episode_0045

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It has already been a week since Tang Do-gyeong left.

“So, the last Gyeongsu Market was a unique case.”

“I see.”

“Usually, there are two major benefits to political factions when they receive a request to exterminate black thieves. First of all, it is difficult to use harsh hands even if you are a black person because you are a political faction. However, even among these blacks, there are bound to be malignant or poisonous tumors, so there are some who reappear immediately even if you take care of them.”

“Is that so? I only saw Gyeongsu Mayor and thought it was a promotional strategy to show that he was a good politician who saved even the Black Island.”

“…Is that possible? It feels like the ronin are basically a sect that extorts the black people. We will completely crush the malicious black thieves. Well, from the political faction’s point of view, it’s good that the malicious black swordsmen disappear, and it’s also good because defeating the Sacheon Longin, who seem much more threatening than the black sword swords, makes the picture more alive.”

“If everything had gone normally during the Gyeongsu Market, I would fix it up a bit, then I would extort the money that was stolen, and if those thieves were misbehaving in the market, Tae Gyeong-moon would show up and deal with me. It is normal to follow these steps.”

Hocheonan returned to the daily life of a Sichuan ninja. Of course, there were some who did not.

“Provincial Inspector…”

“Woo…Party Council…”

When evening time came, Ho Cheon-an was clicking his tongue as he looked at the ronin people digging the ground, as if he was thinking of Dang Do-gyeong.

“Extra, extra!”

A ronin entered the guesthouse with great vigor and shouted.

“Dang Do-gyeong, news from the Great Council has arrived! It is said that he showed off a new martial art at an official event in the Tang family! I haven’t heard much about it in detail, but it is said that it has been evaluated as opening a new horizon in martial arts that combines arm techniques and boxing!”

“Oh…! Party Daehyup!”

“So, what was the treatment of the party council?”

“It’s an internal story within the party, so that’s it…”

“Hmm. Too bad!”

A restaurant that quickly becomes noisy.

‘hmm.’

Ho Cheon-an thought about Tang Dao-gyeong for a moment.

‘It seemed like the family love characteristics had blossomed.’

Now that I have achieved enlightenment, I will be able to ascend to the level of the Perfect Realm, but I will probably have to train for a while longer to reach the level of the Real Realm. It would be difficult to train until you reach the realm of fire, such as the Fierce Tiger Fist Technique.

Now, it will take a very long time until Tang Dao-gyeong, which is at the beginning of the transcendental stage, reaches the threshold of Hwa-gyeong.

‘I’ll have to be more careful when giving enlightenment in the future.’

After going through Yeo Il-ye and Tang Dao-gyeong, Ho Cheon-an was able to understand what enlightenment is. Enlightenment was not just a convenient tool that raised one’s limit. It was truly a topic that penetrated life and changed a person as a whole.

‘Anyway, since Tang Tao-gyeong achieved enlightenment, should the theory that he was unable to accept information due to stress be discarded?’

It was also unknown to Ho Cheon-an under what circumstances Tang Dao-gyeong would have achieved enlightenment, but it also meant that once he had achieved enlightenment, he could have achieved enlightenment if he had chosen the right method.

In the end, is there no choice but to convey enlightenment through voice? Hocheonan came to a tentative conclusion.

‘Why did I do that?’

I recalled the memory of that day that came to mind through the thought of enlightenment. It was simply an ‘impulse’ at the time that Tang Dao-gyeong developed his gambling skills while he was gaining enlightenment.

It was not the action of a player with 10 years of experience, but the intuition of Ho Cheon-an, who has been in the martial arts world for 8 years. This is what Dang Do-gyeong showed while gambling. A story from childhood. And Dang Do-gyeong’s confession that he quit cancer technology on his own. Stories I heard from Tang Dok-gi, etc…

Miscellaneous things floating around in his pounding head pushed Ho Cheon-an’s back, saying that this was the way to go.

As a result, Tang Dao-gyeong created a new martial art.

This was something that was completely unexpected from Ho Cheon-an’s expectations.

‘Yes, if this is progress, it will be progress.’

I knew that Dan Do-gyeong was weak in cancer skills, but thinking that he could make up for it with gambling skills was literally a gamble. Did that gamble pay off?

It has now been 8 years since I lived in Hocheonan. He has as much experience as a 10-year old player. As a Sichuan ronin, I may have unconsciously come to some conclusions due to the experience I have accumulated while encountering Tang Tao-gyeong.

“Oh, the dumplings are delicious today.”

Ho Cheon-an was filled with complicated feelings when he saw the black cat pushing a dumpling into the black spirit qigong.

‘It’s true that he was cooling his head in his room.’

After that, I lost consciousness. Considering that he was running wild just before to lure Tang Do-gyeong out, it wouldn’t have been surprising if he fell asleep like that…

No matter how much I thought about it, the throbbing condition of my head and body, as if I had consumed strong alcohol, was strange.

It’s also strange that Tang Dao-gyeong managed to enter a state of enlightenment while he was unconscious.

‘I don’t know…’

Given the circumstances, the most suspicious person was Black Cat. Because he was the person I hung around the most and also the person I intentionally approached after what happened with Yeo Il-ye.

Considering the throbbing sensation in my body, I most suspected that drugs had been injected.

‘But then again, that doesn’t make sense.’

Let’s say we used real drugs to achieve enlightenment from Tang Tao Sutra. In that case, Ho Cheon-an couldn’t be here right now. If Black Cat really became a ronin targeting Ho Cheon-an due to Yeo Il-ye’s suggestion, and Tang Dao-gyeong confirmed that fact, then the best thing from Black Cat’s point of view would be to kidnap Ho Cheon-an and disappear.

‘It doesn’t make sense to draw people’s attention if it disappears.’

During the two years of trying various things, Ho Cheon-an also dug into his own past. I spent a considerable amount of money researching through information groups, but nothing came of it.

If Black Cat is the one who heard the rumor about Yeo Il-ye and came to target Ho Cheon-an, there is a very high probability that he will be connected to an intelligence group. The identity of the black cat has never been revealed in the first place, and if Hocheonan disappears, there is no way to trace it.

Even if it attracted attention, it was an environment where it could evaporate very cleanly, so there was no reason not to do so.

‘More than anything, it’s a shame that you leave me alone like this now.’

Firstly, Ho Cheon-an himself may have strong doubts about his own physical condition, and secondly, everyone in the Tang family will soon find out that Tang Tao-gyeong achieved enlightenment at the Rongin Gaekjan, so of course Ho Cheon-an will also receive attention. To be precise, the Roningaekjan itself will be affected, and Hocheonan will also be included in it.

‘Hey, I guess that doesn’t make sense.’

Black Cat took out enlightenment by injecting drugs and passed it on to Tang Dao-gyeong? If that is true, then what is left for the black cat now? From the black cat’s point of view, it was just a story of loss. For no reason, the goal’s level of attention will only increase and only doubt will remain, like now.

Above all, the black cat that Ho Cheon-an saw was a very good junior, except for the fact that he was sneaky and chewed on fried rice all the time.

Still, Ho Cheon-an left caution in a corner of his mind. There was still something uncomfortable about it, including the tingling sensation that remained in my body and the black spirit qigong. If I ever found out the identity of the black cat, this would be appropriate for now.

“After.”

Ho Cheon-an thought as he sipped somen soup.

‘I really need to come to my senses now.’

After almost losing his life to Yeo Il-ye, he was distraught over what was happening all around him until Tang Do-gyeong left.

As I returned to my daily life after the storm, I realized quite a few things.

He said he had been settling down for quite a long time at this guesthouse where he stayed for 7 years. I was so immersed in my daily life as a Sichuan nerd that I couldn’t even get used to it and was dragged along until I suddenly woke up and found that my whole body was in pain and the whole incident was over.

The conclusion of the Tang Do-gyeong incident was a stinging whip for Ho Cheon-an as well.

10-year-old stagnant water is now a thing of the past, and only the second-rate warrior Hocheonan remains, which has not developed for 7 years.

I thought that I had to come up with a solution before Myeongseongchi started to fall, but my butt was so heavy that I couldn’t move it.

There was a saying that if you don’t have teeth, you should chew with your gums, and Hocheonan was just that.

‘If you don’t have teeth, you should get dentures. Why are you chewing with your gums?’

It seemed like my body and head had turned to stone because I was always playing with third-rate junkies and stupid first-class classmates.

If I had decided to break out of my shell and go out, I would have gone at a speed that would have made other people lose their senses just by looking at me, but I haven’t even started yet.

It was time to shake off the second-rate Hocheonan and the Sacheonan Hocheonan and raise the 10-year old Hocheonan and the 8-year unmanned Hocheonan.

“Ah, this cool sensation. It’s time to return to [stagnant water].”

“…Senior, did you eat something wrong?”

“No, I was just reborn.”

The black cat laughed as he looked at Ho Cheon-an, who suddenly started shaking. His face has been filled with worry for the past week, but it seems he has finally shaken it off.

Dongtaenun, who was hit by a septic wave and turned into green onion kimchi, has finally returned to his guns. The black cat hoped to maintain that look for as long as possible. The black cat wanted to see a skein of thread wandering around freely and struggling, not a skein of thread being dragged along by itself.

‘Still, I’m glad you seem to have regained your energy.’

Now it’s June.

It was the month when summer would arrive.