episode_0047

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The night before Master left.

As expected, Master rested with me by his side all day.

Maybe the reason why I worked so hard was to create a time like today?

“I won’t be able to see you for a long time, but I have to fill you up today.”

lie. So what did you do every night?

There was a lot I wanted to say, but I shouldn’t do anything stupid to break the mood.

Master’s sharply forged eyes have become gentle today.

Master bit all his attendants and clung to me since morning.

He hugged my arm and enjoyed a nap, while waking up in between to eat the snack he had prepared in advance or read a book.

I lay in bed for almost half a day, sleeping and waking up, but Master didn’t touch me at all.

Or maybe he did something while he was sleeping.

“Kew… My back hurts.”

“If you sleep like that, of course your back hurts. If it were like before, I would have woken you up as soon as the sun came up and trained you.”

Master clicked his tongue as if he was pathetic.

“Master, I have a question.”

“What is it?”

“Don’t you teach me martial arts?”

“…….”

My name is Sogyoju, but I feel like I’m being pushed out a little because I can’t do martial arts.

Although the Commander-in-Chief and others don’t seem to care.

“I won’t teach you.”

I thought he would teach me right away, but the teacher gave me an unexpected answer.

“Why?”

“Because your Danjeon is very damaged.”

Her fingers slowly moved down from my bare chest and brushed against my danjeon.

“I’ll tell you because you won’t remember it anyway. You died by the sword. At that time, Danjeon was completely destroyed.”

“I see.”

Does this mean that I am incapable of learning martial arts at all? Now I think I know why she didn’t even mention the ‘Mu’ character for martial arts.

“Still, internal energy will naturally accumulate through the trained body and the energy of this mountain, but the amount will be very small.”

“You said you glided very briefly when you fell off the cliff, right? That’s exactly the level of strength.”

I can only glide for a moment.

Wow, then if I didn’t have that strength, I would have just fallen and died.

Thinking about it again makes me feel cold.

“Even if the dantian wasn’t broken anyway, I wouldn’t have taught you martial arts.”

“Why?”

“Because I lost you once because of that martial arts thing.”

She muttered in a subdued voice.

She removed her index finger from the danjeon and gently stroked my stomach and chest with the palm of her hand.

“I thought martial arts would benefit the world. Something that helps the weak and fights against injustice.”

“Wouldn’t that be roughly correct?”

“Hehe, it’s still the same. However, if you do one righteous deed through martial arts, somewhere in the world you will do unjust things a hundred times through martial arts.”

“So this martial arts thing should not exist.”

She said as if she was making a promise. It wasn’t something he said to me, it felt like he was saying something to himself.

“Ah, think positively. Martial arts are just a tool and the problem lies with the person who wields them. look. Master helps Yeonhwa, and other church members… Ouch!”

– tight

She pinched my breast hard. I pinched it so hard that it quickly turned red.

“Ah! What are you doing?”

“Who do you bring up a woman’s name in front of?”

Wow, it’s bloody.

“No, Yeonhwa is quite young. Besides, it was Master who appointed him as a servant.”

“The reason I added a servant was to provide you with convenience. Putting someone else’s name in front of me is a different matter.”

The standards are really strict.

“No, I was just talking about an example.”

It felt like I was being scolded unfairly, so I gave off a grumpy look.

Usually at this point I would laugh and lighten the mood, but today’s teacher seemed to show no signs of doing so.

Master, who made eye contact with me with wide-open eyes, spoke in an admonishing tone as if I was completely wrong.

“They were mistaken. Since I took on the name of Heavenly Demon, I have never felt the need to ‘save’ someone.”

“Then what have you done so far?”

“They followed me on their own. I just destroyed and burned the things that bothered me. They are the ones who gave it meaning and became church members.”

It’s complicated.

She continued her explanation.

“If it follows you, don’t throw it away. If it doesn’t follow you, throw it away. If it’s annoying, clean it up, and if it crosses the line, punish it. That’s the way I’ve lived for 12 years.”

“You don’t even ask me for that.”

He poked at her painful spot with a sly expression, and his chest was pinched once more.

Wow, it’s really strong this time.

“You climb all the way to the end. Oh, it’s true that I can’t kill you.”

Our teacher suddenly stands up.

He undoes my clothes and brings his face close to me.

“But, I can bully you. You foolish thing.”

Ah… it’s starting again.

That’s what I thought as I saw her head turning downward.

***

The next day, after being harassed all night from noon to dawn, I saw off my teacher with wide eyes.

As she was leaving, all the members of the Heukcheongyo Church came out and bowed, and the sight was quite spectacular.

“It won’t take that long, so get some rest.”

Master said, smiling with a refreshing expression.

“Have a nice trip.”

When I gave her a courtesy hug, she looked at me as if she didn’t like it.

Isn’t this it?

Still, you can’t do things like hug in a crowd of people, right?

As I hesitated and struggled, Master held out his hand with a bewildered smile.

“Have a nice trip.”

I stared at the hand.

And then he slowly raised his hand and took it.

It was a very, very familiar, yet very, very unfamiliar handshake.

***

Heukcheongyo, the governor’s office.

After Heavenly Demon left, Heukcheongyo went back to their daily lives with their own duties.

The Commander-in-Chief, who was looking at the pile of documents in his office, massaged his sore shoulders and leaned back in his chair.

The governor remembers what the leader called him early in the morning on the day he left.

“I have a very strange favor to ask of you.”

“Please tell me anything.”

“It’s okay even if it takes a long time. Find out if there are any stories about people who traveled through time.”

“If you say you are a time traveler…”

“This is about a person who is said to have come from the past or the future.”

***

Murim League.

The Sword Demon came right in front of us. The Yunnan front, which had been fighting a close battle of strength, began to collapse, and the Geomma took the momentum and headed north.

Soon, the group of Black Heavenly Cult led by the Sword Demon will reach Meng Yi.

But the leader was confident.

A knife prepared by Maeng. This is because Namgung So-yeon, who became a blood demon, grew dramatically in a short period of time.

“Did you call me?”

Namgung So-yeon, whose mood had changed quite a bit, stood in front of the leader.

“The group led by the Sword Demon is not far away. Please come forward and subdue them.”

“Uhm… what should I do? Confucius Kang doesn’t want that.”

“What are you talking about?”

The leader tilted his head at the sudden sound.

“I have to go somewhere else. I can still hear it. The voice of Confucius desperately calling me.”

Namgoong So-yeon sheds tears as if she is sad.

Maengju realized that Namgung Soyeon, who resembled a madman, no, had now become a madman, was out of his control.

“Please wait a moment. Confucius. Good Soyeon is going.”

Without saying a word, Namgung So-yeon turned and left Maeng.