Episode 19


    “After.”


    I smiled, wiping the sweat from my face with a dry cloth.


    How long has it been since you devoted yourself to training like this to break your body?


    “Ugh… … .”


    “This is hell.”


    Moansing from all over the ce.


    A bunch of students with pale faces were rolling around at my feet.


    Although they were all selected equipment, they were wiped out because they could not withstand the extreme training that prohibited the use of internal energy.


    “You have more grit than you look.”


    Dokgo Woojin, the person who created this situation, red at me with scary eyes and said.


    I shrugged my shoulders and answered.


    “I’m showing my grit again.”


    “It would be great to put that grit and passion into something else.”


    “No matter where I put my passion, it’s my heart, isn’t it?”


    “You’re not wrong. “As long as it doesn’t harm others.”


    “I don’t remember doing any damage in particr.”


    “It does not mean that you have suffered damage only if material damage urs.”


    Let the pointless conversation continue for a while.


    After looking around once, Dokgo Woojin clicked his tongue and dered disbandment.


    The students, struggling to get up as if they had starved for three days, walked quickly and quickly out of the training hall.


    In the meantime, I returned to my dorm and copsed on the bed.


    ‘This is no joke.’


    I received information from Hao Wen and knew that he was called a bloodless and tearless ghost, but I never thought he would be this ruthless and inflexible.


    I had only been training for half a day, but my body was screaming.


    ‘Even during my days at the Demonic Cult, I’ve never experienced such intense training.’


    Of course, the days spent lodging and lodging in a private military office could not bepared to the days spent rolling around in Jamma-dong.


    At least here, your life is not constantly threatened and your human rights are vited.


    ‘Except for Dokgo Woojin, the teachings of the other religious leaders are not that strict. Moreover, looking at the reactions of other students, it seems that they don’t always make the training this difficult…’


    Perhaps he increased the intensity of the training with me in mind.


    No, it was definitely like that.


    I guess it’s his intention to drain all his stamina to prevent him from nning useless things.


    ‘That doesn’t work.’


    The excitement rose.


    I immediately raised my upper body and sat cross-legged.


    Afterpleting the fortune-telling exercise, it was already evening and the sun was setting.


    ‘Shall we go out for the first time in a while?’


    It was ten days ago that he became a disciple of Hwangryongmugwan, who was drunk, by offering him Guangxi’s special wine and bribes.


    I thought this would have been enough to attract attention and leave a strong impression.


    Now it is time to move on to the next step.


    ‘In order to like someone, you have to target the people around them first.’


    It was time to utilize the information obtained through Hao Moon in earnest.


    * * *


    Dokgo Woojin returned home after a day’s work and was at a loss for words at the sight that unfolded before his eyes.


    After staying upte and discussing various things with the governor, I returned home to find an uninvited guest sitting at the table.


    “…Why are you here?”


    “Ah, Gongsang (相公). “I invited you.”


    “Your wife invited you?”


    “yes. I happened to get help on my way back from grocery shopping. “Looking at your attire, you seem to be a disciple of Hwangryongmugwan, so let’s have dinner together…”


    The woman who was exining in a bright voice trailed off, looking at Dokgo Woojin’s thoughts.


    “Have I done something wrong?”


    “No, you did well.”


    Dokgo Woo-jin, who hastily erased his stiff expression and praised his wife, sighed and red at the table.


    A boy raises his body from his seat and politely raises his hand, and his nine-year-old son clumsily imitates it.


    It was a situation that felt so shocking that it was even absurd.


    -What is your intention?


    -No matter what the intention was, I just helped my wife a little because she sprained her ankle while carrying a heavy baggage. In the first ce, I found out a little while ago that she was the head teacher’s wife.


    -Enough with the lying. Since he bought information about me from Hao Mun, he must have known about my family. You’re probably nning the fact that your wife sprained her foot, right?


    -I swear not. If you ask directly, you will know. Even I wouldn’t go that far.


    A lot of conversation took ce over the phone in a short period of time.


    Dokgo Woojin’s wife and son looked at each other with puzzled expressions as they silently had a snowball fight.


    “Let’s eat first.”


    Dokgo Woojin reluctantly sat down at the table and picked up his chopsticks.


    There were a lot of steaming dishesid out on the table.


    “Why did you prepare so much? “I probably won’t be able to eat it all.”


    “We have guests, so shouldn’t we do something like this?”


    “But still. “I also hurt my ankle.”


    “Did I tell you I was hurt?”


    “…You can tell that at a nce.”


    “are you okay. It wasn’t that bad. Soun also helped me a lot when I was cooking.”


    “Soun?”


    “He asked me to call him by his first name. “I think he’s a really friendly kid.”


    Dokgo Woojin put down his chopsticks and ced his hand on his forehead.


    The smiling face of Yeonsun, who was sitting across from me, could not have been more unpleasant.


    ‘I’m going crazy.’


    From work to home.


    Yeonsun was slowly melting into Dokgo Woojin’s daily life.


    * * *


    Twenty days have passed since I set foot in Sacheon.


    “brother! “It’s a confectionery!”


    “We’ll talk about itter. “I’ll finish the errands first and then buy it.”


    “I’ve always wondered, why do you use the honorifguage towards me? “I’m much younger.”


    “It’s like an ingrained habit.”


    “habit?”


    “yes. “When dealing with others, I use respectfulnguage to everyone, regardless of gender or age.”


    I walked around the streets holding the hand of my nine-year-old child and bought some daily necessities.


    Dok-go-seong.


    Unlike his father, he was a boy with a sickly appearance.


    No, not only did he look weak, but his body was actually weak.


    ording to her mother, Seo Moon-hye, she suffered from many minor illnesses from a young age due to her special constitution, and it seemed necessary to look into this in more detailter.


    ‘Anyway, I think this is quite an achievement.’


    To win someone’s heart, first gain favor from the people around you.


    These were the words of the second brother who killed me in my past life.


    Although he was inferior to me in martial arts, he was the best among the five disciples of the sect leader in terms of his ability to summon forces under hismand and manage them.


    Even though they were enemies, there was definitely something to learn from them.


    ‘Dokgo Woojin’s personal rtionships are quite narrow. That’s why there aren’t many people who can be considered close friends. In that case, I have no choice but to be close to my family.’


    Thanks to a bit of luck, I was able to naturally contact Seo Moon-hye and build a friendship through being invited to dinner.


    Now, it has gotten to the point where I get asked if I can take my son out on errands.


    ‘And then I was even invited to dinner again.’


    If Dokgo Woojin found out about this, he might have copsed and clutched the back of his neck.


    If the number of public and private contacts continued to increase like this, the day woulde when Dokgo Woo-jin would also open his heart to me.


    ……You’lle, right?


    It was a time when I was wandering around the shopping streets with those thoughts in mind.


    “for a moment.”


    I felt strange gazes and stopped.


    If it was just a nce, I would have easily ignored it.


    The problem was that a weak magical energy was detected from the source of the gaze.


    I raised my head and looked at the owner of my gaze.


    ‘the poor?’


    A man was standing on the roof of a building that appeared to be a liquor store, looking down.


    He was a strange man dressed in rags and rags.


    The long scars under his left eye and on his right cheek were impressive.


    The man’s gaze and mine collided in the air.


    Suddenly, a story I had overheard from the secretaries of Seopungpyoguk passed through my mind.


    [By the way, did you hear the news?]


    [What news?]


    [They say a devil has appeared in Sacheon.]


    [In Sacheon? Why do you say it’s Sacheon again?]


    [Looking at the reaction, it looks like you didn’t hear it.]


    [It’s a demon, so it couldn’t have been called by a demonic cult, right?] [


    If that was the case, the n itself would have been aborted. He’s just a wandering madman drunk with demonic powers.]


    ‘Is he that demon?’


    The monster’s eyes narrowed.


    A scream came out from his open mouth.


    An unpleasant sensation running down your spine.


    I ced my hand on the sword soldier and observed the opponent’s movements so that I could attack at any time.


    “It’s over there!”


    “There’s a demon over there!”


    At that time, a group of people appeared in the hall.


    They were monks wearing navy blue robes.


    The sword symbol drawn on their sleeves gave us an idea of their identity.


    ‘Cheongseong (靑城)?’


    The cries of the Taoists caused a great stir.


    At the sound of Mine, panicked residents screamed and ran into a nearby building.


    The tattered monster nced at the gathering monks, then immediately kicked off the roof and ran away.


    I muttered while staring at the back of the demon that quickly turned into a dot and moved away.


    “They said he was a madman.”


    The man was not a wandering madman drunk on magic.


    Even if other people didn’t know, I, who had been involved in the Demonic Cult for over twenty years, knew.


    That he is a Buddhist monk who took demonic drugs and achieved reverse blood retardation.


    ‘Though I thought there might be a connection.’


    It was not difficult to guess the identity of the ragged monster.


    In all likelihood, he will be a member of the ghost army led by the evil demon.


    What was puzzling was why the ghost trooper was acting like a wandering madman.


    ‘It’s not enough to act secretly, so why not draw people’s attention instead?’


    I feel like I want to subdue him and ask him for the full story, but if I go after the author now, I’ll end up getting involved with the evil evil demon in some way.


    I didn’t want to take that risk just to satisfy my curiosity.


    I tilted my head and took Dok-go-seong with me and left the area.


    * * *


    “Elder. “This is the twenty-first issue.”


    A dark underground space.


    The old man woke up to a voiceing from outside the door and rubbed his face with one hand.


    Long bones and muscr body that are not typical of an elderly person.


    The scars that covered his upper body gave an idea of the weight of the years he had lived.


    He was staring into space with a frown on his face and slowly opened his mouth.


    “No. 21?”


    “yes.”


    “I would have told you not toe back until youpleted your mission.”


    “I had to return because I had something urgent to report to you.”


    “Don’t you know that if youe here at this point, the entire ghost corps could be in danger?”


    “The pursuer was definitely shaken off.”


    “I guess that’s what you think.”


    “…….”


    “Tsk. I guess I’ll have to move my hideout again. So, why did youe back, disobeying my orders, to report something? “If you don’t like the answer, I will rip out your tongue and cut off your limbs in front of the rest of the crew.”


    “I discovered the Heavenly Yin body.”


    “what?”


    The old man’s face, which had been filled with irritation, suddenly brightened.


    He lifted the nket off his lower body and got up from the bed.


    The naked woman, curled up like a slug under the nket, was so startled that she fell down on the bed.


    “Is that really true!”


    “yes. “I saw it with my own eyes.”


    “It would be true if you, who had mastered the pupil, could see it with your own eyes. This is an unexpected ie. “I can finally quit this boring job and return to school!”


    The old man could not easily calm his excitement and continued to snort.


    As he looked around with shiny eyes, he saw a woman looking up at him with fearful eyes, and a cruel smile appeared on his lips.


    “Save me…Keuuuu!”


    A woman holding the back of her neck in a hand the size of a pot lid let out a pitiful moan.


    The old man, who wasughing as if he was enjoying her reaction, immediately tightened his grip.


    Crack!


    The woman’s head was tilted at a right angle along with an eerie noise.


    The old man, whose shoulders were shaking as if enjoying the afterglow, soon threw the woman’s body in the corner of the room like trash.


    A demon that kills evil spirits.


    A devilish demon who enjoys fornication and murder.


    He was an elder belonging to the Ten Thousand Demon Pce and the leader of the Ghost Army.


    “So where is Cheonyinji now?”