The Constellations Are My Disciples - Chapter 207
◈ Episode 207. Reclaiming Your Name (1)
“Good news?”
Naturally, I sat in front of the guide and opened my mouth, and the guide nodded and spoke.
“Okay, good news. But before you say that… have you dealt with the watchman?”
Guide’s question.
Kim Joo-hyuk shook his head.
“no. To be honest, I couldn’t handle it.”
“You couldn’t handle it?”
In response to the guide’s question, Kim Joo-hyuk nodded and began to explain in detail what happened with the Watchman.
Starting with the first time he and Barche and Mu-gwang went to stop the watchman, and the story of how they beat up the person who identified himself as Jong Li-kwon without even being able to get a response.
Even the story I heard from Barce after Kim Joo-hyuk fainted later.
“Anyway, I didn’t die in the end… I guess I should say that heaven helped me.”
When Kim Joo-hyuk finished speaking and muttered that, the guide opened his mouth with a slightly complicated expression.
“… So, to summarize, even though Zhong Liquan could have killed you, he just let you go, right?”
“yes.”
“It looks like he also knows your identity? Plus Barce?”
“okay. “Perhaps you would have said what you said to Barce if you hadn’t?”
Kim Joo-hyuk recalled once again the conversation with Zhong Li-quan that Barce had told him and said so, and the guide nodded as if what he said was correct.
“That’s certainly true too.”
A guide who remains silent and ponders with him.
However, the time to worry did not last long.
“You said that Zhong Liquan gave you Gongcheong Oil as an apology, right?”
“Yes, I heard from Barce that this is a very good elixir. Is this true?”
The guide nodded and spoke at Kim Joo-hyuk’s words.
“that’s right. “Maybe if you drink it in that state right now, your memories will definitely come back to some extent.”
At the guide’s words, Kim Joo-hyuk momentarily asked with a questioning look on his face.
“huh? “Is this an elixir that brings back memories?”
“That can’t be possible. Gongcheong Oil is not that kind of elixir.”
“But why do my memories come back if I eat this?”
Kim Joo-hyuk’s question.
The guide looked at Kim Joo-hyuk with a strange expression for a moment and then opened his mouth with a slightly confused expression.
“Uh… do you know how memories are coming back?”
“How do you get your memories back? “If you just catch the constellations or the guys that come down from above and absorb them with the magic, won’t they come back?”
In response to Kim Joo-hyuk’s question, the guide sighed softly and then shook his head.
“no.”
“Then what is it?”
“Whether your memories return depends on how much stronger you become… To be more precise, wouldn’t it be good to say that the closer you get to the person you were before you lost your memories, the more your memories will come back?”
“…was that something like that?”
“It was something like that.”
After listening to the guide’s words and pondering for a moment, Kim Joo-hyuk soon spoke.
“No, wait a minute, but if you think about it that way, I haven’t had a single memory come back while training so far? “Does this mean that what I’m training now is completely meaningless?”
In response to Kim Joo-hyuk’s question, the guide shook his head left and right and spoke.
“There’s no way it doesn’t have meaning.”
“But why don’t my memories come back?”
“Of course, no matter how much training you do, there is a level at which memories come back, but it’s because you haven’t reached that level. That’s why-” “In the first place, before you reached that level through training, you had already caught the names and remembered them over and over again
. “Because I’ve seen it.”
“…To put it simply, the timing just wasn’t right?”
“That’s right, if I had trained for half a year without absorbing the name through the miraculous, wouldn’t I have been able to see at least the first memory?”
Kim Joo-hyuk nodded and answered the guide’s words.
“First of all, I understand that… so what’s the good news? “You meant to say it earlier, but you didn’t say it, right?”
Kim Joo-hyuk’s question.
“I was going to talk to you anyway.”
The guide responded like that and seemed to be rummaging around for something in his arms, and then placed something a little too large to be called a needle along with a black gem on the desk facing Kim Joo-hyuk.
“This?”
“One side is a gem that can be brought to the place you used last time.”
“The color is different from the one I gave you last time?”
“I make it myself, but the ingredients I use every day are a little different. “The colors have to be different.”
At the guide’s words, Kim Joo-hyuk shrugged his shoulders, lifted the black jewel, and asked for confirmation.
“This isn’t good news, is it?”
“of course.”
“So this is good news?”
Kim Joo-hyuk turned his gaze and pointed at the black needle, and the guide nodded and spoke.
“that’s right.”
“What do you do with this?”
Kim Joo-hyuk’s question.
The guide to that is.
“Declaration of war.”
That’s what he said.
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market.
Among them, right in front of a building made with money that no one can enter unless they are permitted to do so.
“….”
Yan Lang was standing.
With fruit in hand.
Yan Lang was looking at the building made of money with a somewhat solemn expression.
[So when are you going to go in?]
I spoke with a surprised expression upon hearing Seolnanshin’s voice coming soon.
“Are you planning on going in now?”
[I think I said the same thing 5 minutes ago.]
“So, concentrate a little bit…”
[Would you believe it if I said I could concentrate for 30 minutes? [This is a guy who doesn’t even do basic exercises because he finds it annoying to exercise.]
“Ah…”
Yanrang frowns as if he wants to refute something.
But she soon sighed.
In her experience, there were very few times when she won an argument with her Constellation.
[Why are you so worried about just giving me one piece of fruit in the first place? Didn’t they bring me fruit in the hospital room last time too?]
That’s right. Yan Lang had already brought fruit to Kim Joo-hyuk a few days ago when he was hospitalized in the hospital.
“We all went together…!”
[Going alone and going together are different, but it’s not something to worry about too much.]
Seolnanshin’s words.
However, even after hearing Seolnanshin’s words, Yanrang stopped in place for a long time and looked at the building.
“Huh…”
He sighed as if he had made up his mind and walked towards the building made of money with a nervous expression, and then walked straight towards the room where Kim Joo-hyuk was.
Of course, Yan Lang had never been to where Kim Joo-hyuk lived, but it was very easy to find his room.
In the first place, there was only one door in this building.
Because the place where that door exists is where Kim Joo-hyuk is.
That’s why Yan Lang knocked on the door with a nervous expression.
Click –
As soon as Yan Lang knocked on the door, it soon opened.
gulp.
Yanrang looked nervous and grabbed the handle of the open door.
She held on to the fruit basket she was holding a little tighter, opened the door, and entered the room.
‘Stay calm, stay calm, Yanlang. I’m just following the message I originally prepared…!’
I memorized in my head the first word of the message I had written under the pretext of comforting Kim Joo-hyuk, who was clearly depressed after experiencing defeat.
‘It’s been 5 days. How have you been?’
Yanlang immediately opened his mouth, memorizing a casual comment that even Yanrang could say, even though it was cliché, it couldn’t have been easier.
“Five days-”
I immediately bit my tongue.
Yan Lang squeezed his eyes shut, feeling a tingling sensation that brought tears to his eyes, and at the same time feeling the tip of his nose twitch.
‘Oh you idiot!’
I can’t believe I can’t do this simple thing!
Yan Lang, who was irritated as if blaming himself, soon frowned and looked ahead with a tearful expression on his face.
At that place.
“….”
“…huh?”
There was Choi Arin.
“….”
He was holding a fruit basket that looked very similar to himself.
“….”
“….”
The two looked at each other and maintained an awkward silence.
“…Why are you here?”
It was Yan Lang who asked the question first.
“…To bring you fruit.”
“Didn’t you say you had family business when you left early?”
“Yan Lang also said earlier that there was something going on in the family. “But why are you here?”
“….”
Yanlang unconsciously closes his mouth at Choi A-rin’s words.
The two of them made a tacit agreement not to ask each other about this matter just by looking at each other and continued their conversation.
“…So where is Kim Joo-hyuk?”
Yan Lang’s question.
Choi A-rin shook her head and spoke.
“I’m not sure. When I came, there was no one there.”
“….”
“….”
The two are silent.
Meanwhile, in a corner of Yan Lang’s mind, the thought of just leaving without Kim Joo-hyuk lingered in his head for a moment.
‘Choi A-rin….’
Yan Lang immediately looked at Choi A-rin.
The image of her sitting holding a basket of fruit similar to her own.
‘If I go here first…’
And what if Kim Joo-hyuk comes back at that timing?
“….”
Yan Lang thought about that and then slowly turned his gaze to look at Choi A-rin.
The image of Choi A-rin sitting on a chair at the dining table and fucking her thighs as if she would not move from this position until Kim Joo-hyuk returns.
At that, Yanrang let out an inexplicable sigh.
dump.
Soon, I sat down on the chair across from Choi A-rin.
No matter how much I thought about it, I felt that if I just left while Choi A-rin was waiting, it would be the same as losing.
and.
“….”
“….”
And so the awkward wait began for the two, each holding a similar fruit basket, in an unoccupied house.
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Training room.
“what? “What about Yanrang and Choi A-rin?”
“They both said they were leaving early today because they had family business to attend to.”
“okay?”
‘Have they had anything to see the family recently?’
Kim Joo-hyuk thought that for a moment, answered with a shrug of his shoulders, and then quickly changed the topic –
“I met my guide.”
“With a guide?”
“okay.”
-I began to tell Barche the story I had with the guide.
Barce, who had been listening to the story for a long time, soon looked worried about something and soon began to talk.
“So, your memories are not acquired by absorbing names in the end, but are acquired sequentially as you become stronger.”
“yes.”
“And there… declare war.”
Barce checked the needle that Kim Joo-hyuk handed over to him and then spoke.
“Are you declaring war with this? On top?”
“Yes, they say you can go up the labyrinth if you use it.”
“You can go up to the labyrinth?”
“okay. Instead, he said that if we use this compass, the people above will know 100% that we will get up there.”
“So it’s a declaration of war.”
“okay.”
Nodding his head, Kim Joo-hyuk let out an exclamation as if something had occurred to him, and then spoke.
“And they say there is something to be gained by declaring war like that.”
“What can you get? what?”
Barce’s question.
And Kim Joo-hyuk.
“The lost names of the constellations, including you.”
He said that and smiled.