SOLO HEALER II

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Right now, i was standing in front of the apartment building that the problematic male  student lived in.

‘It’s really close to my own place, isn’t it?’

It only took two minutes of walking to get here. It was the proverbial stone’s throw away.

I took a look around his vicinity. And i was still in the familiar district, too tiny and cramped, with lots of old apartment buildings standing close to one another.

Meaning, this boy’s family circumstances weren’t that good, just how i used to be not too long ago.

I could understand where he was coming from, now that he was nominally a Titan. Well, i was also like that once upon a time.

‘Too bad, those people die the quickest.’

Didn’t he get injured every single time?

Just how many times did he come close to getting killed?

For a rank E Titan, a dungeon was a horrible place to be in.

If left alone, this boy would definitely grow to regret ever being a Titan. No, it’d be more likely that he’d die long before he had the chance to regret making that decision.

‘Of course, that happens all the time, unfortunately.’

The incidents of Titan dying or getting gravely injured happened dozens of times in a single day, after all.

It was impossible to talk all these people out of going on a raid, nor was there any reason to do so. Well, they made their choices so they had to bear the responsibilities of their decisions accordingly.

‘However….’

If i didn’t know the boy in question,i wouldn’t have cared. But now that i knew who he was, i couldn’t just ignore this one.

Indeed, i was rather familiar with this boy. I used to see him with his friend at school, he and Sarah a friend if i not mistaken.

I sensed the presence of a person and raised i head, and spotted the problem child walking towards me.

His hair rolled up into a bun above his head; slightly rough and tired eyes – he was definitely someone i knew.

“Uh?”

The boy discovered me  here and tilted his head.

“What are you doing here, Kai?”

Just as i did, the male student also recognised me right away.

‘Yup, this world is indeed too dang small.’

I scratched the side of my head.

'Adam Garsia.’

When i heard that name from Sarah’s homeroom teacher, a flood of emotions briefly inundated me. So, i just had to confirm it for myself.

And sure enough, the date Hahn Song-Yi began missing school coincided with the day Yu Jin-Ho’s team began its raiding ‘missions’.

With that, it kinda became a bit harder to think of this matter as someone else’s mess.

In a way, he felt responsible for it.

‘At least, one thing’s for sure.’

No matter when it might be, i’d feel really bad if he heard of Adam perishing inside a dungeon. I had done nothing wrong, so i shouldn’t suffer through a couple of nights’ sleep, lost through guilty consciousness, no?

And so, i decided to make time for this evening and sort this mess out. It wasn’t that difficult, to begin with, anyway.

“What’s going on?”