episode_0009

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Although it is called a guest room, it is much closer to an officetel than a motel or inn. In the first place, if you live as a ronin in Sacheon, you have no choice but to stay in this ronin guesthouse, and unless you are a person with a special personality, everyone wants to have a stable private room.

“Hmm…”

I have been using Magnolia No. 209 for the past 7 years and can actually call it my home.

The security at Ronin Gaekjan is ordinary. There is a door with an ordinary lock and a window leading to the outside.

A room where my personal items are properly located. The only thing worth noting is the books that fill one shelf.

When you’re a ronin, you often have to kill time, and every time you do that, you buy a martial arts magazine and collect one or two volumes, and before you know it, you’ve accumulated as much as I did.

There was more than just martial arts on this bookshelf. There were several volumes of [Settings] that recorded knowledge that I considered essential while living in the world of martial arts. Unlike other kidnappers, I didn’t have any special memory correction, so I had no choice.

Of course, it is a vast record, and among them, there were books of similar weight level to major books.

That was a book that recorded the characters’ realizations.

I couldn’t go there because it wasn’t implemented in [Murim World] in the game, but in the map of Murim World, there are islands that are the prototype of Korea and the Korean Peninsula and Japan.

After a Chinese president designated martial arts land in the [List of Banned Books on a Certain Continent], the genre of martial arts died out, and under the influence of that, the names of Chinese countries that were the background of martial arts and that appeared in history no longer appear in martial arts magazines. I stopped doing it.

The world view of the martial arts world is based on Chinese culture and general martial arts, but the country is not specified and is only set as [Empire]. Korea is just a [returning country] and Japan is just a [nation].

So Hangul doesn’t exist either. I checked this myself.

As a Korean, it is a very strange feeling to know that Hangul does not exist, but in any case, the books in which I write about the world of martial arts are simply written in Korean, but within the world of martial arts, they are like coded text.

The fact that there was a ronin under the bed meant that this room could be breached at any time. It wouldn’t be surprising if there was a ronin looking through my books. I wouldn’t be able to recognize my records if they were stolen, but the problem is that I would also be in trouble if I lost those records.

It has been 8 years since I fell into this world of martial arts. Like the other main characters, I don’t have memory correction, so I’ve already forgotten a lot of information. I’m trying my best to remember, but…

It’s impossible to remember everything.

Although I am now in a bit, or rather a very difficult situation, if I had not known Yeo Il-ye’s enlightenment, I would have become a cold corpse on the spot. In the end, the reason I was able to survive was because of the information accumulated in my head while playing Wulin World.

One morning, when I was looking at the title box with [Hocheonbirok] scribbled with emotion, I felt like a wise man, but in the end, these collections of settings are my own assets that nothing can replace.

“In the end, I have to store this somewhere.”

It is not trustworthy to leave it in the room. As a second-rate warrior, I wouldn’t be able to notice even if real experts sneaked into my room. However, the security of the room itself is not great, so keeping it in my room like this is a handshake of handshakes.

In theory, the safest way is to use the silver won plaque and ask Yeo Il-ye to keep it… but realistically speaking, it is unlikely to yield good results.

It’s not that there aren’t battlefields to store things, but there’s no one you can trust. In fact, no matter how famous the battlefield is, if you store items, there is a low probability that they will disappear. On the outside, they say it was stolen, but you never know. In the face of priceless treasures, things like credit and honor are merely resources that can be sold.

“In the end, there is no other way.”

The bundles were tied to the arms and legs to secure them, and the thick bundle of Buddhist rites was placed in the abdomen. And although it was not suitable for the season and weather, I wrapped myself in a rich long cloth.

The people in the guest house will look at me suspiciously, but since I have a reputation that is no longer suspicious within the group, I think doing something a little more suspicious might be helpful in dispelling rumors.

“Hyung!”

“Ho Jinin!”

What is Ho Jin-in? Anyway, I shook off the people who were trying to talk to me and went outside the guesthouse.

“That kid is running away!”

“Catch it!”

These crazy guys. You’re saying nonsense like I’m running away or getting caught.

Of course, I ran away right away. When I looked back, I saw about a dozen ronin people kicking their cups out of the ronin guest house after me. As soon as I left the restaurant, I turned into an alley and first crumpled the black lip into my arms.

Having learned all the martial arts that I could learn as a second-class person, I hurriedly used counter-use techniques and infiltrated the crowd of people.

As I took off my black lip and immersed myself in the crowd, the Ronin who were chasing me looked around in confusion, but they couldn’t find me as I had already immersed myself in the crowd.

I patted the strategy books in my arms and sighed.

I have to deal with it quickly and go back.

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“Where have you been? I’ll blow obediently!”

“Are you my mother? Find out where I’ve been and what to do!”

“But why did you run away like that? Isn’t it because there’s something to hide?”

“Are you my dad? What if I’m hiding something?”

While casting an invincible rainbow reflection, he removed the clinging rogues and approached Yoo Yu-yeon. Yoo Yu-yeon was basically a person who only sat on the first floor when she felt like it, but these days, the guest room was so noisy that she stayed there for several days.

I held out a pocket containing the lodging expenses, which was my justification for going out.

“Do you have to pay in advance again?”

“Two weeks! I lost all my money at the gambling house and went to collect the request fee I received in a slip! They’re so damn crazy!”

Still unable to shake off my suspicion, I shouted and rolled my eyes at the Ronins who were following me, and the Ronins cleared their throats and dispersed.

Sichuan ninja use anonymity even on the battlefield. As a result, the only thing that can prove one’s identity is the decision made when signing a contract with the battlefield. If the secret is exposed, someone else can steal the money stored on the battlefield.

This was the excuse I prepared while hiding the settings book.

“Hmm… Let’s see… Let’s see… Now, there are 15 days left to pay for the accommodation fee you paid in advance in Hocheon? Is it still prepayment?”

Has it already accumulated that much?

Well, like all people in this era, there are many people who absolutely hate spending money out of their own pockets. To be honest, it’s not about saving money and investing, so I don’t know why you want to hold it in your pocket.

Even if they have money, there are people who pay for lodging on credit. There is no place to invest anyway, so if you get a prepayment discount, that’s how you make money.

Isn’t there probably no one other than me who gets a prepayment discount?

However, Yoo Yu-yeon does not receive money.

“Let’s do one favor.”

“Listen. If you don’t like it, don’t.”

“Huh, I feel bad that you are putting conditions between us first?”

It really stinks that this person is asking for money even without money. Yu Yu-yeon and I have a vertical relationship. Yu Sa-yeon is Gosu and the guest of the Ronin Gaekjan, the only place where Ronin can stay in Sichuan Province.

I am a second-rate scum, like a candle that can only go out unless it is extinguished in a room.

But you’re asking me for something while paying attention to me? I’m already scared of what they’re going to do.

“Would you please help me as a comrade?”

Comrades in arms. Military trauma is a spreading word.

Sacheon ronin handle things in a completely different way than ronin from other regions. No, living as a Sichuan ronin before handling work is something that ordinary ronin cannot endure. When a new employee comes in, a senior person who is familiar with Sichuan life is assigned to teach them in order to monitor them to prevent accidents and to help them adapt.

“I must have served in the comrade-in-arms group twice already.”

“Ah~ Everything needs to be finished before it’s done, right? Do you do business for a day or two?”

I stared at Yu Yu-yeon for a moment. Why are you doing this to me? What do you want? Regardless of what I was thinking, Yoo Yu-yeon jumped up and said.

“One guy quit being a ronin, and another guy went missing one day. Strictly speaking, this cannot be said to have produced a team of comrades. Still, in consideration of the merit of taking care of two people, I asked them to ask for something, but they refused it outright to my face, which made me very uncomfortable…”

“Gwan N. That kid who was my comrade in arms. 어떤 새끼, 아니 어떤 년이 넌지시 문파에 추천을 넣어 줬다는군. I thought he showed some talent, but maybe he was very talented?”

Yu Yu-yeon closed her mouth.

“As expected, that guy who was in my comrade-in-arms group, Gyeongyun Seon-jae. It turned out that he was a runaway from a prestigious political faction in Changan. 대체 어떤 새끼, 아니 어떤 년이 흑립을 쓴 낭인의 정보를 알고 그걸 그 문파에 팔아제꼈을까?”

Yoo Yu-yeon avoided my gaze. She knows it too. I’m not just saying this, I’m already convinced and have checked who did it. It’s already been 7 years since I became a Sacheon ronin. I know Yu Yu-Yeon, and Yu Yu-Yeon knows me.

“I don’t know who it is, but I worked hard to teach it to raise it as a Sichuan ronin, and I gave it plenty of water. I don’t know who it was, but the guy who sold those two guys must have made some money.”