Chapter 899 – 899. Ju Hyeon-Seong (2)
Joo Hyun-seong.
Not many people knew his name and face.
In a world that was being destroyed by demons and monsters and other alien beings, he was one of the few people who could stand against them from the beginning, the starting point of destruction.
He awakened his own magical power and applied it to the martial arts he had inherited, killing demons and monsters and pioneering a new realm.
The reason why his name was not widely known was that he had his enemies not in the metropolitan area, where many people could get attention, but in a quiet rural area where people were rare.
The name Joo Hyeon-seong met a sad ending before it could prove its existence to the world.
“Hyunseong is my older brother. He was just stupid.”
Belldandi stared at the profile of Eunhyun, who was calmly walking down the street.
Eun-hyeon’s heart was desperately conveyed to Belldandi’s heart, as to what kind of emotions he had and because they were connected by spirit.
He smiled bitterly as if recalling past memories, and longing and regret were buried in his heart.
“As a martial artist walking the path of martial arts, my older brother was terribly stupid and naive, but as a man, he was really absurdly blunt.”
It was an era when firearms were rampant and the meaning of being an individual was disappearing.
In such a world, the fact that he continued to insist on a dojo with no pupils and continued his life was a testament to how stubborn and tenacious he was.
While slowly talking about Ju Hyeon-seong, Eun-hyeon suddenly stopped.
“Hey? Why?”
Belldandi, who was walking side by side holding his hand, tilted his head and asked Eunhyeon.
“… It looks like you took the trouble to find it.”
Originally, Eun-hyeon and Belldandi planned to visit the countryside where Joo Hyeon-seong’s dojo was originally located.
I was on my way to the express bus terminal to get on the express bus for that purpose.
However, what Eunhyeon and Belldandy saw in front of them was not a building called the Express Bus Terminal, but rather a large-scale dojo building.
For a moment, he felt doubts about something completely different from his own memories, but those doubts quickly disappeared.
‘Because this is a dream.’
In most cases, a dream is a materialized image that remains as a remnant in the original memory.
Memories were always ambiguous.
There were cases where it was jumbled up with other memories and did not retain its original form.
It is not strange, therefore, that the scene in a dream may be quite different from the place originally remembered.
There may be things that shouldn’t be where they should be, and things that shouldn’t exist where they shouldn’t be.
That was what a dream was.
In any case, from Eun-hyeon’s point of view, the trouble of taking the express bus to the countryside was gone.
‘When I go… Could her mother have seen it too?’
If he saw it, he couldn’t think of what kind of face to look at or what to say.
It spread like a white sheet of paper in my head.
“Hey. Come to your senses.”
Eun-hyeon, who was standing still and staring blankly at the dojo in front of her, was awakened by Belldandy’s shaking hands.
“Are you okay?”
“… Yes. Thank you.”
Eunhyun gave a small wry smile and looked up at the seal in front of her again.
“Let’s go.”
“… Okay.”
Belldandi looked up at Eunhyun’s profile for a moment and put on a worried expression, but he didn’t say anything out of his mouth.
Following the footsteps of Eunhyun holding her hand, I quietly walked beside her.
As they opened the front door and went inside, a weak breeze blew and wrapped around Eunhyeon and Belldandy.
Eun-hyeon shuddered in surprise at the breeze that enveloped her whole body.
The breeze did not contain any hostile intentions, but instinctively embraced Belldandi’s body to protect her goddess.
“Oh, is it?”
Belldandy was taken aback by Eunhyun’s sudden embrace, but looked around him and held his breath.
“Flower?”
Soon, the scent of flowers spread through his nose.
For some reason, it was a familiar plum scent.
And what was even more surprising was the fact that the inside of the dojang, which was opened and entered, had changed.
“This place…”
It was a white space where nothing existed.
A space of nothingness, filled only with a vast void where no end can be seen even if one looks around.
Belldandy knew this place.
“Isn’t this the place where the child was tried?”
“… Yes.”
Eunhyun also nodded her head.
It was similar to the place where Eunhyeon had been tried by Jupiter before.
Here, Eun-hyeon surpassed her teacher after hundreds of repetitions through the fight with Siete.
“… Why?”
From the outside, it was just an ordinary dojang, but once inside, it changed in an instant.
She couldn’t figure out why, though it could be because it was a dream world.
The law itself in this dream was made up of concepts and principles that were very unfamiliar to Eun-hyeon, so it was not easy to figure it out.
Even if it was a dream world he created based on his memories.
The same goes for his goddess, Belldandy.
‘I don’t know if Lily can clear up this question…’
Lily, who created this dream world, would have been worth relying on, but it is impossible to expect Lily’s advice now.
If that’s the case, you’ll have no choice but to ask the person who is presumed to be the one who created this situation.
Eunhyun turned his head and looked ahead.
“That child…”
A man appeared in front of Eunhyeon and Belldandi.
A large man standing proudly in a space where nothing existed, as if he had been there from the beginning.
“…”
To Eun-hyeon, it was the image of a man who evoked various emotions.
Complex emotions mixed with joy, longing, and sorry.
Ju Hyeon-seong smiled as he met Eun-hyeon’s eyes.
“A long time. Hey.”
“… You really are my brother.”
“Okay.”
Eun-hyeon confirmed that it was Joo Hyeon-seong and let go of Belldandi, who was holding her in her arms.
“Berdandy.”
“Hmm?”
“Can you please keep your distance for a while?”
“Ah, got it.”
Belldandy nodded her head slightly, embarrassed for a moment.
The moment he confirmed that the man who appeared in a colorless space where nothing existed was Joo Hyeon-seong, Eun-hyeon’s atmosphere changed strangely.
After escaping Eunhyeon’s arms, Belldandi slowly stepped back and distanced herself from Eunhyeon.
Eun-hyeon, who became alone, soon saw Ju Hyeon-seong in front of him and walked towards him.
There’s no way that would be the case, but first I asked Hyun-seong Joo to confirm.
“Did you create this space?”
“Well?”
“…”
Eun-hyeon felt a strange, incomprehensible sense of incongruity.
There is no doubt that his attitude, his words, and his expression itself are epistolary.
However, it was an unsuitable answer for him who likes simple and clear ways of expression such as ‘yes’ or ‘no’.
Seeing Eun-hyeon make a puzzled expression because she had something on her mind, Ju Hyeon-seong smiled and warmed up.
“Well, then…”
The two of them got closer to the point where they could touch each other if they stretched out their fists.
“Would you like to see how much you have grown!?”
It was Joo Hyeon-seong who took the lead first.
Eunhyun confirmed with her own two eyes the fist that was reaching straight toward her.
Booooong!
The heavy mass flying through the wind was no different from a vicious weapon that could easily break bones with just a blow.
Eun-hyeon twisted his head and avoided Ju Hyeon-seong’s fist in a close position.
“Kuh… !”
It was dizzy just to imagine what would have happened if the fist that brushed the cheek had hit her face head-on.
However, Eun-hyeon now has grown significantly different from when she learned the basics of fighting from him.
‘If I can, I’ll do my best from the start.’
[Juhyeonseong Polar Plain]
[Sammaebung Kwon (三昧崩拳)]
The moment the fist with condensed mana strikes the abdomen, the accumulated mana is released and an explosive blow is given.
A normal opponent would have exploded like a balloon at the moment of the blow, and the remains of the flesh would have scattered around, but Ju Hyeon-seong’s abdomen, which Eun-hyeon’s fist struck, was momentarily pushed back, but was fine.
Joo Hyeon-seong calmly accepted Eun-hyeon’s attack and said.
“It’s still a flat fist.”
Joo Hyun-seong counterattacked.
[Juhyeonseong Polar Plain]
[Sammaebung Kwon (三昧崩拳)]
Fuck!
Same technique.
However, the gap caused by the difference in weight class and magic attribute was on a different level from Eunhyun’s attack.
“Big, black!?”
The moment the fist hit Eunhyeon’s abdomen, his back was bent and his body floated into the air.
As it flew through the sky, drawing a short parabola and witnessing it fall to the ground, Belldandi, who watched from a distance, shouted in astonishment.
“Ah, kid!?”
It was when she hurriedly ran to Eun-hyeon in surprise and tried to reach out her hand to support him who had been thrown to the floor.
“Don’t touch me.”
Ju Hyeon-seong brushed off Belldandi’s hand that was reaching out to Eun-hyeon.
Belldandy felt a tingling sensation from the rough and large hand of Hyun-seong, but he didn’t care, he glared at Hyun-seong and shouted.
“What are you doing!”
“You’re helping me by just standing there watching.”
“What are you saying… ! Hurry up and see how the child is!”
“Ah, I don’t die just like that, so don’t make a fuss about it.”
Joo Hyeon-seong glared at Belldandy with irritation.
“… !”
Belldandy trembled in an instant.
It was because the eyes of Joo Hyun-seong looking at him were unusual.
Annoyance and annoyance, and contempt and hostility.
Ju Hyeon-seong, who should have met for the first time, hated Belldandi.
“Or do you really have to kill it once to become compliant?”
Joo Hyeon-seong stretched out his hand toward Belldandi.
Feeling the gloomy hostility from that hand, Belldandi’s complexion turned blue.
“… Awesome!”
The hostility he had never received before was enough to make Belldandi tremble in fear.
Although she is a goddess, in this dream she is defenseless and unable to exert the special powers of a goddess, no different from an ordinary human being.
There, exposed to the enemy’s hostility, her whole body was hardened.
Why?
Why is this first-time man showing such hostility towards himself?
Before even asking these questions, Belldandy’s head went blank with fear.
The moment Joo Hyun-seong’s large hand was about to grab Belldandi’s neck, which was hardened with fear.
“Don’t touch me.”
Eun-hyeon hurriedly got up and punched Ju Hyeon-seong in the face.
Fuck!
Ju Hyeon-seong, who was hit with his fist straight up, turned his head and his body was pushed slightly, but the damage inflicted on him was that much.
Joo Hyun-seong turned his head again and looked at Eun-hyeon, who had intruded between himself and Belldandy, and let out a small smile.
“Okay. You must protect your woman. I never meant to go this far, unless I was being annoyingly loud.”
The hostility of Joo Hyeon-seong to Belldandi, who was still trembling in fear behind Eun-hyeon, was real.
Eunhyeon, who read his thoughts of expressing anger because he hated it, said to Belldandy.
“… Belldandi.”
“… Kid?”
“Stay away. Whatever happens, don’t come any closer.”
“Ha, but the child…”
“Please.”
When I asked again with firm intentions, Belldandy lowered his head and replied sullenly.
“Okay… All…”
At least in this situation, realizing that he could do nothing for him, Verdandi again distanced himself from Eun-hyeon.
Eun-hyeon, who became just the two of them again and looked at each other, looked up at Ju Hyeon-seong and asked.
“… You. Who is this.”
“What are you saying?”
“You are not Hyunsung’s older brother.”
At least, Joo Hyun-seong was not the kind of person who would act recklessly to harm someone like this, nor openly express hostile feelings toward someone and show a rude attitude.
Come to think of it, there was a strange sense of incongruity from the beginning.
Eunhyun was sure.
Someone revealed in front of him in the form of Joo Hyun-sung.
“That is also something you should know. Guess it.”
Ju Hyeon-seong shrugged his shoulders and did not affirm or deny Eun-hyeon’s question.
Rather, he was laughing as if he was having fun and enjoying Eunhyun’s reaction.
“You must have felt it in the workshop just now, right?”
“…”
“This is not your ‘now’. It’s just your ‘past’.”
As Joo Hyeon-seong said, Eun-hyeon’s current body was not the present self that achieved half-body and hwan-bone metamorphosis.
Before learning how to fight from Joo Hyeon-seong, before the world was destroyed by the appearance of demons and monsters, before Eun-hyeon’s mother died.
The self at the time who lived the life of an ordinary college student.
Of course, there were no magical powers, no physical specs achieved through half-gods and metamorphosis.
Terribly unfavorable conditions.
– Go back to the beginning. And figure out what’s wrong.
Eun-hyeon was still at a loss as to what the advice Siete had meant.
