episode_0055

Even though the cold wind is blowing,

What on earth is so hot about that? Sweat is constantly running down his forehead.

“What are you doing? Should I keep talking?”

After biting his lip for a while, Myeong took a step closer to me and carefully reached out his hand.

“… Master.”

“Yeah, aren’t you listening now?”

I took another step away from the nameless person and smiled faintly.

The distance between us has widened again.

Naturally, the nameless hand floated through the air without reaching its intended destination.

Myeong blinked his eyes and looked at his hands.

After a while, the nameless man’s entire body began to harden like stone.

“…”

“Huh.”

I glanced at that nameless person and turned my head away coldly.

“Lucius, what are you two doing right now…?”

“Saint, it is not my place to interfere in other people’s love affairs.”

I heard a completely incomprehensible sound from behind, but I quickly put my mind to it.

Right now, I feel more disappointed in the anonymous person.

… I don’t really know what I’m so disappointed about, but anyway, that’s it.

“Hmm.”

I nodded my head.

…

-Cheonmu-myeong

I glanced at my teacher, who was walking about two steps away from me.

… Clearly, there is still a chance.

It wasn’t just groundless nonsense.

Look, isn’t the Master still walking side by side with a little distance between them, without completely leaving them?

I had never seen anything like it before, but my intuition told me otherwise.

There is still a chance.

…of course.

It may be something like a human instinct to try to think positively about a crisis situation.

If I don’t think like this, I feel like I’ll just collapse on the floor.

Soon, he nodded with a determined expression and cautiously approached the teacher.

“…”

In a corner of my heart, I was wondering if he would distance himself from me again this time… .

Fortunately, the teacher just looked straight ahead, sighing as he watched himself slowly closing the distance between them.

… Fortunately, that’s right?

I bit my lips hard.

Slowly, stealthily, and continuously approaching the Master, until soon our hands were within touching distance.

He closed his eyes tightly and opened his mouth carefully.

“That… Master.”

“What is it?”

There is no high or low in the teacher’s voice.

I opened my eyes slightly in anxiety and looked at my teacher’s expression.

I saw it earlier.

He has a somewhat creepy expression on his face, with the corners of his mouth turned up and his eyes losing their vitality.

… the anxiety increases.

He kept rolling his eyes as he continued to think, then closed his eyes tightly and bent down.

“I’m sorry.”

“…”

I’m so nervous as hell.

I wish the teacher would say something, even if it was just a reprimand, but I feel like I’m going to lose my mind because he’s staying silent like that.

And then, after a long silence, the teacher changed the thoughts he had been thinking about until just now.

He uttered one magic word that drove him crazy to that extent.

“What?”

My mind became dizzy.

As I was staring blankly at my teacher with my mouth open, my teacher took a step closer to me and lifted his head.

The Master’s lifeless, pitch-black eyes entered my field of vision.

“What did I do wrong?”

“…”

I had no idea what to say, so I just opened my lips.

… In fact, I felt like I was dying from injustice.

I don’t even know what I did wrong,

My teacher made an expression I had never seen before and treated me coldly… .

I feel like ripping out my constantly aching heart.

He bit his lips hard and carefully chose his answer, rolling his eyes here and there.

His intuition told him that if he gave the wrong answer now, the Master would treat him the same way he did now for several days… .

Just thinking about it makes my head spin, so I close my eyes tightly.

While I was thinking about it for a while, I remembered what my past teacher had said to me.

‘There should be no falsehood in the priestly relationship.’

Although he still has things he hides from his teacher…

This is a matter of driving a nail into the Master’s heart, so let’s put that aside.

In order to quell the current situation, I decided to borrow the Master’s words and honestly convey my thoughts.

Although it was packaged nicely… .

In short, I will just be honest and say that I don’t know.

“I don’t know… .”

“Then you apologized to me even though you did nothing wrong?”

The corners of the teacher’s mouth, which had been slightly raised, have now dropped, forming a straight line.

Cold sweat began to flow down my face.

He, who was becoming anxious, shook his head roughly and opened his mouth.

“That’s not it!”

“Then?”

“That’s….”

… I am at a loss for words.

How can you answer when you don’t even know what you did wrong in the first place?

actually….

It’s not like I have no idea what it is, but… .

Glanced – looked at the teacher.

He waits again with the corners of his lips raised, as if he is expecting what I will say.

…there is still no life in the eyes.

For some reason, my body began to tremble at the sight of my teacher like that.

What kind of crazy person would see something like that and think it’s jealousy?

As I was tilting my head for a long time, wondering what answer I should give to make the teacher feel a little better, I heard a small sigh from next to me.

I turned my head in the direction of the sound with shaking pupils.

There was a teacher there, rubbing his forehead and shaking his head slightly.

“… That’s it, tsk, what on earth am I doing at this age,”

The teacher waved his hand slightly, then grabbed my arm and pulled me to his side.

“Come here.”

…is it over?

My legs gave out and I almost collapsed on the floor.

I endured it with the sole thought of not wanting to show my teacher an embarrassing appearance.

“Lucius, what are you two really doing right now…?”

“Saint, as I said before, I don’t meddle in other people’s love affairs.”

I heard a completely incomprehensible sound from behind, but I quickly put my mind to it.

Now I feel even more grateful to my teacher.

… I don’t really know what I’m grateful for, but anyway, that’s it.

He smiled brightly and took his teacher’s hand.

“Thank you.”

“Hmm, okay.”

…

-Cheonharang

A tall castle built on a steep cliff.

A guard, or rather a knight, standing guard in front of a low wall that seems to mark the territory.

The atmosphere was completely different from the guards guarding the walls that I had seen before.

There was no unnecessary decoration in his standing posture, and the snow that had fallen from the sky was piled on his shoulders in such a way that it did not hinder his movements, as if he had maintained his still posture.

First of all, the posture is passable.

I squinted my eyes and scanned the knight from head to toe.

“Wow… .”

Although he doesn’t have much absolute internal energy, it’s obvious that he has trained for a long time, as he has evenly distributed his internal energy throughout his body.

I was looking at the article like that, judging it.

Lucius walked ahead, approaching the knight holding a piece of paper with a symbol drawn on it.

“Please wait a moment, three people.”

“Yes, please.”

Elia smiled and saw Lucius off.

I approached Elia, who was waving her hand and seeing her off, and asked her quietly.

“Elia.”

“Yes?”

Elia opened her eyes slightly wide and tilted her head, as if she hadn’t expected me to approach her first.

Hmm, maybe I should have talked to you more often…?

I feel sorry for no reason.

“Ahem, hmmm.”

He cleared his throat slightly in embarrassment and opened his mouth again.

“Can you explain about the person called Iron Blood?”

“…Is it iron-blooded?”

Elia nodded slightly, then tilted her head again as if a question had occurred to her.

“I think Anonymous knows well too, so why don’t you ask Anonymous?”

At Elia’s words, he looked back at the nameless person.

The nameless man who was slowly approaching me flinched and shook his body, then turned around and went back to his original place.

“Tsk, when I hear that from that guy, I feel like my insides are twisted. I guess that’s how it is.”

Frowning slightly and not finishing her answer, Elia covered her mouth with her hand and smiled slightly.

“…Why are you laughing?”

“No, you’re just cute.”

“…”

I really hate hearing that I’m cute… .

But I felt bad about saying bad things to Elia, so I turned my head away in embarrassment.

“So, what kind of year was that guy named Cheolhyeol?”

“… years? No, no.”

Elia shook her head slightly and sighed.

“Uh… , um, how should I explain it… .”

“I don’t want to ask for details, just tell me what kind of personality you have.”

Haven’t we already heard from anonymous sources how great a person she is?

The reason I’m asking now is purely out of curiosity.

If there’s a person who puts a knight below guarding the wall, he must be a great person.

He nodded slightly and waited for Elia’s answer.

I received a somewhat incomprehensible answer.

“Uh… When we talk, is there anyone who gets a little angry…?”

“… ?”

“Well, I shouldn’t say this, but… A little presumptuous… ? No, you’re someone who could easily do that… But it’s difficult… .”

What does that mean?