Despair Despair
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affair with the emperor?
Come to think of it, Master has been living for such a long time, so it wouldn’t be strange at all if he had been in a relationship once or twice.
“How did you get such a misunderstanding?”
“The story is a bit long to tell you all about it.”
“Let me tell you something simple. And I really want to hear the details of the inside story, even if it means setting up a separate day later.”
“Hmm…”
Master looked at me with his robe’s hat tightly pressed down.
“Somehow, you seem unusually active.”
“That’s right, since Master doesn’t talk about himself, of course this student would be very curious about Master’s story, wouldn’t it?”
“…not particularly interesting. Besides, I’m not a very talkative storyteller, so I’m sure I’ll end up talking about interesting parts in an uninteresting way.”
“No matter how boring Master talks, I will enjoy listening to it. So please feel free to talk. Oh, the topic just happened to be a topic, so would it be okay if I ask you something?”
The two blue eyes narrowed. Master looked at me with some dark eyes.
“Your expression is very mischievous right now. What are you trying to ask?”
I chuckled and asked a question.
“Have you ever had a man you liked? For example, the emperor of the previous era when something happened.”
“A man with a good heart…?”
“yes. A common saying about lovers…”
Something suddenly jumped out of the hem of the robe and, without hesitation, struck me on the forehead without hesitation. The goal rang.
“Ouch?!”
My skull is now an immortalium, but it was an intense night that resonated through the immortalium bones. When I finally corrected my shaky vision, Master’s hand disappeared as if she had fed chestnuts to my forehead.
I could barely hold back the tears.
“It just really hurt. Didn’t you hit me too hard just for asking that one thing? What’s so strange about love? As people live, they can live happily with the right person.”
Unusually, she grumbled a lot, so Master burst out laughing and shook her head.
“The reason I fed chestnuts to your forehead is because your question was full of abscess. Do you really want to tease such a pretty and kind teacher like that?”
“I didn’t mean to make fun of you. I’m just innocent…”
“It seems like you haven’t been hit by a kite yet.”
“…sorry.”
As our pace slowed down as we chatted, the distance with the peace officer Braim, who had been walking ahead, widened. He looked back and forth between me and Master with a slight frown.
“Aren’t you following me?”
His face was full of doubts as to whether they were the same people who raided the National Police Agency because they wanted to get your real belongings back.
“Let’s talk while walking.”
“yes.”
Before I started walking again and took a few steps. A low voice came.
“To my shame, Master Lee still doesn’t understand such concepts as romance or love. When I was young, I only learned how to cut out my emotions, and as I grew up, I got used to it and became more natural, so I never really felt the need for emotions.”
“Cut out your emotions…? Has there ever been an adult who forced a child to do such a nasty thing?”
What kind of childhood did you have? I just asked as a joke, but a much heavier topic than I thought popped up.
“The story of my childhood… I haven’t told anyone yet, so I’m not sure where to begin. Besides, the story of those days is not the kind of thing you can comfortably walk around like this. Yeon-ah, will you bear with the story of the emperor of the Northern Empire a hundred years ago today?”
The emotion displayed on Master’s face as she gave me a roundabout refusal was not something I could easily read. But one thing is for sure, the story wasn’t difficult, just that I had never really done it to anyone, so it seemed like I needed to sort things out.
“If that’s what Master wants, then I’ll understand. Can I just ask you one thing?”
“Sure.”
“What happened to those nasty adults? I dare to ask you carefully, because I don’t want this student to have a good night’s sleep without hearing the story.”
“I killed them all.”
“yes?”
He answered lightly in a very nonchalant voice, and for a moment I thought I had heard it wrong. Master gave me the same answer as before, as if I hadn’t heard it wrong. with a little bit of an explanation.
“I killed them all myself.”
“…Listening to such a story, now I feel like I’m fine with the story of the emperor 100 years ago. Did you really promise to tell me everything about what happened later?”
Master smiled bitterly as if he couldn’t help it, and reached out and patted my head.
“I do not speak twice. Don’t worry. And I think you might as well listen to the story of the emperor 100 years ago. There is a story about a gift to you in that story.”
“Isn’t the gift a precious sword…?”
“That’s right.”
“I thought it was only things like wine that increased in value as time went on, but I’m very curious about how precious a sword was a hundred years ago.”
In common sense, as time passed, weapons such as swords only lost their value. If I had to make an exception, there would be weapons made of Immortalium.
Master’s beautiful eyes softened.
“It started with one request as usual. Kite As you know, it is normal for me to live quietly, taking on various vacant positions in the church.”
Certainly Master did not do anything.
“But sometimes I went out, but it was usually when the church received requests or requests that were difficult to handle. It was the same a hundred years ago.”
“Did the Emperor of the Northern Empire make a request to the Church?”
“Not only the emperor, but also the king of the northern kingdom were with us.”
A request requested by the king and emperor together.
“It must have been a very big event. As long as the king and the emperor simultaneously submit requests.”
“The incident was big, but it was a bit complicated because it happened on the border between the empire and the kingdom. In addition, the truth is, before calling me, I called other priests and they were all wiped out.”
Are the priests all wiped out? In an event of such magnitude that large armies were not moved, the culprit was usually one of two.
“It seems that the devil or the worshipers of evil spirits are involved.”
“That’s right. In the case of things 100 years ago, it was on the side of worshipers of evil gods. I heard that during the first subjugation, the kingdom and the empire put in their own knights as if they were competing with each other. They wanted to prove their dominance by overthrowing the evil that was confusing their borders. However, the situation changed after the first punitive force was completely wiped out.”
Is it a story that it has turned into a bomb, not an opportunity to show off its strength?
“At the news of the annihilation of the punitive force, the masters of the kingdom and the empire stepped forward and said that they would sever the head of the heinous worshiper of the evil god, but the kingdom and the empire did not allow it.”
“I guess it was because I wanted to lose even the master.”
“It is. Thanks to that, the second subjugation party gathered very slowly. The Seonghwa Church, which was requested for the second convocation, was having trouble selecting new priests.”
“Is that why the story reached Master?”
Master nodded slowly.
“Because he carefully asked me for a doctor, I said I would gladly understand and set out on the road in order to repay the favor of the free meal I always get. When I joined the punitive force, things got even worse.”
“Worse?”
“The worshiper of the evil god who wiped out the first punitive force continued his drastic actions as if he really had nothing to hold back. As a result, six of the border towns were completely wiped out. Literally, not even one survives.”
From what I’ve seen, when the worshipers of the evil gods slaughtered the humans in the city, it was for their own needs or use. If he did something by dedicating the entire population of six cities, it was already far beyond the scope of the ordinary.
I became more and more intrigued by this story. Any affair with the emperor or misunderstandings was fine. That must have happened because Master’s beauty is so rare.
“So how did it go?”
Master answered in a very light tone.
“Somehow he went and cut his throat. Although many died in the middle.”
“…”
Master tilted his head when I didn’t say anything.
“Why?”
“I told a heroic epic story like god’s cooperation between colleagues, but why do you go out to drink and slit your throat like picking a persimmon?”
“As I said before, I am not a storyteller. You said it wouldn’t be that much fun.”
“Still, tell me more about the process…”
“It’s all here.”
After talking about it, before I knew it, I arrived at the place where I assumed that the anti-emperor faction had left the stolen items.
A large mansion with a high fence and an antique design. The spacious yard was full of well-groomed flowers and straight trees.
Compared to walking around the narrow alley, the place they arrived at was the mansion of a noble family. I wonder if it was to minimize the exposure of the whereabouts after all.
He looked at the mansion in the distance and said in a low voice.
“This is…”
He was about to elaborate, but he kept his mouth shut.
“Come to think of it, you just need to get your stuff back, so there’s no need for further explanation, right?”
I nodded meekly. As he said, I wasn’t too curious. In fact, with a mansion of that size, even if it wasn’t Braim, you could grab and ask anyone passing by to know the owner.
Perhaps one of the nobles who joined the anti-emperor faction offered his mansion.
“Well, that’s right. Then, as you said, hurry up and guide me to the place where the goods are.”
“…follow me.”
He inserted the key and entered not the mansion, but the three-story building opposite the mansion. When Braim manipulated the building’s outer wall with familiar steps, the wall cracked open, revealing a staircase leading down to the basement.
As we descended the stairs a little, we were greeted by a long hallway that must have led to the mansion we saw earlier.
“Don’t talk about it from here. There will probably be a sentry ahead. I’ll take care of persuading you, so just stand still in the back.”
“Don’t worry.”
I smiled and glanced at Master standing next to me.
“Anyway, if you do something stupid, the only thing that will hurt you is the organization you belong to.”
As I walked along the long hallway, a familiar yet ominous smell stung my nose.
It was the smell of blood.
“Yuna.”
“yes.”
“I guess something happened.”
“I think so too.”
As I walked down the hallway, as expected, two headless corpses were strewn across the floor. Braim’s face hardened when he saw the corpse.
“What is this…?”
“hmm.”
Master Pridya was approaching the corpse before she knew it and was examining the cross-section of the severed head.
“I feel like I know why this happened.”
“yes?”
Without a word, Master pulled out his beloved sword, ‘Death Life’, and showed it. The blue blade gave off a more bleak atmosphere than ever before.
“Yuna, do you remember what Master Lee said earlier? The story of the slaughter of six cities.”
“Of course I remember.”
“He dedicated six cities to forging four chunks of ominous ore. People gave the ore the name of a chest stone. I received all four chest stones for killing him. I used those four chunks of blue ore to make three swords to replace the swords that were broken while fighting him.”
A white finger tapped the blue sword.
“This ‘Despair’, the great sword ‘Jeolche’ I left behind on the Osprey, and the last one, ‘Despair’.”
It was ominous just to hear that the ore was born after swallowing six cities.
“Are those swords like the demonic swords from old myths? Something like stealing Izzy from the owner and manipulating it.”
“If a person with an unresolved heart holds the sword, he might be slightly swung by the sword.”
That’s right. It’s absolutely the magic sword!
Master slowly stood up and put the drawn sword back into the scabbard.
“The sword really seems to be here, seeing as they both haven’t been dead for very long. Come on, let’s go get the sword back.”
“I couldn’t believe it… After all, that demonic sword was my present! Did you prepare such a gift for what to do if I get it and go wrong?!”
Two blue eyes bent in a beautiful curve.
“What is this pretty master so worried about with Kite next to you? And look at this.”
Master smiled softly as she saw the very clean cut of the neck.
“A sword is a famous sword if you hold it well. follow me Yuna, I have to get your sword, Despair, back.”
