Episode 343 There is only one way.
We didn’t move until the white-robed student opened his eyes. There was no need to disturb the fortune-telling breakfast by making noise.
Because this is the etiquette of protecting the law.
In fact, even if a huge coriander suddenly fell from the sky, if the Four Great Evils stepped forward and bought time, the white-robed student would be able to complete the fortune-telling ceremony.
Of course, no one suddenly appeared here.
Instead, it seemed like someone appeared in the white-clothed student’s mind. During the fortune-telling breakfast, the white-clothed student’s expression became increasingly embarrassed, and before he knew it, sweat was dripping from his face.
Did the heart demon that appeared at some point fall through all the obstacles and fall into the heart of the white-robed scholar?
Sima’s strength was only up to the imagination, so the white-clothed student soon had the expression of a person engaged in a vicious struggle.
“….”
As soon as I exchanged glances with the Four Major Villains, I realized that we were all thinking the same thing.
So, the reason why the white-robed student was having a hard time at fortune telling was because he was also wary of us. Even though we had no intention of attacking the defenseless white-clothed student, the white-clothed student was unable to shake off his fear and created a demon.
I looked at the white-robed student’s perplexed expression for a moment.
What kind of punishment is that guy getting?
Perhaps the master he killed himself appears in the space of thought and is strangling the white-robed scholar. I felt like if I left it like this, I would end up dead while eating the fish, so I spoke in a calm tone.
“hundredth.”
“….”
“Calm down. “Nothing happens here.”
Even though the white-robed student had his eyes closed, his pupils were moving back and forth. Looking at it like this, it really felt like a situation where I was trapped in a coin trap.
I looked at my eldest brother and nodded as if telling him to do something.
The Sword Demon opened his mouth in a quiet tone.
“Focus only on your breathing and calmly erase distracting thoughts one by one.”
“….”
“Has the enemy appeared? It is an illusion. All around us are fish bones, a bonfire, a brazier you made while complaining, and the beef jerky we ate on the way home. If we had planned to attack you, the four of us would have joined forces before we even came down to Manjae, as the third said. “Isn’t that right?”
I looked at the sword demon who spoke at length for the first time in a long time. I had no choice but to nod my head because it was correct in every detail.
“That’s true.”
The demon also looked at the white-robed student and said.
“I have not forgotten how you helped me when I was fighting the white-clad ghosts. I’m not one to return favors with vengeance, so calm down. “If something goes wrong, at least I will stop it first.”
I nodded.
“right. Baek-ui used proper memorization and saved the second child. “It was probably chopsticks, right?”
The demon also nodded at my words.
“Actually, even if it were me, it would have been difficult to avoid those chopsticks.”
I made eye contact with the demon and spoke in a calm tone.
“You just shut up.”
The devil glared at me.
“Why the fuck? “I also have something to say.”
“try.”
The demon glared at the white-robed student for a moment and then said.
“doesn’t exist. “I forgot.”
I thought I shouldn’t laugh for no reason, so I just laughed with my face and then quietly raised my hand to cover my mouth.
“….”
For some reason, it seemed like if the four of us laughed out loud, the white-robed student would inevitably vomit blood and ascend to heaven.
Did you hear our conversation?
The white-robed student’s chest was heaving loudly as he struggled to catch his breath. It looked like he was dreaming or like he was reminiscing about the past.
His usually cold expression was mixed with anger that we had never seen before.
In fact, fortune telling is like crossing a single tree bridge with your eyes closed.
Sometimes, I arrive at the other side comfortably, but other times, a strong wind blows around the single-wooden bridge, and other times I feel like the bridge is full of sharp spears and swords.
In fact, even though we know that all of this is a matter of the heart, we end up tripping on the single tree bridge depending on the story of each person’s life. In particular, emotions such as anger, collapse, loss, hatred, and regret are friends of Juhwaipma.
After making a fuss and reassuring the white student, we just watched quietly.
Suddenly, the white-robed student’s expression turned stubborn, and a sigh escaped between his breaths.
“Huh…”
It seemed like he had fallen into a dream while having a fortune-telling breakfast. Even in the midst of this, strong people instinctively eat their luck. It’s just a situation where the area of thought is separated and goes down a side road.
The white-robed student’s neck moved several times and then suddenly his teeth clashed. A look of bitterness suddenly appeared on his face, and traces of suppressing his anger were revealed in his lips and eyes.
After a while, the white-robed student opened his eyes with a tired expression and looked around at us.
The white-robed student took a deep breath and asked us.
“…Am I still alive?”
“live.”
Only then did the white-robed scholar relax his cross-legged posture and glare at the bamboo tube. I thought that if a master like this was scared enough, he must have felt scared the whole time he was eating fortune-telling and then met his master, Heukseon (黑仙).
I’m not the type to talk back.
“Did you meet Master after being delusional?”
Only then did the white-robed student turn his head, grab the bamboo tube, and pour alcohol down his throat. The white-clothed student gulped down the drink that was loudly gurgling and looked at me.
“How do you keep finding out things like that? “Have you mastered mind reading?”
“It’s obvious. Why is your tone so damned? “You damn bastard.”
I also drank dougangju.
The white-robed student picked up some beef jerky and looked around at us while eating it.
“What was everyone mumbling during breakfast? “It felt like I was chanting Buddhist prayers.”
I giggled and then answered.
“Reciting the Buddha was chanting.”
The white-robed scholar spoke after drinking the two-gang wine again.
“Anyway, I heard a voice from outside and realized that the situation facing me was not real.”
The Sword Demon asked.
“Was Master that scared?”
The white-robed student answered with a bitter expression.
“It used to be like that.”
This time I asked.
“I wonder how they killed him.”
The white student said.
“Nothing special. They attacked me while I was sleeping. While we were killing the guards first and entering, the master noticed the incident and had already gotten up from his bed. The guy named Heukseon looked around us wearing a white coat from top to bottom, and his expression was the same as usual. It seems as if he had predicted for a long time that his disciples and subordinates would unite to strike. As I looked around at those who participated in the rebellion, I called out their names one by one. I also asked if everyone had arrived. I heard it was amazing. He said he didn’t want to fight in the bedroom, so he suggested we go out to a larger area. He also said that he would wait for more people to come.”
I narrowed my eyebrows.
“hmm.”
The white-robed student looked at my expression and asked:
“Why do you look like that?”
I answered with a smile.
“Did you believe that? Those innocent bastards should have been hit there. “It wasn’t a proper surprise attack.”
The white-robed student asked with a dejected expression.
“What would you have done, Moonju?”
I looked around at the four great evildoers and then answered.
“If it were me, I would have each person carrying out a surprise attack carry a bucket of boiling water, throw it at the black ship, and then fight the lion to the death. “If you don’t have hot water, you can at least pour shit water on it.”
The color demon muttered.
“His shit won’t come out.”
The white-robed student who was staring at me looked up at the sky and continued speaking.
“You are right. As we first lifted the siege and retreated, my priest was killed by a single blow from the black ship. And then…”
“Wait a minute.”
I cut off the white coat student.
“You should also tell me who the priest is.”
“why.”
I glared at the white-robed student.
“Why…I will remember that name.”
The white-robed student answered in a calm tone.
“okay. Because he was the youngest priest, he was usually called Malje (末弟). However, because his personality was unusually quiet, he was nicknamed Makgunja (嗼君子).”
Out of the blue, I finally found out why the white-robed student was briefly nicknamed Demon Lord. It looked like the word ‘demonic’ had been added to part of the youngest priest’s nickname. After holding the two-gang wine, I spoke to the Four Major Evils.
“A drink for the old man who left first…”
We took a sip of our drink instead, thinking about the old man we had never met.
The white student said.
“After seeing the death of my youngest child, there was no need to go out into the open. That was the place to die. We knew our master’s martial arts skills, and he knew our shortcomings. “I, Cheonak, Chumyeong, and Silmyeong clung to me and even attacked Jinhyang and Yukmaek, but I could not easily win.”
I was so dumbfounded that I asked back.
“You mean the black ship lasted six to one days?”
The white-robed student shook his head.
“No. The man we called Grand Brother did not participate. I was on Master’s side from beginning to end. He is the person who inherited most of his master’s martial arts skills. He was already a strong man, no different from his master. From the moment the Grand Master appeared, everyone fought while still injured. “It was a battle in Yukdae’s favor, but if things continued like this, there was a high possibility that we would lose.”
When the white-robed scholar brought the Dougangju to his mouth, only one or two drops fell.
The ghost demon took out a bamboo tube from his bag and threw the two strong liquors at the white-clothed student. The white-robed student took a sip of the drink thrown by the demon demon and then spoke with a droopy expression.
“Is it because I thought everyone was going to die? “As soon as Jinhyang chose the great brother and Donggwijin, they died together.”
I looked at the expression on the white student’s face and asked.
“Is Jinhyang a woman?”
“It’s a woman.”
“Whose lover was she?”
The white-robed student looked at me with an absurd expression.
“what?”
“Whose lover was she?”
The white-robed student spoke as if muttering.
“It’s a heavenly evil. “Anyway, after the death of Daesahyeong and Jinhyang, the heavenly evil ran rampant, just as I expected.”
I instantly got goosebumps on my forearms and looked at the white-robed student.
“You expected that? “You’re really not an ordinary bad guy.”
The white-robed student glared at me and answered.
“why? “Is there any reason why we shouldn’t expect it?”
Although he was speaking confidently, his expression did not look like that.
After drinking the Dujiang wine, I looked at the white-robed student.
“…You’re so smart that you’re having a hard time. “If you had anticipated that and fought, you must have known in advance that Jinhyang was harboring a grudge against the great brother.”
The white-robed student nodded.
“right. “It’s not a crime to expect something.”
“You should have told Cheonak.”
“There was no such situation. And for a long time, Cheonak had been encouraged to learn martial arts that the master did not know. “During the fight, when his six veins died, he destroyed the wall blocking the heavenly evil.”
“It’s emotional.”
I just expressed my impressions, but the white-clothed student stopped talking and looked at me.
“What does it mean?”
“Mugong… is emotional.”
“I guess I should say it’s instinctive.”
“No matter what.”
The white-robed student continued speaking.
“The four of us exhausted Master. As soon as the sun came up, we were tired too. I called the archers who had been waiting all night and had them attack Master. “After watching the master constantly hitting arrows, we joined forces again.”
The demon opened his mouth.
“Wow, this is terrible.”
The white student said.
“In the end, we were exhausted and left, and the evil forces tore apart Master’s body alone.”
Somehow I was more curious about what happened next.
“Next time?”
“What are you asking?”
“What happened next?…”
The white-clothed student looked around at us and laughed empty-handed.
“They all ran away. Because of the evil… I run away and don’t know what happens next. It is said that the archers who were standing by were also killed, so they must have been attacked by evil. I also hid in a safe house and did not come and go with Cheonak for a while. “It took a long time to restore our old relationship.”
“Everyone almost died from heavenly evil.”
The white-robed student nodded his head and acknowledged it obediently.
“That’s right. Those who did not sympathize with the rebellion were captured by Cheonak and died with their limbs torn apart. In fact, the nickname Cheonak, known to the outside world, came about because of that incident.”
I looked at the sword demon.
“What do you think, eldest brother? If he was at the level of Heukseon, would he have been the best in the world next to Geomshin?”
The Sword Demon nodded.
“It seem to be like that. “It seems like his level is higher than that of an apostle.”
“Compared to the current Samjae?”
“It should be said that the Heukseon at that time was at a similar level to the current Samjae. “Isn’t that right?”
The white-robed student also nodded to the Sword Demon’s question.
“It may be vague, but he is not a man who was afraid of anyone. In the end, he was a man who had the confidence to unite and suppress even if a rebellion broke out. I didn’t know that Heavenly Evil would become so strong. “The man who treated Heavenly Evil the most harshly and horribly was ultimately defeated by Heavenly Evil.”
I looked at the white student.
“Did you plan this whole rebellion?”
“I planned it.”
I put the story together and conveyed my feelings to Baekui Seosaeng.
“You are definitely not a slave. However, if you become a tyrant like Heuksun, you are no different from Heukseon. “If a guy like the Butcher had gotten so lucky, you wouldn’t be here eating fish with us.”
I picked up the fish that had only bones left and showed it to the white-robed student.
“…Don’t use that smart brain to emulate the life of the master you barely killed. “This is something that the youngest priest in heaven will lament.”
The white-clothed student heard me and smiled with a stubborn expression. He was smiling, but he didn’t really refute what I said.
“There is only one way to live a life different from the black line on white.”
“Something?”
“Let’s say there is nothing we can do about our past lives. How about becoming a master who is respected, not feared, by just one person? Wouldn’t that be unique? You must become a master who is different from Heukseon. “Only then will the powerful man watching from heaven smile.”
The white-robed student looked at me.
“….”
“That’s the only way to shake off the black line and escape from the evil spirit. It’s a bit funny to say, but that’s the only way to become stronger.”
The white-robed student who was listening to me raised his head and looked up at the sky.
