novelraw Chapter 103 : Chapter 103
Chapter 103 : Chapter 103
Chapter 103: Healing (1)
"Uh, uh, be careful there! It's collapsing! It's collapsing!"
"Come out! I'll hold it!"
The setting sun cast a twilight.
Beyond the outer walls of Hero Land, people moved busily in the temporary safety zone created by heroes.
A scene scattered with broken glass and metal debris.
Fallen people groaned amidst it.
Corpses of monsters difficult to identify were also sprawling here and there.
Those dressed in special forces uniforms moved busily.
The acronym KDRT was printed on their backs. It stood for Disaster Emergency Relief Team.
Transport drones carrying the injured buzzed low everywhere.
Amidst this, a drone carried a man.
He was a man wearing a blue-green combat suit. His right arm was severed.
With a painfully distorted expression, his gaze was directed to one side.
As if there was something more worrying than his own physical condition.
A rescue worker soon approached him.
"Spike Blue?"
The agent who recognized the patient shouted in surprise.
"Are you injured?"
"Ah, yes. As you can see. My arm flew off."
"Oh my, please wait a moment."
There was no hesitation in the hands of the agent facing the injured.
Hemostasis, fixation, drug injection.
Having finished the work in an instant, he asked Spike Blue.
"Was there a strong enemy? How did you……."
"It was strong and I was ambushed too. More than that, is quick treatment possible? There is a place I have to go."
"Treatment is possible, but going right away makes no sense. You must rest today. Your condition is serious."
"……."
At the rescue worker's assertive words, Spike Blue's expression crumpled.
Since it wasn't wrong, it felt even more frustrating.
‘Junior…….’
A mere cadet took on the task Spike Blue himself should have done.
The ominous energy flowing through the air kept making him anxious.
Ryu Jinwoo's life or death was still unknown.
In the meantime, he himself returned alive by a rescue drone.
He felt ashamed.
"You must be worried, but Hero-nim's stability comes first. Take a deep breath."
Just as the rescue worker calmly comforted Spike, a shadow was cast over them.
"How is the patient's condition?"
The one who came was a woman in white attire wearing red glasses.
A nametag reading 'Oh Misik' was attached to her chest.
She was holding a large medical bag in one hand.
"His arm is severed. The danger of shock has passed, and initial first aid was done well."
"Hmm, with this much, it will work out somehow. Let's start treatment right away."
The healer said, taking off her gown.
Approaching Spike Blue, she opened the medical bag.
Spike Blue, looking at her with dim eyes, opened his eyes wide in an instant.
Because a strange scene caught his eye.
"What are you doing?"
The healer in charge of his treatment suddenly started taking out food from the bag.
"Ah, don't be flustered. Healer Oh Misik is originally like this. It's preparation for treatment."
The rescue worker answered instead of the healer who was taking out food swiftly.
"Preparation?"
What on earth are they talking about.
Spike Blue's eyes trembled.
What does food have to do with treatment?
But the healer wearing gloves didn't care, tore open the food packaging, and started eating it up.
"I think I need to eat a bit much this time. Since your arms are on the long side, roughly 10,000?"
She was stuffing high-calorie compressed food into her mouth one after another.
Going one step further, there is even oil.
A tremendous amount of 'meal' took place in an instant.
"Phew."
Breathing out lightly, she stuck close to the severed cross-section of Spike Blue's arm.
Untying the bandage wrapped around the shoulder, the healer carefully examined the severed cross-section.
Then, touching it with hands changed into medical gloves.
"Starting treatment."
She simply announced the start of work.
"I don't know what it is, but it's not something strange, right?"
"You will feel a strange sensation though."
At Spike Blue's question, the healer answered stiffly.
‘What on earth is she trying to do.’
The moment anxiety surged.
The healer calmly raised magic power.
She stretched out her hand.
[Human Body Construction Art]
As the spell activated, changes began at the end of the severed arm.
Tissue was created.
And it piled up methodically.
Like a 3D printer weaving a model, the shape of the arm began to reveal itself gradually.
Spike Blue watched the process with a dumbfounded expression.
He was speechless.
Did such a spell exist?
"Agent Gangsan, prepare supplementary food just in case."
"Yes!"
As the healer spoke, the rescue worker answered immediately.
He started taking out food from his bag.
Combat rations were in the agent's hand.
Small, hard, and extremely compressed high-calorie food.
The healer glanced at it and frowned slightly.
"Ah, shall I give you something else?"
Conscious of that gaze, the rescue worker asked cautiously.
"No, just give me that."
The combat rations went into her mouth.
Every time she chewed and swallowed a bite, the regeneration of the arm sped up.
Bones took shape and muscle fibers covered them densely.
Skin wrapped over it and sensation began to return slowly.
By the time the shape of the arm roughly regained its original form and finally even fingers were regenerated.
Spike felt his fingertips twitching.
‘Ooh…….’
This is possible?
They say the world is wide.
"Try clenching."
According to the healer's instruction, he clenched his hand.
The newly formed fist closed clearly.
It was a little awkward, but he definitely felt the sensation of 'my arm'.
"It's fortunate that initial response was good. If it was contaminated, you would have had to use a prosthetic arm."
The healer said, taking out a tissue and wiping her mouth.
Pushing up her red glasses with her fingertips, she continued.
"However, you will have to train the newly created arm again. That is an unavoidable part, so please understand."
It was as she said.
It felt distinctly shrunken compared to the original arm.
Comparing it with the intact opposite arm, the difference was clear.
But just moving again like this was enough.
Furthermore, thanks to the magic power of medicine and healing, the lacerations engraved on his whole body were also healing quickly.
‘Is it a spell that converts calories into body regeneration?’
Spike Blue guessed while looking at the healer.
Well, even if he asked, she wouldn't tell him the specific mechanism, but wouldn't it be similar?
Anyway, his body recovered.
Spike Blue stood up immediately.
"Thank you. Then since I have somewhere to go."
It was the moment he tried to head to the battlefield again like that.
"That arm, the tissue isn't completely connected yet."
"Yes?"
The healer's voice was heard calmly from behind.
"It means it will fall off again if you push yourself."
Leaving only those words, the healer was already moving towards another patient.
"She is worried. Please take a rest by all means. Because Spike Blue-nim is a patient right now."
Looking at Oh Misik's figure, the rescue worker said.
Spike Blue silently tried clenching his regenerated right arm.
The reaction was slow.
There is also a slightly drooping sensation.
‘In the end, I have no choice but to wait.’
His gaze headed to one side.
The east area of Hero Land where he and Ryu Jinwoo fought together.
And intense energy was spreading from around there.
— My principle is to repay kindness. And, you are my junior.
Except for being a senior and junior of Zero, he was a boy who had no relation to him whatsoever.
Furthermore, Spike Blue himself was a hero, ready to sacrifice anytime.
Nevertheless, the boy came to save Spike Blue.
Saying he would repay the kindness of letting people and friends escape, and because he is a junior.
The guy fought with him without any hesitation.
‘Damn it, let me repay the kindness too.’
Please be alive.
He resented himself for being able to do nothing but pray like that.
It was at that moment.
"Healer! Healer please come quickly!"
Sudden disturbance shook the surroundings.
It was the urgent shout of a rescue worker.
His head turned reflexively.
A newly transported patient.
He was vomiting blood while clutching his abdomen.
Next to him, a woman was crying.
Healer Oh Misik approached immediately and placed her hand on his abdomen.
After a while, she shook her head slowly.
"I can't handle this one. It's difficult with the currently dispatched personnel."
It was a calm tone, but her expression was bitter.
"Internal injuries are severe. It would be better to administer maximum medication and transport him to the hospital quickly."
"Then my brother, he can live, right?"
Voice trembling and tears spreading.
"Since you administered medicine now, his expression seems a little better. He can live, right……?"
Silence fell at her desperate question.
Medicine only deceives pain for a moment.
It cannot do anything about injuries that crushed internal organs.
Everyone there knew that fact.
‘Damn it.’
Spike Blue bit his lip.
No matter how hard one struggles, someone dies.
There are people who cannot be saved in the end.
Perhaps even the junior who came to save him.
At the moment he closed his eyes due to surging guilt.
CLOP.
CLATTER-
Light footsteps were heard.
Sound of something like hooves clattering.
Spike Blue opened his eyes abruptly.
A girl was approaching.
Short brown hair and a small cute face.
Even though she had a lively impression, her eyes were filled with sadness.
On the other hand, the face is familiar.
The nametag on the Zero uniform caught his eye.
[Do Haru]
‘If it's Do Haru, junior's friend?’
She was the kid who was with Ryu Jinwoo.
The relief that she was safe was brief.
Soon his gaze stopped at the existence walking next to her.
White mane, clear purple eyes, and a small but fully attached horn.
"……Unicorn?"
Phantasmal Beast.
Among them, an existence close to legend.
‘Did she contract with it? A unicorn, even if it's a young individual?’
A kid who hangs out with Ryu Jinwoo and Seol Hayun.
Does it mean that kid wasn't ordinary either?
Spike Blue held his breath and looked at her.
Do Haru squatted down beside the man with internal injuries.
Then she asked the woman next to the patient.
"By any chance, are you his girlfriend?"
At the abrupt question, the woman answered flustered.
"Yes? Ah, no. He's my older brother, and I'm his biological younger sister."
"Could you step aside for a moment?"
Do Haru, having said meaningful words, slowly grabbed the man's wrist.
"Wh-what are you doing?"
When a rescue worker standing nearby asked her, Do Haru put her index finger to her lips and said.
"Because he's a sensitive kid."
Then she placed the man's hand on the unicorn's neck as is.
Touch stroking the unicorn carefully led by Do Haru's hand.
WHINNY-
The unicorn inhaled breath.
Slowly, the unicorn began to rub its cheek against the back of the man's hand.
"Uh……?"
The man's hand moved on its own before anyone knew and caressed the unicorn.
As if attracted by a magnet even though he lost consciousness.
And it was at that moment.
NEIGH-
The unicorn laughed.
Soon, a single teardrop fell from the corner of the smiling unicorn's eye.
Silver tear flowing down the cheek.
Do Haru carefully received it with her hand and brought it to the man's mouth.
The moment the tear flowed into the man's mouth.
"……Mmm."
The man exhaled a comfortable breath immediately.
Rapid breathing began to return to normal.
As the flowing blood stopped, color began to return to the pale face.
"Unbelievable."
Healer Oh Misik examining the patient opened her eyes wide.
"He's recovered."
As she muttered in a surprised voice.
"Re-really?"
"Internal injuries were healed?"
"Wait, unicorn? If it's a unicorn's tear……."
Legendary Phantasmal Beast, Unicorn.
Its tear was known to cause miracles for 'the one who made it shed tears'.
‘But those who handle unicorns can be counted on one hand in the world.’
Spike Blue looked at Do Haru while holding his breath.
While the patient's younger sister hugged Do Haru and shed tears of joy.
Suddenly Do Haru's gaze met Spike Blue.
Her surprised gaze fixed on Spike Blue.