< Episode 114: Ghost Sword (4) >
-Quad!
“Turn it off.”
As he twisted the intangible sword that was digging into his collarbone, a groan came out of the ghost sword’s mouth.
I thought I was used to and could endure a certain amount of pain, but this, like the essence of the sword, caused indescribable pain.
Mok Gyeong-un spoke to him in a cruel voice.
“I know at least that Mokgan, the head of the secret society, is on guard against all things prophecy and incarnation. That’s probably why they were targeting the grandfather who is said to have stolen Hwasin.”
To these words, the demon sword frowned and responded.
“ha······. ha······. “As an incarnation, I have not realized or awakened, but I have discovered a lot.”
“I was awakening earlier. Are you talking about the guy inside me?”
“If you are so aware of yourself, how come you haven’t awakened yet?”
Rather, the ghost sword asked back.
At this, Mok Kyung-un snorted and said.
“I don’t know what’s inside me, but I am different from it.”
“Someone else?”
“okay.”
The ghost sword also snorted at Mo Kyung-un’s answer.
“If it had been something else that had nothing to do with you, do you think your grandfather, or rather Haeyoung Yakseon, would have risked everything he had to protect you?”
“······.”
Mok Gyeong-un closed his mouth with a cold look in his eyes as he heard those words that seemed like a murderer with impunity.
That was one of the questions I had as I got closer to the truth.
Was it because of the prophecy given by the Seonghwa of Baehwagyo that my grandfather raised me?
If it weren’t for that, wouldn’t my grandfather have died so miserably?
Did it all come from you?
So was it like that?
“······What on earth am I?”
“haha······. What a meaningless question. “Isn’t this the truth that you would naturally know if you realized and awakened yourself as an incarnation?”
-closely!
“I am······. “It’s just me.”
Mok Gyeong-un strongly denied the existence within himself.
In response to Mokyungun’s reaction, the ghost stuck out his tongue and muttered.
“You really kept your word. Haeyeong Yakseon.”
“What did you say just now?”
Mu Qingyun plunged the intangible sword deeper and twisted the body of the sword.
-Quad!
“Turn it off. Do it appropriately… hehe… Even if it’s not like this… “I also planned to continue the conversation.”
“okay? If you do, tell me. “What do you mean you protected it?”
“Don’t you…know it too.”
“You sound the same. “I am just me and an incarnation…”
“no. You are the incarnation. However, Haeyeong Yakseon tried to make you into a perfect human being.”
“what?”
Mo Gyeong-un couldn’t help but feel puzzled.
What is this sound?
Are you trying to raise me to be a perfect human being?
“truth······. If you are close to the truth, you would know that he is an outstanding martial arts expert, right?”
“······okay.”
Haeyeong Yakseon Jang Mun-no.
Although it is not well known to the people of Jungwon, he was a super expert who received the teachings of Yeonjongjong of Hwacheon Doksu (花千毒手), a branch of the Sacheondang family and the head of the Jeonjeon Dynasty family.
Mok Gyeong-un also did not know this truth even until after his death.
I was able to get closer to my grandfather’s truth by going through the Cheonjihoe, the Imperial Palace, and the Four Heavenly Tang Houses.
But even though he knew so much, there was still a gap in the truth about his grandfather, Hwasin, and himself.
“What does hiding martial arts have to do with that?”
“You think it won’t matter? In Baehwagyo, you, the incarnation, are revered as a divine being and are praised as having two sides of the same coin, Spenta (good god) and Ahriman, that is, Angra (evil god), but your root is the devil.”
“Demon?”
“okay. It’s a devil. A being that everyone should fear and revere… That’s who you are.”
Hearing the ghost sword’s words, Mo Gyeong-un’s expression became strange.
[Cluck, cough, cough… Make a promise.]
[What do you mean?]
[Never lose your true nature… I won’t reveal it…]
original nature.
My grandfather said I had a dark side inside me.
All humans have that side, but since I didn’t interact with people, I felt I couldn’t control it even more.
That’s why I always taught him to suppress that nature.
While his grandfather was alive, he tried to protect it, but after his death, he realized that his true nature was never good.
Mok Gyeong-un viewed this simply as suppressing people from committing evil deeds even if they could not do good deeds.
But that’s not the reason?
Gwigeom took a deep breath and spoke to the silent Mok Gyeong-un.
“In the hideout you were in, there was only miscellaneous books related to medicinal herbs and books on etiquette, righteousness, and justice. Haeyeong Yakseon Jang Mun-no made you distance yourself from everything so that you could never awaken as an Avatar.”
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“······.”
“At first, I thought it was just to secretly protect you. “He thought it was to avoid detection until conditions were in place to restore his strength.”
“Regain your strength?”
“okay······. As Seonghwa predicted, you, the Avatar, have lost all your former strength. So I thought that Haeyoung Yakseon’s decision was because of that. But that wasn’t it. He really intended to raise you as a human being.”
“If you do it, isn’t it something you should be thankful for?”
“thanks?”
“okay. Didn’t the Secret Love Affair change the prophecy because they were afraid of the Avatar? “Then doesn’t that mean he has less to worry about?”
“worry······. That would ease his worries. “What I need is your awakened presence.”
“Am I awakened?”
“Didn’t you say it with your own mouth? They say they are afraid of Avatar. Mokgan is afraid of your very existence.”
“But you’re saying things didn’t go your way because of your grandfather?”
“I don’t know.”
“what?”
“It is unknown whether it was Haeyoung Yakseon’s will to raise you to the end as a human being or whether it was your own will.”
“······What does that mean?”
In response to Mok Gyeong-un’s incomprehensible response, the ghost sword responded with a deep sigh.
“Although Haeyoung Yakseon possessed excellent medical skills, he did not have the power to implant or create a being like you in humans.”
“······.”
“I don’t know if it was to protect yourself from your archenemies or if you had some other will, but it was entirely your choice to degenerate and become a human. avatar.”
‘!?’
I chose it?
No, doesn’t this mean that the being inside me chose to become myself?
Mok Gyeong-un denied this as if it was hard to believe.
“How can you be sure that the incarnation is a human being, that is, me?”
The ghost sword answered this question in a meaningful voice.
“Your appearance is the proof.”
“What does it look like?”
“okay. You may not have met them yet, but there is someone with the exact same face as you. If you find it hard to believe, look for a place called Yeonmok Geomjang. “You will be able to see the being that you used as a model as a human being…”
-closely!
Before he could finish his sentence, Mok Kyung-un pressed down hard on his collar with wide eyes.
He has the same face on the softwood sword?
For the first time, Mo Qingyun could not help but show an emotional reaction.
I thought it was just coincidence and coincidence.
Since there were so many people in the world, I thought that by coincidence, they had almost similar faces.
However, my mind became complicated after hearing the ghost sword’s words.
This isn’t a coincidence?
Mo Kyung-un asked, pressing down on him by the collar.
“Seventeen years ago… No, it was eighteen years ago. How do you know that?”
“······Because I saw it with my own two eyes.”
‘!?’
* * *
Yongmun, Guangdong Province.
[Oops!]
The ghost sword, who had subdued the wood sword leader Jangju Mokindan who was blocking him in just one bite, looked down indifferently at the man who was begging and holding on to the hem of his pants.
[yet······. Still a baby. please······. Please… save me.]
-Park!
The demon sword that knocked him unconscious approached the broken carriage.
It had to be this place.
I have followed the traces of the incarnation and its presence is here.
-Purrrrr!
The demon sword touched the closed eyelids on his forehead with trembling hands.
The thing was still asleep and he was in control.
I had to hurry before that.
-wah wah!
But why can I only hear crying inside?
In response, the ghost sword opened the broken carriage door with eyes full of broken doubt.
But there,
‘What is this?’
Two identical babies, who looked like twins, were lying next to their mother, who was bleeding and unconscious.
The ghost sword could not help but feel puzzled.
Clearly, the energy of chaos that was felt from Hwa-sin is evident here.
But why is there no Avatar, but a mother and two twin babies…?
‘!?’
At that time, the ghost sword looked at the twins and the floor where they were lying.
There were sticky, black pieces falling on the floor.
I could feel the residual energy in these.
‘no way?’
The ghost sword stared at the two babies.
Then, he placed his finger on the chest of one of the crying babies.
[There is something called a nucleus in Hwashin. In human terms, it can be said to be like the heart and the source of strength.]
I definitely said that.
Then, if his guess was correct, there might be an Avatar among them.
Since he must have become extremely weak, he may have changed to deceive his existence.
– Excited! Exciting!
A small heartbeat.
It wasn’t this kid.
In that case, this kid next to me must be Hwa-shin.
The demon sword placed its palm on its chest and tried to sense its energy.
however,
‘Unbelievable?’
This baby also had a small, beating heart, but there was no nucleus, which could be said to be the source of incarnation.
What on earth is going on?
He must be hiding here, but I don’t know what’s going on.
Neither of them had a nucleus and were just ordinary humans.
‘Damn it.’
It was extremely embarrassing.
He says he’s still in control, but it won’t be long before he wakes up again.
Before that, we have to find out who’s real, but what?
‘······.’
Wouldn’t it be better to take them both and take a look?
If they were to take one of them carelessly, there was no way to know where to hide them.
I don’t have time, so how can I find out?
After thinking for a moment, the ghost sword took out something from its chest.
It was a wooden box covered with amulets.
[Take this with you.]
It was handed over to him by Bi-seon, the head of Cheonjihoe at the time.
[This?]
[This is Wolmaek’s secret letter.]
[Wolmaek’s Secret Book? If you do that…]
[I see.]
[But how about this?]
[If what we know is clear, we might be able to persuade Hwashin with this.]
Inside this wooden box was Wolmaek’s secret letter.
If this was kept close, the Avatar itself might reveal its true form.
however,
– Thick!
I had a headache and my forehead hurt.
It was a sign that the thing was about to wake up.
Why are you trying to wake up now?
The ghost sword, who was looking at the two identical twin-like babies, soon held their foreheads and struggled to get out of the carriage.
There, I saw Jangju Mokindan, the Yeonmok Swordmaster who had been knocked out, staggering to his feet.
Although I didn’t hit it hard, it seems like I studied a lot of internal skills.
[haha······. Ah…what happened to the baby and her…?]
The ghost sword that was staring at him asked.
[Is there only one baby? Two?]
[Wha…what are you talking about? Two babies?]
At these words, the demon sword closed its mouth.
As expected, his judgment was right.
Among those babies, there was a true incarnation.
But now that he was about to wake up, there was no time for him.
Therefore,
-widely!
The ghost sword threw him a wooden box covered in amulets.
Mokindan suddenly accepted this and made an expression of incomprehension.
The ghost sword spoke to him.
[There is someone I was chasing, but I think I made a mistake. Give it to me instead.]
[This?]
[It is one of the secret books of the Heaven and Earth Council.]
[what? Secretary of the Heaven and Earth Council? How can I do this…]
-Sureuk!
The demon sword that appeared behind Mokindan, who was embarrassed by the word that he was the secretary of the Heaven and Earth Association, a huge organization that divided the martial arts world into three parts, kicked his ankle.
-thud!
[Pfft!]
The ghost sword, looking at him who had fallen sideways, immediately drew its sword and,
-Sreung!
-Ch-ch-ch-ch-chak!
The sword cut a wound on his side as he fell.
But the scars looked like marks.
The ghost sword that left this spoke in a warning tone to the chieftain of the Yeonmok Sword, Mokindan.
[Remember the mark of this wound.]
[Mark?]
[If the person who knows or engraved this mark approaches in the near future, he will have to say that he knows nothing.]
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