Chapter 139
Episode 139: Punishment for the cowardly drinker!
Chwima was sleeping, speechless. I drank so much I didn't even know I was there.
“Mr. Chuma, Mr. Mr. Chuma!”
No matter how many times I called him, he didn't wake up. At times like this, he looks like a drunkard..
I picked up the fishing horse and threw it into the lake..
with a plop!
The horse that fell into the water did not come out even after waiting for a long time..
“I really can't live, I can't live!”
I jumped into the lake too.
The horse sank like a corpse at the bottom of the lake. I brought him back up to the water..
“come to your senses!”
It was only then that Chuma opened his eyes and recognized me..
“scientist?”
I climbed onto the boat first. The horse did not come up, but was floating on the water and looking at the sky..
“Aren't you coming up??”
“I'll be here.”
“Are you a rebellious youth? I really can't watch it. At least I have a good-looking face so they look at me.”
“Stop looking at my handsome face and give me some drinks there..”
“Now, can you show me how to drink while lying in the water? What number of martial arts skills is this??”
When I didn't give him alcohol, Chuma held out his hand. The alcohol on the ferry flew into the air. He drank while lying down..
“The rumor is true?”
Chuma didn't answer anything..
“What on earth happened??”
As if he didn't want to answer, Chuma swam away from the boat while lying down..
I rowed and caught up with him..
“I told them to reconcile, but they ended up having a duel? This means you want to fight with me, right? Come out, join me..”
“It's not because of me. It's because of that old man. He threw away the alcohol I gave him as a gift. It's also displayed in the front yard as if to show off..”
Chuma, who is sensitive to smells, noticed that the alcohol had been thrown away. It was wrong from the start.
“Well, I know what that old man is saying to me.?”
Chuma stood up. I laid down the bottle of alcohol that I had finished drinking and sat on it. Neither the alcohol bottle nor the drunkenness subsided..
“He asked me if I liked getting drunk and escaping reality. Of all the Mazons, I am the most pathetic. So I did that. Aren’t there some seniors who are escaping from reality even though they are not drunk? Who was more pathetic?.”
“They're not even kids, they're the same. How mature you are.”
“They did it first!”
“So?”
“I was going to finish it by then. But they just made comparisons..”
“I did it with Extreme Soma..”
Chwima nodded and imitated the voice of Hyeolcheondoma..
“You are worse than a masker. A masker only hides his face, not his heart..”
He was good at imitating things, so if you closed your eyes and listened, it really sounded like Hyeolcheondoma had said it right in front of you..
“Where is the comparison? That too, like Extreme Soma! I almost opened the lid of my drink..”
“So?”
“What's wrong? I got angry and took it. I am better than a timid person who suffers his whole life because of one woman..”
I shook my head with an expression that said I couldn’t stop him..
“You didn't touch it, you just ripped it off..”
“The old man is a dragon scale, and I am some kind of fish scale? That one touched it first!”
With a plop, the horse went into the water. He must have gone all the way down to the bottom and came back up after a while..
I asked him who just stuck his head out of the water..
“Just go ahead and apologize for your mistake. If someone curses at you, just endure it and listen. I even apologize, but I won't ask for a fight..”
“no. Even if you apologize, you have to do it there..”
“Then we have to fight.”
“I hate that too!”
“So what should we do??”
“I don't know either.”
The horse swam away again. Instead of chasing him, I rowed in the opposite direction. Then the horse swam and chased me..
“It's because of you that I won't fight Thomas..”
“It's because of me?”
Then unexpected words came out of his mouth..
“Because if you fight with me, Thomas, whom you like so much, will die..”
I rowed faster, leaving him with a serious expression on his face..
“I don't trust what drunk people say..”
I heard Chuma's voice from behind..
“Because I'm going to die!”
“Okay, so sober up and wait, I'm going to visit old man Thomas. If you're drunk even then, I'll kill you.!”
After coming out of Daechwirim, I went straight to Hyeolcheon Doma..
Hyeolcheon Doma was still training today. He was using a rougher and more aggressive herbivore than usual. Just looking at the atmosphere, it was the night before a decisive battle..
“Why are you training so hard to catch a drunkard??”
Hyeolcheondoma took his sword and sat down on a rock in the yard. He was wet with sweat all over his body..
“What happens if you break the unwritten rule of not fighting among mazons??”
“Nothing happened.”
“Are you saying there are no sanctions??”
“That's right.”
“But why isn’t the unwritten rule broken??”
“Because I know that someone will definitely die. There is a high chance of dying in a fight, and even if the opponent doesn't kill you, the loser's life as a mazon will end. Who would follow as leader a person who has been defeated by another mazon??”
“Are you saying you want to duel knowing that??”
“why? Are you worried that I might be kicked out of my job at Amazon??”
“You've lived your whole life as a Majon, but it won't be easy to live as an ordinary Majon..”
Then, Hyeolcheondoma said something unexpected..
“Do you think I'm foolish enough to risk my position as a mazon because of that sneaky guy??”
“But why are you fighting??”
“It's for you..”
Coincidentally, both of them were saying that it was for my sake. One side says they won't fight for me, the other side says they fight for me.
“He's suddenly acting nice to me. Of course, it's because of you. You told me to reconcile, right? Knowing this, I deliberately provoked him..”
“It is said that Chwima mentioned Geomzon senior.?”
“That's a big deal. Everyone thinks that Geomzon is my greatest weakness, but that's actually not the case. Rather, at this age, you can take advantage of your weaknesses..”
“What you're saying is that you didn't ask to join because you were angry, but you asked to join on purpose..”
“okay. I thought you could take advantage of this confrontation. If a problem like this arises, of course you will intervene. I guess it would be easy for you to take advantage of him.?”
“Did you think that far??”
“did i judge wrong?”
“no. Well done.”
“I will follow your wishes for this matter. If you want to fight, fight. Don't tell me not to fight. Because this fight is your fight, not mine..”
Hyeolcheondoma was seeing through the essence of this incident. I was the one who tried to reconcile in the first place, and I am the one who is trying to mediate now. In the end, Doma knew from the beginning that this problem was between me and Chwima. Maybe he expected me to come like this..
“Don't expect me to make up with him. Instead, I understand that you need him. If it were anyone else, I would have stopped him until the end, but if it were you, you could have even taken that insidious bastard with him. I decided to trust you, not to get drunk. So use this opportunity to catch him..”
A thought suddenly occurred to me. I can't afford to lose any fights from now on. How can I get diagnosed when someone like this is there for me??
So many things came to mind that I wanted to say to him, so I just swallowed them all..
“thank you.”
I bowed politely and turned around to leave, but Hyeolcheondoma spoke softly from behind..
“I have to pay for the medicine I gave you..”
You are paying for an elixir, not a tonic..
* * *
“I guess you didn't want to die..”
Meanwhile, Chwima had sobered up and was waiting in Chwimongru, dressed in new clothes..
“What did the old man say? I know you'll take that old man's side..”
“It doesn't matter what Old Man Thomas said..”
“what? why? Did you curse at me again? It was like that?”
“This is between me and Chuma. This happened because I asked you to reconcile with old man Thomas, right??”
“I tried.”
“I really felt that way after this incident. It is impossible for you two to reconcile. In any case, this issue is between me and Mr. Chwima. We have to solve it together.”
“How can I resolve this with you??”
I put down the bottle of alcohol I brought in front of me..
Chuma asked in surprise..
“Let's relax with alcohol?”
“Let's drink until we die. Why don't you give snacks??”
Chuma, who was looking at me blankly, burst out laughing. It was the most heartwarming laugh since I met him..
“Okay, this is it. This is why I like Lee Gongja!”
Chwima called Yeobin..
“Bring some alcohol. Bring me all the alcohol I saved.!”
I started drinking and drinking.
The other day, for the first time, I fought with my father without any restrictions..
This drinking party was the same. Until now, I had been drinking carefully to avoid making mistakes. But today I just drank it. I went back to the time when I was addicted to alcohol as a ronin..
“You drink this well. How did you endure it all this time??”
“There can’t be two hobbyists at our school, right??”
Chwima laughed at my words. When I decided to drink, I felt so good that I was almost dying..
Drinking alcohol in this pavilion had a different flavor than that on the ferry boat..
Chwima told all kinds of stories, from stories about meeting women in his youth to gossiping about other Magons..
I also spoke without hiding my true feelings, from stories about how my older brother bullied me when I was young to stories about my father..
So we got more and more drunk.
Although I drank with pleasure, my drinking capacity could not keep up with the taste. He even drank twice as much alcohol as me..
“Ah, now I get it. Why is Mr. Chuma jumping over there?.”
I also jumped into the lake. After swimming a lap, I felt like I was alive at least a little bit..
“That lake is my comfort.”
“I will drink slowly from now on..”
“Stop drinking. I still drank a lot.”
“Do you know what? The coolest thing about Chuma is that he doesn't force you to drink..”
“What if it's just the coolest thing??”
“Barely? How cool is that? It's not like anyone else, it's a hobby, and that's why it's so cool. Ah, I'm drunk..”
I lay down flat..
Chuma didn't scold me for my rudeness. He continued drinking, and I lay down and listened to his story. It was a position that some people might not be able to endure. Because Chuma boasted a lot about himself. But I didn't find the boasting that annoying. Honestly it was fun.
After drinking like that, I suggested to him.
“Should we arm wrestle??”
“Arm wrestling? Use your skills?”
“Of course I don't use it. How about a man-on-man match??”
“Good. Instead, it's not fun to just do it, so let's bet. Grant the winner's wish.”
“I only wish for arm wrestling?”
“This is the real game. Our sect leader, the Murim lord, and the three apostle lords come together to compete. A bout of arm wrestling with the fate of Moorim at stake! The martial arts people would find this more interesting.?”
“great. Then go into the water once and come back. Don't make excuses later that you lost because you were drunk..”
“are you okay. It's about you.!”
After clearing the table, we arm wrestled. How can he overcome my youthful strength? As I was passing my arms like that, I felt Chuma secretly using his power..
“I knew it would be like this! You drinker!”
I also started using my skills.
Then Chuma began to use his skills in earnest. Could it be that all the alcohol he's drank so far has become a poison? His strength was strong beyond his imagination. It was an internal performance that showed that the saying that he could kill a Hyeolcheon Doma was not just a bluff..
But I couldn't beat my internal strength. Today I did not hide my drinking capacity nor did I hide my strength..
Boom!
The drinking table broke and the game was decided..
“Punishment on the cowardly drinker! I won!”
I jumped up from my seat and jumped up and down like a child..
“This is invalid. When we first started, you gave us the strength first! I drank more, right? I'll jump in and out of the water, so let's have an official game.!”
There was no way his force, using his inner strength first, would work..
I leaned against the railing, listening to his words. The sunset that had just begun to set was staining the entire world red. After staring at the scene for a moment, I told Chwima my true feelings. I couldn't say it while looking at him, so I said it while looking at the red-stained lake..
“Everyone says Chuma is shady and suspicious, but I enjoyed drinking with him..”
“!”
“Why are there people like that? Everyone says I'm not that good, but I'm a good person. Chwima is that kind of person to me. I liked showing off, I liked bragging, and I liked the empty look in my eyes every now and then. So I was nervous. What was the intention behind approaching me? To be honest, I thought it didn't matter even if the intention was impure. Who doesn't have secrets, and who doesn't have selfish plans? I thought everything was fine. I just wanted this. Please make it something I can understand. Please don’t say we can’t be drinking friends..”
Chuma's eyes shook when he sensed that I was telling the truth..
“Our engineer's injection is serious. Because I'm drunk, I say everything that's on my mind.”
I finally looked at him and said.
“older brother.”
Chuma's eyes widened at my words. He looked really surprised..
“Let’s treat each other well from today. this is my wish.”
“You won, why??”
“Because that’s what I wanted too.”
There is a sense of surprise and passion that comes from unexpected emotions. It was all contained in Chuma’s expression..
“You… … He must be really crazy..”
“I hear that from Chuma, no, I hear it from my brother too. Seeing everything I hear from mazons, I guess he really is crazy..”
“The madness is subtle, so it's scarier.”
Chuma adjusted his posture, sat down, brought a glass and poured me a drink..
“Brother, please take a drink..”
“Yes, brother.”
I drank the drink he gave me. This time I poured him a drink. He also drank alcohol..
“Don't be too impressed. It's true that I'm attracted to you, but I'm also doing this because I really need you to become my successor. So, only half of the heart is pure. The other half is filled with, well, alcohol. Then I'll leave for today..”
The moment I was about to get up first out of awkwardness, Chuma suddenly spoke..
“It's because of me.”
Unexpected words flowed from his mouth..
“It's because of me that the relationship between Doma and Geomzon worsened..”
Chuma looked at me in surprise and confessed an even more surprising truth..
“I caused a wedge between the two of you.”
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