The Brilliant Healer's New Life in the Shadows (Manga)

Born a poor man in the slums, Zenos never had opportunities in life, so he decides to forge his own opportunities by teaching himself the curative arts after a chance encounter with a healer. When an adventuring party led by a man named Aston extends him an invitation, Zenos is elated—only to then be treated like dirt by his teammates. Despite Zenos’s diligent efforts to hone his skills to nothing short of perfection, the party deems him useless and kicks him out. Bereft of money and options, Zenos starts an illegal clinic and becomes a shadow healer. Word of his healing genius spreads quickly throughout the city’s underbelly, and as his reputation grows among the dregs of society, knowledge of Zenos's esteem reaches the wrong ears...

After following up on a lead about Callendore’s involvement in child trafficking, Krishna discovers the rumors to be true and finds herself in mortal peril—that is, until Zenos comes to her rescue just in the nick of time. Having earned the knight’s appreciation and added yet another “unique” lady to his ever-growing collection of difficult patients, our exasperated hero returns to his usual routine. Elsewhere, a certain healer-less party finds out that maybe they’ve made a terrible mistake. Soon Zenos finds himself having to deal with a new problem—well, an old problem, really. As trouble continues to follow the shadow healer wherever he goes, his wish for anonymity slips further and further away from his grasp...