[Episode 05] Expansion of Power (2)
[No. 2902]
Of course, I didn’t even ring the doorbell or anything, but just grabbed the doorknob and turned it.
Unlocking the front door wasn’t difficult.
Because it was easy to handle the electronic devices included in the corner area of the house.
however.
Crunch!
I couldn’t do anything about the analog lock either.
‘shit!’
Clank- clank-!
‘Isn’t there any way?’
The idea of coming down through the upper floor window occurred to me, but it was impossible.
Because of the confines of the home, I couldn’t go completely outside the window.
There was enough space to stick my hand or head out the living room window, but not enough to go outside at all.
‘That’s right. A newly acquired skill!’
Because of the chaos, I even thought about new skills that I hadn’t been able to test out.
The Invisible Hand of the Absolute in the Corner Lv. 1
– Summon and control invisible hands.
‘bingo!’
I tried using the skill right away.
There was something I felt while using the Dignity Maintenance Skill and the Eye of the Absolute Skill, and there was only one thing that was most important when using the skill.
‘My will.’
What I wanted, that was the most important factor.
The moment I pictured myself unlocking the front door safety catch, I felt something coming out of my body and covering the safety catch.
Kwung— crack!
“······.”
The invisible hand shattered the safety net with such ease.
The force was so strong that part of the front door was bent, with the safety catch forcibly removed.
As I stared at the badly damaged open front door, a better idea occurred to me.
‘···I should have just used the summoning skill.’
Come to think of it, I should have summoned Choi Hyeong-jun, who was doing nothing, from inside and opened the door.
But what can we do?
It’s spilt milk.
‘Let’s save people first and then think about it.’
The house was plunged into darkness and the lights were turned on.
A bright light illuminated the entire house, and I saw Kim Da-jeong passed out, as if asleep, in the center of the living room.
She was a pretty person.
Even though she has reached the limit of her life and is in a haggard state, her shining beauty is not completely hidden.
‘Why on earth am I doing this here?’
Why on earth does it have to be the living room floor?
There were decent beds in the master bedroom and the small room, but there weren’t any blankets laid out in the living room.
“Hey, come to your senses.”
I gently tapped her cheek.
I grabbed her shoulder and shook her body without any response, but it was the same.
I just shook helplessly and couldn’t come to my senses.
Only her barely hanging breath proved that she was still alive.
‘The condition is worse than expected.’
Pale skin, sunken eyes, dry lips. There was also a slight fever.
Yet her beauty, which could not be hidden, was so unrealistic that it felt like seeing a princess from a fairy tale.
‘This is a sign of severe dehydration.’
I didn’t understand.
That was to be expected, as there were still bottles of water left in the kitchen.
There were dozens of Isis water bottles that were small, about 300ml each, but just the right size to fit in your hand.
If I had just eaten those on time, I wouldn’t have suffered from such severe dehydration.
There were snacks and chocolates on the Irish table, and the cupboard was even stocked with ramen noodles of various types.
We have food and water, and yet we come to the brink of death like this.
‘What are you trying to do, woman?’
Did you really intend to die?
Looking at it that way, the two hands clasped together seemed like they were calmly accepting death.
Even if she had decided to die, I had no intention of letting her die.
I will definitely save you.
‘What should I do?’
I learned in the military that you shouldn’t just give water to a patient who is showing severe symptoms of dehydration.
We knew that it was extremely dangerous, especially for unconscious patients, as there was a risk of airway obstruction.
‘The correct way is to send him to the emergency room.’
The only solution was to increase the blood volume in the body through intravenous injection.
But in this ruined world, there was no way a hospital could function properly, and there were no paramedics who would come here.
First, as an emergency measure, Kim Da-jeong’s legs were raised.
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The aim was to buy time by pumping blood from the legs back to the heart and maintaining the function of major organs for a little longer.
‘If I can’t do anything like this, I’ll really die.’
She was a woman with healing abilities.
It couldn’t be sent this easily.
‘I must save you.’
What can I do?
I examined each and every skill I had. Among the items registered in the store and the items in the warehouse, there was nothing that could be of any help to Kim Da-jeong.
After thinking about it for a while, an exquisite idea came to mind.
‘Is it possible to use it like this?’
There was no need to worry.
Because if you try it right now, that’s it.
‘Quest granted, reward is recovery from dehydration symptoms.’
The quest content was to take one breath.
and.
[Citizen Kim Da-jeong completed the quest.]
[Quest cost is 10,000,000 won.]
‘It worked!’
Although I spent a whopping 10 million won on the quest, I didn’t regret it at all.
“Hmm.”
Because the effect was that certain.
Kim Da-jeong slowly opened her eyes, looked at the living room lights, frowned, and raised her arms.
“Hey, Kim Da-jeong. Are you awake?”
The moment my eyes met hers.
[Citizen Kim Da-jeong’s trust level increases.]
A notification appeared saying that trust has increased.
‘Here it comes again.’
It wasn’t only Kim Da-jeong’s case that trust increased as soon as they met.
It was the same with Owen Ju, Ha Dong-gun’s party, and Choi Hyeong-jun’s family.
From the first meeting, a notification appeared that trust had increased.
‘People who meet in person all have a high level of trust.’
It was something that was obvious.
It was only natural that trust in someone you knew would increase more quickly than in a stranger whose face you didn’t even know.
However, it was a slightly different case where trust increased like this just by meeting someone face to face.
Because it was so abnormal.
The abnormal increase in trust was clearly influenced by skill.
‘Is it because of the skill of maintaining dignity?’
Kim Da-jeong looked at me with hazy eyes and asked.
“···Who are you?”
“My name is Kim Jae-hyun. I live upstairs.”
“······yes?”
Slowly, life began to come back into her eyes. When she came to her senses, she was startled and pulled away from my arms.
“Who, who are you?”
“As I just told you, it’s the person living upstairs.”
“How did you get in here?”
“I forced the door open and came in because your condition looked serious.”
“What is that···.”
Kim Da-jeong looked around the house with confused eyes.
And then.
“ah······.”
Soon, he looked as if he had realized something, and tears began to flow from his eyes.
“iced coffee···!”
Kim Da-jeong cried, covering her face with both hands.
Her thin shoulders trembled faintly.
“······.”
I looked at her quietly crying and thought.
How on earth do we comfort someone?
What can I say to reach the heart of someone who is crying so sadly?
I couldn’t figure it out.
Even things like giving a silent hug or sympathizing with someone’s sadness were comforts that could only be done to some extent by being close to them.
I didn’t have any of that,
So I decided to just say what I wanted to say.
“Ms. Kim Da-jeong.”
When I called her name, she looked up at me with a tear-filled face.
He said to her like that.
“help.”
I decided not to ask what happened or why she was crying so sadly.
There is no need to bring back painful memories.
Rather than that, I thought that turning my attention elsewhere, to the present reality, would be a less sad way.
“My colleague was seriously injured.”
***
Kim Da-jeong was blankly staring at the man who introduced himself as Kim Jae-hyun.
‘What is this guy talking about?’
The story started with him asking for help because his colleague was badly injured, and soon he started saying that he had special powers.
‘What nonsense are you talking about?’
Superpowers?
That’s also called a healing ability.
I felt like an idiot for getting so serious in response to hearing that someone was hurt.
‘Heel? How did you know I’m a nurse and say such things?’
This guy, maybe he’s been reading too many comics.
Then suddenly I realized.
I wondered if the man who was talking so earnestly in front of me was actually trying to comfort me.
She realized this instinctively, having been tired of receiving men’s favors.
‘Hmm.’
doll.
As I began to develop feelings for him, I also became curious about him.
Naturally, the face she had seen briefly earlier came to mind, and Kim Da-jeong looked at his face, which was talking intently, and thought.
‘···He was handsome.’
His clumsy ways rather knocked on the door of her heart.
“Phh.”
“···Why are you laughing?”
It was amazing.
Usually, the eyes of the men who comforted her when she cried were full of selfishness, but she didn’t feel that from the man in front of her.
In any case, if the man’s purpose was to comfort himself, he had to admit that he had succeeded to some extent.
“Okay. Where should I go?”
I said this with the intention of getting along appropriately.
however.
“wait a minute.”
[You have been given a quest.]
Quest Content: Use Heal to heal the injured Owenju.
Time limit: 1 hour 00 minutes 00 seconds
Reward: Increased Heal Proficiency
Failure Penalty: None.
“uh?”
The man spoke while I was absentmindedly reading the holographic window that appeared before my eyes.
“You don’t need to move. Ms. Kim Da-jeong is very weak, so please rest here and eat something. I will bring Mr. Oh Eun-ju.”
Then, out of nowhere, a tangerine appeared out of thin air and landed in front of her.
“···uh?”
“Then, please rest.”
Kim Da-jeong grabbed the man who was trying to leave while turning his back.
“Now, just a moment!”
“What’s going on?”
“What is it?”
He looked down at the tangerine that Kim Da-jeong offered and answered.
“It’s a tangerine.”
“That’s not it···!”
There were many things I wanted to ask about, such as the hologram that suddenly appeared before my eyes and the tangerines that appeared out of thin air, but I couldn’t get the words out properly.
The moment I tried to stand up with a stuffy mind,
“oh-!”
He ended up tripping over his own feet.
I closed my eyes and waited for the pain to come.
“······?”
It didn’t hurt.
Kim Da-jeong, who felt something was strange, slowly opened her eyes,
“!!!”
I was able to confirm my own appearance floating in the air.
It felt like something was supporting my body, but I couldn’t see anything.
Kim Da-jeong looked at the man with rabbit-like eyes.
He said it nonchalantly.
“Your body is very weak right now, so please be careful when moving around. You might get hurt.”
Kim Da-jeong, who carefully got down on the ground, couldn’t close her mouth.
“Please wait a moment.”
Kim Da-jeong, who had been blankly staring in the direction the man had left for a while, looked at the tangerine left in her hand and thought seriously.
‘Am I dreaming?’
***
[Citizen Kim Da-jeong’s trust level increases.]
After calming down Kim Da-jeong and taking the elevator down, a notification appeared saying that trust had increased again.
Her confidence level had already surpassed 30.
I think it was a good idea to actually show off your abilities at the end.
‘I guess I didn’t believe you after all.’
From the moment I stopped crying sadly and suddenly started laughing, I had a feeling that it would be like that.
It must have been funny because they suddenly started talking about superpowers and healing.
‘Well, it’s hard to believe something like that until you see it with your own eyes.’
As the saying goes, seeing is believing, so it’s better to show people things in person.
♩♬―
[This is the first floor.]
[The door opens.]
After arriving on the first floor, I walked down the hallway and greeted the Hadonggun party at the main entrance on the first floor.
Now that we have confirmed that Hadonggun’s party has reached the side road, it is time for them to arrive.
‘There he is.’
The first thing that caught my eye was the sight of Moon Byung-ho running hard while carrying his grandmother on his back.
‘You’re great, our Byung-ho.’
Just the things I gained today thanks to Moon Byung-ho were like a mountain.
I looked at him with a happy smile, but suddenly I noticed that there was something strange in the atmosphere.
‘···Why are you running so fast?’
Kang Deok-su, Ha Dong-geon, Kim Ga-yeong, Yoo Hye-rin, and Kim Geon, who followed Moon Byung-ho, were all gritting their teeth and running.
As if being chased by something.
And its identity was soon revealed.
‘That’s···?’
Behind the Hadonggun party, a huge red tiger was chasing them closely.
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