Absolute Regression - Chapter 91

Episode 91 Is it really a ticket?

The leader of Pungcheon was sitting by the window and looking outside.

In the yard, Seobhonmazon Cheongseon was practicing martial arts. After officially becoming a Subsoulmazon, my training time decreased, but my skills were improving day by day. She definitely had a talent for soul-searching.

The leader of Pungcheon, who had been watching Cheongseon’s training while fiddling with his dagger all year round, habitually looked back. There were empty cabinets where sacred items had been placed.

The leader of the Pungcheon Church sighed.

When he received the dagger, he said it would be okay to use it as a sacred item, but now the only sacred object in his room was the old iron dagger in his hand. In a sense, all of those sacred items were exchanged for this one dagger.

‘no. ‘Let’s not live a life looking back anymore.’

Emptiness must be replaced with relief.

In the past, would you have been able to go out for a cup of tea somewhere because you were so worried?

But now I can wear this dagger at my side and go anywhere. They say that you have to empty yourself to become free, and that was absolutely true. Yes, I think like this.

Meanwhile, Cheongseon completed his training.

“Master, then I will leave for today.”

“Good work.”

Cheongseon, who was about to turn away, came back and said the words he had hesitated to say.

“Master.”

“Why are you doing that?”

“When are you going to teach me Master’s true secret techniques?”

Master Pungcheon had not yet passed on his secret techniques.

“Cheongseon.”

“Yes, Master.”

“Why are you in such a hurry?”

“It’s because I’m weak. “Because I am weak, I naturally become anxious.”

She killed her brother and ascended to the position of Majon. At first, all of Seohwanjin’s magicians were crazy about her, but now she felt that her popularity was slowly cooling down. These days, I was under pressure to show some overwhelming martial arts skills to the magicians.

Moreover, he did not like Saujong, who tried to meet him every chance he got. I liked him so much, but when he got to the position of Majon, I hated him like a lie. Every single action was annoying.

I really wanted to cut him off, but I kept seeing him occasionally because I was afraid he might start spreading strange rumors.

She was so distraught that she even thought that she might kill him.

“What kind of mazon do you want to be?”

“I don’t even have time to think about such extravagant thoughts. “Would you be able to fall asleep with this skill?”

“If you are ambitious and talented and train hard for thirty years, you will become me. How do you feel? What your future looks like.”

For a moment, Cheongseon flinched.

“I think I have to work ten times harder than I do now.”

Cheongseon was worried that he had made a pointless joke, but fortunately, the leader of Pungcheon smiled and accepted it cheerfully.

“Couldn’t you have given me at least five times as much?”

“I’m sorry. I originally meant to say twenty times.”

As I was leaving, I joked one more time and the leader of Pungcheon laughed even louder.

It was the first time they had exchanged jokes since they met.

Cheongseon saw a new side of the Pungcheon religious leader. I thought he was just a stuck-up person. It was unexpected.

“Yes, you have eyes and ears to hear, so you probably know what I’ve been through and what the situation is.”

I didn’t tell her directly. But she probably already knows enough. He gave up his position as a religious leader and joined hands with Geommugeuk. What does she think of herself?

“I know that deep down you feel sorry for me.”

“no. “You made a choice I could never have made.”

“So it’s even more pathetic, right?”

“That gives me more respect.”

“The reason I brought this up is because I wanted to say that martial arts are important, but other things are more important.”

“What is that?”

“It’s people. To be precise, it is the eye that sees people.”

“yes.”

“You were thinking this right now, right? “You sound like a human and fell asleep.”

“No, Master.”

“It would have been the same for me. So it’s okay.”

“Absolutely not.”

As the Pungcheon religious leader stared at her, Cheongseon revealed her true feelings.

“I think that if martial arts is weak, everyone is useless. Because eventually they will all leave. “I’m sorry to say this, but I still think martial arts is more important than people.”

“Yeah, I thought so too. “One day you too will understand me.”

“yes! All right.”

What do you know? He was like that too. At that age, no matter who told me, I didn’t listen.

You will be captivated by something like a sword dance, and every time you turn around, your passion will disappear, and you will be dragged around with shackles wrapped around your neck, and then you will realize that everything your master said at that time was correct.

Only then will you realize that killing people or martial arts skills is important, but in reality, how you see people is a hundred times more important.

“I’ll see your accomplishments soon and move on to the next step.”

“Thank you, Master.”

Cheongseon left there smiling happily.

When I first took Cheongseon as my disciple, I thought of him as just an ambitious, poisonous bitch. At the time, I was so preoccupied with other things that I couldn’t think deeply about Cheongseon.

I wondered if I would really be able to give her a lot of affection, but as I was teaching her, I started to develop a kind of affection for her.

Especially recently, after being bullied around by smart people, I feel relieved to have someone who can nag me and act like an adult.

But even for a moment.

Not long after she left, she had a visitor. It was the Grand Duke Geommuyang.

“I came here because I wanted to see the leader. “I’m sorry for not sending you a message in advance.”

“It’s okay. “Please come in.”

Geommuyang sat across from the leader of Pungcheon.

“I was so busy that day that I couldn’t say hello properly.”

“It was the same for me, so don’t worry.”

“I heard that you have become very close with my brother.”

“There were many twists and turns.”

“It must have been a great opportunity for Mugeuk.”

“In reality, it wasn’t like that.”

“What do you mean?”

“My brother was so smart that I had a lot to learn from him.”

The Pungcheon religious leader talked about his own suffering, but Geommuyang misunderstood that the Pungcheon religious leader was talking about Geommugeuk in high regard.

“My brother is smart.”

“He was the smartest person I’ve ever seen.”

Hyeolcheon Doma said he moved his heart, and Pungcheon Gyoju said he was the smartest person he had ever seen. Are you smart yet have a charm that moves your heart?

Until now, Geommuyang didn’t think that such compliments suited her younger brother well.

“Anyway, what are you doing if you’re busy? “Isn’t the Archduke the busiest person in the Heavenly Demon Church?”

“Please help make it happen in reality. “Because I’m a person who likes being busy.”

Geommuyang spoke bluntly.

“If you join hands with me, I will grant you the two things you want most.”

When the Pungcheon religious leader heard it, he realized that it was really the two things he wanted the most. And the whole time I was listening to the story, one person came to mind.

* * *

The head of Pungcheon came to visit Gowol.

“What about this scientist?”

“You haven’t returned yet.”

Perhaps because there was no sword dance, the leader of Pungcheon was grumpy at Gowol for no reason.

“If I’m here all alone, is it any different from being shackled?”

“You keep saying that because you haven’t been shackled. Would you like to be tied up once?”

“That’s enough.”

Even if it was the same joke, I felt more at ease than before.

“Look. “I have one favor to ask.”

“Please speak.”

“Can’t we just talk comfortably when it’s just the two of us?”

Gowol looked at him for a moment and then opened his mouth.

“It’s the leader.”

“okay! This is it!”

“You gave up that important religious position for me, so how could you not grant me this favor? “I just have some concerns.”

“What?”

“I like it now, but what will I do if I hate it later? If you hate me, you will start thinking like this. “If this little bastard speaks informally, it’s going to be really annoying.”

“At that point, the relationship was destroyed anyway, so what does it matter? “I lost you anyway.”

At that moment, Gowol’s heart was turbulent. I really hated this person a lot, but there is no one who likes me as much as this person.

“Okay, good. “Don’t regret it later.”

“The regrets are mine. do not worry.”

“Why did you come today? “I probably didn’t come here to say this.”

“I just came to see you.”

Gowol, who was quietly examining the head of the Pungcheon Church, suddenly spoke.

“The Archduke came to visit, right?”

At that moment, the leader of Pungcheon flinched.

“How did you know?”

“I thought so.”

“Is this something like that? Are you acting smart by secretly spying on me and finding out? “You are all fraudsters, right?”

The leader of the Pungcheon Church looked as if he was going to say all these things.

“What did the Archduke do for you?”

“He promised to advance to the midfield if he joined his side. Lee Gong-ja said that he would establish a branch if it were more than what he had promised.”

“It is a promise that cannot be kept. “It’s a lie.”

“Why are you so neat?”

“The Grand Duke is a person who unconditionally obeys everything his father says. Like Lee Gong-ja, he is a person who has no abnormalities at all. Following his father’s will, he will never allow Pungcheongyo to advance into the central plains. “If the Grand Duke becomes the Demon of Heaven, Pungcheongyo will never be able to put up even a palm-sized plaque in this central plain.”

“You are being biased in your judgment because you are on Lee Gongja’s side.”

Gowol ignored the words of the Pungcheon religious leader and asked a question.

“What else did you suggest?”

“There were no other suggestions.”

Then, Gowol’s eyes towards the leader of the Pungcheon Church narrowed.

“Don’t look at me like that. “Because there were no conditions attached.”

“Whenever you lie, you get marked.”

“There are votes? how?”

Gowol didn’t say anything. Instead, he correctly guessed Geommuyang’s suggestion as if what he said was true.

“You bet on me, right?”

The leader of Pungcheon opened his eyes.

“How did you know?”

“You promised to send me back to the cult leader. “If it’s a proposal that shakes the religious leader, that’s the only way to do it.”

The leader of the Pungcheon Church was honestly attracted to the Archduke’s proposal.

What if we could just get Gowol back? It may sound crazy, but I thought I might give up on advancing to the midfield.

I thought that the Archduke was amazing as he shook his heart by even throwing down his position as a religious leader.

“The Archduke is also very smart.”

“The Archduke is not a smart man. “A really smart person wouldn’t fight with a scientist.”

“You too are sick. Lee Gong-ja disease.”

“So what did you say?”

“don’t worry. “Because I flatly refused.”

“Don’t lie. The cult leader is probably trying to figure out how to take advantage of the conflict between the two to get me back. “He came to see me because he thought there was no way.”

After being silent for a moment, the Pungcheon religious leader asked.

“Is it really all tickets?”

“It’s the leader. Why do you keep forgetting? You said it clearly with your own mouth, right? I can’t stand these smart guys. Why are you talking like that and trying to make a fuss again?”

“That’s right… it’s because of you.”

“If you do this, you will lose me… forever.”

The leader of the Pungcheon Church sighed.

“sorry. “Even though I knew, I acted like an idiot again.”

“You have to fight with different strengths. “You have to use your other charms as weapons to fight against a brainy guy.”

“Where is my charm?”

“If the cult leader wasn’t attractive, I would still be shackled.”

The Pungcheon cult leader’s eyes trembled slightly.

“You’re the only one who says this.”

“no. It’s because the leader only sees me. That’s because he sits on the throne and looks down on his opponent. Now, if you come out into the real world and show what kind of person the leader of the cult is, there will be a line of people who will say this. At that time, the religious leader might say something like this about me. Oh, those shackles back then? Do you want to survive well?”

“You’re talking nonsense.”

The two people looked at each other and smiled.

“Sir, think of me as a bonfire. Stand a little distance away and light the fire. “If you get too close to me, I’ll burn you and get charcoal black all over you.”

The leader of the Pungcheon Church silently nodded and said.

“…don’t remember me as the leader of that cult back then.”

Go Wol also felt trembled. Even sword dance couldn’t give me this kind of emotional impact.

“Sir, from today onwards, say this five times before you go to bed.”

“What kind of words?”

“He is a master of science until the end. He is a master of science until the end. “Go ahead.”

The remaining three times were filled by the Pungcheon religious leader.

Despite my words, I shouted this in my heart.

‘I’m jealous of you, I’m jealous of you, I’m jealous of you, you bastard.’

Still, I felt fortunate to have Gowol. Because I felt closer today than when I was shackled and placed next to you.

It seems like he has a compatibility with relying on someone. To be honest, I felt like I could be burned to death in a bonfire.