Chapter 174 – 2. Psyche’s Sleep (8)
Roa, Hosea, and Joshua have moved to a place where they couldn’t visit because they were busy with training.
This place where the master of the Baekryongmun stands guard, putting a strict seal on it because of what happened before.
A place where Talos, who will be of great strength when he goes to the small continent to save Yuria one day, and Yuria, who is coldly asleep in a coffin with Talos built behind him.
The wounds were gone after eating the potion, but the two children, who still had the psychological shock, were just hanging close behind Roa and looking at everything with alarming eyes.
Loa was very bitter at the appearance of such two sons, took out a plaque from her bosom, and showed it to the gatekeeper and the escorts.
Seeing the plaque proving that they were authorized to pass through this seal, the escort silently let Loa and the children go, and Hosea and Joshua ran forward, climbed Talos’s body, climbed onto his mother’s coffin, and lay flat on it. Sobbed.
What more can I do for my children? Although they are already small, it seems like they have already grown up. It seems like yesterday that they felt sad, but today, Roa quietly covered her eyes with her hand, wondering why those two children’s small shoulders looked so thin.
What should he do now?
Jincheng can be trusted.
With Tia’s guarantee, Jincheong, whom he had been watching all this time, was never driven by his own self-interest.
Tia said that if Yuria were someone other than herself, she would never have chosen her as her own partner.
However, after she met Jincheng, Tia reversed what she had said.
If the.
Really, if YuRia fell into a kingdom and the first thing she encountered was Jincheong.
And if Jincheong had truly fallen in love with Yuria.
Yuria said that if it were her Jincheong, she might have chosen her as her own companion.
That much.
Tia said that the soul of a person named Jincheong is clear and pure.
Of course, as she has lived on this land for a long time, she is unavoidably stained and stained, but even compared to her current level, the difference is not that great.
It was said that he had never truly hated, resentful, or angry with someone that much.
“Is it because Dad inherited both the qualities of a hero and a saint? To the extent that it would not be an exaggeration to say that I lacked something that I should have as a human being, I have a faint heart to resent or hate someone. To the point where it’s impossible to be truly angry with someone. If Dad was angry with someone, it would have been because of his mother’s business, not his father’s.”
That’s what Tia said.
Loa thought it over and wondered if she really did.
Then.
Tia said that she would have lived for over 100 years, and she, who is only in her mid-20s, had a similar level of muddy soul, what kind of life he had lived and what kind of heart he had.
That’s why Roa was as trustworthy as Jincheong.
However, in the midst of this situation, can the people of Baekryongmun besides Jincheong really be trusted?
Is there any guarantee that this won’t happen again?
However, as of now, Jincheong was the only place where he could borrow the power to save Yuria in a kingdom with no ties.
It was impossible to leave Baekryongmun Gate even to borrow the power of Jincheong.
“Mom…”
“Mom… I miss you…”
As the longing for their mother, which they had endured so far, reached its peak over what had happened here, the children who had burst out at once just cried over Yuria’s coffin, and Roa was in so much agony over what to do about it.
His own strength was too low.
If he had been as strong as Yuria’s toes, none of this would have happened…
All of this felt like my own karma.
* * * * *
Normally, everyone would be asleep. The atmosphere in the training hall of Baekryongmun was somewhat chaotic.
For some reason, the instructors were all out, carrying torches, busy running around, calling trainees to the plaza.
Seeing this, the 8-year-old children who practiced justice today somehow felt uneasy.
I wonder if this situation could be because of them.
Ay no way It will not be.
They didn’t do anything wrong
It couldn’t be wrong to condemn the filthy barbarians from the West who dared to invade the sacred Baekryongmun’s training ground and insult Baekryongmun.
“Come out everyone! Elder Taesang is waiting for you. Come on!!”
Under the guidance of the instructors, the children came out of the dorm and mumbled, wondering what the hell was going on.
Especially among them, the boy who was the first to see Hosea and Joshua and was the mastermind of this incident became more and more anxious.
Elder Taesang…
Clearly, the children were making absurd excuses that they had received permission from Elder Taesang.
The memory was already distorted in the boy’s head.
The twins were not familiar with the customs of this place, so they did not yet know the name of Jincheong’s position at Baekryongmun, and they only recognized that he was a high-ranking person, and neither Taesangjang nor Jincheong’s name was mentioned.
All he said was ‘I was allowed to train here’.
It was none other than the instructor who said to the boy that he was allowed by Elder Taesang.
But already in the boy’s head, they were the swordsmen to protect justice, and the two little boys were wicked Madou, and everything was set up accordingly.
When they met eyes with the girls who had been summoned from the other dormitories and who had defeated the madu together, the eyes of the children shook little by little.
They were obviously proud, but nevertheless, the adults were afraid.
Even though they are elders of the Munpa, they sometimes compromised with injustice and made wrong choices.
Just like the Madou wrapped up this time.
Soon after all the trainees gathered, Elder Taesang came up to the podium.
“Are there any trainees who have had extraordinary achievements today, including Changhyeon?”
When his name was called from Elder Taesang’s mouth, the boy flinched and trembled.
No way? Really? No that’s nonsense There’s no way Elder Taesang would cover up such dirty Madou.
However, the eight children, including the boy, were already visibly shaken.
At Jincheong’s words, the children who had already gathered in the square were agitated and talking to each other, and their eyes gradually began to gather in one place.
Except for lunch and dinner, I didn’t see any nose plucking.
Above all, Eight, who was visibly agitated, looked very suspicious even if no one said it.
“You, you, you. All eight of them may remain, and the rest may return.”
At those words, the children were agitated for a while, but soon each started going back to their own dorms.
All the children gathered in the plaza escaped, and only the boys who were called by Jincheon became afraid of the boys.
But somehow, I tried to be as confident as possible.
Because they didn’t do anything wrong.
“Do you know why I left you guys?”
“…”
The children had nothing to say.
I thought I was proud, but for some reason I was so scared that I couldn’t say anything.
Looking at the children who were just so silent, Jincheon quietly opened his mouth.
“Are you guys the ones who beat the children who were practicing on the top of the mountain today?”
“…”
The children just looked at each other cautiously, hesitated about what to do, but in the end nodded in a timid way.
“Why did you beat those children? Defenseless children who were neither armed nor rebellious.”
“That, that’s…”
While the children were hesitating in an atmosphere where they seemed like they would get scolded if they answered for some reason, Changhyeon was determined among them.
They only did the right thing, so if they told the truth, they would be greatly praised.
“The sacred Baekryongmun’s training ground. Even inside Baekryongmun, no one can enter the training ground without permission. Barbarians from the West region dared to invade, desecrate and defile the Baekryongmun. We only defeated the Madou from the West region.”
Perhaps the other children were also encouraged by Changhyeon’s answer, and soon began to cheer up.
“Oh, that’s right. We just did the right thing.”
“They dare to be sacred even within the White Dragon Gate…”
Jin Qing quietly raised his hand to stop the children from speaking.
“First of all, I need to tell you what you guys are wrong about.”
“…?”
“The training ground at the top of the mountain is special or sacred, so access is not restricted. It is a training ground made to separate from the general Baekryongmundo, and it is a place where guests or diners from other cultures stay and train, so it is advised not to go there. You guys should know, right? It’s a big disrespect to watch other sects practice.”
At those words, the children gulped and swallowed.
“And secondly. Are they called barbarians of the West Region? Just because people from the West Region are barbarians, they are not unconditionally barbarians. Just as there are friendly and evil beings such as Demonic Cultists and Blood Religionists in the East, there are also people in the West Region who sharpen chanting and magic tricks.”
At those words, the children felt as if the earth and sky were turned upside down, and it became difficult to even breathe.
They may be wrong
The children began to be greatly shaken by the fact that the villains might not have been the children themselves.
But because of that, I made up my mind even more strongly.
It couldn’t have been.
The villains, of course, had to be the little ones, and they themselves had to be the knights.
What they did was supposed to be the execution of justice.
“But those villains dared to draw their swords towards Baekryongmundo. This is an act of hostility toward Baekryongmundo.”
Looking at the children who are still unable to repent of their mistakes and trying to rationalize them, Jin Qing quietly raised one hand and cupped his face.
Where did it go wrong?
Maybe it’s because I didn’t check it more thoroughly when I received Munsaeng.
Or maybe I wasn’t properly trained?
If not, did they not set a proper example and example?
Jincheng was so disappointed with the appearance of the children, but lamented how they had come to this point.
“There, they ignored and insulted me.”
“Ignoring and insulting? Those children are young children who have just arrived from the West. Are you forcing the culture of this land that they are not familiar with at an age where they have not yet mastered the culture of their own land?”
“That, that’s…”
“Then he pulled out his sword. It must have been a wooden sword. What you said is sophistry. The wooden sword has no scabbard. And since those children were training every day, of course you have no choice but to hold a wooden sword in their hand as an excuse. “
“That that…”
There were so many things to say, but Changhyun couldn’t say anything.
My head turned white, and I couldn’t think of any words I wanted to say that I had so many, and my body just shook.
This is not this…
This isn’t it…
“Isn’t it so nice that many of you use the opponent’s position as a weakness and persecute a child who is much younger than you? It is also unilateral against a strong person who is much stronger than you.”
“A strong person! There’s no way that’s the case.”
At Changhyeon’s words, Jincheong just narrowed his eyes and glared at the children.
“Those children are anti-seons who were born from ancestors in the West. Even though they are young, they are not children to be beaten by you.”
“Uh, what is that…”
“I can’t tell you much because I can’t reveal my heavenly secrets, but if those children had truly resisted, you would never have been safe. You must have been assaulted unilaterally.”
“I-I can’t admit it! Those kids could be stronger than us…”
Jin Cheng quietly stood up from his seat.
“Follow me. To all of you who have already turned a blind eye to it, it will be useless to talk about it for a hundred days.”
“Tae, Elder Taesang…”
“Those children were just silently being beaten inside the White Dragon Gate, not knowing what would be disrespectful or disrespectful. Because there were circumstances that made it impossible for them to leave this place.”
“…”
“If you don’t believe in the power of those children, join them again. But it’s better to be prepared. I’ll give them anything as long as you keep your breath.”
Changhyun groaned.
“That’s unfair! Are you asking us to hit those kids one-sidedly?”
“You can do your best. No, it doesn’t matter if you guys go with the real sword you’re confident in.”
At that, the children became even more agitated.
Is Elder Taesang trying to deal with that madu through them?
“That will help you realize more of what you’ve done. If those children were truly Madou, would they have stayed so still while being persecuted by those weaker than themselves?”
“…”
So, the eight children, including Changhyeon, carried Jingeom and followed Jincheong to Nuri’s magic training center.
There, the children gritted their teeth as they saw the madou sleeping soundly in the arms of a westerner.
Because of those guys, they came to hate Taesang Elder.
They became the bad guys.
“You villain! Get up! Come on!”
“Changhyun!!”
Hosea and Joshua were startled by Changhyeon’s cry and started a match and burrowed into Roa’s arms. Roa hurriedly hugged the children and sharpened their blades to the extent that it was rare to see them, glaring fiercely at the child who had just shouted.
“Oops!”
“Changhyeon! I should have said it clearly. Those children are half-seon [半仙] (Half-and-half, seon-in-seon).”
“Among the sages, there are also anti-seon [Anti-seon] (Reversible half, immortal good)”
Looking at Changhyeon, who finally rationalizes his actions and refuses to acknowledge the reality, Jincheong frowns and sighs.
“Okay, you will be responsible for your words.”
“…”
Jincheong quietly knelt down in front of Hosea and Joshua and met her eyes with the two children at eye level.
“I’m sorry, kids.”
“…”
“I want you guys to help those kids come to their senses.”
At those words, Hosea and Joshua clung even more closely to Roa’s legs and looked at Jincheong with fearful eyes.
“You can do anything as long as it doesn’t kill or maim. I’ll give it to you.”
“Yes?”
“Yes?”
“It means you don’t have to be hit anymore.”
Hearing that, Hosea and Joshua still looked frightened, but still, they released their hands from Loa’s crotch and slowly moved away from Loa.
“Hey guys…”
“Dad…”
“It’s okay, it’s okay. Mr. Jincheong said it’s okay…”
Then, the two children began to shine red eyes and hair, raising their psychic powers that they had not been able to raise properly until now.
“Come on”
“It will be different from before.”
Seeing the two twins different from before, the children hesitated for a moment.
Can I really jump on it?
I’m getting scolded for hitting those kids, so I wonder if it’s okay.
The children’s momentum was also strong, but Jincheong nodded his head to the children who were still undecided whether they could really deal with them.
Seeing this, the children pulled out their swords and began to press Hosea and Jincheong while performing examinations.
“” We are those who look to the good shepherd “”
And against him, the fight between Hosea and Joshua began with the chanting of the magic starter.
“Chaha!”
Flashing their blue blades, the children’s swords openly aimed for the lives of the two children from the beginning, and fiercely spread grass.
Jincheong frowned, knowing that those weeds could not harm Hosea and Joshua.
Clearly, those two children weren’t evil, and even if they were evil, the Baekryong students who were supposed to protect people from demons by claiming to be a political faction spread grass against people without hesitation.
Jincheng really lamented that they had misguided the children.
The twins did not waver at all even when the blades of swords aimed at Hosea and Joshua’s necks and hearts as well as all kinds of vital points were so menacing.
Can I use my psychic powers here? Can I use magic? What if things get bigger?
The two children had to be beaten unilaterally because they did not know what was allowed and what was forbidden, but now Jincheong’s permission has fallen.
Jincheong’s permission to allow anything as long as it doesn’t take life or cripple it.
Follow me -!!
As it was, the swords were pushed back and forth, each other’s sword collided with another sword, the sword paths got tangled, and the children screamed and stumbled.
After staggering back and forth, he quickly came to his senses, checked himself again, and glared at Hosea and Joshua, but the offensive had already passed to Hosea and Joshua.
Because of the twins who quickly dug in between them, the children were perplexed by a situation they had never experienced before and did not know what to do. In the meantime, a large shock wave occurred and the children screamed and were blown in all directions, scattering and rolling on the floor. .
“Uh, uh…”
“Either, witchcraft! It’s witchcraft!!”
Jincheong frowned again at the words of the children.
They just dismissed it as witchcraft because they used an ability they couldn’t understand…
Didn’t the children feel that clear aura?
More than anything, I could feel Jincheong.
If those twins had made up their minds a little while ago, they would have had the ability to kill all of the children’s bodies with that single blow.
The twins replaced it by pushing the children’s bodies away.
“Kill!!”
“Wow!!”
However, the children, without realizing it, said, ‘Kill it’, and now began to attack it, revealing their intention to kill very directly.
Jincheong tried to stop this fight, but when the red eyes of the two children began to shine more and more strongly, the situation ended to the point of futility.
As the children rushed at the twins, the tips of their swords all swung toward the floor, bent in that direction, and slashed them deeply, leaving only the handle on the floor.
The children who fell and fell in the wind, unable to overcome the momentum, looked at their swords deeply planted on the floor, bewildered by this incomprehensible situation.
Even if it was a dirt floor, they didn’t have the confidence to plant it this deeply, but the floor where the sword was now planted was a stone floor.
To drive a sword into such a place at once like this…
“That, that sword…”
“Uh, what to do! I-I can’t pull it out like this…”
Seeing this, Jingcheng sighed and raised her hand.
“Until that point… Can you admit it now? Those children didn’t suffer because they didn’t have the strength.”
Hosea and Joshua, who raised her psychic powers and made her eyes and hair shine at Jincheong’s words, relaxed at Jincheong’s words and their eyes and hair returned to their original state.
“Elder Taesang, those children are in danger! Right now!”
“Go![喝]”
The children groaned and stumbled to and fro at the words of a voice full of inner strength.
“You bastard!! You still haven’t realized it. Because it’s White Dragon Gate, it’s not right. You have to do what’s right, and because it’s White Dragon Gate, you have to do what’s right. You guys are trying to fit right into you, not to make you right.”
“Ha, but Elder Taesang!!”
“You still don’t realize. If those children made up their minds, you’d have already died over a hundred times?”
At that, the children looked at Hosea and Joshua as if they could not admit it.
Of course, I couldn’t even be an opponent, and I was defeated one-sidedly, but that’s it… “
At those words, Hosea and Joshua’s eyes and hair lit up again, and four swords were pulled out from the floor, one in each twin’s hand, and the other left floating in the air.
And Hosea and Joshua swung the swords in their hands at the sword, and the sword floating in the air surprisingly split vertically and became two thin swords.
The children were at a loss for words before the feat of splitting the blade with the blade.
Whether it was witchcraft or something, the ability he showed this time was something that even children could not help but admit.
However, Jincheong was a little surprised at this feat.
It was because a little while ago, it was a stunt they performed by combining their abilities and martial arts.
But that’s why I was able to keep my children’s mouths shut.
Since they are single-minded children who don’t admit anything else, they had no choice but to admit it meekly if they took it with a martial art they thought was right.
If he denied even that, he would be denying himself.
Roa also had a very surprised look at the last one, and she thought hard about whether she could do something like that.
The power to split a sword vertically?
It would be possible enough if the Gravity Homet was unfolded, but I had no confidence in copying the sword into two thin swords by cutting the sword vertically into two exactly like that.
“Are you admitting it now?”
“…Yeah, but aren’t those children all right!”
At the words of the children, Jincheng finally became genuinely angry.
“Oh, that’s right! It’s just not a big deal!”
Hearing that, Jincheong got angry and stretched out his hand towards one of the swords on the floor.
Seeing this, the children flinched and were terrified, wondering if they had gone too far, but Jincheong’s actions that followed were so unexpected.
Chow-!!
Although he avoided blood vessels and major muscles as much as possible, Jincheong’s arm, which had cut his arm deeply, was cracked open, and its red flesh was visible.
“Tae, Elder Taesang!!”
“Well, I was wrong! I, because of us, the elder…”
Regardless of whether the children did or not, Jincheng sent his eyes toward Nuri.
And Nuri, who understood Jincheong’s eyes, brought the potion bottle left over from the healing of Hosea and Joshua a little while ago and slowly poured it on Jincheong’s wound.
“Did you see?”
“Uh, huh?”
“It’s an elixir made with the western region’s sage. Why would this bottle be here now?”
At that, the children were silent.
The medicine bottle had used a considerable amount and was slightly swaying on the floor.
“Against those who have done nothing wrong, even against children younger than themselves, who do not rebel or resist, the majority persecutes the minority and nearly kills half of them, but you still do not regret your mistakes and try to rationalize them somehow.”
“…”
If you look at the efficacy of the medicine just before, if you think that the bottle was full of medicine, no matter how much you share it with two people, if you had to use that amount, how bad would those children be?
I wanted to think that maybe I brought something a little empty, but the kids have stopped making ugly rationalizations.
I have already admitted it myself.
I was more persistent than I thought, beating and beating and beating again, telling me to please stop dying and beating and beating again and again with all my might like crazy.
If you think about it, if you beat it that much, it was an assault that mobilized martial arts to the extent that an ordinary child would have died a hundred times more.
I just didn’t want to think for myself.
“I-we…”
“…”
“Go to Confession Hall. From there, until I come back, eat water and Byeokgokdan, look at the wall, and control your own hearts. That is my punishment for you guys.”
The children were stunned and in tears at the words, but they quietly bowed and withdrew from their seats without saying anything.
Even the children had to admit it.
They knew that the crime they had committed was such a mistake that they would have nothing to say even if they cut the roots and shut down the danteon right now.
The wrong done to those twins is also wrong, but how many times have you rebelled against and disobeyed the words of Elder Taesang, a very high-ranking adult within the gate?
Compared to the fact that they disturbed the hierarchy of the White Dragon Gate and tarnished the name of the White Dragon Gate, the punishment given to them was rather light.
“Taesang… Thank you for the mercy of the elder…”
“Go. Please, next time we meet, I hope that the self-righteousness in your hearts has been eradicated. If you disobey my expectations, then I will truly excommunicate you.”
“…”
As a result, the children realized that Jincheng had not forgiven them.
It was just a last chance.
But the kids couldn’t help but feel it.
That’s because what they’ve done has grown too big.
