◈ Episode 52: Providing true education (4)
The office of the head of the White Lotus Association.
Horok-
A man was standing in front of her as she sat quietly drinking coffee.
Seolryun’s only secretary opened her mouth with a concerned expression on her face.
“Are you sure you don’t mind?”
“yes? What?”
“This is not the first time an outsider has been brought into the White Lotus Palace, but still, a student was brought into the White Lotus Palace… … .”
At the secretary’s words, Seolryun opened her mouth, still sipping her coffee.
“I understand that the story has already ended within the family.”
“That’s true, but… … .”
“If Kim Joo-hyuk just goes in and drags that proud guy out, wouldn’t it be a very cheap deal?”
The secretary closed her mouth at Seol-ryeon’s words.
Because she was right.
It would be a very cheap act to let Kim Joo-hyuk into the White Lotus Palace once, as long as it is possible to bring out the genius who appeared in Snow Family and who has talent beyond common sense to the extent that she can be called a genius.
He knew that well.
“But, that…” … Is that possible?”
“What?”
“Student Kim Joo-hyuk, defeating him.”
The secretary knew Kim Joo-hyuk well.
No, I couldn’t have known.
Because Kim Joo-hyuk is a huge celebrity now.
Having dealt with evildoers twice as a student, his name has already become so famous that everyone in the industry has heard of him at least once.
Well, he became famous because he had the title of ‘dealing with a villain while still a student’, but that doesn’t mean Kim Joo-hyuk isn’t strong.
The fact that he was only a student and dealt with a villain without making a contract with the Holy See was like showing that his power was already beyond the category of an ordinary student.
However, even though she clearly knew that fact, the secretary asked Seol-ryeon.
“… … .”
At the secretary’s words, Seolryeon stopped the cup of coffee she was bringing to her mouth.
A moment of silence.
Instead of enduring the silence, the secretary opened her mouth once more.
“Lord Hoe, didn’t you lose when you faced him a year ago? Even though he didn’t use his magic power.”
A word that could perhaps be said to be arrogant on the topic of secretaries.
However, Seolryun seemed not to care about those words and drank coffee again and spoke with a calm expression.
“Of course it is. “I think I probably won’t lose even if I use my magic power now.”
“… … yes?!”
“Why are you surprised?”
“no… … that… … .”
The secretary couldn’t find anything to say for a moment and started rambling, but Seolryun smiled and spoke.
“But it’s true, he’s probably the guy he is now…” … Even if I use my magic power to fight Yanrang, I will probably lose. “At the time I fought her, her magic power was only a fraction of the difference from mine.”
Yan Lang, the third daughter of the Snow family.
When Seol-ryeon opened her mouth, remembering her appearance, the secretary stood with a blank expression for a moment and then opened her mouth.
“… … “Really?”
“sure. “Do you really think I would lie to you, who I have been with for 15 years?”
As Seolryun said that, she thought of Yanrang, who was trapped inside the White Lotus Palace and would not come out.
The girl who was imprisoned in the White Lotus Palace after defeating Seol-ryeon’s older sister, the head of the Seol family, at the age of fourteen.
“If that’s true… … “Isn’t this meaningless now?”
As Seolryeon was thinking, the secretary’s voice came.
“is that so?”
“Of course it is! “If even his magical power has grown to the point where he can beat Lord Hoe, doesn’t that mean that his current skills are something that Kim Joo-hyuk will never be able to handle?”
The secretary’s reasoning was sound.
Even the owner, Seol-ryeon, thinks that the woman she was a year ago and the woman she is now are completely different.
A talent that goes far beyond common sense.
It was clear that that talent would not leave Yan Lang trapped in the White Lotus Palace alone.
Because the talent she had was so unbelievable.
however.
“Well, that could be true. However, on the other hand, it is better to have hope than to do nothing.”
The secretary kept her mouth shut at the words that came out of Seolryeon’s mouth.
“furthermore… … .”
“… … ?”
“Maybe there is a little hope.”
“… … “You mean hope?”
Looking at the secretary tilting her head as if she didn’t understand, Seol-ryeon recalled the first time she met Kim Joo-hyuk.
The way he opens his mouth as if he has figured out the bottom of himself just by sitting across from him.
Of course, that alone was not enough to know anything.
But still.
‘Maybe a little bit?’
Seolryun thought so and smiled as she remembered Kim Joo-hyuk, who was just meeting her.
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Yan Lang, the third daughter of the Snow family.
Ever since she was young, everyone had told her she was a genius.
If you tell me one thing, you will go beyond knowing ten to knowing a hundred.
Her growth rate was so monstrous that at the age of thirteen, she single-handedly defeated all members of the Seol family except for the head of the family and Seol-ryeon.
No, it wasn’t just a monstrous growth rate.
It was just a monster.
At the age of only thirteen, he single-handedly defeated the contractors belonging to the Seol family.
He trampled his second daughter, who started training four years before him, as if he were wrenching the hand of a child.
Even her eldest daughter, who trained eight years before her, was just like a child in front of her.
Is that it?
He defeated the contractors belonging to the Seolrang (Snow Cat) guild run by the Snow Family and even the head of the Snow Family, ‘Seol Yeonhwa’.
That’s why Yanlang knew that he was a genius with incredible talent.
He thought that the students of the same age who appeared in front of him were idiots with mediocre skills.
okay.
Until a little while ago.
“What are you doing?”
“… … !!”
When she sees Kim Joo-hyuk opening his mouth as if indifferent, her expression bursts out in surprise.
Her strike.
Of course, it was just a light blow to her, but others found it difficult to even block this blow.
But what is the man in front of me?
“Oh, is that it? Are you just being a jerk and just saying what you want and then attacking me indiscriminately? “Are you also a communicator?”
“profit… … !”
Kim Joo-hyuk’s blatant sarcasm.
She frowned, retrieved her fist, immediately turned around, and swung her foot aiming at his face.
A very fast and sharp kick.
The attack, which was devoid of any unnecessary elements, would have been enough to excite admiration if others had seen it, and it was even so fast that some could not see it with the naked eye.
chin-!
This time, Kim Joo-hyuk blocked her kick.
Wow!
“Kyaaaak!”
I slammed my fist into her head.
Yan Lang screams at him.
Kim Joo-hyuk looked at her like that and smiled and spoke.
“What is this, you said you were going to count, but you’re such a mess?”
“W-what!?”
“You call me a loser, wow, is it true that you are building your pride with such skills? “Are you embarrassed?”
Kim Joo-hyuk is being sarcastic again.
“This bastard… … !”
Although he had started the fight in the first place, Yan Lang felt that his pride had been scratched and immediately rushed at Kim Joo-hyuk.
Wow!
“Ew!?”
Unbelievably, Yan Lang was hit on the head once more by Kim Joo-hyuk.
Yan Lang, who shed tears because of the terrible and numbing pain she felt on the top of her head, looked at Kim Joo-hyuk with an expression that she could not understand.
Suuu-
“… … .”
At that moment, Kim Joo-hyuk realized that Yan Lang’s prayer in front of him had changed.
‘What the hell.’
Unlike before, her emotionless eyes were looking at Kim Joo-hyuk, and her posture took on a natural forward posture.
A very natural series of processes.
Looking at that scene, Kim Joo-hyuk let out a small exclamation.
‘Suddenly it changes like this?’
It may be surprising, but Kim Joo-hyuk had taught many students 300 years ago, so it was possible to get a rough idea of the level of skill a person had just by looking at his posture.
And she is right in front of Kim Joo-hyuk.
‘It sure looks like you have skills.’
He had a very neat attitude, to the point where he received a little recognition from Kim Joo-hyuk.
As a bonus, the way Kim Joo-hyuk quickly organized his emotions and focused on the battle seemed a little better than the disciples he had seen 300 years ago.
The moment you think like that.
“!”
Yan Lang reached Kim Joo-hyuk.
As a rule of thumb, the speed is more than three times that of before.
The fight begins with Yan Lang, who had literally crawled into Kim Joo-hyuk’s arms in the blink of an eye, and tried to hit Kim Joo-hyuk’s head with his fist.
Yan Lang, who was in his arms, attacked Kim Joo-hyuk by swinging his fist several times.
Kim Joo-hyuk, on the other hand, avoids such attacks with minimal movement and watches her.
And looking at that, Yan Lang thought.
‘It’s similar to me.’
Kim Joo-hyuk’s age did not seem that old when Yan Lang saw it.
From what I could see, they were at least their own age or one or two years older than me.
The age difference is only that much.
But even so, Kim Joo-hyuk was dodging her attacks very easily.
In addition, even when she was caught off guard, she successfully attacked twice.
so that.
‘It’s fun… … !’
She smiled at the fighting spirit that had boiled over for the first time in a long time.
That’s because she had never seen anyone of her age with similar skills to hers.
she is a genius
Therefore, there were no peers with similar powers around her.
Of course, if you look above, there were people around her who were stronger than her.
But she didn’t really think of them as competition.
That’s because most of those stronger than her were veterans in their 30s or 40s and their skills were stagnant.
Compared to that, what about her?
She grew stronger as the years passed.
Over and over again.
As if there were no limits to her growth, she became stronger.
And that’s why she didn’t see them as competition.
Why?
Those who do not grow and those who grow.
They were all people she could defeat once she finished growing up.
She did not see them as competition, as she proved it by defeating her mother.
But what about the guy in front of you?
The guy was his age.
It was said that he was still growing, just like himself.
That’s why Yan Lang smiled.
I smiled because it was the first time in a long time that I had an opponent who could boost my fighting spirit.
He smiled because for the first time he had an opponent he could put all his strength into.
Wow!
Yan Lang’s body, which was rapidly swinging its fists, slowly began to contain magical energy.
The extremely precise and rapid use of magical power penetrates every nook and cranny of her body in an instant, strengthening and making it more flexible.
phut!
And as proof of that, magic waves began to explode with each punch and kick she swung.
A momentary explosion that comes from extremely restrained use of magical power.
She poured all her power into that situation.
They swing their fists, kick their feet, and turn their bodies to attack.
However.
Her attack still didn’t hit Kim Joo-hyuk.
But it didn’t matter.
‘Then more… … !’
Because she could still become stronger.
Kwak-ga-ga-ga-gak!
In an instant, blue waves begin to flood Yan Lang’s body.
A magical power so enormous that it would astonish anyone who saw it.
It’s only for a moment, but the magic power so great that even Kim Joo-hyuk slowly opens his eyes seeps into Yan Lang’s body once again –
Kwaaaang!
With each attack from her, blue waves began to ripple.
Yan Lang once again runs towards Kim Joo-hyuk with a confident expression.
however.
“uh… … ?”
The attacks that even she was a little confident in failed to reach Kim Joo-hyuk, just like last time.
A strange feeling of nervousness began to appear in my mind along with that.
Only then did she erase the smile on her face and raise her magical power even further.
The enormous magic power created by her talent accumulates in her body according to her will.
In the huge tower created by her talent, dozens of operating methods she created are reproduced in her hands.
Kgagagagagak-!
The space around Kim Joo-hyuk and Yan Lang has already been destroyed a long time ago.
However, she continued to attack.
At some point, she suddenly realized two things.
The first is the fact that none of his attacks worked on Kim Joo-hyuk.
And the second one.
“what… … ?”
Kim Joo-hyuk is not in the same place as himself-
“Are you done now?”
-She was able to realize that she was in something much higher than herself.
