Chapter 64: The Heavenly Death Star Of Chilgok County (7)

Chapter 64: The Heavenly Death Star Of Chilgok County (7)

The Cheongsapa didnt randomly drag any residents from the shantytown for extortion.

Most of those taken were people living at the shantytowns entrance.

This part of the shantytown was closer to the bustling area, inhabited by residents with some financial means.

It must have appeared to be a prime spot for squeezing money out of the inhabitants.

This is the house. Its empty, so go in and lie down quickly.

The person who had led me to the shantytowns entrance supported me as I lay down on a straw bed in an empty house.

It looked as though someone had just vacated the room.

The room was clean, and the straw bed was soft and well-dried, offering a surprising level of comfort.

Thank you.

Relying on each other, the shantytown residents reached the outskirts and then scattered to their respective homes.

A man in relatively good shape had offered to help me all the way and had brought me to this room.

In modern times, they would have headed to the police station with grimaces instead of going their separate ways.

In this world, however, they had no choice but to return to their homes, dragging their injured bodies and accepting their misfortune.

I should be thanking you. Ill leave some water and food. Rest for today, and tomorrow you can eat and regain your strength. Ill come to check on you.

After advising me, the man massaged his own injuries before heading home.

I cant fall asleep like this.

I dont know what will happen tonight. The distance was not much for a martial artist, even though I had walked quite a bit.

If the massacre by the Heavenly Death Star occurs tonight, sleeping would be the worst decision.

I would like to go to an inn, but thats impossible given my current state. The sun had already set, and the inn where I was staying was a substantial distance from the shantytown.

Its out of the question to walk to the inn, or even to sit up with my body so weakened.

I should have headed to the inn initially, but I had to be thankful they brought me here despite my inability to move.

I need to recover and prepare to escape.

I needed to stay awake all night, listening carefully, ready to flee immediately if I heard screams. But my body was badly injured. I couldnt escape in this condition.

If I couldnt sleep, I needed to find some other way to recover quickly.

Tonap Technique.

I barely managed to put strength into my injured arm, propped up my upper body, and assumed a cross-legged position with great effort.

Using the Tonap Technique would take time, but I should be able to recover enough to walk.

Based on my experience, it was better to sleep overnight and perform the Tonap Technique when injured, but I need to recover this way now.

Please. I hope my worries are unfounded.

Wishing that she would return as Cheon Sohee, I sat down and began using the Tonap Technique.

Such trivial prey.

The Heavenly Death Star thought this while looking at the remains that were hardly identifiable as corpses.

As she expanded her senses, she heard the cries of those stifled with fear.

Hoping todays violence wouldnt reach them. Enduring the misfortune that came every day, wishing it would pass until tomorrow. Holding onto their ailing parts, praying for a job tomorrow.

Powerless, powerless, and powerless.

The helplessness of not being able to resist or accept. Lives living because they couldnt die. Herbivorous animals surviving day-to-day. They were hiding, closing their doors to avoid the sound of a snake being hunted.

[Why do they live?]

Such pitiful lives.

It made her want to kill them.

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She wanted to give them a gift. Share death with those living a wretched life. Breaking their legs, crushing their arms, slicing their bellies, then giving them death.

She was giving them a gift, so she should receive something in return. Their screams, cries, moans, anger, pain she needed to enjoy all of it before giving the gift.

[Thats not enough.]

Yes, its not enough. Simply entering each house to give gifts wont quench this burning thirst. Its like trying to quench a fire with morning dew on leaves.

She must find him.

A man to quench the burning thirst.

[I cant feel it.]

Had he escaped far away by now? Or had he gone into a house somewhere? The Heavenly Death Star could no longer smell his blood.

Should she give up the search? Should she quench her thirst with the morning dew? But The Heavenly Death Star had a way.

[His blood smelled strange.]

If The Heavenly Death Star had been in her right mind, she would have recognized it as the aura of the Death Star, but she had lost the ability to judge the situation to that extent.

[Its over there.]

The Heavenly Death Star slowly started walking towards where she sensed the smell.

Not a thirst for murder, but a thirst for someone.

There was only one way to quench this thirst.

She opened the door with a parched throat.

Ah.

There he was, sitting, quenching her thirst. Enduring pain in a precarious state.

Yes. He looked like that.

A man who always smiled kindly at her. A man who always worried about her. A man who tried to protect her, even though he was weak.

A man who made her feel like a little sister rather than an assassin or a martial artist when she was with him.

[Lets kill him.]

Shut up!

[Lets kill him.]

Im going to stay by his side.

She expressed her firm determination.

That day, she had promised him.

Im going to stay by his side.

Regret. Sorrow. Injustice. Longing. Words spilled out all those feelings. But there was no intent to kill in them.

The voice was no longer heard.

She threw away the knife she had been gripping tightly.

The murderous intent is gone.

Cheon Sohee thought, looking at her blood-stained hands.

How?

This wasnt the first time she had been consumed by murderous intent. Only after the murderous intent had devoured everything around her could she barely cling to the edge of her sanity.

Even when she came back to her senses, the murderous intent was not resolved.

Even after committing murder, she had struggled to control the unfulfilled thirst and murderous intent.

But now.

Its calm.

No trace of murderous intent remained in her heart. Just to be sure, she sniffed the blood on her hand, but the murderous intent didnt even twitch; only the foul smell of blood rose.

It started the same way.

she had refrained from killing for a long time after carelessly murdering many people. Intoxicated with murder, murderous intent had sprung from within her. It dominated her body. If there was one difference

Yun-ho. Is that you?

Cheon Sohee looked at the man practicing Qi cultivation, still unaware of her presence.

She couldnt understand why he was practicing Qi cultivation without learning martial arts, but it was clear that everything was influenced by him.

How?

The murderous intent of the Heavenly Death Star would make one slay even their dearest person. If the murderous intent of the Heavenly Death Star disappeared upon seeing a loved ones face, then mass killings wouldnt occur every 100 years.

The same held true for the internal energy technique he was practicing. It seemed unlikely that the murderous intent of the Heavenly Death Star would be suppressed just because someone was using an internal energy technique for personal training.

Suddenly, a fundamental doubt arose in her mind.

Has the murderous intent ever surged when I was with Yun-ho?

Every time her peace of mind was disturbed because of Yun-ho, had there ever been a time when murderous intent surged?

No. There was never a time when murderous intent arose while I was with him.

Days when her peace of mind was constantly broken.

Gratitude, regret, warmth. Many emotions that were hard to feel before broke through her peace of mind, but there was no murderous intent.

Even though she was bound every night, worried that she might kill him, she had never once asked to be tied up because she felt murderous intent.

There had never been a surge in murderous intent when she was with him.

How is that possible?

Someday, youll meet a noble person.

Suddenly, Cheon Sohee recalled Cheon Gijas words.

It was an encounter she had sought with difficulty, one she believed to be a futile effort.

One who defies heavens destiny. A person who has completed their heavenly mandate and returned from death. A person who can even change the fate of others. You will meet such a person one day.

The being was as vague, difficult, and indefinite as the words of fortune-tellers.

If you realize that he is the noble person, then stay by his side. Surely, something unexpected will happen.

Yun-ho.

She looked at the man she had almost lost because of her own actions and asked.

Where is this person?

Are you my noble person?