The Thousand-Slayer Swords Association-Episode 286
EP.287 Part 2 Paljang - Gansu, Haehu (5)
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I look back on my memories and recall that voice..
“Hey, half a penny.”
The kid who bullied me that day was a flower that didn't know anything about the world..
His neatly ironed robe, clean-cut face, and wooden sword at his waist were straight and his expression was full of confidence..
Baek Kyung-oh, who had grown up early on, already knew that dealing with the little boy would only harm him..
So I tried not to get involved, and it wasn't easy..
“Pfft…!”
The child's malice is persistent..
Because it is pure, it knows no degree, and because it is pure, it does not know guilt..
They treated people so miserably simply because they felt like they had been robbed of their position as the most respected person..
Baek Gyeong-oh's body became sicker day by day..
I had to endure being kicked, hit with a wooden sword, and having my head hit the ground. I also had to endure being forced to eat the children's leftover food..
I endured that alone..
It was because of the thought that one should not cause inconvenience to the superior..
The good news is that their bullying didn't extend to the most visible areas..
In other words, hiding the wound wasn't very difficult..
“huh? Why are you being so picky again today? At least go wash up with this teacher.?”
“I haven't done much cleaning yet! I'll be back soon!”
“Haha! Okay, come back.!”
It was even more helpful that Venerable Wu was not a teacher who interfered in everything..
Anyway, I endured it like that..
I thought I could endure it, and I actually succeeded in holding it in for quite some time..
The only thing is, if they hadn't touched Yeok-rin, Baek Kyung-oh would never have gotten into an accident..
“You said your parents were killed by a black sword? Why are you living in such a miserable way that you will die at the same time??”
With a grinning face, the kid said something he shouldn't have said..
“Is it okay if I live and cause trouble? I feel like the world is yours because I'm hiding behind you?”
I felt like something had snapped in my head..
Actually, it wasn't that wrong of an analogy..
The moment I heard that guy's words, the faces of my parents, who had tried to protect me even to the point of death, and the sensation of my fading breath and body cooling came over me again..
A sense of disconnection from reality overtook my body, and my last memory was screaming as the heat rose to the top of my head..
The moment I opened my eyes, everything had changed..
“Buy, be considered….”
“missing child… . Let's use the alphabet….”
“Shut up, wow!!!”
My fist was covered in blood..
There were children lying down in front of me..
Someone had a broken leg and someone had a broken arm..
There was a guy with more serious injuries than those..
The guy who always took the lead.
Among the candidates for co-disciple, he was a man with outstanding assertiveness..
“Grumble….”
It was ugly to see him passed out with blood in his mouth, but it wasn't exhilarating..
Because I knew right away that I had broken the danjeon..
Reprimand cannot be avoided.
in other words,
“Master….”
I have tarnished the name of the Right Honorable One..
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It was obvious that the seriousness of the situation was unusual..
It was none other than an incident in which several candidates for great disciples became ruined. Among them, there was one whose dantian was broken and who could never use martial arts again, and coincidentally, that was the most talented child in the class..
Thinking cannot end with the superior..
That day, late at night, Jangmun-in Seonjae came to visit the hermitage..
“Death penalty is not normal.”
“I know. But where was Gyeong-Oh’s fault?.”
“execution!”
“Hey!”
Honorable Wu shouted..
“I have already heard the full story of the incident. It's the kids who did the bullying in the first place! Do you know? Gyeong-oh’s body is still full of wounds! The scar was deep, but I couldn't treat it in time, so I was left with a scar for the rest of my life! But would you still take the side of those little ones?!”
If we were to judge the fault, it was the children's fault..
The first person also acknowledged it.
However, realistic problems have always been far from humanity..
“You know. Which family is Seonwoo from?.”
Seon-woo, whom Baek Kyeong-oh made into a waste, was a son of the upper class whose name was so high in Gansu that he could not find a partner..
A child of the Grand Order who has steadfastly maintained his position even as the world's upper division has just begun and its power is growing..
This means that the legitimate child of such a family was entrusted to the clan, but it came back as a ruined person..
Will there be a lot of friction externally?.
In fact, at the time, Seon-woo's family, Geumo Sangdan, asked for Baek Gyeong-oh's Danjeon to be abolished in response to the responsibility..
“…It's my mistake. But the death penalty, things got too big.”
The sorrowful voice of Seon Seon-ja and the sighing of Honorable Woo were deeply embedded in Baek Gyeong-oh..
It was something that brought about a deep sense of despair..
“sorry.”
So all Baek Kyung-oh could do was apologize..
Immediately after First Emperor Wu left, Baek Gyeong-oh bowed his head to Honorable Wu..
“sorry. I'm so bad, so I'm sorry.”
“It's Gyeong-oh.”
“sorry….”
“What do you mean by sorry?!”
It was the moment I raised my head to that shout..
“Master…?”
“Who in the world would hold the victim accountable? Who says it is right to defend the wicked? you shouldn't be sorry for anything!”
For the first time in his life, Baek Gyeong-oh saw the tears of Venerable Woo..
“I'm sorry! I am a sinner for standing there stupidly without knowing that you were having such a hard time.!”
Venerable Wu said this and hugged Baek Kyung-oh..
The teacher and student hugged each other and cried with the same face..
Ujonja said.
“This teacher will take care of everything! you don't have to worry!”
He was a parent until the end..
A parent who sacrifices himself for his children.
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“I will abolish my Danjeon..”
This was what Honorable Woo said when he visited Geumosangdan..
“The disciple's sin is the teacher's sin. By abolishing my dantian, I will take on my sins instead. I'm sorry.”
He wanted to save Baek Kyung-oh at the cost of his own value as the joint best..
Everyone stopped him from doing so..
But the stubborn Lord Woo was not one to listen to such words..
“This is the end of this job..”
And Honorable Wu broke his own Danjeon in front of the head of the Geumosangdan..
The giant tree of the community collapsed like that..
“Master!”
Baek Gyeong-oh, who heard the news late, cried out in despair..
Ujonja just laughed..
That made Baek Kyung-oh even more sad..
“why…!”
“It's Gyeong-oh.”
The venerable's pot-lid-sized hands no longer contained power..
The years behind him were deeply embedded in his smile..
Ujonja said that it was nothing..
“You didn't do anything wrong. And you are not half a penny..”
“That kind of thing…!”
“What happens if you can't eat herbivorous food? What happens if you have an accident? All kids your age buy and hit once. So did I. Herbivore? Even without that, didn't I beat up all the elders and disciples who said I was great?.”
Those were definitely words that kept the tears from drying up in Baek Kyung-oh's eyes..
“You are Baek Kyung-oh, the disciple of this Supreme Master, the Supreme Master! Open your chest! wake up again and again!”
He hugged Baek Kyung-oh until the moment he collapsed from exhaustion from crying..
That was the last thing Baek Gyeong-oh remembered, when Woojonja was in good health..
That was his appearance that I still can't forget..
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Mok Ri-won, who heard the whole story, could not help but be dazed..
“Then, the Honorable One….”
“Because my brother-in-law was old, his body could not endure much longer. He escaped the passage of time through his efforts, but when it was over, he became sick..”
“ah….”
“4He passed away without living another year. That day, Gyeong-oh disappeared from the community..”
The first person touched the empty teacup..
“Even if I tried to find it, I couldn't. Only later did I learn that Gyeong-oh joined the Yongbong branch and received the name Gwangryong. He couldn't find it. Because I have no shame.”
His head fell even deeper..
“…It's because I'm ugly. It was all my fault.”
For some reason, I was in no position to offer words of comfort..
This was because Mok Riwon already knew how heavy the teacher's heart was for his disciples and how painful the teacher's death would be from the perspective of the person receiving it..
One thing was clear.
The past of a man named Baek Kyung-oh.
The process of his life and the sorrow he must have felt while growing up like this..
Mo Liwon similarly bowed his head deeply..
Silence enveloped the pavilion..
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Baek Gyeong-oh brushed aside a past incident that was disturbing for no reason..
Then, I looked around the hermitage where I lived with Honorable Woo..
Places with memories of him were still preserved here and there..
I thought everything was okay now, but my stomach hurts again..
Baek Kyung-oh frowned as his heart became sore for no reason..
It was the moment I entered the bed of the Most Venerable..
‘…!’
A place where I listened to the care of the sick Ujonja..
On top of the folded blanket was a stiff letter that looked like it had been left there quite recently..
Baek Gyeong-oh immediately snatched up the letter and unwrapped it..
At that moment, Baek Kyung-oh’s breath stopped..
[It is time to release the silver. come alone.]
There was something enclosed in the letter with a short sentence:.
It was a hand thread worn by Seonwoo, the eldest son of Geumosangdan, on a wooden sword while he was in the community, whom Baek Gyeong-oh had turned into an outcast..
See next episode
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