Episode 437
An extension of night and morning.
The early morning hours have a unique atmosphere. In Metro City, due to the adjacent sea, there was sea fog and visibility was blurred.
A humid and green night.
A day when the sun shines red.
The time between 5 a.m. and 6 a.m., when new meteors occur, overlaps between the two seemingly opposite times. However, no matter how beautiful it is, it is still too early for ordinary students.
‘Eun-ah and Sumire were always in the hospital room. It’s really good.’
Shin Yu-seong saw Sumire sleeping face down on his bed and Eun-ah Kim sitting on a chair and leaning against the wall.
It would be uncomfortable to fall asleep like this without being able to lie down properly, but Kim Eun-ah and Sumire stayed by Shin Yu-seong’s side, nursing him throughout the morning.
‘hmm… … .’
Shin Yu-seong felt sorry for Sumire and Kim Eun-ah who were taking a nap while he was sleeping on the bed with his legs stretched out.
‘It’s almost morning, but let’s go to bed first with Sumire.’
Flash!
Finally, after much deliberation, Shin Yu-seong lifted up Sumire, who was lying face down. With one hand between his knees and the other supporting his back, he was able to lift Sumire without waking her.
“Humm, um… … .”
Although she tossed and turned a little, Shin Yusung succeeded in putting Sumire safely on the bed.
‘Next is Eun-ah.’
The problem was that Shin Yu-seong’s hospital room was a single room, so there was only one bed. Of course, since it was a special room and the bed itself was large, it didn’t seem impossible to sleep two people together.
Flash!
This time too, Shin Yu-seong lifted Kim Eun-ah with his hands on her knees and back. And then he laid her down safely on the bed where Sumire was.
‘Cover me with a blanket. Give me pillows… … .’
As Shin Yu-seong began adjusting every detail to ensure a sweet night’s sleep for the two, Kim Eun-ah and Sumire appeared to be lying together in a narrow bed.
‘I’ll wake up in about 2 hours at most. Until then, you can sleep comfortably.’
Shin Yu-seong smiled with satisfaction as if he liked his work. I wanted the two of us to be able to sleep comfortably for the few hours we had left.
However, Sumire, who was secretly talking in her sleep, started mumbling as she pulled the blanket over herself.
“It’s warm… … .”
Then, Sumire grabbed Kim Eun-ah, who was sleeping, with both hands and hugged her. It seemed to be Sumire’s habit, as she had done similar sleep-talking in the tent where she went to catch the fox dragon.
“Umm, uhm… … .”
Thanks to this, Kim Eun-ah, who was captured by Sumire, turned her head from side to side as if she was having a nightmare and muttered in a hushed voice.
“Yoo, Yoosung… … . No, that… … .”
Kim Eun-ah didn’t know what she was dreaming about, but she seemed to be completely mistaken. But as long as Sumire and Kim Eun-ah, who were taking a nap, can sleep comfortably, wouldn’t that be enough?
Shin Yu-seong smiled and left the hospital room, looking satisfied.
‘Then shall we go?’
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Mountains are ever-changing.
It was the place where the four seasons changed the most, a haven for countless living creatures, and a battlefield where life and death were the difference.
‘Maybe that’s why Master’s first lesson was mountain climbing.’
For adults, mountain climbing is considered nothing more than exercise. Even if you are not a hunter, there are many people who like mountains. But even that was a harsh test for a 5-year-old child.
In particular, there were three trials to climb the vast and vast Mt. Musin.
‘The first trial is the hilly mountains.’
A hill refers to a road with a low altitude and a sloping road. It was easy to think of it as a place that was easier to climb than a mountain range and more difficult to walk on than a flat surface.
However, in order to cross the hilly mountains with the short legs of a child, he had to fight with his own stamina and patience.
Young Shin Yu-seong looked like he was going to fall, but he fought hard and walked. Her legs were as heavy as a thousand pounds and she had already run out of stamina, so she wanted to stretch them out right away, but she walked blindly.
Young Shin Yu-seong thought that if he gave up, everything would be over. He clenched his teeth and walked until the end like a man overcome by evil.
The teacher’s first lesson was patience.
It may be old-fashioned, but it was the royal road that King Gwon discovered and the fastest way to the peak.
‘It’s an unforgettable memory. ‘I can still remember the scenery I saw after passing through the hilly mountains.’
After passing the sloping road and the uphill mountain range, Shin Yu-seong stretched out his back and looked down at the road he had come back on.
A sloping mountain slope and a river flowing next to it. A winding mountain path unique to the mountain range. A road that seems like it will never end.
“It’s still beautiful.”
His limbs are twice as long as when he was young, and his physical strength is at the top level among hunters.
So, for Shin Yu-seong now, the hilly mountains of Mt. Musin are not even a source of exercise. However, I was able to bring back the original intention of that day through the picture called memory.
‘Let’s not fret. The anxiety I feel now is nothing compared to that day.’
The media all praised the success of the strategy, but Shin Yu-seong, who knew the truth, was not relieved.
After swinging my fist, what I felt when the blow did not reach Mortis was an intense intuition of defeat.
It was a moment of despair that made even Shin Yu-seong, who had never known defeat, stiffen.
However, the legendary hunter Kang Yu-chan was of a different class. He drove a dagger into Mortis’ head that even Shin Yoo-seong’s fuselage vision could not chase away.
As a result, Mortis disappeared, as the name of the dagger of extinction suggests.
‘I heard there were certain restrictions, but he was also Master’s colleague. ‘It’s on a different level from my current skills.’
Kang Yu-chan was of a different class among hunters with S-class characteristics. This was the ultimate expression of an old man who devoted his entire life to being a ‘hunter’ despite having the talent chosen by God.
On the other hand, Shin Yu-seong was defeated.
If Kang Yu-chan had not come to visit, his life would have already ended in Delta Tower.
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Before we knew it, Shin Yu-seong had reached a forest full of bushes.
‘The second trial is the forest maze.’
The Maze Forest was literally like a well-made maze. No matter where I turned, it was the same green landscape, and there was obviously no path.
‘But getting through the forest maze was simpler than I thought.’
In the maze forest, if you are not sure, you will get lost. If you look around to see if this path is right or that path is right, you end up losing your direction and wandering around in the same place.
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‘I almost stayed here too.’
However, Shin Yu-seong realized the answer when he was only 5 years old. The truth was that there is no endless road in the world, so if you follow one path, you will eventually reach the end.
That was a very simple yet clear answer. The difficult thing was that I had to believe without doubt in the path I had chosen.
The feeling of doubt that I should now go back down a different path causes me to return to the same path I took.
In other words, the teacher’s second teaching was confidence in oneself.
Maybe that’s what you need more than anything else right now.
‘It’s over.’
Shin Yu-seong left the forest and did not look back. He just walked forward.
‘The third trial is the path of the wild beast.’
From this point on, it couldn’t exactly be called a climb, and it couldn’t be completed in one day. Once you get out of the maze forest, the true appearance of Mt. Musin is revealed and wild animals appear.
What was unique was that the higher you went, the stronger and more dangerous wild animals appeared.
It took 5-year-old Shin Yu-seong four years to accept the teachings of Yuwon Hak and climb Mt. Musin.
Shin Yu-seong could not forget the day he defeated the roaring white tiger and eventually stood at the top of Mt. Musin.
What his teacher, Yu Won-hak, tried to teach Shin Yu-seong was the wilderness where only power exists as the rule.
‘Now the animals don’t attack me anymore.’
There was no need for logic in the wild. Just as persuasion does not work for monsters, the hierarchy of wild animals is also power, and what they need to protect themselves is also power.
Life in the wild is no different from the life of a hunter.
It was a simple and clear law that has been passed down since our ancestors, before humans were called mankind.
“purr. That… … .”
After walking for some time, a huge white tiger that appeared to be well over 3 meters approached Shin Yu-seong.
“You, that pattern… … .”
It was similar to the white tiger that Shin Yu-seong had beaten in his childhood, but had a strangely different pattern.
“i get it. “I guess it’s the child he gave birth to?”
As a mother, the old white tiger gave birth to children. He taught them skills to survive in the wild. In the end, his will and teachings took over and he gave birth to a new king of Mt. Musin.
Of course, the mountain commander who commanded Mt. Musin was also a cute cat to the current Shin Yu-seong.
“Grung, purr-”
Did your mother teach you this right away?
It seemed like Baekho had completely given in as he came to see Shin Yu-seong first, rubbing his head against his leg and showing affectionate affection.
‘Even though he was injured, his legacy was eventually passed on through his descendants.’
In a way, this was the reason why Geomshin accepted Ryujin as his disciple, and the reason why King Kwon accepted Shin Yuseong as his disciple.
However, the difference between the two is that Geomsin wanted a successor who would put an end to his ‘skill’, and King Gwon wanted a hunter who would carry on his ‘spirit’.
Their goal was to be the best, but their teachings were very different.
Wow-
Shin Yu-seong, who arrived at the top, clenched his fists. She could see the cave where she had stayed and unusual trees that bore fruit even in the cold weather.
“That… … .”
It was clearly a tree that had not been there before before he came down. This was evidence that someone had remained on Mt. Musin and stayed around even after he had descended the mountain.
“Grung, kagaeng!”
The white tiger that was following Shin Yu-seong must have sensed something and started running away in the opposite direction.
He was so scared that he even urinated, which was a shame to be called Sangun.
But it was worth it if you knew who the other person was.
“Are some of the trees so amazing that your body stiffens?”
The large man walking towards Shin Yu-seong smiled brightly, despite his blunt tone.
“Master!”
Shin Yu-seong was happy.
It was just a path I took to regain my original intention. I never dreamed that Yu Won-hak was really staying on Mt. Musin.
After coming down the mountain, Shin Yu-seong, who always seemed like an adult around his colleagues, liked them like a child.
“There are so many things I want to tell you, Master!”
Looking at it this way, it was clear that Shin Yu-seong was also the age of a student. She let Shin Yoo-sung rejoice, her eyes shining, as if she had met her parents who had been away for a very long time.
“There’s no need to be in such a hurry. “It’s still bright, so let’s talk slowly.”
Yu Won-hak smiled solemnly, as if there was nothing he could do.
