Chapter 15 · 9 min

Chapter 15

I’m Not a Grim Reaper

[System]

-‘Bloodletting’ proficiency +0.3

-Experience +0.9%

[System]

-‘Bloodletting’ proficiency +0.2

-Experience +0.6%

[System]

-‘Bloodletting’ proficiency +0.5

-Experience +1.5%

[System]

-Target is not detected.

Only after killing all the octopuses did I get a sense of how to use the ‘Bloodletting’ skill.

“Phew.”

The [Contagious Disease Patient] with athlete’s foot I met last time.

There were 2 contagious diseases, so each system window appeared separately.

It was similar to then.

The vital point mark I focused on and watched darkened a bit more.

The moment I decide to execute, MP is consumed as much as the force applied and I stab the vital point I was watching.

Very swiftly and accurately.

This fleeting moment felt like the body was forcibly moved by the system so it was extremely unpleasant.

But several times.

When I tried to stop in the middle of the skill the hand stopped as I willed.

Like when I accidentally stabbed my hand while sewing, even if I stab without activating the ‘Bloodletting’ skill proficiency and experience rose.

The system’s motion correction disappeared, and MP was not consumed either.

However, less blood came out and experience also sharply decreased.

If I don’t see blood the experience is completely 0.

Definitely I should only activate the skill when aiming for vital points and wanting to see blood.

I don’t know if there will be such a time.

“Anyway I need to practice force control more too.”

The organisms that were octopuses all became ragged rags, and on the living room floor water and··· something that was part of the octopus spread messily.

Ugh, fishy smell.

If Mother finds out at least ten back smacks.

I cleaned diligently.

In the meantime the ‘Unknown Singer’ broadcast had ended.

***

[I watched the broadcast well. Congratulations on passing the 1st.]

Only after lying down to sleep did I send a DM to Happy Quokka.

A reply came immediately.

-[Thank you! It’s all thanks to the Plague Doctor-nimㅜㅜ If I hadn’t safely finished the university festival performance thanks to the Plague Doctor then, this broadcast appearance opportunity wouldn’t have come either.]

[As I said again, that was a coincidence.]

-[Yesㅎㅎ]

A DM also came from Lee Mun-yeong.

Saying Ju-hye asked to convey thanks again.

Very slightly, a proud feeling arose.

Even if it’s an ability obtained by some mistake, the fact that it helped someone.

Of course I didn’t help without any compensation, but still proud is proud.

By the way.

“Skill window.”

[Kang Bong-sik (Plague Doctor Lv.7) possessed skills]

[Passive Skills]

-Immunity Lv.1

[Active Skills]

-Plague Treatment Lv.1 (78/100)

-Bloodletting Lv.1 (4.9/100)

-Divine Punishment Lv.1 (0.1/100)

While experimenting with the ‘Bloodletting’ skill experience increased by as much as 14.7%.

The used MP, including what was spilled while canceling activation midway, was around. But the experience supply is much better than when consuming MP 110 with ‘Plague Treatment’.

“Wasn’t the ‘Plague Doctor’ a doctor class.”

Why give more attack skill experience.

Not even a priest class yet has the ‘Divine Punishment’ skill too.

Is this also a ‘setting’ fitted to the world 1328 years later?

No matter how much I guess alone it’s a problem with no answer.

In this peaceful world that’s not even an apocalypse like that game, leveling up with a skill where experience comes in only by seeing blood also has limits.

Octopuses are expensive too!

Sighing, I accessed with the Kang Bong-sik account not the ‘Plague Doctor’ after a long time.

Scrolling down a post Seong Eun-ji uploaded came out.

A photo of a large envelope full of blankets and quilts.

[A friend said they’re gathering for abandoned dog shelter donation, so shook out the theater company people’s blanketsㅋㅋ #Turtle’s Eye #Daehangno Play #Amateur Play #Horror Play #Seong Eun-ji #Lira Dongdong #Abandoned Dog Shelter Donation]

She said she gathered blankets and quilts through people she knows. It seems they were the theater company people’s.

Pressing the account all kinds of posts were uploaded, but most concluded as play promotion.

Anyway what remains is time.

I should go see soon. Also as thanks for gathering a lot of blankets and quilts.

The next day.

“Bong-sik, I’m back···. No, what is this smell? Why does it smell fishy?”

Parents returned from the 1 night 2 day trip.

Sister who entered similarly also sniffed the smell, and Arong intensively checked the floor where octopus fragments had splashed.

“Son. What did you do alone at home?”

“I bought octopus and practiced cooking, Father.”

“A kid who can only boil ramen what octopus cooking.”

“Oh. So, the octopus dish?”

“Failed and threw it all away.”

Sister mocked.

“Then of course. What cooking would Kang Bong-sik do.”

“Sister aren’t you getting indigestion these days?”

“Why ask that?”

“If you got indigestion I was going to prick your hand.”

“Stop it? Creepy.”

“Mother, Father. Don’t you want to go see a horror play with me?”

“I don’t want to.”

“Mom is tired. Go with a girlfriend.”

“I don’t have a girlfriend.”

“The sound of make one.”

“······.”

I left the house alone lonely.

The destination was not Daehangno but the abandoned animal shelter.

The fact that two [Contagious Disease Patient] suddenly appeared in the cat room yesterday was on my mind so I came again.

“After hearing Bong-sik’s words yesterday I measured the cats’ temperatures, and separated all the ones with high fever and sneezing. It seems the newly brought cat had caught a cold. Thank you. If it weren’t for Bong-sik they would all have been infected in the blink of an eye.”

[Contagious Disease Patient]

Director.

There are two more kids with [Contagious Disease Patient] text here?

“Yes···.”

Unlike my true feelings I pretended to agree, and took out cat snacks.

“Then I’ll play a bit with the cats and go.”

“Yes, do that.”

Maybe because I often come for volunteer work.

Whether trust in me has accumulated, the director left only me and went to the kennel.

“Treat, yes. Treat, yes. Thank you for the bonus experience, but don’t get sick again.”

Meow, meow.

Ding.

Lee Mun-yeong sent a DM.

-[Hello, Plague Doctor-nim. I would like to request a 3 million won prayer.]

3 million won?!

-[It’s a person who needs prayer.]

-[(photo)]

Several article screenshots came up.

“······.”

I read seriously then sent a reply.

[I will accept.]

***

This time’s treatment prayer target was an 80-year-old grandmother living in the provinces.

“2 hours 30 minutes by car? This much is nothing.”

I boldly grabbed the steering wheel.

It was the first time going outside Seoul after getting the license, but I thought what would be difficult.

And this is how you accumulate experience.

A short while later.

I accidentally passed the first rest area.

The second rest area while being wary of speeding cars passing by the side, I missed the timing and couldn’t enter.

The third rest area I ended up following the car in front and entering without realizing.

“Should I have just taken the KTX···.”

Energy completely drains.

Sluggishly I stopped by the restroom, then entered the food court.

There was still plenty of time until the appointment, so I leisurely ate a bowl of soup and ate a hot dog as dessert while looking at internet articles.

[Entire fortune gathered with waste paper for life, donated as scholarship]

Today’s treatment prayer target I’m meeting, Grandmother Park Bok-seon’s article.

15 years ago. The person who donated the entire fortune gathered with waste paper for life as scholarships for students with difficult family circumstances.

Currently she is at a nursing hospital, but even after getting vaccinated she caught the flu and her health deteriorated rapidly.

The requester is a person who safely finished studies thanks to the grandmother’s donation.

-[They said they promised to invite Grandmother Park Bok-seon to the wedding. But since she is of considerable age the risk of complications has also increased···.]

I hope I can treat all at once.

That night.

“Is the one doing the prayer this person···?”

Nursing hospital parking lot built on the outskirts of the city.

The requester who saw me made a flustered expression.

Lee Mun-yeong nodded.

“Yes. As I also said a little earlier, because they don’t want their face to be known. Please understand.”

“As long as the grandmother gets better it doesn’t matter···. Then, shall we enter?”

“Yes.”

The requester said they obtained understanding from the nursing hospital related person, and guided us through the back door.

I carefully examined the inside while following the two people.

Because it was bedtime only emergency lights were on in the hallway so it was dim. And very quiet.

When will our grandfather, and maternal grandmother also enter a facility like this?

On the other hand I became curious about the requester.

No matter how much grace they received from Grandmother Park Bok-seon, readily saying they would put out 3 million won for this suspicious treatment prayer.

By any chance did they hit the jackpot in business and become rich?

Still since Lee Mun-yeong connected, they wouldn’t be a strange person, right?

No.

Pull yourself together, Kang Bong-sik.

This could be a trap!

It could be the last test to drag me to the pharmaceutical company’s underground research facility!

“‘Plague Doctor’-nim is somewhere uncomfortable? Why are you clenching your fists tightly···.”

“······.”

I shook my head.

A yellow [Contagious Disease Patient] was visible beyond the wall.

The requester pointed there.

“She is here.”

The requester opened the door very quietly and carefully without knocking.

A grandmother thinner and with more wrinkles than the photo in the article was lying down.

“Cough, cough···.”

Coughing with difficulty, the breathing sound was also very bad.

I turned to Lee Mun-yeong.

Lee Mun-yeong nodded then said to the requester.

“A moment the seat.”

“Yes. Please take good care.”

I looked at Lee Mun-yeong and tilted my head.

Lee Mun-yeong made a flustered expression.

“Yes? Me too··· go out?”

Nod.

In this quiet place I can’t play music that can hide the skill command.

“Yes···.”

Lee Mun-yeong left the hospital room with dropped shoulders.

I stood beside Grandmother Park Bok-seon.

[This is a Contagious Disease Patient. Do you wish to treat?]

[(Estimated MP cost 180)]

180···.

At the high number a sigh came out on its own.

At that time.

Grandmother Park Bok-seon opened her eyes and looked at me.

“······.”

“······!”

Grandmother Park Bok-seon calmly blinking her eyes.

Rather I was startled and flinched, but the grandmother gently raised the corners of her mouth.

“These days grim reapers··· cough, are stylish···.”

I turned to the closed door, then gently lowered my body.

Whisper whisper.

“I’m not a grim reaper. I came to pray.”

I hastily made the sign of the cross.

“Treat yes, the Lord permits.”

“I’m Buddhist···.”

[System]

-Used ‘Plague Treatment’.

-‘Plague Treatment’ proficiency +2

-Experience +5.9%

[MP 0/120]

Cleanly emptied MP gauge.

[This is a Contagious Disease Patient. Do you wish to treat?]

[(Estimated MP cost 60)]

The [Contagious Disease Patient] text returned to green.

Even this much improvement is fortunate.

I clasped my hands and bowed my head.

“Tomorrow at dawn, I will visit again. Please sleep well. Namo Amitabha Guanyin Bodhisattva.”

Grandmother Park Bok-seon smiled gently thinking it was a dream.