episode_0119
by admin“Ugh, what’s up with this woman all of a sudden?”
The pirates flinched involuntarily.
It was a reflexive reaction that stemmed from the brutal massacre they had suffered at the hands of the women with masks.
However.
Soon, the pirates realized.
That there was no hint of a masterful presence from their opponent.
From her gait to her delicate figure, she seemed as fragile as a reed, ready to bend at any moment.
She even held her sword in a completely bizarre grip.
Blade facing up, edge facing down.
“Haha, what’s this? Holding the sword upside down?”
Laughter erupted from the pirate’s mouth.
Being martial artists themselves, they couldn’t help but mock.
In any case, it was clear.
“She’s just a nobody. Don’t bother, just kill her!”
“Hah, damn. Now even a woman like that looks down on us? Give me some time, I’ll slice her up real good.”
“We don’t have time, let’s just kill her quickly!”
“Got it. Die!”
The pirate at the front swung his sword aggressively.
A vertical slash as if he intended to cut from the head to the groin in one swift motion.
To create the most gruesome and humiliating corpse possible.
However.
That fierce slash missed so pathetically.
With just one movement.
Swish.
Yuseol-yeong’s new form shifted with a strangely weak motion, and the pirate’s blade struck the deck helplessly.
The pirate’s face twisted in strong annoyance.
“Damn it! You dare to dodge?”
Preparing to readjust and launch another attack, the pirate.
But.
“Cervical spine.”
Yuseol-yeong’s blade moved first.
Thud!
Thunk!
“K-kill, k-kill!”
The pirate’s body, writhing in agony, crumpled to the ground.
Thud!
“K-kill, k-kill?!”
Unable to move a single finger properly, the pirate writhed like a bug.
Literally, his cervical spine had shattered, causing full-body paralysis.
Now, he couldn’t even walk for the rest of his life, let alone control his bowels and bladder.
Truly a hell more horrifying than death.
He had become the worst of the worst.
“J-just kill him! Kill him now!”
“Swarm him and kill him!”
The pirates swarmed, exuding a murderous intent.
Yuseol-yeong’s body looked precarious, as if it would be pierced by the blades at any moment.
But every time.
Swish.
Swish.
With a maddeningly weak and strange movement, she dodged all the blades.
And.
“Cervical spine.”
Thud!
Thunk!
“Aaah!”
“Cervical spine.”
Thud!
Thunk!
“Aaah!”
Every time, she inevitably shattered a pirate’s cervical spine.
The number of pirates writhing on the ground like worms, unable to move their entire bodies, increased.
The muttering of “cervical spine” now sounded like a cry of terror.
Fear had crept into the pirates’ faces without them realizing it.
“H-how, why isn’t it hitting! Why!”
“Cervical spine.”
“K-kill!”
“Cervical spine.”
“Aaah!”
Just a moment ago, the pirates who had been advancing aggressively towards Yuseol-yeong were now hesitantly retreating in the opposite direction.
Their faces pale with fear.
The notorious pirates of the Sea Shark Gang were completely terrified.
Ironically, it was because she hadn’t killed a single one of them.
They knew that if their cervical spine was shattered, they would live a more miserable life than a pig, unable to move a muscle or even control their bodily functions until they died.
“J-just kill her!”
“Kill her?”
“Just kill her! This ruthless woman!”
“Why?”
A truly incomprehensible expression.
“….”
The pirates were at a loss for words.
“Ugh… H-how can such a cruel and heartless woman exist in this world…”
The pirates’ expressions became even more contemplative.
At this moment, they might be able to understand.
In her previous life, she was known as the Reaper of Souls.
A monster without mercy.
Her blade was more terrifying than the sharpest of knives.
Meanwhile.
“Wow, can you really defeat them with just a thin blade like that?”
The female warrior, who usually looked down on others with disdain, had a rare expression of disbelief this time.
It was the same for Bang So-un.
“That’s impossible… A blade is not meant to be used like a blunt weapon. If you try to defeat someone with a thin blade like that, it will break.”
“But, they’re still fine, right?”
“Is that so?”
“Why… why aren’t you killing them? Why aren’t you using the sharp edge of the blade?”
“I don’t know either.”
“…”
“…”
“Isn’t it more miserable than dying?”
“It is.”
“…”
“…”
“Young master.”
“Why are you like this?”
“Thank you for not going into action. I almost became a fool who couldn’t even distinguish between urine and feces.”
“I told you. It feels damn dirty.”
“Indeed, the young master’s insight…”
“It’s a survival instinct.”
As the master and servant conversed leisurely, the pirates on the verge of destruction were already decimated.
At an unbelievable speed.
“Kyung-chu.”
“Ah, nooooo!”
Crash!
Thud!
“Screaaaam!”
Even the last pirate became a fool as he collapsed on the deck.
Only then did Yoo Seol-young sheathe her sword back into its scabbard.
Her gaze turned towards the civilians.
Assessing whether to exert more force.
But she didn’t move.
She must have thought it wasn’t necessary.
According to her judgment, the outcome of the battle had already been decided.
With three members of the Jeolhwa clan present there.
And two members of the Haenam faction also provided some assistance.
The pirates who boarded the merchant ship were on the brink of annihilation.
***
“Ughhh….”
Trembling, trembling, trembling.
The body of the pirate leader, Poh Dong-young, was shaking uncontrollably with rage.
The unexpected appearance of a master.
The appearance of that damn woman had completely turned the tables on his attempt to use the civilians as hostages.
But would he retreat quietly here?
It couldn’t happen.
This was the sea.
The sea was the domain of the pirates.
Retreating from there was akin to a humiliating declaration of surrender.
It was better to fight and die than to retreat.
No, there was no way to die.
This was the sea.
And the fight of the pirates was not just about individual combat.
Naval battle.
The fight on the sea, the naval battle, was still there.
The true fight of the pirates.
“The sea is ours! It belongs to us!”
Poh Dong-young roared with a thunderous voice.
He ordered his subordinates to prepare the ramming device.
“Prepare the ram! Ram their ship and sink it!”
The ram.
A weapon that shouldn’t exist on such a merchant ship.
But it existed on Poh Dong-young’s ship.
A massive warship designed for battle.
“Net, get ready, my lords!”
“We will immediately pierce a huge hole in their ship with the ram!”
The voices of his subordinates were filled with determination.
They knew.
That no matter how skilled a master was, if their ship sank and they fell into the sea, it would be their meal.
That was the decisive reason why they didn’t fear the masters on the sea.
“Charge!”
With Poh Dong-young’s roar, the warship began a fierce charge.
***
“Haha, victory is ours, victory.”
“That’s right, victory.”
The Haenam faction members, intoxicated with the joy of victory, though it was a trivial victory.
The hunt was like a tiger boasting while a fox praised itself.
The members of the Jeolhwa clan looked at them with pitiful eyes.
Although it was hidden behind a mask.
That’s when it happened.
“Oh?! Look, over there!”
“A ship, a huge ship is coming!”
“Oh no?! It looks like they’re coming to ram us?!”
The civilians who were looking in the other direction had pale faces of shock and disbelief.
The imposing pirate ship was charging through the waves with a menacing air.
“Captain, move the ship quickly to avoid it! Hurry!”
The villagers urgently urged the captain.
But the captain’s expression was as dark as a corpse.
“It’s too late! We can’t avoid that! Absolutely can’t!”
In an instant, the deck was engulfed in an atmosphere of despair.
***
“Young master, what should we do?”
“…If you pay a hefty price, I’ll let you off unharmed.”
“But we’ve killed too many of them!”
“Oh, really?”
“Young master, please come to your senses!”
“In my generation, we must achieve the conquest of the martial world.”
“Don’t leave a will!”
“Too bad. There are still many young talents to be had.”
“Stop leaving a will!”
“What do you mean by ‘talents’?”
“….”
“….”
Suddenly, the voices of Yoo Seol-young were heard, and Bang So-woon and Jang Il’s mouths shut tight.
They exchanged urgent glances.
…Surely they didn’t hear it, right?
…It seems like they did.
…They’re alive.
…So they’re not really dead right now?
A harmonious relationship where conversation flowed through eye contact.
Bang So-woon spoke up.
“…Before I die, I want to eat the persimmon tree I planted at home.”
“Why die in the first place.”
Thud.
Bang So-woon pointed his finger as if indicating the charging pirate ship.
It was coming like a wild boar.
“That? I was already planning to stop it.”
“Huh?”
“Huh?”
Bang So-woon and Jang Il looked at each other with round eyes.
Can a human really stop something that big and ignorant?
Does that make sense?
…That’s what they thought.
“I told you. I can’t stand the sight of trash like pirates roaming around.”
Yoo Seol-young suddenly moved the ship at lightning speed.
In an instant, she headed towards the bow.
She jumped into the sea.
This, this is insane!
“What are you doing?!”
Bang So-woon was shocked.
“No, this is not okay!”
Jang Il also screamed.
But then, their eyes widened abruptly.
Not just them, everyone’s eyes were wide open, mouths agape as if they were about to tear.
Because they saw it.
The sight of Yoo Seol-young effortlessly performing martial arts on the sea as if it were flat ground.
“People looked up at the sky that day, witnessing the incredible feat.”
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