Episode 76 < A song of light and shadow. (2) >
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3.
When I first tried to learn Asayu Sword.
“what?”
Cheonma was disappointed.
“The longest time you’ve starved in your life was only about three days?”
My efforts were not recognized. I gave up. I was resigned. He just watched me swing the sword for a moment. The Heavenly Demon easily turned his back and left.
“The story doesn’t make sense.”
“If you don’t even know this, how can you awaken the Demon Heavenly Art?”
The Heavenly Demon tested me only to make me give up on my own.
Because there is nothing more to look forward to in this world. Because there shouldn’t be any.
“It’s done.”
“It’s my fault.”
That’s when I learned ‘hunger’.
However, her attitude changed completely after she learned ‘thirst’.
4.
“Your sword is too simple.”
The Heavenly Demon watched me fight the Jiangshi.
I felt the way he looked at me gradually changing. Even when I occasionally swung my sword clumsily, the Heavenly Demon frowned but did not turn her back. He gave me some advice.
“There is no beauty in your sword. There is no application. “He is honest and upright, but he is also vulnerable.”
The country began to place its hopes on humans, and the Heavenly Demon began to place its hopes on humans.
“It seems as if your sword is not for dealing with humans, but for dealing with the world. It is not the sword of the main school, but closer to the sword of the political faction. “It’s an elaborate thing.”
At first, I too was killed in one hit by a martial arts zombie.
But as time passed, I was able to easily deal with martial arts zombies. It was natural. Because he was killed by the jiangshi brought by the hungry ghost every night.
The more I experienced the trauma of the man who died of thirst, the stronger my sword became.
“Let me tell you a concise decision.”
As my sword grew stronger, the Heavenly Demon finally began to teach me.
“Judgment? “What is that?”
“… It is a secret or secret. “It’s not easy to talk to a new child.”
The Cheonma swept his throat, saying, “Big, big.”
“Think about when you unfolded the Asayu sword. “What were you thinking when you swung your sword?”
“I thought about hunger.”
“Of course it would have been so. But that’s not all. “You did not know it yourself, but you penetrated the essence of magic without even realizing it.”
The essence of magic.
“I will inform you of this from now on.”
We sat facing each other in the snow.
“ruler. “Think of [an apple] in your head.”
“Apple noodles… . “Are you talking about eating apples?”
“It’s an apple to eat.”
As instructed, I imagined an apple.
“Did you remember it?”
“yes.”
“How does an apple feel?
“yes?”
The Heavenly Demon’s question was unfamiliar. What does an apple feel like? I don’t really have an apple in my hand, so how can I know its feel?
I was puzzled. The Heavenly Demon looked at my face closely.
“Don’t you know?”
“If you force yourself to think of it, you can imagine it, but… .”
“It’s okay. “If you don’t know, say you don’t know.”
“Ah yes. “I have no idea.”
“Hmm. hmm.”
The Heavenly Demon smiled. The woman was happy.
“You’re honest. good night! Now think about [hunger].”
“…….”
I remembered.
I thought of a farmer endlessly swinging a pickaxe on dry land. The gesture of hitting a child came to mind. The children dug up the soft soil by the river and made earth nuts with the dug out soil.
“Did you remember it?”
The Heavenly Demon whispered.
“yes. “I remembered it.”
“What does hunger feel like?”
The crunching of teeth eating a mud cookie. taste. Crunchy texture.
“… … “It’s crumbly.”
“What is the smell of hunger?”
“It’s the smell of the soil.”
“Ohh. What kind of soil is it? There are many types of soil. There is a separate soil for farming and a separate soil for making pottery. There is black soil and there is red soil. I’m curious about this place. “What is the soil of hunger?”
“It’s mud.”
I said with my eyes closed.
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“You can’t just scoop up any mud you want. “It is a clay with few pebbles and no sand grains.”
“I see. i get it. “What does hunger taste like?”
“…….”
“Ahaha.”
The Heavenly Demon’s voice became softer.
“I asked you what hunger tastes like. Why don’t you answer right away?”
“…I’m sad.”
I said.
“The children dry the mud cookies in the sun. While they are drying in the sun, there is nothing else to do, so the children hang around the mud cookies. They wait for the mud to dry….”
“They are children waiting for sunlight.”
“…yes.”
“Hunger is children waiting for sunlight.”
It was like that. It was like that.
“Oh no. “That is your poetry.”
The Heavenly Demon’s voice fell like simple snow.
“When I asked you about the feel of a mere apple, you answered that you did not know. What was it like when asked about hunger? You touched the clay. I smelled mud. Chewed the mud and ate it! “You have seen the river flowing, and you have even overheard the sound of its splashing water.”
An old man’s last voyage. ferry. night sky.
A lonely person who tried not to cause a nuisance to the world, but ended up becoming a nuisance.
“An apple has a form, but hunger does not. Apples have taste, but hunger is tasteless. And yet you speak so well of hunger! For you, hunger is like mud, sunlight, rivers, and children.”
“Ah! “That is your talent.”
The Heavenly Demon said.
“Now open your eyes.”
saw.
The Heavenly Demon moved both hands in a sitting position.
“The reason you don’t know the feel of an apple is simple. “It is because it did not stimulate your [memory].”
my memory.
“If you’ve ever eaten an apple, you’ll know.”
The Heavenly Demon smiled and moved his hand.
I recognized it right away.
Cheonma was pretending to cut an apple in half.
“Apples have soft skin. It’s shiny and slightly crunchy. I usually enjoy eating apples with the skin on, but that might change if I have a child with a cold. Cut it in half… .”
It really seemed like there was an apple in her hand.
“Gravel it with a spoon. “I chew the apple with a spoon and feed it to the sick child, bite by bite.”
“…….”
“Did you ever eat an apple that was chewed like that when you were a child?”
there is.
I remember a teacher at an orphanage doing that. She fed me an apple chewed with a spoon while I was lying down with a cold.
“What does a chewed apple taste like?”
“… … “I’m doing the dishes.”
“yes! The original crunchy apple becomes a dishwasher when chewed once on a spoon. But is that all? “Has it just become so tasteless?”
“Yellow juice fills my mouth.”
“Yes! That’s it! If you scratch the skin thoroughly, the remaining apple skin becomes wrinkled and wrinkled in a funny way. The hands of the mother who dug the apples also turn stained with the juice that has leaked from the apples. But then, then, then, oh well. “Can any of them be an apology to you?”
“…….”
I was lost in thought.
The Heavenly Demon asked me in a persuasive way as I was lost in thought.
“Is it an apple? Is it an apple cut in half? Is it the juice of a chewed spoon? Is it a shell? Is it the mother’s hand? “What is your apology?”
What is my apology?
“I once saw a mother who gave all the apples to her child but only ate the peel.”
“…….”
“For me, an apple is the remaining skin of its mother. This is a child with a cold. “It is a mother’s heart broken down spoon by spoonful.”
For some reason, my heart felt warm.
Even though I’m sitting in the middle of a snowy field.
Perhaps it was because the Heavenly Demon smiled.
“—And I also think of children whose mothers never dug apples for them when they were young.”
But the Heavenly Demon’s smile did not last long.
“I think of my mother who couldn’t buy apples. I think of my mother who didn’t buy it even though she could. It reminds me of a child who was sick and was lying down, but there was no one to take care of him. “It reminds me of a child who died because he couldn’t receive care.”
Poisonous air.
The Heavenly Demon’s black eyes were dark.
“There is nothing in this world where the human heart does not dwell, and there is no place where human resentment does not permeate!”
My body felt numb.
“Hunger has no form. It didn’t taste good. There was no scent. Go! Hunger is mud, river water, and child. Even a single apple is like that. Oh no! Just as you treat hunger with clay, so treat your thirst with clay!”
“…….”
“Feel the pangs of thirst! Sense it. Fill with flavor. Smell the scent. Eat. Make a gesture. Magic is a memory! Memory is a feeling. This is the decision of our school! The feeling of scooping up and eating mud, the feeling of holding it in your hand, is your hunger and your Demonic Heavenly Art!”
The back of my neck was cold.
A cool electricity flowed through my body.
“Even if the common people suffer injustice, that is all. can’t say I can’t vomit. Resentment that cannot be vomited continues to build up in the heart, eventually congealing into resentment. But we warriors of the Demonic Cult are different!”
The Heavenly Demon looked at me.
“We wield our swords!”
Without realizing it, I grabbed the hilt of the sword.
“Just as a gisaeng sings and a scholar recite poetry, we swing our swords. Is there any difference between the robbers of Green Forest and the demons of our school? They are wielded by the sword. But we wield swords! It is just that and that is all.”
Training has begun.
“How can you call it life when you just live the way you want to live? It is death! How can you call a sword that swings the way you want it a sword? It is a beast. Did you want to die? “Did you want to become an animal?”
“no!”
I clenched my molars.
“I am a living human being!”
“Then hurry up and get thirsty. “Be thirsty as you were hungry!”
112 people who starved to death were collected.
Among them, there was a child who gnawed on a mud cookie.
I bit into the fluttering grains of dirt in my mouth.
blast furnace,
Demon Heavenly God’s skill.
First type, first type.
Asayu sword, food death attack.
“You found the mud of hunger. Now you will have to find something to satisfy your thirst. To you, hunger was children waiting for sunlight. What thirst is to you!”
48 people who died of starvation were gathered.
Among them, there was an old woman who drank sea water and continued to drink it.
I pickled the five intestines and six pieces of meat in salt water.
blast furnace,
Demon Heavenly God’s skill.
J-sik, that type.
Galsabigeom 渴死痛劍.
“For you, hunger was like mud and thirst was like the sea. But is thirst the only pain that the sea brings? There is also the pain of drowning in sea water. There is the pain of drowning in the river. Ah, what is water to you!”
37 people who drowned were collected.
Among them, there was a father who gave his child his last breath.
I sank into the water and shared a breath with the anglerfish.
blast furnace,
Demon Heavenly God’s skill.
Third type, section form.
The sword of drowning and death.
“Hunger is dirt. Dryness is a wave. To you, suffocation is your father’s last breath! The land, sea, and air are already yours. Ahaha outside the bird! “What does winter mean to you?”
A total of 96 people who died in winter were collected.
Among them, there was a newborn baby who clung to the body of its already dead mother until the very end.
I hugged the corpse tightly until it froze.
blast furnace,
Demon Heavenly God’s skill.
The ritual ceremony is in the form of four.
Verb adjacent sword凍死接劍.
“…….”
Dawn has set. Morning has passed. Midday passed.
The world has had a day,
I sent 293 deaths.
“Oh no. your sword… … ”
The Heavenly Demon slowly opened her lips.
“Indeed, it is ever-changing.”
The way the Heavenly Demon looked at me also changed.
“Each person has different tendencies. Martial arts reveal the life of the person performing them. It’s a habit that can’t be broken. This is especially true for the Demon Heavenly Demonic Art, but ah, you… Varies. “It is truly abundant.”
“ah. “I often hear that I have a variety of styles.”
“…….”
“sorry. “Was it nonsense?”
“no. “It was bullshit.”
“You’re being a bit harsh.”
“To be honest, it was bullshit.”
is it. Is this bullshit?
There’s nothing I can do about it if it’s bullshit.
“It is difficult for humans to know all pain. Even if he knew, he wouldn’t want to go through all the pain to the limit… Very difficult. But when I see you performing the Demon Heavenly Demonic Art, I must… … . … hmm?”
The Heavenly Demon frowned. He turned his head.
“… “Someone is coming.”
Someone was approaching where I looked. It couldn’t have been a zombie because it was still daylight, and since the world had already been destroyed, it couldn’t have been an uninvited guest. It was the Murim lord and the poisonous snake. A poisonous snake carried the Murim lord on her back and walked through the snow.
“hmm.”
The Cheonma twitched the tip of her nose.
“What is going on here, old man? Besides, what is that pathetic little thing? under. “Have you finally admitted to yourself that you are an old grandfather?”
“noisy.”
The Murim lord spoke while riding on the back of a poisonous snake.
“We all came because we were worried about you. Ugh!”
“Worry? Worry? A passing Jiangshi must be in awe. I am in no position to worry about my throne over someone weaker than me…”
“Madu. You haven’t even received the nine bows yet, have you?”
“…….”
“Ugh. It’s obvious, it’s obvious! “I knew it would be like this.”
The Heavenly Demon closed his mouth.
I squinted in my mind.
‘What is a tilt lever?’
-It is an etiquette used when forming a relationship between a teacher and a student in a river.
Bae Hu-ryeong said.
-Each sect has slightly different etiquette. There are places where you really bow 9 times, and there are places where you bow 3 times… . I don’t know what happens in the Demonic Cult. It’s a secret and sacred ritual.
‘How was it in your clan?’
-Well, if you survive after being hit on the head by your teacher 9 times, that’s a courtesy. I lasted until the 63rd generation, which is said to be the longest record in the history of the sect. Is it awesome?
I realized why Bae Hu-ryeong was crazy.
The crazy person is extraordinary from the start.
“… … It’s noisy. “It is up to the council to decide who to accept as a disciple and when.”
The Heavenly Demon said bluntly.
“It is not a matter for you to interfere.”
“It’s nonsense. “I definitely have to intervene!”
The Murim lord got off the back of the poisonous snake. The old man glared at the Heavenly Demon fiercely.
“Because the reason you don’t take any disciples is because you feel sorry for me!”
“Huh? What are you saying… … ”
“We are the only two strong people left. Coincidentally, you are the only demon, and I am the only white sword. If you take on disciples alone, only the former members of the Demonic Cult will remain in Gangho. What is the conclusion? “It’s like winning a war between demons without fighting!”
“…….”
“You and I made a pact to settle the matter together. We made an oath. It’s uncomfortable to break our oath, and you feel sorry for me, so you can’t accept that young child as your disciple!”
hmm.
‘… I know. ‘There must be a reason for that.’
The situation is the same, but he is the only one who accepts disciples and continues his teachings.
Looking at the Heavenly Demon’s feelings, it seems likely that he would feel sorry for the Murim Lord.
only
“Tsk tsk tsk, you’re being so loyal for no reason!”
“…….”
“I knew you would be like this, so I struck first.”
The Murim Lord tapped the viper’s shoulder.
The viper smiled bitterly and scratched its cheek.
“what. “That’s how it happened.”
The Heavenly Demon’s eyes widened.
“No, no mul…” Could it be that you are that child… .”
“okay ! “I took you as my best disciple from today!”
“Is it okay for you to do this to me!?”
The Heavenly Demon rushed forward. Crash! Two masters were rolling around in the snow and having a dog fight.
“What kind of mindset did I have that I didn’t receive the obeisance all day today!” That, my sincere heart, is nothing to this old man…!”
“noisy! If Giyeon comes to you, accept it with a grateful heart to Sangje! “It’s not something a person should do just because they care about me!”
“What about the Battle of Jeongma!”
“Does it have to be between the two of us to fight a political war? “When our disciples fight, it is also a battle of pure evil!”
“I cannot accept this position unless you are my opponent!”
“Who wants to act like an extreme insightful person?”
“What the hell!”
The woman grabbed the old man by the collar.
Not to be outdone, the old man grabbed the woman’s head and glared at her.
“Madu, you Madhu! You guys are always like that. It’s either this or that, and if it’s not that, it’s that. Inseok! “What kind of world would be so divided that it would be torn apart!”
“The world you see may be the ocean, but the landscape I see is an ice field! “No matter what you do, it splits!”
“Then melt it!”
“There is a fire called Mado to melt it! Mine means having firewood!”
“Then get some more firewood!”
“This guy from Buwolseon… ! He held the tail of his horse and let his tail hang down, fearing that he might be a hypocrite of white power… !”
An argument ensued between the old man and the woman. Every time the two of them tossed around, two different worlds collided with a metallic sound. The world was able to settle down even in a dog fight that felt infinitely mean.
Leaving the two worlds to fight, I looked at the viper.
“It’s a bit surprising.”
“What do you mean?”
I couldn’t say the same thing right away, such as a ‘real’ person like you treating someone as a teacher.
I said a little bit.
“Isn’t the poisonous snake Lord Cheon Mu-mun? Can Lord Moon receive a new teacher?”
“f*ck you. If you have a chance to dance with a sword, you dance with a sword, and if you have a teacher to learn from, you ask to learn from them. “I don’t have enough time to sit down and think about all of that.”
The viper grinned. A manly smile appeared on her thick face.
hmm.
“Viper.”
“why.”
“I’m making this clear. It was said that he was pushed to take charge of it, or that he took it on out of sympathy. “If you have accepted that old Murim lord as your teacher with such half-hearted determination, you will regret it.”
The two worlds are still fighting loudly.
This is different from the case where the poisonous snake was pushed by his disciples to jump into the Annals of the Heavenly Demon for pride.
Doing something like that is an insult to those two worlds.
I can’t forgive.
“… … “I have no idea what you’re talking about.”
The viper scratched its cheek and raised its single eye.
“Bloody hell, why is this guy called Death King sitting around talking so hard? “If you need to check something, check it with a knife.”
However, the viper raised his sword.
“It won’t be easy.”
There had to be an easy way to check. If you open the mind window of a poisonous snake, it will become clear.
But instead of doing that, I spoke quietly.
“Viper.”
“OK.”
“Have you ever been hungry?”
The viper blinked its single eye.
“what?”
At that moment, I ran out.
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