130 – What are you? (One)

what else are you (One)

The wind was cold, and the moon was about to be covered by clouds.

I remember the face that asked me with a sword.

– The night is cold. What did you come out to do?

Her blonde hair in a tight ponytail glowed even in the dark.

When will this be?

There were so many things I couldn’t pick just one.

-Nobody, are you worried that I’m going to be cold right now?

It may not have been a friendly question, but my tone in answering it was fierce.

Incompetent qualifications are a very insignificant look.

Her expression didn’t change despite the way she spoke.

-… If that’s not the case, I guess it’s shift time.

– If you know, disappear quickly.

-Are you okay?

-What?

Unlike her bright golden hair, her eyes were soft.

-Now the time zone is the most dangerous.

-So, I’m weak, so crawl in?

-I’m not saying that, but… .

At her words, flames spewed from her body.

Compared to today, it’s pretty insignificant.

The flames that grew the territory faded without even being able to use the single sword she pulled out.

He frowned as if he was somewhat uncomfortable and spoke to me.

-… What do you want to attract attention like this, or do you want them to come in droves?

-Stop talking nonsense and go in. you’ll figure it out

– No matter how much I think about it, I’d rather wake up the sleeping dragon.

-Can you make it louder this time?

-… .

Finally, he sighed and finally moved to the barracks.

She asked me as she pulled up the entrance to the barracks.

– Gongja Gu, what will you do if you get out of here?

I answered the sudden question as if I was dumbfounded.

-Are you getting wet with useless sentiments because it’s night?

What if I get out of here?

Can I go out in the first place? The Devil’s Landing is a place like hell to harbor hope.

– I’m done, what are you going to do then?

No words came to mind, so I asked again.

Even if I return alive here, all I have left is to carry on the thick karma.

So I asked.

what do you want to do

She, Wi Seol-ah, seemed to be pondering over my question for a long time, then opened her mouth slightly.

-I want to go around a little bit.

-Are you walking around? do it now

At my words, Wi Seol-ah puts on a rare expression of contempt.

– I mean, I want to go around places where there are a lot of people.

– Why are you having such troublesome dreams?

-I do not know.

Wisulah laughed. I could sense the haggardness in his laughter, but I didn’t point it out.

-Iknow, right… . why would you want to do that

You look exhausted.

Since he was a warrior who had already crossed the wall, there was no way he was physically exhausted.

Watching Wi Seol-ah enter slowly, I turned my head.

I didn’t think anything of it at the time.

I just had to endure today, and I had to save myself for tomorrow.

Who knew, my time here would be so long.

Even after time passed and he returned alive, he lost everything and crawled back to his feet.

The memory of this time has been a great help in living later.

This has become a time of many changes in thinking of you.

Everyone has forgotten, but I remember alone, so that’s enough.

So even if I despair at all the choices I’ve made, I won’t regret it.

[…] The contract was established. Little embers.]

I hope you do too, I was hoping that alone.

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I was taken aback by Bia Namgung who suddenly came, but as always, I was thinking that it was because she was an unknown person.

[What do you mean, a storm raged inside me when I said I missed you.]

‘It’s just because I was flustered for a moment.’

[So, you would. That’s why he must have said something like dog poop to eat.]

‘… Noya, you’re becoming more and more mean.’

Right after eating, Bia Namgoong started to take a nap in my room as if she had been waiting.

“Then why are you sleeping in my room?”

Even casually, I took out my quilt and laid it down and fell asleep.

“Your sister must be very tired.”

“That’s not the problem… no.”

It would only hurt me to examine it, so I let it go to sleep first.

The training was also stopped in the middle due to uninvited guests.

Thanks to that, it became a bit ambiguous to start again.

And above all. For some reason, I was also concerned about Wi Seol-ah looking sullen.

“Would you like some medicine?”

I speak softly, but

“no… .”

refused medicine. And even, emphatically, this was a big deal.

Although hundreds of thoughts run through my head in an emergency.

There weren’t many ways to get it out and use it.

In the end, I had no choice but to ask.

“Why are you looking so sad?”

“… It just didn’t work out.”

“what?”

“This and that… .”

Rarely had I seen Wisole hang so limp.

Lately, he has often shown a sullen appearance about what the problem is.

Although there were things I was paying less attention to.

I couldn’t help noticing the cheeks that were gradually falling out.

Looking at his drooping shoulders, he pondered for a moment before saying.

“Let’s go.”

“Yeah?”

At my words, Wiseol-ah looks at me as if I’m talking about something.

“For a walk, let’s go out for a while.”

It was only then that Wi Seol-ah’s eyes widened as if she understood the meaning of the words.

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“When Hong and unnie come, buy something delicious.”

“yes?”

“Yes, so I’m going to buy a moderate amount!”

“A lot of… . Yes, let’s buy a lot.”

I took Wi Seol-ah and came out to the prefecture.

I wanted to tell Mu-yeon and go, but first I just left.

Now, I have gone beyond the level of needing an escort.

“Bocchan, where are you going?”

“Just to walk around a bit.”

“Really!?”

Seeing how excited they were, I wondered if the method worked.

[Did you have enough time to rest?]

He smiled wryly at Noya’s question.

gap to rest.

Not full yet.

Magi’s purification is still in progress, and it’s still in the process of saving energy, so it was good to constantly move around during this gap.

“young master! there!”

“where.”

“stick!”

“… Yes, you can eat it, but let’s eat everything we have in our hands and talk.”

I thought as I looked at the excited Wi Seol-ah.

Might as well take a day off.

It’s because the future schedule is tight.

I woke up Bia Namgoong who was taking a nap and asked, but after contemplating with her eyes half open, she wrapped herself in my blanket and fell asleep again.

Maybe I should have slept first.

I looked at Wi Seol-ah, who was excitedly walking around.

Wi Seol-ah’s smiling face is unfamiliar every time I see it.

[That little child is the hope of the future.]

Even Shin Noya, who said he had seen my memory, spits it out as if he was in doubt, but that was the reality.

“young master! Let’s eat this together!”

He brings a fruit whose name I do not know with a smile.

I was about to take the money out of my chest, but Wi Seol-ah proudly said,

“I bought it!”

“What? how?”

“Yes? I just bought… ?”

He takes out a small pouch from his bosom and shows it to me.

When I checked the inside of the pouch, there was indeed money in it.

Come to think of it, Wi Seol-ah’s status is a servant, so he must have been paid.

He didn’t even pay for medicines and bought things with confidence.

‘It’s changed a lot while I didn’t know.’

It was something I should have been doing from the beginning, but it was a strange thing to do because I lacked common sense compared to my age.

“Eat this.”

I took a bite of the fruit Wi Seol-ah gave me and took a bite.

As soon as it entered my mouth, I frowned at the sour taste that filled my mouth.

Seeing that, Wiseol-ah laughed.

“fun… ?”

“Bocchan’s face is so funny.”

“Are you cursing? It must be an insult.”

Wi Seol-ah did not say that it was not until the end. This guy… .

We walked around the prefecture talking like that.

It’s a place I haven’t been to in a very long time.

Because it didn’t come when I left the Volcano Wave and when I came back.

So, if there’s anything that surprises you more than you thought.

“Hey, are you here?”

“hello!”

“Have you been here for a long time? sister.”

“My sister is busy. Give me one of these!”

“Oh, are you seol?”

It is that there are many people who recognize Wi Seol-ah in the prefecture.

Did I often come out with the attendants without my knowledge?

I wondered if Hongwa was the part that called her older sister.

‘Then, did the swordsman allow this?’

Otherwise, there is no way I can come out of the prefecture.

It was understandable that Wi Seol-ah wandered about casually.

The current world is adorned with peace, but it’s not enough to casually run around with that appearance.

It wasn’t that I was trying to excuse Namgoongbia or Wiseolah so that I wouldn’t get involved in troublesome things.

“You know, Bocchan.”

“… !”

I was surprised at the moment when Wi Seol-ah came up to me.

Even though I was thinking a lot, I didn’t notice it coming right in front of me.

I asked, trying to hide my embarrassment.

“… why?”

“Everyone sees the master and calls him Confucius.”

“Well?”

suddenly?

“Soyeol unnie did that. It didn’t seem like Bia unnie, though.”

Most people call it that.

It’s because you can’t just spit out half words.

“That’s it… .”

Because the status and location are different. It was the simplest thing to say.

how to say

It was a very difficult thing to get out of my mouth.

Even more so, he was a weakling who couldn’t stay in the role of servant-in-waiting forever.

Then, Wi Seol-ah jokingly spits out the words.

“Old Confucius.”

As if he wanted to do it himself.

I couldn’t help but stop at the sudden words.

– Gu Gongja.

It reminds me of the damn thing.

With a more mature face than Wi Seol-ah now.

with a slightly different look.

And the image of him talking to me in a much lower voice overlapped naturally.

The way he said that in a completely different situation than now was exceptionally clear.

Was my expression very strange? The stomach fluctuated slightly.

“As expected, I guess it doesn’t suit me… .”

I finally came to my senses when I saw Wi Seol-ah with a sullen expression.

“It doesn’t suit you, what do you mean?”

“Dang unnie is pretty, and Bia unnie is pretty too, so it would suit her, but if I do it, it must be weird… . Bocchan’s face was ugly.”

Hey, I was ugly… .

The words that strike with full of innocence always pierce the heart.

Anyway, is that the cause of the sullenness? It won’t be the only thing I see.

“Leaving aside everything else, even you… .”

“yes?”

“you too… .”

I am speechless.

I was going to say what should I say about this, you’re pretty too.

What is this saying, like biting a stone?

In the meantime, Wi Seol-ah smiled as if she had noticed what I was about to say.

“why? What is it?”

“… Are you doing this on purpose?”

“No, Seol-ah doesn’t know anything.”

It is certainly.

It was clear that I had learned only the bad things from somewhere without knowing it.

“If you don’t tell me quickly, everything will come.”

“What are you doing? Where is this?”

“Last time, Bocchan ran away because it was troublesome for Grandpa Ryoon to find him… .”

“Pretty.”

At the half-forced words, Wi Seol-ah laughs.

His face is well-tucked into even the remaining cheeks, so he is gradually regaining his former life.

His appearance shines every day, but he smiles a lot, so he shows off his charm in all directions.

“… you.”

Was it on purpose to pretend to be sullen?

To put it that way, it seemed like an act that wasn’t really cowardly.

[You don’t know what. That child is much more foxy than you think.]

‘Isn’t it the bear or the dog side?’

Weird fox? It was a word that didn’t fit well with my previous life.

Perhaps feeling this thought, Shinnoya snorts.

[From what I see, child, it seems faster to replace your eyeballs instead of anything else.]

Putting Noya’s words behind, Wiseolah seemed to be in a good mood right away.

“I’m fine now!”

Saying that, he smiled broadly and went ahead.

Would just two words ‘pretty’ be that good?

It was a very warm and difficult feeling.

‘heavy.’

The heart that child has for me. That is the heart I will have for that child.

‘Nevertheless.’

It was impossible to let go now. I hate that, because I live like an evil person.

“I fell while running like that.”

“If you fall, the young master will pick you up.”

The way he speaks like the sun often stops me in my steps.

-If I fall, you just have to lift me up.

Is it an illusion?

You who say the same thing as you then.

– So it’s okay.

“That’s fine!”

“…”

My heart ached as if he was telling me not to forget him.

As if it was Wi Seol-ah, who had been running around for a while with an excited face, she soon stumbled upon a rock and fell.

“Ew!”

He groaned and fell over.

I startled and approached, but to my surprise, the food I was holding was kept safe.

“Don’t run like that.”

When I stretched out my hand with a smile, Wi Seol-ah grabbed it and pulled it up.

“oh my god… It’s all dusty… .”

“That’s right, Hongwa will get angry if he sees it.”

“… what… !”

I laughed out loud at the look on his face as if he was facing his biggest problem.

“I’ll take good care of you.”

“young master… . You did that last time and I told you everything!”

“… I got caught.”

How did know… ? I obviously did it secretly.

“That is unfair… .”

Even though he said it as if he was upset, he hugged the food he was holding in his arms.

Where do you think this is a fox?

“I’m upset, so I can buy another one… .”

“no.”

Shocked by my resolute refusal, I laughed out loud once more as I saw Wi Seol-ah, whose eyes widened.

In the end, I bought the food Wi Seol-ah was trying to buy.

When I returned to Sega, the last food I bought was dumplings.

It looks like he was trying to give it to me.

Before dinner, the three of us shared dumplings with Namgoongbia, who woke up from sleep and fell asleep.

By the way, Wi Seol-ah was scolded by Hong-wa for soiling her clothes.

He looked at me and looked at me asking for help, but he pretended not to know because there was no way to do it in the yard he was caught.

At that time, Wi Seol-ah’s expression of betrayal was cute and memorable.

******************

Time passed seven days and nights, and the day to go to the Yongbong Branch came.

It was something I had planned, and I tended to have a clear schedule.

Just one thing happened that was different from what I expected.

The carriage side where many people gathered.

Standing in front of me is a sleek, handsome boy who appears to be a head taller than me.

Dang So-yeol next to me was glaring at the boy for some reason, but because Dang So-yeol’s appearance was so gentle, I didn’t feel too intimidated.

In this situation, I asked him in an absurd voice.

“… That’s why.”

“yep… .”

Not only me, but the boy also didn’t like the expression very much.

However, it seems that the body is tense as if the military discipline has been tightened.

“Are you going with me?”

The boy flinched at my question.

I let out a deep sigh at the boy’s answer.

In front of me is now the grandson of Iljang-ro, and a genius who was once promoted by Guseonmun.

“…i look forward to.”

Gu Gujeo-yeop stood there with a confused face.