Chapter 11

Episode 11

“I didn’t know you would speak so assertively.”

“That’s the truth.”

Expectations that he would give a hopeful answer without a solution or that he would cleverly turn things around were spectacularly wrong.

For a moment, I stared blankly at Yu So-hwa, who was tilting her teacup with a calm expression.

I smiled and opened my mouth.

“I thought you would say, ‘It’s promising enough,’ even if it’s just empty words.”

“Even if I had given a hopeful answer, I don’t think you would have taken it at face value.”

“That’s true.”

“If you’re disappointed, you can walk away now. But I won’t blame you or anything.”

I feel this once again, but she was a very strange person.

I could see that he had been influenced in one way or another by hanging out with Cho Yeon-hee, but that didn’t mean he had a bad impression.

Even the Manjangsega family members who treated Cho Yeon-hee like a dog and a chicken did not show any hostility towards her.

‘Rather, he is a popular person.’

There were many people who admired her thanks to her unique gentle atmosphere, friendly personality, and gorgeous appearance.

There are even rumors going around that the number of warriors who confessed to her and then got dumped exceeds double digits, so what more can I say?

Although the rope he was holding was a rotten rope, he was not a person with a bad reputation.

‘Should I say that he has excellent friendliness or excellent management skills? ‘No, both?’

Of course, the disadvantages are so great that the advantages seem to have faded.

Anyone who hangs on to a rotten rope is bound to fall in the end.

“Why don’t you stop the young lady, even though you know it’s a gamble with extremely low odds?”

“And you? If you’re smart, you wouldn’t know that the young lady has little chance of becoming the head of the family. “Why did you decide to help the lady?”

“Anyway, I am someone who will leave Manjangsega someday.”

“huh?”

“I have no regrets, so my actions follow my emotions. “I’m going to leave anyway, so I’m going to repay the favor and go.”

“I don’t think there’s any favor we can repay... If you’re talking about what happened when we first met, then we are in a position where our lives were saved.”

“If it weren’t for you and Master Yu, we wouldn’t have been able to escape from the hands of the demon cultists, so we owe each other the same. And if it weren’t for the two of you, I wouldn’t have been accepted as a member of the Manjang family.”

“I didn’t know you thought that way.”

“I am by nature very thorough in my benevolence.”

I tried to say things I didn’t even mean to say and watched Yu So-hwa’s reaction.

Fortunately, she didn’t seem particularly suspicious.

“May I ask why you want to leave Manjangsega?”

“Because I have work to do.”

“That thing you have to do has to do with your hidden past?”

“.......”

“It seems like that because you’re not talking.”

I didn’t have to make excuses because the misunderstanding was taken care of and it was really nice.

I changed the subject by making an awkward smile.

“Now it is Musa Yu’s turn to answer.”

“You asked why I didn’t stop her, right?”

“Don’t you know, Musa Yu? What does it mean to lose in the competition for the head of the family? “You might not know if you don’t jump in in the first place, but once you jump in, there’s no going back.”

“That’s right.”

“I don’t know, but the ending won’t be very good.”

At present, the person most likely to be appointed as the next head of the family is none other than the Archduke.

There was no way the Grand Duke, who was famous for his cold and merciless personality, would leave Huhwan behind, so it was as obvious as seeing what would happen to Cho Yeon-hee after the competition for the head of the family ended.

‘They’ll probably kick you out of the family in the name of an arranged marriage.’

Even if he escaped being sold, he would be in a position where he would not be able to join the family in any way.

Cho Yeon-hee’s confidant, Yoo So-hwa, will also follow the same path.

“Still, I think we should support her decision this time.”

“Why?”

“Because you are trying to change.”

It was a truly absurd reason.

In the end, isn’t that what it means to sacrifice oneself for others?

From my perspective, it was a story I couldn’t understand and didn’t want to understand.

“Are you satisfied with that?”

“huh.”

The art of illusion ultimately comes from the beginning of transformation, and in order to unfold the transformation, the speed of swinging the sword must be adjusted.

Therefore, pleasure and fantasy were bound to be opposites to each other.

As an analogy, water and oil.

The Chosik of Wolyeonggeom played the role of chopsticks that stirred the water and oil in the bowl and forced them to blend together.

Herbivory, which was established through numerous previous generations’ research and efforts, brought together two opposing methods in an appropriate harmony.

Of course, harmonizing the two opposing methods did not necessarily mean that the martial arts would be perfect.

Rather, combining two methods with good compatibility was often effective.

For example, strength and pleasure, or flow and illusion.

However, I can say without a doubt that Wolyeonggeom was a study worthy of being considered a martial arts study.

By fusing the opposing martial arts, the disadvantages that arose were minimized and, conversely, the advantages were maximized.

Because it was special, it was highly unexpected, and because it was so unexpected, it was easy to catch the opponent’s surprise.

It goes without saying how powerful that advantage is in actual combat.

Thousands of changes in comics.

It was the ultimate state pursued by Wolyeonggeom.

It was also the final point I had to reach.

‘The problem is that the more herbivore changes, the more strength it consumes.’

In my previous life, I encountered the Wolyeonggeom after gaining sufficient internal strength, so there were no problems, but this life was different.

Among the dozens of herbal foods, there is a need to select those that focus on pleasure and use them first, and to classify the herbal foods that contain illusions into stages so that they can be used one after another in the future when your strength increases. there was.

It’s easier said than done, but it wasn’t that simple.

Because we need to fill the gap caused by limited herbivore operation.

First of all, while I was stuck in Jamma-dong, before I got my hands on the Wolyeong Sword, I planned to dismantle the martial arts I had learned and make up for my lack of basic knowledge.

Although they were somewhat low-level martial arts skills, they were sufficient to be used for auxiliary purposes.

‘All that’s left is a ghost.’

Ghost Treasure was a world-class divine law that had been passed down to the head of Ghost Valley, a former Demonic Cult subordinate.

It is said that if you learn it to the extreme, you can fool even the spirit of an absolute expert, so I didn’t know if it was true because I didn’t succeed in it even in my past life.

For your information, Ghost Song does not exist in the current Demonic Church.

I heard that at one time, it was a fearsome group that caused fear throughout the central plains, but it collapsed after being caught up in a power struggle within the school during the tenure of the Jeonjeondae religious leader.

‘Well, it’s a common thing.’

Whether it was a warrior boasting great power or a faction with many experts, the Demonic Cult was a place where it could evaporate overnight.

If it were a group that could be judged by the common sense and standards of the world, it wouldn’t even be called a demonic cult.

Going back to the story.

Actually, the ghost tree didn’t really need any pruning.

As it has a reputation as a top-class footing technique and light technique, it has no drawbacks.

Even with a small amount of internal power, it was able to achieve twice the efficiency of other new methods, and its high stealth made it easy to infiltrate.

There is a drawback in that it is so difficult that it cannot be mastered with ordinary talent, but it doesn’t matter to me.

Isn’t this a martial art that I have already learned once in my previous life?

What was problematic was not the martial arts itself but the origin of the martial arts.

‘Even though it is rotten, it is a martial arts skill that dominated an era. Someone might recognize the characteristics of the ghost treasure.’

Ghost seeing is a martial art of the Demonic Cult, both in name and reality.

What if the leader of the Segana faction, who was harmed by Ghost Song in the past, recognizes the characteristics of Ghost Song?

There was a high probability that something troublesome would happen.

I don’t know, but it won’t be beneficial to him becoming an elder of the Murim Alliance in the future.

‘But I can’t throw it away.’

I gave up on the Heavenly Demon God because I couldn’t learn it and there was no way to learn it, but I couldn’t give up on the Ghost Treasure either.

So, in the end, there was only one conclusion that could be drawn.

‘I learn ghost skills, but I embody them and reorganize them to make them my own martial arts.’

Can you do it?

I couldn’t be sure.

In my past life, I was often told by people around me that I had a talent for martial arts, but that only meant that I was a quick learner, not that I was good at inventing or reorganizing.

How easy would it be to modify a completed martial art to your own taste?

‘I don’t know. It’ll work out somehow.’

I smiled and laid down on the bed.

In the end, it was a problem that had to be solved somehow.

If a person only thinks negatively, nothing will happen.

If possible, let’s think positively.

‘Because I have a lot of time.’