episode_0171

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Anhui, night.

A woman visited the Murim Alliance.

Because her identity was clear, she was not stopped by any security.

Also, they didn’t say much about ‘anything’ she was carrying.

She entered a building.

There was a man dozing off in the building called ‘Records Center’, as if people didn’t come and go often.

“What brought you here?”

When the man, who had just woken up, rubbed his eyes and asked, the woman quietly held out her identity card.

The man looked startled when he saw her identity card, but soon composed his expression.

“Please show me the list of members.”

In a voice full of indescribable emotion, the man took out what she had said from the library.

As if she was in a hurry, the woman opened the book while standing.

The woman who had begun reading the record carefully from the front stopped moving at a certain point.

“No… no….”

The woman stumbled out of the record office.

After the storm had passed, the man who remained looked blankly at the door through which the woman left.

The woman left the Murim Alliance and walked aimlessly.

‘Something’ on top of her was shaking every time she took a step.

[Go to the records office and look at the list.]

Two weeks ago, Hanam. These were words I heard from an unexpected person I met in the mountains.

As soon as she saw his face, which seemed to have no emotions, she became angry and attacked.

Several battles followed, and soon the opponent put his sword away, effectively declaring surrender.

The other person asked what had happened, and she cut out the memories of that day that had been piled up in her heart with a knife.

Every single word, every time I spoke, my heart ached and became bitter.

When she remembered the last sight of her student alive, she burst into tears and fell to the ground.

The other person, Cheongyeon, approached her cautiously and clumsily tapped her shoulder.

Did you cry for a long time?

Cheongyeon’s words, full of hesitation, fell on Soyou’s head as her crying subsided.

[Just think of it as talking to yourself.]

[Go to the records office and look at the list.]

I couldn’t say I had a good relationship with her due to her quirky personality and relationship with her teacher, but I knew she wouldn’t talk nonsense.

Soyu held on to only her horse and headed toward Anhui. Carrying his student on his back.

And today. Soyu felt sick when she saw a phrase she found in the register.

“Wow!”

After leaving the castle and walking across the wide plain, Soyou was unable to calm his stomach upset and vomited.

Since she hadn’t eaten for several days, all that came out was thick saliva, but she continued to vomit what was inside.

Maybe it was the last remaining member of the opposite sex.

After nauseating for a while, she sat down on the ground in a state of exhaustion.

She undid the shoulder straps and looked at Inho on the carrier.

“Inho…what is all this about…”

She muttered in vain, as if the world had collapsed.

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1 year later.

A woman entered a small bookstore.

A woman wearing a black uniform and a white coat looked around the bookstore.

“Welcome.”

The bookstore owner welcomed customers who came for the first time in a while.

The owner slowly ran his hand over the outside of the book and approached a customer wandering around the bookstore.

“Is there a book you are looking for?”

“If I tell you, will the owner find it for me?”

The young woman spoke informally for a while, but the bookstore owner responded sadly.

“Yes. Just tell me.”

“I’m looking for a solution for the cat mask. Isn’t it here?”

In response to the woman’s question, the bookstore owner jumped back and threw away the memorized book he had hidden in his sleeve.

But where Memorization passed, there was nothing.

“Looks like you came to the right place. You should guide me.”

The woman grabbed the bookstore owner by the back of his neck and dragged him into the bookstore.

He thought he heard a loud noise, but as soon as it quieted down, Hoseong, the owner of the black spot, closed his eyes.

“What is coming has arrived.”

To find myself in just one year, I was even in awe of the person who had grown up in the blink of an eye.

A situation where there is no way out. He decided to accept his end calmly.

– Boom!

With a dull sound, the door opened and a rush of heat hit his face.

After the heat passed, the smell of burning flesh followed.

The Shinigami who was about to end her life was a woman with a peaceful face.

“Should I say it’s been a while.”

“That’s right.”

Hoseong massaged his right shoulder with his left hand.

There was nothing below my right elbow.

“Are you here for revenge?”

When Ho-seong asked calmly, the woman laughed.

“Revenge… Yes, you can call it revenge.”

The woman muttered, remembering something far away.

“But before that… you need to tell me about you.”

“Are you talking about the client? Give up. It’s a dead life anyway… keaaa!!!”

Hoseong fell forward.

His dismembered left arm fell to the floor.

“I will stop the bleeding.”

The woman’s palm was stuck to the cut surface.

– Chi-Ik

The sound of burning flesh echoed through the basement.

“Ugh… Ugh… Ugh… ”

Hoseong felt like thunder was crashing right in front of his eyes.

A woman held out a piece of paper with her face bent forward in extreme pain.

“This is the record I saw in the roster last year. It doesn’t matter if you don’t say anything. There are plenty of ways to find it… However, if you tell me, I can save a lot of time.”

“Ugh… Ugh… Even if I say it, will I get anything? I’m going to die anyway.”

As Ho-seong spoke through gritted teeth, the woman smiled kindly.

“Why not?”

The woman spoke with an infinitely merciful face.

“I will kill you without pain.”

Hosung looked at the record in front of him again at the non-negotiable offer.

It contained a record of the succession of military veterans.

[Yeom Lun-gong Succession]

Former Jin Yeom

Possessed by Namgung

[Traditional Disciple]

Former Namgoong Soyou

Later vacancy, succession by direct disciple

“My teacher, who went to handle Yeomryun-gong’s succession… Why didn’t he write down Inho’s name… Who are the people involved in this… Tell me what you know.”