episode_0011

“So, what did you do?”

A few days passed, and I was in the warehouse with Sanyeo. Being with her during those lazy evenings was not a punishment. She tilted her head and asked a question with a bowl of meat soup in front of her, and I said, scooping up a lot of meat with a spoon.

“So I kept talking to Chaeju. If we don’t fight debtors now, when will we win again? Even now, the debt owner is probably secretly looking at you with contempt. Don’t you feel it too?”

I said that and looked at Sanyeo. Sanyeo had her mouth open and her eyes closed.

“Ah-.”

She seemed more interested in the food than in my story, so I let out a laugh and roughly shoved the spoon into her mouth.

“Aww.”

As soon as the spoon came in, she closed her mouth like a hungry baby bird and ate the bottom of the spoon. The spoons, with the oily meat broth cleanly removed, sparkled as they reflected the light between the gaps in the warehouse.

“Is it delicious?”

“Yes.”

His voice and actions were very natural. I laughed out loud, and Sanyeo licked her lips with her tongue and said.

“So, if you just do that, you’re ready now?”

I shook my head and said.

“And, I advised that it would be better to increase the raiding expeditions of debtors. This is because the debtor can solidify his side if he stays alive. I’m telling you to change the personnel from now on and send out a campaign focusing on debtors. So recently, there have been more cases of debt owners leaving the barracks.”

“That wasn’t something that just happened, right? You continued to sleep with the debt owner’s wife. Does it have something to do with that?”

Sanyeo narrowed her eyes and asked. Rather than jealousy, there was a strong tendency to make fun of me. We never built up feelings to the point of being jealous of each other in the first place. I said, shaking my head.

“That’s right. I approached the woman to make sure I laid the groundwork. You may have heard it while I’ve been here for a while, but I’ve learned the art of wandering. He is more capable than the wild boar who only believes in his power and ignorantly crushes him.”

“Where did you learn Bangjungsul? Your martial arts aura is quite pure, but did you at least learn it from an apostate monk?”

I shrugged. It was common for people to not know the identity of a hidden person, so Sanyeo did not inquire further. Sanyeo pushed the bowl of soup with her foot, and I scooped up the meat again with my spoon. He said as he pushed it into Sanyeo’s mouth.

“ How much pure love would a bitch who attracts this man in this living room want? Rather than that, I would prefer to just grab a share and sell it. So, while I was talking about various things to Chae-ju, I also coaxed that bitch.”

“Hmm… . it’s good. The seasoning is good today.”

Sanyeo mumbled and looked satisfied. I said, leaning against the tent.

“Are you listening to me?”

Sanyeo nodded, wiped her mouth with the edge of the handcuffs, and spoke.

“Of course. I’m listening.”

I nodded and said.

“So, whenever the debtor was away, I thoroughly tamed it by pounding on it without stopping. And what we talked about was roughly like this. ‘Aren’t you tired of living like this as a debt-owner’s wife all your life? Shouldn’t we live by complaining more about what we already do? I have a good idea, listen to it.’”

“So, what did she say?”

“At first, he looked worried, but after I fucked him a few more times, he stopped worrying. You asked me this. ‘So what are you going to do?’”

When I spoke imitating a woman’s voice, Sanyeo tilted her head for a moment and then spoke, imitating my tone just a moment ago.

“So what are you going to do?”

I laughed because it was absurd. As much as I was giggling, she was also smiling brightly. We laughed quietly for a while in the ultramarine darkness, and I said, rubbing my face with my palm.

“So what I decided to do was that when the bitch came in, I decided to cheat on the debtor. They say that Chae Joo’s way of looking at him is unusual these days. Seeing as they keep sending out looters these days and trying to get them to escape from the living quarters, it seems clear that they are plotting something suspicious. I’m scared because I don’t know what will happen if this continues.”

Sanyeo listened to my story and said.

“Interesting. So, what happens now? What do you want in this situation?”

I said as I sat down.

“If I think about it, if I just run out of here, how will I be able to fight off those guys by myself? I’ve only just reached third-rate status. I’m saying that the people here are not that easy to deal with.”

I picked up the ax on the floor. Due to several lootings, the ax had a faint red glow. Sanyeo rolled her eyes and looked at me again, as if searching for the blood stains on the axe. I said, lifting the axe.

“So. We’ll make it so they won’t even think about chasing us. By making them fight among themselves.”

Sanyeo tilted her head. She said this:

“Because we made each other suspicious, are we going to fight soon? They were cowards who kept judging each other until now, but isn’t that too complacent an expectation?”

I shook my head. And then he smiled and leaned in. The old, unmaintained weapons gave off a smell of dust and metal every time I moved. This foul smell that one encounters every time one enters this tent has recently brought about a certain cozy feeling.

I said.

“By the way, this time I knocked out a girl with a hit.”

Sanyeo nodded.

“Yes.”

I said, moving my finger in the air. As I habitually moved my middle and ring fingers together, it automatically became a lewd gesture.

“Will it work for martial arts experts? If only I could talk about it so that we could even sleep together.”

Sanyeo shook her head and said to my question.

“You cannot forcibly conquer a martial arts person who has accumulated mental and physical training with just one such method. They say that in order to share fortunes, not only the bodies but also the hearts of men and women must be compatible, right? The insidious techniques you speak of are the domain of color craftsmen. Bangjungsul and coloring are different.”

I reflected on whether such information was in the secret I had read. In the secret that I had memorized, there was definitely nothing written about ‘how to brainwash and control a martial artist’ or ‘how to turn a martial artist into a pervert with just your fingers.’

“That’s right.”

Sanyeo smiled and said as I gave up easily.

“But, it’s not impossible at all. I don’t know what kind of anti-jungjutsu you’re using, but if you can reverse the opponent’s internal energy, that is, if you can push away the self-defense techniques that the opponent unconsciously applies to the body with your internal energy and stimulate them, even if you can’t conquer it at all, you will feel more pleasure than you can imagine. I guess I can give it to you. Whether or not he will want you while struggling with that pleasure depends on the person’s personality.”

“So, to put it simply, you have to become stronger?”

The story goes that the higher my martial arts level, the more women I can approach and trample on. Sanyeo nodded her head at my words and blinked her eyes at the same time.

“Don’t talk while staring at me too much.”

I raised the corners of my mouth and avoided answering.

Because it was a topic that only I found strange if I talked about it further.

Instead, I looked at the situation outside through the gap in the tent. From a distant corner of the forest, I saw torches coming in a line, twinkling like fireflies. I said, holding on to the bars of the mountain.

“In a little while, debtors will return.”

Sanyeo looked puzzled as I unlocked the half-broken lock with my hand and opened the door.

“Are you saying that if the debtor comes back, you will fight right away?”

“Yes.”

I opened the door of the window and grabbed Sanyeo’s handcuffs. Sanyeo did not resist even when I grabbed the handcuffs and pulled her. She silently guided me as I moved, like a guiding hand.

Instead of going out with her, I ducked into the corner of the tent and pulled open the crack. The owner of the debt was seen stroking his hair and entering his tent.

Both debtors and creditors are cowards enough to fight only when they are laid out.

They both have similar skills, so if you just expect them to fight, they’ll never fight.

So, I prepared a place for them to fight. By framing the debtor against the creditor, the debtor will always find an excuse to push him out. To make people suspicious, the debtor’s wife accuses the creditor of trying to get rid of the debtor.

In a situation where anxiety reaches its peak by repeating this process,

All I had to do was set off the flare.

A woman’s voice was faintly heard from the tent.

“Honey… . I can’t live like this. The creditor… . Chae-joo, why don’t you come to my bed tonight?”

The signal was the debtor’s wife. Today, before coming to Sanyeo’s tent, I was giving instructions to my wife. When the debtor comes, tell him to shed tears and say that the debtor harassed him. He said he couldn’t live like this and told him to quickly find something to borrow money from.

She was a slut who only the debtor knew nothing about, but the debtor cared for her without knowing that fact.

A suspicion spreads in the debtor’s mind that the creditor is trying to get rid of him right away.

He is just tired and stressed from a looting trip, and the fact that he harassed his wife paralyzes his rationality.

A few words were exchanged, and the debtor’s cries rang out in the air.

“Aaaa!”

And the tent is torn apart, and the debtor runs to the debtor’s tent holding a weapon.

“Come out, you beast! I have to settle the matter with you today!”

Even borrowers cannot make rational decisions.

Because he thought the debtor would target him at any time.

Because I thought he was going to point a knife at me for some stupid reason.

Therefore, I cannot think of the option of persuading Chaeju through dialogue.

“Oh! Even if that wasn’t the case, I was just thinking that I should take care of you.”

The two people faced each other, and we sat in the tent and watched the situation.

“They say other people’s fights are fun.”