Episode 500
I felt like I was coming back to my senses, albeit in a blur.
I couldn’t see where my surroundings were, but my senses were coming back one by one to see if I was dead. I took a slow, deep breath, checking everything from my toes to my fingertips.
“uh…? Wake up, wake up!”
“Shh! “Be quiet, you bastard!”
“No, store owner! Doesn’t it break now? “I thought I was going to die.”
“Shut up!”
“Ahh!”
A loud noise was heard from somewhere.
I opened my eyes blurry to see what it was. Although my vision was not clear, I could see what appeared to be human figures.
Two people?
Considering that he has no intention to kill, he is not an enemy.
However, I had no intention of relaxing, so I tried to slowly build up my momentum. But at some point, I realized my jaw was getting clogged and I groaned without realizing it.
“Tsk tsk! You hurt your energy, you bastard. “You won’t even be able to move properly for a while.”
“Who are you…?”
“You don’t need to know that. But you will find out someday.”
It was a man’s voice.
Not too young and not too old. The voice I heard was ordinary, but somehow powerful.
I felt that he was definitely a strong person that could not be underestimated, and I even thought that he might be stronger than Emperor Wu of Heaven or even stronger than himself.
Another voice… is it a child? A boy’s voice.
It was just an ordinary voice with no special power or signs. Maybe he was around the same age as Dan So-mi, maybe a little older.
“Don’t tell me. Don’t even try to feel it. “You and I have a fate that cannot be separated, so the day will come when we meet again.” “Hahaha, then I will accept payment for my life.”
“Life… price…?”
“Yes, if we hadn’t collected it, you would have definitely died. You idiot… you let your guard down at the end…”
The
voice gradually became quieter. It felt more and more distant, as if I was leaving somewhere. However, his words penetrated my ears and I heard them clearly and clearly.
“Gown… remember the name Yu Gaun. “One day, I will go get my reward for saving your life.”
“Um…store owner! “Isn’t that my name?”
“It’s noisy!”
‘Ta-kong!’ A voice was heard and the child’s cries spread.
Eventually, the sound stopped, and strangely enough, the vision became clear at the same time.
Things that had been invisible until now began to appear clearly.
Dan Woo-hyeon stood up from his seat with a helpless expression in a situation whose meaning was unknown, as if the man’s power had disrupted everything.
‘Who the hell are you?’
Dan Woo-hyeon felt such emotions for the first time. I felt neither hostility nor goodwill.
Since he was in a situation where he did not even know why he had helped him, his
complex emotions dominated his mind even more.
Eventually, as soon as I stood up, I felt this.
“I’m thirsty….”
It’s extreme thirst.
His mouth was dry and his body had become considerably smaller. He was skinny, as if he hadn’t eaten anything for a long time, and his appearance was so bizarre that I couldn’t help but laugh.
My legs are shaking and I can’t even maintain my balance properly.
The feeling of being a weak person for the first time.
Dan Woo-hyeon didn’t even have the strength to lift a finger right now.
Still, he looked around and checked something.
“Is it an abandoned house?…”
Now, it is a place where not even the presence of people can be felt. There were spider webs everywhere and all kinds of bugs crawling on the floor.
You treat someone in a place like this and then talk about the price of their life.
Although it was a bit absurd, he soon smiled weakly and went outside.
Even though he was feeling weak even to take a single step, Danwoohyeon went outside and looked around.
“This place…?”
My eyes trembled.
It was not the place where Emperor Wu last fought. I felt a sense of despair and goosebumps at this very familiar place.
I saw a large Dongdong Lake in front of me.
The place where the waves were gently rolling was undoubtedly the place where Dan Woo-hyeon opened his eyes for the first time in a thousand years and was also the place where he came to land.
Everything was the same except that I didn’t get out of the water.
“Haha…”
Is this also some kind of trick of fate?
Did that man know everything and do this?
It was so absurd that I burst out laughing.
All the emotions I felt the moment I looked at Dong-ho Dong in front of me made me feel an indescribably strange feeling.
Whoo – Dan Woo
-hyeon took a deep breath and turned his head.
His eyes softened slightly as he looked toward the west.
I started trudging along.
With each step he took, afterimages of the past appeared in his mind. Didn’t you walk this path when you first opened your eyes?
Angry gaze It felt like I was just walking and walking without even knowing how much time had passed.
The moment when I felt nothing and even my anger slowly died.
Dan Woo-hyeon arrived at the village where people lived for the first time.
Akyang.
The place he was looking at now was Agyang.
In a situation where I couldn’t even control my body properly, my eyes were looking at the entire evil sheep, and those eyes somehow felt like I was seeing something new. It was
truly the same as the long day when I first saw that evil sign
.
This feeling, this emotion.
They couldn’t be removed one by one, and they didn’t disappear.
Dan Woo-hyeon walked further.
I took a step forward and entered Aeyang. Numerous people’s gazes poured in.
It was obvious that no one thought that his appearance was Dan Woo-hyeon, but he was just looking at a threatening person or a beggar.
From here and there, whispers were heard again, saying that a beggar had come in or that a strange person had appeared.
But Dan Woo-hyeon didn’t care.
Although he had that kind of personality, his body was so exhausted that just concentrating on walking was difficult enough.
At some point.
The strength in my legs disappeared.
I didn’t eat properly and my energy was sore that I couldn’t even use my strength.
As your energy naturally decreases, your body loses strength.
Dan Woo-hyeon swallowed a groan and forced himself to stand in that position. It was absolutely impossible for the world’s greatest warrior to be seen collapsing on the street.
‘I need to rest for a while…’ I still had to walk a long way to Honamdanga.
It seemed like it would be impossible to even walk if I didn’t rest a little.
Dan Woo-hyeon entered an alley out of sight of people and then fell limp, leaning his back against the wall.
“Haa….”
My whole body felt tired.
I couldn’t even imagine that having no energy was such a big deal.
Because he lived a completely different life than others, and because his natural talent was different from others, it was something he did not really feel.
‘I did nothing but feel sorry for Samtae…’
Dan Woo-hyeon chuckled.
Come to think of it, there was a time when Jang Sam-tae, who was exhausted, was dragged around and trained. Since he was given a lot of work to do, he must have wanted to rest like Dan Woo-hyeon now.
When I thought about it, I felt sorry.
Gurgling.
At that time, a loud noise came from the boat.
Since the qi and blood were blocked and the energy could not be moved, it was also impossible to maintain the body with internal energy.
He needed to eat something, but right now Dan Woo-hyeon didn’t have any money and was in no position to eat anything.
‘Back then… I don’t know how I survived.’
Dan Woohyun smiled.
When I first sat down in this alley, I had been starving for a long time, but I could not eat anything. I couldn’t even think about eating anything because I was so overwhelmed with doubts about life and so many emotions.
But this is not the current Dan Woohyun. There are so many faces I want to see. How much time has passed and how much you have grown.
Also, how will the child smile when he sees him?
Dan Woo-hyeon quietly closed his eyes and the only thought that came to his mind was that.
‘Now that I think about it, even back then…’
I thought.
The warm hand he extended towards himself when he first met that child.
Dan Woo-hyeon slowly opened his eyes and looked ahead.
At that moment, Dan Woo-hyeon’s eyes trembled.
His surprised eyes were more evident than ever, and all kinds of emotions seemed to surge and shake him.
Standing in front of me was the child I had just remembered.
The child is now becoming a full-fledged girl, rather than the small figure that I usually see.
Her big, sparkling eyes looked like they were about to shed tears at any moment, and her trembling hands were holding a large dumpling.
The lips of the girl holding it out were trembling.
Dan Woo-hyeon looked at it and said nothing for a while.
The girl looking at him also said nothing. I just shed tears and couldn’t control my emotions, so my whole body shook like an aspen.
“Do you want me to eat it?”
Dan Woo-hyeon asked and the girl nodded.
It was only a one-word question at best, but it felt like I had accepted all the emotions contained within it.
The girl smiled brightly with tears in her eyes, and Dan Woo-hyeon also smiled, a smile he had not been able to make back then.
I slowly reached out my hand and grabbed the dumplings the girl gave me.
When I took a bite, I felt as if I was about to explode with a taste that was just as delicious as the one in my memory, and that no acidic taste could compare to.
“Sit down.”
Dan Woo-hyeon felt everything and spoke.
Dan So-mi, no girl, sat down next to Dan Woo-hyeon. I was still shedding tears and continuing to wipe them away. Dan So-mi, sitting side by side, leaned on Dan Woo-hyeon’s shoulder and felt his body temperature.
“It’s delicious.” Dansomi said nothing but nodded.
I don’t say “Nice to meet you, it’s been a while and I missed you,” but just those words were enough to completely let go of the feeling of wanting to see you for a long time.
I was excited and emotions were flying.
Dansomi opened her mouth to say something, but no words came out of her mouth, so she seemed embarrassed.
As Dan Woo-hyeon looked at Dan So-mi’s face, perhaps he realized something or thought there was no need to say anything, he just smiled quietly and stretched out his hand to stroke her head.
“A lot happened….”
“But it came back.”
There were so many things contained in that single word. Dan So-mi, who had been staring at Dan Woo-hyeon’s face hesitantly, burst into tears again.
It was because Dan Woo-hyeon’s touch, which I felt for the first time in a very long time, was so warm.
As I leaned next to Dan Woo-hyeon, I shed tears endlessly.
“I’ve been there.”
Soon, Dan So-mi got out of Dan Woo-hyeon’s arms and looked at his face at the words she heard.
It looks so shabby compared to before.
It was hard to believe that it was the Dan Woo-hyeon he knew, but his tone of voice and warmth made it clear that it was him.
Dan Woo-hyeon, the god of war, returned as promised, and his daughter cautiously opened her mouth for the first time in years.
“Have you all been there?”
The reunited father and daughter smiled at the same time.
(Return to War Completed)
