Episode 307
Episode 105. Former Grandmaster Mantu (4)
Mantu looked at Natalie for a moment and smiled. Then he turned his head again and shifted his gaze to Yuma.
“Is it your lover?”
“Yes.”
“You are a good man. Seeing that you are arguing for your lover even though you seem to be quite afraid of me.”
When Mantu said that, Natalie’s eyes darkened.
He was ready to pull out his chainsword and swing it at him.
The most embarrassed was Prince Illen.
He didn’t know what to do with Natalie’s behavior, so he knelt down and shifted his gaze to Mantu and Yuma.
Mantu stood up slowly and looked down at Tali.
“Did you think I would hurt your lover?”
“I don’t know.”
“Do you think you can stop me with the unmanned people in the back?”
When Mantu spoke with energy, Natalie and the warriors flinched and took a step back.
Ilten put her head on the ground, and Sebora shuddered as if it was difficult to breathe.
Yuma was the only one who seemed to be unaffected by that energy. But Yuma was also nervous.
“Reap some. Princess Sebra is not a warrior.”
Yuma waved her hand and said, dispelling the Mantu energy that had spread around her. It was a light gesture, like stirring up cigarette smoke.
As her energy opened, Sebora breathed heavily and coughed.
Her face was white, but she nodded towards Yuma as if she was okay.
Seeing this, Mantu smiled and closed his eyes.
Natalie was still glaring at him, and the warriors had already drawn their knives.
“I played a little joke because I wanted to get a greeting from my juniors.”
“Did you have any grudge against your juniors while you were alive? Looking at the record, you weren’t a very polite junior either.”
Mantu was a Grand Master famous for beating up his senior warriors well since childhood.
There were countless anecdotes about how he mercilessly defeated famous warriors of the time.
“I apologize if I overdo it. What is the name of Yuma’s lover?”
“It’s Natalie.”
“Okay Natalie. let’s talk again I mean more politely. If you confirmed my existence, I won’t harm Yuma, so why don’t you go back?”
“I told you before, but I can’t trust you.”
“Then stop trusting me and trust your lover. I swear by this fire.”
Mantu said as he put his finger inside the flower and pulled it out. Seeing that, Yuma and the others couldn’t help but be frightened.
‘Was that something I could put in there?’
The blazing fire eye lay quietly on Mantu’s palm. The inside of Mantu’s eye sockets was as dark as pitch black.
“I don’t know how important those burning eyes are. Why did you kill my men?”
“Load?”
“The four people you killed. You’re not going to catch me saying no, are you?”
This was the reason why Natalie did not trust Mantoo.
Mantu was silent for a while after the story came out. The one side of the painting that had not been removed quietly shook.
“I didn’t kill him.”
“what?”
“I’m not. So just go back.”
“What!”
“I intend to pass on my skills to your lover. And I don’t have much time.”
Natalie, who was about to say another word, stopped moving with her eyes wide open. It was the same with Yuma and the others.
“And Hwa-an is everything to me. I hope that my husband will not take the fact that I risked this lightly. Please.”
Natalie said no more and made eye contact with Mantu before turning away. Then he got on his horse and ordered the soldiers to withdraw.
“Yuma, if that monkey-looking bastard does something strange, come right back in the Tulka. don’t fight And Mantuna doesn’t believe you didn’t kill my men.”
“As you like.”
“Return Yuma by morning.”
“i get it.”
Prince Illen cried and bowed his head to Mantu right before he left.
They soon started back the way they had come, raising a cloud of sand.
Soon after, the horses disappeared into the dark desert.
When Mantu sat down again and returned to his seat, Yuma shrugged.
“I envy you.”
Mantu said as he put the eyeballs he was holding back into his eye sockets.
It was so natural that Yuma couldn’t even ask more about him.
“what?”
“Being able to be with a lover is something. I won’t talk long. I will train you at this time every day for ten days from now.”
“Why should I be trained by you?”
“Because you will have to fight the guy who saved me.”
“Who is that? You’re not weak enough to have me fight for you.”
“I do not know. I only know it’s near the Gray Forest. And how many more times must I emphasize that I have no time?”
Lagatino Rollmandi must be right. When the place name ‘Gray Forest’ came up, Yuma thought Lois’ assumption was correct.
“Did you find out why you survived?”
“No, I know the time to die again. When your friend is well, advance your troops little by little.
When I am not teaching you, I will clear the way.”
At that point, as if he noticed something, Yuma raised his senses.
It was to detect the demonic energy of the entire area, but I couldn’t feel it at all.
Yuma immediately knew that it was because of Mantu’s power.
Just as rabbits do not dig burrows where tigers are, monsters fear Mantu and do not approach this area.
It wasn’t like coming and living.
It was the influence of Mantu’s unique and mysterious energy that Yuma felt from the first time he saw him.
Yuma thought that this phenomenon might have something to do with Hwa-an.
“You got rid of the monsters and now even training? You are very cooperative. Was it like that from the beginning?”
“You died too, wake up. I am so embarrassed that I even make mistakes.”
There was no need to bring up the story of having already died and survived more than a thousand times.
Anyway, I couldn’t move the troops until Randell’s injuries were healed and Mantu was completely trusted.
Yuma pondered for a while whether it was right to be trained by him for ten days.
‘Why did the attitude suddenly change so amicably?’
Mantu’s actions seemed like a military man passing on his skills to his successor in a really urgent situation.
When Yuma did not respond that he would attend training for a while, Mantu opened his mouth in annoyance.
“How did my damn situation come to this? If you don’t train me, I will attack your army at once. Do you know how many people came to me to become my disciples when I was alive? Just trust me for ten days!”
Mantu was unable to reach the place where Yuma’s soldiers were.
Just yesterday, Mantu had been unable to keep up with Yuma, saying that something was pulling him away.
Mantu didn’t seem to be the smart type.
To the extent of making such a sloppy threat, the initiative was completely in one’s hands.
Come to think of it, not all of the grandmasters I know are smart. It feels like using a good body instead of a bad head.’
Yuma decided to accept Mantu’s proposal. Stopping the march for about 10 days did not pose a big problem.
Rather, there was a high probability that something would happen if he went against the will of Mantu and forced the march.
It was because it was impossible to figure out how much to divert the march when it was unknown how far Mantu’s radius of action was.
“Then let’s pretend we’re being fooled and learn from you. But I will not move my troops through the path you have cleared.”
It was because he thought that Mantu might be planning to annihilate him by bringing troops into the space where he could act.
However, that was a judgment at the level of knocking on a stone bridge.
He couldn’t help but know that if Mantu was the enemy, it would be much more profitable to kill Yuma rather than 50,000 soldiers.
“Sure. Let’s get started right away.”
“I think it’s better not to expect to hear from the teacher.”
“I didn’t even want it, you foolish bastard.”
Returning to the commander’s barracks, Natalie’s party testified to them that Mantu’s manifestation was real.
When Prince Ilen and Sevra, as well as the soldiers who followed them, said that they were certain, the commander’s barracks became a mess.
“As Lois said, Hyeon-hyeon seems to be right. However, it was completely unexpected that he decided to pass on his skills to the commander-in-chief.”
Fortunately, like a child, there were no commanders talking nonsense about wanting to see the heroes of the past in person.
“Yuma is going to become his disciple!? Miss Natalie What the hell are you talking about?”
Randel jumped up and shouted.
The wound on his back was slightly open and he felt a burning pain, but the psychological shock was incomparable.
“Don’t make a fuss, Sir Randall.
It wasn’t that I became a disciple, it just felt like I was passing on some skills. And I don’t think he is Hyun Hyun.”
“So you’re saying you’re really alive?”
“My feeling is yes. The manifestations of mythical beings are often found in history books. I’ve also seen the string strings of Pidgin Carta in Inzvikan. By the way, has the manifestation ever lasted more than a few days?”
The eyes of Randel and the commanders were on Natalie.
“As far as I know, no. The most recent manifestation known to the public. Pidgin Carta was only a few minutes, and so were others who had manifested before him. No one has manifested for more than an hour, let alone a few days.”
“By the way, Mantu is now at least two days.”
“That’s the point. As Royce said, he could have increased the time by sacrificing the entire gray forest, but I think he survived. And ♦…
Natalie stopped talking and recalled the scene where Mantu denied killing her men.
When asked why he killed Mantu, he stayed silent for a long time before answering. It looked like a person who recalled a
‘forgotten memory’ .
“no. For now, let’s wait for Yuma to come back.”
The commanders waited for Yuma until dawn passed.
Randell, who was injured, was forcibly put to sleep by Cheryl and Natalie.
Yuma returned to the unit barracks around noon, a little later than the promised time.
In the meantime, Natalie wondered how many times she should visit her, but as Mantu said, she decided to trust Yuma.
His face was so clean and clear that it was difficult to see that he had come after training.
“Commander-in-chief! Did you really come after training with Mantu?”
“That’s right. It’s a funny situation to train at an odd time during a war.”
It was a casual tone, as if it was nothing special.
After emphasizing to the commanders that Mantu was no longer an enemy, Yuma informed them that they had agreed to train with him for ten days.
“Is he manifest or resurrected?”
King Fitz asked.
“It is a resurrection. And in ten days I will kill him.”
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