From No Body To Hero
Episode 25's

Niel who saw everyone desperately got an Idea.

"Bern, what if you take what you want first?"

Bern gasped at hearing that. All the nobles who had come with them had already seen Bern very sharply.

"No, I can't do that. We come together and we have to divide equally. I don't really care about the treasure here either. I made a lot of trouble on the way because of my condition. So I don't have the right to take the apapon here."

Niel was stunned for a moment. Everyone was being tempted by how many treasures there were, yet the child in front of him thought of letting it pass as if it was a worthless stone.

"Ah, just go get what you want!"

Steven frustrated Bern jerked and went to see. He finally saw a ring that looked rusty and useless.

"I'll take this."

Anton and Ailen are ready to take their guns. They most dislike seeing Bern refuse to take what he should have taken. While the other nobles were satisfied as if Bern knew his place to not take anything of value.

But they stopped Alastair.

"What do you want?"

Anton asked in annoyance. Because Alastair touched them, of course they could understand it.

["There is power in the ring, maybe it's the power of a sleeping healing spirit. Tell him to wear it."]

The faces of the two looked bright after hearing that.

"An interesting choice for Bern. What if you wear it?"

Ailen nodded as if showing approval. Bern smiled just thinking they were making fun of him. She then wore it without much thought.

Viii....

The ring suddenly glowed and changed. From the ring that looked useless, it became a silver ring with a beautiful green gem. A strong wind blew away everyone's hair and coat.

From the ring, appeared a small woman in a white down-knee dress. Her hair was silver while her eyes were green. The woman was only the size of a palm and looked extremely beautiful.

The appearance of the woman, Bern felt warmth flowing into his body. It was so relaxing that he felt like sleeping.

"Give me your name Bern!"

The condition for being bound to the guardian spirit, it was to mention their names.

{No need!}

Everyone gasped when they heard the little lady's shrill voice.

{From what I saw, you got hurt for fighting. I've never seen a body this broken as long as I live! Even corpses do not have bodies like this! How can you still walk normally!? I will haunt you even if you don't want to be my master! Well you go rest now!!!}

That way, the woman disappeared and only the person wearing the ring could see her.

Bern did not see it either. He looked towards the ring which now looked very sacred to someone's hand which was in full of blood.

Bern tried to separate it from his finger, yet he could not even make the ring move.

"Bern, you go rest. Leave this part to us."

Kleio said that after hearing how critical Bern's state of healing spirits was.

"But...."

Bern someone who can't help but do apapons when everyone is doing something.

"Go. Rest."

After Kleio's deathly gaze was seen in a cold voice, Bern relented and walked out of the cave.

["I'll do the big brother part."]

Kleio gasped when he heard Alastair.

"How can I understand you? I didn't touch you."

Kleio was confused and Alastair showed Kleio's wrist which seemed to have a black cloth wrapped around it looking like a bracelet made of cloth.

["That's mine."]

Kleio looked at him as if interested and then nodded with what Alastair asked for.

"Alastair, aye. I'll take Bern's share and you just have to keep it in this magic bag."

Kleio threw a magic bag that might cost hundreds of gold coins casually at Alastair.

["Do you trust me?"]

Kleio sneered at the question.

"If Bern trusted someone, then as a friend, I believed him too. To your knowledge, Bern never lets anyone get close to him if he doesn't believe it. I believe in anyone Bern believes."

Alastair seemed a little hard to believe.

"That's because, although Bern is kind, he's not someone who naively trusts the readyphone indiscriminately. If he trusted someone, they could be trusted. Like a big man there."

Kleio pointed towards Steven. Steven used to be an enemy, but Bern didn't even make himself an enemy from the start and let him be just because he didn't take on demonic powers.

Steven was not a Kleio follower but a Bern follower. But he had to follow Kleio's words because Bern worked under him. But believe me, Steven would definitely not hesitate to take his sword if he did something to harm Bern.

"I'd rather believe in the man Bern trusted than the scum of nobles who were tempted by the treasures there."

Alastair finally understood the situation. Although Bern had no position, indirectly, he was the one leading the trip. What Bern did is not worth questioning because he was the head of the trip indirectly.

All the strong people there bowed and were respectful to Bern. That's because, the strongest person there is Bern even though he tried to deny it. If Bern were not with them on that journey, they might not even return and Alastair would not be free from the control of Satan's organization.

["I will do my best!"]

Alastair passionately held the bag. Kleio snorted in satisfaction and looked at the cave door where Bern was coming out.

****

Bern came out of the cave and leaned against the outer wall of the cave.

{Master, can I get your name now? Sorry I'm too upset about your condition.}.

The spirit guard looked embarrassed now. Bern did not expect the guardian spirit that scolded him would become so weak and afraid to talk to him.

"Why are you hiding yourself?"

Bern asked and the voice from the ring was silent for a few seconds.

The woman's voice looked sad.

"My name is Bern Kailyth. Miss, can I get your name too?"

The ring remained silent for a few seconds as if it was not expecting the question.

{I've forgotten my name. It's been a long time since the last time my name was called someone.}

Bern could tell with just that that the healing spirit was extremely lonely and suffering.

"Althea, that's your name from now on."

The ring was silent again.

{Althea?}

"Yes, that means healer. Don't you like it? Hey, can you come out now?"

With a gentle call of Bern, Althea came out of his ring and sat on Bern's knee. He could see a gentle smile on Bern's lips. It looks very warm.

"You're looking in the wrong direction. Look behind you."

Althea flinched and instantly flipped her body. Because they were on a mountain where no one closed their sights, the eyes of Althea immediately found a very beautiful sunset view. He had forgotten the last time he saw her.

"I don't need to use your powers. I am a witch, I can heal who the pound I want if I learn it. You're free to follow me, and you're free to move wherever you want."

The sunset view is beautiful. But Althea only wanted to see a face with a gentle smile that did not look as beautiful as the sunset behind her.

{Why?}

Althea did not feel she could accept that warmth. He had been bound in the ring for thousands of years and only to suffer when his powers were forcibly taken and forbidden to speak at all.

He lay low in the darkness and always wished for a good master. Yet thousands of years had passed, and that hope was only a dream that he buried within him.

Falling asleep and waking up to suffer. That was all he experienced as long as he lived as a healing spirit.

"Why are you asking the obvious question? I'm afraid of a quiet place, and loneliness hurts. I just don't want people with me to feel what I'm afraid of. Also, if I use your power on others, what use am I practicing? Use your abilities only to heal me, and live cheerfully, this is a request, not a command. You can make your choice."

Titis, dripping.

Althea's eyes shed tears. He always prayed for a master who would take good care of him, and it was finally broken.

{Thank you.}

Bern's soft smile began to disappear as he fell into a deep sleep. Althea's strength was so great that she felt very comfortable to sleep in a few seconds.

{'From his condition, he's really going to die sooner or later when he takes me. He didn't expect apapon, and gave me warmth.'}

As a spirit, Althea could float herself. He floats and touches Bern's forehead.

{By the name of Althea, I swear allegiance to protect you until my spirit is destroyed.}

A complex green mark was engraved on Bern's forehead before disappearing.

{'With this, I can provide help even if I am far away from you.'}

Althea then sat on Bern's shoulders.

{Dreams are beautiful, sir.}

Kleio came out to look at Bern who was casually asleep. Althea looked at Kleio who looked very handsome in his master's appeal and clicked his disgruntled tongue. Fortunately, Kleio could not see it.

Bern had a handsome face, but in comparison to Kleio, Bern was nothing more than a lot of potatoes in that world.

"You fell asleep outside like this? Really, aren't you afraid of catching a cold?"

Kleio grumbled as he took out a blanket from his magic bag and gently enveloped Bern.

"Honestly, you scared me because your heart stopped beating. Don't do that in the future, you fool."

Althea heard that and was convinced that it was true. He healed Bern's body, and all of his organs were shattered and his heart just beat very slowly as if he was the one who was at the end of his death. There is no part of his body that does not need to be healed.

{How does this kid hold all that up? Really really weird.}

Althea could not help but grumble at the dying condition of her master right now just like Kleio.

"And thank you, because you, the spirit of healing, Bern can still go on with his life."

Althea was silent for a moment. He had never received any gratitude for his hard work during this time.

And it doesn't feel too bad to be praised.

Althea came down from Bern's shoulder to the ground. Even though she can't be seen, she can touch, eat and so on.

[No problem. And my name is Althea.]

Kleio who saw that looked startled yet calmed himself down.

"Well, thank you, Althea. Bern was really a good person, even letting the guardian spirit roam. He's really weird."

Althea agreed to that. Bern was a very strange person in his eyes but very good at the same time.

The three of them sat outside the cave while enjoying the sunset. Well, even if one is sleeping.

****

"You failed to take the healing spirit and even lost your hand? Depressing. Go to the next mission after you recover."

The witch was bluffing her teeth with a furious feeling when she was angered.

'That witch, if I see her again, I will kill her!'

Even if his hand was only one left, he could make a new hand with the help of demonic energy.

'I must have killed you!'

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