< Seokcheok (蜥蜴) 1 >
Yesterday, those who ate hamsters were given the pet poison penalty.
What is that?
It was a punishment to raise companion animals and foster love for them.
So when he told them to go out and catch something poisonous, the three warriors, not knowing what their future would hold, each caught a poisonous thing and brought it back.
“Okay, let’s see what you caught.”
When I asked the warriors standing, each holding a jar, the warrior standing in the front opened the lid, showed it to me, and answered.
“I caught a snail, Your Majesty.”
Hull is a word meaning scorpion.
Scorpions are a very good poison that is not difficult to breed and is easy to raise, so I nodded and answered.
“Oh, wow. Very good. Very good poison. So, who’s next?”
“I caught a snail. Seeing Little Dragon carrying it around, I realized that when it comes to poisonous things, it’s just like the snail.”
“Wukong is also very good.”
The warrior’s generous reply that he had caught a fox.
The flattering comment there was really good.
After the two answered like that, I looked at the last warrior, and he hesitated to answer.
“I, I….”
“What? You couldn’t catch it?”
It is unacceptable that the Tang clan’s warriors were unable to catch anything.
It’s something that can be easily accomplished if you put your mind to it, but not doing it means you don’t have the will or don’t want to do it.
As I said, the old master seemed to think so too, glaring.
“If you haven’t caught him even after giving him enough time, then you have no will. I’ll have you detained for a month!”
I also tried the Mabo pose because my grandfather told me to, but it was a punishment-like pose that reminded me of the transparent chair from my past life.
Then the warrior answered in a voice that was crawling all over his body.
“Okay, I caught it! But it’s not poisonous. It’s because it’s a spider mite.”
“A stone?”
“Tong (通)!”
When I shouted, “Tong,” as the eyes of the old master grew fierce, he tilted his head and asked,
“Your Majesty, isn’t Seokchuk not poisonous?”
As he said, lizards are rarely poisonous.
There are only two species of venomous lizards in the Americas, a few in Australia, and one in Indonesia, the Komodo dragon.
But I like lizards, so I’ll give it a try.
“It’s okay. Lizards have poison in their eyes.”
“yes?”
“Anyway, that’s it!”
The old master was embarrassed, but since it was a matter of taste, he could not give in.
So he shouted out and gave the following orders to his warriors:
“The things I just caught will be your companion poisons. Everyone, please give them names by tomorrow.”
“yes?”
“Didn’t you hear? Give me a name.”
The warriors looked dumbfounded when they were told to give names.
I promised myself that if I ever raised him and he died, I would make him cry.
Because that’s the cruel punishment of poisoning.
‘Anyone who has never shed tears over the death of a pet knows how painful it is. Oh, man.’
It was while I was carrying out the pet poisoning on the warriors who ate the hamster yesterday.
“Little Dragon, the kids are awake. They’ve been up and running since dawn.”
My older sister came to the poison center.
When I looked towards where my sister’s voice was coming from, I saw Cho, Hyang, and Bin, who were sitting on my sister’s shoulders, waving their antennae in joy.
-Tsrrrr.
“These guys are finally coming back to life. Come over here.”
I quickly approached my sister and put my hand on her shoulder.
So that the guys can come over.
Then, the Wukongs immediately climbed onto my arms.
As soon as my arm went up to my sister’s shoulder, the five spirits, from the first to the last, including Hyang and Bin, started to move from my sister’s shoulder to my body one by one.
I would go to my sister’s house to check on her occasionally, but I had to check on the children’s health when I handed them over.
That is the attitude of a companion animal.
I looked at the figures of the guys coming over one by one.
“The grass is healthy, and the scent is… Yeah, it looks like there’s nothing wrong with it….”
Lastly, Bin-i was coming over to my body.
“Huh? Bin? Bin, why is this guy acting like this? Bin, what’s wrong with you? Are you sick or something?”
“What is it? A dragon?”
Something strange caught my eye, so I went straight to a sunny place and examined Binnie wrapped in my arms.
Then, as expected, Bin’s appearance was different from before.
“Young lady, doesn’t this Bin look a little different from the other guys?”
“Where? Huh!? Really? The room was dark so I didn’t notice, but how did it turn out like this? Is it because I brought it here in the dark? Or is it because I temporarily left it out to greet guests yesterday?”
The reason my sister and I were a little confused was because the tips of Bin’s antennae had turned slightly black.
It’s just a little bit like it’s been dipped in soy sauce…
‘Damn. Because of the warriors, whenever I see something black, I think of soy sauce.’
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I snapped out of my sudden thoughts about soy sauce and took another good look, but unlike the other two, Bin’s antennae were slightly stained black.
At first I thought it was just a color change, but it’s normal for raccoons to stay yellow until they shed their second time.
It was clear that the other guys were still yellow, so the color wasn’t coming up.
If the color is coming up, the colors of other herbs and fragrances should come up too.
“I don’t think the color is rising on the shell because of the cursor···.”
If the pigmentation does not increase, the only remaining case is disease.
When the elders of the Blood Cult came, I was suddenly afraid that I might have gotten sick because I had been exposed to the rain and had been crawling into trees and holes here and there.
Since pets and animals cannot speak, their owners must observe them closely to notice when they are in pain, otherwise they will die in an instant.
Moreover, while mammals show a lot of signs of illness, insects do not show signs of illness easily, so more care is needed.
Anyone who has ever raised insects like civets knows that even experienced breeders have a hard time telling if these creatures are sick or not.
The only symptoms these guys are showing are fasting.
“Did Bin ever have this upper limit when you brought him with you?”
“Well? I don’t know because I just stayed still like the other kids.”
“Bin-ah, are you sick anywhere?”
Binnie, who showed the most puppy-like behavior by biting a snake when he fell into a pit.
Is this how you feel when your child is sick?
My sister and I’s faces were filled with deep emotion.
‘Why am I being punished like this?’
***
My grandfather returned to his family with warriors from Danggasan.
Behind the grandfather, there were warriors carrying sacks.
“Are the soldiers here?”
“It’s been a long time since I’ve seen you, Elder Mandokshin.”
A man named Zhuge Hu, a soldier of the Murim Alliance, came running after hearing that his grandfather had returned.
Mandokshin-gun’s grandfather, who had returned from his expedition, spoke to the Murim Alliance’s soldiers in a welcoming voice.
“Yes, it’s been a while. It seems like only yesterday that you left home to go on an adventure with San-i, and now one of you is a soldier in the Murim Alliance and the other is the head of the Tang family. Haha.”
“Elder, the old stories are a bit… There are also children from the family, and warriors from the Murim Alliance….”
“Hahaha, okay, okay, I understand. By the way, I’m sorry I couldn’t come out to greet you. I was preparing a gift for you.”
The soldiers of the Murim Alliance look flustered when a story that seems to be a dark history with the craftsman is brought up.
But his eyes sparkled at the word gift.
The word gift seemed to make everyone happy, whether they were adults or children, in their past lives or now.
“A gift?”
The reason why Grandfather Mandokshin-gun went out for a while with his warriors.
That was because he went to catch the lake urchin instead of us.
Our poison squad’s first poison capture plan.
Before the soldier of the Murim Alliance, Jegal Hou, came to my grandfather, I told him about a plan to capture Hoban Yusa, but my grandfather, the Mandok Shingun, did not approve of our plan.
No, to be exact, he didn’t allow me to go out.
It was unlikely that this would happen since people from various sects were camped out in the Tang family, but it was dangerous because the Blood Cult guys might show up nearby to check what happened to the dead guy or to scout out.
However, the poison of the Hobanyu was absolutely necessary, so my grandfather personally led my poison squad and went out.
Catching snakes in a farm is something that anyone can do.
I was a bit disappointed that I missed out on my first expedition capture, but since it wasn’t a new species and was captured on a lakeshore, I was able to somewhat ease my disappointment.
I guess you’re worried because I had a major accident recently and was in a coma for ten days.
“Okay, let’s go inside first. Soryong, I’ve caught all the guys in the cave, so check them out and take some with you.”
“Okay, Grandpa.”
The sight of the sacks on the shoulders of the warriors who followed my grandfather swaying.
He took the warriors to the front of the poison den and released the guys into a large wooden frame.
“First, let’s select the large and strong ones, and since Grandfather said he needs some of the poison from the Hobanyusha, let’s just collect a little bit.”
“Understood, Little Dragon.”
“The shape of the fangs of the Hobanyusa is different from that of other snakes. In order to collect the venom, it has to push it as far into its mouth as possible.”
First, he caught one of the bloodthirsty beetles, opened its mouth, and pushed its upper jaw as far as it could into the small bottle.
In order for the bloodsucking moth’s small fangs to get caught on the bottle, the moth had to push the bottle as far as it could into its mouth.
When extracting snake venom, it is common to have the snake’s upper jaw slightly hang over the opening of the bottle. Since these creatures’ fangs are located inside the mouth, this makes it easier to extract the venom.
“Okay, hurry up!”
“Yes, my lord!”
We decided to extract the venom from those with wounds or other injuries and drain it to the side, and select the healthy ones and quarantine them for a few days.
And as I was watching the warriors for a moment, the lord brought out a small vial of medicine that could fit in the palm of his hand and handed it to me.
“Little Dragon, it’s half full here.”
“Okay, then. Please take care of the rest. Grandfather called me.”
“yes!”
As we leave the poison yard behind and arrive in front of the main gate, we hear conversations coming from inside.
“Oh, so it was exactly as I thought, the mysterious thief that the head of the Tang family met in Haenam Island?”
“That’s right. He became the grandson-in-law of the Tang family. What do you think? He is a treasure of our Tang family.”
“To say it was mysterious is an understatement. By the way, I was really surprised. Raising a golden phoenix.”
“Yeah, that’s why everyone is surprised when they come into the party.”
‘Ha, this is true. I guess I’m a treasure.’
I was delighted to hear conversations coming from inside and announced my arrival.
“Grandpa, it’s me, Little Dragon.”
“Oh, okay, come in.”
As we entered the Gajujeon, we saw two people drinking tea and chatting.
As soon as I entered, before I could even sit down, my grandfather asked me a question.
“Yeah, did you bring it?”
“Yes, here.”
If that was the case, it felt like he was asking if I had brought the poison of the lakeside snail, so I immediately put my bottle down on the table.
-widely.
A small magnetic bottle placed on the table.
Grandfather smiled as he pushed it towards the Murim Alliance soldiers.
“My grandson-in-law brought you a gift. Please take it.”
“A gift?”
The soldiers of the Murim Alliance looked back and forth between my grandfather and me.
He tilted his head and asked, holding the magnetic bottle that was pushed toward him.
“What the hell is this? Huh? Even the airway?”
The soldiers of the Murim Alliance flinched for a moment and approached the grandfather as he appeared to be doing something.
When I looked at my grandfather wondering what was happening, he explained to me what a miracle was.
“It’s called a ‘gimak’ because it prevents sound from leaking out to the surroundings. It’s called a ‘gimak’ because it blocks the energy. The sound that’s being made inside the house right now won’t leak out.”
‘It seems like Kira can do anything···.’
It shoots long winds, shoots life skills, strikes with breath, and uses lightness.
A world of endless applications.
I thought that if I learned one martial art well, I would never have to starve.
And as soon as the curtain fell, the soldiers of the Murim Alliance asked again with a lively expression, different from their usual relaxed expressions.
“What on earth is this thing that’s so amazing?”
At that question, my grandfather looked at me and smiled.
“It’s called mountain poisoning.”
“San Gong Poisoning? Isn’t San Gong Poisoning something common? I don’t think you would go as far as to call it a secret and talk about it in secret.”
He remembered hearing that although it was a poison that was banned from use in the martial arts world, it wasn’t a poison that was hard to obtain, so his question was a natural one.
Right now, if you go to Mandokjeon, you can get a large quantity of San Gong Dok.
But his eyes widened at his grandfather’s next words.
“It’s just that it’s a mountain poison that only the Blood Cult members hear about.”
“!”
An expression that looks like a bat is floating above your head.
He looked back and forth between the porcelain bottle in his hand and his grandfather’s face, then asked in a disbelieving voice.
“Is that true!? No, there’s no way the Lord Mandokshin would be joking···.”
“Is it hard to believe?”
“Of course, they are the ones who don’t respond to mountain poison. Wasn’t the reason why the martial artists had a hard time during the Blood Cult Rebellion thirty years ago because of their mountain poison? Because they don’t get caught by us, but they do catch us.”
“Yeah, I knew that too. There is a mountain air poison that they listen to.”
“If this is true. No, if it is true, then this is a truly great discovery! How good is the effect!?”
“Hwaeun killed the elder of the Blood Cult who was poisoned by that poison in one go.”
“One hand!”
As my grandfather said, the head of the elder of the blood sect fell with one blow from my older sister.
My body trembled as I recalled the grotesque scene of a decapitated person.
“According to Hwa-eun, it seems like his physical abilities are as low as those of a criminal.”
“Oh! It really is a mountain air poisoning!”
“The downside is that it has no effect unless you apply it to a weapon or a knife to poison it.”
“That’s a bit unfortunate, but where is that? When the leader sent me here, he said he expected good news, so I was very worried, but this is more than just good news! Thanks to you, I’ve been relieved! Thank you, Elder Mandokshingun!”
A man named Zhuge Hu, a soldier of the Murim Alliance who constantly expresses his gratitude with a bright expression.
In gratitude, my grandfather held my hand and said,
“It’s not me who should be thanking you, it’s this kid. He’s the one who discovered it.”
Then the soldier looked at me again with surprised eyes.
“Are you talking about the Weisohyeop!?”
“That’s right. He also played a big role in capturing the elder of the Blood Cult this time. He poisoned his own body with the poison and made the elder of the Blood Cult suck his blood, poisoning him.”
“Oh! Isn’t she truly a brave and brilliant woman!? So that’s why you decided to make her your partner, Lady Hwa-eun?”
“Yeah, don’t you think it’s a waste to give it to someone else? Haha.”
My cheeks turn red without me knowing it because you keep praising me in front of me.
This kind of praise in person was something that even a decent iron plate would have a hard time withstanding.
So, while I was trying to keep my expression stiff and pretend that it was nothing, the Murim Alliance soldier asked me a question.
“This is truly a great fortune for the martial arts world. If I report this to the leader, he will surely give you a great reward. Is there anything you wish for?”
If there is anything else you would like, I will tell you when you give me your reward.”
It seemed like he was going to award me with an award, but he asked me to tell him what I wanted.
How could someone who receives an award ask for this or that?
So when I slightly refused, a joyful laugh burst out from the mouths of the two adults.
“I didn’t do it for the reward. It’s okay, sir.”
“Haha! How humble! Your Majesty, you have been blessed with a grandson-in-law. Haha.”
“Is that so? Hahaha.”
And after a while, the noise stopped.
My grandfather said.
“If there is something you want, don’t worry and just tell me. Don’t be humble when a soldier tells his lord. Don’t refuse such a reward, but accept it. Of course.
“You deserve to receive an award, Little Dragon, because you did something worthy of it.”
In Korean culture, it is polite to reject someone three times, but I feel like you shouldn’t reject someone more than twice.
He answered in a cautious voice.
‘They said they’d give it to me, so what should I get?’
“If you say so, there is something I really want to do···.”
A good idea occurred to me when I heard that the head of the martial arts union called Murimmaeng was giving the award.
