Chapter 78: The Angel Who Creates a Style (9)

Episode 78: The Angel Who Creates a Style (9)

Tremble tremble-

Leffrey looked at his broken arms.

Honestly, he wanted to burst into tears from the pain, but he held them back, afraid of being labeled as Leffrey, the Crybaby Angel.

‘What? It won’t heal easily even with Healing of the Seraphim. What on earth did Yu Si-hyun do?’

Throb throb-

Beyond just throbbing… Crunch crunch-

Leffrey’s lips trembled with pain.

“Leffrey…!”

Yumari, seeing that, muttered with concern.

His arms, broken by Yu Si-hyun’s attack, Leffrey looked at them, tears welling up in his eyes. At her, he was looking at her.

But she couldn’t move.

She was just a pet of the Seocheon Yu.

“Tsk-”

Koo Sang-hyuk, seeing that, spat on the ground.

“A man shouldn’t be crying.”

Yumari, hearing Koo Sang-hyuk’s words, was instantly enraged.

She felt her horns growing, then wondered what these emotions even were.

She didn’t understand her own feelings.

Yumari was supposed to be nothing more than a beast that roams the night, incapable of feeling friendship, warmth, sorrow, or anger.

That’s how she was trained.

But in front of this faint light that shone from the boy, she was being dragged out into the day.

A beast of the night couldn’t hide in the day.

“The reason why I’m here, Leffrey…”

She barely managed to spit out an excuse in a small voice.

Yu Si-hyun, finally stopping her laughter, looked at Yumari with a serious expression.

“I really don’t understand.”

Yu Si-hyun abandoned her playful demeanor and looked at Leffrey with her true self.

“I don’t understand at all. I don’t know what it is, but it makes me feel disgusted.”

Vice President Koo Sang-hyuk opened his mouth again.

“Hey, Leffrey, was it? Crying over a broken arm? That’s something you should have graduated from before you turned ten.”

Koo Sang-hyuk casually shook his own broken arm.

“You always call us, the large guilds and superhuman families, evil. You say we’re always abusing our power.”

Koo Sang-hyuk strode towards Leffrey, who was holding back tears.

“That’s not true. We don’t abuse our power.”

His swollen eyelids, beaten by Lusa, dried blood caked on his lips from coughing blood.

A broken arm and a bruised thigh.

But Koo Sang-hyuk spoke as if it were nothing,

“We are superior to you. We are simply exercising our rights as superior beings. Our natural rights as the strong.”

Koo Sang-hyuk took a stance again.

“A crybaby like you would never understand.”

Leffrey, barely managing to mend his broken arm, took a stance against Koo Sang-hyuk.

“Then… Vice President…”

Leffrey’s eyes were determined.

“Are you happy right now?”

Leffrey was in a stance.

But it wasn’t the stance that stemmed from Martial Arts of the Archangel who Tramples Dragons, nor was it the fighting spirit that emanated from someone who practiced Fairy Martial Arts.

It was a stance that felt kind and gentle, as if reaching out a warm hand.

Leffrey healed Koo Sang-hyuk.

The boy’s warm touch reached Koo Sang-hyuk’s eyelids, the swelling subsided, and his vision returned to normal.

Multiple fracture in his left arm.

The bones, broken and twisted, had torn his muscles.

It must have been excruciatingly painful, but Koo Sang-hyuk didn’t show any sign of it.

The angel’s gentle touch slowly enveloped his arm.

“What, what are you doing?”

Koo Sang-hyuk, who had been acting so arrogantly just a moment ago, was finally visibly flustered.

Koo Sang-hyuk, who had even endured Lusa’s attacks, would have just laughed if Leffrey had attacked him.

“I said, what are you doing?!”

When Leffrey even healed the bruises on his thigh, Koo Sang-hyuk stumbled back and finally collapsed.

Hearing that, Leffrey thought,

‘What am I doing? Farming Angelic Power, of course.’

[Healing the wounds of a child lost in darkness is an angelic act!]

[You have gained Angelic Power.]

[Healing the wounds of a child lost in darkness is an angelic act!]

[You have gained Angelic Power.]

As expected, the message didn’t say ‘future hero’.

Koo Sang-hyuk would become the owner of a large guild in the future,

He would commit many evil deeds, so it was understandable.

But still…

His broken arm looked incredibly painful.

Leffrey’s hand gently caressed Koo Sang-hyuk’s left arm, and..

At that moment, a message popped up.

[Teaching a child who is walking the wrong path about shame is a truly angelic act!]

[You have gained a large amount of Angelic Power.]

Suddenly, he received a large amount of Angelic Power.

[Easing the pain of a wounded child is an angelic act!]

[You have gained Angelic Power.]

[Healing the wounds of a wounded child is an angelic act!]

[You have gained Angelic Power.]

‘The message about him being lost in darkness isn’t appearing anymore.’

Leffrey, seeing that, smiled.

“I asked you, what are you doing?!”

“Healing you, Vice President.”

“Then why, why are you doing that?!”

“Because it makes me sad.”

Leffrey’s eyes still shimmered with tears.

“To be in so much pain, yet unable to even say that you’re hurting… That makes me sad.”

“You…”

[Healing the wounds of a future hero is an angelic act!]

[You have gained Angelic Power.]

“And the exam is over. If we keep fighting, the professor will hold a disciplinary hearing for defying her.”

“That’s right. You’re expelled. Pack your things and leave now.”

“Professor! Stop joking around!”

Leffrey wiped his tears and left, leaving behind the stunned Koo Sang-hyuk.

“He wasn’t crying because of his broken arm.”

It was true that Leffrey had been crying because his arms were broken.

But Koo Sang-hyuk couldn’t help but fall into a misconception.

“Because of me…”

Koo Sang-hyuk turned and looked at the boy who was running to heal others.

“Hmph, he’s just a nobody.”

And as if to convince himself, he muttered once again,

“He’s just a nobody.”

And so, Leffrey’s true battle began.

‘Considering my upcoming showdown with Yu Si-hyun…’

He had to farm Angelic Power to his limits.

‘To be honest, the odds of me winning against Yu Si-hyun are 20%? And that’s only if I have enough Angelic Power…’

If he faced Yu Si-hyun without Angelic Power, Leffrey would lose for sure.

His secret weapon, ‘that method’, consumed a tremendous amount of Angelic Power.

Leffrey quickly looked for those who were injured. The student council members and Connoisseurs’ Club members lying around Professor Lusa.

His warm touch caressed their wounds.

‘This method is too cruel.’

It was undoubtedly a tough job.

But Leffrey felt a joy rising within his heart.

‘I want to win in a different way…!’

[Healing an injured child is an angelic act!]

[You have gained Angelic Power.]

[Healing a future hero is an angelic act!]

[You have gained Angelic Power.]

[Healing an injured child is an angelic act!]

[You have gained Angelic Power.]

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While Leffrey, addicted to Angelic Power, was hopping around, healing the students… Yumari, hiding her wounds, tried to leave the arena.

‘I think my insides were damaged.’

Cough- Yumari coughed up blood and tried to hurry to the field infirmary outside the arena.

Actually, it would have been much faster to just ask Leffrey, who was rushing to every patient nearby, rather than going all the way to the field infirmary.

Yumari, out of fear, couldn’t bring herself to do that.

‘Leffrey originally hated me.’

Cough-

They had become closer because of the previous incident.

However.

Today, Leffrey must have been disappointed in her once again.

Seeing her stand beside Yu Si-hyun, seeing her attack Lusa, who was trying to protect the sapling.

So Yumari was terrified.

If Leffrey realized she was injured and just left without a word…

She didn’t even want him to heal her.

Just for him to look at her…

And then leave silently…

“No…”

Even though Yumari had endured countless hardships, just imagining this brought so much pain to her heart that she couldn’t bear it.

“I don’t want that.”

It hurt so much.

She just wanted to crawl out of this arena before she saw such a sight.

Rustle-

A familiar footstep sounded behind her.

Yumari’s horns grew slightly, welcoming the boy’s arrival.

Thump- Thump-

The boy slowly approached Mari.

The young dragon, hiding her fear, lowered her head.

“Mari, are you hurt badly?”

Shake shake- Yumari maintained her poker face as much as possible, just cutely shaking her head.

“Haah, Professor Lusa. How could you beat up a student like this? Especially Mari, she’s your martial arts student! Ha, really. Mari, lie down.”

“Y-Yes?”

Yumari’s horns grew even bigger.

It meant she was excited.

“I’ll heal you.”

Leffrey, after gently making Mari lie down and offering his lap as a pillow, slowly channeled his healing power into her ruptured organs.

A warm feeling spread deep inside her.

“Leffrey’s super healing hands…!”

Leffrey grinned.

“I’m going to call this technique that from now on. What do you think?”

“…I-I think it’s not bad.”

She had been so terrified that he might ignore her.

As if sensing her fear, as if comforting her anxieties, he’s treating her so kindly.

‘I’m so happy… I want him…’

Yumari’s horns grew even bigger.

‘I want him!’

Yumari got up. Then, after briefly saying ‘Thank you’ to Leffrey, she ran out of the arena.

Yu Si-hyun, sitting on the platform, muttered, as if displeased with the sight.

“That’s… a little irritating.”

Yu Si-hyun’s expression darkened.

“By the way, an angel… I should start preparing to capture him, shouldn’t I?”

A few students stood next to Yu Si-hyun.

All heirs of superhuman families, who had sworn allegiance to the Seocheon Yu.

People called them ‘That Party’. Or simply…

‘Hero’s Party’.

“Hahaha.”

Yu Si-hyun’s hollow laughter echoed through the arena corridors.

Meanwhile, a girl was watching this whole scene, hiding in a bunker created by magic.

‘Leffrey didn’t come to me.’

The girl, her face hidden by the brim of her hat, was leaning against the bunker wall.

‘He’s healing others. Putting others before me.’

Come to think of it…

Why was Leffrey so nice to her?

He saved her when she fell into the water, protected her when she was bullied in the magical studies department, provided her with a home, and even cooked for her.

The witch, abandoned by her parents, felt warmth for the first time in her life.

‘Why was Leffrey so kind? Naturally, it’s because I’m special. As special as Leffrey is to me, Leffrey must consider me special too…’

But Soya was the only one in this dark bunker.

‘Because I’m Leffrey’s friend.’

She heard a whisper nearby.

‘Do you really think so? Look. Leffrey is such a kind boy that he even heals that vice president. He saved you because you fell into the water, because you were bullied, and because you don’t have parents.’

“Stop talking nonsense!”

‘Look. See? Who is your ‘special’ boy healing right now? And whose lap is he offering as a pillow?’

Two voices echoed in the dark bunker.

Soya, flustered, looked outside.

She should have never looked outside.

“…Yumari is also Leffrey’s friend.”

‘And so are you. Just another one of Leffrey’s friends. Nothing special about you.’

Soya, opening her grimoire, muttered,

“Ah, how annoying. To think that I, a witch, would be hearing hallucinations because of my mana condition. This is annoying, annoying!”

‘…I’m not a mere hallucination.’

The voice faded, leaving Soya’s ears ringing with confusion.

‘Let’s see how long you can lie to yourself. My master. The Queen of Black Magic.’

Soya, crouching down, whimpered.

“This is annoying.”