Chapter 749 – 749. The Severed Connection (5)
Scarlett shouted.
“That skill… ! Who did you learn from… !”
Her face, hardened by her tension, collapses in an instant, and her voice is full of agitation.
“…”
And what was agitated was Erin as well.
Embarrassed and speechless, Erin stared at the scarlet.
Agitation and bewilderment, and what precedes them is urgency.
After reading Ju-hong’s feelings, Erin had doubts.
‘What are you in a hurry for? No. In the first place, that woman’s skills were…’
It is similar to the taijutsu taught by Eunhyun.
The sequence of movements from her poise, kicking and charging movements to the attack were undoubtedly the basics of the taijutsu she had learned, which she called ‘the origin of the pole’.
Even if the techniques she used were different, there was no way that Erin could not have recognized the common ground that was the starting point and source.
‘Who did you learn from?’
Just as Ju-hong looked at her Erin and had that question, Erin also had the same question as hers.
‘Is it Hyun? No. That’s not right.’
If she had learned from Eun-hyeon, there was no way Eun-hyeon wouldn’t have told her that there were other people besides herself who had learned these skills.
If so, who the hell did she learn the far source stream from?
Before she could clear her question, as Erin just stared blankly at her without answering, Ju-hong questioned her again.
“Answer me! That skill! Who did you learn from!”
Erin frowned in irritation at the vermilion’s questioning, which raised her voice.
“… Why should I say that?”
Although she was concerned about who the crimson beast woman in front of her had learned the technique of the same extreme source as herself, she didn’t care much.
Right now, Erin was only thinking of returning quickly with her Runan, and a beastly woman who interfered with her own goals was more of a nuisance than a concern to her.
When she didn’t get the answer she wanted, Zhu Hong gave up on her questioning.
But she didn’t give up on hearing the answer.
It just changed her ways.
“Okay. Then I’ll knock you down and make you talk.”
Juhong ran towards Erin once again.
[Juhyeonseong Polar Plain]
[Sammae Jinhwa (三昧眞fire)]
Once more, her fists clad in her blazing red flames rushed towards her Erin.
Noticing her fist coming in front of her, Erin chose to let go of her attack rather than slam her in front.
Considering the fact that she collided with her own fist a while ago and created a strong repulsive force to bounce it off, that fist was not a simple physical attack.
Erin wrapped her whole body in the magical power of her divine beast, armed it, and moved her scarlet wrist to her side.
She immediately dug into Zhu’s arms and tried to counter feed her pituitary gland.
“… Breath!?”
Ju-hong, who swallowed her breath, drew her body back without hesitation and distanced herself from Erin.
‘Just now…’
Ju-hong glared at her Erin, and she thought about what she felt was a sense of incongruity.
It’s strange when you think about it.
Erin didn’t face her own attacks head on, she rather let her water flow so naturally she channeled her attacks in a different direction.
At the same time, a chilling sensation ran down her spine, a strong feeling that if she hadn’t left the place, she would have suffered a spectacular defeat.
‘What is this woman? How… ?’
Strong.
Not only that, but Erin was aware of all her movements.
And Erin also had an impression of being unexpected for her unexpected behavior.
In her recent workshop, Erin clearly grasped the difference in strength between herself and vermilion.
‘I am stronger. But just that movement…’
Ju-hong didn’t know about Erin’s attack and avoided it.
The chilling sensations running up her skin and up her spine had only warned her instincts of danger, and she hastily distanced herself.
Her wild intuition is definitely better than Erin’s.
However, Erin knew very well that there was only one thing that could give Juhong an edge over her.
Once the analysis of the combat power and understanding of the opponent were over, Erin had nothing to hesitate any more.
This time, Erin moved first.
Erin’s legs, which had strengthened her body, kicked the floor once.
[Juhyeonseong Polar Plain]
[Earthquake Chain]
Cooong!
As soon as Erin’s foot slammed the ground hard, the impact ground shook loudly and caused an earthquake.
The floor cracked, and the ground dented around Erin’s leg, which kicked the floor, and the outer rocks were pushed up.
“… What!?”
Zhu Hong was astonished.
The rough vibrations that resonated in all directions along the ground were conveyed through the crimson bridge that was in contact with the ground.
In the midst of the dizzyingly pulverized and changing crust, Ju-hong flinched and fell into a state of rigidity due to the intense vibration.
It was the scarlet gap Erin forcibly created.
Erin relentlessly charged towards the scarlet.
Every time she stepped on her foot, the floor she passed through dented and left a mark.
Unlike her heavy traces, Erin’s speed was so fast that it was an instant.
When Ju-hong came to her senses, Erin had already closed the distance she had opened in just a few seconds and was right in front of her.
Erin brandished her kick without her hesitation.
Once again, the power of speed, which has rapidly accelerated to her top speed, is transferred to her legs, doubling its power.
‘Again.’
Ju-hong couldn’t properly recognize Erin’s attack.
Before her eyes could perceive her attack, her other senses picked up her Erin’s kick.
Just following the warnings of her instincts, she raises her arm and blocks her Erin’s kick.
Fuck!
“Nice… Ugh!”
Along with her blunt blow, a heavy shock was transmitted to her arm, which made a guard.
It was so intense and heavy that her torso could not withstand the full force of her kick and was pushed aside from her.
However, it was the same pattern as the first surprise attack, but as expected, it was impossible for Ju-Hong to completely block her kick.
Ju-hong clenched his teeth and endured her body being pushed away by her kick, then glared at Erin.
Her arms and wrists, which guarded her kicks, still tingle and do not move properly, as if the damage was still there.
Of course, the state of her body and the state of her mind are completely different issues.
“I thought I would just be suffering… Know!?”
Ju-hong was a woman who was not at all in her temper to live with only being treated.
Her right arm, which still had damage on her, neatly gave up, and her red-flamed left hand reached out toward Erin.
Erin calmly slapped Scarlet’s wrist once again, avoiding her direct hit.
No matter how powerful an attack is, it’s useless if it doesn’t hit directly.
‘It’s strong… Something is weak.’
Erin’s evaluation of vermilion was like that.
Her exchanges of attacks were only two or three, but her Erin’s assessment was accurate.
The ‘Sammae Jinhwa’ she used had definitely threatening attack power.
However, her attack itself is so direct and honest.
The power and perfection of the technology itself are unparalleled.
However, the experience of those who use it is overwhelmingly lacking.
Just as the level of the swordsman who wields that sword does not improve no matter how much he holds an excellent sword that is said to be the best in the world.
Unlike Erin now, who has gone through many hardships and obstacles, Ju-Hong’s experience was overwhelmingly lacking.
She didn’t even have to use her trumpet, the power of the divine beast.
Erin had no intention of immediately responding to the scarlet attack.
She finally snatched the left collar of the scarlet and grabbed it.
She rotated her body and put her strength on her back.
“Oh… !”
Ju-hong noticed it belatedly, but this time he couldn’t even respond.
It was natural that she was not going to give it a chance at all.
Ju-hong’s body flew through the air and fell to the ground.
“Cuck!”
A heavy shock started from the back that collided with the ground, spreading throughout the body, and Ju-hong let out a breath.
Unable to withstand the damage, she passed out.
“Whoa.”
Erin let out her small breath and later confirmed that Zhu Hong had passed out and checked the condition of Runan lying on her floor.
‘I’m still alive…’
Runan’s condition could not be said to be safe even with empty words.
Her complexion was pale and very bad because she was bleeding profusely, and all five fingers on her left hand had been cut off.
And she noticed something odd.
‘… Is the bleeding stopped?’
Her fingers were already healed like new skin had sprouted from them, and it was far from the usual first aid.
It was quite natural to recall the possibility that someone had activated the healing power by using a potion.
Erin looked at the fainting Scarlet with a suspicious expression.
“No way… ?”
It was natural to infer that Zhu Hong would have cured Runan.
But she couldn’t remember why.
Why did she have to use an expensive potion to put Runan’s life on hold?
“To be used as a hostage? Or not…”
She belatedly thought that maybe her assumptions themselves were wrong.
“… Aren’t you from the Bartel Kingdom side?”
Come to think of it, she never talked about herself.
She didn’t ask herself, nor did she wonder much about who she was.
If they both suspected each other of being from the side of the Barthel family who were trying to take Runan hostage, they showed hostility.
“… I should have asked some questions earlier.”
Erin regretted it.
In the first place, since her date with Eun-hyeon was interrupted after a long time, Erin, who was very uncomfortable with her planting, thought of returning quickly with Runan.
The questions I had been putting off for a while came back to my mind again.
“But who is he?”
What I was most curious about was the identity of this woman.
Who is this girl who uses the same martial art called Geukwon-ryu like Eun-hyeon?
The first possibility that came to mind was speculation that it might be ‘Eunhyeon’s disciple’.
However, Erin immediately denied that possibility.
Eun-hyeon told her that Erin was the first person she had officially accepted and acknowledged as her disciple, she had said herself.
At the time, she was really happy about it, but she didn’t think that Eun-hyeon would have lied about something like that.
“If…”
Maybe she was like her ex before she met Illyana.
“No. No.”
Erin couldn’t be, she denied herself.
I don’t know much about Eun-hyeon’s relationship with the opposite sex in the past, but at least Erin knew about the type of opposite sex that Eun-hyeon liked.
A characteristic common to Illyana, Eleanor, and Lily, as well as herself and Belldandy.
It was invisible to the scarlet.
“Hyun likes women with big breasts… I don’t think she is him.”
Her body was well-proportioned, as if she were an adventurer, but her chest was very flat.
She wasn’t completely absent, she definitely had curves, but she was too small compared to Erin, who has the smallest size among her wives.
Erin assured her that she was never Eun-hyeon’s type of woman.
“Ugh, ugh…”
Soon, Juhong frowned and groaned.
Her upper body, which had been tossing and turning, got up and looked around her as soon as she woke up.
“Woke up?”
“…”
Ju-hong glared at Erin and was wary.
Recalling her own memories of her complete defeat before she lost consciousness, she did not think that fighting her again would allow her to win.
“Shall we talk?”
“… Talk?”
“I think we misunderstood each other.”
Erin took her potion from her bosom and opened the stopper on her.
She and she poured a bottle of potion all over Runan’s body, who needed to recover right away.
The pure white light from the potion enveloped Runan’s body and completely healed his wounds.
Seeing that the blood that had been shed too much due to hemorrhage was replenished and the pale complexion returned to a stable state, Ju-hong made a surprised expression.
“… Omg?”
The most surprising thing was that all of Runan’s severed fingers were restored to their original state.
It is close to the realm of miracles imbued with divine power, which can never be done with ordinary potions.
“I am not from the Kingdom of Bartel. Are you too?”
“… That’s right.”
Joo Hong meekly admitted.
If the opponent was not an enemy, he did not have to lie or hide his identity.
At least, if it was Erin who had completely restored Runan, she was certain that she would not be an enemy.
“You… Who is this? Why did my father’s skills…”
“Father?”
Erin, who heard Ju-hong’s confused story, tilted her head.
“I don’t know who your father is. The skills I used were all learned from my husband.”
“… Husband?”
Ju-hong frowned and put on an expression of incomprehension.
Surrounded by the frustration of being entangled in a complex thread and unable to grasp the details, Ju-hong sighed lightly and belatedly introduced himself.
“My name is Juhong. And… My father’s name is Joo Hyun-seong. The taijutsu called the far-gen stream is a taijutsu created by my father to fight the demons…”
“… Omg?”
This time, it was Erin’s turn to be surprised after hearing the shocking fact.
Erin asked Juhong.
“Do you know Eunhyun? That’s my husband’s name.”
“… What? Hyun’s older brother… ? Are you married?”
“Brother?”
