episode_0032

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Bang bang bang!!

Actually, 7 a.m. is not the time I usually wake up.

The original lifestyle of Central Plains people is to wake up early in the morning and go to sleep when the sun sets, but Sichuan Province is a bustling city, so mornings are late and nights are long. Normally, similar to modern people, 9 a.m. is the time to start work.

I wake up around 8 a.m., relax briefly, eat breakfast, and prepare for the day.

However, as they are believers in the strange folk idea that warriors can develop by receiving the energy of dawn, most ronin who aim to rise to the level wake up between inshi and myoshi, train their martial arts for an hour or two, and prepare for the day’s requests.

So, unless they were particularly tired from working out a lot the day before, they said that Ronin would wake up between 4 and 6 in the morning.

They knocked on the door while I was in the middle of a dream, wondering what was wrong with the food.

Bang bang bang!!

“Wake up! Why procrastinate when the appointed time is just around the corner!”

“Hey you bastards! Whose side are you on?”

“Uh-huh, we are the judges. We’ll have to watch to make sure there’s a fair bet.”

Crazy rogues started knocking on the door one hour before the scheduled time. You bastards, I am a ronin and Tang Do-gyeong is an outsider.

As I waddled downstairs, feeling like a cow being dragged to the slaughterhouse, Dang Do-gyeong was sitting there, sweating profusely.

What sweat?

Tang Do-kyung must have read my puzzled gaze and said with a smile.

“Hahahaha! I was so excited for today’s competition that I arrived a whopping hour early.”

I just felt a little creepy. It’s not like you came two hours early and waited because you were worried that I might run away. It was said that they had been coming to Rongin Gaekjan since 5 in the morning and beating each other up. It was a bit scary.

“Wouldn’t that be why you can see Ronin people training?”

Ronin ‘people’?

“So far, I have only heard bad rumors about Sacheon Ronin. The heat rising from the training ground early in the morning was second to none of the sects!”

That’s right. Even though the ronins are hard-hearted friends who offer their companions to outsiders, their desire to rise to the top is high.

“ This gentleman was shameless and looked at them, and found that all of them had unusual training and were not at a level of proficiency that could be achieved with just a day or two of effort! So how could you not be impressed! I bowed my head to the temple of this person who judged the ronins based only on rumors floating around outside.”

Yeah, it’s obvious that it’s an outside rumor. Ronin don’t practice and drink until late at night, I guess they say something like that. The ghost story surrounding Sacheon Rongin is a compilation of all the bad things, and that’s it.

“It might be tempting to feel discouraged by such a stigma, but seeing him silently refining his martial arts skills inside his guesthouse made the fire burn in his heart like an active volcano! That’s why I asked for a drink and relaxed for a while before the scheduled time.”

“….I see.”

Only then did I understand why the ronin people had been banging on my door since early in the morning.

A transcendent warrior is a state so supreme that there are only three among the numerous sects in Sichuan Province.

It is the pinnacle of tens of thousands of sects, the five generations of the old faction, so it is possible to reach the peak in one’s twenties. For other sects, it is like reaching a star in the sky. Even when looking through the history of Sacheon ronin, there were only three ronin who reached the peak. Considering that Sichuan ronin plays a role like a gateway for talented ronin in this world to gather, can you imagine how far the state of transcendence is?

Such a top-notch expert even conducts a sparring session with them under the name of Bimu?

However, the supreme expert who provides guidance and sparring praises and acknowledges the Sichuan people?

Why wouldn’t there be a desire to be recognized as Sichuan people? They gathered here because this is the only place where they can raise their martial standards, and although it is the result of their own choice, the desire to be recognized is still one of the fundamental human desires.

Recognition is important, but just as important as recognition is the person who recognizes you.

Coincidentally, the person who acknowledged it happened to be Dang Do-gyeong, a political faction among political factions and a great cooperative among cooperatives, who moved the old people who were fed up with being a fake political faction for their entire lives.

So, the rogues were so angry that they came to my room and beat up on me, saying they would do something for Dang Do-gyeong, and offered me up.

I looked around with betrayed eyes.

You bastards, why would you so suddenly offer up a colleague with whom you have been through life and death for seven years?

I glared at them with that meaning in mind, but the ronin instead glared and glared.

“What do you do? Don’t hurry and start.”

“Can’t you see that the party council is waiting for you!”

“What do you do with the precious time of the party council!”

Is this life gratuitous? Even though he was an expert at gambling, the fact that he fed hermits to the rogues does not change. But these children completely forgot the memory of the hermit they received back then and sacrificed me like this.

“Hahaha, I’m fine. You will need time to warm up and prepare.”

“Uh-huh! Half of the time has already passed since we passed the grave! Why did you do this without even preparing?”

“I am very disappointed in you!”

I was distraught by the pouring out of ignorant criticism. Dang Do-gyeong smiled kindly and tried to stop the ronin, but the more he tried, the more the ronin ran amok.

“…Okay…let’s do it.”

In the end, the only thing that could silence the ronin was to enter the game. I started making green onion kimchi at 7 a.m. and prepared the yabawi board by putting dice into a wooden cup.

Once the story unfolded, the critics’ ignorance stopped.

“This place.”

Naturally, there were no dice where Tang Tao-gyeong pointed.

“Ah..!”

“I thought it was that place too!”

The atmosphere at Suje was strange. This is obviously a ronin guesthouse, I am a ronin and Dang Do-kyung is a foreigner, but Dang Do-kyung is receiving a lot of support from the base and I felt like a challenger to the scoundrels who came to the away game.

Every time Tang Tao-gyeong is wrong, the sad lament becomes louder.

As I watched the Ronins shaking their fists or hitting their foreheads and sighing every time their Dang Do-gyeong was wrong, all I could do was laugh.

The overly engrossed rogues ran wild with excitement as if they had bet money on this wild game, and it was a time when I could gain enlightenment about life by watching them.

A time to realize how scary human virtue is.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that Dang Do-gyeong, who was crowned as the most favored member of the royal family, had already taken control of the Sichuan romantic world.

The promised hour has passed. Dang Do-gyeong comforted the ronin, who were complaining as if they had lost at gambling.

“Party Council, I look forward to our meeting tomorrow.”

“Of course, tomorrow will come at the same time as today, so let’s discuss radish again then.”

The sight of him leaving with his shoulders proudly spread out while being seen off by numerous ronin people made it feel like there was no discomfort in calling him the king of ronin.

“Senior, what kind of fuss is going on this morning…Whoaam.”

A black cat that looked like it had trouble sleeping, perhaps because it had been noisy since the morning, sat in front of me.

“So what kind of fuss is this…”

I wanted to vent my injustice to the black cat, but I’ve been so exhausted since morning that I don’t even have the energy to vent my anger.

As I was handing over some noodles with my chopsticks, Yoo Yu-yeon, who looked just as wizened as me, sat down.

Dang Do-gyeong’s coming in and out of this place was a worry to Yu Sa-yeon, but now, on top of that, they are fighting with the ronin and calling each other Daehyeop and ronin, how upset she must be. The pseudonym had no choice but to wither as much as I did.

“You look tired since the morning, so I won’t talk too much. Is there a solution?”

“Contact our company.”

“ I put it in, but many of the party’s elite personnel will have to be dispatched to take away that party leader, but I don’t know if such experts will be dispatched in droves…”

Dang Do-gyeong is a member of the Dang family. Therefore, in order to completely subdue Tang Dao-gyeong and transport him to the Tang family without injuring him, 3 to 5 masters of the same level as Tang Dao-gyeong are needed. Because it is a prerequisite to completely subdue each other without getting hurt.

It would be difficult to prepare and send someone overnight, even if it was a party door, since it would require five top-level masters to be deployed.

“Black cat, is there no better way?”

“Haaam? well. Even though senior Ho has no clue, he said it was me.”

Since I’m in a pinch, I’m thinking about getting help from a black cat. In any case, it seems like he is enjoying a place in the dark forces. What would happen if we received help from that force?

No, if you receive help from the forces of the Black Cat for no reason, you may be caught under the pretext of repaying a debt. I don’t know Black Cat’s age, but he is young and was dispatched as a field agent, so he is probably not in a position to control power. If the power that Black Cat belongs to becomes greedy, Black Cat will be in a difficult situation and the contract between me and Black Cat will be shaken.

The reason people go through intermediaries instead of visiting Roningaekjan in person is because just coming in and out takes a huge hit to their reputation and recognition. Even if the justification is to return the blood jade monument, if this situation continues for a long period of time, there will be a perception that Tang Dao-gyeong is openly hanging out with Sichuan Ronin, and this is a fatal damage to reputation that the Tang gate cannot afford to ignore.

If you just wait a few days, it was a problem that the party family would take care of.

“Gaekju, I’m sorry about that. Let’s wait for a few days.”

“Ugh…Ho Cheon-an is like an enemy…”

Okay, just wait a few days. Anyway, the party will send someone to take care of it.

Three more days passed like that.

There was no news from the Tang family, and Tang Dao-gyeong said this.

“Do you mind if I become a Sichuan ronin and stay and eat in this guesthouse?”

I had a hunch as I saw Yoo Yu-yeon falling backwards after fainting.

This has to be resolved by me.