Clunk.
The carriage kept moving ceaselessly since we set off.
Splash.
Even though I hadn’t stayed at the clan for that long, I was already heading elsewhere again, but this had almost beco a part of my routine ever since I regressed.
…Wait…This isn’t sothing I should be getting used to!
How did my life get so turbulent?
I could’ve sworn that I wasn’t even allowed to leave the clan in my past life, but to be able to leave so easily now…
I was just taking a guess here, but I just felt like father would allow to go wherever I want to, no matter the location.
Would he even notice if I ran away from ho?
Maybe not
I might have gone a bit too far with that one.
Well, that was just a small hope of mine.
Rustle.
With those lingering thoughts, I took a look at another letter.
The sender of this letter was none other than Tang Soyeol.
Seeing that I had nothing to do inside the moving carriage, I decided to take a look at the letter she had sent this ti.
-Young Master, are you having a good ti?
-Because I’m not!
Huh, did I misread it?
…Why is she so enthusiastic when she’s not having a good ti?
What a weirdo.
Well, the letter was similar to the other ones she sent .
It seed that she was unable to co to the Gu Clan even after she learned of my return because the Poison King had gotten hold of her, and he wouldn’t let her go until the Heavenly Dragon Academy opened.
The Poison King huh…
I didn’t really have a lot of mories about him.
Well, I could honestly say that he despised in my past life and had a pretty bad relationship with him.
I didn’t know if he hated because I beca a Demonic Human or so other reason, but whatever it was, my relationship with the Poison King was far from good.
Which is why, I hope I don’t run into him in this life if possible.
Well, Tang Soyeol did tell that the Poison King wanted to et the last ti, but all I had to do was simply avoid him.
I doubt he would co to .
…Dealing with the Dishonored Venerable is difficult enough, I don’t want to add the Poison King to that list.
The Poison King was surprisingly well-known in the world of assassins.
Although it wasn’t common knowledge as they were a part of the Orthodox Faction, it’s pretty easy to figure out that Tang Clan originally specialized in assassination.
To begin with, the Tang Clan used poison martial arts, and Tang Soyeol also used poison arts along with her dagger.
And the Poison King who mastered such martial arts…
…Could probably kill if he felt like it.
Of course, there was no way that he would do that while I was in the Gu Clan, but there was still a possibility.
As I was about to finish reading the letter, I felt sothing moving below and spoke.
“Why are you so restless?”
“…It’s uncomfortable…”
Namgung Bi-ah was in my carriage and using my lap as a pillow while lying down, as if it were natural.
I smirked as I stared at her and then spoke.
“This isn’t because you laid down imdiately after you finished eating, right?”
“…Ungh…”
She shook her head to tell that wasn’t the case.
…Hmm.
Namgung Bi-ah had returned after having a al with Lady Mi, and judging by her expression, it seed that sothing had happened. But no matter how many tis I asked her, she refused to tell .
It doesn’t look like she was scolded.
At least it didn’t seem like anything bad happened.
I wanted to know the reason Lady Mi had called for Namgung Bi-ah.
“Hey.”
“…Hmm?”
“Are you really not going to tell ?”
“…”
As soon as I asked her that, Namgung Bi-ah closed her eyes and pretended to be asleep.
Though it was pretty obvious that she wasn’t good at acting.
I ended up using a fair amount of strength while pinching her cheeks out of spite.
And seeing how Namgung Bi-ah didn’t react in the slightest, she probably planned to endure the pain till the end.
“Jeez…”
In the end, I simply patted her head softly.
She probably had a very good reason seeing that she wanted to keep it a secret from .
I glanced outside the window and looked towards the Lord’s carriage, carrying Father and Lady Mi, ahead of us.
Gu Huibi stubbornly insisted on accompanying us as well, even going as far as to say that she’d be an escort, but all that resulted in her being dragged away by her ear by Lady Mi, who lost her temper.
And seeing how moist her eyes were upon her return, it seed like she was punished to the brink of tearing up.
Wait, does that an that she’s coming along?
I was dumbfounded on hearing that.
Wouldn’t it be weird if all the blood relatives tagged along?
And we even had Moyong Hi-ah coming along.
So, in the end, it was decided that Gu Huibi would stay behind at the clan and take care of Gu Yeonseo.
I’m sure she didn’t realize it, but Gu Yeonseo was pretty satisfied with the arrangent.
I wonder what her plans are.
I knew that Moyong Hi-ah was coming along as well, but that’s all I knew.
I think she said sothing about sending a letter to Namgung Clan.
They must be pretty confused as well.
Well, it was definitely strange for the Moyong Clan to attend an engagent between the Namgung Clan and the Gu Clan.
…Once this is over…
It would probably be the start of fall once all this ends.
Fall huh…?
I initially planned to go visit Wi Seol-Ah around that ti.
But now, I’m really not sure if I should.
As she expressed in her letter that she wanted to co to , I didn’t know what to do anymore.
Then…
What should I do?
Training was a must, but I also had to use my ti a bit more efficiently.
“It’s difficult.”
“…Hmm?”
“It’s nothing, go back to sleep.”
“Kay…”
Once Namgung Bi-ah closed her eyes again, I sighed as I looked out the window.
Let’s get done with this first.
My current circumstances were too troubleso to worry about other things.
…Engagent huh.
The thing I never expected to happen, was now right before my eyes.
It was weird enough that I was getting engaged, but getting engaged to the Demonic Sword of all people.
No, it wasn’t right to call her Demonic Sword any longer.
I thought to myself as I stared at the girl who was breathing softly while using my lap as a pillow.
I wonder how it ca to this.
I would’ve never imagined sothing like this happening.
I carefully brushed Namgung Bi-ah’s hair.
My palm glided smoothly along her silk-like hair.
By any chance, did you know?
I didn’t know that the two of us could be like this.
No, I might’ve had a vague feeling.
On that rainy night, when I embraced the moon in my arms…
Was perhaps the night I learned that the Demonic Sword’s existence was more significant than I told myself.
And that’s why I kept my distance from you.
Hoping that you wouldn’t make the sa decision again.
Judging by her soft breaths, it seed like she had fallen asleep .
It hadn’t even been that long ever since she shut her eyes.
I couldn’t help but chuckle on seeing that.
“I’m jealous that you’re so carefree.”
After all, it was her easy going character that made Namgung Bi-ah, Namgung Bi-ah.
Even so, this oddly funny situation put at ease.
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Ti went by and fall got closer.
It was still hot, but the light breeze marked the change in seasons.
There was still so ti for the leaves to fall, but regardless, fall would co.
Just like always.
“Young Master Gu, are you tired?”
“Hmm? Ah no, I was just thinking about sothing.”
I shook my head at the sudden question.
No matter how much ti had passed, it seed like my idle thoughts wouldn’t go away.
When I glanced to my side, eyes like the clear sky t my gaze.
The precious child of the Moyong Clan, the Snow Phoenix, Moyong Hi-ah.
Moyong Hi-ah had alighted from her clan’s carriage and boarded mine.
As usual, Namgung Bi-ah was half asleep and it seed like she wasn’t on board with the idea of sharing the carriage with Moyong Hi-ah at first, but it didn’t look like she really cared at this point.
…To be more accurate…
It’s likely because of the heat.
It seed like Namgung Bi-ah was really struggling against the heat, because there was an unusual amount of distance between us.
And that was because of the heat radiating from my body.
On the contrary, despite the weather being hot, Moyong Hi-ah’s Ice Qi cooled the carriage she was riding.
And that was why Namgung Bi-ah didn’t complain even when Moyong Hi-ah boarded our carriage carriage.
Probably because she preferred ‘this’ over the heat.
Moyong Hi-ah looked at with a gentle smile.
“You didn’t eat much earlier.”
“Huh? You saw that?”
“I’m always watching you.”
The necklace on Moyong Hi-ah’s neck as she spoke.
It was the one I bought her on the streets last ti.
It seems like she really wore it.
It would have been easy for Moyong Hi-ah to buy hundreds of those cheap necklaces if she just sold her own necklace, or even the fan that she always carried around.
I guess she really likes cheap things, huh.
It would have made so sense if the necklace looked pretty, but even to who had zero aesthetics, that necklace wasn’t.
After all, it was the most basic necklace.
“Hmm.”
“What’s wrong?”
“It’s nothing.”
I stretched my sore body as I replied.
It looked like we were about to arrive at our destination.
Still stretching, I asked Moyong Hi-ah a question.
“You said you had so business in Anhui?”
“Ah… yes. I have things I need to take care of, and I also have so business with Namgung Clan.”
“With the Namgung Clan?”
“Yes.”
What business did she have with them?
Now that I think about it…
I could have sworn that Moyong Hi-ah and the Pissing Dragon engaged to each other in my past life.
Maybe it hasn’t happened yet?
That was a possibility.
I think they were over twenty when I learned of their engagent.
It happened after so ti–
Wait.
What’s going to happen now?
It was no secret that Moyong Hi-ah had feelings for .
She said it herself, and she also displayed them rather openly.
Then,
So, she has feelings for , but she’ll also get engaged to soone else? Huh.
Wasn’t that a bit too complicated and difficult?
Those kind of thoughts were way too difficult for .
Was the Snow Phoenix into things like that?
…Of course not.
I wasn’t sure, and it definitely didn’t feel like that, but if I were to think about my past life… I couldn’t be too certain…
Ugh.
…The more I think about it, the more complicated it gets.
When my complicated train of thoughts made frown a bit, Moyong Hi-ah noticed it imdiately and asked.
“Young Master? It looks like sothing did happen after all, right?”
“It’s nothing. It’s just that my head hur– “
As I tried to make an excuse, as if she were waiting to do so, Moyong Hi-ah reached out to my forehead.
Just as her cold hand was about to touch my forehead,
Tap.
Another hand appeared and snatched her hand.
It was the supposedly asleep Namgung Bi-ah.
“…No.”
“Tsk.”
Moyong Hi-ah clicked her tongue.
“Sword Dancer… you were awake.”
“Yeah.”
Namgung Bi-ah got up as she responded.
What the–
Was she really awake?
Moyong Hi-ah snorted after seeing her like that.
“It seems like I can’t let my guard down.”
“… too…”
After responding, Namgung Bi-ah placed her hand on my forehead.
She was doing what Moyong Hi-ah was about to do.
“I don’t have a fever, there's no need to touch .”
“…It kind of feels like you do…”
Of course it did, but it was not a fever.
From the way she kept touching my forehead repeatedly, it didn’t seem like Namgung Bi-ah had any intention of backing away.
In the end, I had to create so distance from her, as she retrieved her hand with disappointnt.
While rubbing my forehead, I asked Namgung Bi-ah.
“Are you okay? It’s been a while since you’ve returned ho, isn’t it?”
“Hmm…?”
Namgung Bi-ah simply tilted her head.
It seed like she was confused by my question.
After all, she wasn’t that fond of her clan.
Which was probably the reason she was staying at the Gu Clan event though she could return to her clan whenever she wanted.
And I also think that I was one of the reasons she was staying at the Gu Clan, but I wasn’t sure.
Seeing her eyes widen slightly, it seed like Namgung Bi-ah finally realized what I ant by that question.
Then, she responded with a gentle smile.
I was still not used to that smile, no matter how many tis I saw it.
“…I’m fine now…”
So, she wasn’t fine before huh.
I didn’t know what kind of life Namgung Bi-ah lived, and I didn’t want to ask her about it unless she ca to first.
Staring into my eyes, Namgung Bi-ah whispered to .
“…I’m not… afraid anymore.”
Her soft whisper was a critical hit.
And as I was about to ask her one more thing…
-Young Master, we have arrived.
But the horseman’s call made shut my mouth.
Oh, Gu Jeolyub wasn’t the horseman this ti.
I wanted to take him along as well, but the First Army’s Captain dragged him away regarding so business in Gu Sunmoon.
‘Why did he also take Muyeon?
Though I had no idea why he took Muyeon as well.
Well, seeing that it was the Lord’s order, I couldn’t even ask about it.
Clip-clop… clip-clop.
The horses’ footsteps gradually grew slower and quieter, informing us that we were close to our destination.
The expected scene greeted as I looked outside the window.
“So, I’m really here…”
The heart of the Four Noble Clans, where the Orthodox clan that represented the art of swords resided.
I had arrived at Anhui, the ho of the Namgung Clan.
I had a sudden thought as I looked at the entrance.
…Am I forgetting sothing?
Sothing was bothering . I was definitely forgetting sothing, but I couldn't rember what..
I felt frustrated as a fog settled over my mind.
“…I should rember it soon enough if it’s important.”
I wouldn’t have forgotten if it was anything important.
Yup, it’s not anything important.
I let go of it with a smile, but I forgot another important thing, my premonitions were always /genesisforsaken
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