The Party's Healer
It was 10 minutes before the originally scheduled time.
“Um, hello.”
“Ah, it’s Seo-yun!”
The woman looked extremely tired.
Her messy hair suggested she had just woken up from sleep.
Moreover, she still seemed extremely sleepy.
Her half-closed eyes barely opened.
“Haaah...”
“Seo-yun, you didn’t sleep well?”
“No... I think I slept well.”
“Then why do you look so sleepy?”
“Well, yawning—even if you sleep, it’s not enough.”
Choi Seo-yun kept yawning as she approached.
“Eh? I don’t recognize the face...”
“Ah, it’s only Ga-eun who came because Haruka asked for it today.”
Choi Seo-yun made a puzzled expression for a moment, then a thought occurred to her.
“Ah, now that I think about it, it seems familiar from last time.”
“Eek, how many times did I say it on the phone?!”
“Ah, I thought that was a dream. Jiseong.”
“Seriously, Seo-yun...!”
Haruka raised both hands to her waist with an angry expression.
Choi Seo-yun glanced away from Haruka.
The gaze that had been wandering without a destination in the air was directed at Ga-eun.
“Choi Seo-yun. Healer.”
“Yes, it’s Han Ga-eun. Please take care of me today.”
“Yeah, please take care of me too.”
Ga-eun and Choi Seo-yun shook hands by holding each other’s hands.
So, Han Ga-eun had introduced herself to all the party members for today.
The five-member party had finished preparing with their respective equipment.
The party leader, Kang Tae-san (B-Class Hunter), held a giant axe, and the other vanguard, Haruka (B-Class Hunter), wore knuckle gloves on her hands.
The party’s healer, Choi Seo-yun (C-Class), held only a staff as tall as herself.
And Song Baek-hyun (C-Class), the middle-aged man with a gentle appearance, had an SF-style gun slung over his shoulder.
And finally, Ga-eun, the party’s mage and summoner...
“You have nothing?”
“I do have a weapon to bring with me, of course.”
“Um? Then take it out.”
“Here it is.”
Ga-eun said this and pointed at me with her finger, who was sitting on her shoulder.
?
What kind of talk is this?
I looked at Ga-eun with a look of incomprehension.
“Me? Why.”
“There it is. My weapon.”
Ah, no way.
“You, are you calling me a weapon?”“Isn’t it?”“Tsk, then it wouldn’t be. That would be right?”“It could be, right?”“Could it?!”
What, should I peck you on the body to monsters?
Not even a bird strike version.
What’s going on in your head.
This is really unbelievable.
- Tap tap tap
I pecked Ga-eun’s neck like a woodpecker, putting my anger into it.
“Ah, it hurts.”
“You should be hurt.”
“Ouch. P-please stop.”
“I don’t want to.”
I lightly ignored Ga-eun’s words.
My pecking filled with anger continued until Kang Tae-san’s signal for the group.
Kang Tae-san looked at today’s party members with a satisfied expression.
When the friend who was supposed to come suddenly got a notice of absence.
He had thought about giving up the gate reservation ticket he had worked hard to get.
“There’s no helping it.”
The missing person was the mage who was responsible for firepower in the party.
Since she was responsible for an important role, she needed to be a verified person.
So, I contacted the mage I knew around me, but the response was a refusal due to a tight schedule with only a few days left.
“Still, it was fortunate that Haruka brought her friend.”
At that time, when I was seriously considering giving up.
Haruka brought her friend Ga-eun.
According to Haruka, who had gone on field practice together, she heard that it was at least a B-Class or A-Class mage.
Moreover, not only was the rank high, but Ga-eun had calmly dealt with the monsters in front of her.
If Haruka’s words were true, it was really an ideal mage.
However, Kang Tae-san was the type of person who trusted what he saw with his own eyes.
He didn’t not trust Haruka, but he thought he had to see the friend Ga-eun himself.
So, after some time, today came.
When I shook hands with Ga-eun.
“Um.”
Kang Tae-san could feel something from Ga-eun.
‘This friend is going to become a great talent.’
The veteran’s instinct, which had been grinding in this world for a while, was telling.
It was hard to explain in words.
However, it was a feeling with an oddly strong conviction.
“Thank you for participating in our party today.”
The today’s gate hunt seemed to go smoothly.
“Um, uncle. Your eyes are burdensome.”
“Uncle Tae-san? Where?”
“Should I say it’s a look full of expectations...”
“Isn’t that good?”
“Well, that’s true.”
Still, it was burdensome.
Receiving a sparkling look from an uncle with a thick beard and many wrinkles on his face was not easy.
“By the way, are there no monsters around?”
“Well, there’s none around here for now.”
The inside of the gate we entered was like a cave.
No matter where we looked, the landscape of only rocks welcomed us.
“Ugh, I hate caves.”
“Is that something you can choose freely.”
“Even if I hate it, I hate it.”
“Well, that’s true.”
Because it was a cave.
The air inside the gate was overall high in humidity.
Because of that, just standing still gave a feeling that my body was getting damp.
Ah, my feathers. My fluffy feathers.
Since all my body feathers were getting damp, my mood seemed to get damp too.
“Isn’t that fixable with magic?”“Try it.”“Then do it.”“The feeling doesn’t come through.”
The feeling of having the feathers dried with magic didn’t feel like they were dried.
It was like the feeling when a fluffy blanket touches the skin of the legs.
That good feeling was important.
But magic only produced the result of drying without the intermediate process of that feeling.
That was the reason I didn’t like this kind of magic much.
“.........”“Yo, you thought I was saying something full just now, right.”“... No.”“What was that silence just now?”“There is no such thing.”
Tsk, this T guy who can’t empathize.
Before you get stamped as a socially maladjusted person, join my massive empathy service.
- Flap flap
I flapped my wings to convey protest.
“Yeah, yeah, I know. Why wouldn’t I know.”
“Yeah. You know well, right?”
“Yes, of course.”
“Hmm.”
It seemed like there was no emotion in it.
Well, is this enough?
Even if I do that, where is it.
I was satisfied with Ga-eun’s answer and inwardly nodded.
At that time, when we were going leisurely inside the gate.
“Ah, hey.”
“Yes? Why?”
“Monster in front.”
“Ah, yes. I got it.”
Finally, a monster appeared in front of us.
It was a monster named Rock Insect.
As the name suggests, it had the appearance of an insect covered with hard rock all over its body.
The size wasn’t that big. Even the largest individual didn’t exceed 1M.
“A monster in front. Be careful.”
“Yeah, Ga-eun, got it.”
“Got it. From now on, walk a little slowly.”
The party members, hearing Ga-eun’s voice, took their combat stances and walked.
It was a formation to prepare for the sudden monster ambush.
So, as we walked slowly forward, the monster revealed itself.
“Everyone. It’s a rock insect. Be careful.”
“Yeah.”
“I got it.”
The rock insect had high defense because its body was made of hard rock.
It was so high that even low-rank hunters couldn’t make even a small scratch.
So, it was a monster that scared low-rank beginner hunters.
However, the rock insect had a weakness.
It was.
“Haaah!!”
- Kwiik...
Overwhelming power to break through high defense.
If the power was enough to shatter the hard rock, the rock insect couldn’t do anything.
Most stats were focused on defense, so the attack power was pitiful in return.
At that moment, the rock insect was instantly killed by the axe that Kang Tae-san swung down like this.
Haruka, seeing such Kang Tae-san, clapped and said.
“Ooh, Uncle Tae-san. Sgoi.”
“Haha, this is it. Warm-up.”
Kang Tae-san smiled at Haruka’s praise and pulled out a gem from the rock insect.
“Okay, shall we go again?”
“Haaah, let’s finish quickly and go home.”
“Yeah, me too.”
“Haha, then I have to try hard today.”
Kang Tae-san, hearing Haruka and Choi Seo-yun’s words, laughed heartily.
I, who was listening to the story next to me, had the same thought.
“I want to go home quickly too.”
“Even if you go home, you’ll say it’s boring, right.”
“.........”“... But that’s true.”“Ah, no. I want to go home.”
“Sigh...”
Originally, people’s hearts are all like this.
Hurry up and empathize.