Episode 1519 This isn’t my fault, is it? (4)
“So it’s almost all over now?”
“I guess… something like that?”
“…Something is exhausting.”
After leaving Shaolin, I felt even more helpless. The situation hasn’t been completely resolved, but at least now you won’t have to fight for your life. At that time, Yoonjong tilted his head as if he felt uneasy about something.
“But… don’t you feel like you’re missing something, Sasuk?”
“What do you mean, skip it?”
“No, that’s right… I didn’t leave anything out, but it strangely feels like I left it out…”
Yunjong, who was muttering and thinking deeply, suddenly raised his head. His eyes, which had always been narrow, suddenly became the size of drops.
“uh?”
Everyone asked him as he looked back.
“Why are you doing that?”
“So Sohyeop?”
“huh?”
“Where is this little coop! Song Baek Sohyeop!”
“uh?”
Baekcheon also widened his eyes for a moment.
“Weren’t we fighting together?”
“I did! “We fought hard together until the corps collapsed!”
“Then when did it disappear?”
“That’s how the General Assembly will collapse…”
The eyes of the Hwasan disciples who were talking with embarrassed expressions all turned to the floor.
The remains of a collapsed gun corps. Those who had been staring blankly at the scene, which could not even be described as a wasteland, raised their heads and turned to each other. Warm smiles bloomed on everyone’s faces, including you.
“Oh my! “This cow tongue!”
“green onion! green onion! Dig quickly! “People die!”
“…Honestly, I think it’s already dead….”
“Don’t be so unlucky and sell it quickly, you bastard! Oh my, this small cooperative!”
The volcano’s disciples went crazy and started turning over the rubble.
A moment later, Lee Song-baek, covered in light dust, was staring blankly ahead with eyes that seemed to have lost something.
Everyone could not bear to face those eyes with pride and looked away. Lee Song-baek’s mouth opened.
“…still.”
“….”
“We fought together, risking our lives.”
“….”
“Why do you forget so completely?”
“That’s it…”
Baekcheon made up an excuse, breaking into a cold sweat.
“It’s strange… It definitely felt like we were together…”
“Maybe we were together in our hearts?”
“Isn’t that right? The sense of internal unity was so strong…”
Lee Song-baek, who was looking at the volcanoes who were picking up excuses that did not even seem like excuses, looked up at the flawless blue sky.
‘I wish all those volcanoes would go away…’
I felt like I could somehow understand where Jongnam’s deep-rooted hatred of volcanoes came from.
“Hmm. Anyway, are you okay?”
“Yoonjong Dojang.”
“yes?”
“thank you.”
Lee Song-baek, who was covered in dust and looked like a ghost, politely held his gun. Yunjong asked a little embarrassed.
“yes? What is that all of a sudden….”
“I should be thankful. “If Master Yoonjong hadn’t thought of me, I probably would have been stuck down there.”
“….”
“How can I repay you for saving my life?”
The volcano disciples solemnly lowered their heads and desperately glanced sideways at each other.
‘Don’t you think people have changed a bit since the beginning?’
‘Actually, that’s normal.’
‘It’s a bit twisted, isn’t it?’
‘Wouldn’t it be you?’
But I couldn’t even make a sound.
As Lee Song-baek said, what would have happened if he had just forgotten about the person who was buried under the heavy central pillar and returned?
Perhaps Song Baek became a vengeful spirit here. And life… no, I would have cursed the volcano until the day my ghost life (?) ended.
“In the first place….”
“Ah! That’s a lot to say! “I wish I had lived!”
“….”
“In the end, it would have been fine if I hadn’t died! Anyway, these days, people are so busy whining whenever something happens? uh? When I was fighting, even if my arms and legs were blown off, I just shook it off and went to eat. Tsk tsk.”
At that moment, something welled up in Lee Song-baek’s eyes as he looked at Cheongmyeong.
“…Whoa. Calm down, little girl. “Please take your hand off that knife.”
“So I told you not to expect too much from that person, right?”
“Amitabha Buddha. Honestly, this is karma.”
A sigh came out of Lee Song-baek’s mouth.
When I think of the touching scene of the priests’ reunion while standing on the rubble that covered him, it’s not enough to throw a knife right now.
But what can you do? They said they didn’t know.
As I was sighing and calming my mind, Baekcheon spoke with a very serious expression.
“Anyway, it’s a small cooperative. thank you.”
“yes?”
There was no violation of etiquette in the attitude of handing over fists.
“Thanks to the help of the cooperative, we were able to complete the work without anyone dying or being seriously injured. Hwasan will remember the courage shown by the Sohyeop this time.”
Lee Song-baek looked at Baek-cheon quietly and then opened his mouth.
“Don’t try to get over it so casually.”
“I got caught.”
“Look. “It doesn’t work.”
“weird. “It usually works.”
Lee Song-baek bit his lip. Those volcano guys are all crazy. I realized it painfully.
At that time, Jo Geol raised her hand.
“But this small cooperative!”
“yes?”
“Is that true?”
“What do you mean?”
“I heard that our Sa-suk’s older brother is going to become Jong-nam’s Jangmun-in?”
“…Just say Jingeumryong.”
“no way. Still, he is Sasuk’s older brother whom I respect. “I know some manners, right?”
“Just call it Jingeumryong. “If you don’t want to get lost.”
“…yes.”
Lee Song-baek responded with an absurd expression.
“You mean the ambassadorial sentence? “There are rumors like that going around?”
“yes! “I definitely heard it.”
Lee Song-baek momentarily made a stern expression.
“This is a ridiculous story. If the major punishment is for a disciple of Lee University, then what kind of long sentence is a disciple of Lee University? “There are clear distribution and laws!”
Phew.
A dagger flew into the chest of the volcano disciples.
“Even if Jang Mun-in resigns from his position, the next Jang Mun will emerge from among his first disciples. “Isn’t it natural for a cultured clan?”
Phew.
The dagger struck once again.
“…We almost had no distribution, no laws, no provisions.”
“If you really think about it, there are more things that are missing than things that are there.”
“therefore.”
The faces of the volcano disciples became gloomy. It’s even sadder that there was no malice in those words.
“Anyway, whatever. So what do you do now?”
“yes?”
“We have to sort things out, so we’re leaving tomorrow. you?”
Hearing Cheongmyeong’s words, Lee Songbaek glanced to the side. The Ark and the Goddess of the Sun were moving busily. There will certainly be more work to be done to sort out the relationship with them. But he…
“I don’t think there’s anything I can do.”
“hmm?”
“Tskcha.”
Lee Song-baek suddenly stood up from his seat. He lightly brushed the dust off his clothes and spoke calmly to Hwasan’s disciples.
“The brothers are probably worried, so I’ll just go.”
“You’re going?”
“yes. Or is there something else I should do?”
“It’s not like that, but…”
Lee Song-baek shrugged his shoulders as if to say something, but Cheongmyeong blurted out.
“Isn’t the reason Jongnam came here in the first place to create openness and good relationships?”
Lee Song-baek turned his head towards Cheongmyeong.
“Of course, the purpose is the information provided by openness. “You’re not a fool, so you know that if you stick around here, the Ark will have no choice but to pay for what you’ve done, right?”
Song Baek scratched his head at those words.
“well.”
“huh?”
“The order I received from Jang Mun-in was to inform the general public of the fact that Jong-nam has resumed his activities and to come and greet him.”
“….”
“I don’t dare guess what Jang Mun-in wanted more than that. “I just faithfully follow Jang Mun-in’s orders.”
“…Leaving us to help?”
Song Baek smiled slightly.
“It was me, as the inspector, who helped you all. However, what is important to me as Jongnam’s disciple is simply to follow Jangmunin’s wishes and carry them out accurately.”
“Ha….”
“So, all I have to do is return to the appropriate location and say hello to the new ark once the opening is cleared. “We could have returned without meeting the ark at all, but I think this is a great achievement.”
“….”
“But that’s why I have one favor to ask of you.”
“what?”
“Please keep the fact that I helped you a secret.”
“….”
“It’s not good for that to be revealed….”
The whole time Lee Song-baek was talking, he glanced at Baek-cheon. Perhaps he was seeing someone else in Baekcheon’s face.
Everyone nodded with sad faces.
“I will do that.”
“thank you. “Then I’ll leave.”
Lee Song-baek turned around as if relieved.
“Oops.”
But then, as if he remembered something, he turned again and told everyone.
“Our group is staying in Jinyoung’s guesthouse. If there’s anything else I can help you with, you can find me there. instead!”
Song Baek put his index finger to his lips and laughed a little humorously.
“Please don’t let the brothers find out.”
“….”
“Then Hwasan Sword Association.”
“huh?”
“It was fun fighting together. See you next time.”
Lee Song-baek smiled brightly and turned around.
Hwasan’s disciples sighed as they watched him quickly retreat.
“So the result is that he wants you to keep what he did here a secret.”
“…If this spreads out, wouldn’t it be something that would really gain enormous fame?”
“yes.”
“But keeping it a secret…”
“Isn’t the fear of being taken by a ghost greater than the expectation of good things that will come from gaining fame?”
“…Maybe so.”
Although they say this, in reality, Hwasan’s disciples already knew enough.
How difficult and great it is to not boast about what you have done.
But Lee Song-baek really left without even a moment’s regret.
“Really…”
This is the image of a Gyeonghyeop Governor that I have always thought of. Since they discovered it from none other than Jongnam’s swordsman, the minds of Hwasan’s disciples were complex and strange.
“Something tickles me, death penalty.”
“Are you like that too?”
“I wish it wasn’t Jongnam.”
“There’s nothing that can’t be done.”
“yes?”
“Sasuk was also from Jongnam, but ended up moving to Hwasan. How can you seduce that nobleman too?…”
“Deukchirgu….”
“Sasuk is so upset. “You’re going to break your molar.”
The strange feeling did not go away for a long time.
After a long silence, Baekcheon let out a long breath and spoke.
“If the world was full of consultations, there would be no need to emphasize consultations.”
“…yes.”
“Discussions continue at any time… This is probably because there are people all over the world who follow the path on their own without any expectations.”
A light of reflection appeared in Baekcheon’s eyes.
Although it was only for a moment, there was a time when I was caught up in the arrogance that they were the only ones protecting the Central Committee’s agreement.
However, what the Shaolin monks and Lee Song-baek showed today made Baek-cheon even more embarrassed.
“Even though the world is like this… there are still people who practice consultation. “We shouldn’t lose either.”
“yes.”
“yes! Sasuk!”
The disciples of Hwasan nodded resolutely.
One side of the once blue sky was slowly turning into a warm sunset.
* * *
After two o’clock, Cheonsangru and Pungyeongsingae sat down with a tired face. The disciples of Hwasan stood in front of him. Before I knew it, he looked thoroughly washed. Pungyeongsingae opened his mouth in a half-hoarse voice.
“The General Assembly… collapsed.”
“….”
“Among the elders of the open world, there are many injured people….”
“….”
“Ilho Shingae, the best expert of the open area, was imprisoned with his martial arts skills subdued. “It probably won’t be a lottery, so it will have to be seen as a permanent loss of power.”
“….”
“The disciples are still demanding an explanation. The headquarters collapsed and numerous documents and objects were lost. “The entire Western region was massacred for crimes and the system itself was paralyzed, causing a mess!”
The more he spoke, the more his voice got louder, as if he was getting more and more angry. Cold sweat flowed from the faces of the volcano disciples.
“Above all, a slip! chit! “The huge pile of vouchers piled up in the gun box have been torn to shreds and blown away, so all the beggars in the open space can’t sleep and are walking around picking up all the scraps of paper in the open space!”
In particular, Baekcheon, the person in charge, was drenched in sweat, even down to his back. If there were a lot of slips piled up in the open box, how much would that amount be?…
“Anyway…”
I flinch.
Pungyeongsingae spoke with a soulless expression and voice toward the Hwasan disciples, who unconsciously shrugged their shoulders.
“really. thank you. Hwa.san.bun.s.”
…That guy’s back end is a bit… harsh.
haha.
