Childhood Friend of the Zenith - Chapter 93

< Episode 93 > Preparation. (1)

Preparation ⑴

It is a cold winter.

I felt the cold of the frozen ground on my knees.

Those standing around could not see their faces because they were covered in shadows, but at least I

could tell what kind of gaze they were looking at.

Compassion or sympathy?

no.

It is an insensitivity that contains nothing.

I was only looking at the woman’s face in the midst of those gazes.

Tears flowed non-stop. Hands caressing my cheeks.

I didn’t say anything.

I just looked at her with empty eyes.

[I’m sorry…]

I didn’t know what the meaning of the apology that flowed down the woman’s mouth was

.

what?

What are you sorry about me?

[I’m sorry mom…]

The words he repeated in a sad voice.

I still couldn’t say anything.

What kind of expression was the father standing next to him?

I couldn’t bear to look up.

If I had looked up at that time, I would have collapsed.

Didn’t it already collapse at that time?

[…stop it.]

I heard my father’s determined voice.

The hand of the mother who was touching the cheek slowly goes down.

[…I’m sorry.]

Those three damn letters stuck in my chest.

whose fault is this

It snows.

My body started to shiver more and more from the cold.

Although the mother’s coat, which was wrapped in a hurry, was blown away by the wind.

nobody cared

It was the first cold I experienced since I was born.

The feeling of being frozen from the inside, not because of the season.

Now I know that it is even more terrifying.

[Preparation.]

[All finished.]

Mother bowed her head after several conversations.

I looked at it quietly and immediately asked my father.

[…Why?]

I didn’t dare to look up.

But now, from my words, I could see that my father was looking at me.

[…why are you showing me this?]

I couldn’t understand.

why do i have to watch this

Why should I just watch my mother’s tears?

I couldn’t tell.

I didn’t even want to understand.

[What the hell do you want from me…?]

[That’s what I want.]

Father’s low tone pressed down on my shoulder.

What emotions do you feel in your voice?

Is it anger?

It’s quiet to do that.

is it sadness

It was too thin a voice to say that.

[Nothing.]

At my father’s words, I involuntarily raised my gaze and met his father’s eyes.

[There is nothing I want from you. Just stay alive, that’s enough.]

I held back the tightness of my heart at the sharp gaze

.

I move my gaze that has been looking into my eyes for a long time.

[I will open it.]

As she said that, a huge Chinese door

appeared, tearing through the air behind her mother at the slight shaking of her hand.

A fishy smell

was mixed with the aura of red light coming from the door that appeared with the wind blowing.

[This…]

As I feel perplexity and fear, my mother carefully holds my hand

.

He looked at his mother with trembling eyes, but her head was lowered, so she

couldn’t see her properly.

[…I’ll ask for the currency.]

[Mom…?]

I wanted to hold onto it even now.

Where on earth should we go and why did we have to leave?

I hurriedly reached out my hand to see if it was too late to ask, but as soon as the flowing energy

reached my mother, her body began to disappear in an instant.

[No… No! Mom!]

I moved my body to grab something, but I was pushed back by my father’s hand.

I barely managed to keep my balance and tried to jump in again, but in that short time the door was already closed

.

There was nothing left where Mother had been sitting.

It was as if nothing had happened.

[What the hell…why?]

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Why are you with us?

I tried to cry out with the emotions hidden inside, but my father still wasn’t looking at me

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I didn’t want you to love me

It was okay because I knew from the beginning that I was a human far from that.

I didn’t want you to look forward to it. Since I was young in the first place, I was overwhelmed with just

protecting what I had .

[…why…! Why why! Why!!]

I rushed at my father and beat him with all my strength.

Even if it was, it wouldn’t have shown the slightest hint, but if I didn’t do it like this, I felt like I would go crazy

.

My arm was so weak that I could no longer wield it, so my father told me.

[Are you satisfied?]

Emotions were words that seemed to have dried up.

I finally sat down on those words.

A dark darkness hung in front of my eyes.

It was only then that I could feel it.

It’s called despair.

Sitting down in that fishy and disgusting emotion,

I am breathing hard with tears flowing down my face.

My father casually passed me by and said,

[Follow me, I have something to show you.]

He said that, but in reality, he was forced.

My body was already caught and dragged away.

I couldn’t think of anything and I didn’t want to think of anything.

I just wanted to disappear under the darkness like this.

But as if this wasn’t the end, he was led down by his father’s hand

to the basement of the house.

I was able to understand what kind of place it was.

What was it made for and what should it live for.

My father said it was your job and me.

Damn it.

On a pitch-dark winter night, I had to realize.

The future life left for me is definitely hell.

I had to keep my mouth shut for a while at the swordsmith’s question.

It was an unexpected question.

Because I never thought she would ask me something like this.

‘…About my mother?’

It could be because he was friends with his mother, but that was not my question.

Didn’t you hear from Gu Ryeong-hwa?

Or do you know something?

I know that Gu Ryeong-hwa was watching that day.

However, I didn’t think that I was watching everything because I lost my mind right away

.

“Why are you curious about that?”

It was a slightly sharp voice that I did not know. I needed to trim the insides a bit.

After the sword, he maintained a calm expression.

where did mother go It was a story that I have always been curious about.

Ironically, I was able to realize the answer to that only after meeting the Heavenly Demon.

“My mother is dead.”

Is it really so?

I questioned myself, but I didn’t want to open this up.

It was right to leave the resentment and hatred that Guryunghwa might have.

Truth is sin.

Damn it, I had to carry it.

“The details are related to the three families, so I don’t think I can tell you.”

He intentionally gave off an air of unwillingness to answer.

It would be better than talking back and forth or blurting out behind-the-scenes talk.

After hearing my answer, the swordsman looked into my eyes for a while.

I didn’t avert my gaze either.

After the not-so-short eye contact, Geomhu closed his eyes.

“Yeah… I’m sorry for asking about something painful.”

“it’s okay. It’s an image problem.”

“Thank you for understanding. Ah… I wonder when you plan to go back to Segae

.”

“I think I will be back in a day or two.”

“If there is a little shoemaking, it will start…?”

Looking at the swordsman’s reaction, it seemed that he did not yet know that Gu Ryeong-hwa said he would not go home

.

“Originally, we planned to wait and leave together, but my younger brother

said he would not go to Sega, so we are going to leave soon.”

At each set period, Gu Ryeong-hwa had to return to Sega from the Volcano Wave.

It was because that was one of the conditions that the head of the household had put forward to the swordsman.

Looking at it that way, it was something I had to bring.

Let’s think about my father’s intention of sending me to the volcanic wave while walking all the way to Taeseondan

.

‘It’s a position that you have to bring in conditionally, but you don’t have to fulfill it if you smoke.’

Sega’s superiors, the Elders’ Council, would be watching.

If I did it, I would be punished, but there wouldn’t be a big problem

.

‘If it sucks, he’ll take care of it.’

If you say it wasn’t your intention, they’ll take care of it.

If you twist it, you shouldn’t have let me go.

I didn’t want to forcefully bring a child who didn’t want to go.

‘It’s enough for me to do something I don’t want to do.’

Being alone was enough for me to pick up the things I had put in my previous life one by one.

Swordsman made a strange expression at my words.

If possible, I said that there is no problem, but I wonder if there is a problem.

Contrary to my worries, the golden check nodded and said that he would understand.

“I see. i get it.”

Having said that, Swordsman immediately stood up.

“Sorry for taking up your time.”

“…you want to go?”

“Now that I have told you everything, you should disappear quickly. Even the gaze from the outside is a bit scary

.”

Are your eyes scary?

Geomhu came out the door and I followed him to see him off.

“I’m looking forward to what you’re asking me to do.”

“It’s okay if you don’t expect too much.”

It’s an important thing in a way, but… It was still something I had to think about

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“I think Amasinui will come with us next time.”

“…you don’t have to come. I’ll see you before I go back.”

At my words, the swordsman smiled and blurted out his words.

What’s the sign that you won’t listen…? I should have felt a little scared.

“huh?

When I followed Swordsman outside, Gu Ryeong-hwa and Namgoong Bi-ah were standing outside.

I thought I was going to practice today, but what happened?

Namgung Biah quietly looked at Geomhu and me with an expressionless face.

I want to go there because I want to do that, but Geomhu approaches Namgoongbia first.

“You are the boy.”

When the swordsman approached, he had a slightly surprised expression because he had become Namgoongbi’s daughter.

As a martial artist, swordsman is my senior, so Namgoongbia

lowers her head to say hello.

Geomhu gently grabbed Namgung Biah’s hand.

“…Oh!”

“Thank you for saving our student… Thank you so much.”

“No…that’s it.”

Namgoong Biah, who was a little restless with a puzzled expression, had a different feeling

.

“I heard a lot of stories from my students. I have a pretty older sister who takes care of me and helps me a lot

.”

Namgoongbia slightly averted her gaze as if she was embarrassed.

“As I heard, it is very beautiful.

It’s the first time in my life that I’ve had such a beautiful child.”

At the compliments that follow, Bia Namgung’s head lowers gradually as if it is about to dig into the ground

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Geomhu said while looking at Namgoongbia.

“I heard that you are Yangchun’s fiancée.”

Yangcheon?

I wanted something from the words that came out of the mouth of the sword.

I never thought it would be called so warmly.

Namgoongbiah nodded slightly.

He seemed to have no intention of denying it.

Now I’ve given up halfway…

“Since you and Yangchun have a good heart, we’ll definitely get along well.”

‘No matter how you look at it, that’s not the case.’

I endured it because I was not in the mood to spit it out of my mouth, but I immediately denied it inside

.

The swordsman left by saying that he would like to see Namgung Biah one more time to repay her next time

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After confirming that Swordsman had left, I asked Namgoongbia.

“Didn’t you go to training?”

Fortunately, the bandage was coming off as if the broken arm had healed in a few days.

“…Um, fortunately…what’s wrong?”

“huh?

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“No, I hope it looks good.”

Is it an illusion?

I got the feeling that Namgoongbi was smiling slightly.

He seemed expressionless as usual…how to say, it just seemed like he was in a good mood

.

“Nothing happened.”

Via Namgung answered my question like that.

It seemed to me that he was in a good mood.

‘Maybe it’s because I was praised.’

I thought I didn’t really care if I had to look pretty.

It seems that I am weaker to praise than I thought.

On the way back to the cabin, Geomhu thought.

‘…what happened?’

It was about the children’s mother.

Gu Yangchun seems to know something.

He was deliberately trying to hide it.

If you dig deeper, you might even show hostility.

That wasn’t what the swordsman wanted.

Not only was he blessed with his life, but he

also felt guilty for not being able to do anything differently from Gu Ryeong-hwa.

I want my son-in-law to be happy.

This is something I always thought about from the teacher’s point of view.

By the time I was close to death due to a chronic illness, I just wanted to be happy.

“It’s a law flower.”

At the call of the swordsman, Gu Ryeong-hwa stopped walking.

A smile bloomed on his face as if he was happy just holding hands.

“I heard you said you wouldn’t go back to Se-ga, is that true?”

“Ah….”

At the swordsman’s words, Gu Ryeong-hwa’s face instantly became a shadow.

“That…I said I didn’t want to go, and he said I

didn’t have to go …”

“but…!”

Guryunghwa did not answer.

I know that the post-mortem is healthy. It was like a miracle.

I was able to go for a walk together, which I couldn’t do, and when I had time, I looked after the sword.

It was a dream-like time for Guryeong-hwa.

That’s why it’s more hesitant.

It’s true that I don’t want to go back to Se-ga, but it’s not all because of that reason.

The first reason was that there was only a handful of time left for Swordsman.

Why come now.

‘…What if something happens while I’m gone?’

It was simply because of an anxious mind.

Geomhu, who noticed that, said while stroking Gu Ryeong-hwa’s head with a friendly hand.

“Don’t worry.”

“Master….

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“Since you’re so anxious, let’s go together this time.”

“yes…?”

Gu Ryeong-hwa’s face changed strangely because of Geomhu who suddenly said something incomprehensible

.

The swordsman laughed out loud when he saw such a commandment.

It was not a lie to appease him.

she was sincere

“It looks like I’ll have some business to do at Nadoguga, so let’s go together this time.”

The swordsman is going with you?

It seemed that a question mark could be seen above Gu Ryeong-hwa’s head.