< Episode 114: Ghost Sword (4) >
-Quad!
“Turn it off.”
As he twisted the intangible sword that was digging into his collarbone a groan came out of the ghost sword’s mouth.
I thought I was used to and could endure a certain amount of pain but this like the essence of the sword caused indescribable pain.
Mok Gyeong-un spoke to him in a cruel voice.
“I know at least that Mokgan the head of the secret society is on guard against all of this the prophecy incarnation. That’s probably why they were targeting the grandfather who is said to have stolen Hwasin.”
To these words the demon sword frowned and responded.
“Haa… haa… As an incarnation I haven’t realized or awakened but I’ve found out a lot.”
“Are you talking about the guy inside me who was awakening earlier?”
“He is so self-aware so why hasn’t he awakened yet?”
Rather the ghost sword asked back.
At this Mok Kyung-un snorted and said.
“I don’t know what’s inside me but I am different from it.”
“Someone else?”
“okay.”
The ghost sword also snorted at Mo Kyung-un’s answer.
“If it had been something else that had nothing to do with you do you think your grandfather or rather Haeyoung Yakseon would have risked everything he had to protect you?”
“….”
Mok Gyeong-un shut his mouth with a cold look in his eyes as he heard those words which sounded like a murderer with impunity.
That was one of the questions I had as I got closer to the truth.
Was it because of the prophecy given by the Seonghwa of Baehwagyo that his grandfather raised him?
If it weren’t for that wouldn’t his grandfather have died so miserably?
Did it all come from you?
So was it like that?
“…What on earth am I?”
“Ha…ha…what a meaningless question. If he were to become aware of himself as an incarnation and awaken himself wouldn’t this be the truth that he would naturally know?”
-closely!
“I… am just me.”
Mok Gyeong-un strongly denied the existence within himself.
In response to Mok Kyung-un’s reaction the ghost stuck his tongue out and muttered.
“You really kept your word. “Haeyeong Yakseon.”
“What did you say just now?”
Mu Qingyun plunged the intangible sword deeper and twisted the body of the sword.
-Quad!
“Turn it off. Do it in moderation. Even if it wasn’t like this… I… I was planning on continuing the conversation.”
“okay? If you do tell me. “What do you mean you protected it?”
“You…know…don’t you?”
“You sound the same. I am just me and an incarnation….”
“no. You are the incarnation. However Haeyeong Yakseon tried to make you into a perfect human being.”
“what?”
Mok Gyeong-un could not help but feel his wonder.
What does this mean?
He was trying to raise himself to be a perfect human being?
“The truth… If you are close to the truth you would at least know that he is an outstanding martial arts expert right?”
“…okay.”
Haeyeong Yakseon Jang Mun-no.
Although it is not well known to the people of Jungwon he was a super expert who received the teachings of Yeonjongjong of Hwacheon Doksu (花千毒手) a branch of the Sacheondang family and the head of the Jeonjeon Dynasty family.
Mok Gyeong-un also did not know this truth even until after his death.
He was able to access the truth about his grandfather by going through the Cheonjihoe and the Imperial Palace’s Sichuan Tang Family.
But even though he knew this much there was still a gap in the truth about his grandfather Avatar and himself.
“What does hiding martial arts have to do with that?”
“You think it won’t matter? In Baehwagyo you the incarnation are revered as a divine being and are praised as having two sides of the same coin Spenta (good god) and Ahriman or Angra (bad god) but your root is the devil.”
“Demon?”
“okay. It’s a devil. “The one that everyone should fear and revere… That is you.”
Hearing the ghost sword’s words Mo Gyeong-un’s expression became strange.
[Cluck cough… Make a promise.]
[What do you mean?]
[I will never reveal your true nature…]
original nature.
My grandfather said I had a dark side inside me.
All humans have that side but since he didn’t interact with people I felt I couldn’t control it even more.
That’s why he always taught us to suppress that nature.
While his grandfather was alive he tried to keep it but after his death he realized that his nature was never good.
Mok Gyeong-un viewed this as simply suppressing him from committing evil deeds even if he could not do good deeds.
But that’s not the reason?
Gwigeom took a deep breath and spoke to the silent Mok Gyeong-un.
“In the hideout you were in there were only miscellaneous books related to herbs and books on etiquette righteousness and justice. Haeyeong Yakseon Jang Mun-no made you distance yourself from everything so that you could never awaken as an Avatar.”
“….”
“At first I thought it was just to secretly protect you. “He thought it was to avoid detection until conditions were in place to restore his strength.”
“Regain your strength?”
“Yes… Just as Seonghwa predicted you the Avatar have lost all your former strength. So I thought that Haeyoung Yakseon’s decision was because of that. But that wasn’t it. He really intended to raise you as a human being.”
“If you do it isn’t it something you should be thankful for?”
“thanks?”
“okay. Didn’t the Secret Love Affair change the prophecy because they were afraid of the Avatar? “Then doesn’t that mean you have less to worry about?”
“Worry… I guess that will relieve him of his worries. “What I need is your awakened presence.”
“Am I awakened?”
“Didn’t you say it with your own mouth? He says he is afraid of Avatar. Mokgan is afraid of your very existence.”
“But you’re saying things didn’t go your way because of your grandfather?”
“I don’t know.”
“what?”
“It is unknown whether it was Haeyoung Yakseon’s will to raise you to the end as a human being or whether it was your own will.”
“…What does that mean?”
In response to Mok Gyeong-un’s incomprehensible response the ghost sword responded with a deep sigh.
“Although Haeyoung Yakseon possessed excellent medical skills he did not have the power to plant your existence in humans or create that existence.”
“….”
“I don’t know if it was to protect yourself from your archenemies or if you had some other will but it was entirely your choice to degenerate and become a human. avatar.”
‘!?’
I chose it?
No doesn’t this mean that the being inside me chose to become myself?
Mok Gyeong-un denied this as if it was hard to believe.
“How can you be sure that the incarnation is a human being that is me?”
The ghost sword answered this question in a meaningful voice.
“Your appearance is the proof.”
“What does it look like?”
“okay. You may not have met them yet but there is someone with the exact same face as you. If you find it hard to believe look for a place called Yeonmok Geomjang. “You will be able to see the being whom you used as a model for human beings…”
-closely!
Before he could finish his sentence Mok Kyung-un pressed down hard on his collar with wide eyes.
He has the same face on the softwood sword?
For the first time Mo Qingyun could not help but show an emotional reaction.
I thought it was just coincidence and coincidence.
He thought that because there were so many people in the world by coincidence they had almost similar faces.
However my mind became complicated after hearing the ghost sword’s words.
This isn’t a coincidence?
Mo Kyung-un asked pressing down on him by the collar.
“Seventeen years ago… no eighteen years ago. How do you know that?”
“…Because I saw it with my own two eyes.”
‘!?’
* * *
Yongmun Guangdong Province.
[Oops!]
The ghost sword who had subdued the wood sword leader Jangju Mokindan who was blocking him in just one bite looked down indifferently at the man who was begging and holding on to the hem of his pants.
[Not yet…. Still a baby. Please… please… save me.]
-Park!
The demon sword that knocked him unconscious approached the broken carriage.
It had to be this place.
He has followed the trail of the Incarnation and is present here.
-Purrrrr!
With his trembling hands he touched the closed eyelids on his forehead.
The thing was still asleep and he was in control.
He had to hurry before then.
-wah wah!
But why can I only hear crying inside?
In response the ghost sword opened the broken carriage door with eyes full of broken doubt.
But there
‘What is this?’
Two identical babies who looked like twins were lying next to their mother who was bleeding and unconscious.
The ghost sword could not help but feel his wonder.
Clearly the energy of chaos that was felt from Hwa-sin is evident here.
But why is there no Avatar but a mother and two twin babies?…
‘!?’
At that time the ghost sword looked at his twins and then looked at the floor where they were lying.
There were sticky black pieces falling on the floor.
I could feel the residual energy in these.
‘no way?’
The ghost sword stared at the two babies.
Then he placed his finger on the chest of one of the crying babies.
[There is something called a nucleus in Hwashin. In human terms it can be said to be like the heart and the source of strength.]
I definitely said that.
Then if his guess was correct there might be an Avatar among them.
Since he must have become extremely weak he may have changed to deceive his existence.
– Excited! Exciting!
A small heartbeat.
It wasn’t this kid.
In that case this kid next to me must be Hwa-shin.
The demon sword placed its palm on his chest trying to sense his energy.
however
‘How can this be?’
This baby also had a small beating heart but there was no nucleus which could be said to be the source of incarnation.
What on earth is going on?
He must be hiding here but I don’t know what’s going on.
Neither of them had a nucleus and were just ordinary humans.
‘Damn it.’
It was extremely embarrassing.
He says he’s still in control but it won’t be long before he wakes up again.
Before that we have to find out who’s real but what?
‘….’
Wouldn’t it be better to take them both and take a look?
If they were to take one of them carelessly there was no way to know where to hide them.
I don’t have time so how can I find out?
After thinking for a moment the ghost sword took out something from its chest.
It was a wooden box covered with amulets.
[Take this with you.]
It was handed over to him by Bi-seon the head of Cheonjihoe at the time.
[This?]
[This is Wolmaek’s secret letter.]
[Wolmaek’s Secret Book? If you do that….]
[I see.]
[But how about this?]
[If what we know is clear we might be able to persuade Hwashin with this.]
Inside this wooden box was Wolmaek’s secret letter.
If this was kept close the Avatar itself might reveal its true form.
however
– Thick!
I had a headache and my forehead hurt.
It was a sign that the thing was about to wake up.
Why are you trying to wake up now?
The ghost sword which was looking at the two identical twin-like babies soon held their foreheads and struggled to get out of the carriage.
There I saw the stunned Yeonmok Swordmaster Jangju Mokindan standing up staggeringly.
Although I didn’t hit it hard it seems like I studied a lot of internal skills.
[Haa…haa… Ah…what happened to the baby and her…what happened?]
The ghost sword that was staring at him asked.
[Is there only one baby? Two?]
[What…what are you talking about? Two babies?]
At these words the demon sword closed its mouth.
As expected his judgment was right.
Among those babies there was a true incarnation.
But now that he was about to wake up there was no time for him.
hereto
-widely!
The ghost sword threw him a wooden box covered in amulets.
Mokindan suddenly accepted this and made an expression of incomprehension.
The ghost sword spoke to him.
[There is someone I was chasing but I think I made a mistake. Give it to me instead.]
[This?]
[It is one of the secret books of the Heaven and Earth Council.]
[what? Secretary of the Heaven and Earth Council? How can I do this….]
-Sureuk!
The ghost sword that appeared behind Mokindan who was embarrassed by the word that he was the secretary of the Heaven and Earth Association a huge organization that divided the martial arts world into three parts kicked him on the ankle.
-thud!
[Pfft!]
The ghost sword looking at him who fell sideways immediately drew its sword and
-Sreung!
-Ch-ch-ch-ch-chak!
The sword cut a wound on his side as he fell.
But the scars looked like marks.
The ghost sword that left this spoke in a warning tone to the chieftain of the Yeonmok Sword Mokindan.
[Remember the mark of this wound.]
[Mark?]
[If the person who knows or engraved this mark approaches in the near future he will have to say that he knows nothing.]
< Episode 114: Ghost Sword (4) > end
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