Red, bloodshot eyes.
Moisture forms inside and runs down my cheeks.
Fluttering eyelashes and slightly crooked eyebrows.
From the slightly colored bridge of the nose to the downturned corners of the mouth.
An expression on her face as if she’s trying to hold back her tears.
His unique distortion is reflected in his face.
That was Cheonma’s expression just now.
“… What is it? Are you crying?”
When I see that, the hand that was holding it comes off.
It couldn’t have been anything but a shocking sight.
The heavenly horse cries.
That lofty being that reigned over the sky and looked down on all people was weeping sadly over there.
And he said that right away while hugging Ddoldol.
You can see that not only the tips of the hands holding her are trembling, but even her entire body is trembling.
Meanwhile, the little one being held had a puzzled expression on his face.
It was the same not only for her but also for those around her.
‘what?’
What is it really?
Why is this guy sulking here?
No, was it ever possible to shed tears in the first place?
I’ve seen mocking and contemptuous looks before, but this is the first time I’ve seen a crying face like this.
Looking at it this way, it seemed to resemble Wi Seol-ah more.
Aside from the fact that they looked the same, it felt the same.
Maybe that’s why.
“…”
A hesitation arises in the hand that has been slightly removed.
Cheonma cries endlessly, holding Ttol-ttol in his arms, wondering what is so sad about him.
When I look at it, an inexplicable feeling comes over me.
[Come here.]
‘hmm?’
Frowned.
Turn your head slightly and look around.
Whose voice is that?
It sounded like something I had just said, but it was disjointed and disjointed.
[Should I say hello to Dad?]
“…”
My headache is boiling.
I had to hold my temples for a moment.
Whose voice is that? I can clearly hear the sound, but I can’t recognize it properly.
The headache that followed even affected my breathing.
Kkuddeuk-!
At that moment, I heard a sound as if something was about to break inside.
yes-!
Suddenly, a vibration spreads from inside the heart.
It felt like I was grabbing hold of something that was about to break and pulling it with force.
Kwuk.
As the vibration reaches something, something tightens, like a loose string being tied with a string.
At the same time, the headache disappeared and the faint sounds also disappeared.
My breathing has calmed down and my trembling fingertips have become still.
Perhaps because my emotions had calmed down, my hesitation also disappeared.
He grabbed Cheonma’s shoulder again.
“Come out.”
“…”
It feels like there’s a force there, as if it doesn’t want to let go.
I frowned as I felt that.
“Why did you suddenly show up and make a fuss? Do you think this is your living room? Come out quickly.”
“…”
“Why is she suddenly hugging me and squeezing me? Do you know her?”
Do you know Ttol-Ttol?
At that question, the corners of Cheonma’s eyes shook.
What? Do you really know?
Where have I seen it before?
At a time when many questions were running through my mind.
“…I don’t know.”
Cheonma said.
“what?”
“I don’t know… I don’t know… .”
I don’t know. I don’t know who the person I’m holding is.
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Of course, it’s natural not to know.
“But why is your face like that?”
It’s strange not knowing.
Why doesn’t he know this?
The eyes of Cheonma were as if they were strange in themselves.
“What’s with that expression?”
“…I don’t know….”
“So. You grab a stranger and start screaming at them, and then you ask them why they’re making that face.”
“I don’t know about that either.”
“Then what do you know?”
“mole….”
Bam-!
“…!”
I dragged Cheonma, who kept talking nonsense.
I was letting my guard down, so I was able to solve it easily this time.
The distance between them grows. Cheonma tries to grab hold of them somehow.
closely-!
I grabbed his wrist and stopped him.
“If you don’t know, leave.”
The voice that flowed out was so cold that it surprised me even when I heard it.
“…”
Was that voice the problem? The strength in Cheonma’s hands drains as he hears the sound.
Feeling this, I pushed Cheonma back.
The heavenly horse is pushed away and flies to Gu Hee-bi.
Gu Hee-bi quickly takes her in.
As the distance grew, the situation calmed down a bit.
He looked at it and turned his gaze towards Ddol.
“Are you okay?”
“Huh? Yeah. It’s okay.”
Unlike Cheonma, who reacted violently, Ddoldol didn’t seem that surprised.
I thought it was because the original was a monster.
“I guess there was another mother I didn’t know about.”
“What the hell are you talking about.”
He was spouting some strange nonsense. Then I heard a short tongue-clicking sound.
“I was just eating deliciously. Tsk.”
“…”
Sure thing, something is wrong with this guy.
The face resembles my childhood. But why does it have such a gloomy feeling?
‘It seems like you only resemble me in face.’
It couldn’t be me, since I wasn’t like that. But I felt like there was something strange about it.
It must be so, otherwise it wouldn’t make sense.
As I was looking at Tottoli with a strange expression, the guy suddenly moved somewhere.
As I took a step forward, my expression changed.
From the extremely frowning and mischievous expression on his face.
“Grandma-!”
He takes on the world’s most innocent eyes, nose, and mouth, then starts shouting ridiculous names and runs off somewhere.
‘crazy.’
To his shock, the destination was Mrs. Mi.
Ttol-tol immediately ran to Mrs. Mi and hugged her. And that wasn’t enough.
‘What? What are you going to do?’
What did that guy just say to Mrs. Mi as he ran off?
I feel like my hair is turning white.
At this point, I expected that even Mrs. Mi would be very angry.
“Are you very surprised?”
‘huh?’
“No, I wasn’t really surprised.”
“…”
Surprisingly, Mrs. Mi picked up Ddoldol without any hesitation and patted him on the back.
“…?”
Looking at this, I looked somewhere.
It’s right next to Gu Hee-bi.
That’s more surprising than the way the horse dragged itself around.
What am I looking at right now?
So he looked at Gu Hee-bi as if wondering what was going on.
“…”
“…”
Gu Hee-bi slightly shook her head at my gaze.
It was a sign that he didn’t know.
‘Oh, I see.’
He nodded.
‘This is a mess.’
I have no idea what’s going on.
Seriously, I mean it.
A situation that seems more realistic to call a dream.
Thinking about this, I lowered my head slightly.
The direction is not Gu Hee-bi, but the Cheonma she is holding.
Cheonma was looking at Ddoldol, who was being held by Madam Mi, with a strange expression on his face just like before.
I looked at her and said with a frown.
“hey.”
“…”
“Now that everything is done, you first… .”
Follow me.
Just as I was about to say that.
“It’s noisy.”
“…!”
A voice was heard from outside the room.
All eyes move to the sudden voice.
Entrance to the room.
To be exact, a few steps away from Gu Hee-bi’s back.
That’s the sound I heard there.
In the place where everyone’s eyes were drawn, there stood the owner of the voice just heard.
‘…’
I looked at him and realized intuitively.
‘That’s the old man.’
That’s the guy.
A wrinkled old man with lush white hair and wearing a featureless white suit.
‘The person who called me.’
The old man who called himself the leader of the upper class before Mrs. Mi.
That is to say, he was the first Baekhwadan master.
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A window where you can hear birds chirping.
It’s way too late to call it morning, but when I hear that sound, it feels like morning.
In some ways, it is a situation that can be considered peaceful.
Sunlight streaming through the window and birds chirping leisurely, I wonder if there could be a more peaceful time than this.
‘This is… .’
Unlike that situation.
‘This is really f*cking uncomfortable.’
My insides were becoming increasingly suffocated.
There was no choice.
If you’re comfortable in your current situation, you’re a weirdo.
I looked at the table with my eyes.
The tea in front of me was full, but it was hot when I first poured it, but it had already cooled down and was not steaming.
At the same time, the amount did not decrease compared to when I first followed it.
What this means is.
It means that a lot of time has passed and during that time, not a single sip of tea has been taken.
‘Ugh.’
It’s a situation that can’t be helped without being somewhat uncomfortable.
Yeah, it was really quite uncomfortable.
“greatness.”
Just a few coughs.
It was awkward to keep my eyes in one place, so I turned them dozens of times.
But I repeated it over and over again.
‘Why aren’t you saying anything?’
The person in front of me showed no reaction.
An old man who looks like he’s in his eighties. He doesn’t seem to have learned martial arts.
Eyes that are sharp as if cut with a knife.
A sense of strength that seems to be untrodden by storms despite one’s age.
He had facial features that would have made one expect him to be quite handsome in his younger days.
He is the father of Mrs. Mi and the first head of Baekhwasangdan.
The old man who is nominally called my maternal grandfather.
After the old man appeared and spoke a word, the room became quiet. The old man walked into the room without any particular reaction.
After that, he called me right away. Thanks to that, I was able to enter the room without worrying about Cheonma or anything like that.
It’s been about half an hour since I last encountered the old man.
I didn’t say a single word to him the whole time I was alone with him.
The reason is none other than this.
It was simply because the old man was not speaking.
On the other hand, I wasn’t the type to talk much either. At this point, I got a little angry and kept my mouth shut.
‘If this was going to happen, why did you call me?’
I called you, so I cleared my schedule and came, but you didn’t even say anything.
‘Are you suggesting we start a fight?’
You may wonder why I would do something like that, but if I don’t like it, I might do it.
He is an illegitimate child of a concubine, but he is a scoundrel who is forced to continue the family line just because he is the son.
If you think that my talented granddaughters are not seeing the light because of me, then it could very well be so.
‘… Hmm.’
If that’s the reason, then I have nothing to say.
Isn’t that half true?
So, I thought that it was a fight and a quarrel, so let’s just sit back and go.
“…that.”
So he opened his mouth, which he had been holding back, and spoke to the old man.
“Elder.”
As I say the title, the old man looks at me.
It’s a cold gaze.
I wondered why Mrs. Mi’s eyes were so fierce, but it seemed like she resembled the old man.
Do you ever dislike being called ‘elder’?
But nothing else came to mind to add.
“I heard from Elder Il. I heard that you came to see me.”
When I ask carefully, only then does the old man’s closed lips open.
“exactly.”
A monotonous answer.
It was a voice I barely heard after a long time.
“…Can I ask why?”
Why on earth did you call me?
A person I had no connection with in my previous life came to me in this life.
It’s happened to me a few times now, but the person in front of me is something I’ve never even imagined.
This situation makes me feel strange too.
‘Today is full of strange things. It’s annoying.’
Even aside from that old man, there was the immediate reaction that Cheonma showed, and even the appearance that Madame Mi showed afterwards.
Things that would have seemed strange if only one had happened, happened one after another.
It meant that the head was extremely complicated.
widely.
A teacup is heard. To my question, the old man takes a sip of tea first without answering.
Like mine, the old man’s tea had already cooled down.
He took a sip and quenched his thirst.
“I’m sorry.”
“yes?”
An apology from him.
I couldn’t help but make a dumbfounded expression at those words.
“Suddenly… what?”
“I realized this after drinking the tea. It seems like a lot of time has passed because the warm tea has cooled down like this.”
“…”
Surely, you weren’t aware of it?
“I guess it’s because I’m getting older, but I find myself getting lost in my thoughts more often. I apologize.”
“… No. And please lower your voice. If you raise it, it makes me feel a little uncomfortable-.”
“I don’t speak lower to anyone unless they are close to me. I hope you understand.”
“Oh, yes.”
I shut my mouth awkwardly.
Don’t speak down to anyone unless they are close to you.
There was a huge wall built inside the horse.
I am not close to him and I did not come simply to see my grandson as the elder said.
That means it has that kind of meaning.
‘Then what is it really?’
Then why on earth did you come to see me? I have no idea.
‘I’m busy too, so if it’s nothing much, I’d like it to be over quickly.’
I also wouldn’t be happy that the old man came looking for me, nor would I be upset that he kept his distance.
Anyway, we are men who do not share a single drop of blood.
Since he was a nobleman with whom I had no connection in my previous life, I didn’t pay much attention to him.
Just because he’s Mrs. Mi’s father.
That one just takes a little while… .
‘… But why does that matter?’
I thought about it and wondered, is there really a reason for that to be the case?
Even Mrs. Mi is a man if you look at it that way.
‘hmm.’
I couldn’t figure out why I was thinking that way.
anyway.
“Then, why did you come looking for me?”
The old man’s words made me feel a little more at ease.
If I don’t have any thoughts, it’s because I have nothing to worry about.
Thanks to that, I can now speak in a more comfortable position.
“…”
The old man looked at me quietly.
The gaze was so intense that I wondered if I should readjust my posture.
… I was seriously contemplating whether I should really change it again.
“There is no other reason why I have called you here.”
Fortunately, the old man started speaking before that.
“I came here because I have something to ask you, Master Il.”
“what…?”
“Can you give me a breather?”
“…?”
He waved his hand without objection.
Woohoo–!!
In an instant, a barrier is erected on all sides.
However, since the firepower could not be controlled, a fairly thick curtain was spread.
“I hit it.”
“Thank you.”
What were you trying to say that you suddenly opened your mouth to scream?
Now, it’s almost like I’m feeling frustrated beyond just doubt.
“Now I ask.”
The old man asked me.
“Did Confucius turn back time?”
Woohoo-!!
As soon as I heard those words, the curtain I had worked so hard to keep from rising shook violently.
