Episode 61 The Jade
Emperor’s dwelling place is called Shangcheongung.
It is a place where you can look down on the whole world from the sky above the sky, but it is embarrassingly small and simple to be called a palace.
All that exists is a secluded flat with two trees and a garden where Jade Emperor leans against, so who would think this place is a palace?
Of course, not everything is visible.
Sometimes it’s so big that you can’t see the end, and it becomes a space where everyone in the heavens can stay, and sometimes it rejects the desire to climb so high.
The space itself depends on the heart of the Jade Emperor and can grow and shrink as much as desired, so its size is not defined by anything and is infinite.
However, Pogung, the residence of your mother, was different. Should I say that it makes me feel infinite in a different sense?
“...it’s wide.”
Other than that, there was nothing else to say.
A plain stretched out without high or low.
The only thing that came into sight was a straight horizon that touched the sky without knowing where the end was. Does it look like something with the sky turned upside down on the ground?
“Awesome. I thought there would be something grandiose again because it was said to be the palace where my mother lives....”
There were no steeple towers or magnificent buildings that seemed to pierce the sky.
Just a vast plain. That was all of the womb that could be seen in Jinmu’s eyes.
“welcome.”
“...?”
Jinmu blinked his eyes at the sudden voice.
what?
Since when...
I took my gaze fixed on the horizon, and a man caught my eye.
A handsome man with a slim body.
The long top that came down to her knees was left unbuttoned, but her slim upper body, which was well-muscled, and her black hair, which occasionally brushed around her shoulders, were in strange harmony with the disheveled outfit.
If it weren’t for the black eyes and no whites, he would have been mistaken for a human.
“Soonjo-nim, long time no see.”
“Ah, Mr. Uyung and Mr. Honcheon.”
Sunjo looked at Jinmu at Bukri Docheon’s polite greeting and smiled.
It was a magical feeling.
It was not a person, but a very handsome young man, but it was strangely annoying.
Jinmu frowned and swallowed dry saliva.
The downy hair stands up.
Instinct warns.
He’s a dangerous guy...
“He’s a law guard.”
“Protection...?”
“Should I say that you are the strongest person under your mother?”
“what?”
Jinmu was a bit surprised at Bukri Docheon’s indifferent comment.
The strongest under the ears? Then, than Bukri Docheon, who is said to be the strongest among the six demon kings?
“Don’t believe it. My power is only confined to the womb. It is a fact known to everyone in the realm that Wuyung is the strongest under your mother.”
“...”
“Let me formally greet you. I am Sunjo, the guardian of the palace guard who protects the mother-in-law. You can easily regard it as a guardian spirit.”
“It’s Jinmu.”
Jinmu murmured as if he was bewitched by the flowing introduction.
“You are Jinmu. You are the two generals of the heavens, aren’t you?”
“...yes.”
“You are different from the person I knew.”
“...”
“I met you a long time ago. The person from before was...”
It was enough without having to listen to the gossip.
The two generals of the heaven world, the guardian spirits of the earth’s palace.
If the two of them had met, there would be no way they would have greeted each other and shook hands.
Some died and some lived.
Since Sunjo is alive and remembers that time... The Du General he saw before must be dead.
“Anyway, I thought it would be nice if it felt familiar, so I prepared it in a male body. How is it? If you want, you can change it to a female body, or the shape of Sangun, which is sacred in the heavens, is fine.”
With a smile as if Sunjo had painted it, he asked Jinmu’s doctor.
“I see.”
Sunjo, who had been talking alone for a while, lightly lifted his feet and the scenery changed like a lie.
The wide plain remained unchanged, but a small chook appeared in front of him.
A very small cottage.
Just like in Human World, there was a fence made of bush clover, and a woman with a languid expression was waiting inside it with a displeased expression.
“... come in.”
“....”
A low voice that does not cause the listener to feel any discomfort, but has an irresistible sense of intimidation.
it’s her
Gwimo, who has been at the opposite end of the Jade Emperor and coordinated the world.
“Whoa...”
Jinmu took a deep breath and relaxed as he stepped inside the private door that Sunjo had opened.
Stepping and stepping....
The simple process expressed in the word “walking” made me more nervous and concerned than ever.
Just like a child who has just taken its first steps, Jinmu arrived in front of his mother after making an endless effort not to fall down.
A dwarf woman sitting quietly on a chair made from a tree stump filled Jinmu’s eyes.
It was strange.
She, who felt dwarfed and smaller than herself, is not included at a glance. Even though I was looking at it, I couldn’t fix it like a blind man who touched an elephant.
“It’s all right.”
“Yes, ma’am.”
“Is that what you did?”
“I have prepared it so that you can have a comfortable conversation.”
“I did something wrong...”
“I’m sorry.”
“It is done.”
Gwimo gave a disgruntled look at Soonjo, who smiled, and waved her hand.
Then everything that the five senses defined changed.
Cho-ok and private gate fences also disappeared. Before I knew it, there stood a temple made of huge stone pillars.
There is no distinction between what is real and what is imaginary. It was hard to keep my spirits up.
“Tsk, the guy who’s been eating two generals in the heavens... so far, does he believe in what he sees?”
The mother’s strike caused a crack in the shell made of bean curd.
Crispy!
With hallucinations digging into my ears, reality finally returned to the realm of cognition.
It is visible now.
His eyes reflected the image of his mother sitting cross-legged on a huge seat and looking down at her with her chin resting on her hand.
“It’s below expectations.”
“...yes?”
“I couldn’t calm down as I was surprised to suddenly achieve the divine and magical union. Even if he is imperfect, he has surpassed even the limit set by the beginning...” “
....”
Something that was filled in my head was collected like fog in the sunlight at the reprimand of my mother who did not hide that he was pitiful.
what the hell is this
It’s either dying or surviving anyway, but I’m scared.
Jinmu straightened his brow wide open and raised his head stiffly.
walked right away
His posture also became upright, so the precariousness of toddling around was nowhere to be found, and he was quite confident.
drooling.
Then, he took a chair under the seat where Gwimo was sitting, sat down on it, spread his legs wide, and looked up at him miserably.
Seeing this, Sunjo’s eyes twitched.
But it was after I had already changed my mind. Jinmu slowly turned his head and smiled at Soonjo, who was glaring at him.
Mr. Pax! Where do you think this is going?
Cover your eyes, you bastard son of a guardian spirit. At least on the subject of follow-up... Where are the adults talking, are you going to open your eyes?
At this moment, Jinmu was unaffected by Sunjo’s presence.
Everything depends on your mindset.
The mind that had regained its arrogance took control of the atrophied body.
“Nice to meet you.”
...Jinmu was more confident than ever.