episode_0124

Cold sweat drenched my back.

“Ronin! Let’s get started quickly!”

There was Sagonghyeon, who was urging the children and keeping an eye on me.

after….

The Tang family wanted to kill me by accident, but the Jeomchang faction wanted me to die from shame. It’s inevitable, it’s not something that can be put off, and people don’t die of shame.

maybe.

It’s something that can be avoided anyway, so you should at least enjoy it. The man who did his best at what he set out to do was none other than Ho Cheon-an. In the end, Sagonghyeon came here to find the reason for the children’s good behavior. Then, how about having Sagonghyeon also participate in this performance?

“Mr. Since this has already come to an end, how about Zen Master joining in as well?”

“Hehehe? I’m not sure what you’re talking about.”

I sent a message to Sagonghyeon without the children hearing.

[Actually, the children say that they behaved well, but is there any way for me to know whether they behaved as good children or bad children? I guess he just said that to get a reward.]

“Hehehe. I really understand what you mean.”

[If the children stand in front of you, tell them the story of that child in a full voice.]

“Muryangsubul.”

“Now! good night! Let’s start praying today too!”

“Wow!”

“Uh-huh! You have to stand in line in order!”

The first child lined up in front of me. Originally, we did it by putting our hands together, but today we have to do it differently.

“Lower pressure.”

“Wow. It’s a confectionery.”

“It sounds delicious.”

Clearly, the fact that only sugar and sweets appear is weak. Well, since my goal today isn’t to entertain the kids, it’s probably okay. He shook his head at the child who held out his hand to receive the sweets and then put the sweets into the bowl.

The children are confused by my sudden change in behavior.

“Last night. Huye came to my dream. He got angry because some kids lied.”

The children held their breath.

“So today, the descendants will personally listen to the prayers and determine whether they are lies or not!”

Children with anxious eyes. Well, basically, there are children who honestly acted like good kids because they were told that they would be happy after eating the sweets and that they would give them more sweets if they obeyed well, but there were also those who said that they were only acting like good kids with their mouths.

I glanced at Sagonghyeon.

[Listen, that child, hmm… Now that I think about it, he broke an inkstone and ate it while playing with the kids during scripture class today.]

Submission completed.

I said, turning the bowl over.

“I guess you went to bed early today, woke up early, and worked hard at training?”

“Yes! Ronin!”

“You probably didn’t get into trouble or do anything bad today, right?”

“…Uh…ah, no.”

“Hmm! good night! If I had lied, my descendants would have taken away the fruit!”

And then I lifted the bowl.

Of course, there was no party.

“Hehe…this guy! How dare you lie in front of your descendants!”

“Ugh..! I was wrong!”

“Can’t you tell your descendants your sins right now!”

Seeing his scared face with tears in his eyes made me feel a little weak, but I guess this is discipline.

“Today, while playing around during scripture class, I broke the inkstone and ate it! And I hid the broken inkstone in my locker and pretended not to notice!”

“Again!”

“ tickled his friends’ feet!”

“Ahh! Yesterday you were the culprit!”

“The day before yesterday too! It was you?!”

As if it was a habitual law, the children of the victims immediately became noisy. I paid no mind to the noise in the outfield and spoke to the child.

“Hehehe…what are you doing! Hurry up and pray for forgiveness to your descendant!”

“Hi…Descendant. Sniff. I was wrong.”

The guy suddenly shed tears and snot as if he was scared by the situation. I glanced at Sagonghyeon. I think it would be best to nod slightly.

“Good!”

Immediately after turning the bowl over, put your hands together in an exaggerated motion.

“Open the bowl.”

The child, who was wiping away snot and tears with his sleeve, carefully turned the bowl over. It contained sweets that clearly should not have been there.

“Oh…!”

“Huye likes honest children! Because you mustered up the courage to apologize to Huye, this is a special treat from Huye!”

“Hueenn…! Thank you descendants!!”

The child named Cheonghae exited with tears streaming down his face, holding the sweets tightly.

“Next!”

The children crowding in front of me hesitated and backed away.

*** ***

“Hehehe…”

Sa Gong-hyeon looked at Ho Cheon-an, who was pulling out the scared children one by one and making them pray.

That hand, to be exact.

It was an incredibly amazing feat.

“Hehehe…I don’t know if it’s magical power, but it’s amazing.”

Without even noticing anything, I just turned the bowl over and the sugar came out and disappeared freely. Since Sagonghyeon was in the position of telling children who should be scolded and which children should not be scolded by using electric sounds, Hocheonan’s skills were all the more surprising.

It was clear that his hands had nothing on them, but when he put his hands together, the dangwa came out. It was a feat that I couldn’t tell no matter how many times I saw it, but the real story started after that. Place the confectionery in a bowl. After listening to the sound, it is then decided whether or not to give the sweets to the child.

[So Ye didn’t do anything particularly wrong. Today, he followed me around and helped me with various things.]

It is clear that rather than unfolding a number from the beginning, you just decide whether or not to unfold a number as soon as you hear it, but no matter how much I looked, I couldn’t tell the difference between the two numbers.

[Yunseong was walking around the grounds last night and threw a stone at a wild animal.]

To a good child, give the sweets without removing them. When the child who lied opened the bowl, it was empty. There was nothing suspicious about it, it was just a movement of turning over a bowl of rice, but I was amazed at how he was able to manipulate the presence or absence of sugar with just that.

Then, even though Danggwa was gone, a child appeared who did not ask for forgiveness. Seeing Ho Cheon-an winking, Master Cheongheo slightly shook his head and sent a message.

[I’m sure. A body that has reached the realm of perfection, even if it is lacking. I was watching from afar when the children were doing something that seemed dangerous.]

Last night, Yunseong threw stones at a rabbit that happened to enter the grounds. It was definitely wrong to throw a stone that could cause serious injury or even death at an animal that could easily have been driven away without throwing a stone.

“Huh, you really didn’t do anything wrong?”

“Ugh…”

“Phew. Then there is nothing we can do.”

Ho Cheon-an pretended to cover the bowl and threw it high into the sky. Everyone was startled by the sudden action and looked at the bowl floating high in the sky. Ho Cheon-an caught the fallen bowl, naturally absorbed the shock, and turned it over again.

“Open it.”

Sigongxian was truly surprised.

There was a stone in the bowl.

‘No, when?’

Surprise and wonder. Sangonghyeon was about to applaud without realizing it, but he stopped.

Of course, Sagong-hyeon was surprised, but the person who was really surprised was a child named Yun-seong.

“Ta, hiccup! Hiccup!”

“I have no way of knowing why the stone came out. Huye probably knows the reason. And you too.”

Yunseong takes the stone, shaking it with a possessed look on his face. Sagong-yeon could only laugh when she saw that.

After the performance called the prayer ceremony, the good kids were sucking on the sweets with bright faces, and the bad kids were sucking on the sweets with a downcast look. Yunseong was looking down at the stone with a tearful face.

“Guy.”

Hyukkirin squatted down in front of the child and said.

“Tell the ambassador what happened.”

“Ugh…I’m just…”

Yunseong shed tears and confessed what happened last night.

“Didn’t you think that if you threw a stone at a rabbit, it would be seriously injured or killed?”

“Sniff, slurp. I was just trying to chase you away!”

“But don’t you know that too? That it was a wrong action.”

Yunseong said nothing, and Hyuk Kirin stroked Yunseong’s head in silence. How many times did Hyuk Kirin stroke Yun Seong’s head? Yunseong spoke in a voice as loud as a mosquito.

“…wrong.”

“Yes. Well done.”

Hyeok Gi-rin took out a confectionery fruit from his pocket and handed it to Yun-seong. Yunseong looked at the sugarcane and put it into his mouth with tears streaming down his face.

Sagong-hyeon smiled happily upon seeing Hyeok-ki-rin’s actions. Indeed, Hyeok Kirin. He was a child who possessed all the virtues that a great brother should possess.

Sagonghyeon looked around at the children and fell into deep thought. The child who did something wrong is reflecting, and the child who did well is shaking his shoulders in joy at being recognized. At best, it was a big change brought about by a few pieces of Tang and Ho Tian-an’s dexterity. It’s so easy to lead children in the right direction.

“Hmm….”

Sigongxian stared at Hu Tianan and thought.

‘I guess we should talk about it.’

*** ***

“Oh….”

It seems like something big has happened.

Today, after repeating the arduous dragoon march and tearing of legs, I held on to my aching crotch, prepared a magic performance, and went out in front of the audience…

“Oh, the helper came…”

“So, is the performance starting now?”

“Didn’t you say it was a prayer meeting?”

“Eng, it doesn’t matter what happens.”

Whirlwind doggol. Zen masters, all dressed in uniforms, with neatly trimmed white hair and long beards, were waiting. When you go out into the secular world, there are people who look like people who would fall to their knees and say, “Oh my God, Shinseonnim” if just one person appeared.

What is this…?

As I froze and rolled my eyes, I saw children who were frozen just like me. I guessed the seriousness of the situation when I saw the children, who must have gritted their teeth and said they would be good kids today, sitting in rows with their military spirit raised.

Hyuk Kirin, who came out chatting with the black cat, also had wide eyes. It seemed like Hyuk Kirin was completely unaware of the situation.

I looked at Sagong-hyeon, who I presumed was the main culprit of this situation.

“Hehe, just do the same as yesterday.”

No, Master, you can set the situation like this and do the same thing as yesterday. Are you kidding me?

In a situation where Zen masters, who are obviously leading figures of the fortune-telling school, are flocking in droves and looking only at me, yes? No matter how much there is no problem, are you asking me to perform a show saying that the descendants have magical powers?

“Hehe. Do-woo seems quite surprised.”

“Hmm, I don’t even remember the last time I saw a performance like this.”

“Ignore us and start with the performance!”

“Oh, uh…I’m sorry. Let’s start right away.”

When the Zen masters said something to each other, I reflexively responded and met them. I still don’t understand what’s going on, but the Zen masters have come all the way here to watch me perform a magic trick. Anyway, I can’t just sit around and not perform in this situation…

Anyway, I started the performance half-fazed.

“Ronin! Ronin! I practiced swordsmanship hard today and ate all the bitter bellflower greens!”

“Hmm. Great!”

Judging from the fact that Sagonghyeon doesn’t make any noise, it’s clear that he’s a good kid. To be honest, my hands were shaking because of the stares, but I still succeeded in making the confectionery appear without making any mistakes.

“Wow!”

The first child that came out seemed happy to be recognized as a good child as much as the sweets, so instead of putting the sweets in his mouth right away, he ran towards the black cat and clung to the black cat, showing that he had received the sweets.

“Our blind man is a good boy!”

“Hee hee!”

The children’s attitudes were clear enough to tell whether they were good or bad children without Sagonghyeon specifically telling them. The kids who finished the day well had their shoulders full of strength, and the kids who didn’t were paying attention for some reason.

“Hmm! I praise your courage for asking for forgiveness!”

“Thank you…”

Children who look helpless even after receiving sweets.

I couldn’t see the children’s reactions. It was because the Zen masters were chatting amongst themselves after watching my magic performance. They even put on a shameful display and were watching my actions closely, whispering something or observing the children.

A lot of cold sweat is running down my back!

“Hyuk, please watch the children’s bedtime. We need to talk to Do-nim for a moment.”

“No…Master…”

“Hehe, we just talk. Do we even want to catch and eat something?”

Hyeok Kirin, who had been pushed out of the way, led the children and disappeared with a dull complexion. And the Zen masters started to surround me.

“Um…the teachers?”

“Hehehehe…yeah. I don’t think that’s the only talent you have, so could you explain it to me?”

“Uh…really?”

I lightly played Yabawi using a glass.

“Huh…did you see it?”

“No? Didn’t you see it?”

“The internal performance is absolutely top-notch, but how is this possible?”

“Is it possible one more time?”

A situation in which 11 experts, all of average level, are glaring at me with their internal skills raised! Even if it wasn’t someone who would harm me, it was still scary.

Someone please save me.

I screamed inwardly and quickly tried to spread the rock with my hands one more time.

“Keu…”

“It’s not easy.”

“Good. First, can you show me some of your other skills?”

That’s how I got to demonstrate a few golpae tricks. Half of the sailors have a competitive spirit, and half of them just enjoy it as a performance. It took a long time for the group to perform while receiving attention divided between the two groups.

“Hmm…Okay, I enjoyed it.”

“Yes… I apologize for messing up your eyes with my poor skills.”

“It’s not an insignificant talent, but it’s true that it deceived the eyes. Hehehe.”

Only then did the Zen master, who was leading among the Zen masters, introduce himself.

“My name is Youngyul. Yes, it is late, so let me be blunt. I am very impressed with your skill with children. So that’s it. Could you tell us about your skills? I will pay you a generous price.”

A completely unexpected proposal popped up.

Are you saying that you want to buy my gambling skills… or magic skills from the fortune teller?