Chapter 233 – 233. Inheritance of Swordsmanship (1)
“… A very bad seller.”
“…”
“I’m raising a child, and this child is going to go through all sorts of strange things, so I won’t see anything good for my wife and children involved in it.”
“Hey, grandma. Are you saying I’m getting married?”
At the mention of raising her child, Siete frowned and questioned the old woman sitting across from her.
As she sat down on a chair in the alleyway, guided by her persistent invitation to call herself up on the road she was passing by and not to look at fortune-telling, ‘What is this crazy old woman talking about?’
It was a lighthearted idea to pass the time by just matching the rhythm to the old fortuneteller’s offer to give fortune-telling for free.
“No. Aren’t you married in your life?”
Hearing the old woman’s calm reply, Siete narrowed his eyes and glared at the old woman.
“Are you going to raise a child?”
“I did say so. But not marriage. Just raise kids.”
“What kind of bullshit is this…”
“Ah, being a child is just a figurative expression, age is just an adult. And don’t you have any intention of getting married? All you need is young talent.”
“…”
As soon as he heard the last old woman’s words, Siete relaxed her frown and hardened her expression.
Rather than thinking she’s annoyed or weird, it’s more of a reaction that she’s taken aback.
“… What. You?”
“Cluck, he’s just an old man who likes to look into other people’s fates.”
She stares at the old woman, who giggles as if she knows exactly what she wants in her divination, which she does with her light attitude.
“Are you a Hunter?”
“Truck. Well?”
In response to Siete’s question as she glared suspiciously at her, the old fortuneteller just smiled and shrugged her shoulders, but did not give a specific answer.
As the world goes crazy, demons and monsters begin to appear in this world, and humans who have awakened special abilities to fight against unknown beings that threaten humanity.
Since Siete was also a woman who had awakened her magic and became a hunter, she examined every inch of the old woman’s body.
“…”
Not even a handful of magic power could be felt from the old woman’s body, but it is unusual that she is dispersing a strange aura as if to suggest that she is not an ordinary human being.
Seeing as I don’t feel any magic power, I’m not a hunter, but it’s still subtle to say that I’m a powerless ordinary person.
Siete, she was telling me that her sense of self was by no means an ordinary old woman.
‘What are you doing, old man? Why?’
She put aside the doubtful questions that came to her mind and asked again about what the old woman had mentioned.
“So? That I will pick up and raise a suitable child to fulfill my wishes?”
“Yes.”
“Do you have talent?”
“No. At all. I’m a newbie among newbies who’ve never held a sword.”
“… Are you kidding me now? Where are you going to use that guy?”
How on earth can he make his wish come true with a beginner who has never held a kendo?
Now he began to feel annoyed at the thought that the old woman might be making fun of him.
“Truck. But she has something in this world that no one else has.”
“What is that?”
“I have never seen a being so loved by fate as that child. That’s because it’s a real ‘talent’ that no one else has.”
“What are you talking about? This grandmother is real.”
“You die soon. That’s what you’re selling.”
“…”
“It’s like having to rely on that one child for both salvation and hope. You’re too lazy to sell. Dragging.”
Siete did not respond to the cloudless words of the old woman who suddenly sentenced her future to death.
He didn’t understand that he was dying or being saved, but there was only one word left in Siete’s head.
‘Hope.’
After thinking for a while, she opened her mouth again and asked the old woman.
“I am… Did my wish come true?”
“Cluck, let’s come.”
“Is this old lady crazy? Really?”
She makes people curious by arranging words that don’t know her meaning, and at the end, she doesn’t really give her desired answer with a vague answer.
Annoyed by the old woman’s reaction, who was enjoying Siete’s reaction with her giggling, Siete concluded that it seemed to her that there would be no point in her being angry any longer.
“… Tsk, I can’t go along with the bullshit anymore.”
She was sitting in an old folding iron chair, and Siete stood up with a frown on her face.
“Because it is free. You don’t get paid, right?”
“Then. From the start, she said that, didn’t she?”
“Okay. Time well spent Make a lot of money.”
She turned to show her back, waved her hand, and bid her farewell to the fortune-teller.
The old woman looked at her for a long time, not stopping her giggles, until the figure of Siete disappeared in her receding.
“Giggles”
Stopping by her mart, purchasing a week’s worth of food as always, and checking the current time on her cell phone, Xie Te stepped on her steps and covered a long distance of several kilometers in less than an hour, arrived at the house of
“Huh?”
She took out a corner of bread from the shopping cart, tore off a large piece of bread, tossed it into her mouth, and walked slowly through the yard in front of the house.
I noticed a man sitting on a log chair in the yard and made a questioning noise.
In the yard of a log cabin in Spain covered with cold snow, a man exhaling white breath soon found Siete and slowly rose from his seat.
He had been sitting on a log chair for hours, waiting, with snowballs piled up on the crown of his silvery-white hair.
A man’s jewel-like red eyes and Siete’s eyes finally met.
“What. You?”
“My name is Eunhyun. You… Is that Siete Lopez?”
“However?”
“I came here because I wanted to learn the sword from you.”
“…”
“Could you please accept me as your disciple?”
Upon hearing those words, Siete frowned involuntarily and did not respond.
Even when Eunhyeon directly saw the change in Te’s expression in her poem, she calmly waited for her answer.
Only one thought came to Siete’s mind.
– I’m raising a child, and this child is going to go through all sorts of strange things, so I won’t see anything good for my wife and children involved in it.
“X feet… Why do you think of that grandma here…”
“Yes?”
“No, nothing.”
Hearing Siete muttered softly, Eunhyeon broke her calm waiting attitude and asked with a puzzled expression.
After finishing her thoughts, Siete looked up and down Eunhyeon and opened her mouth.
“Your name is unique. Korean?”
“Do you know Korea?”
“Know. It is famous as a country that is good at games.”
“It’s all useless now.”
Eunhyun smiled bitterly and nodded her head.
As demons and monsters appeared on Earth, mankind no longer had time to invest a lot of money in entertainment industries such as sports and games.
Governments of each country began to focus on promoting the safety of the people by fostering hunters and creating a defense system to prepare for the threat of monsters, and many companies went bankrupt and new companies emerged at the same time.
Many countries, including Korea, all rapidly developed industries related to hunters, and all other fields not related to it were quickly eliminated.
Korea’s title of ‘the country that is best at games’ is now a relic of the past and a glory of the past.
“It must not have been easy to learn a foreign language. How did you learn to speak Spanish?”
“I learned on my own. I want to see Siete-nim.”
“…”
Keeping in mind that he was a man who spoke more freely than he thought, Siete nodded his head with a sullen look on his face.
“Come in at once. How many hours did you wait outside?”
“Because I’ve been waiting since lunch. About five hours.”
While it was snowing, Siete sent Eun-hyeon into his house, additionally keeping in mind that he was a man who had committed a foolish act, sitting in the same seat and waiting for him endlessly.
After many twists and turns, Siete accepted Eunhyeon as a disciple.
Afterwards, when he had him hold the sword and directly tested his skills, it seemed like he was a beginner who hadn’t really held a sword before, so Siete frowned.
‘I really don’t have any talent.’
I learned the basics of taijutsu under someone and the basic body itself was made, but learning taijutsu doesn’t mean I can handle a sword.
‘If you teach one thing, you won’t know one thing. You have to teach ten things to realize one thing.’
Furthermore…
“By the way, Master.”
“What.”
“Apart from the posture you taught me, the names of the skills you attached are too lame. Can I just change my name and use it in my own way?”
Far from giving up saying that he can’t learn from a subject he has no talent for, he points out his naming sense.
“… Do as you please.”
Siete, who was offended by Eun-hyeon’s arrogance, couldn’t express her dissatisfaction.
‘Like that… Is it disgusting?’
Even after that, Eunhyeon silently accepted Siete’s teachings, and did not get impatient that her achievements were not immediately apparent.
Just like quietly, taking care of the given homework and building a tower with great effort, I just trained and trained.
No matter how hard it was and how long it took, you could even see madness and obsession in the way he was taking one step towards a goal.
“What are you planning to do by learning the sword from me?”
“There is a demon that wants revenge.”
“… Devil?”
“I want to kill the devil who killed my older brother who taught me martial arts. And… No.”
Seeing Eunhyeon’s troubled attitude as he hesitated to say something, Siete didn’t ask any more.
“Why did Master accept me as a disciple?”
“Why do you ask that?”
“To be honest, I don’t have that talent.”
“I know.”
“Hyunseong hyung was like that too. I have no talent for martial arts.”
It was hurt at first, but after accepting the fact, Eun-hyeon was working hard to build up her skills in her own way.
The passion mixed with obsession and madness is enough to surprise even Siete.
“Well…”
In fact, even Siete didn’t know why he thought of accepting Eunhyun.
It may just be that the words of the fortuneteller’s old woman, which were imprinted in his head, had a great influence.
Half of it is curiosity.
‘Can this hard-working group, the king of incompetence, really make my wish come true?’
The old fortuneteller did not say that the disciple she picked up and raised would fulfill her wish.
Passing on meaningfully, he avoided a definite answer.
So, accepting Eunhyeon was a simple choice out of curiosity.
“I was possessed by some crazy old woman and I was just halfway crazy.”
“… ?”
Unable to understand the meaning of those words, Eunhyeon just tilted her head.
When Eunhyeon learned the sword under Shiete, and three years had passed.
An unexpected visitor came.
Quaang!
While Siete’s house was collapsing due to a surprise attack, Siete instinctively recalled the words of the old woman who foretold her fate.
-And dying because of that child is your fault.
‘… After all, the old woman was right?’
Far from hiding the formidable presence of the attack, Siete, who sensed the presence of the demon walking proudly, hardened his face.
Even with all his might, he recalled his death, with an instinctive realization of the level at which he was unsure whether he could win.
“… Disciple jump out.”
“But… !”
“You’re not at the level of an opponent you can deal with!”
“I still need Master’s teachings. Rather together…”
“It’s stupid, but if you die here, both your goals and mine will be in vain.”
Siete grabbed Eun-hyeon by the collar and pulled her forward in the smoke from the wreckage of the collapsed building, facing her and glaring at Eun-hyeon’s face.
“Do not forget. Because you are the only hope I have found in this crazy world.”
“What is that…”
“Did you think I could live with you for years and not notice your secrets?”
“… !”
“Have you ever seen such an asshole-like disciple?”
It’s funny how you might think he didn’t get caught.
It was Eunhyeon’s complacency as she was unable to properly use the power bestowed by the goddesses upon being appointed as her apostle.
“I don’t know why you wanted to learn a sword from me. But I’m counting on you.”
“Master, what is that… Keugh!?”
Before she could resist properly, Siete’s blade struck Eun-hyeon on the nape of her neck, causing her to pass out, and using her footwork, she knocked Eun-hyeon into a safe underground bunker and came out of the collapsed house.
[Here.]
“… You said you were waiting for me?”
[Because I judged that he would not run away.]
The massive demon with her arms folded in her arms looked down at Xie Te with a calm expression on her face.
His physique and well-balanced movements show that the devil in front of him is a person who has trained his skills that emphasize ‘Martial Arts’ even without fighting.
[My name is Gushion. I came to visit a woman who is said to be the strongest swordsman on earth and compete with her.]
Seeing Gu Shion’s demeanor, who calmly revealed that her own purpose was pure couplets, Siete drew her sword from her waist and entered her battle stance.
Confirming that the impression was the way she thought, Xie Te opened her mouth while looking at Gu Shion.
“I have one request.”
[What?]
“Save that guy in the warehouse.”
At the bold human woman’s request, Gusion smiled.
She belongs to the axis of the strong, and she had no reason to accept the favor of the weak herself, but the human woman aiming her sword and emitting a ferocious glow in her eyes was a swordsman and a ‘warlord’ before she was a human. The appearance of
She was Gushion, who was infinitely generous to her favorite type of being, but she didn’t pretend to grant Shite’s favor right away.
[Is there any reason why I should listen to you?]
“It would be fun to listen to.”
[Hmm?]
“He is a disciple whom I raised myself. Someday I’ll get stronger… I will definitely cut your throat.”
[… Haha!]
Gu Shi-on, who did not understand what he was talking about, burst into laughter.
[Good! Very good! I’m looking forward to that day!]
After saying that, the Sword Master and the Devil clashed.