〈Episode 613〉 The Outside Army.
What is it? Why are you reacting like that?
“Your fiancee… Do you know who she is?”
“How would I know that? I just heard it was there.”
“ah….”
The condition doesn’t look very good.
I don’t know why he did that, but it was clear that he didn’t even know he had a fiancée.
Does that guy really exist?
“Let’s skip this, it’s not important.”
“No, I think I still have more to do…!”
“Is there anyone who still has doubts?”
He asked, increasing his speed a little.
At this, Yuri felt the strength in the hand holding her collar.
Doubt, that’s what I asked Yuri when I first came to the North Sea.
If things have gotten this complicated, there must be someone in your bloodline who participated in the rebellion. Are there any suspicious people?
When asked, Yuri answered that there was no such thing.
“Maybe things are different now?”
“…”
It is now certain that there is someone among the blood relatives who is plotting treason.
So I asked again.
“…that.”
Yuri’s reaction was strange.
“I guess there is someone who comes to mind?”
There seemed to be something.
“…no.”
“I’m serious. If you don’t tell me, I’ll really abandon you.”
“…”
This one is real.
If you weren’t even going to say this, it would have been better to just brush it off.
“hmm.”
Still no answer comes.
At that moment, I was about to throw it away, releasing the strength I had been holding it in.
“Well, that’s not a definite story.”
Only then did Yuri speak up.
“It’s just a suspicion…”
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“What are you packing? I told you earlier. Is there anyone suspicious?”
Who asked for the right answer? It was the question of giving choices from the beginning.
“…”
Yuri hesitated for a moment at those words, then finally spoke to me after a brief hesitation.
“… a person with engineering skills.”
“A scholar?”
Is this the person who is said to be the second child of the princess?
“Why?”
“Because it’s the most likely… .”
I nodded slightly after hearing Yuri’s words.
It was a reason enough to be convinced.
In most cases, the eldest son inherits the position in the family line.
The story of the second one who draws his sword to get that position.
It’s such a common story.
A scholar who was half-hearted about such things helped the rebellion.
In some ways, it is the most reasonable thing to say.
“You’re not doubting it just because of that, are you?”
“…”
Judging from Yuri’s reaction, it didn’t seem to be that only.
I asked with that intention.
“… My older brother, Lee Gongja, was always dissatisfied.”
yes.
As expected, Yuri adds a reason.
“Although Prince Il-gongja’s brother was already assigned the position of princess consort… In terms of talent, Prince Il-gongja’s brother was more outstanding.”
“That’s why there were so many complaints.”
“Yes. I always lamented that I could not become a princess because it was decided for me from birth.”
When you saw that, did you immediately think of Lee Gong-ja when you heard that his blood relatives had joined the rebellion?
‘That’s enough to be suspicious.’
The second one is very talented.
The eldest son who earned his place despite being relatively low in rank.
The second son becomes dissatisfied and rebels.
‘I’ve heard these stories too many times.’
He nodded.
This is information worth keeping in mind.
I put a little strength into the hand that was about to let go.
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“ha….”
Then Yuri sighs.
Maybe he didn’t realize he was in danger.
I felt it last time too, but I think you’re quick to notice things.
Time is at most half an hour ahead.
As the energy grew stronger, I picked up the pace a little more.
“…Can I ask you something?”
In the meantime, Yuri asks me a question.
“What is it?”
Are you going to ask me about the engagement?
The moment I thought that.
“How did you get out of hiding?”
“what?”
My concentration was almost broken by the somewhat unexpected question.
“What do you mean? How did it come out?”
It just came out, so how did it come out?
Let’s say it as if it’s ridiculous. Yuri continues talking to me with a strange expression.
“The hideout… is covered in high-level magic. Unless you’re a blood relative, you won’t be able to enter or move around easily if you don’t know the designated path…”
“…what?”
I had to frown at Yuri’s words.
Witchcraft? It’s not even a tactic, it’s witchcraft.
‘It’s something that God used.’
A few years ago. This is the technique I saw when I treated Jegal Hyuk with the White Horse Stone.
I remember it being something similar but different from the notation used by others.
It wasn’t a sophisticated calculation like arithmetic.
I waved my hand a few times and used it, and a mysterious sight unfolded along with the energy.
Immediately after, the white horse stone used as a sacrifice disappeared, and Zhuge Hyuk was able to speak.
Although Shin-ui had been unconscious for over half a month, his miraculous powers were still there.
How could that be? When I asked the question, God did not give me an answer.
Such power.
‘You were in that cave?’
I didn’t feel it at all?
It wasn’t that it was difficult to get around, but it was so easy to get around and even find the entrance and exit.
‘… Wait.’
As I think about that, I remember the moment when I parted ways with the White Lotus Sword.
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As I was leaving, the White Lotus Sword didn’t seem to follow me for some reason.
At that time, I thought it was because he just had no intention of holding on.
‘What if I just missed it?’
If you missed me because you couldn’t catch me, then it makes sense.
What’s more,
‘Somehow, I felt like there were too few escorts around.’
I felt there were noticeably fewer guards standing inside and outside the hideout.
At first, I thought it might be because they had to evacuate in a hurry and had low power.
If this is also possible thanks to sorcery, then it is roughly correct.
The problem is.
‘Why didn’t I feel it?’
If what Yuri said is true, then I should have felt something.
How could I not feel anything?
When doubts arise.
widely.
I had to stop running.
“Old ball–?”
“…Be quiet.”
Yuri cut off the question.
“I think I’ve arrived at my destination.”
“yes?”
Yuri widens her eyes after hearing what I said.
“…Here?”
“huh.”
“There’s… nothing?”
The snowstorm was still raging under the dark sky.
It blocks your vision so you can’t see even an inch ahead.
In the meantime, there was a wide plain covered in snow all around, so it was natural for Yuri to look at it strangely.
“No. This is the right place.”
I could tell.
Sigh.
He reached out.
Swing forward a little.
yes-!
I felt something at my fingertips. At first I thought it was a block, but it felt like waves.
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Is this true?
Or something else.
I don’t know yet, but one thing is for sure.
‘Can you feel this?’
The point is that you are feeling subtle sensations throughout your body that you would not have felt before.
Instead, I had to look at the glass with curiosity.
How can one not feel such a deep and vivid sensation?
No, originally I wouldn’t have felt this way either.
Even when Namgungbia broke the Black Night Palace’s formation.
Even when Woohyuk finds the secret entrance to Shinryonggwan.
I didn’t feel that way, unlike them.
If I do that, it feels like this now… .
I guess so.
“Tsk… .”
As soon as I realized my true self, something seemed to have changed in me.
That’s amazing.
‘Is this what it feels like?’
What do you hear and smell in the temple?
I didn’t understand what the hell that was talking about. Now, a little bit…
‘No, I still don’t know about that.’
The smell, the sound, the words were still incomprehensible.
At least I can vaguely understand it.
He immediately looked at the glass and asked.
“Do you know where this is?”
“… I don’t know.”
Yuri shakes her head at the question.
There was nothing but snow fields all around, so there was no way I could know where I was.
Since I have been walking relying only on energy, I couldn’t help but not know.
“Really, this is the destination?”
“huh.”
It’s beyond here.
Yeah-! Yeah-!
I can definitely feel the vibrations from beyond here.
Phew-!
He released his energy and spread it around.
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I was just wondering if there might be an enemy. Unfortunately, I didn’t feel that.
I stirred the rippling waves with my hands a few more times.
But I’ll try to dig a little deeper later.
Phage crackle-!
My hand is pushed away by an unknown pressure.
“Hmm.”
What should I do?
I don’t think I can just go in.
‘Can’t we just sneak in like those guys?’
Like Namgung Biana and Woohyuk did. Can’t we cut it down with a sword?
With that intention, I look at the waves ahead.
‘No matter how much I look, I can’t see anything like that… .’
Unfortunately, I didn’t see anything like that.
Then what should we do?
I can’t just let it pass.
I don’t see any loopholes to break through.
Should I even try to dismantle this?
I was sure that if I tried to do something like that, I wouldn’t be able to do it tonight, let alone succeed.
Then what should we do?
Should I go back like this?
‘That can’t be.’
Once you’ve come this far, there’s no going back.
How can I turn back when I feel the vibration from beyond?
The brain is felt beyond this membrane.
You’re going back knowing that?
How could that be possible?
“Old Confucius…?”
I twisted my waist slightly.
Clench your fist.
‘Will it work?’
I don’t know.
Even while taking action, I am left with doubts.
How should I write it? Can I rewrite it? I have never come to my senses and figured it out.
I just believe.
I thought I could do it.
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I just believed it.
“When there is no other way.”
Just take the simplest method.
If you don’t know how to do it, just break it.
That’s what worked best for me.
Woof-!
Something from my heart wraps itself around my fist.
In an instant, a tremendous emptiness came over me.
Feeling it.
“Just go primitive.”
He just extended his fist towards the waves.
Heart fist.
Hwaaaaak-!
A disaster erupted from the tip of his fist.
******************
Kuuung—!!
Suddenly, a tremendous vibration is felt around me.
Because of that.
“…!”
Namgungbia, who had barely managed to fall asleep, opened her eyes.
And then he jumps up and looks somewhere.
“ah…?”
For a moment, Namgungbia’s eyes widened.
It had to be that way.
The stench that was starting to come out again after losing the ‘mask’.
Because I can’t feel it anymore.
