The Monster Aspires to Be a Hero chapter 2

2 – An Ominous Dream

What caught my eye was an elementary school classroom that was in trouble.

“Oooh…. Mama ah ah….”

“Ugh, ugh….”

“Stop, sir! Da-eun is bleeding from your hand!”

My consciousness is hazy.

But I think I know what this is.

This is what I went through in elementary school.

This is an incident in which a classmate who awakened to psychic powers cut off the fingers of a girl named Da-eun while using them.

I don’t think that guy did it with that intention either.

I just opened my eyes to a mysterious power, and it was an ability suitable for a hero, so he was praised by the people around him, so he must have just wanted to pretend to be proud.

The results were a bit terrifying, though.

Da-eun, who is bleeding profusely and is half-conscious and crying, and the teacher, who is still stunned by this situation.

I picked up Da-eun’s severed finger even in the chaotic situation.

“Seo, sir… my, my ability….”

While saying that, I used my ability with trembling hands.

Only then did the teacher come to her senses and ran out of her classroom to find another teacher. The teacher in the class next to her called an ambulance.

Even during that time, I continued to hold Da-eun’s finger and injured hand.

I didn’t know if this was correct.

I just thought I should.

My father, a firefighter, told me that he wanted to be a hero.

I heard that my ability might be an important ability that can save many people unexpectedly.

The ambulance carrying me, my homeroom teacher, and Da-eun headed for the hospital.

Thankfully, Da-eun’s fingers returned to their original state without any aftereffects.

After that, I remember that Daeun’s parents said thank you very much to me.

I said it was a bit awkward, so my dream was to be a hero, so I just did what I was supposed to do.

Then he told me that Daeun was really like a hero.

Perhaps that was my origin.

Then those words lit a fire in my heart.

Reality has gone out in front of the typhoon, but the faint lingering fire still burns gently in my heart.

As if he kept blaming me for giving up like this.

That’s why I couldn’t throw away my lingering feelings.

The result is this ending that burns my entire body.

I’m dead and this must be a kaleidoscope or something.

I’m sure that’s the case… I was enveloped in a feeling of floating, as if my body was floating.

I opened my eyes that had been closed in a daze.

It’s strange I was looking at something with my eyes open until just now….

The sight that came into my eyes was very familiar.

It’s been the ceiling of the hospital I’ve been attending for two years already.

Ah, I must have lived.

I was staring at the ceiling with a hazy feeling, but my eyes started getting heavy.

“Ah, son!”

“You bastard!”

Ah, that voice I miss.

It seems that you came running to the news that your son had been in a car accident.

I struggled to turn my head to look at my parents.

Mom was shedding her tears, and her father was also holding back tears.

Ah, I really lived.

Once I felt that relief, I began to feel strangely sleepy.

“Um… mind….”

“Yes… huh… Why, son… ?”

“Sorry….”

I said that and slowly closed my eyes.

After that, I had time to recover my physical strength at the hospital.

I was recovering really fast.

Recovery is so fast that even doctors call it a miracle.

My parents asked what was wrong with my body, but the doctors said they didn’t know.

Since I am a psychic and have the ability to slow deterioration, it might have had some effect in response to a life crisis.

As psychic powers are literally psychic powers, there are many parts that have not been scientifically discovered, so even modern medicine cannot understand them well.

Anyway, I lived.

That must be important.

After two weeks, I recovered enough to walk even though I couldn’t run.

It wasn’t until then that my parents were able to safely go down to their parents’ home.

I thought I might have to take a leave of absence, but I think I’ll be able to attend university without incident.

***

The hazy feeling was like being in a dream.

My body is moving on its own.

It felt like I was staring blankly at the scene of manipulating a character in a game.

The surroundings were dark and very quiet.

I blankly checked the clock hanging on the wall and looked around.

I looked around like a skilled spy.

It’s a 4-person room, but I didn’t feel like anyone except me was moving.

This is the 10th floor.

Originally, this is a place where only people with psychic syndrome are hospitalized.

It is thanks to my slightly special ability that I can stay in such a hospital room.

I want to help someone who needs my abilities despite my body, so the hospital allowed me to stay on the 10th floor.

ㅡ It’s a great choice.

For some reason, I felt that way.

I got up in a daze and approached the patient lying nearby.

Ah… Appetizing.

I was hungry.

There were too many people to eat.

Now I can satisfy my hunger without caring about people’s eyes.

It took a lot of energy to reconstruct the dying body.

Now is the time to replenish that energy.

What was prepared in front of me was ‘food’ that was more appetizing than any other delicacies.

I ate in a hurry.

It rained on the parched land.

In an instant, vitality surged through the dying body.

Ah… It feels like this.

After eating, I turned my head again, and there were still two meals left.

I moved towards the prey with a lighter body than before.

It’s delicious. Delicious!

I ate my food like crazy.

However, it was still far from enough.

The 10th floor is full of food.

You have to eat all of that food.

Listen and listen to the sounds around you.

The night shift nurse checked the room about 10 minutes ago.

There won’t be enough time to interrupt my meal.

Carefully grasping the handle of the door, I opened it.

… Does not exist.

With a slightly bolder gesture than before, I stepped out into the hallway of the hospital room.

The destination is the hospital room in front.

When I opened the door to the hospital room and went in, I could smell the sweet food again.

I was ecstatic.

I can’t believe there’s so much food… !

I hurriedly started eating again.

I was very hungry.

It felt like my hunger would never be satisfied no matter how much I filled my stomach.

It didn’t take long to finish the meal.

You have to hurry.

The nurse finishes eating before looking around the room again.

With that thought in mind, she hurriedly focused on filling her stomach.

Anyway, the food here is a bit low quality.

The main dish remains.

After finishing my meal in a bit of a hurry, I ran into a crisis.

The place where the main dish is located is a little far away, so the nurse can spot you.

How do I do this….

Go.

Even though I knew it was dangerous, I couldn’t stop walking.

I can’t resist this smell that makes me lose my temper.

Go forward, hide behind the wall, and check the appearance.

Fortunately, I can’t feel the gaze of the nurse standing on the night shift.

I passed the hallway with as little noise as possible.

It’s a success.

I opened the door to the private room, which was rather wide even for a single room.

As expected, no one was taking care of her until this hour.

She is familiar with her bed… No, so delicious food was prepared.

Sniff sniff.

Ah… Ecstatic

The nurse may be walking around to check on you.

The fact that I had to eat this delicious food in a bit of a hurry was just painful.

But I can’t help it.

I started eating slowly.

Ah.

aaa.

It is an ecstatic taste.

I feel like I’ll lose myself completely if I get drunk on this taste for too long….

It tasted like that.

***

“Whoops!”

My eyes widened.

My chest was pounding like someone who had just sprinted, and my hospital gown was drenched in sweat and unpleasant.

What the hell was that dream?

I felt ominous and looked at a nearby bed.

A patient with psychic syndrome was still lying on the bed.

Alive.

“Haa….”

I let out a long sigh of relief.

What kind of dream is this?

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I drank the water from the cabinet next to me and got up.

Huh?

The body is light.

I felt like I was about to fly away because I was overflowing with energy.

It was a feeling that I had become better than before the injury.

Have you really awakened a new psychic power?

I was able to leave the hospital in three days.

The doctor’s miracle and whatnot was a bonus.

“You have to take good care of yourself, okay?”

“Uh uh~ I get it. I’ll be careful.”

“Yes, take good care of yourself.”

My mom hugged me, patted me on the back a couple of times, and left with her dad.

In a way, it’s natural for her to do that.

It was such a major surgery that even the doctors said that surviving was a miracle.

“Wow!”

As I stretched out and took a deep breath, I felt the familiar smoky yet cold winter air.

Um… It doesn’t seem too cold either.

“Whoa….”

As I put my hands together and exhaled, white breath came out.

Even though the thick breath came out as if you were smoking a cigarette, strangely it didn’t feel that cold.

What is it?

As I looked up blankly with that thought in mind, I was able to find another oddity.

It felt like the world was strangely clear.

My eyesight in both eyes is about 0.5, Which is pretty bad.

But now, like my eyesight in middle school, it was so clear.

… It seems that something is wrong with my body.

Sometimes, when you have an accident, which part of the brain is stimulated and a special phenomenon occurs, is that so?

Or is it related to the dream I saw a few days ago?

As I was thinking that, I felt someone approaching me.

I think I can tell just by hearing the footsteps now.

“Oh, are you a kid?”

“Uh, uh… Uncle, are you okay now?”

“Hyung, you bastard….”

“I’m sorry, student Jinwoo.”

“No, what….”

A little boy named Woojin Lee and his mother came to see me several times while I was in the hospital.

I was told not to come back now that I am better, but it seems that he came to see me when I heard that he was being discharged.

“Come on, Woojin. Thank you, I should.”

“Thank you, bro.”

I put my hand on the guy’s head as he lowered his head and gave me a subtle greeting.

“Damn it, you have to look at the floor when you say hello.”

I said that and tousled his hair.

“Ouch!”

The guy who had been acting brilliantly until just now started acting like a kid his age.

“Thank you so much, student Jinwoo.”

“No. Hey, now check your left and right and cross.”

“… Okay.”

I said goodbye to the hat and walked out.

Ah… It was something that made me feel proud.

That kid wouldn’t be in this world without me.

I saved that kid.

Isn’t this enough to be called a hero?

The first semester of the 4th grade will begin soon.

Now is the time to get serious about things like specs and employment.

It’s time for the little boy who moves forward while looking at his dream even though he doesn’t have the ability.

Wasn’t it enough to let go of the hero’s lingering feelings?

If I had a hardening ability or even an acceleration ability, the situation could have been resolved more easily.

I almost died without both.

My location is right here.

Still… It was satisfactory.

***

It was the second day after being discharged that I noticed the strange change.

I visited Buwon Hospital as usual.

Buwon Hospital was more noisy than usual, and people who looked like reporters often caught my eye.

I wanted something, so I headed to the 10th floor of Buwon Hospital, where I witnessed an unexpected sight.

People suffering from psychic syndrome and not knowing when they would wake up were awake.

That’s all, without exception.

What the hell is this… ?

ㅡ It was a good meal.

What?

I looked around at the sudden sound, but no one else showed any reaction, as if I was the only one who heard it.

Something… Things were taking a strange turn.