episode_0110

After a late lunch, we headed to Murimmaeng.

I went in and asked the inspection department and they said the meeting was still going on.

Well, I’ll come out after the meeting, so I guess it’s better to get my work done first.

“Where is the grade test taken?”

When Sayun spoke in a slightly nervous voice, Chaeryeon grinned. And he led us to a place in the Murim Alliance.

Inside the building, which looked fairly quiet, the sounds of fighting and clashing weapons could be heard, as if a fight was taking place.

“Here. There don’t seem to be many people right now, so I guess I can do it right away.”

“…Oh. Who is this?”

Then I heard an unfamiliar voice. When I looked over there, I saw a fairly tall girl in her mid to late teens with a fierce-looking appearance coming towards me.

Chae-ryeon frowned as soon as she saw them.

“Who is this?”

“That…”

I don’t know about others, but I know who is at the forefront.

Namgung Jeyeon. One of the members of the Namgung family, he appears briefly in Chae-ryeon’s main story and is one of the characters who confronts her.

She’s not that important of a character, and after getting beat up by Chae-ryeon during an argument, she created an opportunity for her to form a relationship with the Namgung family, but she didn’t appear.

“You still get along well with strange people?”

Chae-ryeon sighed as she looked proud and spoke leisurely.

“Why don’t you just leave without making a pointless argument?”

“That’s troublesome. Because I have to pay off my last debt.”

Namgung Je-yeon smiled and held out his fist. It’s my debt from last time. I guess I lost the match?

“You lost, right? You.”

As expected.

“I heard that your sister always attacks even though she loses?”

Chaeryeon shrugged her shoulders. Well, Chaejin did that too.

“It looks like he wants to be treated like a superior person while accompanying people of a lower level than him. Why don’t we try again here?”

When Namgung Je-yeon provoked her with a hearty laugh, Chae-ryeon thought about it and shook her head.

“It’s no fun fighting with you.”

“…What?”

“It’s weak, right? At best, it’s grade 1.”

“…Ugh!!”

Namgung Je-yeon’s expression hardened. When she tried to put her hand on the sword at her waist, I laughed and stopped her.

“I am Yuwol from Seomhwachon. Even though the relationship between the two is bad, wouldn’t it be problematic for someone with the surname Namgung to pull out a sword on purpose? So, how about holding on a little longer…”

She looked at me and said.

“What are you?”

“I told you. It’s June in Seomhwachon.”

“…Damn. How dare a country bumpkin without a nickname get in my way?!”

She gritted her teeth and stretched out her hand. It was a weak technique that was intended to simply push away rather than strike.

It’s commendable that he didn’t use the assassin right away, but using martial arts openly is a bit hasty for a child from a prestigious family.

I countered her fight with Tai Chi. Lightly push away the back of your hand and, taking advantage of the change in direction, grab your shoulder and push slightly.

The ban was so heavy that I almost couldn’t take it, probably because he was from Namgungse’s side. But I somehow managed to catch it, and when Namgung Je-yeon, who had naturally lost his direction, stumbled and hit the air clumsily, I said with a smile.

“I think it is better not to make mistakes while getting drunk with blood. How about you stop now?”

“…This kind of magic?!”

“…No, the master of the prestigious political faction, Moon Woljeong, is taijiquan, but it is a witchcraft.”

I looked at Chaeryeon without realizing it, and she smiled.

Although he was smiling, no one could see that he was upset.

“Chae is Tai Chi?! It was Moonwoljeong’s person!! good night!! I am the next Sogaju of the Namgung family…!!”

“Sogaju is still stable.”

When Chae-ryeon snorted and spoke, Namgung Je-yeon flinched and continued speaking.

“…Top among candidates!!”

“The leading candidate among the candidates is Namgung Yeonhu’s older sister.”

“…It’s Namgung Jeyeon!! The fighting technique used is the Heavenly Wind Fighting Technique! Since you didn’t pick up the sword, I won’t use the sword!!”

“…Namgoonghwa’s sister was a charlatan. You are different.”

It’s a surprise.

As I was trying to respond to Namgung Je-yeon, I was startled by an icy voice and looked to the side, and the others also looked towards Sayoon.

Her usual smiling face has completely disappeared.

He was stepping in front of me with an expressionless face.

“Hong Seong-moon’s Sayun. I will fight on behalf of the guest.”

Then he slowly puts out his fist. Namgung Je-yeon was not the only one who was surprised to hear the name Hong Seong-moon.

As the others also started whispering, Namgung Je-yeon gritted his teeth.

Did he think that stepping down after coming this far would be detrimental to his pride?

“Damn it! Hong Seong-moon of the world is going to fight with the Namgung family because he is such a country bumpkin?”

“This is not a fight with the Namgung family.”

Sayun said coldly, stretching out her tightly clenched fist.

“Just to punish those who try to mess with Hong Seong-moon’s benefactor.”

“Pfft…!!”

“Also, the owner of the guest house is not the kind of person who would call you ‘that kind of person’. If you sincerely apologize now, I will forgive you.”

Chae-ryeon was surprised by Sayun’s emotionless voice and asked me.

“Sa-yun must be really angry.”

“That’s right.”

Because I have never seen anything like that. Shouldn’t it be stopped anyway?

“Sayun. I’m fine so stop…”

“If Sayun had not come forward, I would have come forward. As Sayun said, the owner of the house is Hong Seong-moon’s benefactor. In other words, touching the guest owner is no different from touching our Hong Seong-moon, so please keep an eye on it.”

I saw Hyeonhwi who spoke to me. She, who should have been stopped, just watched with her arms crossed.

“In the first place, when friction arises between drones, it is resolved with nothing.”

Even Chaeryeon says that, so what can I say?

Let’s just take a look.

Because I don’t think Sayoon will lose.

“There is an unarmed person here, so come up.”

As soon as Sayun spoke, Chaeryeon said something to a nearby martial arts warrior. And after a while, Sayun and Namgung Je-yeon come up to the non-stage.

“Let’s get started.”

As a referee, a warrior went up and received the weapons of the two and gave them a wooden sword.

The moment Namgung Je-yeon glanced at him and pulled out his sword.

Sayun was lightly grabbed and then shot away.

***

To Sayun, Yuwol was a very special person.

From the first time we met, he helped me. And, it continues from then on.

He always held out his hand to me and tried to take care of it somehow even if I smiled and declined.

And, more than anything, I am grateful to Hong Seong-moon, who is precious to me.

He is a precious and grateful person, like my ‘uncle’.

The person who called that person ‘that kind of country bumpkin’ and then attacked him arbitrarily.

Even though Yuwol successfully blocked the attack, he had no choice but to accept an apology.

And hex?

Sayoon knew. How hard he works. While running the guesthouse, helping many people in Seomhwachon, and doing so much for Hongseongmun, he has always worked hard.

Sayoon could never forgive disparaging his efforts with such words.

That’s why her head became even colder.

Hongseong Shingong is a martial art that becomes stronger according to the movement of the mind.

However, if you are swept away by anger, it will just become a martial art of evil nature.

Because he had always heard the story from Geomseong and Hongryeon, Sayun was able to swing the sword calmly.

“Ugh! Ugh!”

The swordsmanship of the Namgung family resembles the sky.

That is why they are called ‘Changgung’.

However, Hongseong Shingong is a star that splits the sky. No matter how huge the sky is, it cannot stop the movement of the stars.

“Haaap!!”

Namgung Je-yeon desperately blocked Sayun’s dizzyingly fast and smooth sword strikes by using Cheonpung Sword Technique and Changgung Muae Sword Technique.

Changgung’s sword technique, which was supposed to be infinitely free and infinitely large, was unable to catch the free and fierce sword of the stars.

“Damn it!! I am Namgung Jeyeon!! The next Sogaju candidate of the Namgung family…!!”

Gritting his teeth, Namgung Je-yeon swung his sword even more fiercely. What her sword embroiders is the blue sky.

But that was only for a moment. With one sword, one sword, the blue sky splits and gradually turns red.

The territory created by Changgung Muae Sword Technique was being trampled by Hongseong Shingong.

“Kaaah!!”

-Baaa!!

And what ended it was a blow to the arm. The blow to the right arm holding the sword is felt throughout the body.

Then, the body naturally shrank, and the sword technique that was supposed to draw the huge sky lost its momentum.

-Bah! Bah!

Two sword strikes, striking the left arm and right shoulder.

Should I praise him for not screaming?

When Namgung Je-yeon gritted his teeth and moved his left arm to unfold Cheonroe Samjang, the Namgung family’s funeral method, Sayun’s hand also moved.

Pa Seongjang and Cheonnoe Samjang clashed in the air, and it was Sayun’s Pa Seongjang who won.

“Gagging!!”

Namgung Je-yeon, who was pushed out of the clash between inner strength and inner strength, stumbles. But, it wasn’t over yet.

-Wow!!

Sayoon’s fist struck her in the abdomen as he pursued her. Yoo Seong-kwon. Just as she was about to collapse from the blow of the falling stars, Sayoon’s knee hit Namgung Jeyeon’s face.

“Wow!!”

Sayoon showed his teeth and growled at Namgung Je-yeon, who had fallen out.

“Please apologize.”

-chuck.

Sayoon said calmly after seeing Namgung Je-yeon, who had fallen, staggered to her feet.

“The rudeness committed by the owner of the house in June.”

“…Sigh. Do you think you can?”

Sayoon laughed at her who reacted harshly, spitting out blood from her burst lip.

Extremely cold.

***

Although Sayun was hit a few times by Namgung Je-yeon’s resistant attack, it was only at the level of baiting him to create an opening, so he was barely able to do any damage.

Namgung Je-yeon rolled on the floor, got up, got hit again and fell, and was almost crying, so I was thinking about stopping her.

A group of people came to where we were.

“Uh…?”

Among them was a familiar face.

Namgunghwa. It was the wife of the Namgung family whom I had met at Changwoongwan before.

Did the Murim Alliance call after seeing Namgung Je-yeon beaten up like that?

“Oh my? Aren’t you the guest?!”

Surprised, she looked back and forth between us and the unarmed person. He then asked Chaeryeon to hear the situation, and after hearing her explanation, he smiled brightly.

It seems very savory.

“That girl. that. He said he learned the Changgung Muae swordsmanship and became a candidate for successor, but he couldn’t understand the topic and always made fun of himself. Ugh. I met the owner today. I love it. Lose well. Sayoon! Kill half of them!!”

Namgung-hwa openly cheered for Sayun.

And that was then.

“…Lord Protector!”

A middle-aged man with a cold expression entered the building.

When the warriors of the Murim League saw him and greeted him, he lightly waved his hand and approached us.

And, after seeing Namgung Je-yeon being literally beaten up while unarmed, he turned his eyes towards us and attacked us.

“I am Namgung Seongyul, the Changcheon Swordmaster of the Namgung family and the protector of the Murim Alliance.”

“It’s June in Island Village.”

“Ah. That was him. I heard the story from One-Eyed Dragon, Nakil Sword, and Moonlight Blade. They will come here soon.”

“Ah. yes. Nice to meet you.”

After a brief greeting, he looked at the unarmed person again.

And after watching indifferently as Sayun overpowered Namgung Je-yeon, he spoke bluntly to Namgung-hwa after hearing what had happened earlier.

“I started looking into you when I was worried that someone with less skills and personality was a candidate for successor. So I said no to that son of a bitch… but who is that son of a bitch? Looking at the sword technique, it seems like Hongseong Shingong.”

“This is Hong Seong-moon’s youngest child, Sayoon.”

“I see. He was the last disciple accepted by Geomseong.”

He said seriously.

“It would be nice to be able to recover from the beating for at least a year. You should take this opportunity to learn how to be scary in this world so that you don’t get stabbed and die in a harsh place later.”

What on earth is he doing? He’s still a blood relative, but he’s upset that he can’t eat everyone like this?