Episode 265 Why don’t you know me?
After blackmailing Ki Seon-hyang and finding out the location of Heuk-hyang’s auction, I visited her and the memories came back one after another. It is not difficult to enter as it is a place where auctions are held for black swordsmen.
The security here is managed by the auction participants working together.
It’s like an atmosphere where people who do bad things are uniting among themselves. When participants fight each other, it is when they are competing over bidding prices.
Among the participants, there are some cilantro planted by Heukhyang, and they help to lower the auction price.
The reason why Heukhyang is such an asshole is because he is asked to retrieve items.
Someone else’s sword, someone’s ring, a family heirloom, a boy, a girl, a girl, a woman of color, an elixir, silk, a spirit object, a poisonous insect, a rare drink, a poison, a memorization, a picture book, an adulterous book, a cub of a wild beast, a beauty, Kunlunno.
So the participants are different every time.
A sloppy black man trying to save poison could have participated, a master trying to save a painting could have participated, or a rich man with a twisted sexual desire who wasn’t a strongman could have participated and made a lot of money.
After being introduced by Ki Seon-hyang, I pretended to be an auction participant and then had the number of slips and coins I had checked at the entrance of the gambling hall that leads down to Heuk-hyang’s auction house. So, this auction house is a place that you can only enter if you have a lot of money.
Since the escorts were unable to participate, the demons and demons were kept waiting at the gambling hall.
In the meantime, Saekma said that it was his first time gambling in a long time, that he was excited, and borrowed money from me.
After losing my money to the slut, I went down alone to the underground auction room of the gambling house, filled with the smell of dust.
The dark stairs became brighter as we went deeper.
While working in Gangho, I had to face death several times, and one of them was when I was fighting Heukhyang.
As soon as I came down the stairs, I couldn’t help but smile.
‘It’s absurd.’
* * *
The sound of a performance could be heard beyond the silver curtain, and miscellaneous masks were laid out on the table to be worn before entering the tent.
Wearing masks is common in places like this.
Since we came to purchase the wrong items, it was perhaps the organizers’ consideration to cover our faces.
This thought occurred to me while choosing a mask.
Since the time would be different from when I visited before, the auction participants today would also be different from then. Of course, the organizers were the same people, and the owner of Heukhyang was an expert that I had had a hard time dealing with in the past.
While fighting that guy…
my side was pierced, my face was cut, and I suffered internal injuries.
My little finger was broken, the back of my hand was cut, my shoulder was bitten by an unknown subordinate, and half of my precious front teeth were broken.
So, my face, which was quite acceptable before I came down the stairs, had become ugly when I went up the stairs again.
Or not.
As I was looking at various masks, the Daenaksa Temple came to mind.
Are you repenting in the other world? Or am I struggling in an unknown hell? Maybe there is a place in hell waiting for me, leaving it empty.
I put on the red fighting cock mask on my face and entered the curtain.
‘Were there this many people who would get sick?’
The order was the performance auction, the performance auction, and now the performance was in progress. Unfortunately, everyone was wearing masks, so it was impossible to tell who was participating.
I sat in an empty seat and waited for the next auction.
The masks around me moved, focused on me, and then headed back to the stage. Some of them were looking at me for so long that I couldn’t help but move my head.
“….”
It was dark so I couldn’t see his eyes, but I could see his white hair around the mask and it was Noh Kang-ho. At this time, I looked at the stage in surprise.
“and.”
So, I was performing a transformation on stage. Naturally, Daenachal’s words came to mind as if they had happened yesterday.
“My master’s master was a masquerade performer. I had to wear that mask to be able to eat and survive. However, I had to be kicked out because I could not master the art of changing the mask in an instant.”
To me, the people who performed the transformation looked like the people who kicked out the Great Rachasal school of thought. They were skilled in prosecution. While watching the performance, I wondered why Daenachal kept these guys alive.
Was it a lack of skill?
Or did he try to raise disciples and attack them later? Maybe they were just people who had nothing to do with the Daenakchal school of thought.
When the prosecutor’s performance ended, the surroundings suddenly became quiet, and then the auction began again. While I still didn’t know what was coming, I heard someone’s voice.
“…Today especially.”
I tried to repeat those words in a small way.
“Today especially.”
Is this a common rhetoric used by auctioneers? Or is today really special? Anyway, it must have been a bit special because I was there.
“I have prepared one hundred yin-yang tablets from the Gu clan medicine gate. This will be presented at the end. You can rest assured that the quality is guaranteed by Gussi Yakmun. About 100 days ago, the Wijisan swordsman, who had made a name for himself by clearing out the Green Forest Island of Mt. Hyeongmunsan, was unfortunately defeated by the Bigaek. “The sword used by the Wiji Mountain swordsman is ready.”
Up to this point, it seemed like a dark auction with nothing special, but when I looked at the names that appeared, I realized that it was not a light affair.
First of all, I don’t know the Gu family medicine text.
I don’t even know Wijisan.
I know the name of the guest because he is a martial arts official, but I had no idea he would appear here.
The auction host continued.
“…The first item to be introduced is six years old. His father’s family is a businessman who travels to and from the West, but he is also originally of mixed race and his mother’s family is unknown, but when I asked him, he was told that he was from a remote area and no one would have heard of it. Let’s take a look. “Today especially…”
I muttered again.
“Specially today.”
“Yes, we expected the auction to be particularly heated today, and the three angels of heaven are joining the participants. As you can see, you’ve already bought a few collections. First of all, it would be a good idea for those who are causing problems to have a separate interview with the Three Thousand Years Old.”
While he was speaking, a man wearing a mask and a child with his eyes covered appeared. I couldn’t tell if it was a boy or a girl until the child appeared, but it turned out to be a girl.
I just sighed.
If demons and color demons had also seen this place.
No matter what kind of person these two people were in their past lives, they would probably have been as angry as me. If he wasn’t that kind of person, he would have already died by my hands.
Do you have more children?
Or is this girl the end?
I calmed down my nervous mind for a moment. This probably means that in a previous life, that child was sold to an auctioneer here, right?
Probably so.
I started to have difficulty hearing what the host was saying, and after a while, voices calling for amounts were intermittently mixed in here and there. After hearing the last amount, I raised my hand without thinking and then called for a higher amount.
“…one hundred and forty.”
Of course, it was the standard for common hermits. The masks turned and watched me. After a while, one hundred and forty became one hundred and fifty, and I couldn’t hear people again. I woke up feeling like my ears were going deaf and was getting a light on stage when I felt like I had opened a fire bell.
The moderator spoke to me with a calm expression amidst the murmur of laughter.
“…pull it out.”
“for a moment. “Just a moment…”
I was so helpless that I took off my mask. I asked the auction participants with my face exposed.
“Does anyone know me?”
“….”
“doesn’t exist? “I’m kind of famous now.”
An old man’s voice was heard from among the masks.
“Who on earth are you young man? I don’t know, so let me introduce it myself. Don’t make a fuss. You look like you’ve taken some kind of hallucinogenic drug. “If you don’t show courtesy, it will be difficult to get out of here.”
I looked around and answered.
“Why don’t you know me? “I’ve been here before.”
Only then did I feel that it was difficult to control my breathing and looked at the trembling girl next to me. Now I see that no one has taken off the blindfold so far.
I said to the child.
“…It will be dazzling, so be careful.”
I took off the blindfold and briefly covered my eyes with my hands. After I gently moved my hand away, I looked over and saw a cute little boy looking up at me with googly eyes.
I couldn’t help but laugh.
“haha.”
I was startled by the yelling around me and took my gaze away from the child. All of the auction participants were standing up, and I could see something sparkling in their hands. I held the child in one hand and made my arm into a small stool and then told the auctioneers:
“I will take this child. If your parents are alive, find them and bring them to you. If I don’t have it, I’ll leave it to Deuksu and Sister Hong. I will take care of you until you grow up to be an adult. “In return, I don’t have a single penny to give you.”
“What a crazy bastard…”
Now people were coming up around the stage. Auction officials also appeared one after another from a cave-like place. Cursing could be heard from the audience and the child sitting on his arm was still shaking.
I looked at my hands as I was about to draw my sword.
There was a blindfold I didn’t know where it came from, so I handed it over to the child.
“Hold your eyes shut for a moment.”
While the child blindfolded himself, I pulled out my sword. The sparkling eyes and blades were getting closer, so they were warned.
“…I am also different from before. “I will save your life, so surrender.”
Actually, I had no intention of saving him, but I felt burdened by the child I was holding in my left arm. I thought it would have been better if I had trained harder.
I stepped back while holding the sword and looked around.
Everyone who was approaching stopped moving and was looking at me.
“….”
I moved my head back and forth and asked the auction participants.
“what? Why are you still? Come on.”
My voice sounded distant, as if I was speaking underwater. When someone removed the surrounding curtains, the stage and audience became brighter at the same time.
Only then did I realize that all objects were stained purple.
The fact that the skill he could not display even when dealing with Chu Myeong-seosaeng appears when dealing with these idiots…
“How absurd?”
I checked the wooden sword. For a moment, the thought crossed my mind that there was blood on the blade. It couldn’t have been that way since we hadn’t fought yet.
Even in this situation, I couldn’t help it, so I spoke with a mix of my own words.
“Colored demon descends.”
“….”
“hurry.”
At that moment, a loud noise erupted from the ceiling, and the gambling hall’s tables, chairs, gambling tools, and miscellaneous iron coins and coins fell like heavy snow. Then, as the demon fell vertically, the masked people all looked at the shitbag.
The devil asked me.
“Didn’t you call me?”
“that’s right.”
This time, demons fell from the ceiling where the colored demons had fallen. The demon looked at me like it was going to pierce through me and then said.
“I have to finish it quickly. “It looks like he had a seizure.”
I tried to reply to the devil’s words without any hesitation.
“A ghost appears.”
For a moment, I was overcome with self-destruction and stood in a daze, looking at the color demon and the demon demon. Something kept getting cut and soaring into the air, occasionally accompanied by screams.
“Well done. do well.”
I spoke to the blindfolded child.
“Cover your ears too.”
Someone was approaching me, but when I turned my head, they stopped. I asked the man.
“moderator?”
Next, he swung the arm holding the wooden sword once, and the body of the presenter, who was about to say something, was cut diagonally into two pieces and blood spurted out.
I moved a little to the side to avoid the dripping blood.
When I looked from the stage to the audience, blood was still gushing out there. The two men who were once again violent were the Color Demon and the Demon Demon.
Since we are warriors, isn’t it only natural?
At this time, someone was coming down the stairs with a crashing sound and a silver badge. Probably someone involved in the auction. However, there were no major problems in the audience.
Every time a cold wind blew and someone froze, the demon was striking it with his sword.
I suddenly looked at the child who was covering his ears with both hands and then recited the situation of the war.
“…We are stronger. Nothing much will happen. Of course, I’m stronger than before, so it’s assumed that nothing much will happen. Hao Wen will take over this place today.”
I broke through the battlefield on foot while holding my child. Occasionally, if I saw someone getting in my way, I would cut them down with a wooden sword. As I watched the guys breaking apart while using weapons, I thought that I had done well in learning martial arts.
I reached the bottom of the stairs without difficulty and looked up to see a man with a familiar face looking down at me from halfway up the stairs.
Was he the owner of Heukhyang?
This is the man who pierced my side before. After that, there were still people waiting to join.
I swung the wooden sword towards the top of the stairs. A beam of bright red light flew like a whip and exploded on everything it touched. The stairs are filled with blood and flesh that no one can pass through.
I walked back to the center where the color demon and demon demon were fighting, injected a lot of energy, and soared into the air. When I got out of the hole where the devil had appeared, I saw a gambling house.
After sheathing the sword and removing the blindfold…
I went outside the gambling house and caught my breath.
My breathing, which had been difficult, was finally becoming easier. As my breathing became easier, the colors around me returned to their original colors.
It was all blood red and I couldn’t tell what the real color was, but now it was normal.
After I drop the child off.
We sat side by side in front of the gambling hall and waited for the evil demon and the demon demon. The child was looking up at me, so I said something.
“…It might take a while. There were quite a few experts.”
“yes.”
The child seemed to have something to say, so I spoke first.
“I am Hao Wen Ju.”
