Episode 306: What kind of superstition does Amazon believe in?
After leaving Cheondokrim, the place we headed to was Daechurim.
As always, the three drunkards, Yeo-bin, guided me to the drunkard.
I asked her as we crossed the lake in a boat.
“Master, do you still drink a lot these days?”
“You used to cut down a lot, but you seem to be drinking too much these days.”
Her eyes were hoping that I would stop her. Yeo-bin is the only woman who likes drinking and truly cares for him.
So I arrived at the island and climbed up to the Chumongroo.
The horse was already drunk.
“Even so, am I really the last one to come? Am I the last among the demons? Otherwise, this can’t be happening.”
Chwima didn’t hide his disappointment.
“We should meet hyung last so we can drink comfortably.”
“Excuses are good.”
“Oh, please understand, hyung. It’s been a tiring day.”
I sat comfortably in front of the chair with my legs stretched out.
“Don’t you know? I’m the most comfortable when I’m with you.”
“It’ll be easy!”
“Is that so?”
The drunkard shook his head as if he couldn’t stop himself and poured him a drink. His expression had relaxed before he knew it. Rather than making a long and agonizing excuse, a simple question like, “Is that so?” can have a greater impact.
We drank together.
As the liquor went down my throat, my stomach burned. It was stronger than the liquor that Chuma had previously consumed.
“You said you cut down on drinking, but you’re drinking even stronger alcohol.”
“If you’re sick, drink this.”
Chwima brought another bottle of liquor from the pavilion and poured it for him. Then he drank the poison he had been drinking.
What on earth are you worried about?
I was curious, but I didn’t ask first. There are only two ways to get the truth from a drunkard: sober him up, or give him more alcohol.
“Here, one more drink!”
Whatever his worries, he felt better after a long time of drinking and dancing.
“The atmosphere is amazing.”
Today, the moon shining faintly through the thick fog and clouds further enhanced the excitement of the night.
“Whenever I think of alcohol while I’m out, this place always comes to mind. Is my brother drinking? Is he floating on the lake?”
“It’s so cold now that I can’t go into the water very often.”
“Time really flies.”
It was spring the day before yesterday, but it’s already cold. We each drank while lost in our own thoughts. Drunkard definitely drank more than usual.
“My brother drinks a lot, so the lady worries a lot.”
“I’m worried about meeting Yeobin.”
“Do it well when you are worried. You won’t regret it later.”
“regret?”
He gave her a look asking what Chwima meant, but she didn’t answer. Why did she ask when she already knew? Chwima seemed to be drinking all the time, but he was a delicate and sensitive person. How could he not know that Yeo-bin liked him as a man? He must have pretended not to know.
Come to think of it, none of the Amazons have families. Only Kwon Ma recently had a daughter. They all live alone like this.
As the blood clot says, is it because family is the enemy? Is it because family is a weakness?
“I have somewhere to go for a moment.”
The drunkard put me on his boat.
We rowed and moored the boat on the opposite shore of the lake from the entrance. After getting off the boat, Chwima walked into the forest. I only came to Chwimongru, but Daechwirim is also very large.
After walking for a while, the surroundings became covered with fog. Something felt strange, so I looked around and it wasn’t fog. It was the spirit of alcohol. It was the first time I saw the spirit spread out like fog.
“If you are exposed to this place, you will get drunk and pass out. It is not a cycle that can be extracted through internal energy, so an ordinary person would never be able to pass through. Follow me closely.”
As the horse walked, the cycle split and made a path.
As if alive, the cycles that had split apart as we passed by merged and the path disappeared.
I couldn’t run at full speed. I couldn’t see ahead because of the fog-like fog, and the path was as complicated as a maze. In the end, this path was a forbidden area in Daechurim that only the drunkards could go through.
Only after I got out of the maze did the cycle stop.
A building standing in front of you.
“This is where generations of great drinkers have been making and drinking alcohol.”
I followed him inside. The place was decorated like a brewery. The facilities looked old and worn, but each and every one of them seemed extraordinary. The shelves on the wall were filled with the liquors that the previous generations of drunkards had enjoyed.
“I like to drink a variety of alcohol, so I don’t drink a lot of alcohol here. Besides, although I’m good at drinking, I’m not so good at brewing. That’s why I come here sometimes to rest and leave.”
There was a peculiarly shaped glass in the middle of the brewery.
Looking down at it, Chuma said with a serious expression.
“I got drunk a while ago.”
Sure enough, it smelled rotten there.
“I’ve never had anything like this since I became Amazon.”
Chwima added with a dark expression.
“It’s ominous.”
Now I understand. Why did Chuma look so troubled?
“Am I going to die?”
“I guess you don’t want to die.”
“There’s still so much alcohol I haven’t drunk yet.”
“Don’t worry. When my brother dies, I’ll buy all the alcohol in the Central Plains and sprinkle it on your grave.”
Chwima sighed. In his mind, he felt ominous, and it seemed as if a flock of birds had flown up and animals had started running in groups before the earthquake. He really had never thought that it would be this serious.
“What kind of superstition does Amazon believe in?”
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“My master once said something like this. If you get drunk, something big will happen. It will cause problems for the Great Drunken Horse or the school. Of course, I didn’t believe it.”
He looks upset because he is drunk.
“If it bothers you that much, tell your father.”
“No! I just finally cleared up the misunderstanding with the cult leader.”
Originally, Chwima misunderstood that his father hated him. However, after he realized that it was not him but his master who hated him, the misunderstanding was resolved.
“I even gave the leader some alcohol. I’ve been doing well. But wouldn’t it be unpleasant to hear that he got drunk? Well, that’s right. Same disciple to the same master. Anyway, they’re just unlucky drunkards.”
I wonder why he cares and worries about such things, but he is such a delicate person. At least, it was even more so in his relationship with his father.
“My father will dismiss it as superstition and drink it. That’s the kind of person he is.”
I asked, examining the glass filled with alcohol.
“How do I clean this up? I accidentally broke it, but it’s a treasure from Daechurim that’s been passed down for a thousand years. Don’t scare people with words like that.”
“Why? Clean it up now? No problem. I’ll do it later.”
“What are you going to do later? You’ll be alone and thinking all sorts of depressing and bad thoughts. Just clean it up quickly while I’m here.”
He emptied the old wine in his glass along with his drinking.
While I was fetching water and washing the glasses, Chwima prepared to pour new alcohol.
I said to him while washing the glass.
“It’s not because of you, hyung. There’s someone who’s been trying to mess with our school lately. It’s because of that unlucky guy.”
“There’s no need to make up excuses to comfort me.”
“It’s not something I made up. I’m investigating by mobilizing Hwangcheon-gak and Tongcheon-gak.”
“Is there really such a guy?”
“Yes. We shouldn’t make fun of our older brother. He even knows all these things.”
However, the expression on Chwima’s face did not ease. I cannot stand by and watch the demon being consumed by superstition again.
“Do you think a person’s future is set?”
“To some extent.”
“I am not. Depending on what I say to my brother right now, our relationship will change right now. What on earth is fixed? I think that my drunkenness is because my brother is trying to bring me here. If it hadn’t happened, I would never have known that there was a place like this. How would I know what’s going on in the world? I might run away here someday when I’m in danger. This is not an ominous warning, but a great announcement of destiny that will save my brother’s life.”
“You really are good at putting things together.”
I laughed because it was so absurd, but thanks to that, my ominous feelings seemed to have eased a lot. Chwima’s expression brightened.
“Is that why you waited so long for me to hear this?”
Chwima admitted it without hesitation.
“It was more than I expected.”
“Please continue to use our services often, customer!”
He said this as he put the washed glass back in its original place.
“All you need to pay for it is a drink and my superstitious brother.”
* * *
When I returned to my quarters, the night shift guards greeted me warmly.
“You look tired.”
Since returning from Gangseojidan, I have met people almost non-stop. And where are the ordinary people?
“I’m going to rest now, so don’t disturb me.”
I came into the room as if I was going to throw myself on the bed right away, but instead of sleeping, I opened up the space-time teleportation technique.
What is my attitude toward dealing with misfortune? It is training.
If something bad happens, just get rid of it. Bad luck is something you can’t do anything about, so you just have to endure it. You’re putting in all this effort to endure it. What can you do about bad luck?
In the space-time transfer technique, he used the time-teleportation technique again to make time flow differently.
Through my hard work, I have now twice the time of the outside world. I don’t even want infinite time. The ultimate goal of the time-twelve-fold time difference is to achieve exactly ten times the time difference. Please, just until the time of the Twelve Great Stars of the Nine-Hwa-Ma-Gong is achieved.
Today’s training was the Nine-Hwa-Ma-Gong. I’ve only been practicing the First Form until now, but I instinctively felt that it was time to learn the Second Form. This is the state of my martial arts that I have reached at the extreme.
Guhwamagong Jaychosik
Great Destruction.
If the first-style destruction method was an attack that targeted only one person, the second-style mass destruction method was an attack that targeted multiple people.
As I unleashed my first instinct, an evil spirit silently appeared in front of me with its back turned.
Of the four demons that appear in the first episode, this one was the scariest.
For a moment, I thought the guy’s body was shaking slightly.
Swish.
The demons split. There were three in total.
Kwakwakwakwakwakwakwa!
Three demons swept forward, swinging their swords.
There was nothing left in their wake. It was an attack that swept away everything that was there.
As the level of Jaychosik increases, the number of divisions also increases.
Later, it will split into dozens of herbivorous creatures that will sweep away everything in sight.
Of course, the amount of internal energy consumed will increase depending on the number of divisions.
How many divisions can the father make?
I will surpass the numbers my father creates.
What exactly are my limits?
My heart raced as I imagined the evil spirits sweeping away everything before my eyes.
I couldn’t sleep when I thought about that scene.
I was absorbed in this morning practice until the sun rose, and by the time the sun rose I was almost exhausted.
Now is really the time to rest.
I released the time-space magic and used the space-time transfer magic again. The space I cherish the most was opened up.
Hot sun, blue sea, pure white sand, comfortable chairs under broad-leaved trees.
It’s been a really long time. I deliberately saved it. To open it on a day like this.
I collapsed on the chair with a thud.
I felt at ease as I looked at the sea and sky, which were as blue as my skin color.
Whether it was because of the alcohol, the installation of the Saujong, or a mastermind, I forgot all about it and rested for a moment.
He put down the casket he had in his arms next to me. He drew eyes and a mouth on the casket like a person. It had a bright smiling expression.
He said he would open it every day because he kept telling me to open it, but he never said it would open after he got the secret.
“You too, take a rest. People must have been urging you to open up, open up for so long. How hard must it have been? You too, take a rest. Let’s take a rest together.”
Sleep came over me. Suma guided me to a being I hadn’t seen in a long time.
In my dream, I was standing in the sky.
Above the sea that resembles the sky, it was in my prayers.
Then the shadows fell and the world became dark. I looked back and saw something huge blocking the sun. At first I thought it was a tidal wave as high as a castle wall, but it wasn’t.
Cheonmahon.
It was the one that had appeared to me several times in my dream. The Heavenly Horse was looking down at me with his arms crossed. Since his back was to the sun, I couldn’t see his face clearly.
But I knew instinctively that this was my Heavenly Demon Soul.
I stared intently at Cheonmahon, wanting to see his face. However, at this moment, even the Shinan technique did not work.
‘Do you wish I could get to you faster too?’
Cheonmahon just looked down at me without saying a word.
* * *
Three days later, I received the first report from Seo Dae-ryong’s office.
“I thoroughly looked into Saujong’s assets, but I couldn’t find anything particularly suspicious.”
“There is no trace of money changing hands?”
“Yes. When I analyzed his saving and spending habits, I found that he is not very interested in money.”
Seo Dae-ryong asked cautiously.
“Could it be that you really were trying to die at the hands of the Demon Lord?”
I shook my head.
“It’s even worse. What you’re saying is that you were moved by something other than money. If you were a knight, you would have been moved by a cause, but you’re not that kind of person.”
“Your Majesty, you believe there is someone behind that guy.”
“It’s about keeping several possibilities in mind.”
Considering Baek Cheon-gyeong of Mokcheonga, who had infiltrated the Murim Alliance, we cannot guarantee that there is no such person in our school. We must always keep in mind the possibility that there is a mastermind behind any incident that occurs in the future.
“This is the content of the surveillance of Saujong’s daily work.”
He calmly looked over his day written on paper. There was one thing that stood out in his routine that was no different from that of most other people.
“What is this flower garden?”
“He’s been going to that flower garden a lot lately. He just goes there and sits there blankly. Since Ilhwageomjon was the one who helped tend the garden, it wouldn’t be strange for him to go there.”
“No, that’s weird. If it were me, I wouldn’t even want to look at a flower. If you had just randomly gone to learn the geomungo, I wouldn’t have suspected anything. But since everyone else is like that, you regularly go to places that people wouldn’t suspect?”
“It’s suspicious when you think about it that way. Oh, I’m really glad that the head priest isn’t my classmate. I wouldn’t have gotten into the top class.”
I laughed at the guy’s teasing and got up from my seat.
It was clear where I was going now, so Seo Dae-ryong looked at the flower pot on the window sill and said.
“Hey, you’re going to make a friend.”
