Episode 499
Chapter 1
We left the ruined palace. My master and I walked while looking at the moon.
We walked for a long time in silence.
I feel like the wind is cold. And I also wonder how to express this strange feeling. All sorts of random thoughts come to mind.
[Elixir.]
I paused for a moment at the sound of the teacher’s voice. Then I started walking again.
[I only drank one bottle.]
“… … .”
[I felt like my lifespan was decreasing exponentially the more I used up my strength.]
I looked at my teacher. My teacher was looking at the sky.
[I don’t know how much life I have left. Do you know?]
“… … I don’t know.”
[Yes, I guess I don’t know. When I came here and fought against the man called Demon King of Hwanhee, the evil spirit, the lifespan I lost… … .]
“Why did you come?”
How long has it been? Maybe it’s the first time. I’ve interrupted the Master mid-sentence.
It may not be the first time, but it feels like the first time. Only then does the Master turn his gaze to me. He continues.
“If you hadn’t come and stayed in the Western Continent, you wouldn’t have had to drink the elixir or expend your lifespan.”
The teacher stared at me blankly. I stared at the teacher blankly as well. The teacher quietly turned around. He started walking again. I stayed in that place.
“I did not establish a nation for fun.”
The teacher, who had walked two steps, stopped and turned his head.
“It wasn’t a joke that the country was named Milos.”
[… … .]
“If something unexpected were to happen here, if I were to die or something like that, the only person who could protect the Milos Empire and its people was you, Master.”
The sight of the Master bathed in moonlight was beautiful. But I wasn’t interested now.
“You must have taken some measures. However, they are only temporary measures. I do not need to know what those measures are, nor do I want to know. I clearly said that I would go to the Eastern Continent, and you, Master, said that you would stay. Did my will, my thoughts, and my words seem like a joke to you?”
The master walks towards me again.
[Continue.]
Continue? I’m sorry, but there’s nothing left to do. I’ve said everything I wanted to say. As I kept my mouth shut, the Master spoke.
[Is that all?]
“What else do you need here?”
The teacher, who had been quietly looking into my eyes, slowly opened his mouth.
[That’s a leap of faith.]
“A leap? Where are you looking?”
[You may have decided that it would be best to go to the Eastern Continent alone and fight, but as I said before, that is your decision alone. Don’t assume that other people’s decisions will be the same as yours.]
“… … .”
[Self-righteousness does not discriminate between people. It can collapse whether you are strong or weak. It can be you or me. Judgment changes depending on where you place your priorities. Do you see the distant future? Then look at the future. I see the present.]
It’s a funny thing. Look to the future, I’ll look to the present.
It’s really annoying.
[I respect you. Your judgment is so accurate as to be eerie. I used to be like that too. Things I found ominous, things I felt strange about, that’s what I call intuition. My intuition was so accurate as to be eerie.]
Why is that?
Why am I so good at seeing people, and why is my teacher so good at seeing people? And although I never said anything, my intuition has never been wrong.
Whether it’s seeing people or reading the situation, there’s never a mistake in anything. The same goes for the Master. The reason is simple.
[When you climb up to the natural scenery that is being talked about here, you instinctively feel the fate of the world. What you feel and what I feel are different, but in some ways, they may be the same.]
It’s similar… … It’s complicated, but surprisingly simple.
[It was not a coincidence that you came here. It was inevitable. Your intuition must have sensed that inevitable. Something was going to invade the Western Continent ‘soon’. Mixed with the memories of your past life, you must have judged it as ‘something that had to be stopped right now’. That’s why you prepared for it, wasn’t it?]
I didn’t say anything because it was right. There is a saying that silence is affirmation. The teacher continued speaking.
[I felt that the Western Continent would be safe for the time being. It was a gut feeling. As I said before, this is no different from your gut feeling. There is just a time difference.]
“… … .”
[Not now, but in a few months, or a few years, or a few weeks, the Western Continent will be invaded. You saw it then, and I saw it now. If the Western Continent is to be invaded, there will be signs here, and you and I here will be able to see it. It will not be too late to go to the Western Continent then.]
It’s all true. It may depend on how you look at it, but there’s definitely nothing wrong with it.
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I act on instinct. I always have. I act on instinct and find answers.
Intuition is not certainty, but I thought a lot and did research to make that intuition certainty. Every moment, intuition became certainty.
I closed my eyes. A sigh escaped me.
I’m good at fighting. I’ve never lost a fight. And that includes verbal arguments. I’ve never lost to anyone, even verbally. Who taught me that?
I learned it from my teacher.
There was nothing to say to each other. Because this story ended here. There was one thing I also felt for sure when I came to the Eastern Continent, and that was the invasion.
No matter how you look at it, that invasion isn’t happening right now.
It could take at least a few weeks, or maybe months, or maybe years if you’re lucky, and then the invasion happens.
I sighed again. I slowly opened my mouth.
The words that came out of my mouth were probably something that even the teacher had not expected.
“Can I hug you tightly just once?”
I didn’t listen to the answer. I just hugged the teacher who was right in front of me.
It was light. The master did not refuse.
I gently stroked the back of my teacher’s head with my right hand.
Worrying about the country? Worrying about the people? I can’t even think about those things right now.
I just had this thought. No, I wanted to say this.
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“I missed you.”
Startled, the teacher trembles.
Then the Master’s hands went up. He didn’t hit me or anything, but just hugged me lightly.
Everything was good, even the feeling of Master’s arms on my back.
It feels like a tangled thread has been unraveled.
I felt like it would be nice if time just stopped like this.
The Master’s soft voice comes to my ears.
[I wanted to see it too.]
A smile appears on the lips.
We were like that for a while.
After some time, a light burst out. Not from my body, but from the Master’s body.
Then the Master’s body shrinks. He becomes a doll.
Swish, the clothes the teacher was wearing fall to the floor.
I was dazed for a moment.
“… …Why don’t you stay longer?”
The master who had become a doll reached out his hand. I was a little dazed, but I quickly came to my senses. I grabbed the hand. Then I lightly placed it on my shoulder.
The Master said.
[If you’re in the safest place in the world, why do you need to be in a human body?]
I’m sure the Master knows that this place is a much rougher place than he thought. That’s how much he trusts me.
I sat down for a moment and straightened out the clothes that the Master had been wearing. I didn’t know whether I should mention it or not, but I thought it would be better to just keep it neat.
I even cleaned up everything, including the underwear the teacher was wearing.
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He put it in the subspace and stood up.
We walked again.
This place, located on the outskirts of the palace, was a ruin from the fight between me and Gwangjeon, but the scenery was still alive.
There was a cliff, and beneath it was a forest, and within that forest was another cliff, and beneath that was a forest.
And above us is a bright full moon.
I walked all the way there.
This time, it was not me but the Master who broke the silence.
[When everything is over.]
“When it’s finished?”
[Let’s get started.]
It was a truly meaningful statement. We nodded. We knew what it meant.
I have work to do. Master has work to do too.
If all of that isn’t resolved, our relationship won’t progress. That’s what I learned from my teacher, and that’s what my teacher taught me. And that’s how we lived.
We two are the same.
When it’s all over.
After we finish killing Ragnarok or persuading him, my master and I.
I laughed naturally.
“I guess I should have kissed you more passionately when we were people. It’s such a shame.”
[Stop making weird noises and just keep walking.]
I walked along with the teacher, whose face looked slightly red.
Although it was not mentioned in detail, when the Master returned to the doll form, the doll was not a doll as people usually think. It was a miniature human being.
I’ve said many times that I had the best day of my life, and I think today will be no exception.
Today was the best day ever.
* * *
The swordsman Hyuk Jin-gang returned to his residence. As soon as he returned, Hyuk Jin-gang did just one thing.
It is a gathering of martial artists who are above the level of life and death belonging to the Heaven and Earth.
Soon they gathered at the heavenly palace, the dwelling place of the Heavenly King.
About 90 unmanned people sit down in the corridor of the palace. They do not sit without any boundaries or without any pretense.
In the open corridor around the perimeter, there were dozens of cushions. From the front to the back, in order of military power, the warriors sat on them. Among them was the Great Master of the Underworld, Je-ryung-dae.
The 90 unmanned units read the strange atmosphere.
The expression on Hyuk Jin-gang’s face on the stage, overlooking them all, was extremely cold.
Some knew it, some didn’t, but once Hyuk Jin-gang opened his mouth, everyone found out.
“Gwangjon is dead.”
“……ah.”
Short gasps burst out here and there.
Among them, King Zhuge Liang, one of the greatest generals of the time, asked.
“Can I ask who died?”
Hyuk Jin-gang answered neatly.
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“Jack Milos. Emperor of the West.”
“ah…….”
Hyukjin Kang looks around with cold eyes.
Gwangjon is dead. Gwangjon is a person from Cheonwicheon. Furthermore, he is also a person from Hyukjin River. Then what should we do?
This time, the one who asked the question was Zhuge Liang.
“Is it war?”
“war?”
“… … The emperor who came from the West is now acting as if this Eastern Continent is his land. Isn’t Cheon-wi-cheon’s purpose to protect the martial arts world? If so, it would be natural to kill him and turn the Western Continent into a wasteland.”
Hyuk Jin-gang looked at Jegal Seon without saying a word. Jegal Seon took a deep breath and continued.
“I think that is the pride of our Cheon-oe-cheon who leads the martial arts world.”
There were quite a few who agreed with that statement.
