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Episode 1003. Once again. (3)
“Ugh, ugh… … . Ugh… … . Ugh!”
The sky is yellow.
Namgung Dan learned that the yellow sky was not a rhetorical statement. The sky he was seeing now was truly yellow.
No, it’s not just the sky.
“Ugh… … . Ugh… … .”
Everything in front of my eyes was turning yellow. To be precise, it felt like the world was gradually losing its color.
“Ugh… … .”
At that moment, Namgung Dan’s foot caught a rock. Without even the slightest effort to resist, his body fell forward.
No, I almost fell over.
“Tch!”
But before his body could even tilt halfway, someone ran up next to him and grabbed his shoulder, straightening his body up.
“… … .”
Namgung Dan looked at the person standing next to him with blank eyes. Was it Yoon Jong?
He said with a big smile that he almost got into trouble.
“It seems like you still have some strength left, but you shouldn’t fall down already. Come on, cheer up and keep running.”
“… … .”
“Hmm? Is there a problem?”
“……talent.”
“yes?”
Namgung Dan’s feet move forward weakly.
Chin. Chin. Chin. Chin. Chin.
And then, like a puppet with its strings tied wrong, it started running forward again, creaking.
‘How did it turn out like this?’
Yeah, it started out very simple… … .
* * *
“A bet?”
“yes.”
Cheongmyeong said with a bright smile.
“You say you want to be treated well, but I don’t think it’s very convincing to just ask that we treat you well. Let’s check to see if you deserve to be treated well.”
“… … .”
“If you win, I’ll spit out all the money I took and I won’t lift a finger again.”
“Excuse me?”
“But if we win, you don’t have to complain and just do what I say. Simple, right?”
Namgung Dan looked at Cheongmyeong with a cautious expression.
“But the dojo… … .”
“iced coffee.”
Cheongmyeong waved his hand as if he knew what Namgung Dan was going to say. It was like swatting away an annoying fly.
“I know what you mean. I have a conscience, so why would you want to fight me?”
“Oh, really?”
“They will do it.”
Cheongmyeong pointed to the five swords behind me.
“And if we do something like a match, the result is too obvious, so let’s do something fair. Let’s do something fair.”
“……equity?”
“yes.”
Cheongmyeong clapped his hands loudly and said.
“running.”
“… … .”
Namgung Dan’s face turned blank for a moment, but Cheongmyeong continued speaking calmly.
“The rules are simple. You start running first, and our kids will chase after you. The one who catches up is out. If there’s even one person who hasn’t caught up by sunset, that’s the winner.”
“No, that’s… … .”
“instead!”
Before Namgung Dan could say anything, Cheongmyeong cut him off.
“That’s also a bit unsettling, so we wear twenty-pound gaiters on each of our arms and legs.”
At those words, the faces of Namgung Se and the inspectors became distorted in a horrible way.
“… … Are you ignoring us now?”
“Hmm? Was that a bit too much? Then put about thirty pounds more on your body too.”
“coating!”
Namgung Dan shouted without realizing it.
“Hey, why are you yelling and all that?”
Cheongmyeong poked my ear with his little finger and blew out.
“If you’re scared, then don’t do it.”
“I will do it!”
“All right, Dan-ah!”
“older brother!”
Namgung Dan ground his teeth.
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“But please keep that promise!”
Cheongmyeong smiled faintly.
“You speak for me. You keep your mouth shut.”
The warriors of Namgung Se-ga looked at Namgung Dan and spoke with concern.
“Is that okay?”
“this…….”
“stop!”
Namgung Dan cut off the others’ conversation.
“Even if Namgung’s long-term strength is not a divine method, how can he possibly make excuses for being caught up to those who are wearing each and every one of his weapons? And it’s a match where you have to catch everyone to lose?”
“… … .”
“Are you going to tolerate being ignored like this?”
The faces of the Namgung Se-ga inspectors hardened coldly.
Namgung Dan, who had been watching them make up their minds, gritted his teeth and glared at Cheongmyeong.
‘There is a limit to arrogance.’
If they had suggested that we compete with swordsmanship, I wouldn’t have been this angry. But they chose to compete with mere strength and endurance, not swordsmanship.
Isn’t this the field that the prestigious Namgung family is most confident in?
“I know you are a great person, but you were arrogant this time.”
“Ugh. The world is so big, after all. There are people who will point out my arrogance.”
“… … .”
“But I think you should say something like that after you win?”
Namgung Dan, who saw Cheongmyeong’s bright face, gritted his teeth and nodded.
* * *
‘It used to be like that… … .’
My first inkling that something might be wrong came when I stood at the starting line.
Hwasanjeonggeom, who was walking with iron bracers on both arms and both legs, heard the sound of Hwasangeomhyeop asking.
– What should I do?
– Take care of it.
– I get it.
It was a strange feeling.
Even if he didn’t know about the Hwasan Sword Association, Hwasan Jeonggeom wasn’t someone who could ignore them. However, from the moment he heard him calmly having that conversation, an ominous feeling crossed his heart.
However, Namgung Dan tried hard to push that thought away. No matter what, he thought it would be impossible to catch up with them while wearing leggings that weighed over eighty pounds.
A horse weighs eighty pounds. That’s the weight of an average person. How can you catch up with someone running ahead while carrying a person on your back?
That’s why Namgung Dan didn’t worry. He just thought of it as an opportunity to flatten the nose of that Hwasan Swordsman. And it was an opportunity to properly tell Namgung Do-wi, who was keeping his mouth shut while watching all of this, what was right.
When they first set out, that thought remained the same. It was the same when the disciples of the Volcano began to chase them a little later. Ogeom simply followed them, unable to close the gap that Namgung had initially opened.
but…….
After a while, Namgung Dan realized why the Hwasan Sword Association insisted on the condition that it be until sunset.
After exactly half an hour, those pursuing them began to increase their speed.
Being caught up with by those wearing eighty-pound leggings all over their bodies? This is not a matter of pride that can be tolerated.
Sega’s inspectors, feeling a sense of crisis, ran with their jaws hanging off the ground.
And from that moment on, hell began.
– Hey, you’re too slow.
– Oh my, let’s go quickly.
– When did you last boil a maggot?
Those crazy volcano seeds got right up to their backs and started poking them in the back.
It was crazy and exhilarating.
How could anyone remain sane when these people, who were no different from carrying a person, were following them behind them as they ran at full speed and calmly saying one thing after another?
– No, you can’t give up already!
– You can still do more!
– Cheer up!
Rather than laugh and curse at them, you damn things.
In that way, Namgung ran until his legs literally gave out, under the consideration of the disciples of Hwasan. This was no longer a matter of competition, but rather a matter of pride.
But after a few hours, people started to foam at the mouth and collapse.
“Gulp.”
“Hey. Someone here has gone.”
“Wow, whoa!”
“Oh no! Don’t throw up!”
What made them go crazy and excited the most was that the disciples of the volcano who were chasing them were fine and showed no signs of distress.
Namgung Dan lifted his head, which was heavy like a lump of iron, with great effort, shaking. He saw people scattered here and there.
Annihilation. A clean annihilation.
The proud descendants of Namgung, who survived the war with the water canal until the end, are now lying down like sick chickens in this manor.
‘Oh, how could this be… … .’
Namgung Dan tilted his head back and stretched out his legs while sobbing.
They are Namgung Se-ga.
I am confident that in terms of the purity of their history, they will not fall behind any other sect in the world. And their tenacity, having endured intense training since childhood, must also be incomparable to that of other sects.
Why do these results come out?
“Ugh, ugh… … .”
Suddenly, he felt like vomiting. Namgung Dan instinctively covered his mouth with both hands.
No matter how much I try, I can’t just show this kind of disgrace.
‘Oh my god, I feel like I’m going to die… … .’
Now, it was not a time to worry about whether the sky was yellow or not. Every time I took a step, my limbs started to move independently, and every time my feet touched the ground, my body started to feel like it was folding in half and then unfolding.
Then a tongue-clicking voice was heard from behind.
“Isn’t this the end now?”
“No. Don’t you think you can go a little further?”
“Then let’s make a bet, Death Penalty. Can you hold out for another day or not? I’ll bet that you can’t.”
“… … I can’t even stand it anymore.”
“Hey. What is that!”
“If it’s a bet, you have to judge it coolly.”
Those words almost broke Namgung Dan’s last faint will.
But still, he ran and ran. There was a reason he had to run.
“Cheer up!”
With every step he took, a familiar face appeared in his changing vision.
‘So… … . Soso… … .’
The sight of her clicking her tongue while looking at him made Namgung Dan’s mind go crazy.
‘How… … Soso… … .’
The Dang So-so he knew had no connection to the Martial Arts Department. Whenever he interacted with the Dang family, wasn’t she the daughter of a prestigious family with a splendid palace?
That Dang So-so was following him with an incredibly calm expression and cheering him on from the side.
‘crazy…….’
Iron fist.
Eventually, Namgung Dan’s body, unable to hold on, met the ground.
He fell face down on the dirt floor, panting heavily. The air was sucked in roughly and dust was blowing in, but he couldn’t even bring himself to turn his head.
It felt like my whole body had been pounded with a large club. It was beyond the level of difficulty or pain. Have you ever fallen into this state just through training?
“No, can’t you last two hours?”
“… … I didn’t even run that fast.”
“Sosoya. What happened?”
“Why, why are you doing this to me! The party shouldn’t be this bad!”
The voice tapping from the side did not even reach Namgung Dan’s head.
My head felt heavy, as if it were submerged in water. If I closed my eyes like this, I felt like I could sleep forever.
but…….
It was an incredibly strange thing, but even in the midst of all this, Namgung Dan could clearly hear the footsteps of someone approaching him.
Chin. Chin. Chin. Chin. Chin.
He struggled to push his eyelids up.
“Shut up.”
After he felt the distinct sensation of someone gently pushing him with their foot, his eyes filled with blue sky. The sun was high in the sky.
In one corner of that deep blue sky, someone suddenly poked his face in.
A face covered in a grim expression… … .
“thing.”
“… … .”
“Should I have started with one hundred more pounds?”
“… … .”
“Huh?”
“… … .”
“Private, why is she crying?”
“Don’t do it, you punk!”
“You are not even human!”
“Hey. Cover it! Cover it! Quickly!”
This is… … This is a cave.