༺ Would You Like To Go With ? (2) ༻
Unlike the day of the tournant finals, the last day was peaceful.
It was a bit of a hassle for to move my body and stand next to the Alliance Leader, but what could I do? It’s not like I could say that I wasn’t going.
“Congratulations on becoming the new star.”
“Thank you.”
“The Tiger Warrior would be so pleased since his son achieved such a remarkable feat.”
“Haha… Ha… of course.”
“Since a real dragon was born from Gu Clan this ti, it seems it won’t be long before they soar.”
I thought about my father after hearing Jang Cheon.
Father would be happy, you say?
We are talking about a man who only ever said, ‘I see.’ even after Gu Huibi ca back ho as the Sword Phoenix.
So, I doubted he’d show much excitent just because his son won so tournant.
‘And furthermore, what is a True Dragon anyway?’
I understood that they were calling the True Dragon because I represented a real dragon, but it did feel a bit cringe.
‘Still this title is far better than the one I had in my past life…’
At least it was better than that, giving so breathing room.
If I had received so horrible title in this life as well… I don’t even want to imagine that.
How could a title for a human be so…
“…Sigh.”
“Is sothing wrong?”
“It’s nothing… I just had a slight headache.”
After giving a strange look, he walked over to Jang Seonyeon, who had bandages wrapped all around him due to the damage from yesterday’s fight.
‘And here I thought I had held back a little.’
I felt a bit disappointed.
I thought that it’d be fine for to break his right arm since Jang Seonyeon was left handed.
‘Still…’
I felt like I had accomplished sothing because I noticed a difference in the way Jang Seonyeon looked at .
‘Is he scared?’
When I glanced at him, I noticed Jang Seonyeon’s shoulders flinched a little.
It didn’t seem like an act, but I wasn’t certain about it.
It was fine even if what he was feeling wasn’t fear. As long as he felt sothing from this fight, I was satisfied.
At least for now.
‘And Dok Gojun.’
The mysterious being I encountered at the last mont of the fight.
Just thinking about that bastard forced his energy inside and leaving made my head hurt.
‘Is that bastard still inside Jang Seonyeon’s body?’
If that was the case, I would have to think about a lot of things.
Such as, whether Jang Seonyeon had mories of that mont or whether he knew about Dok Gojun.
Stuff like that.
I really wanted to secretly capture Jang Seonyeon and force him to spill everything, but I knew that that would be impossible in my current situation.
Which frustrated even more.
“You worked hard.”
“…It was nothing, Alliance Leader.”
Jang Cheon patting Jang Seonyeon’s shoulders with a smile on his face and Jang Seonyeon lowering his head after, couldn’t seem more touching to the spectators.
Yet, in my eyes, it only looked like an act.
I began to wonder about sothing else as I stared at Jang Seonyeon.
‘Does this bastard not know that his energy disappeared?’
So energy did still remain inside Jang Seonyeon’s body.
It was because Dok Gojun had broken the process of absorption midway before all of it was absorbed.
But even so, that ant he had far less of that energy than before.
And he should feel the emptiness because of it, so it wasn’t possible that Jang Seonyeon didn’t notice that.
However, his reaction was rather lackluster.
I had expected him to co straight to as soon as he had awoken.
Yet, be it the Lightning Dragon or him, neither of the two had approached .
Of course, it was good for , but I couldn’t see it as a completely positive thing.
Because I could never easily predict what would happen in this life.
‘This life has way too many differences from my past life.’
Just the new things I had learned were already filling my head up completely.
‘Where do I even start?’
I had been cleaning the inside of my mind all day, but none of those thoughts were sothing I could have easily concluded.
It wasn’t sothing I could just let pass as I usually did.
I maintained a calm expression while organizing the complicated thoughts in my head,
Putting so care into my expression, since I had felt that it’d be better for it to not be noticeable.
“With this, to all the new stars that fought hard… “
When Jang Cheon finished his speech, cheers and applause rained upon the stage.
I received a bunch of items and a sword made by a master blacksmith for winning the tournant.
Still, it wasn’t like I was a sword user and neither did I have any intention of becoming one, so I guess, I could just give it to either Muyeon or Gu Jeolyub.
Well, they already seed eager to claim it.
Why are you guys excited when it’s mine?
I did think about giving it away, but seeing them so enthusiastic, kind of made reconsider.
I could be rather petty at tis.
‘Maybe she could use it?’
Namgung Bi-ah briefly crossed my mind, but I quickly dismissed the thought.
I already knew that she would get her own signature sword, so I didn’t want to give her this one.
‘Though I don’t really have to do that.’
She could use her sword later, after trying this one for a while, but I didn’t want her to.
It was solely because of my stubbornness.
You could call it possessiveness in a way.
Raaaaaahh-!!
The cacophony of noise that stabbed my ears made look around.
Many people around were screaming and cheering.
It was so loud that it felt like my ears would go numb if I didn’t cover them with my hands.
‘…Hm.’
At that mont, I felt a surge of warmth.
How should I put this…
It was as if I had been the first to step on a pile of snow when no one else had.
It felt like a new type of happiness, that I hadn’t felt before.
‘What am I even saying?’
Even I thought that ca out of nowhere.
Which ant that my emotions were going wild.
I forced my emotions to calm down.
This might be the first ti people were cheering for , even though I didn’t deserve it, still I couldn’t let myself beco overly excited just because I beat up so kids in the playground.
Putting aside that embarrassing fact, I knew that if I enjoyed this feeling now, there would be no end to it in the future. So I had to make sure I controlled myself from this point on.
I shook my head to shake off my emotions and walked down.
The Alliance Leader was done with his speech and since I had done what I needed to do, I needed to go down now.
Also, the fight between Namgung Bi-ah and Moyong Hi-ah didn’t happen.
It was because Namgung Bi-ah was still a patient, and Moyong Hi-ah revealed that she didn’t want to fight.
And it didn’t really matter too much since the official fights for the tournant already ended with a victor, and that fight was only going to be for the show.
But there were a lot of people that were sad because they couldn’t get to watch them fight.
Even more than the finals for so people.
‘It’s because of their ludicrous beauty.’
Namgung Bi-ah was being called with a new title and was now the top beauty of Anhui.
And even without her status as the Snow Phoenix, Moyong Hi-ah was already famous for being beautiful, so people were probably disappointed because of that.
‘But at that point, are they really trying to watch their fight?’
Because in reality, all they wanted to see were just two beautiful won, so their lust could not be more blatant.
“Great job, Young Master Gu.”
As soon as I ca down, Tang Soyeol greeted .
Tang Soyeol, for so reason, looked like she had dressed up more than usual.
She had adorned herself with accessories I had never seen before, and it seed like she had put on a little bit of makeup as well.
Seeing Tang Soyeol like that, I asked her.
“What’s with the makeup?”
“Oh! You noticed? You are sharp huh…”
“…Wouldn’t it be weirder for to not notice?”
How could I not notice if she had decorated herself that much?
“It’s the last day, and isn’t it weirder for you to not dress up a little when this is your celebration?”
“Dressing up is a hassle.”
I didn’t even do anything impressive for to do that…
Ugh… Just imagining it gave goosebumps.
Imagine going up to the stage excitedly with flowers on my head.
Ugh… it did not fit at all.
Putting aside that thought, I looked around the area.
It was to look for soone.
Tang Soyeol, who noticed this, gave the answer I wanted straight away.
“Sis Bi-ah didn’t co. She said she didn’t need to watch if it wasn’t going to be a fight.”
“…How cold of her.”
“She said she’s going to sleep back at the guesthouse because she’s tired.”
“And that guesthouse is mine, right?”
“Of course.”
Why did she respond with ‘Of course.’, like it was so obvious fact?
“Sigh.”
I just let it pass with a sigh since it was too late for to argue about this.
I put it aside, then started to walk towards Wi Seol-Ah and the other servants that were waiting for far away.
I told her to just rest since she looked tired ever since the morning, but this girl desperately insisted that she should follow .
“Hmm?”
I walked closer, but for so reason, Wi Seol-Ah’s expression didn’t seem the best.
It certainly wasn’t too noticeable, but my eyes were able to notice it.
I definitely saw her make a serious expression with slightly quivering eyes.
I inquired seeing her like that,
“What’s wrong?”
“Heh…? What?”
But it seed that Wi Seol-Ah was going to pretend that it was nothing.
Her voice was the sa as usual, but her reaction definitely seed strange.
“Did sothing happen?”
“No? Nothing happened to !”
Wi Seol-Ah playfully shouted back when I continued to ask her.
Was my instinct wrong?
I have never been wrong when it cos to things like these.
Especially when it was about Wi Seol-Ah.
I continued to stare at Wi Seol-Ah, but she only tilted her head in confusion.
It definitely seed like she had sothing going on, but I guess she didn’t want to know.
I didn’t inquire further and just patted Wi Seol-Ah’s head.
“If sothing did happen, tell . Otherwise I can’t help.”
“But… nothing happened…”
It seed like she wasn’t going to tell until the end.
Or was I just mistaken?
That may also be possible.
I put down the hand that had been patting her head, and looked towards Jang Seonyeon.
Jang Seonyeon too, was walking away from the stage.
Maybe it was a coincidence, but the bastard turned his head around towards .
Our eyes t.
Jang Seonyeon didn’t frown nor did he smile, and neither did he put on any kind of strange expression on his face like before.
However, just by seeing his expressionless face, I could instinctively tell how the mask he had worked so hard to build had irreversibly cracked.
Seeing him, I thought.
‘Do wait for .’
Did he notice my intentions?
Jang Seonyeon’s eyebrows flinched a little, as he turned around imdiately and continued to walk in his original direction.
I noticed that his shoulders seed to point down a little when compared to the first ti we had t.
As I watched him walk away, Tang Soyeol suddenly started to speak to .
“Young Master Gu, what are you going to do now?”
“Do what?”
“The event has ended already. Do you have any other plans?”
I thought for a little while after hearing Tang Soyeol.
Other plans, huh.
‘I could say I do have them.’
The ring I got from the Second Elder.
I had to go see the Alliance Leader since I was already sure it was a treasure that belonged to the Murim Alliance.
‘But I’ll wait on this for now.’
Of course, it wasn’t because I wanted to keep the treasure.
In the first place, it wasn’t like there was a good reason for to be greedy about this when this old worn-out ring had no special ability anyway.
It’s just that…
‘If I showed him this ring now…’
Absurd rumors, such as being so hidden disciple of the Dishonored Venerable, or that the Dishonored Venerable who had hidden himself from the world was staying in the Gu Clan, might start going around.
‘So I’ll just send it to them later anonymously.’
I didn’t want to deal with such a hassle. I also had a lot of other complicated things in mind besides this.
One may ask why would I send a treasure in that manner, well it was a pain in the neck for to be in possession of it, so I had no other choice.
‘Also…’
I had sothing else to take care of.
Though it was more of Elder Shin’s business than mine.
“Shaolin.”
One of the Ten Sect Alliance’s territories in Hanam.
I had to go look for the Shaolin Temple in Hanam.
“Shaolin?”
Tang Soyeol asked puzzled at my response.
“Yeah.”
“Why would you need to go to Shaolin…?”
“For a tour I guess…”
Honestly, that level of an excuse was enough.
I didn’t need to say much besides wanting to go on a tour to Shaolin Temple since I had co all the way to Hanam.
‘But it’s a problem that the old man hasn’t woken up yet.’
Elder Shin was the one that had told to go to Shaolin no matter what if I ca to Hanam, yet he has been asleep for the last few days.
It should be about ti that he wakes up, but for so reason it seed like he was taking longer than before.
“I’m not gonna go right away, but I think I’ll go there soon.”
“And you said your goal was to tour, right?”
“Yeah.”
“T…Then,”
Tang Soyeol paused suddenly, and turned her head around to look at Wi Seol-Ah.
Every ti Tang Soyeol had tried to say sothing about this topic, people had interrupted her.
‘Huh?’
So Tang Soyeol cautiously looked at her, to try to put a boundary between the two, yet for so reason, Wi Seol-Ah only continued to watch.
‘This is…’
‘Is she letting speak? Is this so type of approval?’
Tang Soyeol felt her pride getting bruised a little for becoming happy at getting the approval of a re servant. But, Tang Soyeol was not in a position for her to be picky.
“Young Master Gu…!”
“Hmm?”
“Then, umm… perhaps when you go to Shaolin… “
“Would you like to go with ?”
“Yeah, that… wait what?”
Soone took Tang Soyeol’s words out of her mouth right as she was about to speak them.
And as it was quite an unexpected voice, even I looked at the owner of the voice with slightly shocked eyes.
“…Pardon?”
“Well, you said you’re going to the Shaolin Temple.”
The long black hair that swayed around, her porcelain like skin, the sharp gaze and a face that reminded of a cat—
A woman with an overwhelmingly charming beauty.
“Huh, suddenly? With ?”
“Yes.”
It was the precious daughter of The Moyong Clan…
The Snow Phoenix of The Five Dragons and Three Phoenixes—
Moyong Hi-ah.
“Would you like to go with ? To the Shaolin Temple.”
Behind the scenes, Tang Soyeol let out so angry puffing sound with her nose.
Her eyes looked as if it was screaming,
‘How could you?!’
However because Tang Soyeol was on the cuter side in appearance, she didn’t seem scary at all.
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