<1 Qi Transformation> Would you like to come along? (1)
Would you like to come along? ⑴
Whoooosh!
A golden aura swept through the room filled with medicine and bandages.
The pure aura contained within was undeniably sharp.
However, the flying aura failed to reach Jang Seon-yeon and faded right before his nose.
Just like smoke.
"Tsk, tsk..."
Despite the sudden attack, Jang Seon-yeon did not lose his smile.
As if he had known this would happen.
"Child, your greeting is quite violent."
It was a voice devoid of cadence.
Unlike the smiling face holding back laughter, the voice was so emotionless it sent chills down one's spine.
"...You."
At Wi Seol-a's reaction, Jang Seon-yeon tilted his head.
"Just like you, and the boy from the day before. Neither of you looks very surprised. How truly unentertaining."
Tsk, tsk, tsk... Jang Seon-yeon—no, Dok Go-jun—laughed in a very low voice.
Wi Seol-a looked at Dok Go-jun and asked.
"Did you know I was coming?"
"Of course, how could I not? When you're emitting such thick killing intent toward this child."
That couldn't be.
Wi Seol-a was a master at concealing her killing intent and only revealing it subtly.
Let alone how careful she had been to avoid harming this young body.
'Then why...'
"Child."
Just as the question crossed her mind, Dok Go-jun spoke to Wi Seol-a.
"It seems you know me."
"...!"
Words full of conviction. A question asking whether she knew the identity of the one inside that body, not Jang Seon-yeon.
At Dok Go-jun's words, Wi Seol-a had to swallow a groan inwardly.
"Right?"
"Don't say such nonsense."
"Otherwise, there's no way you'd be so surprised."
Her expression was hidden, and there was no disruption in her breathing.
She had concealed everything the opponent could know about herself.
Yet, Dok Go-jun saw right through her, as if he didn't care about such things.
"What are you? That strong boy housed a massive beast within his body. But you have nothing."
The moment Dok Go-jun finished speaking, Wi Seol-a swung her hand once more. With an even stronger aura than before.
Slice-!
Jang Seon-yeon's arm was severed coldly. Seeing that, Wi Seol-a's expression frowned.
Not only did the aura aimed at his neck change direction toward the arm,
but also because no blood was flowing from the cross-section of the severed arm.
Dok Go-jun smiled as he looked at the severed arm.
"I see, so you are..."
He whispered as if he had realized something.
'Did he block it with aura?'
It wasn't impossible, but it was something Jang Seon-yeon's realm could not achieve.
If so, it had to be the aura of that inhuman entity.
Just like herself.
Even with one arm severed, Dok Go-jun's expression remained unchanged.
"Your temper is hasty. We haven't even properly conversed yet."
"I have nothing to say to you."
She didn't want to exchange words. She was only thinking of finishing what she had to do and leaving.
She pulled up her aura once more.
The aura that was now only left in small amounts.
When she raised the intensity, the attack worked. Seeing that, she just needed to put in a little more force.
Dok Go-jun, watching that, said.
"Even when it's a story about the child you hold dear, you still won't listen?"
At Dok Go-jun's words, Wi Seol-a faltered.
At the same time, the aura contained in her hand wavered.
At the all-too-clear reaction, Dok Go-jun harbored a sneer.
"What an honest child."
Creak.
The moment Wi Seol-a was about to swing her arm again at Dok Go-jun's words.
"I planted my seed inside that child."
"What?,"
"I gave him the highest quality one so the child would like it."
At the calmly spat words, Wi Seol-a's hair fluttered.
Grrrrk! As pressure and killing intent began to fill the room, Jang Seon-yeon's body was gradually crushed, but his expression was still smiling.
"Do not worry. It is not a power that causes harm."
"Don't say such disgusting things, you're spouting nonsense after showing me that state?"
The sight of him confidently taking over Jang Seon-yeon's body and conversing with her.
That alone was enough to make trust impossible.
At the very least, considering Dok Go-jun's existence to Wi Seol-a, even more so.
"Whether you believe it or not, that is not important. Because that is not what matters."
Ggggrrrk-
As the pressure grew stronger, the objects in the room began to vibrate.
"So, are you asking me to spare your life now?"
"That is your mind's concern, so I have no interest. I simply wish to converse with you."
"About what."
She wanted to slit his throat and end it right then and there.
Because she didn't want to converse with that filthy tongue.
But, if Gu Yang-cheon was involved even slightly, she had to be careful.
Looking at Wi Seol-a like that, Dok Go-jun asked.
"What did you give up?"
At the question, Wi Seol-a bit down hard on her lip.
"To become like that, what did you let go of, I ask."
"Why are you curious about that?"
"Child. I am merely curious because you did what I could not."
Was it a question about influencing things by going back in time?
Or.
"You are like me."
At Dok Go-jun's words, Wi Seol-a gave no answer. To deny it, the words were too true;
To affirm it, it wasn't entirely correct either.
"A bit brighter, a bit more radiant, but the essence is the same. Since the beginning is the same, how could it be different."
"Just tell me straight what you're trying to say."
"I am merely curious. How could an existence like you become like that. Whether the cause of the distortion is you, or that child. I am merely curious. It has always been so."
Creak.
Wi Seol-a gritted her teeth. It was an unwanted conversation, and it was dragging on too long.
In the meantime, Dok Go-jun consistently continued speaking.
"That boy is not my fragment."
Words full of conviction; Dok Go-jun's voice was filled with conviction from beginning to end.
"This child is not either. So it is fascinating. Two children who are not have caught my eye."
"I don't care about your motives."
Wi Seol-a's voice contained anger. To this, Dok Go-jun replied.
"I will do nothing."
"What?"
"I always only wait, and this time too, I am merely curious."
Wi Seol-a hated that calmness.
It was even more so because she knew how dark and cruel the power contained inside was.
It was a sickening hypocrisy, like acting as an ordinary person.
"Are you worried? That I might do something to that child?"
"If you know, then don't touch him."
She ground her teeth and pulled up her aura.
"Before I storm into your lair and run amok."
While Wi Seol-a exhaled a heavy killing intent, Dok Go-jun reacted with an expression of renewed surprise.
"It seems you know more than I thought."
"You think I can't do it when I know that?"
If she widened the rift any further and twisted the flow, it would far exceed the level she could handle.
Her soul would rot, and she wouldn't even be able to say the farewell she had dared to hope for.
Nevertheless, Wi Seol-a had no intention of hesitating.
She could just take what she had to take. If it was to reduce the burden left on him.
'What does a soul matter.'
Compared to the many things he had done for her, her soul was worthless.
Dok Go-jun said with interest at Wi Seol-a's words.
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"As I said earlier, I have no intention of harming that child."
It was not a trustworthy statement.
Because he already said he had planted a seed in that person.
Wi Seol-a knew what kind of end awaited those who harbored a seed.
If those words were true, her failure to stop it would be her lifelong regret.
"It's a gift given to his liking, so that child will like it too."
"Don't delude yourself, he's someone who would be disgusted by your meddling."
He was someone who didn't desire such things.
He was someone who could stand on his own, and would be in this life too.
With the shackles named Wi Seol-a removed, Gu Yang-cheon would be able to soar.
Wi Seol-a was standing here right now for that very reason.
Unlike Wi Seol-a's glare, Dok Go-jun remained unchanged.
Whether threatened or threatening, it was all the same.
Wi Seol-a knew where his heart was.
Right now, deep underground beneath this land.
It would be there.
She couldn't bear to touch that, so she had to stay still, but if Dok Go-jun came out like this, Wi Seol-a was ready to run amok right away.
"Do not worry."
As Wi Seol-a's hostility gradually grew stronger, Dok Go-jun made a gesture and said to Wi Seol-a.
"My power cannot harm that child."
Not a statement that he wouldn't harm, but that he couldn't.
At the same time as the words, the smile on Dok Go-jun's face vanished.
Wi Seol-a did not let her guard down. That too could be an act.
Power gradually entered her hands.
"Judging by your reaction, it seems even you don't know what is inside that boy's body."
A beast sleeping curled up to hide its starved stomach.
Dok Go-jun recalled that horrifying entity and smiled.
"I desire and wait. I have endured a long time for this, how could I harm that child."
Smoke thickly rose in the room. This was not the effect of internal energy.
"More than anyone, I am the one who wishes for that child's vessel to grow large. Because of that, I personally showed myself and gave a gift."
"Since we have formed a bond, he will surely come to me on his own two feet. You also know that the karma of life is originally like that."
Dok Go-jun spoke and grabbed his own neck with his hand.
At that sight, Wi Seol-a glared.
"Therefore, I hope you will stay by that child's side for now."
"What are you..."
"It is a shame, but I do not regret it. This is the price for the flow, and my gift to you."
Wi Seol-a threw her body to grab Jang Seon-yeon's body, but the thickly rising smoke hindered her.
"Today's conversation was quite enjoyable. It would be nice if we could meet again."
Boom!
Wi Seol-a finally erupted with aura, blew away the smoke, and lunged at Jang Seon-yeon, but—
Crack.
Jang Seon-yeon hesitated not at all, twisted his own neck with his hand, and collapsed.
Lying on the floor with his neck twisted grotesquely, anyone could see that he had certainly met his death, however—
Dok Go-jun was still speaking through Jang Seon-yeon's mouth.
"It was nice to see you. My daughter."
The last word.
With those words, the light vanished from Jang Seon-yeon's eyes.
Wi Seol-a suppressed her distorted expression and trembling shoulders. She wanted to spit out her anger and radiate aura in all directions, but forced herself to endure it.
It was a situation where she couldn't do that.
The fear of being unable to do anything in the end, whether in this life or the past life, was still hard to withstand.
What Divine Sword, and why the Number One Under Heaven?
She was so incompetent and wretched. In the end, she had done nothing again this time.
Behind her tightly shut lips, Wi Seol-a swung her hand.
Blaze
Then, golden flames wrapped around Jang Seon-yeon's body and erased all traces in an instant.
Amidst the surging aura, Wi Seol-a hung her head, held her breath, and trembled.
£
'I'm sorry.'
His face came to mind.
She wanted to do everything she possibly could for him.
She was still a stumbling block to him.
Even though she thought about going underground right away and running amok,
Knowing that if she made a single mistake, the karma that would fall upon him would become heavier than the harm that would come to her, she couldn't even do that.
Unable to give him anything.
Unable to do anything easily. Even if she had reached the realm and went back in time, Wi Seol-a was still a sinner.
-Stupid girl.
She recalled the words he had said to her.
Because now she knew all too well with what heart he must have said those words to her.
Wi Seol-a only held her breath even more.
A day passed, and the martial arts tournament was holding its final event.
It was an occasion where the Alliance Lord, Jang Cheon, personally congratulated the winner and runner-up of the tournament.
While many people watched,
In front of Jang Cheon, Gu Yang-cheon stood with his usual indifferent expression,
And watching that, Wi Seol-a had to clench her fists and calm her ragged breathing.
Next to the standing Gu Yang-cheon.
Jang Seon-yeon, whose neck she had twisted with her own hands last night, was standing there perfectly fine as if nothing had happened.