episode_0045

“It’s such a strange feeling.”

I was lying on the floor and raised my head. Sanyeo was crossing her fingers while looking at the sky. Sanyeo smiled languidly as she wiggled her fingers that were intertwined like a wooden fence, then looked at me again and said.

“Do you know what I was thinking when I came back into this house?”

I said, rubbing my face.

“I’m annoyed because I’m homeless, so I guess I’ll beat up Docheol.”

“Oh my, how did you know?”

Sanyeo blinked and asked back. It was even more disgusting to see him taking joke after joke.

“I heard you’re having more fun today? They said it would be about second-rate, but if this is second-rate, I will even shoot a first-rate long wind.”

I rubbed my back and chest and grimaced. We teamed up with Sanyeo, who came back, and her spirit was fiercer than before. I think they said it would be at a second-class level, but considering the cancer alone, it didn’t seem like it was that level. Each blow came with more weight, and the surprising attacks flew at a speed I couldn’t keep up with.

She brushed the dirt off her toes.

“There are some things I did because I was a little distraught, but in a way, this is also part of training, right? What if it was a setting where you fought an opponent who was hiding his skills? ‘I’m actually a first-class expert, but I pretended to be second-class in front of you.’ It’s like this.”

If you think about it carefully, it made sense. So, I was even more upset.

“If you get hit by a guy like that, you definitely can’t make an excuse. It makes sense.”

“Because the excuse of not knowing until after death is meaningless. I can’t even complain at that time.”

As she said that, she quietly moved on to the part she practiced strongly today. As a person receiving training, I had no intention of discussing it further, so I went back to the main topic.

“So, what were you thinking when you came back?”

Sanyeo tilted her head to my words. And then he tilted his head back and shook his head. I wasn’t wearing any accessories, but the sound of beads clinking together seemed to come from the way they were fluttering. She looked down at me and said.

“Ah, I’m finally back.”

I didn’t answer. The sentence also looked at Sanyeo strangely. Sanyeo met our gaze and said.

“After thinking about that, I felt strange when I came to my senses. This isn’t the place I’m coming back to, but I’m coming back. That’s strange, isn’t it? They say that the human mind has a tendency to become sloppy even if it is slightly relaxed.”

“I know how it feels.”

I have felt that way too. It was in the military. On the way back from outdoor camping training, I unconsciously said this to my successor next to me.

‘Let’s go home.’

Even after saying those words myself, I was overcome by a strange feeling, and there were times when I didn’t feel like I was resting even though I was resting in the dormitory. The judge was startled by my words and said,

“Yes? Docheol. Do you think this is not home?”

I shook my head and sat next to the judge. Then he stroked her hair and said,

“No, this is home. Where else would I be but home, where I have a wife and rule over me? I’ve felt that way somewhere else.”

Even though Sanyeo saw the couple being so sweet, she seemed unimpressed. she told me

“Thank you for sympathizing with me.”

“Just tell me and I’ll do it as many times as you want.”

As I looked at Sanyeo and talked to him, Seonjong gently leaned his head on my chest. It was like a cat getting tangled up in conversation, so I played with her cheek with my finger. It was soft and felt nice to touch. Sanyeo said, raising her handcuffed hands.

“Since we successfully passed the inspection this time, they will come up with other means. It’s no good to push you away peacefully, so I’ll aim for your head.”

“What do you mean, you’re aiming for my head?”

“If you use simple ignorant methods, they will just send spray. This is easy to solve, but it’s a pain in the back end.”

“They sent an assassin that I can’t handle at my level, but I will definitely do that if I kill that guy.”

Of course, there is no way I would kill Salsu. If it’s something that I can’t handle at my level, Sanyeo will just handle it quietly. Sanyeo nodded and said.

“That’s right. The boundaries will rise a bit. They’ll think you have a backstory or that you’re someone they trust. It’s not a very pleasant story for the Murim League to already have grounds to think of you as someone to watch out for.”

I also didn’t want the water coming into my house. To me, home is a word that means a place where I can sleep with my legs stretched out.

“What are the other ways? Are there any other ways they deal with people?”

Sanyeo glanced away. The judge was listening to our story with an interested look on his face. There was a rice cracker in his hand, and there was no audience as he munched on the cracker and listened to our conversation. I lowered my head and looked at her, and Senseon looked at us in turn, then took a piece of the cookie and said,

“…Would you like some?”

Sanyeo laughed. I smiled and accepted the snack she gave me. Senseon stood up, took out a snack from the plate next to him, and handed it to Sanyeo. Sanyeo walked directly to Seonjong, accepted the snack, and said,

“I will eat well.”

Rather than being agitated and making a fuss and worrying, it was better to be carefree. Sanyeo said, picking up the snack with both hands.

“There are several ways to deal with people you don’t like in the Murim Alliance. Kill him by accusing him of being a murderer. Kill someone by falsely accusing them of committing an unjust act. Kill by accident.”

“What kills by accident?”

I understood the context in which the other two were removed, but I couldn’t fathom the word accident. Are you going to kill me by pushing me off a building? Or kill them by dropping a large rock on them? Sanyeo looked at me with mysterious eyes, as if she could guess my imagination. I shyly avoided eye contact, and she continued.

“He died in an accident while on duty or during a public sparring. Are there many situations that could lead to an accident? I won’t be able to complain if you die because you have no one behind you.”

“Oh, so it was an ‘accident’ that happened during sparring?”

“That’s right. The opponent used a strong herbal attack without thinking, and you were unable to defend yourself. There are more people who die this way than you think. Among the masters of Sapa, there are some who are experts on ‘accidents’ that occur during such sparring.”

“There are people who intend to accidentally kill people during sparring?”

“Of course. There are many people who like the notoriety that follows their name. Is it really unseemly to just shrug your shoulders when people whisper, ‘I heard you killed someone during a sparring match!’?”

Sanyeo even imitated the whispering people and expressed her dislike for them. And she added, shaking her head.

“The current Murim Alliance does not re-establish martial justice by pushing out such people. Rather, they are actively using those guys and trying to eliminate people who oppose them.”

She gave strength to her handcuffed hands. The strong handcuffs did not move even as she pulled on her arms.

“Docheol. I don’t want you to get caught up in the evil plans of those guys and die in vain.”

She nodded toward the yard. I didn’t understand the meaning of her nod, so I took another rice cracker and ate it. Sanyeo spoke to me with a smiling face.

“What are you doing? So, I need to practice more. I need to increase the intensity of my training so that I can cope with any situation.”

Holy shit.

I cursed under my breath and ran in front of her. Seonjong got up again and spoke as if he had been lying down for some time.

“Docheol! Cheer up!”

I am with her energetic cheering.

Bah!

“Evil! Fuck!”

Before I could react, I was hit in the face with a kick.

“What should I do if I turn a blind eye?”

Sanyeo said so and changed the path of the bridge. The person’s legs were moving like a whip, and it was impossible to determine their trajectory. As I tried to defend myself by swinging my axe, Sanyeo’s leg disappeared before my eyes and came crashing down from the wrong direction.

“Fuck!”

“I’m not just blindly defending myself. You have to get used to the speed. You have to watch until the end and read the next trajectory of the attack.”

Easier said than done. But it was too difficult to act. This was because the trajectory itself was not visible. I gritted my teeth and said.

“I can’t see it at all? Is this an attack that can be blocked at my level?”

Tuk.

The next attack stopped just before it hit my arm. Sanyeo’s smooth thighs were stretched out in a straight line.

She slowly lowered her legs like a crane and took a step back.

“Concentrate your gaze. I can see enough. You can’t see it because you think my level is too high. Think of it this way. It’s no big deal.”

Easier said than done. But it was difficult to put into practice. How can I see her as inferior to me, who seems to everyone to be an overwhelming expert?

Is that possible?

Sanyeo saw my expression and continued.

“Even if I can’t do it, I will continue to practice at this intensity. Even if it’s unreasonable, there’s nothing I can do about it. There are not only reasonable fights in the world, right?”

She was right.

I had to do it even if I didn’t want to. As she said, it would have been so unseemly to just make excuses and die when I met someone who was more expert than me. There are bound to be more unreasonable fights than sparring with her in this powerhouse. Because such an unreasonable fight might come right in front of us.

If you think like that, sparring with her was nothing.

“After… .”

I took a deep breath.

She was raising her feet diagonally. The toes looked like sharp spears, and the next moment, they disappeared in a blur.

I quickly rolled my eyes, chasing after the afterimage. The path of the foot is not visible. However, my eyes were clearly following the afterimage that remained as my feet moved.

The foot I had raised to my right was attacked sharply from the front.

“Fuck!”

Kang!

With a metallic sound, my body took a step back. The ax blade was shaking, and Sanyeo was looking at me with her legs outstretched. I took a deep breath and made eye contact with her.

“Is this how you do it?”

can do.

What she is suggesting now is nothing.

I’m going to be the king of the world, and this is nothing.

I held the ax tightly.

I could clearly see the corners of Sanyeo’s mouth rising.