<Episode 329: Listen to the Demonic Mirror. (3)
My first meeting with Jang Ga-nom.
When I was a little past my term.
To be exact, I was semi-forcibly given the position of the head of the household.
I threw away the medicine my father had given me.
It was a time when it gradually began to appear in the Central Plains.
Probably, with the title of Sogaju.
It must have been around the time I went to Yongbong Branch with the humorous review index.
Peng Woo-jin, who would later be called the disciple and reign as one of the absolute rulers.
Unlike before, when he was no longer treated as a latecomer as soon as he received the small share price.
I guess I couldn’t do that.
Let’s go further.
Almost without showing any sign of it.
A small family from the Gu family in Shanxi who is famous for being incompetent and dog-like.
Should we say that it is meaningful that it is showing itself for the first time?
A bloodline of chivalry.
At that time, Goo Hee-bi was already called Go Soo.
Gu Yeon-seo also started to show off her outstanding talent and fame.
It was a moment when the gaze was particularly intense towards me.
The person who owns the house.
Even though he’s on the bad side, he has an appearance that seems to have a lot of chivalrous blood.
The days when he heard that his talent was not being recognized.
In the gap of the generation of Yoo Sung, who had a particularly high number of excellent review indices.
In the midst of a surge of self-esteem and self-loathing.
Covering up the broken spirit from the criticism of many.
It’s when I put on thorns to hide my own shortcomings.
Everyone’s gaze is filled with unpleasant emotions.
The moment he was glancing at me.
-Nice to meet you.
During that gap, the guy approached.
With a soft smiling expression.
A handsome face. And a warm voice that leaves a good impression on people.
In some ways, it is an appearance that is the exact opposite of mine.
The guy who introduced himself as Jang Ga’s son.
-What are you?
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To my question of who I am.
He continued speaking with a kind smile, as if he felt embarrassed to introduce his nickname with his own mouth.
-Although it is lacking, it is called divinity. Please take good care of it.
divinity.
No matter how much I say I live disconnected from the world’s information, it’s a nickname I’ve heard at least once or twice.
In recent years, monsters have begun to swarm the slums.
Among the people who are busy putting food in their mouths and ignore me.
They say there are heroes who risk their lives to save people.
A young man known as the son of a lord and a promising scholar.
There was also talk going around that he would be promoted to the rank of lieutenant in his own unit in the near future.
Then, I guess I will probably get the youngest seat.
This means that the expectations for the latter index are high in the central region.
Jang Seon-yeon, a divine being born in Jangga.
That’s what my meeting with him was like.
Funny enough.
All that fame and all that conceit that elevates him.
It was then that I learned that Jang Seon-yeon had intentionally created this situation.
It was only a few years later that this happened.
After the Ma Kyung Jeon incident, where many of the later indexes disappeared.
With the appearance of Cheonma.
It wasn’t long before I was corrupted into a mine.
When the Central Plains were in full swing and the surrounding area was turned into a sea of fire.
The guy came to me on his own two feet.
– Long time no see. Oh, should I call you by your nickname now?
I had no intention of talking.
I was thinking of just spitting out flames and tearing out his neck.
-Do you know about Sogeomseong’s physical condition?
Towering.
The reason the hand that was trying to grab my neck stopped.
It was because of that fucking bitch’s face that came to mind.
The fingertips wrapped in flames are burning as if they are about to tear off the guy’s neck.
I couldn’t help it.
Jang Seon-yeon smiles brightly after seeing me like that.
That smile dug into me.
It must have been from then.
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This is the day that another hell was created for me.
Jeez-!
Quadduk bang-!
A crack opens in the air, then gapes open like a mouth.
Inside the torn crack, unknown colors were swirling and tangled.
The wind pressure from inside raises dust on the distant ground.
After a while, something spits out from inside the crack.
Boom! Thud!
Objects that emerge from the crack fall straight to the ground.
The impact sent a gust of dust flying around.
And not long after.
“Keukheuk… gasp… !”
Someone walks out of the wind.
Immediately afterwards, I lay on the floor, gasping for breath.
He was clearly a man.
“This… this…!”
His expression was agitated and his eyes were wide.
He quickly turns around, not even noticing the saliva flowing from my lips.
“That’s… that’s ridiculous.
The young man looked around for a short time.
Only then did he shout with trembling eyes.
“What the fuck…!”
The screams of swearing echoed everywhere.
“Fuck… How did I, how did I…! Because of a kid like that, this is happening…!”
While repeatedly hitting the floor and swearing.
Another person pops out from the wind that was just created.
Unlike the angry young man who lies on the floor drooling.
He was just rubbing his chest with a slightly frowning expression.
“I already feel like I’m going to throw up, but you’re being so loud.”
The words spoken by the young man, or rather, by Gu Yangcheon.
Jang Seon-yeon, who heard the voice, quickly turns her head towards Guyangcheon.
“This kid… .”
“Oh, it’s been a while since I’ve heard you swear. It’s so refreshing.”
Jang Seon-yeon, who had been lying face down, suddenly gets up and runs towards Guyangcheon.
He quickly runs towards me and tries to pull out the sword on his waist.
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Goo Yang-cheon approached Jang Seon-yeon and pressed the end of the handle firmly.
It was blocked so that the sword could not be taken out of its scabbard.
“Ugh…!”
The force of the palm blocking is so strong that the sword cannot be pulled out.
Jang Seon-yeon had no choice but to swing the sword around in her left hand.
-Tsk!
Already, Goo Yang-cheon’s hand was flying towards Jang Seon-yeon’s cheek.
A sharp sound echoed as the palm hit the cheek.
WHEEK THUNK!
As if it was a proper hit, Jang Seon-yeon’s body flew diagonally through the air.
It hits the floor hard.
“Krrrrr…!”
Jang Seon-yeon, who was unable to control her mind due to the shock.
I barely managed to get up, but blood was running down my lips.
“You poor little brat, even if you rush at me like that, will you take it?”
“Ugh… gasp.”
Goo Yang-cheon snickered as he watched Jang Seon-yeon sobbing and bleeding.
Slowly approach Jang Seon-yeon.
The hand was still touching my chest.
‘It’s been a while since I’ve done this, so I don’t feel very good.’
This is the first time I have come to the Demon Realm through the Demon Realm Gate since my return.
My body is having trouble adjusting and I feel like I’m getting motion sickness.
In the past, as soon as you were hit, you should have laid down and calmed your mind.
This time, at least I’m mentally stable.
I was able to hold out for quite some time.
At that time, Jang Seon-yeon tried to get up again, pulling her trembling body.
He kicked her leg and broke her posture.
“Ugh!”
“Hold still, I like the way you look.”
“You…!
Then Jang Seon-yeon looks at Guyangcheon as if she is his enemy.
The eyes, expressionless or smiling, had blood vessels that stood out and were tense.
“What the heck…! How could you move?”
“What can you move, it just moves.”
Pick answered with a smile.
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What Jang Seon-yeon is asking is:
This is about how you moved on the open magic gate on the floor.
It was really strange to ask how.
I know that other drones can’t move from above.
I’ve experienced it and seen it firsthand.
At that time, I saw Jamryong and other unmanned personnel who seemed to be frozen stiff and unable to move.
In that gap, I was the only one who could move.
I honestly never thought or pondered over the reason why.
I just knew it would happen.
I thought this life would be no different.
I felt certain as I felt the magic gate I had encountered just before.
This life is the same.
“Judging from your reaction, you seemed to think I wouldn’t be able to move. Why did you think that?”
“That guy…!”
“No, you’re a brat who wouldn’t believe me if I told you that the iron line can’t move above the magic gate.”
“•••!”
As the story about the iron line came out of my mouth, Jang Seon-yeon’s eyes widened.
“How did you…! You knew that…!”
The fact that the Iron Line can open the Magic Mirror.
The fact that he tried to use it to kill me.
It seems like he noticed that I already knew.
“That’s not really important. What I said was more important to me.”
“how….”
“That’s what I mean. How could you be so sure of that?”
Jang Seon-yeon said those words with a different meaning.
It seemed like the beginning of a story that was about to be told.
The fact that the Iron Line can use that kind of power.
Even the characteristics of the magic gate that the guy opens.
Jang Seon-yeon’s personality is such that she cannot be sure of anything without experiencing it herself.
There’s no way I could have ever felt the danger of the Iron Line’s magic gate on my body.
It seems that there was a different information book from the one on the iron line.
Something that can tell us about the guy’s existence and power.
Urgh-!
The sound of teeth grinding was heard from Jang Seon-yeon’s mouth.
“You, you’re going to harass me until the very end!”
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“What are you bothering me with, you punk?”
“If you’re going to die, you’re going to die alone. Why did you bring me here?”
This is such a shameless and absurd statement.
Even if Jang Seon-yeon is a piece of trash that cannot be fixed.
I wasn’t the kind of guy who would say such thoughtless things.
Perhaps this is a sign that the situation has truly reached a point where it cannot be helped.
Well then, it wasn’t bad.
Jang Seon-yeon was not in her right mind at the moment.
Of course, because this was inside ‘that’ magic realm.
Take a quick look around.
First of all, the sky is red. It is not night, nor is it a sunset sky, and it is definitely not a sunny blue sky.
It was a really red sky with a red tint.
The ground I was standing on was already darkly colored, as if it were dead.
Most of what appear to be trees are actually rotten dead trees.
No matter how you look at it, this place is full of a sense of alienation that makes it seem like it is not the real world.
Beyond the Magical Gate.
To many people.
It was one of the places called the Demon Realm.
‘thank god.’
and.
‘Thank goodness you came here.’
This is the place I’ve been wanting to come to.
I was involved in a magic war in my previous life.
It is an area that has been struggling for years, separated from countless reviewers.
Among the types of magic recorded in the Murim Alliance.
It was a magical realm that didn’t belong anywhere.
The name is Ma Kyung.
The place name that comes to mind is.
A false world.
It’s a place that fits so well with the truth of the world.
The chances of returning alive after crossing over to the Demon Realm are almost zero.
Even that sword.
A place I could only return to after contracting a fatal illness.
It’s the devil’s mirror.
It is a place that is dangerous to return to at any given time.
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The reason why the later indices were able to escape and return to this world in their previous lives.
It was thanks to my tenacity that I was able to survive.
If it weren’t for that, they too would have been trapped in this world and never returned.
In Jang Seon-yeon’s eyes, this place.
It would seem like such a terrible nightmare.
Actually, they are similar.
“Me… Me! This Jang Seon-yeon…!”
Jang Seon-yeon shouts as if she has lost her reason due to overwhelming emotions.
It’s a different look.
!..
..
I hated the way you used to smile and act kindly, trying to maintain your dignity in your past life.
please.
I wanted to see something like that. But maybe it was too late.
Or maybe it’s because it’s not the Jang Seon-yeon from back then, but the Jang Seon-yeon after her regression that’s ruined.
The excitement wasn’t that great.
“I! I will become the pillar of the Central Plains in the future…!”
“Oh, I’m thinking about it, so keep your mouth shut for a moment.”
I don’t like it when you keep poking fun at me.
He trampled and crushed Jang Seon-yeon’s ankle.
Crunch!
“Twaaaah!”
Jang Seon-yeon’s scream echoes.
I actually liked this better.
“Why are you whining? I wasn’t going to send you away. You came anyway.”
“this!”
“Oh, you didn’t like that I came with you?”
He chuckled and laughed once.
I’ll stomp on your foot again.
“Krrrrr!”
“You should take that into account. If you go alone, you’ll be lonely, so you can come with me.”
Only then did Jang Seon-yeon grit her teeth.
He tried to blow my mind.
Did you come to your senses again because of the emergency situation?
My energy moves more precisely than before.
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My ankle was sprained, but the sword was still fast.
What should I do? Should I break my wrist this time?
Just as I was about to reach out my hand.
Jang Seon-yeon, who was about to swing her sword, flinches and trembles.
“huh?
When I saw the reaction, I found myself paused without realizing it.
Why are you doing that?
As soon as the doubts began to arise, Jang Seon-yeon began to tremble.
“•••Why, why are you here?”
Jang Seon-yeon stutters with trembling eyes.
“Why…! Why doesn’t it come out…? Oh, my God!” Jang Seon-yeon shouted while looking up at the sky.
No matter how I looked at it, it wasn’t normal.
“Are you abandoning me?”
‘Ugh, = –
I wondered why he was doing that, so I watched for a moment.
I was moved by a sudden thought.
It was the blood energy received from the blood horse.
‘I see.’
After trying to move my energy for a while.
I could immediately vaguely understand why Jang Seon-yeon was acting like that.
‘I don’t feel any energy.’
The blood doesn’t move as one wishes.
Just in case, I tried moving other energies little by little.
The same goes for magic.
The pottery seems to be moving. Of course, my prayers also seem to be moving.
Blood and magic did not move.
All it means is that it can’t be used.
‘Why?’
Apart from being able to use betting or pottery.
Let’s take a moment to think about why these two cannot be used.
There was nothing I could tell for sure.
Besides, now.
I should have focused more on other things than that.
“I don’t know what it is, but don’t we have something to do with each other first?”
Jang Seon-yeon flinched at my words.
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Now that I’ve come this far, I guess I have a picture in my head of what I’m going to do.
“What, what are you trying to do…?”
“Sure, you’re still young.”
?”
“It’s strange that you’re already showing signs of being scared.”
He said he lost a piece.
It’s so incompetent to show off your situation like that.
If she was Jang Seon-yeon in her previous life, she would never have done this.
That statement is proof that it is not yet fully grown.
Because it meant that Jang Seon-yeon from her previous life was a different person.
‘It’s not fun.’
It only made the excitement I was trying so hard to build up cool down.
Of course, that doesn’t mean that.
“When I kill someone, I set some rules. Do you know what they are?”
I have no intention of keeping you alive though.
At my words, Jang Seon-yeon looks at me with eyes that are wide open.
“The first is that if you intend to kill, you should try to kill in one blow. It’s cleaner that way.”
Because I’m not a murderer like that bastard, I don’t tend to do useless things.
“Second, if you must use fireworks, burn the head first.”
There are situations where I have to use chemical weapons.
If someone made me angry, I would grab them by the head and burn them.
Spitting out the words.
Hwaruk-!
He lit a firework on his palm.
Jang Seon-yeon’s eyes tremble so much that it’s obvious that she’s watching it.
“Do you know what the third one is?”
The moment he spoke, Jang Seon-yeon suddenly struck with her sword with all her might.
I commend you. You chose to fight back instead of running away.
Even the feet were intentionally crushed.
It was because it was a hassle to catch him if he ran away after making a bet.
Was it because Jang Seon-yeon also knew about this?
No, that’s not really important.
He continues speaking while lightly dodging Jang Seon-yeon’s sword.
“It burns you from the very tip of your toes.”
Jang Seon-yeon, whose ankle is already out, is not that threatening no matter how much bet is put on her because it is difficult to maintain a posture.
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“Adjust appropriately and slowly. That way, the lifeline won’t break and it will last a long time.”
Avoid dangerous areas such as the heart or head and burn gradually.
So that you can feel pain.
Hold on to your bet so you don’t lose your mind.
Be careful not to commit suicide.
“Twaaaaaaah!”
Jang Seon-yeon, who heard the words, shouted and then started swinging her sword as if in a fit of rage.
I could feel a vague sense of fear there.
Check the sword path with a wink.
The gaps that are visible because the posture has collapsed.
I let out a small sigh as I felt the emotions visible in Jang Seon-yeon’s eyes.
Reach out.
It didn’t stretch that fast.
Enough to reach the goal.
And I stretched out my arms lightly enough to achieve my goal.
puck.
Crispy.
Through the mess of swords.
The arm digs in and hits Jang Seon-yeon’s danjeon.
With a short, audible sound.
I felt something breaking.
The danjeon was destroyed.
“Take it •••ugh…!”
Jang Seon-yeon screams silently with a gasp.
To try to close my eyes to the emptiness and excruciating pain of the bet dissipating.
He grabbed me by the neck and breathed life into me.
I had to make sure I didn’t lose my mind.
“I listened carefully from the first to the third.”
This is a possible sequence.
“I’m going to write this to you in reverse order from now on. Are you excited?”
I’m going to try a different approach with Jang Seon-yeon.
“I have a lot to ask you. Please reply quickly. It’s harder to manage this than you think.”
To conclude,
All three endings are death.
There was no choice but to spare his life.
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Eventually, at the point where I opened the magic realm to execute the work and kill him.
There is no hope or opportunity for Jang Seon-yeon.
I didn’t even think about giving it to you in the first place.
Looking at Jang Seon-yeon’s back, still shivering without even being able to scream.
I reached out.
