The Virgin Hero Who Fought in the Dungeon for 20 Years Returned to the Surface Only to Find the Population of the World Has Dropped Drastically, with a Male-to-Female Ratio of 1:1000 - 106

Chapter 106: Can’t Hold Back

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“Ei, Heal!”

Marin, dressed in a pure white robe, cast a healing spell on a female explorer who had injured her right arm. The upper arm, which had been slashed open so deeply the pink flesh was visible, became enveloped in a faint light. The bleeding stopped, and before their eyes the wound rapidly closed.

“Okay, Shirakawa-san. All done.”

“Yay!”

Marin cried out in delight and hopped up. Koyomi, their homeroom teacher, was scribbling with a pen across a printout on her binder, grading. She wore a tracksuit, and the entire right side of her face was wrapped tightly in bandages.

“Hey, hey, Ryuuto-kun. I passed on the first try!”

“Nice, you did good.”

“Uu, more than that, I’d really like you to heal the teacher’s injury.”

“Muh. Sensei brought that on herself. The Head Teacher said no.”

“Shirakawa-san, you’re so mean. Boo hoo.”

The place was a small-scale dungeon in Shinjuku Ward. Ryuuto and the other students of the Healing Department were conducting the off-campus training that had been canceled the other day.

The risk of danger was as close to zero as it could get. Even the Explorer’s Association, which had reluctantly gotten off its heavy seat after yesterday’s demon tribe attack, had urgently stationed over ten A-class explorers in the city center.

In other words, even if one of the True Demon Lord’s executives appeared, they had selected and stationed enough personnel to hold out without needing to summon the so-called “beyond standard” S-class.

The off-campus training, which was essentially a real battle scenario of diving into a dungeon and healing explorers who had been injured and carried out, nevertheless carried a somewhat relaxed air.

The reason was Ryuuto Sakazaki’s presence.

They knew he had easily disposed of a demon claiming to be one of the True Demon Lord’s executives—who had blown away the upper-level explorer teachers and even Loria Himejima, an A-class.

“Uh, well. I guess it’s my turn next. But, getting stared at that hard is making me nervous.”

Ryuuto knelt on one knee in front of an explorer carried in on a stretcher, glancing back with a somewhat awkward expression.

“Kyaaa, Ryuuto-sama is so cute!”

“Please don’t mind us. We’re just watching.”

“Just looking at Ryuuto-sama gives us a hundred times more energy!”

“Haa haa, I want Ryuuto-sama to heal me too. I want him to lick my injuries persistently and thoroughly, obscenely.”

“Hah? Go lick a candy or something.”

“I will burn Ryuuto-sama’s divine works into my eyes. I’ll be sure to pass them on to future generations.”

Behind him, the Healing Department students who had come for the training were packed together. Not just the Healing Department classmates, but also students from the Magic, Warrior, Thief, and Cleric Departments had joined in, and the scene resembled more an idol’s live concert than a training session.

“A-anyway, I just have to heal the injury, right? Heal.”

Still kneeling, Ryuuto cast a healing spell on the unconscious explorer on the stretcher. A powerful white light wrapped the area. The deep wound on the explorer’s abdomen closed in an instant, and even the skin on her face seemed to gain luster.

In truth, Ryuuto’s magic power was partly innate, but sharpened by years of combat into a massive reservoir. The healing power, inhuman enough to be mistaken for a divine work, drew a near-explosive cheer from the crowd.

“Wow, my rough skin is healed!”

“The little bumps on my back I secretly worried about!”

“The acne scars!”

“The bug bites!”

“The hickey from last night!”

“That one is a lie!”

The overflow of Ryuuto’s powerful magic was so intense it even healed the minor injuries of the surrounding crowd one after another. As if to say “how’s that,” Ryuuto turned around smugly.

Well, there’s no way they’ll say it’s bad.

“Hmm. About thirty points, I’d say?”

But Koyomi, the class’s homeroom teacher, graded harshly. In an instant, the Ryuuto cultists who had been watching erupted.

“What the hell! You slutty hag!”

“Ryuuto-sama’s healing is perfect!”

“Don’t give him anything but a perfect score!”

“You lecherous teacher!”

“Stop harassing him!”

“You stink, flat-chest!”

“You lecherous teacher!”

“Ah, you already said that!”

“Trying to evaluate Hero Ryuuto-sama in the first place is ridiculous!”

“Die, you rotten [redacted]!”

“You filthy pig with curly hair!”

“It’s time to throw you down, bitch!”

“H-hey. Hold up. Everyone, let’s hear Koyomi-sensei out, okay?”

“Yes~♡”

“We’ll do as Ryuuto-sama says!”

“Everyone♪ Let’s be quiet, okay?♪”

“Don’t get in the way~♡”

“Yeah yeah, Ryuuto-sama’s right. Listen up~♡”

At Ryuuto’s words of admonishment, the bloodlust in the crowd vanished instantly, and fawning, overly feminine voices filled the air. Koyomi’s forehead twitched with veins as she barely managed to restrain herself.

“Th-then let me point it out. Sakazaki-kun’s treatment was definitely effective. But in this case, it used excessive magic power. In other words, you used too much power for a small injury.”

“O-oh.”

“Listen, Sakazaki-kun. It’s true your healing magic far surpasses the beginner level, but if you allocate this much power to a slightly gouged wound, even the strongest practitioner will run out of magic in a long battle. As proof, your simple Heal is also healing the onlookers’ injuries. That shows you’re not properly locking onto the target. Sakazaki-kun, you’re so skilled in every art I have almost nothing to teach you, so why is it only healing magic that you can’t control properly?”

“Actually, I knew about this weakness myself. It seems I get flustered when I see injured people. Humans die so easily that when I see blood that’s not mine, I get impatient and my magic allocation goes all over the place with healing. When I’m attacking, I think I can stay pretty calm, but… Yeah, I just can’t hold back when I see someone else’s blood. Oh, and Sensei, you’re mistaken about me being able to do everything. For healing, I can only use Heal and Antidote. Haha, I’m really not that great.”

“Sakazaki-kun. Don’t be so down. For the parts you’re unsure about, we’ll learn together from now on—”

“Ryuuto-sama! It’s okay! We’ll support you!”

“Let’s learn together!”

“That’s right, Ryuuto-sama just transferred here!”

“We’ll teach you everything, hands-on, bodies-on, hips-on!”

“P-please go easy on me. Or rather, you girls just can’t be satisfied without mauling me, can you?”

In an instant, Ryuuto was engulfed and hugged by the girls. What began as modest embraces turned into a no-rules touching free-for-all, and in the end his pants were stripped off before the Association’s security team arrived and finally brought the uproar under control.

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