episode_0326

No, what kind of situation is this?

Number 7 is Geomhu and Number 501 is the future Murim Lord.

I was literally dumbfounded, but regardless of my condition, the people in the room clapped and welcomed the two of them.

“Now! Then drink it!”

“Let’s drink!”

Everyone raised their glasses in excitement. I also raised my glass in an instant to match the mood.

“Please take a drink. Noegeomnanginnim.”

“I will also raise a glass.”

“…Thank you.”

The future Geomhu and the Murim Lord pouring drinks felt extremely unrealistic.

Regardless of my shock, the atmosphere in the guest house gradually heated up. It seems that the ronin people also wanted to enjoy the festival in their own way. The new welcome party was just an excuse and they were having fun drinking among themselves.

Seo Yi-ryeong was quickly being taken by Hyeok Gi-rin, who was riddled with guilt, and Jo Yong-sang was going around here and there, getting to know the romantics.

“No matter how much you liked Lee Ryeong and Sojeo, stop following him now.”

“Yes. If this continues, I’m going to drink and die.”

“Ha, but…!”

Hyeok Kirin got up from his seat while looking at his companions who were arguing to take the bottle of alcohol in his hand. I wasn’t particularly drunk, but there were people who had to wait outside.

“Phew.”

Is it because the night air is still cold? My breath suddenly rose.

The identity of numbers 7 and 501 was surprising, but apart from that, I have work to do today, so I need to pay attention to that as well.

While thinking about that, I was looking at the moon for a while.

“Were you getting some air?”

Cho Yong-sang came out and talked to me.

“Hmm. I was just watching the moon for a while.”

“Haha. Is that so. The moon is so bright.”

Does he have something to say to me? I looked at Cho Yong-sang for a moment.

In fact, there was a separate reason why I was surprised when I found out that number 501 was Cho Yong-sang.

As far as I know, Cho Yong-sang was from Anhui.

But is it true that Cho Yong-sang was a native of Sichuan Province?

No matter how wide the world is, it is unlikely that there will be two people with this level of talent who also use the name Yongsang Cho.

So, the character in the game, Jo Yong-sang, has always lied about his background. Why did he make that choice?

As I was looking at Cho Yong-sang, my mind naturally became complicated.

What made my already complicated mind even more complicated was the way Jo Yong-sang looked at me. It seemed like he was following me for some purpose as he was staring at me with a mysterious look in his eyes.

“…Do you have any business for me?”

Jo Yong-sang stared at me for a moment and then gave me a thumbs up.

“…Hmm?”

“My father enjoyed gambling.”

A somewhat unexpected story came out.

“No, rather than enjoying it, he was an addict. He went out with all the money he had in the house and lost it at the gambling table. That wasn’t all. He raised money by pledging all his family assets, and then squandered all that money in gambling.”

…This can’t be right.

“In the end, my father even resorted to private loans. I only found out about that fact when the vicious gangsters came to my house. My mother cried loudly, and my father went to the gambling house again, saying he would call me back with the handful of money he had left after gambling away everything.”

“My mother cried for a while and then told me to pack my bags. He said that he could survive if he ran away at night as soon as his father returned. I just trembled with fear as I thought about my mother who was packing her bags with venom in her eyes and my father who was still at the gambling house with his eyes red.”

“But a miracle happened. When my father returned home in a state of despair, he had a large wallet in his arms. As my father put down his wallet, he got down on his knees to my mother and me, asked for forgiveness, and told us that he would quit gambling. I came to my senses today after meeting a Sichuan ronin. I realized how dangerous the gambling world is.”

Jo Yong-sang was looking straight at me.

“I was curious about who the Sichuan ronin was who enlightened my father, but as I was just an ordinary person, I had no way of finding out who that ronin was. One day, when I had forgotten about that ronin, I heard a rumor. It was a rumor about a ronin who showed off his gambling skills to the world at Yeongyangru.”

“….um.”

I looked at Cho Yong-sang with an indescribable feeling. Cho Yong-sang’s father was the subject of a sound gambling campaign.

I couldn’t even guess who Cho Yong-sang’s father was.

But it was quite possible.

It was a time when I was losing all the money I had earned every day, so if I did well, I might have been able to prevent the principal from private loans.

“If my father hadn’t come back with money back then, if I hadn’t met a Sichuan ronin and couldn’t quit gambling, what kind of life would I be living by now? I don’t know, but I probably lived in a different region and couldn’t even say I was from Sichuan.”

Was that the reason why Cho Yong-sang said he was from Anhui?

Jo Yong-sang bowed his head.

“I always wanted to say thank you. Thank you for saving my family.”

“…I didn’t specifically do this to save your family.”

Jo Yong-sang smiled.

“Still, Noegeomnangin is the family’s benefactor.”

I didn’t have anything to say so I just looked at the moon.

“Have you decided to become a Sichuan Ronin to meet me?”

“There was a purpose for that. Um…I’m not really sure.”

Jo Yong-sang smiled sheepishly.

“I just wanted to become a Sichuan Ronin, and there was a good opportunity.”

“…I guess so.”

A healthy gambling campaign changed the life of a man named Cho Yong-sang. And I became a Sacheon Rongin by taking second place in the Sacheon Rongin Cup Review Index Selection Contest that I held.

It was just so absurd that I burst out laughing.

“Work hard.”

“Yes! of course. I ask for your seniors to provide me with a lot of guidance!”

“Haha. Okay.”

Jeongsam’s voice was heard from afar.

“Hey! Yongsang! The main guest of the banquet should not be away for a long time! Leave that idiot who is trying to catch the mood and come back!”

With a solemn expression, I fed Jeongsam a fistful of potatoes, and Jeongsam ran around, pointing his finger at me.

“There will be a lot of people looking, so please go in first.”

“Then the juniors will go in first.”

Jo Yong-sang went back to the restaurant to catch Jeong-sam. I looked at the back and thought.

Geomhu and the Murim lord.

Would it be okay for Seo Yi-ryeong and Cho Yong-sang, who should be active for the entire martial arts army, to just protect Sacheonseong?

These worries passed through my head, but when I think about Cho Yong-sang’s story, I also wonder if it was a good thing.

If only I hadn’t shown off my gambling skills at Yeongyangru.

Or, if we hadn’t held the Sacheon Nangin Cup Late Index Selection Contest.

Did Cho Yong-sang really walk the path of a warrior?

Usury is not something that can be easily shaken off. Considering that Cho Yong-sang was an additional preliminary contestant, it was highly likely that he had been diligently earning money to overcome usury even recently. If he had not heard the news of Yeong Yeong-ru or if there had not been the Sichuan Nangin Cup Late Index Selection Contest, Cho Yong-sang might have lived his whole life as just one of the many people in Sichuan Province without becoming a military person.

“Ugh, I don’t know. I don’t know.”

I realize it again.

I am not a person who draws a hundred-year plan in one sitting, but rather a person who cannot even foresee tomorrow.

Even though the whole story has been revealed, I can’t even tell whether this is a good thing or a bad thing for me, and a good thing or a bad thing for Cho Yong-sang.

“Haha.”

As I was looking at the moon, I couldn’t help but smile bitterly.

At this time, I am acutely aware of the shortcomings of people.

It was the reason I was standing in this place right now.

How should I express this situation, where I am defending myself in order to proceed with my original plan, even though I am criticizing myself for not being able to foresee the future.

I didn’t know.

Well, life may be a tangled mess that doesn’t make logical sense and doesn’t make any sense.

Was it because of the alcohol, or was it because I was shivering in the night air, or was it because I felt embarrassed that the healthy gambling campaign that I thought was just a joke actually saved someone’s life?

When you are repeating harsh thoughts.

Finally, the person I was waiting for came outside.

He’s a big guy and has a soft spot for alcohol.

A person who, when drunk, goes out into the fresh air until he sobers up.

It was blindness.

*** ***

“Has it finally come out?”

“Hmm?”

“What do you think about the situation in Sichuan Province these days?”

What is this bastard planning again?

Ja So-gyeong, who received Ho Cheon-an’s question, thought so.

“I have no idea.”

“I see. So what do you think about Sichuan Longin who has reached the pinnacle of excellence?”

“Well. Even if it is the best, Sacheon Nangin is Sacheon Nangin. All you have to do is get a request and sell your weapons.”

“Then I will ask you another question.”

Ho Tian-an looked back at Zi So-jing and said.

“Do you want to become the best?”

I want to be “.”

Ja So-gyeong’s answer was what Ho Cheon-an wanted.

“But I will refuse your help.”

And at the same time, it was unexpected.

Ja So-gyeong recalled the meeting between Ho-gyeong and Ho Cheon-an. Ja So-gyeong thought as he watched the dance from up close.

A lot has been achieved in less than a year.

It’s amazing that he has reached the pinnacle of excellence, but he has not only achieved it, but has also achieved the qualities of a martial artist.

And after that, I realized something while looking at Hocheonan, which was diligently wiping out the forces of the Sacheon faction in Sichuan. The reason Ho Cheon-an returned to Sichuan Province was to clean up what is now Sichuan Province.

Looking at that, Ja So-gyeong felt ashamed.

It was as if he had become an obstacle blocking Ho Cheon-an’s path.

Wasn’t Hocheonan not enough even if he continued to devote himself to training?

However, in the end, the situation in Sichuan Province was in disarray and it was at a standstill.

‘I guess I wasn’t the only one who felt that way.’

So Yoo Sa-yeon, who doesn’t like to do things, made Ho Cheon-an’s work even bigger.

Even though they were in a position to be mobilized for various tasks, the Sichuan people moved actively.

It was to create an environment where Ho Cheon-an could focus on training without worrying about the affairs of Sichuan Province.

“I will pioneer the realm of transcendence with my own power.”

Ja So-gyeong recalled the time when Ho Cheon-an first came to this guest house. A sixteen-year-old boy with no blood on his head.

‘You were a very suspicious person from the beginning.’

The Ronin Gaekjan was too rough for a 16-year-old child to endure, but Ho Cheon-an took a seat in the Ronin Gaekjan without any hesitation.

From then on, Ja So-gyeong thought.

He’s a suspicious guy whose outer shell is nothing more than a baby, but whose contents are unknown.

Several years after that.

Hocheonan changed the atmosphere of the bloodthirsty guest house into a place where people live. As a result, most ronin liked Hocheonan.

However, to Ja So-gyeong, Ho Cheon-an was still a suspicious person.

He was just a suspicious guy and was accepted as a ronin.

Ho Cheon-an repeatedly did suspicious things.

They are Sichuan ronin who live in a limited place called Sacheonseong and a limited space called roningaekjan. Doing tough things and going around tough places by yourself, of course you get noticed.

However, Ho Cheon-an secretly wandered outside and picked up some useful secrets and obtained an elixir from somewhere.

He may have hid it only from himself, but Ho Cheon-an’s level was only second-rate at best, so Ho Cheon-an’s actions were clearly visible to the eyes of the peak experts.

Then, at some point, he stopped even doing that and just started gambling.

Still, does it make sense for an unmanned wanderer to come home broke every day after spending several years gambling?

After that, Ho Cheon-an continued to do suspicious things.

Yeo Il-ye said she would treat him as a silver princess, so wouldn’t she keep the silver medal?

Anyone can see that a black cat with a different texture appears and sticks to the stone.

A guy who always comes home penniless from the gambling den suddenly starts playing around with Dan Do-gyeong, who is a supreme expert.

From Ja So-gyeong’s perspective, Ho Cheon-an was suspicious in many ways from beginning to end.

However, such a suspicious guy left the Ronin Gaekjan to stop Jeong Cheol from taking advantage of the Sacheon Rongin.

And, strangely enough, in less than a year, he returned as a supreme warrior.

A suspicious guy who can pass it off even if he knows someone’s enlightenment.

A fellow ronin with a suspicious nature.

To Ja So-gyeong, Ho Cheon-an was that kind of person.

Ja So-gyeong raised his strength for this suspicious Ho Cheon-an.

Ssss!!

Little by little, something began to appear as Ja So-gyeong’s experience gathered in his fist.

Instructor.

A very unstable haze of strength that can be said to be the intermediate stage between progress and strength. Zi Xiaoqing looked at Hu Tianan’s surprised face and said calmly.

“You must be thinking that you need a super expert to protect the ronin guest cup even after you leave. I also agree with that opinion. But can I just get your help from one to ten?”

“…This is different from what I expected.”

Ja So-gyeong calmly accepted Ho Cheon-an’s look of embarrassment and opened his mouth.

“It is a path that has been built up over a long period of time. Now there is only one step left. I feel sorry for you, but I want to take this last step myself.”

Ja So-gyeong gave Ho Cheon-an an apologetic look. From Hocheonan’s perspective, it was inevitable that it would leave an unpleasant aftertaste.

But Ja So-gyeong was confident.

I am confident that I will be able to pioneer the realm of transcendence before long.

Could it be that he could read Ja So-gyeong’s strong will?

Hu Tianan looked at Zi Xiaoqing and nodded.

“Yes. Ja So-kyung. I’m sure you can reach the peak.”

“Thank you for your support.”

Ja So-gyeong showed his sincerity to Ho Cheon-an.

Wasn’t Ho Cheon-an who had made a lot of effort to stabilize the Sichuan Fortress? For Ho Cheon-an, the existence of a transcendental person who would protect the Sacheon Nangin would have been an important matter.

Nevertheless, Ho Cheon-an believed in Ja So-gyeong’s potential and resigned.

So Ja So-gyeong thought that he, too, should express his gratitude with sincerity.

Ho Cheon-an just scratched the back of his head in response to Ja So-gyeong’s attack.

Ja So-gyeong chuckled at that sight.

“Thanks to you, I’ve sobered up, so I’ll go in.”

Ho Cheon-an thought as he looked at Ja So-gyeong’s back as he returned to the restaurant.

Now that Sichuan Province has stabilized in its own way and the Sichuan Nangin Cup Late Index Selection Competition has ended, personal non-radio competition will also regain its vitality in its own way.

And of course, Da Jeo-yong, who has reached the pinnacle of excellence, will apply to Ja So-gyeong for the position of secretary.

Ho Cheon-an, who had planned to bring them both to the peak at the same time, scratched the back of his neck.

“Hmm….is this okay?”

Winners and losers are clearly drawn even without looking! Ho Cheon-an, who imagined the two people’s faces with conflicting expressions, shook his head.

“Well, it’s the path you chose. Ja So-kyung. Hold on to your evil spirit.”

Ho Cheon-an muttered that and walked towards the restaurant.

It was a night when the best season to go on a trip had arrived.