episode_0015

afternoon.

The rooftop is one floor above the top floor of the 9-story guest house that the Murim Alliance rented for a few days near the Moryong family.

Originally, there should not be such a thing as a ‘rooftop’, but this pavilion cannot be seen from below, but if you climb the secret staircase on the 9th floor, there is a secret garden that goes up one more floor and provides a clear view of the surrounding area.

Three men and women are sitting facing each other in the garden.

One is the leader of the martial arts world, Taesang Jingun.

The young woman sitting across from the Murim Alliance Leader is his disciple, Jinhyeon.

And next to Jin-Hyeon, a woman with dark gray hair who looked older than Jin-Hyeon but not much different from him.

While Jinhyeon was acting like a woman of that age, the gray-haired woman was quietly fiddling with her teacup, wearing a ceremonial outfit that a noblewoman in her mid-30s or 40s would wear.

“Look here, inspector.”

The leader of the martial arts world very carefully opened his mouth towards the woman, the Sword Queen.

“How will Haedong Geomgak respond to this situation?”

“…….”

Haedong Sword Pavilion!

It is a sect located in Mount Putuo in the southeastern part of Zhejiang Province and is the disciple of the Sword Master.

The only unique thing is that, like the Amipa of Sacheon, all members are women.

“After inspection. Please answer. It is something I need to know as the leader. ”

“…….”

“Look here, Geumjeomrye.”

“Quiet.”

The swordsman opened his eyes wide at the leader’s words and warned him.

“I don’t know what it means, but I hope you don’t say it so carelessly.”

“……Hey, have some manners.”

“If you’re going to do it, just return it to the original state.”

After the examination.

Her real name is Geumjeomrye.

However, since no one carelessly calls her by her real name, the titles for Sword Master in the Central Plains martial arts world are either ‘Sword Master’ or ‘Haedong Sword Master.’

Or.

“Do not be angry, Master.”

Like Jinhyeon calling Geomhu, they are called by their titles according to their rank as members of the same sect.

“I’m worried someone might hear, Hyun-ah. Isn’t your teacher this old man here?”

“Hehe, you make curses come out of the mouths of those who practice the Way. When you do a half-turn, do you end up with an iron plate on your face like that?”

“You’re young, so live young, leader. If you start acting old when you’re young, you’ll age faster. Haha.”

The swordsman grabbed his head from side to side, holding it as if his hair was split into two pigtails.

“It’s sickening to see a woman twenty years older than me doing that. Detective.”

“Oh my. When we first met-”

“If I had known that she was twenty years older than me, I wouldn’t have approached her and called her ‘sister’!”

The leader banged the table with his hand and shouted, but of course the harsh sound did not leak out.

“Damn. While some people are struggling to take care of the affairs of the martial arts world, some people are trying to live like the older sister of their disciples in Banrohwandong.”

“That’s why I said, if you mess with me, just return it. Leader.”

“Ha, me. I should have just stepped down from my position as the leader of the martial arts world when ‘her’ was murdered last year.”

Jinhyeon flinched for a moment at the leader’s lament.

“Are you talking about [medicinal herbal medicine], Master?”

“There are two teachers here, so call them by their titles. Yes, Jinhyeon, our fellow disciple. And the person who is called Yakseon is also…”

“Ma-ui (魔醫). A doctor of the Demonic Cult and one with the best medical skills and pharmacology in the martial arts world. ”

The inspector continued speaking in a low voice.

“Last year, after someone went to Taishan and came down, he was murdered, and the whole of Shandong Province was turned upside down.”

“If you’re going to be respectful, be respectful and speak clearly if you want to act your age. After the examination.”

“…There are many stories about the background of the murder of the demon, but I think there is a story that the King of Murder was involved, right?”

Geom-hu continued speaking with eyes sparkling like a child.

“There were only a few people who knew that Ma-ui was a member of the Demonic Cult, but even among them, there were some who held a grudge against Ma-ui. Jin-hyeon.”

“Yes, Master.”

“You too, having survived the treatment of the devil and entered the shadows of Baekdo Murim through this poison, you know that it is hard to escape the influence of ‘that’, right? ”

“…Yes.”

Jinhyeon put his hand on his chest.

“Cheonma has instilled loneliness in even his own daughter, so unless she suppresses that loneliness with overwhelming martial arts and internal strength, she has no choice but to follow Loneliness’ orders.”

“Yes. Just like you suppress loneliness with the power of ‘Taegeuk’.”

The leader’s gaze fell on the two swords placed on the wall.

The two black and white twin swords were the swords of one master, Jinhyeon.

“Those who could not overcome their loneliness and had no choice but to follow his orders… Some of them ended up cutting off the future of the martial arts world.”

“Do I need to say it again? The poison saved by Ma-ui and her disciple killed the successor of the Shandong Music Family. Not only the Shandong Music Family, but also the Jongnam Family, the Hyeongsan Family, and the Jinju Eon Family.”

“…Yes. Even if it’s indirect, it’s enough of a justification for revenge. It’s enough, but….”

The leader shook his head as if something was bothering him.

“The devil is no ordinary person, but he was killed by the King of Sal.”

“They say he fell off the cliff of Mt. Taesan, and that King Sal jumped down from the cliff and chased him. King Sal even showed up in this area shortly after.”

“Yeah. That’s also proof that the magician was murdered. …but the body wasn’t found.”

The leader covered his face with his hands.

“A month before Ma-ui went missing, she told me something.”

“Are you saying there was a message?”

“To be exact, he said that while handing the medicine to Baekho Daeju. So….”

The leader searched his memory with his beard.

“There will be many things that will make you tired in the future, so the leader said that it would be good for your mental health to just retire early and return to Kunlun Mountain to cultivate the Way. Don’t keep taking medicine like this.”

“…….”

“Don’t doubt the medicine of the demon, or rather, the herbal medicine. She doesn’t discriminate between black and white, and if she is injured or hurt, she will treat even the enemy who killed her parents, so isn’t she a ‘herbal medicine’? She is also a demon because she went to treat the demonic cult members.”

“[No one knows the real face of Baekmyeon].”

Jinhyeon spoke softly.

“…Really, I don’t know.”

“…Well, we just do our best with the task at hand.”

The leader shrugged and picked up his teacup.

“About immediate treatment of varicose veins-”

“Excuse me.”

Ssuk.

A woman wearing a white tiger mask, the White Tiger Lord, appeared behind the leader.

“Is it urgent?”

“This is an emergency.”

“Urgent…?”

“From Mo Yong-se.”

Dull.

“What happened to Mo Yong-se?! Did that girl at the store…!!”

Jinhyeon’s expression instantly turned into confusion, but Baekho Daeju shook his head.

“Jinhyeon-ah, calm down. Baekho Daeju will continue his report.”

“…That. It may be hard to believe, but I am reporting the actual situation.”

“What happened that Baekho Daeju is taking a break?”

“Side effects of treatment for varicose veins and gynecological diseases have appeared.”

Shudder.

“…Surely, because of that side effect, the person in charge of the self-inspection is Seok?”

“I hugged Rep. Seok and patted his back, but there were no side effects like grabbing him by the collar or running at him with a sword or anything. ”

“Then?”

“Banrohwan…virgin. That’s what I said.”

Shudder.

“I saw it myself. Yu Gi-yeon, the daughter of the self-inspection expert who took the Geukyangjihwan… became younger, around the age of twenty.

“That’s it.”

Squeak.

“Isn’t it a half-circle?”

The inspector slowly got up, pulling the chair.

“The side effect of the extreme yangjihwan is that it is called the half-life recovery…?”

Flash.

“You’re going back to being twenty years old?”

After the examination.

She looked much more like an older sister to Jinhyeon.

* * *

[At that moment, somewhere in another high-rise building overlooking the Murong family.]

“……This is not a mess.”

A masked man wearing black martial arts uniform shook his head.

“What should we do now?”

“…….”

Behind the man.

A woman dressed entirely in white from head to toe, wearing a white fox mask on her face, was fiddling with a large glass of wine.

“There is no point in saying what to do, you murderer.”

“Even after causing this confusion?”

Salwangi Moryongse pointed in the direction.

“Just by treating vein stenosis, all kinds of experts have already gathered around Mo Yong-se, so if the side effects are known to the old monsters who want to look younger even just by one year, wouldn’t the world fall into chaos? ”

“…hahaha.”

“No way.”

The eyes of the killer revealed above the mask narrow.

“Did you intentionally cause this confusion?”

“There will be greater chaos in the martial arts world.”

The woman lifted her fox mask slightly, revealed her red lips, and took a sip of her wine glass.

“Because the side effects of simply treating arrhythmia will not end with just a half-life-threatening condition.”

“What kind of side effects are there?”

“Those who have lost their hair will have their hair grow back, those who have lost their hair will stand again, those who are already full-grown will grow as tall as they want, and old people who want to become younger will become younger?”

“You.”

The king’s eyes trembled.

“What on earth did you create through ‘that’?”

“Make. It’s not wrong, though.”

The woman turned toward the king and crossed her legs.

Then he grabbed the bottom of the mask with his hand, and the mask lifted with a ‘click’ sound.

“I just let the talent I already had bloom.”

The woman, who had taken off her mask and revealed smooth white legs, was completely dyed white, from her hair to her eyebrows and even her pupils.

“Perhaps it is a product of a transformation that ‘goes against’ the laws and providence of nature, and it is the very thing that goes against the natural order. Something in the form of a human that creates the most ‘ideal state’ for those who take it.”

“That….”

“I don’t know if it’s time-traveling or a miracle that brings about another possibility. I just express it in my own way as the ‘realization of the utopia’ that humans dream of… Hehe. Got it. ”

The woman waved her hand lightly at the king.

“I don’t like talking about catching clouds, so let me explain it simply and easily.”

The corners of the woman’s only red lips slightly rose.

“A cure-all.”

“……?”

“That kid. Seokmuwol is a panacea.”

A red flush rose on the woman’s face.

“You could say that it is the elixir of humanity that the heavens gave to the human world.”