Episode 188: What are you going to do when you get stronger?
We were really surprised.
It was surprising that the words ‘late-night training meeting’ came out of Kwon Ma’s mouth, but it was almost shocking that he asked to be included in that meeting.
Cheon So-hee, who had been lowering her head, raised her head to see if she had heard wrong, then made eye contact with Kwon Ma and hurriedly lowered her head.
Kwonma looked at me and waited for an answer.
“Because I am not the leader of this group.”
My gaze turned to Ian.
The look in her eyes as she looked at me was exactly like this. No, Master! Are you leaving this up to me? Contrary to her anxious look, Ian calmly greeted Kwon-ma.
“Let me introduce myself formally. My name is Ian.”
Kwon Ma simply nodded once. Not even Ian’s beauty could dispel Kwon Ma’s fearful expression.
“It’s a group I created, but I’m not the type of person who is dogmatic.”
Ian looked at Cheon So-hee. Cheon So-hee’s expression was like this. So you’re saying you’re going to hand this over to me?
Ian asked her, pretending not to see her.
“What do you think, Miss Cheon?”
Cheon So-hee shouted without hesitation.
“I absolutely agree!”
Kwonma nodded and asked Ian.
“You?”
The only person who could turn me down after seeing that face would be my father.
“I agree too.”
Only when Ian agreed did Kwon Ma turn his gaze to me.
“You?”
“Of course I am against it.”
For a moment, Kwonma’s face twitched, but I didn’t even blink.
“The reason is?”
“Because it’s uncomfortable. I’m fine with it, but how uncomfortable must it be for those two? Especially, Lady Chun must be dying because she has to see you during the day and see you at night.”
Cheon So-hee spoke faster than my quick sword style, Chang Cheon-sik.
“I’m fine. I’m just glad to see you again.”
Then Kwonma said to me.
“Are you happy?”
“How could that be? Let me give you a simple example. Starting tomorrow, Kwon Ma-nim will have to train in martial arts with my father.”
Kwon-ma’s expression had already hardened. He wanted to hide it, but he couldn’t. After all, he was our father.
“I’ve seen you practice martial arts together during the day, but now I have to see you again at night. How do you feel?”
It was an irrefutable example. I’m sorry, Father.
“Then what should I do?”
This was something that could not have come out of Kwon-ma’s mouth. He even says something like this, so of course I should open the door. The only thing is that the entrance fee is a little more expensive.
“Please tell me the first part of the German law.”
Kwon Ma’s Dokmun method was Byeokryuk Sura Kwon.
It was the martial art of Kwon Ma, a powerful and rough martial art known for its powerful fists that were said to produce a thunderous sound when unleashed.
The Byeokryuksura Kwon consists of six volumes in total, and I asked to know about the first volume, the first of them.
“It’s those kids who are the ones who are uncomfortable, so why do you want to learn martial arts?”
“I can understand that much. That’s what I’m giving you.”
Ian and Cheon So-hee, who were watching, would think that Kwon Ma would never accept it. Not only them, but anyone would think that way, but I gave it a try anyway. It was important to somehow advance toward my goal, step by step.
Of course, there was a reason for his outburst. He had been here twice in secret, and had also directly expressed his desire to join the gathering.
Whatever the reason, he too has a desire to join this group.
“Do you think I’m stupid?”
“No way. Instead, I think you’ll just pretend to be that stupid.”
I had a conversation with Kwon-ma through my eyes. What a crazy guy! Yes, that’s right. I often hear people call me a crazy guy.
Kwon-ma glared at me for a moment, then turned around and left.
In fact, he could have been coerced. If he had been forced to do it, I would have had no choice but to do it. If Cheon So-hee had used the fact that he called me a death penalty as a weakness to pressure me, I would have had to do whatever he wanted.
But when I objected, Kwon-ma just backed down. He is not a petty man. He is a person who lives up to his name.
Cheon So-hee, who had relaxed, sat down in her seat.
“Ah! I thought my heart was going to burst earlier.”
Ian also shook his head.
“I knew he was scary, but I didn’t know he was this scary up close.”
When Ian felt a little more at ease, he asked me.
“But why does Mr. Kwon want to come to this meeting?”
I told her, who said she couldn’t understand, a thought that suddenly occurred to me.
“Because you’re lonely?”
It wasn’t meant as a joke, but Ian took it as such.
“Don’t joke around.”
“How can I know what’s on that person’s mind?”
But one thing was certain.
“The ultimate goal is to stick with me.”
“With your master?”
“Yeah. I guess he’s going to try to get me to join him under the pretext of training together.”
Ian was surprised. He never thought that Kwon-ma would have such thoughts.
“If you want to fight, you can fight during the day, right?”
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“The subordinates were watching at that time, weren’t they?”
“Why don’t you just call them out and ask them to fight?”
“I said I would never fight.”
“So you came to this gathering to see if you could have a chance to fight the young master?”
“For now, I can’t help but think that way.”
Ian raised his hand and said.
“This dangerous gathering must be disbanded immediately.”
Of course, I didn’t mean it. Kwon Ma said he wanted to join, but was rejected, so he went, and if he disbanded right away, who knows what might happen.
Meanwhile, Cheon So-hee, who was sitting next to him, was half-conscious. What would her mind be like now that Kwon Ma found out that she had sentenced Geommu-geuk to death? Since she was marked by Kwon Ma, she would only think that the next Kwon Ma would be forever lost.
“Should I leave this group right now?”
“Should I consider it a resignation? I don’t think so.”
“Then what should I do? Since it has come to this, I don’t know.”
“I have to.”
“yes?”
Cheon So-hee looked at me with her eyes wide open.
“I should train harder and use my skills to make up for my mistakes.”
She sighed with a look that said, “That’s easy to say.”
After a moment, she asked.
“You’re not coming anymore, are you?”
“I guess so?”
In fact, I said that to comfort her who was shocked, but I felt that Kwon-ma would not give up like this.
“I’ll work twice as hard.”
It seemed as if Cheon So-hee was making up her mind, but soon she grabbed her head.
“I’m screwed!”
* * *
The next day, Black Fist training proceeded as usual.
She looked at Kwon Ma’s expression, but he acted as if nothing had happened. Cheon So-hee, who was more concerned about that, practiced hard enough to feel sorry for him.
Apart from that work, my popularity among the black people was rising day by day.
That’s understandable, because I considered these black powers as my direct subordinates. They were the people who would one day fight for me and alongside me.
That’s why I answered their questions sincerely and even shared stories unrelated to martial arts.
They were often surprised by my extensive knowledge of the martial arts world and the Central Plains. They were drawn into my stories one by one, without realizing how much time had passed while they were listening.
Kwon-ma just quietly watched me from afar. I wondered what he was thinking.
That night.
Three people gathered first for the late-night retreat. It was me, Ian, and Cheon So-hee.
Cheon So-hee sighed.
“Kwon Ma-nim didn’t look at me even once today.”
“When did you see it?”
“… … .”
“Since we’ve already been caught, why don’t we just treat Kwon-ma comfortably?”
“Is this sincere advice or a trap designed to ruin me?”
“Of course, this is advice for our brothers and sisters.”
Cheon So-hee was startled.
“Do you still think of me as your sister-in-law?”
“huh.”
She shook her head when she realized that I was being serious.
“No. What are you going to do?”
“Think about it from the other person’s perspective. You’re the Kwon-ma. You have a smart subordinate who you want to hand over to Kwon-ma later. But this guy got caught flirting with that Lee Gong-ja guy. And since then, he’s been just looking out for himself. What do you think you’d do?”
“I don’t think you’ll like it.”
“So, be confident.”
“Then I think you’ll hate it even more?”
I couldn’t help but laugh at her words. Ian laughed, and Cheon So-hee laughed too.
Cheon So-hee made up her mind.
“Okay! I’ll do as the death penalty says! What’s going to happen is going to happen anyway. I’ll tell you proudly why I sentenced you to death. If I tell you sincerely, you’ll understand. Even though Kwon-ma looks so scary, I’m sure you’ll feel differently. Thank you, death penalty! I’ll try hard. From now on, we’ll secretly do death penalty and death penalty from Kwon-ma. But why is your expression like that? Why? Why are you so scary… … No, right? Please tell me it’s not true.”
She turned towards the cold air behind her, her face clouded with tears.
Before she knew it, Kwon-ma had arrived and was standing behind her.
Cheon So-hee’s face, which had carried all the world’s suffering, turned pale.
At that moment, when he didn’t know what to say, Kwon-ma suddenly asked.
“What were you thinking when you sentenced Lee Gongja to death?”
Kwon-ma heard everything she said just a moment ago.
Cheon So-hee expressed her honest feelings in a trembling voice.
“I happened to see Lee Gongja fighting with this unmanned man using the martial arts we learned. At that moment, I wanted to become strong like him.”
Now, she was saying that she was trying to learn martial arts by arbitrarily taking the death penalty while Kwon Ma was teaching her martial arts. Even if she got hit by a single blow and died, it wouldn’t have been strange at all.
But she spoke honestly. She must have been telling herself in her head, “Don’t do this!” but her mouth was speaking for her heart.
“What are you going to do when you get stronger?”
“To be honest, I wanted to follow in the footsteps of Kwon Ma-nim and become the next Kwon Ma. But now… … it all seems wrong.”
It was a life-threatening answer, but it was not the answer Kwon-ma wanted.
“Yeah, that’s like the job you want to do. I asked what you want to do when you get stronger.”
“!”
For a moment, Cheon So-hee was embarrassed.
She probably never thought deeply about the difference between what she wanted to be and what she wanted to do. She must have been even more confused because she lived her life with only one goal in mind: to become a Kwon Ma.
Listening to the conversation between the two, I was impressed by Kwon Ma.
Yes, Kwon-ma is the kind of person who asks questions like this. You can tell from this question that he is not someone who just uses his fists ignorantly, but a smart person.
I stepped in and saved her.
“Why did you come today?”
Then, surprising words came out of Kwonma’s mouth.
“I will teach you the first volume of the Wall Power Shura Fist.”
I was surprised. I expected that Kwon Ma would not give up easily, but I didn’t know that he would actually hand over the first volume to enter the meeting.
What on earth are you doing? Do you really want to fight me?
Of course, Ian and Cheon So-hee were surprised. No one could believe it. In order to enter this small gathering called the late-night training group, Kwon Ma wanted to teach the first volume of the Byeokryuk Sura Kwon.
Kwonma and I locked eyes in the air. We exchanged another conversation through our eyes. You are truly amazing. Who else would do this? Don’t you regret it? Don’t you regret it? You’re the one who dragged me into this. I don’t regret it.
“But there is one condition.”
“Please speak.”
“You have to keep it a secret that I taught you martial arts.”
“of course.”
Kwonma’s gaze turned to the two women. What other words could come out of safety?
“Yes! Don’t worry!”
“We weren’t here!”
Of course, this is what they want to say.
I hope there won’t be any in the future!
The transmission of martial arts was carried out immediately.
Kwonma taught me the first volume of the Wall Power Shura Kwon through a telegram.
The first volume is Black Cloud Shura.
It is the first of the six martial arts, but it is a martial art that is more powerful than any other martial art. You will understand why this martial art is called the martial art of the martial artist when you try it.
Kwonma taught me the Black Cloud Sura properly, even taking care of my posture.
At least he was sincere when it came to martial arts. Although I don’t know, among the demon lords, Kwonma would be the best at teaching martial arts. With that gentle voice that didn’t match his scary face at all.
Ian and Cheon So-hee turned around and didn’t look at us. Since the conversation was conducted over the phone anyway, it didn’t matter if they saw us, but they were polite enough to watch the process of passing down martial arts.
That’s how I learned the first volume of the Wall Power Shura Kwon.
Paaaaang!
One day, a thunderous sound will burst from this fist.
Kwon-ma nodded while watching the first volume I unfolded.
“I will have to keep training to unleash my power.”
“thank you.”
If something comes, something must go, I told Kwon-ma formally.
“Welcome to the late-night retreat.”
It was the moment when me, Kwon Ma, Ian, and Cheon So-hee, four people who would never have thought of coming together, were gathered together.
And today, Kwon Ma seems determined to surprise us.
“Okay, I have to practice.”
He took off his top. I had never seen his naked body since I went to Dongkwonmun. But he started taking off his clothes as if he was really going to practice properly.
The upper body of the horse was revealed under the bluish moonlight.
