Absolute Regression Chapter 79

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79th Me too.

When I was about to overturn the table, a stream of energy flowed through me and pressed down on the table.

I looked up and saw the Bloody Cave.

He sent a message to the leader of the Pungcheon sect.

-Hold on. When the table is turned over, what you see is not the bottom of the table, but the bottom of the pedestal.

The leader of the Fengchun Church took his hands off the table because he felt that the persuasion was out of goodwill. The look in the eyes of the Blood Heavenly Demon said, “I understand you to some extent, too.”

The swordsman spoke to the chained man again.

“You’ve been chained up here for so long, I thought you might want to get your hands on something made of chains.”

The chained man asked for one thing without hesitation.

“Then please make me a fan.”

“Is that okay?”

“That’s enough.”

I left the chains to Jangho.

“Take this to Master Kwak of the ironworks of our school and have him make a fan out of the iron ribs of a fan of eternal years, and with the remainder, have him make eight knives, as many as the number of people gathered today. Since we are gathered here today to commemorate the occasion, let’s each take one.”

Eight of them included the Fengchun Church leader and the man in chains.

Then Seo Dae-ryong said.

“I don’t know about others, but I don’t know if I should receive such a precious knife.”

“me too.”

“I think so too.”

Ian and Jang-ho also came out together.

“Work yourself to death to repay the debt you owe to your humble self!”

Everyone bowed their heads and felt embarrassed at my joke.

“thank you.”

On the other hand, the reaction of the leader of the Pungcheon sect was cold.

“Why are you taking care of mine too?”

“I want to celebrate today.”

“I don’t want to celebrate?”

Then the chained man sent a telegram.

-Take it. You’re excited because of me, but the leader also has to accomplish the great task of advancing into the Central Plains, right?

The leader of the Fengchun Church was so grateful to the chained man. He was trying his best until the very end. It was just him who failed to live up to expectations.

“Just kidding. Give me one too. Those chains mean something to me too.”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“By the way, you are truly amazing. A dagger made of iron from the ages would not be easy to obtain in the Central Plains. And you are giving it to everyone.”

“They are such precious people.”

“Isn’t there any guarantee that those precious people will still be precious later?”

“It is not a gift given with the intention of giving later.”

“then?”

“This is a gift to you as a thank you for everything you’ve done for me so far.”

At the end of Geommu-geuk, the leader of the Pungcheon sect was left speechless. As if understanding his feelings, Hyeolcheon Doma poured him a drink and said:

“Didn’t we tell you earlier? We can’t handle the ascending dragons. It would be best to just let them go.”

The leader of the Pungcheon emptied his glass without saying a word.

The drinking party, which was on the edge of bursting, continued.

After drinking one or two glasses each, everyone got drunk.

“Inspector Seo. Stop eating. If you keep doing this, you’ll be grabbing Master’s trouser leg again today.”

Seo Dae-ryong shouted at Ian’s dissuasion.

“I am fine!”

“I can already hear your tongue twisting?”

“Don’t worry! I’m not drunk.”

Seo Dae-ryong started drinking heavily as if he had accumulated a lot of alcohol recently, and Ian, who had been trying to stop him, also started drinking alcohol little by little, which he had held back during his training.

Geommu-geuk looked at Jang-ho. Jang-ho gave them a look that said not to worry, that he would take good care of them.

“Shouldn’t it be the other way around? You get drunk, and those two stop you.”

“That’s right.”

“If you show even the slightest sign of using an injection, hit me with that big fist.”

“That’s not easy either. Both of them are in a very unusual state these days.”

Of course, Seodaeryong was still far away, but in the case of Ian, it was not possible to say that he would definitely lose to Jangho. The Bicheon Sword Technique was a martial art that could kill Jangho if he let his guard down.

Looking at that scene, the leader of the Fengchun sect spoke to the demons.

“The world has turned upside down. It has become a world where you have to please those below you.”

It wasn’t a lament about Ian and Seo Dae-ryong, but about the man in chains. Then he asked Geommu-geuk.

“What do you think, Lee Gong-ja? Even if you become the leader, do you plan to run the cult while keeping an eye on the opinions of your subordinates?”

Instead of answering, Geommugeuk asked the leader of the Pungcheon Church.

“Do you know what the characteristics of people who can’t work are?”

“Isn’t that because you’re incompetent and lazy?”

“That could be true, but there are more common characteristics.”

“Something?”

“You have no sense.”

For a moment, the expression on the face of the leader of the Pungcheon Church hardened. It was obvious that he was going to say something that contradicted his words.

“Are you telling me to watch out for my subordinates? Will the school run properly because of that? What if I get eaten by the sect?”

“You can tell what kind of person your subordinate is by reading his mood. You can tell what kind of heart he has by reading his mood. I refuse forced loyalty.”

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“stop!”

In the end, the leader of the Pungcheon Church overturned the table.

Everyone looked at him with surprised faces at the overturned table of alcohol. Alcohol and food stained their clothes, but no one paid any attention to it.

The leader of the Pungcheon sect shouted.

“It’s pretense. It’s pretense to look good to you. If there’s a subordinate who doesn’t listen to me, I’ll secretly take him away and kill him. I’m not trying to look after his subordinate’s feelings right now, I’m looking at yours. I’m acting pretense because I want to take you away.”

His words resonated loudly. To others it might have seemed like a sudden explosion, but to him it was an explosion that had been building up.

The leader of the Fengchun sect held back from spilling the drinks several times. However, the moment he heard the words “forced loyalty” in the last words of the Sword Dance Theater, the dam he had been holding back collapsed.

These were the days when even the Chained Man and his other subordinates were feeling guilty and victimized, thinking that they were all being forced to be loyal to him.

There was only silence there.

Looking at the overturned table, the leader of the Fengchun cult gritted his teeth.

‘Damn it! What do you want me to do? What am I supposed to do? I don’t want to hear that kind of thing! Damn it!’

The overturned table signaled the end of today’s long, drawn-out battle.

“I think I was rude. Please forgive me. It’s late today, so I’ll come back tomorrow and apologize.”

With the apology of Geommu-geuk, Hyeolcheon Doma and Ilhwa Geomjon said goodbye.

It was something that should not have been done in front of the demons. The two of them could have been angry, but they did not show it because they were thinking of the sword dance.

Jangho followed them out, carrying the chains, Seodaeryong, and Ian.

The Sword Dance Theater expressed its gratitude to everyone with a smile. If it weren’t for them, this event would never have been possible in the first place.

They parted ways at the entrance. No one spoke of the Fengchun sect leader.

Jangho, Seodaeryong, and Ian went to the Pungryu Tavern to have another drink. Hyeolcheon Doma and Ilhwa Geomjon returned to their quarters, saying they were tired, and Geommugeuk also headed to his quarters.

* * *

The chained man stood up.

The sight of the chained man walking toward him felt very unfamiliar to the leader of the Fengchun sect.

The chained man picked up one of the bottles of alcohol that had fallen on the floor and drank it straight from the bottle. Then he offered the bottle to the leader of the Pungcheon cult. The leader of the Pungcheon cult took the bottle and drank it.

Maybe we could have been sitting side by side like this and drinking from a long time ago. What were you so afraid of?

“I put you in chains because I was afraid you would kill me. No, to be more honest, I was afraid that I would kill you.”

“I don’t think so.”

“No?”

“The leader just didn’t have any thoughts.”

“what?”

“The reason I mentioned it earlier is because I only thought about it recently. Before, I lived without thinking about it. I just tied it up in the beginning, so I kept it tied up. I got used to it.”

The leader of the Pungcheon cult could not refute it. As he said, he had lived without thinking. It was only after he had recently become entangled with Lee Gong-ja that he realized how big a problem these shackles were.

Nevertheless, the chained man comforted the leader of the Pungcheon cult.

“It’s okay. Everyone lives like this.”

“What’s okay? You’re leaving because of this.”

“That’s not why I’m leaving. It’s not because you’re keeping me in chains.”

“Then why? Do you think you can change the world with Lee Gongja?”

“I don’t have a dream that will change the world.”

“Why? Why on earth!”

The reason was something that the leader of the Pungcheon sect had not expected at all.

“I’m going because I can’t find anything.”

“what?”

“I handled everything related to the martial arts world with the leader.”

“It did.”

“In the process, I couldn’t get anything right with regards to science and engineering.”

“You guessed it right. He came when you said he would. You also guessed right when you asked for the water.”

The chained man shook his head.

“That’s meaningless. There were many reports from outside regarding the Heavenly Demon Sect. Many of them were from Yi Gongja. Each time, Yi Gongja exceeded my expectations. I didn’t know he would kill the Demon Lord, or the Demon Lord of the Heavenly Demon Sect. I didn’t know he would bring in the Blood Heavenly Demon. I didn’t know he would bring all the people he led today. I didn’t even know he would demand shackles. How could he do this? Yes, that’s right. Maybe Yi Gongja is smarter than me, so I might be treated badly if I go. What? I brought him as a soldier, but he’s not as good as he looks. I might be disappointed. But I still have to go and see. I have to go and see why I failed, and what kind of person would do something like this. I’m genuinely curious.”

It was the first time the chained man had spoken so much.

The leader of the Fengchun Church could tell that he could no longer catch him. He asked one last time.

“Are you sure you can’t do this with me?”

“Okay. Let’s go together.”

“You crazy bastard, where are you going with me? What will my subordinates think of me? Will they follow me, who is going under a young and brilliant scholar?”

“Then let’s just throw everything away and go.”

“what?”

“Give your position as cult leader to your successor and come with me. We will live a new life.”

All sorts of curses came to the mind of the leader of the Fengchun Church. However, a sense of defeat came before anger.

“If you take away my title as the leader of the Pungcheon Church, what would you use me for?”

“You’d be a pretty cool guy if you took that title away. You’ve been chained to that title your whole life, living a mediocre life. I’m not the only one who’s been chained to that title.”

“What is he saying now.”

He threw the bottle of alcohol that the leader of the Pungcheon cult was holding and broke it.

“You want me to step down from my position as the leader? This place where I can kill anyone I want with just one word, eat whatever I want, and call all kinds of beautiful women?”

“So are you happy?”

“Of course I’m happy! No, let’s say I’m not that happy. So? If I step down from this position, will I be happy? Will the happiness that wasn’t there when I was a cult leader come to me on its own?”

“I don’t know that either. You have to find it.”

“You’re trying to ruin me. You’re going crazy trying to make me miserable.”

“Maybe so.”

“f*ck! I’ll just kill you and be done with it.”

“It’s too late.”

“what?”

“If you were going to kill me, you should have killed me before the Duke came. If the Duke freed me from my chains and I kill him, what will happen to my feelings toward you? He will blame himself for my death, and that will turn into hatred for the leader. If that happens, the leader will never be able to come out of the world. For your sake, the leader, you must not kill me.”

“shit!”

“Accept it as fate.”

“Don’t talk about fate! Where is there a fate that discriminates against people like this?”

“Cult leader, you are the leader of the Pungcheon cult. You are the one who discriminates against all outsiders and rules over them. How can the word discrimination come out of your mouth?”

The leader of the Pungcheon sect, who had been silent for a long time, blurted out.

“I lost. Yes, I lost to you smart and articulate people. Go away.”

I meant it sincerely.

It was the moment when he gave up on the chained man.

“Go and suffer until you die. Regret leaving me until you die. Go, go. I’m sending you away because you’re dirty.”

Finally, the leader of the Fengchun sect was truly freed from his shackles.

At that moment, the man in chains put something down in front of the leader of the Fengchun cult. Surprisingly, it was a key that looked exactly like the key that could release the chains.

“What is this? Is this a key to my chains?”

The man in the shackles nodded. The leader of the Fengchun sect was shocked. The key that had been attached to the necklace earlier had been taken away by Geommu-geuk’s subordinate along with the shackles, but the same key had appeared again.

“It was forged several years ago.”

“How on earth? No, then why didn’t you run away?”

The chained man didn’t tell him about it.

“If you could have freed me from my chains, you would have had the chance to kill me. Why didn’t you kill me?”

“It’s probably similar to the reason why you didn’t kill me even though I cursed at you. The leader said that, right? I’m the one who understands and knows you the most. I’m the same.”

The moment he heard those words, the leader of the Pungcheon Church felt his heart swell and his eyes became hot with tears.

This is why this separation is so difficult and regrettable.

The leader of the Fengchun Church looked down at the keys and said.

“To put this out at this moment. I’m a loser until the very end.”

Then the man in chains bowed deeply on the spot and greeted me with the most polite expression and words I had ever seen.

“That’s not true. Not killing me, and telling me to go like this. At least to me, the leader was a cool person. I could have run away, and I wanted to die so many times, but I lived like this. Maybe it’s because I became attached to the leader. I will never forget the favor of freeing me today. I look forward to the day when we can be together again, leader.”

The chained man left the room like that.

The leader of the Pungcheon sect, left alone, banged his fist on the floor.

I felt relieved and regretful, empty and happy at the same time. And sad.

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