48 – EP.3 Dokma, Jegalhwi-2

***

The night before Master left.

As expected, Master stayed by my side all day to rest.

Maybe the reason why I worked so hard was to create a time like today?

“I won’t see you for a long time, but I have to fill you up today.”

lie. Then what did you do every night?

There were many things I wanted to say, but I shouldn’t do anything stupid to break the mood.

Because Master’s sharply sharpened eyes are mildly open today.

Master bit all the servants and clung to me from the morning.

They hugged my arm and enjoyed taking a nap, or waking up in the middle to eat pre-prepared snacks or read books.

I lay in bed for almost half a day and woke up, but Master didn’t really touch me.

Or maybe you did something in your sleep.

“Ew… my back hurts.”

“Of course my back hurts from sleeping like that. If it was like before, I would have woken you up as soon as the morning came and trained you.”

Master clicked his tongue as if he was pathetic.

“Master, I have a question for you.”

“What.”

“Do you teach me martial arts?”

“…….”

My name is Sogyoju, but I feel a little pushed behind because I can’t do martial arts.

Although the general and the others don’t seem to care.

“I won’t teach you.”

I thought he would teach me right away, but Master gave me an unexpected answer.

“why?”

“Because your danjeon is very broken.”

Her fingers slowly descended from my bare chest and grazed the danjeon.

“I won’t remember it anyway, so I’ll tell you. You were killed by a sword. At that time, Danjeon was completely destroyed.”

“okay.”

Is it because the body cannot learn martial arts at all? Now I think I know why she didn’t even bring out the ‘mu’ character of martial arts.

“Still, the trained body and the spirit of this mountain naturally gather internal energy, but the amount will be very small.”

“Didn’t you say you glide for a short while when you fell off the cliff?

It’s a state where you can only glide for a moment.

Wow, then, if I hadn’t even had that skill, I would have fallen and died.

When I think about it again, my heart goes cold.

“If the dantian wasn’t broken anyway, I wouldn’t have taught you martial arts.”

“why?”

“Because I lost you once because of that martial art.”

In a low voice she murmured.

She removed her index finger from the Danjeon and gently stroked my stomach and chest with the palm of her hand.

“I thought martial arts would benefit the world. Helping the weak and opposing injustice.”

“Wouldn’t it fit roughly?”

“Whoops, it’s still the same. But, if you say you do a righteous thing once with that martial art, somewhere in the world you do an unrighteous thing with martial arts a hundred times.”

“That’s why there should be no martial arts.”

she promised. It wasn’t directed at me, it was like talking to myself.

“Ah, think positively. Martial arts are just a tool and it’s a matter of the person who wields it. See, Master helps Yeonhwa, and the other church members… Ahh!”

– tight

She pinched my chest hard. No matter how hard I pinched it, it quickly turned red.

“Ah! What are you doing?”

“In front of whom do you bring up a woman’s name?”

oh wow, that’s brutal

“No, Yeon-hwa is a very young child. Besides, it’s Master who made her an attendant.”

“I put on an attendant for your convenience. Putting someone else’s name in front of me is another matter.”

It’s tough by the standards.

“No, I was just talking about a case.”

I felt like I was being scolded for something unfair, so I gave off a bad feeling.

Usually, at this point, the atmosphere was relaxed with a smile, but today’s master didn’t seem to be like that.

Master made eye contact with me with sulky eyes and said in an admonitional tone, as if I was firmly wrong.

“They misunderstood. Ever since I took up the name of the Heavenly Demon, I’ve never had the thought of ‘saving’ someone.”

“Then what have you done so far?”

“They knew and followed me. I just destroyed and burned the things that bothered me. They gave meaning to me and became members of the church.”

It’s complicated.

She continued to explain.

“If you follow me, I don’t throw it away, if you don’t follow me, I throw it away. If it’s annoying, I’ll clean it up, and if it crosses the line, I’ll punish it. That’s how I’ve lived for 12 years.”

“Anything like that doesn’t bother me.”

With a smirk on her face, he poked at her sore spot and pinched her chest once more.

Wow, this time it’s really strong.

“You’re climbing all the way. Come on, it’s true that I can’t kill you.”

Our master suddenly wakes up.

I untied my clothes and brought my face closer.

“But I can bully you, you fool.”

Ah… It’s a start again.

I thought so as I looked at her head pointing down before I knew it.

***

The next day, after being bullied all night from noon until dawn, I saw Master with wide eyes.

On the way she left, all the members of Heukcheongyo held a ceremony with me, and the sight was quite spectacular.

“It won’t take too long, so get some rest.”

With a smile on her face, Master said,

“Have a good trip.”

As soon as I took a hug, she looked at me disapprovingly.

isn’t this

Still, you can’t do things like hugs in a crowd of people.

As I stumbled around in a huddled posture, Master held out her hand with an absurd smile.

“Have a good trip.”

I stared blankly at the hand.

Then, slowly, he raised his hand and held it.

It was a very, very familiar, yet very, very unfamiliar handshake.

***

Heukcheongyo, the general’s office.

After the Heavenly Demon left, the Heukcheongyo went about their daily lives with their respective duties.

While looking at the pile of documents in the office, the commander-in-chief leaned back in his chair, rubbing his stiff shoulders.

The governor-general remembers the words he called to him early in the morning on the day the leader left.

“I’m going to ask you a very strange favor.”

“Tell me anything.”

“It may take a while. See if there are any stories about the time traveler.”

“If you say you’re a time traveler…”

“It is about those who are said to have come from the past or from the future.”

***

Murim Alliance.

The Sword Demon came right in front of me. The Yunnan front line, which had been struggling with strength, began to collapse, and the sword horse drove its momentum northward.

Soon, the group of the Black Heavens, led by the Sword Demon, will reach the front of Maeng Ui.

But the leader was confident.

A knife prepared by Maeng. This is because Namgung So-yeon, who became a blood ghost, has grown dramatically in a short period of time.

“Did you call?”

Namgung So-yeon, whose atmosphere was quite different, stood in front of the leader.

“The group led by the sword demon is not far away. You step out and subdue them.”

“Umm… what should I do? Gongja Kang doesn’t want that.”

“What are you talking about?”

The lord tilted his head at the sudden sound.

“I have to go somewhere else. I can still hear it. The voice of Confucius calling me anxiously.”

Namgung So-yeon shed tears as if she was sad.

Maengju realized that Namgung So-yeon, who resembled a madman, no, now a madman, was out of his control.

“Wait a little. Gongja-nim. Good So-yeon is leaving.”

Without saying goodbye, Namgung So-yeon turned around and left Maeng.