episode_0162

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– Tweet

Dawn began to break with the sound of birds chirping.

“Ah… I’m sleepy.”

In-ho, who had become Soyou’s exclusive wife for one night, rubbed his puffy eyes a few times due to lack of sleep.

Then, he looked to the side with an aggrieved face.

“……”

Next to him was Namgung Soyu, who was sleeping soundly and making loud noises.

He looked fine, as if it were a lie that he had been sick for three days.

I don’t know if she was resilient or if all martial people were resilient, but either way, it was an amazing thing.

“…I should eat breakfast and then go to work.”

Inho moved on tiptoe, fearing that his teacher might wake up.

– Druk.

“Where are you going?”

When the outside air came in through the slightly open door, Namgung Soyu, who had been sleeping just a moment ago, opened her eyes and spoke to him.

Inho’s ghost-like reaction speed sent shivers down his spine, but he looked back at his teacher with an innocent expression.

“I have to eat breakfast. Master, would you like some too?”

“Okay. Let’s eat.”

Soyu said that and stood up.

Inho tilted his head at that sight.

“I’ll bring it to you. Please lie down a little longer.”

“I don’t like it. Let’s go together.”

Namgung Soyou said as he went out the door first.

Inho took out some leftover potatoes from the kitchen that he had steamed the day before and placed them in a rough wooden bowl.

He tried to make potato porridge for his teacher, but Soyou declined, saying it was okay.

After returning to the room, Inho tidied up the bedding and took out a small table.

He ran his hand across the table and placed a bowl of potatoes on it.

“Eat.”

“I will eat well.”

Although it was a simple breakfast, no one in the room complained.

This is because when camping, we often ate more humble meals than this.

“So what are you going to do today?”

Soyou took a small bite of a potato and asked Inho.

“As I said yesterday….”

He blurted out his words as he looked at Soyou’s gaze.

“Going to the market?”

Soyou’s eyes shone sharply.

“Yes….”

He flinched at the creepy look in his eyes, but his intentions did not change.

“I already said I would do it. ‘If you are a martial artist, you must keep faith.’ That’s what my teacher used to say.”

When his teacher showed discomfort with his answer, he quickly added.

Soyou was not happy that Inho was talking back to him, but he couldn’t say anything because it was what he usually said.

She doesn’t care about things like that, just stay by my side! I wanted to say that.

“Hmm….”

While eating a few potatoes, Soyou didn’t say anything else.

However, he often expressed his unpleasant feelings by clicking his tongue or lightly hitting the table.

Of course, Inho was not one to bend his opinion on such things.

After breakfast, he changed his clothes to go to the market.

“Are you going?”

Soyou asked from behind him as he put on his shoes.

“Yes. Let’s go quickly.”

Afraid of catching it, he quickly put on his shoes.

“Wait.”

As he was about to leave the house, Soyou’s voice grabbed him by the back of his neck.

“Yes?”

He turned his head to see what else he was going to say, and before he knew it, Soyou, who had changed into going out clothes, was standing in front of him.

“I’ll follow you too.”

His teacher spoke without any change in his complexion.

“It’s not like you’re going to deliver it together. Where will you be?”

“I’ll wait at a reasonably high place.”

“You were sick until yesterday. It can’t come out like this. You need to calm down.”

“I know my physical condition well. You have nothing to argue with.”

She followed Inho and put on her shoes.

“Master!”

Feeling frustrated, Inho grabbed both of her shoulders and spoke strongly, and Soyou twisted her hair with one hand and muttered.

“Well, is this really not possible?”

Seeing Soyou looking up at him with a pitiful expression, Inho let out a long sigh.

‘That expression… it’s against the rules.’

It was not easy to reject a request made with the face of a puppy abandoned by its mother.

***

The market has already been open for a long time.

Soyou, who had been following Inho about 10 steps behind, disappeared with the words, ‘I will watch.’

“Why on earth are you erasing your presence?”

Inho grumbled and went to the place he was guided to yesterday.

The person who introduced him to the delivery job gave him a map and told him the locations of the stores.

Since Inho couldn’t read anyway, he used a small brush to write in Korean on the map.

“Now, put on this belt. If you walk around with this on your arm, merchants will recognize you and call you.”

Inho was handed a yellow belt.

Inho walked around the market, watching the merchants bustling about and people passing through the narrow passages.

There were a few people like In-ho who wore yellow belts and moved around.

“Hey there~”

Just as I was wondering when the nomination would come, someone called Inho and stopped him.

“Ah, yes. How can I help you?”

“Take this to the blacksmith shop inside. It’s heavy so be careful.”

A mustachioed merchant handed him a sack full of metal fittings.

“Yes, I understand.”

Inho lifted the sack without much effort and draped it over his shoulder.

“Uh…?”

The merchant’s eyes widened when he saw that an adult man was barely able to lift a sack.

“I’ll be back.”

Inho ran down the road as quickly as possible.

The story that there was a delivery man who was good at his job soon spread throughout the market.

There is a story that he is so powerful that he can carry in one go an amount that would take other deliverymen back and forth two or three times, and he is so fast that even if he is sent far away, he returns quickly.

Merchants began to take interest in the sudden appearance of delivery men, and this also applied to village girls.

“Oh my, it looks like that person.”

The village women who were watching the market in groups of twos and threes lowered their voices when they saw In-ho carrying luggage with a pretty face.

“Your face doesn’t look like that of someone who would do a delivery job.”

Someone commented on his face.

“Look at the tendons on my arm….”

Someone spoke as if possessed.

“Wipe your spit, you guys. Hey~ yo. The delivery person going there~”

A woman who seemed to be the leader of the group giggled and called Inho.

Hearing the sound calling him, Inho turned and approached the village girls.

Every time he takes a step closer, the group shouts, ‘Ouch! ‘It’s coming, it’s coming.’ The same thing came out.

“Yes, do you have something to deliver?”

When Inho asked, wiping the sweat from his forehead, the leader of the group smiled and said.

“Yes~ I have one. Does anyone deliver it too?”

“A person?”

Who are you? When he asked, feeling like this, the woman lifted her foot slightly and said.

“Ah~ I have a sprained leg. It’s so hard to walk, but if you carry me to the front over there, I’ll pay for it.”

The woman pointed to a clearing with a small tree.

“Hmm… But carrying the woman I saw for the first time today…”

“Hey, what do you think? You don’t really have any ‘selfishness’, right?”

After saying this, they laugh amongst themselves.

Inho sensed that someone was making fun of him, but he didn’t show any discomfort.

It was because I couldn’t just do things according to my nature and have my work cut out for me.

The woman seemed to be really planning to get on her back, so she took out four coins from her pocket and showed them to him.

“Okay, I think this is enough for the price.”

4 coins in just 20 steps. Inho hesitated.

‘Ah… I do need money.’

However, he couldn’t help but feel that Soyou was watching him from somewhere.

In-ho thought for a moment about whether it was lack of finances or excessive ownership.

And his choice was, of course, the former.

‘I can’t make Master angry because of money.’

It was when In-ho decided to refuse and opened his mouth.

“Hey, you bastard. Where did this guy who got away with stealing someone else’s work?”

A man suddenly approached and grabbed Inho by the collar.

“Hey, teacher. Why are you like this? Say it with words. With words.”

“What? Will this hold up? Can this hold up?”

The man who grabbed Inho by the collar tried to push him down with a rough force, but Inho did not budge.

The stocky, thick-haired man snorted and put pressure on In-ho, as if he was angry.

Of course, it was pressure that did no harm to Inho.

“Are you delivering to someone else’s territory without any business ethics? Where are you from? Ugh!”

“Don’t do this!”

The village girls standing next to him tried to stop the fight, but he paid no attention.

“First, let’s talk about this.”

He could have beaten his opponent right away, but In-ho decided to let things go in a good way.

“What? Let’s talk about it? The little bastard!”

The man slapped Inho’s cheek.

And immediately, the man disappeared before Inho’s eyes.

“Huh?”

Inho, who was thinking of showing off his skills a little in return for the cheek, blinked and looked around as the man in front of him disappeared.

Not only Inho, but everyone who watched this scene looked the same.

“Aaaah!!”

The first person to understand the situation was the woman who suggested delivery to In-ho.

She screamed, pointing to the place she had asked In-ho to take her to.

There, a woman was hitting a man.

– Boom! puck! puck!

The sounds of flesh being crushed and bones breaking were clearly audible.

“I don’t even know the topic.”

“Dare. To my student.”

“Hands on?”

A familiar voice entered Inho’s ears.

Suppressing his heart pounding due to anxiety, Inho slowly moved his legs.

Even as he got closer, the woman did not stop beating the man.

“Su… Seungnim?”

When In-ho narrowed the distance to a reasonable distance and opened his mouth, the body of the woman he was beating stopped.

“……”

A woman slowly turns around.

“Inho. I scolded the guy who was harassing you.”

Smiling brightly, the teacher made eye contact with him.

“Didn’t I do well? Hurry up and praise me.”