episode_0089

Elia muttered something absentmindedly, as if she had forgotten that I was there.

“Touched time…? But how could a human do that… .”

“Um… .”

Looking at Elia like that, I kept licking my lips.

… I don’t understand a single word of it.

To be honest, I wish they had spent more time looking after Anmyeong instead of doing such useless things.

“Wait a minute… What if I do this…?”

“Tsk.”

I clicked my tongue when I saw Elia’s dilated pupils, as if she had lost her mind.

That thing won’t make you come to your senses for a while.

And it’s not like she didn’t say anything, she said something?

Of course, I said there would be no danger to life… but I did say there might be personal problems.

Well, I guess I could beat up the person’s personality if I wanted to, and wouldn’t that be the worst case scenario if the person’s personality was touched?

“It’ll be okay… .”

There won’t be any problem.

I let out a small sigh and started walking.

My disciple is lying on the cold floor right now. I guess I should wake him up soon.

He moved his feet and poked the side of the nameless man who was lying face down on the ground with his eyes rolled back.

“Anonymous.”

“…”

When the nameless one was stabbed in the side, he flinched reflexively and trembled, but showed no other movement.

“…”

At this point I started to worry that maybe I had hit too hard.

“Mu, anonymous… ?”

He squatted on the floor and shook his nameless body.

But the nameless one just rolls around according to the movements of my arms. There is no sign of him coming to his senses.

What should I do, did I really have an accident…?

A cold sweat was running down my face. I felt uneasy for no reason and tried feeling the pulse of the unknown person.

“Um… .”

As expected, he is running normally. He only rolled his eyes, but his complexion is also stable. No matter how you look at it, there is no reason for Moo-myeong to collapse like this.

As he gradually grew more and more suspicious, he squinted his eyes and stared at Mu-myeong.

“Anonymous, um… ?”

The corners of the anonymous mouth were seen moving slightly.

I thought it must be a mistake. I shook my head. How could someone named Anonymous play such a cruel prank on me?

But, just in case, I opened my mouth a little.

“… Anonymous, are you awake?”

“Cough, cough! Yes, Master… I just woke up.”

Considering Anonymous’ usual lying skills, his acting was unexpectedly awkward.

… as expected, he was up.

His brow furrowed ominously, and his fist naturally rose upwards.

“This guy! Are you trying to fool the teacher!”

“S, Master, let me speak for a moment.”

He squinted his eyes and looked at the nameless man.

… It seemed earnest, he let out a small sigh and nodded his head.

“… Try it once.”

The nameless man swallowed his saliva, then nodded with a solemn expression.

“… It’s true that I just came to my senses.”

“So.”

“Yes?”

He puffed out his cheeks and asked again to the nameless man who was making a bewildered expression.

“So, what else do you have to say?”

“Uh… .”

The nameless eyes began to turn around.

However, as if he couldn’t think of anything, Myeong tilted his head slightly.

“What else is there…?”

“What you just said is not the reason why it didn’t happen right away.”

If you listen to what he’s saying, isn’t it more like he didn’t get up on purpose to play a prank on me?

As if he had no idea I would think like this, Anumyeong opened his eyes wide and slowly looked away.

I knew this would happen.

“ Bite this hard.”

As he raised his fist, the nameless man tightly closed his eyes, and smiled at the sight of the nameless man.

-widely

I gave him a light pat.

“ugh-”

“Don’t play pranks like this again.”

He placed his hand on the nameless man’s head and lightly stroked it.

Myeong-i looked bewildered and quietly accepted the petting, then nodded his head.

“Yes… .”

“Right.”

He smiled happily at the sight of the nameless man nodding his head with his lips sticking out, and then got up from his seat.

It seems like Lucius is slowly coming back here and Elia seems to have found her composure, so I don’t want to stay here any longer.

“… Then what about other pranks-”

“What?”

“No.”

* * *

“Cheonharangnim.”

Lucius approached me with a very serious expression and opened his mouth as if he had no time to waste.

“Where did the guy holding that weapon go?”

Lucius’ expression looked somewhat anxious, and he tilted his head.

A man holding a weapon? Are you talking about a staff? If it was a staff, who would be holding it? It was just lying on the ground… .

“Owner-”

“Isn’t it?” Just as I was about to say that, a thought crossed my mind.

How does this guy know for sure that the staff has a different owner?

“… Master? What is the next word?”

“Just wait a minute, I’ll have to search my memory.”

I waved my hand slightly at Lucius, who was asking me questions as if urging me.

I squinted my eyes.

I had no idea how to explain this tragedy, but for some reason, Lucius is making a grand mistake. And it’s a mistake that’s helpful to me.

Here, the other person leaked the information first, so asking, “Did that staff have an owner?” is clearly the wrong answer.

And this guy, seeing the traces around him and asking where the ‘Master of the Weapon’ went, although he wasn’t a powerful man, the opponent Lucius was talking about was the most outstanding person he’d ever seen who could have created such a scene.

That makes sense, doesn’t that sound like it’s confirming that the guy called ‘the master of weapons’ survived this tragedy?

He rubbed his chin slightly.

… Let’s just take a stab at it, there’s not enough information.

“Lucius, you seem to know that master?”

“…”

Lucius’s eyes studied me as if observing.

I frowned and lowered my voice to make myself look as angry as possible.

“Depending on your answer, what I have to say to you will probably change.”

Take action by raising one hand over the wooden sword.

Of course, there is a reason for taking such extreme action.

If anyone were to see a scene that clearly showed signs of a fight, that guy Lucius would infer that I was not only on bad terms with the ‘master of weapons’, but that we were engaged in a grand fight.

And this is a guess and a gamble, but Lucius probably doesn’t get along with him that well either.

When I first came here, I looked at the cane and checked my physical condition and the condition of the anonymous body.

and….

For some reason, whenever Lucius saw that staff, he felt a deep hatred.

At my words, Lucius looked around the scenery as if he was thinking for a moment, then nodded.

“The enemy.”

“… The enemy.”

A really simple and clear answer.

However, no matter how hard Lucius tries to hide it, the deep emotions contained in his voice leak out little by little.

Perhaps it’s not just a simple grudge.

Well, fortunately, my guess was correct.

He nodded slightly and took his hand off the wooden sword.

… So the question is, who is the owner of that staff?

If Lucius is someone who cannot live without being a warrior, then his enemy is, without a doubt, the Demon. Naturally, the owner of that staff is a Demon.

Well, it’s not something you can just stab at like this.

Now, you must answer Lucius’s questions so that you do not become suspicious.

“He went all the way down to the south.”

“… It’s the south, outside the demon realm.”

Lucius nodded, as if that made sense.

Fortunately, Lucius didn’t seem to notice anything strange about what I said.

As I let out a sigh of relief, an ominous thought crossed my mind.

… What should I do if he suddenly tells me to chase after him?

You can’t chase someone who isn’t there, and even if you start the chase now, you don’t know when it will end. It’s a total waste of time.

Of course, I could have refused, but the way I had treated Lucius before was as if I was treating him like an enemy.

… my thoughts were short.

As I continued to lick my lips in anxiety, Lucius, who saw my condition, nodded.

“I’m sorry, but it looks like we’re being chased right now.”

“… Hmm?”

Lucius looks up, his face filled with guilt.

The voice coming out is getting smaller and smaller, as if he doesn’t want to open his mouth.

“Even if you chase after it now, it will be impossible to track it. And… .”

“I still have a lot to learn,” Lucius added shortly, smiling bitterly.

“Still, he won’t be able to move right now.”

“… Why is that?”

He threw out the words casually, but Lucius shook his head slightly.

“I don’t know what kind of relationship Cheonharang has with that guy, but don’t worry about it.”

At first glance, the tone seems firm.

But, guilt continues to seep into his words.

There seems to be some circumstances. It also seems like I got entangled for no reason… .

I was so embarrassed that I just broke out in a cold sweat.