〈Episode 653〉 Back to the Central Plains.
Just past noon.
After leaving the palace, I walked to a particularly quiet place in the palace.
A place where a quiet atmosphere is maintained with a few sentries posted.
It was also a place where the few members of the current North Sea gathered.
I passed by there, arrived at a place, opened the door and went in.
Squeak.
As I unlock the old door, I see a familiar face inside.
Namgungbia was either eating or putting something in his mouth.
She looks at me and says.
“… Ah… Hello… .”
“Eat everything first, then tell me.”
The slurred pronunciation was somewhat funny.
As Namgungbia was chewing her food while listening to what I said.
“Yes, you have to swallow everything in your mouth before speaking. It’s something you learn as a courtesy in Sega, right?”
A middle-aged man sneaks in from the side.
I frowned and said as I looked at him.
“What do you mean by spitting out words while talking?”
Isn’t there absolutely no reason to discuss manners?
“Heh heh. Sorry. Did you not digest it well?”
I sighed as I watched the middle-aged man trying to pass it off as if he was sly.
That handsome face and that bad attitude still felt distant.
The white-haired, blue-eyed man who resembles Namgung Bi-a has the typical impression of that family name all over him.
Shaman and ghost Namgung Hyung.
The one-armed man was laughing there.
I looked at him and asked.
“Are you feeling better?”
“As you can see, it’s fine.”
“Judging by what I see, there’s nothing wrong with you.”
The gosun had lost an arm and was in danger of death from a penetrating wound.
He survived because his level was high, but if he were an ordinary person, it wouldn’t have been strange if he had died long ago.
‘It’s a wonder that I even came to my senses.’
The Ice Palace doctor said that he would probably have to stay in bed for another month without being able to come to his senses.
The ghost woke up with his eyes wide open just two days ago.
It was a strange resilience.
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Glance.
I shifted my gaze and looked at his arm.
As a swordsman, with one arm missing, there must have been problems with his weaponry as well.
“It tastes good today. Would you like some too?”
“No, I’m fine.”
“Then I’ll just eat it… .”
“… Yum.”
“… Nephew, what are you doing?”
“I said… I’m not going to eat it.”
The goblin didn’t seem to care about that, as it still had its original strange appearance.
‘I don’t know if it’s really okay or if it’s just a show.’
Since it was none of my business, I quickly looked away. Afterwards, I asked Namgungbia what to say.
“How is your body?”
“are you okay.”
“…”
He answered nonchalantly, so I poked his stomach with my finger.
Okay then.
“Ugh…!!”
Namgungbia makes a rare expression and lets out a sigh.
I sighed deeply when I saw that.
“What’s okay? Are you going to keep lying?”
“…”
Namgungbia looks at me with resentment, as if it hurt to be stabbed.
I wasn’t the type of person to just sit by and accept that.
“Don’t you open your eyes nicely? What did you do well to open your eyes like that?”
As I spoke with a frown, Namgungbia sullenly avoided my gaze.
It was originally not that pretty, so it was hard to nag at her when I saw her, but now I’ve become more tolerant and can do it my way.
“You didn’t listen to me when I told you not to go and you went, and now what is this?”
“…”
“What’s so good about coming here that you’re getting hurt? If you had just stayed in the Central Plains, this wouldn’t have happened. Do you have to be cold to learn how to use a sword well? That’s not true.”
“that is….”
“Don’t talk back.”
“…huh….”
This time, Namgungbia also seems to realize that she was wrong and just listens quietly.
I already had a lot to say.
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“And while we’re on the subject-.”
“Oh, Your Majesty!”
Just as I was about to continue speaking, someone interrupted me.
Behind Dang So-yeol, the White Lotus Sword was visible.
“Are you here?”
“huh.”
Dang So-yeol approached with his characteristically bright smile.
And then he sits down next to me without any problem.
“Have you eaten?”
“I ate roughly.”
It was a lie. I didn’t even touch food for two days.
It’s because I spent too much time figuring out my new abilities and heightened levels.
“hmm.”
After hearing my answer, Dang So-yeol looked at me quietly.
Because the gaze is so burdensome, I try to secretly avoid it.
“You didn’t eat it?”
“…”
I got caught right away.
Anyway, he’s quick on his feet.
“…I don’t have much of an appetite.”
“Hmm… .”
He looked as if he didn’t like it at all. Dang So-yeol stared at me like that for a while, then tilted his head.
“Confucius.”
“huh?”
“What’s wrong?”
An unexpected question was asked.
At those words, he slightly widened his eyes and looked at Dang So-yeol. Then he smiled faintly in vain.
‘I got caught.’
How did you get caught?
I wasn’t in a very good mood because of what had just happened with Woohyuk, but Dang Soyeol seemed to notice it right away.
And it’s not just Dang So-yeol.
‘… Tsk.’
I could tell that Namgungbia’s gaze was also fixed on me, knowingly or unknowingly.
It seemed like he had already noticed it.
“Nothing happened…”
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This time too, they tried to let it go like always, but you could see the two people’s expressions change slightly.
He paused for a moment after seeing that, then changed his words.
“… Something came up. It’s okay. I took care of it.”
“…”
“…”
I thought it would be better to say something like, “Nothing happened,” and only then did the strength in Namgung Biana and Dang Soyeol’s eyes slightly subside.
I confirmed this and let out a sigh of relief.
“Don’t worry about it, really. It’s nothing serious.”
Dang So-yeol nodded at the next words.
“But you still have to eat.”
“…I’ll take care of it.”
I answered roughly like that.
Snap-!
“…?”
I grabbed the wrist of Namgungbia, who was next to me.
She looks at me as if to say, “What is this?”
I ignored it and turned my energy around.
Swish-!
“Huh?”
Namgungbia flinched as the energy suddenly surged through her.
Even though I knew that, I kept turning my energy.
The heat seeped into Namgungbia’s body and circled around.
When it was retrieved again, it came back with quite a bit of turbidity.
I took out only the turbid energy from the energy that had returned to my body and sent it to my hand.
since.
Hwaruk-!!
He lit a fire at his fingertips and burned away the embers.
There was a slight stench, but fortunately it seemed to have been separated well.
He shook his hand and then looked at Namgungbia and said.
“The energy doesn’t seem to be a big problem. The remaining turbidity has been cleared away, so I think moving around tomorrow won’t be a big problem… What’s wrong?”
As I was trying to explain, everyone in the room was looking at me.
What is that? What are those stares?
An inexplicable silence passed by for a moment.
“What did you do just now?”
The White Lotus Sword asked me with surprised eyes.
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“What did you do?”
“What did you just do? What did you do?”
“Yes? I just pulled out the table and burned it.”
I checked to see if something seemed uncomfortable, and sure enough, Namgungbia’s body was soaked with turbid air.
I just pulled it out and burned it because it seemed like a problem that arose while the energy was helping to regenerate.
This was not done using the magic sword or any other tool.
‘I just burned it by separating it with heat. Why is it reacting like that?’
It probably wouldn’t have been that difficult, but it was a strange reaction.
“… Separate the table and burn it?”
“yes.”
“how?”
“yes?”
He frowned at the White Lotus Sword’s question.
“How can I? Why don’t you just separate them?”
“The tak-gi permeates the energy.”
“Yes.”
The energy that passes through the blood vessels is the turbid energy that is hidden minutely within it.
If left alone, it will naturally disappear, but since it is quite inconvenient to just leave it alone, it would be good to separate it and erase it like this.
However, Baekryeongeom and Namgunghyung’s reactions to this behavior are unusual.
What? Did I do something weird?
“You didn’t even take out the toxic energy yourself, you just sent energy to someone else’s body and took the toxic energy out?”
“yes.”
“How can you do something like that…?”
“No, if you keep asking me how….”
Wouldn’t it be okay to just send out energy and have the turbidity removed from the flow of energy?
Of course, since the energy flows continuously like a current of water, it was not an easy task to just extract the turbidity from there.
“That’s not that difficult, is it?”
“… What? Isn’t it difficult?”
“yes?”
The White Lotus Sword’s eyes widen greatly, as if shocked by my answer.
I couldn’t understand that expression at all, so I blurted out the last words.
“Is that difficult, senior?”
“…”
“Why is that difficult…? It’s not that difficult, is it?”
I don’t know why they’re doing such a big deal.
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“Huh… Uh… Ah.”
After hearing the answer, the White Lotus Sword creaked as if something was broken.
Behind me, Namgung Hyung was looking at me with a dog-like expression, forgetting about his handsome face.
Seriously, why are they all acting like that?
I quickly got up because I was starting to feel suffocated.
Dang So-yeol gave a look of regret, but she would not move with him because she had to take care of Namgung Bi-a.
“First of all, I will get up first. Get some rest and as I told you before, I will return to the Central Plains tomorrow.”
As he spoke, he looked at Baekryeongeom and Namgunghyung.
“Are you going together?”
Of course, consent was not sought.
I just had to take Namgungbia and Dang Soyeol, and the reserve swordsman and the crazy traitor.
I think Baekryeongeom and Goeseon had something else to do here, so let’s just say it doesn’t matter if they don’t want to go.
“We should go together. It seems pointless to stay here any longer like this… .”
Goeseon glanced at the White Lotus Sword and continued speaking.
“I guess it’s the same for you too, sister.”
“…”
At Goeseon’s words, Baekryeongeom makes a somewhat bitter expression.
It seemed like something was going on.
This was also something that had nothing to do with me and I wasn’t particularly interested in it.
“If you do, please come by noon tomorrow if you are going to go back.”
“It’s noon… Then we’ll be pressed for time. Wouldn’t it be better to go early in the morning?”
“It’s dawn? Ah.”
I wondered what that meant. Now that I think about it, it seems like Baekryeongeom and Namgunghyung didn’t know what I was riding.
“It’s okay. It’s going to fly away anyway.”
“I see. Flying… huh? Flying?”
“Okay, see you tomorrow.”
Without further explanation, he just turned around and walked away.
I was too lazy to explain it since I’ll know everything when I see it tomorrow anyway.
‘It depends on the number of people, but I guess it doesn’t matter.’
In the past, it would have been dangerous because five was the limit.
Looking at Ttol-Ttol’s size and my energy right now, it didn’t seem like that would be a problem.
Squeak. Boom!
I closed the door and walked away.
After that, I looked up at the sky for a while.
The cold wave has disappeared, and the chill remains, but the sky is clear.
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I nodded my head while looking at the flowing clouds.
‘Can we go back soon?’
There’s a lot of work to be done.
For that reason alone, it was time to quickly return to the Central Plains.
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Baekhwa Sangdae Hanam Branch.
Inside the room on the upper floor there.
There is a beautiful woman frowning at the endless pile of documents inside.
Black hair and flawless, pure white skin.
The dark-skinned woman with her characteristically cold eyes was frowning as always.
Because there was so much work piling up.
If people saw the current situation, they would choose this woman over the leader of the busiest people in Hanam right now.
The woman’s work was as heavy as a mountain.
In that situation, a woman, no.
Branch manager of Baekhwasangdan Hanam branch.
Seolbong (雪鳳) Mo Yong-hee had to click her tongue inwardly as she looked at the person in front of her.
It shouldn’t be shown on the outside.
The opponent was an important person, and above all, it was also quite a scary thing.
Mo Yong-hee tried hard to control her expression and bowed to the woman in front of her.
“long time no see.”
The woman in front of her bursts into laughter at her greeting.
It was a ferocious smile that reminded me of someone.
“Nice to meet you, Seolbong. How many years has it been?”
His characteristic black hair sways at the light greeting.
“Well… I think it’s been about three years.”
“Your face is still dying. Do you not feed me enough? I know you well, but I don’t think the owner of this place would do that… .”
“I’m eating well, so you don’t have to worry about me. So… why did you come to see me?”
His cold eyes turned towards the woman.
“Sword Phoenix.”
At Mo Yong-hee’s words, the eldest daughter of the Gu family, Geom-bong (劍鳳) Gu Hee-bi, smiles slightly.
“Could this be a place I shouldn’t have come to?”
“That’s not it. Since you are the Lord’s child, of course you can come and go. It was just a simple question.”
Mo Yong-hee put down the documents she was holding and looked at Gu Hee-bi and asked.
“I was just curious as to why you came to me and not to the Lord.”
“Oh, that’s it… Since my mother is out of the office today… I’ll go to the branch manager, Seol Bong first…”
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“I heard that you came to me as soon as you found the top?”
“… The information is fast?”
“Thank you for the compliment.”
Mo Yong-hee also smiled faintly as if she was a salesperson and continued speaking.
“Furthermore, you said you didn’t even ask about the lord… If you knew that he was away in that situation, wouldn’t it be right to assume that he came looking for me in the first place?”
It was a word that blocked all sides tightly as if there was nowhere to escape.
Hearing those words, Gu Hee-bi’s eyebrows tremble slightly.
“You’re still smart. I just don’t like it.”
“Can I say thank you again this time?”
“That’s positive. It was an insult.”
“Yes, I know about it and I’m just letting it slide, so don’t worry too much about it.”
“haha.”
“Haha.”
A cold wind blows through the room.
In the midst of the freezing, layer by layer, Mo Yong-hee spoke to Gu Hee-bi again.
“What brings you here to me?”
Actually, it wasn’t a good idea to even ask something like that.
When I thought about what Gu Hee-bi did to Mo Yong-hee in the past, I wanted to run away or curse at her right away.
Mo Yong-hee had to endure it.
‘Why of all things.’
Because the woman in front of me was my sister-in-law(?).
Since I often heard that no family has ever gotten along well with their sisters-in-law, I could take this into consideration.
also.
‘I’m just a little curious about something that would make you come looking for me.’
It’s not anyone else, it’s Geombong.
She was a person who was called arrogant and arrogant, but who suppressed a series of evaluations with her talent.
It was refreshing that she came to him like that.
‘… If you look at it that way, they really do look alike.’
Could this be a unique history of that family?
Mo Yong-hee could not help but smile as she thought of the eldest son of that family.
“What’s that look?”
“Huh? What is it?”
“I thought you were looking at someone else. Do you know how to make that kind of expression?”
“… big.”
Mo Yong-hee urgently put strength into her face at the comment.
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It was a mistake.
Fortunately, Gu Hee-bi didn’t seem to care much about Mo Yong-hee.
I thought maybe he didn’t notice because his work was more pressing.
“… Anyway, I came here because I have a favor to ask.”
“Please?”
At Gu Hee-bi’s words, Mo Yong-hee’s brow furrowed.
I was embarrassed.
That’s because I never thought that Geombong would say something like that.
This is said to none other than oneself.
‘Please?’
Instead of going to Baekhwadanju, who is his own mother, why did he have to come to me to ask for a favor?
Thinking about that, Mo Yong-hee quickly thought about it.
“What can I ask you?”
But my mouth doesn’t stop. I can’t let it seem like I’m thinking.
“Will you listen?”
“First, let me listen to what you have to say. If there’s anything I can help you with… I can think about it.”
“…hmm.”
At Mo Yong-hee’s words, Gu Hee-bi seemed to think for a moment and touched her lips.
It’s because he has a dirty temper, but since he takes after his mother and has a dark complexion, that kind of behavior seemed somewhat cute.
Even beasts can be cute if they stay quiet.
After hesitating for a while, Gu Hee-bi finally spoke to Murong Hee-ah.
“That… thing… I wish you could give me some space… .”
“…yes?”
Mo Yong-hee asked back if she had misheard Gu Hee-bi’s words.
“… A job?”
Did I really mishear that?
What did the world’s best swordsman say to you just now?
Gu Hee-bi, who saw Mo Yong-hee’s expression, waved her hand urgently and added an explanation.
“Oh, you’re not asking me for a job… .”
Fortunately, it seems that Gu Hee-bi is not needed.
but.
“Then who are you asking for it from?”
“I… I think my younger brother might need a job.”
“…?”
As Gu Hee-bi continued to speak, Mo Yong-hee became even more suspicious.
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That would be the case.
‘Little brother?’
Which girl are you talking about?
That was a question for Mo Yong-hee.
