Chapter 88 – Episode 88 – Exciting School Trip (4)
“Why are you here, junior?”
Hong Ma-dong blankly looked at me, who was looking at him, and asked again.
But I couldn’t answer that question.
Yes, the person I killed suddenly appears in front of my eyes and asks why I am here.
Even if you’re not used to it, it’s because you’re not too used to it.
It must be a dream
I put strength on my toes and pressed the floor.
Sagjak.
A dual sense of sand and solid ground.
I was certain of one thing in the strange sensation that I felt.
That this place is a dream, and that I am having a lucid dream right now.
Only then did I feel at ease, looking at Hongma-dong and asking again.
“I don’t know, why I’m here.”
Hong Ma-dong scratched his head as if he was confused by my answer.
“No, what is it? You don’t even know how he died? That’s right.”
“Yes?”
Dead, what does that mean?
At the words of your question, Hong Ma-dong took on a different color.
“Huh? Judging by this reaction, he’s not dead. Wait a minute.”
Hong Ma-dong quickly looked around.
Background full of white color.
Hong Ma-dong admired this space, where the horizon was not visible and was just colored white.
“Yes, coming into this space… I’m probably entering your space. And to see the rough reaction.”
Hong Ma-dong lowered his large sunglasses slightly.
Hong Ma-dong looked at me with black eyes that half overlapped with the red sunglasses.
“Junior, don’t you think you’re in a dream right now?”
Fuck.
I got goosebumps.
I thought it was simply a lucid dream, and I thought Hongma-dong appeared out of guilt.
The appearance of Hongma-dong, which had just finished a simple accident right in front of my eyes, was too vivid to be a dream.
“Right.”
And after hearing my answer, Hong Ma-dong grinned.
Hongma-dong also seemed to be aware of what kind of space this place was.
A dream, but not a dream.
A space somewhere where consciousness and consciousness meet.
I entered this strange space through the headband Morgan gave me.
“Oh, it’s fortunate, it’s fortunate. It shouldn’t be possible for a shaman of a bright age like your junior to die. I sighed.”
Hong Ma-dong let out a relieved sigh and sat down on the floor.
As I stared down at Hong Ma-dong, Hong Ma-dong tapped the white floor with his palm.
“What are you doing, junior. Make me a chair.”
Shiveringly, at Hong Ma-dong’s request to make a chair.
I asked what that meant.
“You want me to make it into a spell?”
“No, other than that. Since this is your junior’s space, I think you can interfere roughly.
“Ummm…”
After hearing Hongma-dong’s words, I decided to try moving the space.
I definitely felt something.
When I touched a certain energy that was not yin and yang, a chair suddenly jumped up from under Crimson Devil.
“Is this going to happen?”
“Oh, that’s right. As expected, he’s overflowing with talent, juniors. Cluck.”
Hong Ma-dong sat down on the chair with satisfaction, crossed his legs and hummed.
I also summoned a chair across from Hongma-dong and sat down.
Let’s look at Hongma-dong in silence.
Hong Ma-dong hummed and asked me casually as if nothing was wrong.
“Junior, from the rough look on your face, you seem to have realized the truth. What choice did you make?”
“…How on earth did you make such a quick decision based on your facial expression?”
Since I was wearing sunglasses with quite large eggs, I couldn’t read the expression of Crimson Devil in front of me.
Conversely, Hong Ma-dong, who looked at me clearly through the sunglasses and read my emotions, laughed.
“You know, juniors, there’s a thing called jjambab, jjambab. Also, when you roll a lot on the battlefield and kill a lot when you get an assassination mission, you naturally become quick-witted.”
Hong Ma-dong waved his hand.
Then, a dagger sprang out of nowhere and landed in Crimson Demon’s hand.
Hong Ma-dong continued talking while fiddling with the dagger like a habit.
“When I’m about to slit my throat, I realize that it’s a trap when I see a meaningful smile. There are also faces that distort but are happy. Just looking at various faces naturally makes me notice this quicker. It’s easy enough to read the notice of someone who shows an expression on their face like a junior.”
“……”
Normally, Kim Ji-hye was also surprisingly quick-witted.
It seemed that it was included in the notice that Hong Ma-dong said.
When I let out a sigh, Hong Ma-dong giggled and asked again.
“So, junior, what choice did you choose? The way to kill them all? Or the way to keep this situation as it is?”
“Neither of those.”
I spoke calmly about the path I had chosen.
“I’m just trying to stop this phenomenon. I have parents who created the world with witchcraft, and I’m sure I can block the rift. When the world stabilizes, I’ll cut out all the evil forces.”
Hong Ma-dong flinched at my answer and stopped.
He pushed up his red sunglasses and nodded quietly.
“As expected, he’s a junior. I’m afraid who isn’t his son, the choice is staggering.”
Not with a humorous tone like before, but with that answer as if he was quietly reminiscing about his death.
I asked Hong Ma-dong what I was curious about.
“But why did you look at me so much? If I had my heart, I would have won.”
It was a pure question.
Unlike Hongma-dong’s bold plan to pierce a hole in the world, Hongma-dong was infinitely generous to me.
As a typical example of that.
When Hong Ma-dong fought me, he never used clone techniques.
Axis and body.
Even though it is Hongma-dong’s specialty to fight actively by mixing the two.
“You junior knows this much, right? That I’m twisted.”
Hong Ma-dong began to confess himself.
“Originally, I hated youkai. I firmly believed that the war was also started there, and I thought that taking the lead on the side of the shamans and decapitating them was the only good thing I could do…”
Hong Ma-dong threw a dagger.
Widely.
Just like when he was alive, Hong Ma-dong muttered quietly after throwing and receiving the dagger.
“That was all bullshit. Junior, did I really care for my shaman comrades? It’s hard to believe, but I was as trustworthy as my junior’s father on the battlefield.”
Hong Ma-dong, who continued to speak humorously again, confided in his life.
“That’s why I couldn’t accept it. Now that I’ve searched for it, I’m looking back like this. When I first found out the truth at that time, I denied everything. This can’t be true. Until a few days ago, the old man who was laughing with me in front of me started a war. That everything I did was a lie. It seemed like everything was denied, so I escaped and killed all the monsters.”
After a moment of silence, Hong Ma-dong continued.
“No matter how much I catch and kill the monsters, my heart doesn’t feel at ease. In the end, as you know, my juniors, I tried to make a hole in the world and blow it up completely.”
“That’s blindfolded and aung.”
“Yeah, that’s exactly it. I don’t have the courage to attack the shaman with my own hands, so even if I sacrifice a certain amount by making a hole in the world. My plan was for Kim Ji-hye, who has nothing to protect anymore, to take care of that side. The moment I succeeded, I thought I would die by myself. But.”
Hong Ma-dong looked at me.
“Your junior appeared. That junior, the son of Yi-Jun Kang. So, after checking the liver, I wanted to become something, so I just canceled the plan and died. I was tired too.”
Hong Ma-dong shrugged his shoulders as if asking.
“How do you feel? Junior.”
“It’s a good death.”
I answered Hong Ma-dong without hesitation.
Hong Ma-dong giggled as if he was happy with my answer.
“Really? Well, he died well.”
Whatever the reason, Hong Ma-dong tried to kill Seol-hee.
Besides, it was Hongma-dong that slaughtered monsters for no reason.
So he had to die.
And he had to pay for his crime.
I jumped up from my chair and took out a bankruptcy sword from my bosom.
Hong Ma-dong saw my sword and exclaimed.
“Hey junior, it suits you well. It’s just exactly the same as the one your dad used, just.”
“Get up, you must pay for your sins.”
“Yes?”
Hong Ma Dong nodded his head.
I said to Hong Ma-dong.
“Teach me magic quickly. I want you to pay for your sins. So I can restore this world.”
Hong Ma-dong pushed up his sunglasses.
Although his eyes are covered by two large eggs, the corner of Hongma-dong’s grinning mouth is.
I could see that I was happy enough to infer.
“It’s fun. As expected, it’s fun to be with juniors.”
Hong Ma-dong threw the dagger and stood up.
Then he broke his neck and said to me.
“Looking at the rough estimate, it seems like you learned the shadow food soul.
“Yes, I did.”
“Okay, then let’s start right away. I’ll teach you Chukji and your alter ego.”
“Ah, the alter ego is fine.”
I expressed my intention of refusal to Hong Ma-dong.
Then Hong Ma-dong wondered why.
“Why? This is a secret sorcery that is not left as a secret.”
“Jihye-noona told me not to learn that it’s a maggot compared to a shadow food soul.”
Hong Ma-dong coughed and coughed.
“What? Hae-hye noona…?! More than that, her alter ego is a maggot?”
“Yes, it’s called a maggot? Even if I learn it, there’s no need to get robbed by the shadow food soul anyway.”
Hong Ma-dong, who had been relaxed until now, burst into anger.
“What are you talking about! Huh?!
“Then Jihye noona will win?”
“Yes?”
“Will Jihye noona win?”
Hong Ma-dong did not respond.
“No junior, listen carefully. There is compatibility between magic arts? But the magic called alter ego doesn’t go well with Kim Ji Hye. You know what it is? The shadow food soul with the characteristic of imitation takes care of my alter ego…”
The excuses went on for a long time.
When I heard those words, I realized that what Jihye Kim said was the correct answer.
And Hong Ma-dong, who read my expression, went wild.
“No, it’s real. It’s because he and I don’t like each other! Wow, I’m really dumbfounded by this. There are so many shamans who want to learn this?!”
“Yes, got it.”
Hong Ma-dong trembled at my lukewarm response, then thrust the dagger into his own neck.
“…?”
He was taken aback by the sudden action.
Hong Ma-dong casually pulled the dagger from his neck and said.
“After all, it’s a virtual space, so you can’t die. No, it’s a bit strange that you’re already dead.”
Hong Ma-dong shook his neck a couple of times to see if there was anything wrong with his neck.
All of the scars on Hongma-dong’s neck had healed before they knew it.
“Junior, yes, what you said is correct.”
“That’s right.”
I nodded my head at Hong Ma-dong’s words, which I finally acknowledged.
Then Hong Ma-dong came behind me and kicked my ankle.
“Yes, that’s right.”
“Ugh?!”
For an instant, his vision was shaken, and he fell to the floor.
As soon as I used the paper to keep my distance from Hong Ma-dong, Hong Ma-dong slowly threw the dagger back and forth and spoke to him.
“The best way to improve your skills is to learn while being hit, so don’t hold grudges, junior. And what I said earlier, right?
Hong Ma-dong smiled coldly.
“If you put it another way, no one can turn it over except Kim Ji-hye.”
Something comes
I quickly swung my dagger and drew a shadow food soul.
A shimmering white shadow shikigami.
Normally, it was a shikigami that didn’t do anything, but at Hongmadong’s action, the shikigami began to move its body.
“That’s very tricky. But it can’t be done, junior. I told you, you can’t turn it over.”
Hong Ma-dong threw a dagger.
At the same time, a new space was overlaid on top of the white space.
“The Sorcerer’s Essence”
Hong Ma-dong stepped out of his way.
Clearly, it was a scarlet horse before he put out his foot, but when it touched the floor.
On top of the space covered by the red devils, the red devils stretched out.
“God’s coming and going”
Hundreds, no, thousands of scarlet demons received the daggers thrown upward.
Widely.
I sighed at the sound coming from all directions.
As Hong Ma-dong said, it seemed to start with being hit.
