Side story episode 4. Cross of Destiny (4)
The next night.
“Oh my, is the Lord Tao here?”
Sogong’s office was quite desolate. It didn’t have as many documents as Doheon’s office, and it wasn’t filled with art either.
Doheon looked down at the table.
There were steaming hot meat dishes and several bottles of alcohol on the table.
“Did someone plant it?”
“huh? What are you talking about?”
“I asked if anyone was planted in the main unit. “I was wondering how they knew exactly how to prepare a drinking bar.”
Sogong chuckled.
“You said you would come visit me in person? “I said I’d buy you a drink.”
“How did you know you would come at this hour?”
“You should ask yourself that. “A man who always guards his working hours like a sword is a trivial thing to say.”
Doheon smiled bitterly.
Sogong pointed to the chair with his hand.
“Sit down.”
“Sure.”
Two people sitting across from each other.
Sogong said as he filled Doheon’s cup.
“Welcome to hell.”
“hmm?”
“The will to live a challenging life is overflowing from your eyes.”
Doheon burst out laughing.
“You’re really perceptive.”
“It’s not that I’m quick-witted, it’s that you’re easy to understand. “It is difficult to find someone as honest as you in our school.”
“I guess I was that bad at managing my facial expressions.”
“Good job. “Limited to people who are not close to me.”
Doheon, who was looking at Sogong quietly, filled his glass.
“Do you think I feel comfortable with you?”
“I believe so.”
“You’re naive.”
“Don’t look out of place.”
In the end, Doheon also burst into laughter.
Sogong held out his glass.
“Pour a drink first.”
Sigh!
The porcelain glasses clinked together and made a clear sound.
The faces of the two people who emptied their glasses looked quite relaxed.
Sogong said as he picked up the meat and ate it.
“It must be difficult to manage your facial expressions and all. “Especially a strong person like you.”
Doheon asked with a serious face.
“Can I ask you one question?”
“You can ask ten or twenty questions. Oh, not twenty-one.”
“… … .”
“My jokes don’t always work. “Don’t stare at me like that.”
The look in Doheon’s eyes as he quietly looked at Sogong was unusual.
“Who are you?”
Sogong answered as he poured himself a glass.
“Dark Demon Lord Sogong. “Why are you asking what you know?”
“What you said to me.”
“… … .”
“It made me think a lot. I am both grateful and sorry to you. but… … .”
“… … .”
“It is also something that cannot be said rashly.”
Sogong emptied his glass without saying a word.
Doheon did not look away from Sogong. He didn’t ask any more. I just waited for him to open his mouth.
After a while.
“Wow, the alcohol is really strong. “I’m already feeling drunk.”
Sogong, who was comfortably seated in a chair, looked at Doheon with a smile.
“I waited.”
“what?”
“I hope you fall.”
“… … “Collapse?”
“Do you remember what I said? Your vision is very narrow. “You are a man who acts as a gentleman only within the areas you can handle.”
“Yes, I remember.”
“I meant it.”
“Ah yes.”
“It was sincere, but it was also harsh. How many people in the Protestant religion of the time would live by observing all the things that you have to observe? “It stayed in my mind because it was such a harsh way to push a person like that.”
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Doheon shook his head.
“That’s not what I was hoping for.”
“Yui-san, you didn’t send that guy to the penal court.”
“… … .”
“I know it wasn’t your doing. “Either the crew did it, or your fox-like lieutenant took precautions.”
“… … .”
“Whatever it was, you accepted the measure. “If it were you before, you wouldn’t have dared to imagine it.”
Doheon’s eyes deepened.
Sogong closed his eyes.
“There are people other than you who are upright. But of all the people I know and the people I have ever known, you were the best. So I hoped you would fall apart. “I hoped you would feel desperate and doubt your own principles.”
“… … !”
“There is nothing more ridiculous than telling someone who doesn’t realize it himself to join him. “It’s also dangerous.”
Doheon’s eyes lit up.
“Let’s be together…” … Then what do you want… … .”
“Did you ask who I was?”
“… … .”
“I am just me. However, I don’t want to remain as the dark demon lord I am now.”
“What do you mean?”
Sogong opened his eyes.
Doheon was inwardly surprised. Sogong’s eyes, which were looking at him, were burning with a strong will unlike usual.
“I want to become the dark demon lord of the new era.”
“… … !”
“No, it doesn’t matter if you are just a member, not a leader. “It’s okay to be a worker without any position.”
“So Daju.”
“The world ruled by the current religious leader is wrong, but it is also wrong.”
“… … .”
“I think Jo Baek-cheon and everyone who was influenced by him should disappear.”
Doheon’s eyes trembled slightly.
As before, Sogong’s remarks were truly dangerous. This is a remark that has nothing to say even if someone hears it and is immediately dragged to death for treason.
however.
“Since when?”
“huh?”
“Since when did you start thinking like that?”
Sogong smiled.
“It’s been quite a while. “I don’t remember exactly.”
“You’re lying.”
“… … “Do you notice it?”
“okay.”
“Haha, it doesn’t matter when or why you had that thought.”
“He is like that too.”
Doheon picked up the bottle to fill his glass.
Sogong suddenly tilted his upper body and snatched the liquor bottle.
“I’ll follow you.”
Doheon asked as he watched the alcohol slowly rise.
“So what do you plan to do?”
Sogong, who filled Doheon’s cup, filled his own.
“You have to wait for the right time.”
“When?”
“I don’t know. But when the time comes, everyone will know. “Now is the moment.”
“… … .”
“I just endure it again and again for that one moment.”
“You won’t be alone.”
Sogong said with a smile.
“Would a timid person like me have tried to do this big thing alone?”
“Who are you with?”
“I’ll tell you about that later.”
“why? “Because you don’t trust me?”
“If I didn’t trust you, I wouldn’t be here in the first place.”
“… … .”
“I didn’t even tell you that I would be with you there yet. Isn’t there an order to things? “After contacting them, I will slowly and carefully arrange a meeting.”
Everyone knew that the current Protestant religion was wrong.
However, in the meantime, there are not many people who come up with the idea of overturning Protestantism. Even Doheon wouldn’t have dared to think like that right now.
In other words, if even a little bit of this leaks out, the entire Protestant Church will be turned upside down.
That’s essentially what counterjeong (反正) is.
“Anyway, thank you.”
“What do you mean?”
Sogong raised his glass.
“Regardless of your abilities, I really wanted to be with you.”
“Why?”
“Because I don’t want to kill my friend.”
“… … .”
“When the time comes, don’t you think your personality will make you want to confront us?”
“… … Right.”
“Whether I die by your hands or you die by my hands, I don’t like such a tragedy.”
Doheon sighed softly.
“Honestly, I don’t know. I’m still dizzy. I decided… … This decision… … .”
“know.”
“… … .”
“know.”
Doheon, who was quietly watching Sogong, smiled and raised his glass.
“I was just complaining pointlessly to my senior.”
Sogong clinked his glass and laughed.
“From now on, please always call me senior in private.”
“Don’t be funny.”
The two people burst into laughter and emptied their glasses.
Whatever it was, Doheon felt much more at ease. Although he was unwavering in his decision, he couldn’t help but feel uneasy in a corner of his heart.
It was a good thing I had this drinking party. Doheon truly thought so.
“But.”
Doheon raised his glass.
Sogong quickly filled his glass.
“What did he do?”
“who? Oh, that guy named Yuisang?”
“okay.”
Sogong scratched his head.
“For now, I’m undergoing treatment. “I’m so low on energy that I can’t even lift a finger.”
“Did you accept treatment obediently?”
“I know? I thought they would struggle to kill him, but he managed to get treatment without any fuss. “It doesn’t seem like he’s holding back because he doesn’t want to die, and he seems to have made some kind of decision.”
“… … hmm.”
Doheon nodded and slowly filled Sogong’s cup.
Sogong asked as if throwing a question.
“What about him?”
“hmm?”
“The bane of the upper world.”
Doheon’s eyes changed.
“He was a unique guy.”
“yes? He was such a strange guy. It’s normal for anyone to be trembled if they’re captured by the infamous Heavenly Demon Church, but instead of being afraid, they even seem amazed?”
“Did you find it fascinating?”
Sogong shrugged his shoulders.
“That’s just the way it is. “He’s such an insensitive guy, isn’t he?”
Doheon shook his head.
“As you said, it’s not that you’re callous, it’s that you’re insensitive. “It didn’t feel like I was talking to a person.”
“I guess so.”
“… … huh?”
Doheon tilted his head.
“I guess so? “Do you know anything about him?”
“Is that possible? “This is the first one I saw at Iga Sangdan.”
“But how can you answer as if it’s obvious?”
Su Gong’s face became serious.
“Jungdanjeon (中丹田) was strange.”
“Before the break?”
If the lower tian is strong, the body is strong, and if the upper tian is open, spiritual power develops, and one may see ghosts or gain extrasensory sensations, and if twisted incorrectly, one may go crazy.
So what is mid-term warfare?
The middle and middle battle is the root of all five passions. When the middle and middle circuits are corrected, the five organs and six organs are protected and it is easier to control emotions. That is how Taoism sees it.
“As you know, a person’s mind is not necessarily affected by mid- and mid-term warfare.”
“yes. “Sometimes there is a problem in the bottom game and it affects the top game, and sometimes the middle and middle games are crushed due to problems in the top game.”
“okay. So the samdanjeon is organic. But… … .”
Su Gong frowned.
“That guy’s middle and high school is strangely empty.”
“It’s empty?”
“Even though it seems like he has never learned any internal skills, the lower level combat is open, and surprisingly, the upper level combat is more developed than necessary. But the middle and middle games were empty.”
“… … ?!”
A look of disbelief appeared on Doheon’s face.
“Does that make sense?”
“So, that’s right. “I have no idea what happened to the body I ate.”
“… … .”
Doheon touched the glass.
“The middle hall is empty, but the upper hall is awake… … “I know that such cases are extremely rare.”
To someone who does not know martial arts, the concept of Danjeon itself will be ambiguous. Depending on the region, some believe that the Danjeon is open from the time a person is born, while others say that it can only be opened through acquired effort.
Sogong’s statement that ‘Jungdanjeon was empty’ was something seen from the perspective of martial arts.
However, martial arts is directly connected to life. The fact that the middle and middle walls were empty meant that the emotions that humans should feel were absent.
“Did you confirm it with your inner energy?”
“of course.”
“I can’t believe it.”
Sogong shrugged his shoulders.
“Whatever it is, I’m not an ordinary guy. “Take care of it yourself.”
“Okay… … .”
Doheon paused for a moment and looked at Sogong.
Sogong tilted his head.
“why?”
“Does telling me to take care of it mean that I should at least raise him as a disciple?”
“What does a disciple mean to unit commanders like us? “You don’t have time for that.”
“… … .”
“If you think it will be useful, try growing it. “If it’s bothersome, you can throw it away somewhere.”
“… … Hmm.”
“but.”
Sogong stroked his chin.
He had a very serious face. Certainly, Sogong showed many different sides today.
“This guy is too good to just throw away.”
“It’s such a waste for a monster that can’t feel emotions.”
“Is it possible for a human being to not feel emotions? Maybe they just don’t know how to feel. “I said the middle and middle battles were empty, I didn’t say they weren’t there.”
“… … .”
“He even said he returned part of the favor by doing his adoptive father’s favor.”
“That’s nonsense.”
“Common sense says yes. But at least he understands the concept of benevolence, right?”
“… … .”
“I feel no guilt or pity. “But there are principles.”
Sogong smiled.
“If you raise him well, he might become a more loyal subordinate than anyone else, right?”
Doheon chuckled.
“You want to raise a guy at that age who has never even learned martial arts? “Even if you’re a genius, it’s too late if you start now.”
“Wouldn’t it be different if it were Beomjae, where the lower and upper sections are open?”
“… … Hmm.”
“Take care of it. But I think it’s a bit of a waste. “Where else can you see such a unique guy?”
“Then why don’t you raise it yourself?”
Sogong was fed up.
“I don’t like people who don’t talk much.”
“That’s really your reason. Okay, let’s have a drink.”
“Khaat! “Is that so?”
The two people laughed and clinked their glasses.
As he emptied his glass, Doheon thought.
‘Let’s grow it… … ?’
martial arts,
