Episode 192.
The sudden appearance of Baek Seon-pyeong.
The old man in front of Si-woo was clearly Baek Seon-pyeong.
But why is that?
Siwoo couldn’t believe that the old man in front of him was Baek Seonpyeong.
More precisely, I couldn’t believe that it was the Sword Immortal, Baek Seon-pyeong.
That was understandable, because I couldn’t feel any energy from Baek Seon-pyeong right now.
In the past, the powerful aura that had defeated the Demon King was nowhere to be found.
Is it possible that it is impossible to estimate?
Is the gap between Baek Seon-pyeong and Si-woo so great that he can’t even perceive Baek Seon-pyeong’s energy?
A thought suddenly occurred to Siwoo, but he was able to quickly shake his head.
Even so, I could definitely feel the aura of the red shadow.
This means that.
Baek Seon-pyeong lost all his power.
I lost everything I had as a swordsman.
“……”
Siwoo didn’t know what to say.
Because I knew why Baek Seon-pyeong lost all his powers.
I just heard that story from Baek Seon-je.
“Thank you for saving my life.”
Siwoo simply bowed his head to express his gratitude.
Baek Seon-pyeong quietly looked at Si-woo.
“I am the one who should be grateful to you.”
And then we heard Baek Seon-pyeong’s answer.
Baek Seon-pyeong, who looked up, was just an ordinary old man.
Baek Seon-pyeong, who had lost all his strength, felt no momentum at all.
Maybe that’s why.
“Thanks to you, I don’t have to live a life full of regrets.”
“…yes?”
Siwoo wondered what Baek Seonpyeong was talking about.
In the midst of a dazed mind.
“What kind of nonsense is this?”
I heard Baek Seon-je’s whispers.
And honestly… it was.
Seriously, what kind of nonsense is that?
Isn’t there another reason why he is called the Sword Immortal?
But freshness doesn’t say things like that.
People think that immortals are noble beings who play Go in a cloudy paradise, but that is not the case at all.
Of course, I played baduk.
But on the other hand, he spits out all sorts of curses, telling me not to bother training.
You little punk, didn’t you just take the bottom stone out?
Didn’t you learn in the secular world that if you fool around, your hand will fly off?
These guys were the ones who were wielding swords and such, saying that they would make us start over from the beginning of the Uhwadengseon.
This is not a joke, this is real.
The eight most outstanding immortals in Taoism, the Eight Immortals.
Yeo Dong-bin was one of the Eight Immortals and a true ‘soul sage’.
And these are the videos uploaded on Yeo Dong-bin’s channel.
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The ones who play around and do things like this are the gods.
‘But why is that video showing up on Jang Sam-bong’s recommended channel?’
anyway.
Siwoo couldn’t understand what Baek Seonpyeong was saying.
“Your father is a bit of an old fart. I hope you understand.”
As expected, Baek Seon-je whispered from the side.
A sound that Baek Seon-pyeong could easily hear from a while ago.
But is it because I lost all my strength?
Baek Seon-pyeong didn’t seem to hear Baek Seon-je’s whispers.
…anyway.
“I don’t really understand why you are saying that to me, Your Majesty.”
Baek Seon-pyeong had no reason to be grateful to Si-woo.
Baek Seon-pyeong was the one who saved him from being killed by the Red Shadow.
It was Baek Seon-pyeong who saved Si-woo who was dying.
More than anything.
“Haven’t you lost all your strength?”
For Siwoo, that meant losing all the skills he had accumulated.
How would that loss feel?
Siwoo couldn’t even imagine it.
but.
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“Is there a law that says a hero’s end will be brilliant?”
Baek Seon-pyeong, however, was quite indifferent.
“I have been shirking my responsibilities. I have paid a low price for it, so don’t worry about it.”
Is a hero still a hero even if he has lost his power?
Although he had lost all his strength, Baek Seon-pyeong was still strong.
Also, Baek Seon-pyeong’s two eyes looking at Si-woo.
There was sincerity in those wrinkled eyes.
Baek Seon-pyeong was truly grateful to Si-woo.
Perhaps this is the true nature of a fairy.
I’m not talking about the gods of Godtube who are wielding swords and saying they’ll reset the Uhwadengseon.
Siwoo had that thought while looking at Baek Seonpyeong.
Baek Seon-pyeong walked slowly into the hospital room.
He stopped at an appropriate distance, pulled up a chair nearby and sat down.
Only then was Siwoo able to recall what Baek Seonpyeong had said just a moment ago.
It is said that none other than the red shadow was Baek Seon-pyeong’s colleague in the past.
“What you said earlier….”
“The Red Shadow was one of the thirteen heroes like me.”
I heard Baek Seon-pyeong’s calm answer.
But from the listener’s perspective, it wasn’t like that.
“Huh?!”
“Is that true, Father?”
“…Eh?”
The moment I saw it, I felt something.
That would be the case, seeing Baek Seon-je’s eyes wide open next to him.
No, why are you surprised?
“Chief, is this the first time you’ve heard of this story?”
“Yeah, that’s right.”
Baek Seon-je nodded with a trembling expression.
From the appearance of Baek Seon-je, Si-woo was able to guess the relationship between the father and son.
‘It seems like we weren’t very close.’
So it seems like they didn’t talk to each other much.
Well, as is usually the case with parents and children.
As children grow up, it is natural for them to become more distant.
And it was even more so between father and son.
But um.
What if Siwoo’s father were alive?
Baekseonje and Baekseonpyeong.
Could the relationship between these two have ever been as awkward as this?
Or maybe they had become closer.
Siwoo thought about it for a moment and then quickly shook it off.
Instead, I quietly repeated Baek Seon-pyeong’s words.
Thus, insight (S+).
A strange force penetrates the essence of the phenomenon encountered.
The red shadow is an entity of unclear identity.
However, there were many rumors floating around regarding the red shadow.
One of them is that the Red Shadow killed one of the 13 heroes.
The Archmage, Alberto.
He was one of the 13 heroes killed by the Red Shadow.
But what if the Red Shadow is one of the 13 heroes?
Then the story would be different.
Because the red shadow could be Archmage Alberto.
If you think about it, the red shadow used word magic.
Word magic is an extremely difficult magic that even S-class magicians cannot perform.
That’s why Alberto died.
It could be said that it was not Alberto who was killed, but rather the red shadow.
“Then… is it true that the rumor that the Red Shadow killed one of the 13 heroes?”
So Siwoo asked Baek Seonpyeong.
“That is also true.”
Baek Seon-pyeong continued speaking with a calm expression.
“The Red Shadow murdered his colleague Alberto.”
“What you’re saying is that Alberto and the Red Shadow are two separate entities.”
“Yes.”
The answer I heard was from Baek Seon-pyeong.
Siwoo erased the possibility that Alberto was the Red Shadow.
“Then which of the 13 heroes was the red shadow?”
“Saduz.”
Baek Seon-pyeong’s answer is heard.
“The Red Shadow was the 13th hero, Saduz.”
The fighting god, Saduj.
For a moment, Siwoo’s mind became complicated.
Facts that were previously known became confusing.
First of all.
“Didn’t Saduz commit suicide?”
Saduz was said to have committed suicide.
But now.
“That’s all that’s known. If it’s suicide as a hero, then it might be true.”
Baek Seon-pyeong answered calmly.
“Father, then why did the Red Shadow become the ruler of Pandemonium?”
The following question is from Baek Seon-je.
And that was also the second question Siwoo had.
The Red Shadows were the 13 heroes.
A hero who saved humanity from the brink of destruction.
They were strong, but they also had nobility.
You could tell just by looking at Baekseonpyeong right now.
Although Baek Seon-pyeong turned his back on the world, he ultimately sacrificed himself and showed his side as a hero.
These were the 13 heroes.
Savior of mankind.
But the red shadow wasn’t like that.
Rather, it became a public enemy of humanity.
If this was going to happen, why did you become one of the 13 heroes?
Why did I cut off the Demon King’s head and save humanity?
If only I hadn’t killed the Demon King from the beginning.
Wouldn’t it be better to just let this world perish?
“Why the red shadow…?”
I wonder if there is another true purpose.
Isn’t the purpose of pandemonium the destruction of humanity?
Baek Seon-pyeong didn’t answer easily this time.
The silence continued for a long time.
And how much time passed?
“Saduz… was betrayed.”
Baek Seon-pyeong slowly opened his mouth.
“No, it wasn’t just Saduz. We were all betrayed.”
betrayal?
Siwoo couldn’t easily understand Baek Seonpyeong’s words.
Baek Seon-je also had a puzzled expression on his face, as if it was the first time he had heard the story.
“After the Demon King was defeated and peace was restored, our heroes were no longer useful. They were no more than a nuisance to deal with.”
Leftover nuclear waste.
It was an inappropriate metaphor for the savior of mankind, but it could be seen as such.
When needed, he was able to help countless people with his powerful force.
However, immediately after its use was over, it was nothing more than nuclear waste that was difficult to dispose of.
A time bomb that could explode anytime, anywhere.
Something that, by its very existence, destroys the surrounding environment and causes anxiety.
“Even those we sacrificed our lives to save have turned their backs on us.”
Furthermore.
“They were trying to destroy us.”
In the end, we end up dealing with 13 heroes.
Like trying to dispose of nuclear waste.
However, the strength of the 13 heroes was unusual.
Siwoo could tell because he had bumped into the red shadow.
It’s at a level where you can’t do anything about it.
Naturally, the assassination attempt ends in failure.
“I had to… cut down a mother who was grateful to me for saving her child’s life.”
Baek Seon-pyeong’s face was complicated as he spoke.
“Then the reason why the Sword Master turned his back on the world is also….”
“It wasn’t there, it was there.”
Baek Seon-pyeong simply answered like that.
A story unknown to the world.
The dark side of the name hero.
“……”
Siwoo just listened to Baek Seon-pyeong’s story without saying anything.
Baek Seon-pyeong shook off the threat of assassination and found other colleagues.
And then we meet Saduz.
Saduz also faced assassination threats.
As expected, it was a situation where the threat of assassination was shaken off.
however.
“From then on, something was wrong with Saduz.”
Saduz stood in the middle of a bloody battlefield.
Pieces of corpses were scattered around the saduz.
‘Inspector, do you know about that?’
Saduz spoke to Baek Seon-pyeong who had come to see him.
‘God is always beyond us. Even if we stretch out our hands to touch him, or strain our ears to hear his voice, God does not respond in any way.’
The atmosphere of Saduz is quite different from usual.
‘Humans can never become gods. In every way, gods are superior to us humans. But do you know that, Geomseon?’
Saduz… no.
The red shadow suddenly began to chew on the flesh of the corpse lying on the floor.
He chewed on the flesh of those he had saved, but who ultimately betrayed him.
As the chewing sound continued, the red shadow became even more red.
gulp.
The flesh of the corpse went down the red shadow’s throat.
‘There is one thing that humans are superior to God. There is one thing that even the omnipotent God cannot defeat in humans. Do you know what it is, Sword Master?’
Hehe.
A mad smile of a red shadow forming.
“Malicious.”
There was an inexplicable eerieness in the words that Baek Seon-pyeong spoke.
With those words, the red shadow is said to have left the place.
Baek Seon-pyeong couldn’t bear to catch that red shadow.
And never again.
The 13 heroes, Saduz, could not be seen.
That’s how Baek Seon-pyeong’s story ended.
“……”
Siwoo was really speechless.
Baek Seon-je was also the same, just keeping his mouth shut.
A moment of silence.
“But this is only Red Shadow’s claim.”
Baek Seon-pyeong’s meaningful voice was heard again.
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