episode_0116

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Perhaps thanks to the pouring rain yesterday, the sky was clear without a single cloud. The weather, which many Sichuan people were worried about, was clear and numerous colored lanterns and strings with colored paper filled Sichuan Province.

“The improvement of the heroes of Sichuan Province!”

Wow!!!!

An improvement ceremony was held.

Neither things about Jambongmun nor about Golden Street were things that everyone in Sichuan Province should know. Although there was a lot of gossip about the raid on Jambongmun by the ronin, they were just criticizing the Sacheon ronin for behaving like a sacheon ronin.

It may have spread to Sichuan Province just because a proclamation was sent to Golden Street and an incident occurred. After all, I didn’t know the details.

Sima Yeom said that after giving the people of Sichuan time to enjoy the joy of defeating the bandits, he would reveal the evil deeds committed by Hwang Geum-seon, Yu Ji-gyeong, and Gaemyeong-bu.

The Golden Family, which controlled the wealth of Sichuan Province, will completely fall, and Jambongmun, which has a considerable influence, will also fall, so the impact will be significant in Sichuan Province.

“Captain of the punitive army! Dandogyeong! Unit leader Dang Do-yeon is a triumph!”

Wow!!!

The charlatans who participated individually, led by Dang Do-gyeong and Dang Do-yeon, each with Wang Maeng-ho and Haemulpa next to them, followed behind with flushed expressions.

“Cool!”

“Hero of Sichuan! The pride of Sacheon!”

Cheers pouring in from all directions. The streets were so full that the buildings around Gaejeon-ro were filled with people, regardless of their floors or rooftops. How would it feel to have countless people cheering for you?

It was something I didn’t know.

“Next is the march of the Sichuan clans! The faction that contributed the most to suppressing bandits is…! Rosary! We succeeded in capturing 28 bandits including Palbochae Chaeju Chinese Restaurant!”

Rosary! Rosary!! Mukgangtan! Mukgangtan!!

The cheers reached their peak when the Rosary warriors with the captured bandits appeared. Mu Kang-tan, who was at the forefront, tried to maintain his dignity as a transcendent master and lord of the clan, but the corners of his mouth were constantly twitching.

“It is indeed the proud rosary of Sacheon!”

After that, a parade of platinum-certified families continued. #1 Rosary. 2nd place: Jajangmun. 3rd place: Gyeongsumun. 4th place Gwangyangmun. And 5th place was Jambongmun.

Even though it was a triumphal ceremony, the complexions of Jambongmunju and his disciples were dark. Well, it’s probably not a satisfactory result for Jambongmun. Maybe he heard the troubles of the clan.

There was no way to know if the sect would disappear before the platinum sect sign could be hung.

After that, the gold sect’s improvement ceremony continued. The Gold clan was generally in an excited mood.

“No. It’s surprising that a nightshade gate had that much power…!”

“Hmm. I might have to send my son to Dodongpa!”

Of course I would be happy because I succeeded in proving the capabilities of a faction that had no way to prove it. Everyone, from the head of the clan to the lowest-ranking members of the clan, smiled brightly and waved to the Sichuan people in joy.

The reactions of the Silver clans were varied. A clan that looks regretful. A satisfied clan. Even the clan is delighted with the results that exceeded expectations.

Even up to the Bronze faction, it wasn’t bad. The clans that succeeded in capturing the bandits despite having a small number of people were recognized by the people for their potential.

However, the iron clans… there were dozens of clans that marched with one or two bandits at the head, and embarrassingly, there were clans that marched without even a single bandit.

“Cheer up! Well done!”

“English and English are also the pride of our Sacheon!”

Sichuan people also sent cheers and encouragement to such cultural factions. Even if there were no results, it was true that they had subdued the bandits who were choking Sichuan Province.

The Iron clan members were also depressed due to their lack of results, but when they received cheers from the people, they squared their shoulders and took part in the victory march with courage.

Iron clans should also enjoy the festival.

The clan tier border will be awarded only after the Sacheon people and those who participated in the subjugation have all enjoyed it. Worrying about tiers was something that happened after the festival was over.

I left the main street and headed to the government office.

The triumphal ceremony was to tour all the main streets of Sichuan Province and head to the government office. As it happened, this was exactly the time when Tang Do-gyeong and the individual participants arrived at the government office. Sima Yeom, completely dressed as a governor, was on the podium.

Sima Yeom handed the Heroic Gun to Dang Do-gyeong and Dang Do-yeon. It is a hero key with a golden border embroidered on the red key. It wasn’t visible from this distance, but the governor’s seal must have been stamped at the end of the piece along with the phrase [Bandit Suppression Sacheon Hero].

Wow!!!

As Dang Do-gyeong and Dang Do-yeon wore heroic guns, people burst into cheers. In fact, there was a lot of talk about the design and material of the hero gun. Tang Do-gyeong and Sama-yeom had opinions that the material of the hero gun was too light and long, but I pushed for it.

In the first place, the longer the string is and the better it flutters, the more attractive it becomes.

The gold-rimmed kanji of Yeong-Geon, fluttering in the wind, was more than I could have imagined. Well, since the hangers are Dang Do-yeon and Dang Do-gyeong, that might be the case.

Sima Yan awarded each individual participant a heroic gun and hand thread. Individual participants waved their hero guns and ran to their acquaintances, family, and lovers.

I also went into the government office to congratulate Dang Do-yeon and Dang Do-gyeong.

“Ho type.”

“It looks like you completed your work safely. Congratulations.”

“It was no big deal.”

“Has your work in Sichuan been handled well?”

“Hmm…”

I scratched the back of my head. The two people looked puzzled, but didn’t ask any more questions.

“In general, it went well.”

“Um, is that so.”

“There is still time until the reception, so please rest until then. Thank you for your hard work in subjugating.”

Dang Do-yeon and Dang Do-gyeong did not decline. It was a task to lead as many as 5,000 people. In addition, the sects would have been working hard to be placed in a good tier, so they would have raised their voices, and it would not have been normal to coordinate the interests of numerous sects and control them.

It would not have been easy to accommodate and bring back five hundred bandits.

Since it was the peak of the season, my physical strength may have been fine, but my mental fatigue must have been considerable, so I went straight to my dorm.

Accommodation.

Should I go visit Yeo Il-ye in hospital?

smart.

“Please come in.”

For some reason, the voice is small, so I become cautious about my actions. When I gently opened the door and went in, I saw Yeo Il-ye and Hyeok Gi-rin. It seemed that Hyuk Kirin had fallen asleep while staying by Yeo Il-ye’s side.

We were all surprised to see the scars on Yeo Il-ye’s face.

And Hyeok Gi-rin held on to Yeo Il-ye and cried. I cried bitterly and cried again. It seemed like it was attached to Yeo Il-ye all night, but it seems to have been discharged and fell asleep.

“Um.”

When I saw the bandage wrapped around Yeo Il-ye’s left eye, I couldn’t help but cry.

“Since the Ambassador is sleeping, shall we go for a walk for a while?”

“Are you okay? The wound…”

“It’s okay.”

Yeo Il-ye and I walked through the garden in front of our dorm in silence.

“How are your wounds?”

“ According to the doctor who the governor called, if you heal for a few days, you will be cured without a trace. Of course, you can’t turn your eyes away.”

I was silent. Yeo Il-ye told me everything that happened in Golden Street yesterday. I felt like I had been stabbed in the back by the appearance of Hyun Soo Gu. Gu Ga-gyeong, a retired ronin, came to mind. We weren’t very close friends, but we weren’t face-to-face either.

How many times did Yeo Il-ye come to Sacheon Province? Of course, that opportunity would not have been common. And does it make sense to meet a Sichuan ronin by chance at every opportunity? I should have been suspicious of this from the beginning.

I just had information that Yeo Il-ye hated ronin, so I just thought that every time she visited Sacheon, she would look for ronin and kill them.

On the day I met Yeo Il-ye, I had to deliver the Bimucheop to Gwangyangmun. Was it also something that Hwang Geum-seon had planned?

There were many clues that suggested this was how things would turn out.

Since Yeongjihuyeol also implied that he did not forget his grudge against Yeo Il-ye in the end, the same must have been true for other ronin. If there was even one ronin who really appeared to Yeo Il-ye with a murderous intent, Yeo Il-ye would have died. And I completely missed that possibility.

One wonders how Yeo Il-ye was able to meet so many ronins even though she did not come to Sichuan Province often.

When Yeongjihuyeol expressed his appreciation for Yeoilye, he noticed a sense of discomfort.

Or they did not let go of surveillance on the Golden Line until the very end.

If so…

“Your benefactor is thinking useless thoughts.”

When I came to my senses, Yeo Il-ye had stopped walking and was looking at me. I was surprised to see Yeo Il-ye.

Because there was a soft smile on Yeo Il-ye’s face.

It was my first time seeing Yeo Il-ye smile. I think I’ve seen him make cold mockery a few times…but I can’t say I laughed at that.

“The benefactor is neither a good person nor a god. It’s natural to miss something. And…most of all, it was the karma I committed with my own hands.”

“…Sojeo.”

“There are things that must be faced and overcome. The benefactor reopened the eyes that had been blinded by hatred. Even though one eye closed again due to not being able to properly guard it… I can see the world and move on with just one eye.”

Yeo Il-ye seemed satisfied. I couldn’t understand how he could make such an expression even though he had lost his eyes.

“Yesterday, my brother-in-law cried all night for me. A courageous person who moved forward regardless of his injuries cried like that for me. I cried and nursed him… I held on like that and barely fell asleep… but when I saw that, I couldn’t help but smile.”

“I was so… happy to see before my eyes that there was someone in the world who could cry so sincerely for me. And I was embarrassed. Even though I had this person by my side, I didn’t know about it until now and didn’t do anything for him.”

“Yeo Il-ye’s life wasn’t the only unfortunate event. There was a Jeomchang who embraced me when I was blinded by anger, and there was a great executioner who prevented me from taking an irreversible path. And I also met Eungong.”

Yeo Il-ye lowered her head.

“Thank you. Silver ball. I have received so much from Eungong that I cannot express it in words. He gave me enlightenment, helped me take revenge… and took me in and taught me many things.”

“…There is no reason to receive such an undeserved greeting.”

“Huhuhu. You knew how to say that. However, the person who even used the silver medal I gave him for me is not saying that.”

“Kuhm.”

“So I guess this is the only thing I can give you.”

Yeo Il-ye came closer. I reflexively took a step back, but Yeo Il-ye was faster. Two hands came into my armpits and gently grabbed my back.

“Nothing…”

What are you doing? What were you trying to do? As I was about to say these words, Yeo Il-ye’s lips touched mine. I opened my mouth and was startled by the meat naturally coming in, and tried to distance myself, but Yeo Il-ye’s soft hands held my body firmly.

Tongue and tongue were tangled.

I took a deep breath in surprise and smelled a sweet scent. Is it the smell of Yeo Il-ye’s flesh? The faint scent of medicinal herbs further highlighted Yeo Il-ye’s scent.

Only after taking several breaths did Yeo Il-ye let me go. Yeo Il-ye licked her lips as if wiping away the saliva that had fallen from her mouth.

Yeo Il-ye, who made eye contact with me, laughed.

…Maybe he was making a rather goofy expression.

“Don’t be too burdened. There will be plenty of time to think.”

“…What does it mean?”

“Because we haven’t caught all of our enemies yet. We need to organize the remaining ones. If something unexpected happens, it could take quite some time.”

Yeo Il-ye’s eyes softened and she smiled mischievously.

“So, I applied saliva to remind you not to forget this woman during that time.”

I looked at Yeo Il-ye blankly and thought.

Yeo Il-ye knows how to make facial expressions like this. He was a person who always had stiff wrinkles between his eyebrows, gave off an empty look, and sometimes seemed to disperse like a cloud.

…If you think about it, it was natural. There was so much on one’s shoulders, and how could a person smile when it was painful and difficult? Just foolishly, I may have looked at Yeo Il-ye and thought that she was that kind of person.

What on earth was I thinking about Yeo Il-ye? I just had a preconceived notion of what he looked like in the game and just accepted that he was that kind of person.

There was a person in front of me, and no matter how many times we talked and agreed… I may not have been able to get out of the frame of the game.

“Eun Gong. There is something I didn’t know until now.”

Yeo Il-ye came over and placed her hand on my chest. What else are you trying to talk about?

“What is it?”

“Eungong has an attractive stupid expression.”

“What….eup!”

Once again, my lips were taken away helplessly. The sensation of meat offal being wrapped around me again struck me.

When my lips parted, I didn’t have the strength to say anything, so I just looked at Yeo Il-ye.

“Your head is so full of thoughts… I wasn’t sure if this lady had really gotten into your head, so I applied saliva one more time.”

Yeo Il-ye said, lightly putting saliva on the tip of her finger.

“Still not enough?”

“….It’s full and overflowing.”

All the distracting thoughts flew away. okay. Until now, I have never properly encountered a person named Yeo Il-ye. I was only interested in how he would act. I had played over thousands of rounds of Wulin Heaven and thought I knew it only through knowledge of the character Yeo Il-ye, whom I encountered while playing the game.

Then I thought I couldn’t understand it. I thought I didn’t know Yeo Il-ye’s actions after gaining enlightenment. It was only natural that you couldn’t predict the actions of someone you didn’t know, but I acted as if I knew everything about Yeo Il-ye just from my experience in the martial arts world.

It was stupid. There was this vivid person in front of my eyes, someone I could talk to and look into, and I thought I understood this person using the knowledge in the game.

I completely erased Yeo Il-ye, the character from [Murim World], from my head.

Even though she achieved enlightenment, she was unable to find evidence against her enemy, so she erased her anger by being alone in the arms of the Jeomchangpa. The Hongjukgunhyeop, which was just obsessed with anger and hatred and was cutting down the rogues, was also erased.

And then he looked at Yeo Il-ye. Even though Yeo Il-ye was a ronin, he acknowledged the fact that he gave him enlightenment and respected him as a benefactor. He was someone who could throw everything away for revenge. Yet, in the face of his own mistakes, he was someone who was able to ask for forgiveness by giving up the revenge he valued so much and even his own life.

She was a woman with unusual tastes, who found her own brother-in-law very cute and found it attractive when people made stupid expressions.

“Now I finally feel like you are looking at me.”

Looking at Yeo Il-ye with a soft smile, I couldn’t refute those words.

“Ilyeya! It’s a day! Where did the patient go? If the wound gets worse, it’s a big problem! It’s all right!”

“This kind of death occurred. If I don’t hurry up, I might be nagging you all day.”

Yeo Il-ye took a step toward the dormitory. Then he suddenly stopped and looked back at me.

“Oh, and…today’s event is a secret to that cat-like Soger. I was supposed to receive information about the enemy, but if people find out what happened today, there will be an uproar.”

Yeo Il-ye, with a mischievous smile, answered Hyuk Kirin loudly.

“Ilyeya! Doesn’t the patient know that there is absolute stability?”

“Hehe, I was just frustrated so I just came out to get some air.”

“What if the wound gets worse while walking outside? Even if you are a top expert, you cannot let your guard down!”

“Yes, of course. Since you’ve had enough fun outside…let’s go in.”

Yeo Il-ye looked at me and smiled meaningfully, and Hyuk Kirin, who had no way of knowing the meaning of the smile, made a puzzled expression and then got angry with double wicks in his eyes.

“Ever since you were young, you’ve been saying outrageous things to change the topic! I won’t be fooled today, so let’s get in right away!”

“I understand. Ambassador type.”

“In the first place, you…!”

Yeo Il-ye and Hyuk Kirin, who were listening with smiles as if they were happy to even hear Hyuk Kirin’s nagging from the angry ambassador, walked away and disappeared out of sight.

“Um.”

Wow!!!

Also, cheers rang out as to which clan had arrived in front of the government office. As I listened to those cheers, I remembered the last time I saw Yeo Il-ye.

“Well…you looked happy so it was okay.”

Everyone in Sichuan seems to be having fun.

It was a summer day.