Episode 1488. I didn’t come looking for you? (3)
The embarrassed five swords looked at each other.
‘What is that?’
‘They say they’re going to kill me?’
‘Who? ‘An open ark?’
‘Isn’t that guy really crazy?’
Those who were speechless in surprise all looked at Cheongmyeong’s back.
‘This guy is serious.’
Yoonjong was able to recognize it right away.
This is by no means a simple threat. If a proper answer does not come out of the mouth of the open ark now, Cheongmyeong is really going to use his hands. My experience of looking at that back countless times was telling.
“Sasuk!”
Yunjong was embarrassed and ended up looking for Baekcheon. No matter how much I try to stop that guy right now, Baekcheon is the only one who can see it.
‘It must be stopped!’
The opponent is the ark of openness. It hasn’t been officially confirmed yet, but isn’t that what the author claims anyway?
Cutting teeth like that? It is not an accident that can be resolved with the Sword of Clear Light. No, it may be an incident that upsets the powerhouse even more than the northward movement of the SPA.
“Sasook. First of all, Cheongmyeong….”
“Wait.”
Yunjong’s eyes briefly wavered.
“But…”
“I know what you mean, so just wait.”
Yunjong eventually kept his mouth shut. Even he could not easily strongly disagree with Baekcheon, who was so resolute.
‘What on earth are we going to do…’
The anxious, resigned gaze turned to the front again. Qingming’s back was still indifferent, and Cheon Sang-ruju’s eyes were dark and sunken.
Cheon Sang-rooju, who had been silent for a long time, opened her mouth.
“What you’re saying is…”
The voice sounded calm at first glance, but Ogum noticed a slight agitation mixed in.
“So you’re saying I’m intentionally making openness ineffective?”
“….”
“I am the ark of openness.”
Lee Song-baek looked at Cheongmyeong with a slightly bewildered gaze.
In fact, it may be strange for Jongnam’s disciple to have such thoughts, but Lee Songbaek trusted Cheongmyeong almost completely. I was convinced that there was a reason for everything Cheongmyeong did.
But even for Lee Song-baek to hear this, this was a very strange question.
If that person is truly an ark of openness, he would want to become competent in openness more than anyone else. What kind of sect’s expert is deliberately making his sect incompetent?
Thinking that there must be some misunderstanding, Lee Song-baek had difficulty opening his mouth.
“Over there… the seal. I guess this is….”
“That’s accurate.”
But at that moment, Cheon Sang-rooju’s calm voice covered Lee Song-baek’s mouth.
‘what?’
Did I hear it wrong? Everyone, including Lee Song-baek, was taken aback and paid attention to Cheon Sang-rooju.
“Surely you can’t judge it hastily. “It’s just like I heard.”
Qingming’s gaze and Cheon Sang-ruju’s gaze became intertwined in the air.
“It’s not that there weren’t people who noticed the decline of openness, but they just laughed at my incompetence. You are the first to understand my intentions accurately. amazing.”
Yoonjong’s mouth slowly opened.
‘What does this mean?’
Why does the Ark of Openness render openness ineffective?
“Enough of the obvious. “It also became a useless public statement.”
Cheongmyeong cut it coolly.
“What I want to hear is why. “The reason you did that.”
“This is why…”
Cheon Sang-rooju slowly turned around. Then he sat down in his office chair and leaned back loosely.
“That’s something I should ask the other way around, Hwasan Swordsmen Association.”
“…what?”
“Why should openness be competent?”
Cheongmyeong’s eyes sank low.
“Answer me. Why must openness be competent? And why should I, as the owner of the ark, ensure that the opening is always effective? “For what?”
“What kind of bullshit do you want to talk about?”
“Because it should be easy for you to use appropriately when you need it?”
When Cheongmyeong did not respond, Cheon Sang-rooju laughed out loud.
“You know it too. Opening is a sect that has risen to the top with information alone… but unlike Haomun, it doesn’t really have any martial arts skills for secret movements. “He’s just a munpa who runs quickly here and there and listens with his ears.”
Cheongmyeong glared at Cheon Sang-rooju without answering.
“The meaning of the existence of countless beggars lies only in their ears. “Otherwise, it’s about blocking the opponent with that many numbers.”
“What…”
“You know the truth, Hwasan Sword Association.”
Cheon Sang-rooju said quietly. It was a voice that somehow sounded a little empty and empty.
“The competence you speak of comes from the courage to not care about life. The will to see the enemy with my own eyes and listen to his words with my own ears, even if it means cutting my neck. Without that spirit, openness is nothing more than a group of useless beggars. “Do you know what that means?”
This time, Cheongmyeong did not respond. Cheon Sang-ruju’s face suddenly distorted. He said as if chewing.
“The capacity for openness you speak of is only the price of beggars’ blood.”
Yunjong’s body trembled.
However, Cheon Sang-rooju continued speaking as if he had no interest in their reactions.
“What I need to do now to become a competent opener is actually simple. Regardless of whether the bandits are dead or not, all you have to do is push them into Gangnam, station them around the Sapae-ryeon, and scan the blood shed by the beggars to find out where the enemies are. “That has been the approach that openness has taken since the past.”
Cheon Sang-rooju shrugged his shoulders.
“So what’s left?”
“….”
“Open blood and blood.” Openness does not hesitate to sacrifice blood for its courage. “What else is left besides those four damn letters?”
Cheon Sang-ruju’s voice became increasingly louder. As if anger that could not be suppressed was leaking out.
“It’s so easy for people to talk. They say it casually that this is what openness should do. “We must find out, even if it means making sacrifices.”
“….”
“Can I say something like that even if the sacrifice was the life of my clan member?”
Cheon Sang-rooju chuckled.
“no. You can’t do that. Because my life would be a waste to everyone. But the lives of one or two beggars are not a big deal to this strong man.”
“That’s not true.”
When Yunjong couldn’t hold back and spoke, Cheon Sang-rooju glared at him with a cold gaze.
“Is that really true?”
“Of course.”
“Then didn’t you blame us when we missed Jang Il-so’s traces?”
Yoonjong was momentarily speechless and kept his mouth shut.
“really?”
A strange smile spread across Cheon Sang-ruju’s lips.
“There are people who say that. The lives of beggars are equally important. But when a crisis arises, everyone eventually shouts with one voice. Information is important and we must find out the enemy’s whereabouts. Otherwise, more people will die.”
“….”
“So, I’m telling you to go to Gangnam, where the enemy is infested, and catch up with the enemy.”
Yoonjong felt suffocated for a moment. I wanted to say no, but I couldn’t. Because it doesn’t matter at all what kind of feelings he has here.
What if Yoonjong argued that information should not be obtained at the expense of beggars? Perhaps the world will never accept it. We will continue to demand it as a matter of course. I hope that openness will secure more information.
At that time, Cheongmyeong’s soft voice penetrated between the two.
“So you did this?”
Cheongmyeong said with a grin.
“Being sick was a really good excuse. “If I was lying in a hospital bed, I wouldn’t have to meet other people, so I wouldn’t have to listen to requests or pressure.”
“I won’t deny it.”
“In the past, you were the one who dissuaded those who would not have hesitated to jump into enemy territory.”
“I see.”
“You are the one who bit the open provinces where the enemy moves, and you are also the one who watched them split up and reveal their teeth to each other.”
Cheon Sang-rooju nodded silently.
“But the reason for all of that was just because I didn’t want to do good things for others?”
“You’re wrong, Hwasan Sword Association.”
Cheon Sang-rooju shook his head resolutely.
“I just wanted to save at least one more Open Islander.”
“….”
“We are just beggars. Openness is a place where those living in the lowest places in the world gather to avoid further persecution. But the world tells us to give up even the last thing we have. “I mean life.”
Cheongmyeong’s lips twitched.
“The people who create the information you want are not experts with great status within the open world. These are people who live begging somewhere in that village and worry about what to eat tomorrow. “Is it really right to ask such people to give up their lives?”
Cheon Sang-rooju said after changing his teeth.
“If it’s something you really need, those of you who have enough can do it. Why do you want that from us?”
“There are also things that opening up brings in return. “Are you going to wipe your mouth now?”
“So you’re not saying you’re going to give it away!”
At that moment, Cheon Sang-rooju roared like a thunderbolt.
Suddenly, the air around them became tense, and the eyes of Cheongmyeong and Cheon Sang-ruju clashed violently.
Cheon Sang-rooju, who was shaking her shoulders for a moment, realized belatedly that she was excited and sighed deeply.
“I’m sorry. “It wouldn’t have been something to get angry about.”
He massaged his eyes with a slightly trembling hand. The trembling conveyed the pressure and mental pain he had been feeling.
“Maybe I just wanted to tell someone this. “That might be why I didn’t stop you from coming up here.”
Cheon Sang-rooju sighed and shook his head.
“Go back.”
“ark.”
“You were planning to find me and return the opening to normal. “They must have thought that openness should play its role in the war to come.”
“….”
“And of course he was confident of that. Because you have achieved everything you wanted so far. “I recognize your abilities.”
Cheon Sang-rooju glared at Qingming with cold eyes.
“But I will never be fooled by your words and logic. I have no intention of giving you the information you need at the cost of the lives of beggars. If that’s what you really want, just cut off my head right here. Then maybe you can achieve that goal. “Right now, there are a lot of people in the General Assembly who want to return openness to the way it was in the past.”
Cheon Sang-rooju raised his head straight and asked slowly.
“Did you get an answer?”
“….”
Cheongmyeong quietly opened his fist and then clenched it again. The mouth that opened as if to spit out something closed tightly again.
I didn’t know what to say.
They say they will save at least one more beggar’s life no matter what happens, no matter what criticism they have to endure, so how can we refute this?
It was at that time that Cheongmyeong quietly closed his eyes with a feeling close to resignation.
“It’s hard to understand.”
A clear voice came out from Lee Song-baek’s mouth, who was listening intently to the conversation. His clear and vivid eyes stared straight at the remorseful Tian Shang Luzhu.
