163 – EP.7 Flame Ring-3

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– chirp chirp

With the sound of birds chirping, the dawn has begun.

“Ah… I’m sleepy.”

In-ho, who had become a sole proprietor for one night, rubbed his eyes several times due to lack of sleep.

Then he looked to the side with a sad face.

“……”

Next to him was Soyu Namgung, who was sleeping soundly, making various noises.

As if the fact that she had been sick for three days was a lie, she looked fine.

I don’t know if her resilience is outstanding or if all the Moorim people have excellent resilience, but it was a strange thing anyway.

“…Let’s have breakfast and go to work.”

Fearing that his teacher might wake him up, In-ho moved on his tiptoe.

– Dereuk

“Where… are you going?”

When the outside air came in through the slightly open door, Soyu Namgung, who had been sleeping until just now, opened her eyes and spoke to him.

At the reaction speed like a ghost, In-ho looked back at his teacher with a frightened, but unconcerned face.

“I have to eat breakfast. Master, would you like some too?”

“Yes. Let’s eat.”

Having said that, Soyou stood up from his seat.

Seeing that, Inho tilted his head.

“I’ll bring it to you. Please lie down a little longer.”

“No. Let’s go together.”

Soyou Namgung said as he went out the door first.

In-ho took out some leftover potatoes from the kitchen the day before and placed them in a rough wooden bowl.

He tried to make potato porridge for his master, but Soyou declined, saying it was okay.

Returning to the room, Inho made the bed and took out a small table.

He ran his hand across the table and placed the bowl of potatoes on it.

“Please eat.”

“I’ll eat well.”

It was a modest breakfast, but no one in the room was dissatisfied.

for when we camped, we often ate more humble meals than this.

“So what are you going to do today?”

So-you took a small bite of a potato and asked In-ho.

“Like I said yesterday…”

He looked at his eyes and blurted out his words.

“Are you going to the market?”

The owner’s eyes shone sharply.

“Yes….”

He flinched at the frightened eyes, but he did not give up his will.

“I already said I would do it. ‘If you are a Murim person, you must keep your faith.’ That’s what Master said.”

When the teacher showed discomfort in his answer, he hurriedly added his words.

Soyou didn’t feel good when Inho replied back to him, but he couldn’t reply because it was something he usually said.

In her heart, she doesn’t care about that and sticks by her side! I wanted to say

“Hmm…”

While eating a few potatoes, Soyou didn’t say much.

However, he often expressed his displeasure by kicking his tongue or slapping the table lightly.

Of course, it wasn’t Inho who would give up his opinion on such a thing.

After breakfast, he changed his clothes to go to the market.

“Are you going?”

Soyou asked from behind him, who was wearing shoes.

“Yes. We should go soon.”

Fearing that he might catch it, he hurriedly put on his shoes.

“for a moment.”

As he was about to leave the house, Soyou’s voice grabbed him from behind.

“yes?”

Wanting to say something else, he turned his head to find Soyou, who had changed into street clothes before he knew it, stood in front of him.

“I won’t follow you either.”

The color of his face did not change, his master said.

“It’s not like you’re going to deliver it together. Where will you be?”

“I’ll wait for you at a moderately high place.”

“You were sick until yesterday. You can’t come out like this. You need to rest.”

“I know the state of my body well. You have nothing to say.”

She followed In-ho and put on shoes.

“Master!”

Frustrated, In-ho grabbed her by the shoulders and spoke strongly.

“I-I really can’t?”

Seeing Soyou looking up at him with a pitiful expression on his face, Inho let out a long sigh.

‘That expression… is against the rules.’

It was not easy to reject the request of a puppy abandoned by its mother.

***

The market had already been open for a long time.

Soyou, who followed In-ho about 10 paces behind, said ‘I’ll watch you’ and disappeared.

“Why on earth are you erasing your presence?”

In-ho grumbled and went to the place he was directed to yesterday.

The person who introduced him to the delivery job gave him a map and told him where the shops were.

Since Inho couldn’t read anyway, he wrote Korean on top of the map with a small brush.

“Now put on this sash. Wear it around your arm, and the merchants will recognize you and call you.”

Inho was handed a yellow belt.

In-ho walked around the market, watching the busy merchants and the people passing through the narrow passages.

There were a few people like In-ho who moved around wearing yellow belts.

“Hey there~”

Just when I was wondering when the nomination would come, someone called In-ho and stood him up.

“Oh, yes. How can I help you?”

“Bring this to the smithy back there. It’s heavy, so be careful.”

A mustachioed merchant handed him a sack full of iron.

“all right.”

Inho effortlessly lifted the sack and slung it over his shoulder.

“uh…?”

The merchant’s eyes widened when he saw the grown man struggling to lift the sack he was barely able to lift.

“I’m coming.”

In-ho ran as fast as he could on the road.

The story of the good deliveryman soon spread throughout the market.

There is a story that the power is so great that other deliverymen carry two or three times at a time, and they say that they are so fast that they return quickly even if they send them far away.

Merchants began to take an interest in the sudden appearance of the courier, and this also applies to village girls.

“Oh my, it must be that person.”

The village girls, who were walking around the market in groups of threes and threes, lowered their voices when they saw In-ho, who had a beautiful face carrying luggage.

“Your face doesn’t look like a delivery person.”

Someone looked at his face and praised him.

“Look at the tendon in your arm…”

Someone said he was possessed.

“Wipe your saliva, these things.

A woman who seemed to be the leader of the group giggled and called out to In-ho.

Hearing the call, In-ho turned and approached the village girls.

Every time he took a step closer, the crowd would say, ‘Gay! It comes, it comes.’ the same words came out

“Yes, do you have anything delivered?”

Wiping the sweat on his forehead, Inho asked, and the leader of the group smiled and said,

“Yes~ I have one. Does anyone deliver it?”

“A person?”

what kind of person When he asked again with the feeling that it was, the woman lifted her foot slightly and said.

“Ah~ I have a sprained leg. It’s so hard to walk, but if you carry it up there in front of me, I’ll pay for it.”

The woman pointed to a clearing with a small tree.

“Um… but carrying the woman I’ve seen for the first time today is…”

“Hey, how about it? You don’t even have a ‘selfish mind’?

When I say this, they laugh at each other.

In-ho noticed that something was making fun of him, but he didn’t show any discomfort.

It was because I didn’t want to stop working because I did it my way.

The woman took out four coins from her pocket and showed them to him.

“Now, I think this is enough for the price.”

4 coins in just 20 steps. Inho hesitated.

‘Ah… I need money, but I need it.’

However, it is impossible not to notice Soyou who is watching him from somewhere.

In-ho pondered for a while whether it was a lack of finances or an overabundance of possessions.

And his choice, of course, was the former.

‘I can’t make Master angry for money.’

It was when Inho decided to refuse and opened his mouth.

“Hey, you bastard. Where did this guy who came from for a roll steal other people’s work?”

A man approached out of nowhere and grabbed Inho by the collar.

“Oh, sir. Why are you like this? Say it with words.”

“Huh? Can this hold up? Will this hold up?”

The man who grabbed Inho by the collar tried to push him over with a rough force, but Inho didn’t budge.

The stocky, thick-lined man snorted as if he was angry and pressed In-ho.

Of course, it was pressure that did no harm to Inho.

“This is someone else’s area without morals? Where are you from? Eh!”

“Don’t do this!”

The village girls standing next to him stopped the fight, but he didn’t care.

“For now, let’s talk about this.”

He could have beaten his opponent right away, but In-ho decided to solve it in a good way.

“What? Let’s talk about it? The young guy’s baby!”

The man slapped Inho on the cheek.

And right in front of Inho’s eyes, the man disappeared.

“yes?”

In-ho, who was about to show off his skills a bit in return for the cheek, looked around with his eyes wide open as the man in front of him disappeared.

Not only In-ho, but everyone who watched the scene looked like him.

“Kyaaak!!”

It was the woman who suggested delivery to In-ho who grasped the situation first.

She screamed, pointing to the place where she had asked In-ho to take her.

There, a woman was beating a man.

– Puck! puck! puck!

The sound of flesh crunching and bones breaking were clearly audible.

“I don’t even know the subject.”

“You dare. To my disciple.”

“Touch me?”

A familiar voice reached Inho’s ears.

Suppressing his heart pounding with anxiety, Inho slowly moved his legs.

Even as he got closer, the woman did not stop beating the man.

“S… Master?”

When In-ho closed the distance, the woman’s body stopped beating him.

“……”

A woman turning slowly.

“Inho, I punished the person who bullied you.”

Smiling brightly, the master met his eyes.

“Didn’t I do well? Hurry up and praise me.”