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A brief glimpse through the clouds (3)
She couldn’t say anything for a long time.
The term “new life” was so unfamiliar to me that it seemed like I didn’t know how to accept it.
“Don’t play around.”
“Do I look like I’m joking?”
Of course it can’t seem that way. Because I was looking at her more seriously than ever.
“Do you know what you are saying?”
“I know very well.”
“You don’t even know me very well, do you?”
I took out an envelope from my pocket and handed it to her.
After receiving the envelope, she checked the contents inside. That was the information about Seohaksa that Ban Seo-jeong gave me.
She raised her head and asked with a surprised face.
“How do I do this?”
Her expression suddenly hardened, and wariness and suspicion appeared in her eyes.
“How did you know I was investigating this person?”
“I know much more than this.”
I could feel her agitation.
“Tell me.”
But she was trying hard not to lose her composure. If it weren’t for her past relationship with me, she would have drawn her sword already.
“I am fighting with the Galgunsa against the behind-the-scenes organization that controls the Murim Lord. “I know you are part of that organization.”
“When did you know?”
From now on, her fate and mine will change depending on my answer.
How should I answer?
How can I know the heart of a man, and especially the heart of a woman?
But I know one thing.
When faced with a complex and difficult problem that is difficult to make a judgment on, there is one simple yet difficult way to overcome it.
That’s just telling the truth. I don’t think telling the truth necessarily produces the best results.
But even though it’s not the best result, at least it doesn’t mess things up. At least that judgment goes somewhere in the middle.
The reason things get messy and messy is when you start lying.
“Since the first time we met.”
Chil-ho was startled and his expression became even harder. It occurred to me that my relationship up until now was all intentional.
I still told the truth.
“I’ve been wondering what to do with you. Should I kill him or bring him to my side?”
“Why did you worry like that? “I was your enemy from the beginning.”
“Although we are enemies… … “Because I don’t feel like an enemy.”
That was my honest feeling as expected. When I see her, I remember the moment I first met her. A lonely figure standing under the moonlight and looking at the pond. That image was so impressively imprinted.
I’m not sure whether it comes from feelings between a man and a woman, or from human compassion.
This time I asked her.
“Do you feel like I am your enemy?”
She responded with action.
Slurp.
She pulled out her sword, strode over, and pointed it at my neck.
I stayed still as she did.
“I could kill you.”
“I’m sorry… … “You can’t do that.”
Just like what I said to her, my martial arts skills also showed the truth.
Papa Park.
He quickly grabbed her wrist and broke it. She gave her strength in defiance, but she used that strength to quickly twist it against her.
Whirring.
After spinning once in the air, her sword was suddenly in my hand. Seonhak’s secret techniques showed their true value.
She said, looking at me in shock.
“You were hiding your martial arts skills. “That’s also an incredible feat of martial arts.”
He would never have imagined that his sword would be taken away so easily.
“Otherwise I wouldn’t have thought of dealing with you in the first place.”
She looked at me with a complicated expression. It won’t be easy to decide how much to believe and what to do.
“Why are you telling me everything?”
“Did you forget? What did they say about wanting to hire you? “I don’t want to deceive you.”
“Do you really mean it?”
“exactly.”
“Why? Why me? Instead of saying trivial things like saying we don’t seem like enemies, tell me the truth.”
She spoke quickly, uncharacteristically for her.
This was the answer I found in my heart.
“Because I want to.”
What other reason could there be? I just want to do that.
Silence flows again. Her eyes and mine intertwined in midair.
Ask and answer, remain silent. Ask and answer again and remain silent. It felt like we were walking up stairs.
she asked again.
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“If I refuse, will you kill me?”
I shook my head without hesitation.
“no. “I’ll just send it back.”
“I can go and report this.”
“But I won’t kill you.”
Crash.
With a deft hand, he placed her sword in its sheath.
“Nothing will change even if you refuse.”
“Is this why you gave me a name?”
Her voice was shaking the most since she met me today.
“no. It doesn’t matter. “It was just pure heart.”
Her gaze flew to see if my words were true.
There was silence again. This time waiting for an answer felt too long. I felt that I had now reached the final step.
Finally, she opened her mouth.
“Your suggestion… … “I accept it.”
“Really?”
“yes. “I’m willing to be on your side.”
“Thank you so much. “You won’t regret it.”
“You never know.”
“ha ha ha.”
I laughed out loud with joy. She looked slightly flushed because I was so happy. She said it was burdensome.
“I am just an ordinary person called Chilho.”
She was not ordinary. If she did, she wouldn’t have caught my eye.
But I didn’t share those thoughts because I was afraid it would be a burden to her.
“I am also an ordinary person. “Let’s just get together as ordinary people and destroy your organization.”
I held out my hand strongly towards her.
She slowly reached out her hand and took my hand. Her hands were cold.
“Your hands are warm.”
“Your hands are too cold.”
“My hands are naturally cold.”
She quickly removed the hand she was holding.
“May I ask why you allowed it?”
“I liked your terms of employment.”
Her gaze, which had been directed at me, went up to the sky. The moon was rising far away in the dark sky.
“I wanted to live a new life.”
* * *
At dawn the next day, Lim Yeon-jeong was out in the field with Chil-ho. I came here following Chilho, who suggested we go for a morning walk.
“It’s nice to come back here.”
Lim Yeon-jeong stretched out her hand and felt the wind. The refreshing early morning breeze refreshed people’s mood.
Lim Yeon-jeong, who was happily looking at the dawn, took out the words she had buried.
“You didn’t forget, right? “The thing you said that you would save me.”
“of course.”
“You don’t have to do that. I didn’t say anything that day, but that was arrogance. Saying that you will save someone or not can be said to be a very cocky behavior. “No one can live the world for you, right?”
Lim Yeon-jeong deliberately spoke in a strong tone to make her give up. And it was done very realistically and convincingly.
“There’s no need to feel bad about that. “I know very well that he did it with good intentions for me.”
Chilho just listened to her in silence. Lim Yeon-jeong asked again as if confirming.
“Are you going to do as I say?”
“yes.”
“You don’t feel bad, right?”
“yes.”
“thank you.”
Lim Yeon-jeong smiled.
‘Okay, this is it. There is no need to send her to her death for nothing.’
This was definitely his own business. I will somehow find a way to kill Seohaksa, or I will find a way to get out of this situation.
Of course, it won’t be easy to fall out. When looking at the teachings in the booklet he had received from Master Seohak earlier, it seemed impossible to assist unless someone was as skilled as he was. If you want to save it, you can save it, but it is not that easy to save people who are familiar with Dafa.
Because it wasn’t.
Of course, the organization won’t allow him to get away with this.
‘I have to figure it out somehow.’
While I was so worried, Chilho spoke calmly.
“No one will live for me, but… … “Sometimes you have to live for someone.”
“that’s right. “It’s just not this time.”
I tried to stop Chil-ho once again, but in fact, the words that there are times when you have to live for someone actually applied to Lim Yeon-jeong herself.
‘I will definitely survive. To do that… … .’
The next thing she thought in her mind came out of Chilho’s mouth.
“I will kill Seohaksa.”
Lim Yeon-jeong quickly looked back at Chil-ho.
“You said earlier that you would do as I say, right?”
“I’ll do it.”
“But you’re going to kill Seohaksa? “What do you mean?”
“Instead, I won’t kill you. “That person will kill you.”
Chilho turned his head and looked in the other direction. Lim Yeon-jeong turned her head after him and was surprised.
Byeokridan was walking in the distance.
Looking at that scene, Chilho said to her.
“I have already decided to betray the organization.”
“It was because of me, right?”
“At first.”
Obviously, it all started because of Lim Yeon-jeong. But it was different now.
“now… … “It’s because of that person.”
* * *
“I will kill Seohaksa.”
Lim Yeon-jeong looked at me with a surprised expression at my words.
I told Chil-ho that we should inform Lim Yeon-jeong about our work.
Chilho agreed with what I said. She couldn’t go ahead with killing the bachelor without her knowledge. No, she may not have been needed for her killing, but she had to let her know. She had to know who Lim Yeon-jeong was trying so hard to protect.
“I will kill him before the Great Law begins.”
“Don’t you need to know what kind of Dafa it is?”
“Then you will be in danger. When he dies, the next person in charge will come. At least there won’t be another guy who kills his colleagues. “Let’s find out what kind of Dafa it is through him.”
It was entirely a consideration for Lim Yeon-jeong.
Just like Chil-ho did at first, Lim Yeon-jeong stood guard against me.
“How did you convince your younger brother here?”
“I was being honest. “I want to be with you.”
“How do I plan to persuade you?”
“As expected, I plan to be honest.”
“You look at me very funny.”
At the same time, Lim Yeon-jeong looked at Chil-ho and made an expression as if he had really fallen for such words.
Chilho said nothing.
“Not at all. “If I had looked down on you, this meeting wouldn’t have happened in the first place.”
It was natural that it was much more difficult to persuade than Chilho.
It was the Unknown Daehyup that had a deep relationship with Lim Yeon-jeong, not the Byeokridan.
Nevertheless, it was because of Chilho that this story was possible. At the center of this persuasion was Chilho, her.
“How can I trust you? Is there anything that will make you believe me?”
“Nothing at all.”
Lim Yeon-jeong made a puzzled expression, but eventually burst into laughter.
“At least you’re honest.”
This was Lim Yeon-jeong’s charm. She never lost her positive attitude in everything.
“If you had told me something I could believe, I would never have believed it.”
“Thank goodness. “There was nothing to persuade.”
When I answered self-deprecatingly, her expression became even more relaxed.
“Why are you fighting them?”
She used the expression ‘they’ instead of ‘us’. These words showed that she, too, had lost her mind to the organization she belonged to.
“Because they are bad guys.”
“Aren’t you trying to take their place?”
“Is money and power what I want?”
“People don’t know.”
“Then I will tell you clearly. no. “The reason I want to fight them is because they are bad guys who need to disappear from the river.”
Lim Yeon-jeong read my sincerity. She could tell from her expression. But her answer was a separate matter.
“I can’t leave the organization.”
I had a guess that she wouldn’t leave the organization. I also knew. That it wasn’t because of her loyalty to her organization.
She couldn’t leave because of someone.
Those women who are willing to sacrifice their lives for someone are too much for the organization behind it.
“I don’t think this is a matter of whether I leave the organization or not.”
“Then what’s the problem?”
“A matter of survival. “If you don’t survive, the people you’re trying to protect won’t survive either.”
“But if it turns out that I betrayed the organization, I won’t be the only one who dies.”
“Who are you trying to protect?”
Lim Yeon-jeong’s eyes trembled.
I think.
All of this may be just one step away.
Both dying and living. Meeting and passing by.
I chose Chilho, and Chilho accepted it. Because of that, all results will be different.
The same was true for Lim Yeon-jeong. Her fate will change completely depending on whether she chooses me or not.
It didn’t matter where Seohaksa was or how strong he was right now. He’s going to die by my hands anyway. Because I will definitely get rid of it.
At this moment, I once again asked the most important question.
“Who is more precious than your life?”
Lim Yeon-jeong looked at me. She looked at me like that for a while and then spoke softly.
“He is my son.”
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