I Became an Unofficial Healer

Oh my.
I’ve come to the wrong place.

A place I can’t even enjoy anyway.

For someone like me with little money, the nightlife district was truly a place I neither belonged in nor could enjoy.

Because it costs a lot of money.

Whether buying women, making secretive requests, gambling, and so on.

In the end, it’s all about money, money, money.

Especially things to be careful of are gambling and women.

If I get accustomed to the taste of gambling or women, I’d get lost in them and the path back to my original world would become even more distant.

I don’t even have money to use in the first place.

Well, I could probably afford cheap brothels or women who sell their bodies individually.
But my precious first experience will be with a virgin girlfriend in a fresh romance!

I was about to turn around and leave the nightlife district.

“…”

Well, I can’t use anything now?

But there’s more than just brothels here, I might encounter truly rare items too?

Later, I’ll raise my reputation and earn a lot of money.
It’s not bad to develop an eye for quality from now.

Window shopping is free, right?
No money spent but I can develop my eye, how good is that.

With this reasonable conclusion, I walked through the nightlife district again.

Step by step, I looked around at the flashy buildings with lamp-like fixtures on their signs, developed from magic stones obtained by defeating monsters.

That place is a brothel.
That’s also a brothel.
That’s… an adult shop and that’s an ordinary restaurant.

Even in the nightlife district, not every building is obscene or suspicious.

You need places to replenish your nutrition after thoroughly relieving yourself.

“Oh my! Handsome boy over there~. We’ve got good stuff here♡ How about a sweet night?”

A woman soliciting customers had a good eye as she spoke to me.

“Ah, I’m sorry. I…”

As I was about to politely decline,

Another woman whispered to the soliciting woman.

“That guy’s a quack healer. Just does herb gathering. Obviously has no money, so forget it.”

“Oh, what? Is that so? Hohoho, I’m sorry. Brother~ I didn’t know~.”

The woman immediately turned her back on me and flirted with another man to solicit him.

I have enough money to use for one night too!

Fuck.

But why are rumors about me circulating even in a place like this?
Why has the notorious reputation of being broke spread!

My mood immediately soured, but I couldn’t just leave right away.

If I did, I’d become a petty person.

To become a future hero’s companion, right? I need to have a generous heart too.

“Hey you… Oh, what. It’s a broke guy. Tsk.”

“Huh? Isn’t that the quack healer? Did you have money to buy women? Puhahaha!”

“Brother~ Who is that person?”

“Hmm? He’s a fool who asks people to receive his treatment without even having a license.”

“Kyahahaha! What’s that! So funny!”

“It’s true, really!”

“Really? Wow… that person has no conscience.”

“Excuse me, mister. If you’re not buying, please move along quickly?”

These damn people.

Even with a generous heart, facing a combo of derision everywhere makes one’s heart violent.

I should quickly find a mysterious shop, just look around, and be done with it…

It was just at that moment.

“…can’t do. …will.”

“Huh?”

A very weak, strained, hoarse voice came from an alley in the nightlife district.
Moreover, the atmosphere felt somewhat murderous… like a voice that seemed to be casting a curse.

When I entered the alley where the sound was coming from,

“I’ll… kill. I’ll kill them… Absolutely… absolutely cannot… forgive.”

A woman was slumped against the alley wall.

From a distance, she would look like a drunk woman making a fuss.

But.

“Ugh.”

The smell entering my nostrils wasn’t alcohol but something that caused revulsion.

Looking closely, the woman was wearing a colorful, somewhat see-through dress.
However, its color had faded due to stains from dust and discharge, and it had holes in various places.

Through the holes, I could see disgusting blisters on her skin, some of which had burst and were leaking discharge.

Even apart from the holes in her clothes, I could tell there was something seriously wrong with the skin on her exposed arms and legs.

Just seeing a woman collapsed in an alley of the nightlife district, I could make a rough guess about the situation.

Probably this woman was a prostitute.
And the blisters on her skin were probably something like a sexually transmitted disease.

Having contracted an STD and become useless, she was abandoned by the brothel and was now here spewing curses.
That kind of situation came to mind.

This… might help me raise my reputation, right?

She clearly has extremely serious symptoms.
If I use my healing magic to perfectly restore such a seriously ill woman,

Wouldn’t people acknowledge my skills?

Even if she’s a prostitute from the nightlife district, the achievement of healing a seriously ill body would remain!

Good.

“Hey, are you alright?”

I spoke to the woman in the kindest, most gentle voice I could manage.

“Who… are you. Go… away…!”

The woman glared at me with eyes that made me instantly understand what it means for a person to have a truly venomous gaze.

Wow, look at those vicious eyes.

Her vicious gaze, combined with her face that had become hideous due to burst blisters everywhere, created an even more frightening impression.

I was intimidated for a moment.

But if I retreat here, fame would be far away.

“Your condition looks really serious. Should I heal you? It’s free for the first time.”

“Heal…? Hah.”

Perhaps intrigued by the word “heal,” the woman looked at my face and then sneered in her hoarse voice.

“How… are you going to heal my body? Even clerics couldn’t heal me, and even after spending a fortune hiring a healing mage, I ended up like this…”

Oh, she had enough money to hire not just a cleric but even a healing mage?
Even though she’s a prostitute, was she quite rich?

A healing mage is a profession requiring tremendous effort, needing a license.
Most wounds are treated by clerics, so they mainly work on treating complex diseases.

Of course, their fees are extremely expensive.

“Besides, you’re… the quack healer from the adventurer’s guild, right? You’re saying someone like you will heal me? Hah, just say you came to kill me, right?”

No, why is my nickname “quack healer” circulating like this?

This is so unfair.

If you’re going to criticize, do it properly!

“I haven’t treated a single person yet, who’s calling me a quack? Why does everyone, this guy and that guy, think I’m a quack healer? And why is that rumor spreading everywhere!”

“Ha, hahah. Because it’s a funny topic of conversation for the adventurers who use… the guild. You keep doing that ridiculous thing of offering treatment without a license, never getting tired of it.”

Ha, look at these adventurers’ personalities.
They use my persistent and diligent promotional efforts as entertainment while sleeping with women.

“Now that you know my reputation, that’s enough, right? Go… away. Haah, haah… I’m even tired of… talking.”

“Someone who’s tired of talking was continuously saying they’d kill earlier?”

“Shut… up. I’ll continue to hate… those who made me like this. I’ll curse them… even after death. I’ll… kill them… can’t… forgive.”

The woman ignored me and started cursing someone again.

If I continue being gentlemanly, it’s obvious she’ll keep looking down on and ignoring me.
In times like this… I need to be a bit forceful.

I crouched down and spoke harshly to the woman who had mocked me, with a little emotion.

“Hey, lady.”

“Who… are you calling lady.”

As expected of a woman, she’s sensitive to being called “lady.”
Bull’s eye.

“With your body, voice, and face completely messed up, how can I tell if you’re a young woman, a middle-aged woman, or an old woman?”

“You…! Ugh!”

The woman looked at me with an even fiercer gaze.
She was scarier than any witch from fairy tales.

For my future success, I suppressed my intimidated feelings and smiled at the woman.

“From what I can see, honestly, you don’t have much time left, right? You’re barely hanging on even now?”

“Shut… up…!”

“Your reaction tells me I’m right. Well then, lady. Since it’s come to this, let’s test something. Whether my healing magic is really that of a quack, or if it’s super~ amazing magic. I guarantee you this. If you receive my magic, you can be completely healed, you know? Don’t you want to… regain your former beauty?”

The woman’s body reacted with a flinch.

No matter how low her trust in me was,
The idea of regaining her beauty must be very alluring.

Adding one more bait,

“And don’t you want to take revenge on those who made you like this? Rather than just spewing useless curses here… wouldn’t it be better to recover completely and take revenge?”

“Why should I… trust.”

“If you don’t trust me, then just die here without taking revenge. Honestly, I don’t care either way? Right? Even if a woman like you, who irritates people even when they show goodwill, just dies.”

The woman was silent again, then glared at me and said,

“…If you fail, I’ll curse you even… after death.”

“Great.”

Extending my hand toward the woman, I drew upon the infinite mana within me.
And with expectations for a bright, brilliant future ahead, I used healing magic on the woman.

“Cure, Heal, Stamina Heal.”

The healing magic trio for sick people.

The moment green light enveloped the woman,
Her body began to heal at a rapid pace.

All the blisters subsided, the festering areas returned to smooth skin, and her hideous face regained its original beauty.

Curing the disease, removing the wounds on her body, and completely restoring her exhausted stamina.

“Thank you for your patronage. How is it?”

“Huh…?”

The woman blinked, looking at her hands where the blisters had completely disappeared.

“Huh?”

She touched her throat, which now produced a proper feminine voice instead of an extremely hoarse one.

“Ah, aah…!”

She repeatedly touched her face, which had regained its beauty, with both hands.

And finally, without removing her hands from her face, I gave a thumbs up and raised the corner of my mouth to the woman looking up at me.

“The effect is killer, right?”

“Y-yes.”

The sight of the woman nodding with stiff movements, her expression still disbelieving, was quite worth seeing.