Chapter 46 – Day 46

Day 46

“Um… are you okay?”

“I-I’m fine.”

Cheon Seoa forced a smile at Mio, who was asking with a worried expression.

Maid cafe.
It was certainly more of a den of evil than expected.

She had gone to check it out as past memories surfaced, but….

‘I’ll never go there again.’

Cheon Seoa muttered, trying to gather her cracked mental state.

Especially the phrase they said every time she ate something, moe moe….

“Ugh-!”

“Are you really okay?”

“Yes, I’m fine. Really, I’m fine.”

Even though Cheon Seoa tried to smile, Mio still couldn’t erase the worried look in her eyes.

To be honest, Cheon Seoa was really fine.
She was just a bit surprised, how should I put it.

She was just a little shocked by encountering a new culture.

More than that.

“But, we have a guest.”

“A guest?”

At Cheon Seoa’s words, Mio scanned the surroundings with sharp eyes.

However, all Mio could see were just the numerous people walking around the streets of Akihabara.

Nowhere could Mio spot anyone who could be called a ‘guest’.

As Mio was looking at Cheon Seoa with worried eyes, as if to ask ‘Are you really okay?’ again.

“If you’re going to keep hiding like that, can I just assume you’re an enemy and kill you?”

Perhaps she hadn’t fully recovered from the shock she received at the maid cafe.
As Cheon Seoa spoke with a somewhat sharp voice, suddenly the space distorted and a man walked out of it.

A man dressed in the most orthodox onmyoji attire, as if he were a character straight out of an anime.

At the appearance of such a man, Mio’s demeanor instantly turned sharp.

At the same time, a sword appeared at Mio’s waist, and her hand had long been ready to draw that sword at any moment.

“Please calm down, we have no intention of being hostile towards you, Sword Demon.”

The unidentified man who accurately saw through Mio’s identity.
At this, the light of wariness in Mio’s eyes intensified even more, but Cheon Seoa gently stroked Mio’s head.

“It’s okay. They are not enemies. They can’t be our enemies in the first place. Mio, you know that better than anyone, don’t you?”

“But…”

At Cheon Seoa’s words, Mio nodded with a somewhat dissatisfied expression.

Certainly, Cheon Seoa was right.
The strength of the man in front of her was nothing more than a mere insect compared to herself.

Such an organization that man belongs to, how strong could it be?

However…, the problem is that this unidentified bug sees right through his true identity.

The fact that he is one of the nine most vicious villains who founded the Illuminati, known as the Sword Demon, which has been unknown to anyone until now.

Meanwhile, the man in the Onmyoji attire looked somewhat surprised at Cheon Seoa, who was handling ‘that Sword Demon’ like a child.

He knew from the reports that Cheon Seoa was an extraordinary being, but he never thought she could handle even the Sword Demon like a child.

Cheon Seoa looked at the man and said.

“You can be surprised later. So, why has the Repairer from Japan come to see us?”

Repairer.
As that word came out of Cheon Seoa’s mouth, the Sword Demon showed bewilderment.

And the man.

“Could it be that you…!”

As if he never expected Cheon Seoa to know the word ‘Repairer’, he showed an even more shocked expression than before.

Repairer.
It was a word known only to a few people even in the sect to which the man belonged.

To be honest, most of the current Repairers don’t even know that they are Repairers.

Most of the Repairers who came to Earth ‘for some reason’ have already reached their lifespan limit and died.

The Repairers currently active on Earth are all in the position of being their disciples, or disciples of disciples, or even disciples of disciples of disciples.

How much would they know about words and information that would be common sense in the Repair World?

Perhaps there are many people who don’t even know about the secret garden of the Ascension Gate, let alone the sect they belong to.

No, there might also be many who know but don’t understand.

But, the man was different.

The man was one of those few…

“By the way, it’s fascinating. To think I’d see a cultivator who reached the level of Fire Spirit Qi in Earth, where spiritual energy is extremely scarce. With that level, you could certainly aim for ascension… Ah, no, that’s not it.”

Cheon Seoa, who was muttering to herself, realized something and nodded.

The man also nodded, understanding the meaning of Cheon Seoa’s self-talk.

“That’s correct. I could ascend at any time, but I still can’t ascend.”

“To ascend, you need an enormous amount of spiritual energy, but on Earth, you can’t obtain the spiritual energy needed for ascension, right?”

“Senior, your words are exactly right.”

“Are you calling me senior even though you know I cultivate magic arts?”

Cheon Seoa looked at the man with surprise.
The man laughed at Cheon Seoa’s gaze.

“That’s in the world of cultivation. In a world full of insects like this, even if I’m a magic cultivator, aren’t we both cultivators aiming for the same immortality?”

“You’re not wrong.”

In the cultivation world, they might growl at each other about being magic cultivators or whatnot.
In a world like Earth where cultivators themselves are extremely rare, there was no reason for them to bare their teeth at each other.

No, rather than being hostile and calling each other magic cultivators or whatever, it would be more righteous for cultivators to help each other.

The problem is…

“The problem, if there is one, is that there aren’t many cultivators who think like you.”

Even among Earth’s cultivators, it seems there aren’t many who have the mindset of helping each other like this man, which could be considered a problem.

A close example is the Bihwamun that Cheon Seoa personally erased.

“Come to think of it, the Bihwamun disappeared like vapor at some point. Could it be…?”

The man looked at Cheon Seoa with narrowed eyes.

The evaporation of Bihwamun.

The Repairers of Seungcheonmun had assumed that the Nine Villains had wiped them out as a warning and example to themselves.

The man had also agreed with this opinion.

However, the moment he witnessed Cheon Seoa sitting before him, the man’s thoughts changed.

Although Cheon Seoa appeared to be a very young girl on the outside, her level was beyond even his own comprehension, having entered the realm of Hwasin-gi.

Perhaps she had already reached the realm of Inseon?
He wasn’t sure if that was possible for a Mado practitioner.

If the being before him had truly reached the realm of Inseon…

‘The possibility of escaping this damned world increases!’

Thinking this, the man clenched his fists tightly.

300 years ago, when he first fell into the space called Earth.

The man had despaired.

The spiritual energy spread across Earth was far too sparse.
It wasn’t just that the quantity was low, but the quality of that sparse spiritual energy was also significantly inferior.

It could be said that it was a miracle in itself that the man had entered the realm of Hwasin-gi.

So, naturally, even though he had entered the realm of Hwasin-gi, he couldn’t even think about escaping this damned world through ascension, but then Cheon Seoa appeared.

Although she was a Mado practitioner, Cheon Seoa might have entered the realm of Inseon at the ‘very least’.

Cheon Seoa, having read the man’s thoughts, nodded her head.

“Certainly, if it were me, I could send you and whoever you want to the Cultivation World.”

For Cheon Seoa, such an act was as easy as breathing.

With just a gesture, she could tear through space and dimensions, opening a direct passage to the Cultivation World they desired.

However.

“Why should I go through such trouble for you?”

“We are not among the few cultivators…”

“Even so, you belong to the Jeongdo Sect. And, to begin with, I didn’t even send these children to the Cultivation World.”

Cheon Seoa said, pointing at the Sword Demon.

The man frowned at the words ‘these children’ in Cheon Seoa’s statement.

That phrase meant…

‘Did that monster teach the Nine Villains the cultivation techniques they learned?’

At first, he thought they had simply picked up and learned cultivation techniques that had ‘accidentally’ flowed into Earth, like themselves.

However, thinking about it, there was one flaw in that hypothesis.

No language on Earth has any commonalities with the languages of the Cultivation World.

Of course, that doesn’t mean it’s completely impossible for Earth humans to decipher the languages of the Cultivation World, but considering the era when the Nine Villains began their activities, interpretation would be nearly impossible.

In other words, it means that unless someone intentionally taught them cultivation techniques, it would be impossible for the Nine Villains to learn them.

If so, Cheon Seoa’s words gain credibility.

If this monster abandoned even the Nine Villains, who could be considered her disciples, in this wretched world, why would she have any reason to help him and his sect, complete strangers and moreover mortal enemies of Marin, escape from this world?

But the man didn’t give up.

If he couldn’t expect goodwill from the other party, he could simply make a deal with them.
No, from the beginning, the man appeared before Cheon Seoa with the intention of making a deal.

“A deal, you say. If that’s the case, then it’s a different story. But what exactly can you offer me?”

Did he learn mind reading?
Considering his level, it wouldn’t be strange if he had learned one or two mind-reading techniques.

More importantly, the price of the deal.

Should I offer money?
No, that wasn’t even worth considering.

The Nine Villains had established firm territories in both the underground and the public sphere.
What use would money be to her, who was like a master to the Nine Villains?

Besides, she was in a position where she could leave for the Cultivation World at any time.

Then, as expected.

“I will give you Japan.”

The man’s eyes shone with determination as he said those words.