episode_0081

Even when I was in retirement, I tried to meet my teacher sometime.

Even though he was noisy, obsessed with swords, and a sexual fanatic, he was my benefactor who pulled me out of the gutter where there was nothing but despair.

I tried to visit you as a disciple, but what is this?

Master was resting as a food guest at the enemy base I was trying to destroy.

“Are you ready?”

“… … Not yet.”

“Haha! That guy too!”

How should I repay the kindness of the Sen family for giving me space to rest in peace?

The answer was very simple and clear. If you subdue me who came to destroy my family and hand me over, you will repay the favor.

I could have easily let it go considering the priest’s affection, but unfortunately, we did not have an ordinary priestly relationship.

Nothing more, nothing less, it is defined by one word that my teacher said when he accepted me as his disciple.

‘I raise them and eat them.’

Although this is a very misleading statement, if you dig deeper into its meaning, it means that you will raise it yourself since there are no rivals who can compete with you.

In fact, my teacher gave me all the teachings, and thanks to that, I have now surpassed the level of swordsmanship I had when I first met him.

The problem is that as I became stronger, my teacher also grew into a monster.

Anyway, at the point where I left my teacher’s side, I was more of a rival following him than a priest.

“Phew… ! You made a huge correction while I wasn’t seeing you.”

“The Hwangol Transformation and Banro Hwan-dong were completed a long time ago. If I were to live a lifetime with a sword that, if properly maintained, had no lifespan, wouldn’t my body also have to change drastically?”

“Master is probably the only one who wants to gain immortality for the sake of the sword.”

“It means that he is serious about the sword and that people except me are not true swordsmen.”

“If you go somewhere and say something like that, you’ll get beaten up?”

“Hot! Any guy who is spirited enough to hit me is welcome.”

“I guess so.”

Due to anti-Rohwandong, my teacher became an artist who looked much younger than me.

A young man with smooth, clean skin without any blemishes, long eyelashes, and stiff white hair.

When we stood side by side, it wasn’t strange at all if people thought I was their older brother or my teacher was their younger brother.

“Even if the other guys were like that in the first place, the fact that you, who have been taught by me for years, still haven’t realized the beauty of the sword makes my outfit explode!”

“ No, if you think about common sense, how can a human see a sword in a sexual way?”

“Didn’t I tell you this many times? In the world, the curves of a sword are much neater and more beautiful than those of a human being. Whenever I had the chance, I personally showed the sword and emphasized it… … .”

The teacher clucks and clicks his tongue at my defense.

As a child, I took my teacher’s message to increase my resistance to mental attacks.

It had to be that way: ‘The rapier’s worst point.’, ‘The lewd side of a plainclothes sword that bends like a bow.’, ‘How to handle a small and delicate mangoche.’ etc.

Since it was not a title that could possibly come from a human’s head, I thought it was a demon’s trick.

It was only after a long time had passed that I realized that my teacher was sincere, and I was shocked.

That’s why he left his teacher’s side as if he was running away.

“To be honest, I am disappointed in you. Holy Sword, Dragon Demon Sword, Yodo, Wolssang Sword, and even the Great Sword of Predation. I accepted that you were the first to take possession of the attractive swords that I was planning to woo someday. From the way he gathered his sword, I thought he could make that much concession if he was walking the same path as me.”

“It can’t be.”

“Yes, you did not feel love for the sword itself like I did, and you ended up doing a truly disgusting thing by selling the beloved sword that had been with you for so many years.”

[Lian… !]

It felt so thick that my skin felt stinging.

At the point where I handed over the sword to the auction house, I felt like I had become someone who could not treat my teacher well.

Even though he couldn’t understand the idea of lusting after a sword, he could understand how his teacher was currently feeling.

To put it in an easy-to-understand analogy, the teacher is a polarizing pure lover and is a person who really enjoys mutual love between men and women.

Just as he was warming to me, thinking that I was having a romantic relationship, he heard the news that I had sold my lover at an auction house.

For someone who likes Soon-ae, it would not be strange for someone to vomit blood and have a seizure.

I was just offending my teacher, but I also felt unfair about this.

“Master, the reason I sold the swords is because they made me mentally difficult.”

[Ugh!]

Is the excuse of “ just not sounding like such a thing?”

“I just told you the truth. Like my teacher, I can listen to the will of the sword and have a conversation with it.”

“You mean we already reached that level 8 years ago…? … .”

“In actual terms, it has been almost 10 years. Because I couldn’t wait until I exploded and sold the sword.”

[Ugh… ! Lee, Lian? What happened back then… !]

“You’re clueless. Even if he sold it because his personality didn’t match, the prosecutor gave up the sword… !”

“I didn’t sell it without thinking. At least I reached the state of unifying the sword and body and turned my body into a sword.”

“What!”

As I explained the inside story, which others did not know, the teacher’s eyes widened for the first time.

He may have been shocked that the sword he loved so much had done something mean to its owner.

It would be better to emphasize the fact that if there are obedient swords, there are also swords with terrible personalities.

As a disciple, I will correct my teacher’s narrow-minded thinking.

The moment I made that decision, goosebumps suddenly appeared all over my body.

“S, Master?”

“Hmm… ! Looking at the condition of the skin tissue, its durability is comparable to that of a sword.”

The teacher persistently looks at my whole body with profound eyes.

I’m a man. Moreover, he was wearing clothes. However, I automatically crouched down and avoided eye contact.

Are you really seeing me as a sword that is an object of lust just because I have reached the level of divine sword union?

At the same time, I remembered the teacher’s words, ‘Grow it and eat it’ and became overcome with fear.

“Hahaha! Looking at your reaction, it looks like you were joking.”

“Now, is this a joke?”

“How could I have lust for my student?”

“Whew… ! When I first met my teacher, he told me that I would raise them and eat them, so I ended up overreacting.”

“… … Tsk.”

The teacher regains his appetite as if he is disappointed.

What on earth are his true intentions?

Even though I wanted to know, I tried to ignore it.

“Anyway, the chatter ended up getting longer unintentionally. Get ready quickly.”

“In the end, fighting is an inevitable fate.”

“Are you going to leave a family rival and just pass it by as if nothing happened?”

“Of course, we have to compete against each other.”

“I feel the same way!”

After that no conversation took place between us.

While I was blinking, the Sword Emperor came right in front of me and swung the sword towards my neck without making any unnecessary movements.

It was so fast that I had no time to bend my neck to avoid it, so I blocked it with my forearm.

However, the arm was thrown off and part of the flesh was cut off.

As expected, teachers are on a different level.

Cold sweat ran down my spine at the thought that I was truly close to death.

But there was no time to feel relieved that I was alive.

Even though his grip was empty, the teacher clenched his fist and swung his arm towards my chest.

His fist didn’t touch me, but my anxiety made me step back.

Soon my clothes and skin were cut by something sharp and blood flowed out.

“This is crazy! Have you mastered the mind and sword?”

“It’s a technique I don’t really like because it’s insubstantial, but I wanted to show it to you.”

“How strong do you plan to become?”

“Until I can fight with all the swords in the world for a hundred years!”

At this point, I wanted to shake my head and say that the condition was in serious condition, but now it was a situation where one small action could be the difference between life and death.

A sword with no substance and a sword with substance. He used the two pairs of swords as freely as his own hands and applied constant pressure.

Even this wasn’t sincere.

If he shows his sincerity, all the people and things around him except me will become shapeless.

It is literally the equivalent of a natural disaster.

“Where did I leave my old momentum behind?”

“As I got older, I felt calmer than before… !”

“Appropriate excitement revitalizes the body. Increase your momentum!”

The swords crossed towards each other, but only I was injured and blood was splattered around me.

If we did our best, we could overwhelm them, but it wasn’t a very good move.

Fighting with all your might while your teacher is doing hand-to-hand combat?

In the end, it was a path that led to catastrophe. From the beginning, my teacher wanted me to fight with all my might.

I could tell just by looking at the corner of his mouth twitching.

“You don’t seem to have the will to fight with me. I am full of thoughts of disciplining you for selling my beloved sword!”

“It’s not my fault!”

“No matter what the reason, throwing away the sword is a shame for a swordsman.”

“Oh! You incorrigible bastard!”

In my anger, my true feelings came out.

But it’s not really a problem.

Up to now, I have treated my teacher with honorifics and honorifics, but as an orphan, I was naturally a bit foul-mouthed.

Maybe that’s why he behaved rudely towards his teacher in the early days.

Because he knew my origins and nature, he didn’t really care if harsh words were said.

“Even if you say that, disciple, you actually like swords too, right?”

“I lost all love for the sword because of you!”

“Wasn’t that thing hanging on your waist like that a sword?”

“This is… !”

“You can deceive other people’s eyes, but you cannot deceive your own eyes. Is the sacred power flowing softly from within the scabbard the holy sword of the holy nation you sold?”

“You guessed it so well that it gives me goosebumps. How about retiring now and becoming a gummmelier?”

“Hahaha! There are still many swords waiting for my touch, so I can’t do that! Rather, the fact that the holy sword you hated so much is in your arms means that you also knew its importance and brought it back.”

“Unfortunately, I came here on my own.”

“I understand your feelings. I guess he’s deliberately pretending to hate it when in fact he likes it! Such a shy person!“

I was at a loss for words.

Did they actually see a goblin bat that can turn into a human, but didn’t consider the possibility that the Holy Sword came back polymorphed?

Since he seemed to not believe me, I took out Alaina and threw it into the air.

The holy sword, which was spinning in the air, soon changed from the shape of a sword to a human shape and landed arrogantly on the ground.

“Did you see it? Like this, he was able to find me through my black polymorph… … .”

“You’re human… … .”

The teacher, with his upper lip poking forward, had tears in his eyes.

Even though he was a ‘sword’ that only used polymorph abilities, he couldn’t help but be disappointed by his appearance as a human.

He was a man with a sword to his core.