Episode 1560. Can you back off? (5)
The white statue literally became contemplative.
It’s not anyone else, it’s Baekcheon and Yoonjong.
Jaegyeonggak is a place that manages volcano funds, but no matter what anyone says, the people who move that money are people. Because in the end, people have no choice but to decide where to spend the money with the limit set.
That’s why Baeksang knows.
Who has the greatest presence within the volcano where everyone seems equal under Wise Man Bae and Cheongmyeong? Which people are the center of the volcano?
‘why…?’
Sometimes Baeksang felt fortunate, and sometimes he felt relieved. Because the relationship between the two most influential people in the volcano wasn’t that bad.
There were even times when the two people seemed like they were each other’s only understanding.
But now, before our eyes, the two people are clashing without even hiding their hostility toward each other.
“Now just a moment. Yoonjong-ah, you….”
“Don’t step forward, Baeksang.”
Before Baeksang could try to stop him, Baekcheon coldly cut him off. Baeksang looked back at his executioner with surprised eyes and could not help but hold his breath at his coldness.
Baekcheon glares at Yoonjong again.
“Go ahead. So what are you going to do?”
“Sasuk.”
“Are you planning to stop it with force?”
Yunjong sighed with a slightly tired face.
“You know yourself that Sa-sook’s actions right now are not right.”
“It seems you think your actions are right.”
“…It’s not like that.”
“Isn’t it true?”
Baeksang saw.
Yoonjong’s face, which seemed relatively calm, was slightly distorted as if it were cracked.
“Why should I…”
“Don’t be presumptuous, Yoonjong.”
Yunjong’s shoulders flinched at Baekcheon’s words.
“I don’t know why you’re doing this. But that’s not right either. “Don’t force your thoughts on me.”
“Sasuk!”
“Get out of the way.”
“….”
“Get out of the way.”
Baekcheon’s mood was extremely cold, and Yoonjong bit his lips tightly without realizing it.
“Wasn’t it for the volcano?”
Baekcheon, who was trying to ignore Yunjong and take a step forward, stopped.
“…What does it mean?”
“I’m saying that the reason you’re pushing yourself so hard is for the sake of the volcano. “Wasn’t it to fulfill your duty as Hwasan’s Deputy Jangmun?”
Baekcheon chose silence.
“You definitely didn’t say that to me, Sasuk.”
“What do you want to say?”
“I am asking whether what you are trying to do now is really for the sake of Hwasan’s disciples.”
“Yoonjong-ah.”
“Nangung is not a volcano!”
There was silence. Baekcheon looked at Yunjong blankly, as if he had been hit hard by something.
“I’m not saying risking your life for Namgung is a bad thing. If Master tells me to do that, I will do whatever I can. A hundred times over! A thousand times! But Sa-suk… Sa-suk doesn’t really need to do that, right? Do you really not know what kind of existence Sasuk is in Hwasan?”
Baeksang did not understand at all and looked at the two people in turn.
The conversation between the two people is strangely disjointed. Their unique meaning is reflected in every word of their words.
“Does this mean that I am that important in the volcano?”
“Of course…”
Baekcheon’s words cut off Yoonjong’s words.
“Or does it mean that I can’t handle it all anymore?”
“Sasuk!”
Unable to bear it anymore, Yoonjong shouted. His voice cracked at the end, as if he was filled with anger. It means that that was never my intention, but there was definitely a strange feeling of resentment attached to it.
But Baekcheon’s eyes were infinitely cold.
“If not, then back off. “I am your private quarters and the head of Hwasan.”
“It is the name of Jang Mun-in and the name of Taesang Jang-mun-in!”
“so?”
So? Yunjong’s face was noticeably distorted.
This is not the Baekcheon he knows. The Baekcheon he knew would not react in this way to the names of Jang Munin and Taesang Jangmunin, even if they expressed the opposite opinion.
What on earth made this man so stubbornly narrow-minded? Sharp words flew out of Yoonjong’s mouth.
“Are you looking for a place to die?”
“hey!”
Baeksang could not stand it anymore and shouted.
However, Yoonjong did not even look at Baeksang and glared at Baekcheon.
“Why are you being so urgent? If Sasuk doesn’t go, someone will die! Even if Sa-sook goes, what the hell…”
Yoon-jong, who was speaking, closed his mouth as if he had missed something.
Baekcheon was able to guess what he could not bear to say.
“You mean, what can you do?”
“…no. I am.”
Yunjong couldn’t bear to finish speaking. Because I can’t deny that I thought that way, even if only for a moment.
Yunjong thought. No matter how much he looks back, he says he was not wrong.
It is absolutely unacceptable for Baekcheon, who is not in good health, to jump into a dangerous battlefield and die like a dog.
Baekcheon is not Baekcheon because he is strong.
Even if he loses all his martial arts skills and cannot kill an ant with his own hands, he is still Baekcheon, Yunjong’s private master, and Hwasan’s next scholar.
I can’t lose Baekcheon like this. never.
Baekcheon said bitterly as he looked at Yoonjong, who was not only resolute but also radiating venom.
“You can’t back down because you lack ability. “That’s just an excuse.”
“….”
“Isn’t that what you often say? “Isn’t that right?”
Yoonjong bites his lip.
The cases are different. That’s what I want to say. Even if it means becoming a person who says two things at once.
But…
“I say this for the last time. Step back. “If you still think of me as Sasuk and a long-time servant of Hwasan.”
A long, empty sigh escaped Yunjong’s mouth.
I wish I hadn’t said that, but…
“I understand.”
In the end, Yoonjong took a step back.
“I will follow you instead. “You’re not going to stop me from that, are you?”
Baekcheon silently glanced at Yunjong, who had stepped aside, and nodded slowly. Even that couldn’t be stopped. Yunjong also didn’t block him out of malice.
But… resentment sprouts in a corner of my heart.
Why don’t you know? Everything Yoonjong does now is making Baekcheon miserable.
‘It’s difficult.’
Baekcheon gently closed his eyes.
However, the hesitation had long since disappeared from his reopened eyes.
“Move. Right Now!”
“yes!”
Baekcheon runs first, leading the Baekja boats.
Baeksang did not follow immediately, but glanced at Yunjong. Unlike before, it was a gaze filled with some discomfort.
“Of course there was a reason. “Because you are none other than Yoonjong.”
“….”
“But it’s your private residence. I wonder if it was right for you to show that attitude. “The end cannot always justify the means.”
Yoonjong lowered his head at those words.
“sorry.”
Baeksang glared at Yoonjong in silence for a moment, then turned and followed Baekcheon, letting the cold wind blow.
Yunjong, who was staring at the white porcelain boat moving away with complicated eyes, let out a long sigh and spoke.
“Let’s go too.”
“…Yes, death penalty.”
Among the group members who answered, some had eyes that guessed something, while others had uncomfortable faces, as if they were having a hard time understanding Yoonjong.
For some reason, something stirred inside me. However, Yoonjong, who opened his mouth as if to pour out something, soon held it back and shook his head.
‘You didn’t want to be understood, right?’
“…let’s go.”
“yes.”
Yoonjong bit his lip tightly as he kicked the ground.
‘I’m not wrong.’
never.
The two people got down to the place they left.
“…Why did you stop the accident?”
Jo Geol asked Yu Iseol as if she didn’t understand.
Then Yu Iseol spoke in a voice that did not reveal any emotion.
“What are you going to do?”
“You two fought needlessly, right? Of course, I have to stop him…”
“How?”
“yes?”
“how?”
Jo Geol was speechless for a moment.
Yu Yi-seol is not asking just to get in trouble. Jo Geol also knew that.
“Well… of course they both have their own thoughts, but the execution of Yoonjong was perhaps too excessive. “But it’s still a private residence.”
“you?”
“yes?”
Yu Yi-seol stared at Jo Geol. It was a transparent gaze.
“Do you want to send the death penalty? “On the battlefield?”
I couldn’t answer hastily.
If I were to be honest… Jo Geol was close to approving of Baek Cheon.
If he were in the same situation as Baekcheon, Jo Geol would never have been able to endure it. Because I can’t deny everything I’ve done while holding the sword and step back.
Even if the results aren’t good, shouldn’t we try as hard as we can?
“I think that’s…”
“Then you will see the corpse of the executed person. “Can you say I did a good job then?”
“No accident.”
“When you die, it’s all over.”
Jo Geol flinched. It was a calm, soft voice that was strangely more eerie.
“Even if you have good intentions and reasons why you can never give up… it all ends when you die. “The burden of the remaining people only increases.”
“accident.”
“Is Yoonjong wrong?”
“That’s…”
Jo Geol agreed as usual and tried to step back.
But one thing stuck in my mind.
Normally, I wouldn’t have built a wall by telling Yu Iseol everything I had in mind, but…
“Just because everything is meaningless when you die doesn’t mean that anything is okay as long as you live, right?”
“…what?”
Jo Geol said a little hesitantly.
“That’s right. You can’t tell Sa-suk to just sit back and watch, right? That’s not a favor. “Isn’t this killing people alive?”
Yu Yi-seol looked at Jo Geol with an expressionless face.
Silence descends.
Before the silence became too heavy and weighed down the two, Yu Iseol turned around and walked away.
“You can say that because you haven’t lost anything.”
“accident.”
“I’ll go first. “I left Joe behind.”
fault.
Yu Yi-seol flew away as quickly as the wind. Jogeol, who was left alone, rubbed her face with her rough hands.
“Damn it!”
What’s the point of asking if you’re not going to listen anyway?
In the end, they decided on their own and treated his thoughts as half a dozen.
“damn.”
After swearing again, Jo Geol scratched her head roughly and sighed.
When I looked up, the sky was clear and blue.
My heart started to feel tight again. I feel like people are telling me that the world is no different, but only you are shaking.
“…Why is it so complicated?”
I don’t think it was like this until now.
No matter how difficult things were, their world was simple, so all they had to do was follow their ways.
But at some point, didn’t those methods become incompatible and distorted?
“execution.”
“know.”
Jo Geol glanced at the group members approaching behind her and nodded heavily.
“Let’s just follow along. it will work out somehow.”
“Is that really okay? The instructions we received were…”
“I am responsible…”
Jo Geol couldn’t finish what he was saying and kept his mouth shut.
This is because the word responsibility once again feels too heavy. So much so that I can’t easily spit it out.
“Let’s do that first. Please.”
“…I understand for now. Death penalty.”
Jo Geol, who had taken a step without any energy, forced herself to put strength into her feet.
‘What would he have done?’
For some reason, I wanted to see that damn bastard’s face.
The guy who would have kicked both of their butts without even thinking about it.
