The Thousand-Slayer Swords Association-Episode 259
EP.260 Chapter 2 - Stars and Snakes (2)
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I'd be lying if I said I hadn't thought about my biological parents..
No matter how much I grew up under the shadow of my kind teacher, Mok Seon-oh, how can I be free from the natural instincts of life?.
Isn’t it natural for a child to find his/her birth mother?.
Even Mokriwon could not be an exception..
When I was very young, I was always curious about my birth mother and was obsessed with the desire to meet her..
However, I can say without a doubt that such a question has never been raised..
I didn't want Mok Seon-oh, who raised me when I was young, to be sad, and when my hair grew a little thicker, I couldn't help but think about what happened to my birth mother who gave birth to Cheon Sal-seong..
The result was this.
‘…mother.’
A glossy white skull filled Mok Riwon’s field of vision..
The reality of knowing the shape of the bone before even knowing the face was shocking..
And it hurt.
It was horribly painful to know that in order to complete this ugly law using the resentment of his birth mother, the Blood Demon had extracted her resentment to bring him down to a thousand years of age..
Mokriwon does not know the heart of a mother who cries out to taint the life of her child born with pain in her stomach with blood..
Just, very simply..
Mok Riwon felt sorry for her death..
“I guess so.”
it was strange.
I was so upset that I felt nauseous, but no tears came out..
Even though my head was extremely hot, my expression remained calm..
Oh, it's so sad that I even forget my feelings..
A laugh escaped Mok Riwon's mouth as he realized this fact..
“That was it. I understand a lot..”
I understand why Wi Kwang-cheon tried so hard to kill himself..
I understand why the Demonic Cult has stayed in the shadows for so long..
And the reason why Mile Seok hid this fact,
“soger.”
I understand why Danghwaseo is so sorry..
How can he think of himself so much? Is it too selfish to think of the beauty of his heart first??
Is it right to criticize them for hiding their parents’ identities like this??
‘no.’
That wasn't it.
“Don't cry. soger.”
With that said, Mok Riwon got up from his seat..
I approached Dang Hwa-seo and hugged her..
“Why do you apologize? why are you crying.”
“I am….”
“Thank you.”
Shocked, Danghwaseo’s body trembled..
Mok Ri-won swept Danghwa-seo's back..
“Ah-oh. I know everything. I can understand why Soje and Geolwang did what they did. There's no need to go far.”
Mok Ri-won wiped away the tears that flowed from Dang Hwa-seo's cheeks..
“Sojeo’s expression doesn’t say it all..”
If it was just because I didn't want to be a bad person, I would have hidden it until the end..
No, even if I had been caught, I wouldn't have felt this much pain..
It was just shameless, or he was just acting out an artificial sadness..
Danghwaseo was not like that..
That wasn't the case with the mile seats that day either..
“I'm glad you know now. I believe it. Even if this hadn't happened, I knew that Sojeo would tell me the whole truth someday..”
Danghwaseo bit his lip and nodded..
Mok Ri-won tried hard to smile..
“So don't cry. I am….”
Fine… didn't lose.
It is still a shocking fact, so how can we say it is okay?.
But Danghwaseo was not resentful either..
Because it's not her fault.
As expected, she made a fuss..
“…I just want to thank Sozer. So, what do you mean?.”
Mok Riwon buried the danghwaseo in his bosom..
“Just give me a hug.”
I wanted to appear trustworthy, but it wasn't possible..
Mok Ri-won did not have the talent to say great things..
“That's enough..”
Danghwaseo sobbed softly and wrapped his arms around Mokriwon's waist..
And hugged me tightly.
Been doing that for quite some time.
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There was something ahead of me to waste time just getting drunk on emotions..
The biggest task that had to be resolved for a deeper story was none other than the complex line..
In the first place, this book belonged to Baekryeongyo..
And he said, the remains were from within the White Lotus Church..
Mokriwon had questions about that..
“I want to ask you something..”
“Yes, it's probably related to the deceased..”
Dan Ji-seon interrupted the conversation as if he knew what he was going to say..
Mo Liwon nodded, shaking his head..
There is no way he, the leader of the White Lotus Church, would not know about Dafa, so there is no need to talk about it further..
Mok Riwon’s lips were sweet..
“Do you know anything about this person??”
Given the circumstances, it was clear that it was the remains of his biological mother, so Mokriwon wanted to know at least what kind of person she was..
What the person did, what their personality was like, what their interpersonal relationships were like, and if that's not possible, at least their name..
Dan Ji-seon answered straight away..
“Yes, I know. Are you a church member?.”
Mok Riwon suddenly woke up..
“Oh, can you tell me? Please!”
“He was a member of our church..”
Standing tall, Mok Riwon’s body stopped..
I started to frown.
“…That's not what you're asking..”
“let me tell you.”
It was Dan Ji-seon's escort who stepped forward..
A supreme expert. Nevertheless, the man who rarely revealed his prayers and followed the Danji line like a shadow..
This was the first time Mo Liwon had seen him open his mouth..
“I am more knowledgeable when it comes to information about church members. Because the head of the church held a high position, he was unable to have deep interactions with ordinary church members..”
“As you heard.”
Mok Ri-won was suspicious, but he was more impatient at the fact that he could get some clues..
The escort immediately said with a fuss-like look in his eyes..
“Seo Yeo-ryeong, one of the laymen of the religious order, was an orphan. Her husband passed away a month after her marriage, and we became aware of her existence after the star in her stomach told us that she was born with the nature of self-consciousness. It was.”
Seo Yeo-ryeong.
Mokriwon deeply engraved its name..
“His personality was gentle. His appearance resembles Daehyeop in his facial features. No, it would be correct to say that Daehyup resembles him..”
A numb feeling arose within me..
At least I now have the face of my birth mother that I can draw in my imagination..
“She stayed under our protection for several months before Dan Cheon-hwa invaded. … Yes, she should apologize for not being able to stop Dan Tianhua the day he kidnapped her..”
Only then did the sadness become deeper and torment Mok Riwon..
In fact, I also wanted to pour out my anger on them..
But the reason they can't do that is because they didn't just neglect the birth mother..
Dan Ji-seon is a person who cannot do such a thing..
“sorry. And that's all I know about her.”
A deep breath came out from Mo Riwon’s mouth..
Dan Ji-seon looked at him for a moment, then shifted his gaze to the remains placed on the altar..
There was no way for Mokriwon to know what he was thinking..
As such, his appearance was haggard, and his eyelids were so sunken that it was difficult to make facial expressions..
Dan Ji-seon, who had been silent, eventually approached the altar and put the book in his arms..
And I carefully held the skull in my arms..
“Church members are to be enshrined in the gravesite of the original church..”
It's the biological mother's remains..
I couldn't help but feel a sense of rejection at being taken to a religious order where I didn't even know where it was..
However, before that, we had to respect the treatment she would receive as a member of the White Lotus Church..
Mo Liwon was unable to speak quickly and hesitated..
Dan Ji-seon looked at him and said,.
“We can allow you to check out the gravesite whenever you wish. Baekryeon Bridge is not a place so dark that it interferes with the work between mother and son..”
“…We can't take you to the center.?”
“doesn't exist.”
he said firmly.
For someone who cannot tell a lie to affirm something like this would mean that there was no other way..
A bitterness formed at the corner of Mo Riwon’s mouth..
“Then what happens to the funeral??”
“We will follow the tenets of our church. If you wish, you are welcome to visit..”
“That work is done by Western denominations.?”
“That's right.”
“I guess I have to go there to have a funeral..”
“That's right.”
It couldn't have been easy.
There was so much confusion in the central plains, and he was away for personal business. It might have been possible before, but it was impossible now that he was the leader of an organization under the Murim League..
No, it's not entirely impossible, but with Mok Ri-won absent, the midfield might be engulfed in even bigger flames..
The absence of a transcendent warrior had such meaning in martial arts..
‘I've become a bad son.’
A son who can't even properly bury his biological mother..
A son who lived a life forgetting her existence and was barely able to do such a thing..
The bitterness has deepened..
Even so, it was really hard to say give up..
It's inevitable that there will be regret in your eyes..
So I was quietly looking at the remains..
“…If you are having trouble right now, we will coordinate the funeral schedule..”
At Dan Ji-seon’s words, Mok Ri-won’s head lifted up..
Mo Liwon met his wide eyes..
How should I express the shape of the light within it?.
‘…sadness?’
For some reason, those eyes felt like that..
See next episode
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