episode_0063

Invest for the future.

I couldn’t understand just those words.

“It’s just a friendly match, so you’re going to kill me?”

“Killing? It just cripples you.”

The man said so and pulled out his sword.

It was a fairly large sword.

It was a sword that could be called a great sword.

“…You don’t have to think that you made a mistake in your answer. Even if I said I would abstain, I was planning to maim him.”

I think they were planning to attack me from the beginning.

But why?

Are you embarrassed to lose to Inmuhakkwan in front of so many people?

It didn’t seem like that was the reason.

“Do you know how Cheonmuhakkwan became the best academy?”

“…?”

The man seems to show his last mercy.

He told me why he attacked me.

“As you can see by looking at the secretaries, the Cheonmuhak view is not much different from other martial arts views, except for some government officials.”

I could only nod my head at those words.

Jeon Pung and Nam Gung Yu were clearly powerful men of a different caliber, but before that, Tang Geon and Han Man Guando were defeated by Jeong Seon.

To be honest, it was no different from Namgoong Hyuk.

I wouldn’t say he was weak, but I felt a little disappointed about appearing as the head of the Cheonmuhakkwan’s secret service.

And it is said that this is not the first time something like this has happened.

This was the first time we had struggled in an open friendly match like this, but there were often cases where we narrowly won or even lost in friendly matches attended only by school officials.

“And ever since then, Cheonmuhakgwan took out the sword.”

Cheonmu Hakkwan took out the Gwando that defeated them in a friendly battle.

And with that stronger power, they were able to win in a real non-fighting competition rather than a friendly match.

But this time things were different.

The problem was that the other party was a humanities and martial arts officer anyway, so they had a public affair.

If it was a meeting with only academic officials, they could have silenced him by buying him whatever he wanted, whether it was money or a medicine.

However, with so many people watching Bimu, it was impossible to get Guando out.

In addition, Pungwoon, who could be said to be the core force of the Inmuhakgwan, was a Guando that they kicked out for various reasons.

There was no reason to bring him back.

So Cheonmuhakwan decided.

If I can’t have it, I’ll destroy it.

And that too using the 5th contestant, Kwando.

The target was me, the fifth contestant.

“I considered Seolyeong, but Bukhaebingju’s love for his daughter was famous.”

Come to think of it, Seolyoung also said that.

They say these are people who will do anything for themselves.

Being the fifth contestant, not having any significant connections, and many other factors seemed to have made me a target.

The reason I crossed the Wind Cloud… maybe it was because of my skills?

“…Are you stronger than Namgoong Yu?”

“…I lose in non-dancing. However, it does not lose in a real battle where life is at stake.”

His eyebrows twitched as if he was offended by the comparison.

And he thrust his ugly sword at me.

“At least you can’t lose to a guy without a weapon.”

“No weapons?”

I laughed a little at that.

Yes, I guess I called this warehouse with that in mind.

For situations where you are the only one holding a weapon.

I raised my hands in the air.

The man frowned and came striding towards me with a sword as if he wanted to cut off my arm before he did anything.

“What…”

Soon the steps stopped.

Then he started staring blankly at me with his mouth open.

My lips were trembling, and my pupils were shaking violently from side to side.

“What…”

It was a face full of astonishment.

It was worth it.

Slurp.

This is the first time I’ve seen someone pull out a sword out of thin air.

It was a technique that even a Heavenly Demon could not perform, not even a peak expert.

I slowly took out the jungle sword from my inventory.

It was the moment when my old partner appeared in the world of martial arts.

The man, who was in good spirits, started shaking his hands.

The guy fell into fear when he pulled out a weapon of a type he had never seen before out of thin air.

“What are you!”

The tip of the sword pointed at me was trembling mercilessly.

It was actually a good thing.

If this guy was truly as skilled as Nam Gung Yu, then now was his opportunity as he was engulfed in fear.

I held the jungle sword tightly and thought of the martial arts sword technique.

And I trusted my weapon skills.

I left the path of the sword to the weapon technique and focused solely on internal strength.

To be more precise, I remembered the images of Namgung Yu, Pung Woon, and Seol Young putting their strength into their swords.

In particular, the image of Seolyoung remained deep in my mind.

The polar yin and the polar yang were like mirrors.

I felt like if I could just follow what Seolyoung showed me, I could do something similar.

It was on a different level from infusing energy into the body.

It was a level that could only be reached if I thought that the sword was my body.

If what I was holding now was a sword, I wouldn’t have been able to contain my energy.

However, with this jungle island, this jungle island that always protected me during the zombie world, I felt like I could do it.

A small puff of smoke billowed from the sword.

Both I and the man in front of me were distracted by a wisp of smoke rising from the sword.

And just like that, our eyes met.

“…Ugh!”

The man rushed towards me, making a sound that I couldn’t tell if it was a scream or a scream.

It looked like it was attacking in fear, but the attack itself had a power that could not be ignored.

Kagagak!

Even as he scraped the walls and the ground with his sword, he did not stop swinging his huge sword.

Just blocking the attack made my whole body vibrate.

My body was shaking, like the moment I got on the carriage, and I was on the verge of motion sickness.

However, every time I blocked the sword, my breathing increased and my heart began to beat.

Slowly, my strength began to grow.

The color of the jungle sword turned red, and now a huge smoke billowed from the sword.

Smoke was rising inside the warehouse.

“…Well, the sword…”

Just by blocking the man’s attack, the blade of the man’s huge sword melted a little.

Seeing that, the man stopped his attack.

And I knew instinctively.

Now.

“Hoo-eup!”

grasp!

I kicked the floor and narrowed the distance.

Hiss.

My sword was aimed at his solar plexus.

I put all my energy and strength into just speed.

Still, the guy reacted.

He raised his huge sword like a shield.

But-

“How…”

Chi profit.

There was a large hole in the bayonet, and I went through the bayonet and even pierced the guy’s shoulder.

I originally planned to aim for the chest, but I missed by a bit as it pierced through the great sword.

The area around the pierced shoulder burned black.

I slowly drew my sword.

“Keuuu…”

Then the guy put down his great sword and instead grabbed his shoulder with his hand.

Perhaps because the black, burning skin was more painful than the pain of being pierced, he was biting his teeth so hard that blood flowed from his mouth.

The guy lost his will to fight and sat down.

Slowly.

And then I heard someone trying to open the locked door.

bang!

When the person on the other side of the door did not open the door, he used force to open the door.

“…”

The instructor of Cheonmuhakkwan could be seen through the open door.

For a moment, a cold sweat broke out.

If you think back on what this guy said before the fight, there was a high possibility that the instructor was also a member of the group.

“Instructor!”

Sure enough, the fallen guy called the instructor in a hopeful voice.

Then the instructor looked at the fallen man with cold eyes and said.

“What is all this about?”

“…Instructor?”

However, the instructor at Cheonmu Hak-gwan coolly cut the tail off.

I was rather taken aback by that sight, and as I looked at the two people in turn, a huge shadow appeared behind Cheonmuhakgwan’s back.

“Or you can explain.”

Instructor Cheolwoong came into the warehouse, boasting his bear-like size.

‘Right.’

I felt like I finally understood why the Cheonmuhakwan instructor wanted to cut off my tail.

I had no choice but to do that because instructor Cheolwoong came with me.

I nodded and said to Instructor Cheolwoong.

Everything that happened during that time.

***

The two instructors seemed to have run straight into the huge smoke rising from the warehouse while looking for the next one.

After hearing the whole story from me, the two instructors decided to abolish the Danjeon of the guy who attacked me.

He tried to get away with lying as much as he could, but it was important that many people, including Namgoong Hyuk, saw him calling me out.

As a result, the friendly match ended in a somewhat disjointed manner with the victory of Inmuhakgwan.

Many people expressed dissatisfaction, but when I told them the reasons and results, many people understood.

“You bad guy, destroy the Danjeon!”

“We must never allow martial arts to be used again!”

Most people enjoyed seeing the bad guys get judged.

This is especially true in martial arts, where betrayal and secret tactics are rampant.

Moreover, Pungwoon played a big role in making it easy for people to understand.

After seeing the plum blossom sword technique shown by Feng Wun against Nam Gung Yu, many people had an intuition that Cheonmu Hakkwan had already been defeated.

After finishing the dance, I immediately headed somewhere.

It was none other than the waiting room at Cheonmuhak Hall.

The others had already left, but Namgung Yu stayed to watch the wind.

And when someone blocked his gaze, he glared at that person with an annoyed expression.

“…Who on earth is in front of me…”

“Hello?”

“…”

Namgung Yu looked up at me with a surprised expression.

And he bowed his head.

It seemed like he remembered the promise he had made.

He said he would do anything if he lost.

“This is invalid.”

“Even if we had proceeded as is, Poongun would have defeated him?”

“…Why on earth did Gaga become so strong?…”

Namgung Yu bit his lip, blaming Pungwoon for becoming too strong.

When asked to come to my room this evening, Namgung Yu frowned but nodded.