The 126th will fight with liveliness.
Seo Dae-ryong was embarrassed when the woman approached.
“Huh? They’re coming towards us?”
“See, that’s right.”
“I beckoned for you to come, so you’ll come. You’ll come and do that. Why did you call me? Right? Then you should answer like this. I called you here to tease this guy.”
As the woman came closer, Seo Dae-ryong’s eyes widened and his mouth opened wider. She was wearing cotton, which made her look even more mysterious. In Seo Dae-ryong’s eyes, she looked like a fairy descending from the sky.
Of course it was Ian. She came up to the two of them and stopped.
The swordsman said to Ian.
“I said I came with you, but you don’t believe me.”
Then Ian smiled and said to Seo Dae-ryong.
“Are you Inspector Seo? I’ve heard a lot from you.”
Ian spoke, disguising his original voice.
When the woman recognized him, Seo Dae-ryong was surprised and sent a message to Geommu-geuk.
-How do you know me?
-Because I said so.
―How? Why? You never once said that you knew such a beauty. You must have bragged about your personality, Lord! You have a good heart, and a good right arm, but I have the prettiest face!
While Seo Dae-ryong was busy sending me messages, Ian smiled and said.
“You are the right-hand man of the master?”
In that moment, an unspeakable joy welled up on Seo Dae-ryong’s face. Isn’t this right-hand man position truly a precious and great position that many people are aiming for?
“Child, why did you say all that?”
Even though he was embarrassed, Seo Dae-ryong’s shoulders were rising to the sky.
“You even told me this?”
“What kind of thing?”
“A man with a ruthless personality who is power-oriented, but who only loves one woman, a rebel who raises his hand when everyone else is silent, a pacifist, and a man who makes decisions that change his life over a drink at a guesthouse?”
Seo Dae-ryong was shocked. The beauty in front of him was reciting exactly the same words he had joked about in the past. Seo Dae-ryong looked at Geommu-geuk with a dumbfounded expression.
“You explained it in great detail.”
“I also heard that you regularly have drinking parties.”
“Even saying that?”
Seo Dae-ryong was embarrassed. This beauty knew too much about him.
‘Why did the lord speak in such detail about me?’
It didn’t bother me though. How could it be unpleasant for a beauty you might only see once in your life to know so much about you?
He was usually confident. If someone used a beauty trick on him, he would never get caught. What’s important is the heart, what’s important is the appearance? That was the mindset he had lived by. This was even more true in the martial arts world, where people used the red face technique to lie about their age and suck the life out of their opponents.
But when I looked at the woman in front of me, I thought that if this kind of woman really set her mind to seducing me, it wouldn’t be easy to refuse. Even though she had nothing to do with me, I felt like I wanted to look good for no reason.
“Don’t you have any drinking parties these days?”
“One person was missing, so it was put on hold for a while.”
Seo Dae-ryong asked Geommu-geuk, “Oh no!” belatedly.
“Ah! What about this unmanned vehicle?”
“You ask so quickly.”
The swordsman soon took on a gloomy expression.
“I won’t be able to see you anymore.”
For a moment, Seo Dae-ryong was startled.
“why?”
“… … .”
“No way? Is something wrong?”
“if there is?”
“Why are you doing this? It’s not funny. You might get hurt by other pranks, but don’t do this kind of prank. It doesn’t work on me.”
“No kidding. I won’t see that Ian anymore.”
Seo Dae-ryong stared at the sword dance and then smiled.
“Shall I tell you the crucial reason why this kind of prank won’t work?”
“What?”
“It’s because of you, sir.”
“Me? Why me?”
“I went out with the master, and something happened to this unmanned person? This can’t happen.”
Then suddenly, Seo Dae-ryong’s thoughts wandered somewhere.
“Oh, come to think of it, Sir. You’re going too far.”
“What else?”
The next words flew into my ears.
―You met such a beautiful woman and now you’re throwing us away. I understand as a fellow man, but you shouldn’t do that to this unmanned person. How much does this unmanned person think of you? Where is he? You didn’t send him to the training center to train as soon as he got here, did you? Oh, if that’s the case, you’d be disappointed in him.
-Hey, let me say something too.
– Okay. Give me this drone! No, I’ll go find it myself.
Seo Dae-ryong asked Ian with a smile.
“Have you ever seen a female knight with a rather handsome appearance?”
“Oh, I saw it.”
Seo Dae-ryong said to Geommu-geuk with a similar expression.
– This kind of joke won’t work. I’m the first student to enter the Hwangcheon Pavilion. And from now on, I’ll call you the Color Footnote.
-What did I do?
―You abandoned this unmanned person and brought that beauty! Oh, this is really bad. Suddenly, even that innocent beauty looks hateful.
Seo Dae-ryong greeted Ian.
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“Then I’ll see you next time.”
As he walked towards Ian’s quarters, Seo Dae-ryong sighed inwardly.
‘Oh, I didn’t even ask your name. Well, I won’t be seeing you again anyway.’
Then Ian spoke from behind.
“He is not at the training center right now.”
“yes?”
How did this woman know that I was going to the training center right now?
When Seo Dae-ryong was surprised, Geommu-geuk said something even more surprising.
“I relayed everything you’ve been telling me so far.”
Seo Dae-ryong was surprised.
-why?
-Say it out loud, not by phone.
Seo Dae-ryong said with an expression of incomprehension.
“No, why? Why are you sending a telegram to her? No matter how beautiful she is, she’s not like this, Your Majesty. She’s really become strange.”
Then Ian said,
“I feel weird too, don’t I?”
What kind of strange words are these? As Seo Dae-ryong blinked, Ian took out a knife from his bosom.
It was the very same dagger that had been made by melting down the eternal iron chains of Gowol a while ago.
As soon as he saw the dagger, Seo Dae-ryong was startled and questioned Geommu-geuk.
“Why does he have a knife?”
Seo Dae-ryong, who was looking at Geommu-geuk with suspicious eyes, flinched.
“You didn’t steal this unmanned knife and give it to this young lady, did you? No, did you? It’s yours, sir?”
“Here’s mine? Is that Ian’s?”
When Geommugeuk took out his dagger and showed it to Seodaeryong, Seodaeryong shouted.
“You really can’t do this! This is too much!”
For the first time, Seo Dae-ryong became furious at Geommu-geuk.
The swordsman just smiled. The more he smiled, the angrier Seodaeryong became.
“What happened when you left? Are you crazy about women? This knife was shared by those who were present that day, right? Of course, it was given to you by the Lord, but it still has great meaning to all of us, doesn’t it? But you took this knife from an unmanned person and gave it to that woman? Who will you give it to the next beauty? Here, I’ll give it to you in advance, so take it. No, you can’t take this. I’ll give my knife to this unmanned person.”
“I didn’t know you cared this much for Ian.”
“A friend I can tell everything that’s on my mind. My drinking buddy.”
Then Ian said.
“Let’s go have a drink.”
Seo Dae-ryong flinched. He couldn’t immediately say no. He gritted his teeth and spat out the refusal.
“It’s a bit difficult right now.”
Seo Dae-ryong sighed inwardly.
‘The most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen in my life refused to ask me out for a drink! Why did we have to meet in this situation? Oh, how can there be such a miserable life?’
But still, Ian came first.
“Right now, I have to take care of my abandoned drinking buddy. Okay, that’s all for now.”
“Thank you for thinking of me like this.”
Seo Dae-ryong looked at Ian with an expression asking what he was talking about.
Ian took off the cotton swab he had been wearing. At that moment, it felt as if light was radiating from his face.
Seo Dae-ryong’s eyes widened at the beautiful face that was revealed, but he soon hardened his expression. Now was not the time to be amazed by the beauty before his eyes.
“Still, I won’t go! I can’t go!”
“Didn’t you promise to drink all night when I get back?”
“yes?”
“It’s me, Ian.”
Seo Dae-ryong, who was caught in the crucible of chaos, just blinked his eyes.
“You and your Majesty, we decided to go to Daecheon Mountain to see the autumn foliage in the fall and drink while getting snowed in in the winter, right?”
When Ian spoke his original voice, Seo Dae-ryong was startled.
“The voice is correct? Are you really this unmanned person?”
“Yes, it’s me.”
“… … That’s not true, is it?”
“I will tell you everything that happened while we are drinking and while Your Majesty is here.”
It was only when Ian spoke that Seo Dae-ryong realized it was Ian.
“This guy is really unmanned!”
Seo Dae-ryong looked at Geommu-geuk for the last time to confirm. Geommu-geuk nodded once to confirm.
“What the heck? Color footnotes? Crazy about women?”
“Ah! Sorry!”
The sword dance smiled at him, who was still bewildered.
“No, good job. You scored a ton of points against Ian today.”
Then Ian spoke loudly.
“I’ll finish the alcohol today.”
“Eww! Great!”
Ian said while watching the sword dance.
“Can we go have a drink with you? You can invite your Majesty, too.”
The look on her face was of her eagerness to tell how difficult the Shindokjeonghwasul was and how wonderful and fun the trip was, and Geommugeuk couldn’t help but smile.
“Drink as much as you want today!”
Geommugeuk, who was watching the excited backs of Ian and Seodaeryong, slowly walked towards Cheonmajeon.
* * *
The Cheonmajeon remained unchanged.
My father was sitting across the bloody path. I slowly walked along the red carpet to where my father was.
I was so happy to see my father again. I never thought I would see that blunt expression and gaze so welcoming.
“Father, how have you been? I thought I would die without seeing you.”
I bowed deeply to my father.
“It looks like you just came back from a war.”
“We fought a great war.”
“That’s because I got involved in the Apostolic Alliance’s business for no reason.”
“It wasn’t a useless task. At least, we decided that Visain was better suited to control us than the grandson of the stone coffin.”
Originally, it would have been more accurate to say that he was a better person, but I said that he was better at controlling. My father absolutely hated and was wary of hasty evaluations of people.
“It would have been more advantageous for us if Seok Gwan-chu’s grandson had become the successor.”
“Why is that so?”
“That guy is much more greedy.”
“Wouldn’t the martial arts world become more chaotic instead?”
“What does that have to do with us?”
I know that what I’m saying is true. The more chaotic the martial arts world becomes, the more powerful our school becomes.
Father. But we can’t keep growing up by drinking blood, right?
“Why didn’t you come back right away? Weren’t you worried that your brother was taking control of the demons?”
“I’m nervous.”
“But why?”
“I never intended to make all the Amazons my people.”
“why?”
“Then you’ll be in a corner.”
“!”
“Then, my brother will eventually make the worst and irreversible choice. A choice that I cannot just ignore. Didn’t I tell you that the bloodshed over the succession will stop with my generation?”
My father couldn’t hide his surprise.
“You’re going to open up your breathing hole for that reason? Did you really think that far?”
“I should. When I think about how great and great I will gain from fighting, I should think deeper and further than that. I will fight like this, using my brain while showing off to my father.”
My father stared at me silently. I also stared at him quietly.
“I have one question, too.”
“What?”
“Did you worry about me at all when Seok Gwan-chu and his master Baek Mang-gi moved?”
“I didn’t do it.”
“Why didn’t you do it? Do you trust me that much?”
“I didn’t trust you. I trusted the worst.”
“You believed in the evil Soma?”
“Yes, if he was by your side, he would have thought it was a fight worth fighting. He trusted your judgment.”
“Please trust my son from now on.”
“If we had taken you as our standard back then, our school should have gone out to rescue you.”
“Ah! When will I become a trusted son?”
My father still looked at me with a puzzled expression at my exaggerated words. I thought that maybe even if I became a god and ascended to the heavens, my father would look at me with that same expression. Then, he would say to me as I ascend to the sky. Don’t trust gods!
“Go and rest.”
“Then I will take my leave now.”
As I turned around and came out, my father spoke from behind me.
“Welcome back safely.”
The moment I heard those words, my heart sank. It was just a short phrase, but it was something I wanted to hear from my father more than anything else.
He turned to his father and bowed his head in silence.
Thank you so much for holding your ground, Father.
After leaving Cheonmajeon, I walked towards the place where the person I wanted to see the most after my father was.
