Childhood Friend of the Zenith - Chapter 64
EP.64 God’s Medicine. (1)
Shinui (神醫) (1)
I thought I saw it wrong.
Isn’t that right? I woke up in the morning rubbing my eyes, and there was an old man in the room.
Not even an ordinary old man.
Maehwaseon (梅華仙) Dohwa (桃花).
He is a master of the current Volcano School and a Taoist master who is said to be the most respected sage.
He is an absolute swordsman who is always chosen to discuss swords along with swordsman Wihyo-gun.
Even in my previous life, one of the best masters was sitting in my room.
slurp.
He even brought a car from where he got it.
Not just tea. What is that…? It looks like some kind of skewer?
“excuse me.”
When I try to talk, Maehwaseon raises her hand to stop it.
I wondered why, but I suddenly lifted the skewer and took a bite.
“Sorry, I haven’t had breakfast yet.”
“…yes?”
“It’s hard to move when you’re hungry, and it’s hard when you’re old.”
“…Ah yes.”
what.
what?
What is this embarrassing feeling?
[…It’s a different kind of madman.]
I coughed involuntarily at Shinnoya’s words.
‘Is it okay to evaluate my immediate successor like that?’
[My direct subordinate is a bitch…. I was already a corpse when that young guy was born, you bastard.]
Young guy…
If you have to say, Mae Hwa Seon might be a very young person for Shin Noya.
something was really weird.
Mae Hwa-seon, who constantly ate skewers with tea, took the last bite and wiped her mouth.
“Sorry, I was just going to come, but the street vendors look so delicious…”
“No… it’s okay.”
“Heh heh, what a good kid.”
Maehwa-seon, who had finished the car, coughed a few times and faced me.
“Yes, the child of the old world.”
“…No, I am not Elder Lee’s child.”
“huh? Aren’t you the grandson of Gu Lun?”
“yes.”
Even though he had mixed blood to be said to be the grandson of Elder Lee.
To put it bluntly, he wasn’t his grandson.
“It’s strange, but I thought it was because I was sending my grandson again.”
“Elder Lee is not married.”
“I know, but it’s something you don’t know where you came from.”
“yes…?”
can that be?
The more we talked, the more he seemed like an unusual person.
[He’s a guy who sold his valuables for drinking, so he’s not an ordinary guy.]
Shin Noya’s decisive strike made me gasp.
That’s right.
Did this person bet on you at a drinking party?
He doesn’t seem like that kind of person….
He really was a person with an impression that would come to mind when you think of a scholar.
“If you said you knew I was coming, you mean you received a letter from Elder Lee.”
“Yes, the grandson is going to carry a stone, so it says to take good care of it.”
It’s a grandson… It was a little subtle because it felt like something manly.
If it was Elder Lee, it would have seemed so little.
Maehwasun looked at me and said.
“I’m sorry I came to you in the morning, because I couldn’t wait after hearing from the children that I had arrived.”
So you’re saying he came and sat in a room where people were sleeping…?
Of course, since it’s a ghost representing the munpa, if it’s because of its symbolism…
“…I still feel dizzy when I think of the elders scratching at it with words when I blew and ate the ghost.”
“…”
Um.
It must be because of the responsibility or guilt of losing the precious object, right?
Right, Shin Noya?
[…Don’t ask me.]
What was contained in Shinnoya’s trembling voice was clearly shame.
“But now that’s all over…Now if I drink with them again, they’re animals, not people.”
Speaking of them, are there other people including Elder Lee?
What kind of meeting is this that has such a big guy in it?
Thanks to this, Mae Hwa-seon’s imaginings of a master and his utopia were shattered within a fraction of a second since they met.
Almost to the level of Shin Noya.
[Why is my story suddenly coming out of there!]
‘Look at what you’ve been doing. Respect or not.’
[I’m sick… I’m not the kind of person to be treated like this.]
That’s probably not the case, because I’m a ghost.
Mae Hwa Seon let out a deep sigh as if he was stuffy and told me.
“Yes, child, where is the ghost?”
Even after facing each other, Maehwa-seon finds a ghost in me only after having a long conversation.
“I brought the precious thing well.”
“…that’s good. then.”
“But I can’t give it to you yet.”
“hmm…?”
Mae Hwa-seon reacts to my refusal as if embarrassed.
I straightened up and sat down.
“At Sega, I was told to directly face the master craftsman and hand over the gift.”
“Yes, the long master of the volcano is right in front of your eyes.”
“Couldn’t it be?”
At my steady answer, Mae Hwa Seon put on a dazed expression for a moment, and then immediately huh! and spit out.
Then, as if it were absurd, he laughed as the room left.
“Do I look fake?”
“no. Although my juniors are still lacking and weak, I am convinced that the elders are the master Mae Hwa-seon who has reached the highest level.”
The scent of plum blossoms that emanates even when you are still.
I was convinced that he was Maehwa Seon in a sublime atmosphere where I couldn’t dare to look out even when I met his eyes.
Maehwaseon asked.
“What if?”
“But on the other hand, I think we need to make sure. Gu Yangchen from the Shanxi District family has come to convey the treasure to the Huashan Sect on behalf of the Sega family.”
As I speak, my saliva goes down my throat.
To have to do something creepy like this in the morning.
It looked like a real beggar.
[Then, why don’t you just give it away?]
‘Don’t say nonsense
. Danny.]
Who knew it would appear like this in the morning?
Mae Hwa Seon did not interrupt my words and just stared at me.
It’s like you want to see where you’re going.
“Under such circumstances, I don’t think I can hand over a treasure in a place like this that isn’t even a volcanic wave.”
“You’re resolute… But Ai, there’s one thing that’s lacking in your words.”
I tried to ask what it was, but my mouth wouldn’t come out.
My body trembled from the pressure on my shoulders.
The thick bet emitted from Mae Hwa-seon’s small body instantly fills the room.
“How do you not know that I can take you away by force without listening to you?”
Withstood the pressure, he turned the ball of the mouth.
To be honest, it was half forced, but I couldn’t help but breathe.
It was vaguely clear that all of this was Maehwaseon’s intention in the first place.
Let’s say it’s evidence.
The first thing is that Shin Noya, who talks so much right now, doesn’t say anything.
second is.
‘I can turn the bet.’
As if I was trying to figure out what to do, the plum line gave me a tiny gap.
I don’t know why it was so obvious, but what can I do? If it’s black, you have to
In this damn world, being weak is inevitable.
As the bet slowly begins to wrap around your body, your shoulders, which were weighed down, are slightly stretched.
“…Hooh…”
A short exclamation escaped from Mae Hwa-seon’s mouth.
In a situation that I barely endured, my voice came out in an unreasonable way.
“…I don’t think you will.”
“Why?”
Whoops!
It’s scary to endure it, but a heavier energy weighs down your body.
What’s the point of asking a crazy question and not being able to answer?
“Turn it off…”
He groaned and wrapped around the bet.
I was hoping this would be better.
[Don’t overdo it. I don’t know if I’ll go crazy again.]
‘I know…!’
A red haze rises on my shoulders.
Compressed without spewing sparks.
Thanks to that, the situation became much more manageable, so I was able to make a clearer sound.
“As I said earlier, it is because I am convinced that you are the master of Hwasan.”
The maehwaseon brings a different color to the eyes.
“Even so, what if I tried to take it because I didn’t like your behavior?”
“Isn’t that something that can’t be helped? I’m not going to die… I think it’s just a matter of going back and explaining the situation.”
“Heh heh…you’re the one who doesn’t think too much about the future. I took out the old man and hit him.”
what….?
‘This was the worst thing I’ve heard this year…’
But I couldn’t show off my bad feelings, so I forced myself into a half-laugh.
[…What is that grotesque expression?]
‘…’
With Mae Hwa-seon’s words, the bets filling the room disappeared in an instant.
“Are you outside?”
At Mae Hwa Seon’s words, the person who opened the door and entered was Shin Hyun, who had returned to Munpa last night.
“Yes, a long writer.”
But do you just call me out?
…Do you know that this is my room?
“Guests of the Kuga will go up slowly when the preparations are finished, so tell the elders.”
“All right.”
Mae Hwa-seon said, seeing me slightly tired after Shin-hyeon went outside.
“In the past, Gu Lun told me about you.”
“Elder Lee?”
“Yeah, I said it was a headache because I had a lot of accidents.”
“…haha.”
How far did you gossip about me outside the old man’s house…?
“A guy like that brags about writing things that he hasn’t written in a while these days.”
“…You mean my pride?”
“Yeah, it was so eccentric, and it was unsightly at that age.”
“…greatness.”
Mae Hwa Seon smiled.
“I’m sorry. It wasn’t enough that I came to see you in the morning, so I suddenly showed a rough appearance.”
I cleared my throat for a while and cleared my throat.
“…I don’t even know the reason with my lacking brain, but I thought he did it with a will.”
[Looks like his tongue was covered with sugar. He was so good at talking greasy to the point of giving goosebumps…] I have to do
something.
“He didn’t even pretend to listen when he begged for a gift for years.
“I do not know.”
“He was asking me to teach you.”
“…yes?”
It’s a disconcerting word.
Elder Lee said that? I thought he just gave it to me because he was too lazy to go.
It was even more terrifying that in the midst of this, he picked up the ghosts of other people’s clans for drinking and didn’t give them away for several years.
Mae Hwa-seon smiled and continued talking, as if she didn’t know what I was thinking.
“…it seems to me that there is no need to do that.”
“no. How can I
…” “Oh, too much humility is poison. I was also sure that Hwasan’s Sword Dragon would be the best in this era, but seeing you changed my mind.”
I had nothing to say.
It was a word I had never dared to hear in my previous life, so it was a new feeling.
I felt a sense of guilt because it was something I could only hear after returning.
‘What am I going to do now…’
I was halfway giving up.
Sometimes I wonder if I should just shamelessly accept it.
“Then what should I do?”
“…what?”
“No matter how you look at it, you don’t seem to really need my teaching… but it seems a bit lacking to give you an inner altar.”
“No, I think my promise will suffice…”
“Oh! That’s right, you can do this.”
“yes?”
“Okay, let’s talk about this in detail when it comes up later.”
What is this human…!
Why do you have to tell me and go?
“Yes… see you later.”
[And they can’t refute at all.]
‘…Kuhm.’
“Okay, come visit me when you come up, because it looks like we have a lot to talk about. Talk about promised compensation.”
Saying that, Maehwaseon pointed at my dantian with her fingertips.
“It’s also about the energy it contains.”
“…!”
I couldn’t help but shudder at what Mae Hwa-seon smiled at.
Did you notice too?
“…All right.”
“Okay, eat breakfast and come. You can’t use it if you’re hungry.”
After saying that, Mae Hwa Seon went out of the window…
No, why did you leave the door behind and go out the window?
[…the end of the world…the end of the world.]
‘…’
…I had no choice but to agree with Shin Noya’s words this time.
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A typhoon hit and I came out with a dazed face.
Muyeon was waiting with a frozen expression.
“What are you doing?”
“…no.”
It looked like he had seen a ghost or something.
Ignoring Mu-yeon for the moment, I looked around to find Wi Seol-ah.
Because the guy who should have come and knocked on the door didn’t show up.
“Where have you been?”
“Are you… the servant?”
“Yeah no, why are you so frozen?”
“…I shook hands with the elder Maehwaseon.”
“…huh?”
“Even if I die, I have no regrets anymore.”
“…Uh yeah.”
Seeing the escort lose his mind, he shook his head.
What kind of face would he make if he knew that he ate food and even chatted with Geomson, the idol of all swordsmen, without his knowledge.
I was a little curious.
“So where did he go?”
“I heard that there is a schedule with Wi Noya early in the morning, so I heard that he is going somewhere.”
“With Noya?”
You said you went somewhere with Geomzon? You came to Seomyeon?
‘What’s going on?’
Muyeon gave me something.
“It is a document written with permission from the head of the household that Noya gave him.”
Since the seal of the Gu family is stamped on the front of the paper, it must be correct.
It seemed unlikely that the Sword Master would have lied about something like this.
‘There should be no problem since I’m with the swordsman.’
Saying that, as I was about to go to breakfast, a nearby door opened and someone walked out.
It was Namgoongbia who appeared rubbing her sleepy eyes.
“…ah.”
Namgoongbia spots me and waves her hand gently.
Is that good morning…?
He had a carefree expression, completely unaware of what had happened in the morning.
I looked at it with disdain and said.
“Do you want to have breakfast?”
At my question, Namgoongbia nodded slightly.