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“Oh wow!!”

“Sensei is amazing!!”

The children’s reaction was more explosive than I expected.

“Hmm…”

Is it because of the special directing using strong energy? Or because other Zen masters can also hold prayer meetings? Because I can’t fully understand children’s psychology.

However, it was true that it was receiving a much more enthusiastic response than yesterday.

“You’re better than Master Youngyul yesterday!”

“Your psychic powers are so pretty!”

…Master Ungyeong was laughing from ear to ear, while the other masters were frowning as they pondered their defeat. Even Master Youngyul, who was so popular yesterday, is unable to control his facial expressions!

The children were so enthusiastic about Master Ungyeong’s performance. The children cheered every time Ganggi splashed in their bowl! Even the fact that the confectionery was gone during my turn felt like a bit of an afterthought.

“Uh-huh! You have to ask! Seeing that Danggwa has disappeared, I guess I wasn’t able to properly implement the things I said I would fix!”

“…Yiing….Master! I’m really, really trying! I just forgot for a moment yesterday…”

“Hehe, I have to ask. Still, a mistake is a mistake. Please apologize to your descendants and tell them again that you will work hard.”

“Sorry. Descendants! Starting tomorrow, I really, really won’t forget!”

The children have become a lot more honest. Well, aren’t children people? All people are the same. If you don’t suffer harm if you act honestly, you don’t bother to tell a lie.

Now, I don’t feel like I’m overdoing the carrots, but even if I were a child, I would have lived a strictly tightened life as a member of the Taoist clan, so wouldn’t it be okay to loosen up a bit in return?

As I watched the children, I began to understand them little by little.

I think I understand why there was such an explosive reaction today. Ultimately, today’s performance involved the application of martial arts. For children, magic may be fascinating, but it is only a device to stimulate one-time interest.

But what about martial arts? Martial arts may be the goal and romance of children. For children who dream of becoming soccer players, soccer videos may be a more interesting option than magic videos.

As children who learn martial arts, they are enthusiastic about directing using energy. Simply put, it means that fancy martial arts are more appealing to these children than amazing magic tricks.

I thought of tomorrow’s topic.

Children are cruel. Children never say that something that isn’t fun is fun. Even if Zen masters learn my gambling skills from now on, at what point will they be able to perform proficiently with just dexterity?

Since we had to perform right away, the idea was to mix in the martial arts of Zen masters as a last resort… It might work better than we thought.

Actually, when I thought about it, this wasn’t a gambling place. In a gambling game, if you use internal skills and apply martial arts techniques, your hands will be blown away, but this was just a performance.

Wouldn’t mixing martial arts be the right direction for a spectacular spectacle?

Maybe it’s not a bad idea. All sorts of inspiration passes through my head.

What stimulates people’s interest is glamor and surprise. What if surprise is realized through secret hand techniques and splendor is achieved through martial arts?

There will definitely be a great performance.

In the future, the subjects of the Zen masters will be based on martial arts, but I will try to mix in dexterity to give the main point.

Yes, to be honest, I have a bit of a conscience about teaching gambling techniques to Zen masters, but I decided to take this opportunity to think about some techniques for directing.

Suddenly, I burst out laughing. I thought it was funny that they were thinking of putting on a magic show just to encourage the kids to study hard in martial arts. Well, the kids are cute, so what can I do?

I wondered if the Zen masters, who were burning with motivation, had it in their heads that the reason this situation occurred was because of children’s education.

“By the way, Zen masters, you are aware that this is part of education, right? Aren’t you doing this to gain popularity?”

“Kuhm, hmm! What are you talking about? It’s education that makes children so happy!”

“Cancer, not like that! We are trying to make our children happy!”

Seeing the monks looking so shocked, I wanted to say something more, but guess what? The kids look happy and the teacher looks happy too.

The only person who wasn’t happy was Hyuk Kirin, whose innocence was destroyed.

Starting tomorrow, it looks like we will have to judge each other with the black cat.

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Time passed quickly.

It has been 11 days since I taught the technique at the request of the Zen masters. In the meantime, the Zen masters, either frustrated or happy, each took their turn in the competitive system and worked hard.

The Zen masters’ competitive tasks mainly involved a mixture of martial arts and dexterity.

For example, the third topic was juggling, or rather, bean bag tossing. This is a magic trick in which one of the bean bags turns into a confectionery or the confectionery disappears in the middle of an ordinary juggling act.

I also devoted myself to my martial arts while teaching Zen masters.

These were days where the Zen masters worked hard, I taught, the children were happy, and Hyeok-gi-rin also enjoyed it as a bonus.

But there is always an end to fun. As of today, the prayer meeting has come to an end.

Well, it was natural. In the first place, the setting of the magical power to communicate with descendants was a disguise that I, an outsider, had no choice but to wear to teach my children a lesson.

The prayer meeting itself was not abolished.

The idea was to cut out the parts that should be cut out in the prayer meeting and absorb only the appropriate parts in the fortune telling.

They would have accepted parts such as praising a good child, pointing out mistakes, and checking to see if the child is truly sorry and improving.

Now that Zen masters can offer attractions that can entertain children at any time, there is no longer a reason to hold children back at this late hour and show them attractions in the form of a prayer meeting.

There are also practical problems such as the fact that Zen masters cannot just focus on performing and that they continue to take away children’s free time.

Concluding the final performance was the performance of Master Myeong Jin, who was on his last turn.

“Wow..!”

“Awesome!”

Today’s performance was like a culmination of the 10 previous performances. Nevertheless, the reason it did not fall short of fun was because the teachers’ efforts over the past 11 days paid off.

Zen masters have constantly developed their performances, and today is the day when the culmination of their efforts unfolds, so even though the content was the same, the quality was different.

For example, the movements of joining hands became more sophisticated, the special effects of tipping over the bowl and the acting of the Zen masters were noticeably different from previous performances, and the pattern of bean bag tossing became indescribably diverse. The extravagance of added movements such as throwing before and after the cross throw, throwing left and right, and kicking was clearly different from the old performance.

The children had fun putting sweets in their mouths while enjoying the performance developed through the efforts and sweat of the Zen masters.

Hyukgirin saw that and smiled happily.

“Hehe, the fortune-telling group has become a lot more lively.”

“Is that so?”

“Yes. I don’t know because I’m an outsider, but as the distance between the Zen masters and the children has become closer, many positive effects are occurring. Although Zen masters have a heart for children that is second to none, they are people who lived their entire lives as Taoist monks. I couldn’t help but have a hard attitude.”

Well, I guess so. It would be difficult for children to feel friendly towards a solemn Taoist monk who studied Taoist teachings all his life.

“Today is the last prayer meeting.”

Hyeok Kirin was also one of those who secretly or openly enjoyed prayer meetings. It seems like he feels disappointed at the end of this performance.

Well, everything had an end.

“A festival cannot last forever, right?”

“…It’s a festival, yes, that’s right. This may have been a festival exclusive to the Jeomchang group.”

In addition to Ai and Zen Master, Hyeok Kirin stayed with other disciples. Every day, as Zen masters flocked to the temple and children cheered, other disciples also started snooping around… Recently, a considerable number of disciples were flocking in.

Changmin and other students who were familiar with him from physical training, as well as a considerable number of adult students, were watching the current performance.

“Maybe we should suggest a festival in the name of the great disciple. I’ve never felt like I lacked the ability to sing, but today is really fun.”

I saw the side profile of Hyeok Kirin, who was smiling like a mother and looking at the scene where Zen masters, children, and disciples were gathered together. Hyeok Gi-rin is sometimes a child and sometimes shows frost-like dignity, takes care of others, and rejoices when he sees them happy.

“It may have been my stereotype that festivals must be extravagant. It could have been this much fun without the countless lit lanterns, colorful fireworks, alcohol and meat. Hehehe.”

“Maybe.”

For a moment, I looked at the black cat stuck between the children. Black cats were extremely popular with children. Well… when I thought about it, the so-called pretty older sister, Black Cat, was laughing while watching the performance with the girls holding her left and right hands.

“Thank you. Ho Rongin.”

“What. What I said I liked just got bigger.”

Hyukkirin smiled.

“Hehe, I invited you to fortune telling to repay the favor, but I ended up being indebted to you again. If this continues, I might have to take you to the storehouse for the rest of your life.”

“Hahaha. It’s awkward because you say it as if you’re breaking up.”

Hyeok Kirin made an embarrassed expression.

“That’s right. I’ll see you tomorrow too, but I guess I’m too sentimental.”

“Well, it’s just one phase that has come to an end.”

There were things that changed, but there were also things that did not change. I will continue to teach techniques to Zen masters and also learn martial arts. Every day at lunch and dinner, I would meet Hyuk Kirin and Black Cat at Chaeseondang and talk about various things.

Daily life will continue.