167 – EP.7 Acceleration-3

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After burning all the raiding bandits, Soyou ran in the direction of the living quarters.

In-ho, who had been staring blankly at his teacher, came to his senses belatedly and followed her.

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Due to her late departure, So-Yu had already disappeared from sight, but In-Ho was able to quickly catch up with her as she was walking on a path she already knew.

Of course, when I arrived at the sanchae, people’s screams were already echoing here and there.

Soyou blew the regime on the heads of the bandits, and they died on the spot with her devastating attack.

As she picked wild vegetables like that, a handsome bandit who appeared to be the leader appeared in front of her with a huge greatsword.

“Where does the girl dare to go!!”

Perhaps he had been drinking, the bandit, whose face was flushed red, shouted vigorously.

But that was all.

Soyou’s kick, which came like lightning, shattered the bone and sent a giant ball flying.

“…It’s a little quieter now.”

Sun So-yu said, standing in the middle of a cruel scene where the energy of life was not felt.

“I thought you wanted to come here, so I arranged it in advance.”

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Didn’t I do well? With that face, Soyou looked at Inho following him.

Inho only smiled awkwardly.

“……”

While So-yu looked around the living quarters, In-ho drove the corpses of the bandits to one place.

Looking at the corpses piled up like a mountain, Inho recalled the memories of that day that he had buried in his heart.

Mountains of mangled, cut and dismembered bodies.

And the flame that burned from below.

He gritted his teeth unconsciously and, like Namgung So-yeon at the time, burned the corpses of the bandits.

The human tower, named firewood, was set on fire.

A huge flame that spreads and emits a foul smell.

Inho did not take his eyes off the flames.

Fire, as always, was doing its job diligently.

If left as it is, it would eat up the tower of that huge corpse and disappear.

“……”

He remembered those who were not properly commemorated.

People of Chonggwan, Yeonhwa, Maehwa and Heukcheongyo.

In-ho closed his eyes and tried to think of those faces, but his eyes were blurred as if in a fog.

“What are you thinking?”

Behind him, who blankly stared at the flames, Soyou, who had looked around the living quarters, approached.

“I was just watching.”

Inho answered mechanically.

Soyou snuggled close to Inho’s side, naturally clasping their hands.

“lie.”

“yes?”

“I said it was a lie. It was definitely the look in my eyes that reminded me of something.”

The owner’s eyes narrowed.

Her red eyes sparkled with sparks.

“It’s really nothing. I was just thinking about people.”

“People? What kind of people?”

“There is such a thing.”

Hearing In-ho’s vague words, So-you wanted to ask more questions, but held back his words.

***

In-ho and So-you spent a week in the living room.

It was because the right place to go was not decided, and there was no shortage of supplies brought by the bandits.

For those who did not have immediate travel expenses, supplies ran out at the right time. Also, Soyou noticed that Inho secretly liked this place.

So-yu made a plan to get closer to In-ho here.

It was Inho’s heart that seemed wide open but tightly closed.

Even though In-ho was infinitely close, he acted strangely.

So I stayed in a place where people were rare and increased the time I was with him.

In the morning, we sparred, and in the afternoon, we talked to each other and asked what we were curious about.

They also cooked meals together and repaired the old parts of the sanchae.

But even so, Soyou had a lot of complaints.

‘I don’t know you.’

Owner thought so.

She wanted to know everything about Inho from head to toe.

I wanted to run my fingers along the tight lines of his body, bring my nose up close, and inhale his body odor.

What he thinks, who he thinks of.

she was so curious

I had his past, present, and future in my hands and didn’t want to show them to anyone.

Little by little, she thought, she would own all of him over time.

However, her plan was shattered by the sudden arrival of a telegram.

One day, a piece of paper was tied to the ankle of Jeon Seo-gu, who flew to In-ho.

“Jeonseogu? Did you ask for Haomun information?”

While In-ho was untying the letter tied to the pigeon’s leg, So-Yu asked.

“Because I asked the person who gave me the news of the ambassador the other day.”

Inho replied.

“what?”

“I want you to investigate the death of the ambassador. It was clear that Master was so careless that he would not be able to take care of it.”

“So, that answer came.”

“Yes. Revenge. You’re going to do it, right?”

When In-ho asked if it was natural, So-you couldn’t answer right away.

It was natural to avenge Yeomjin, but Soyou wondered if it was right to take Inho to the place of revenge.

In-ho opened the letter and, unable to read, showed it to So-you.

“It’s Inho.”

“What is written on it? Is their home base written on it?”

“That’s not it.”

“sure?”

“They…”

As Soyu paused, Inho felt that something was wrong.

“They… are coming here.”

The group that killed Yeomjin was coming after them.

Whiing

A chilling wind passed over the mountainside.