Without you, the two assholes behind me will not be able to appear at the academy for a while.”
Ui-hyeon rushed to Seong-hyeon with a confident expression.
He did not hide any gaps as pain would soon turn into strength, and he was willing to accept the opponent’s counterattack with pleasure.
“…uh?”
But something was strange.
Even though he hadn’t received any attacks, his body suddenly began to overflow with strength.
‘Would it be possible to re-emerge a new ability?’
If so, then he was the chosen human being.
To the extent that it overwhelms Seonghyeon, who has the only ability in front of him.
“ha ha ha!”
Even while I was thinking like this, my body was overflowing with energy.
With this kind of power, at least in Korea, it seemed like it would fit inside my finger.
“I beg you to live.”