Invincible Teacher Chapter 69

Chapter 69: Chapter 68

The location was Yeongyowon.

Two people were seated inside the pavilion of the practice site that Kang-hyuk personally created.

They were both extrely good looking, wearing sowhat eye-catching attires.

The man was clothed in all black, while the woman was clothed in red. They were both wearing a blue tag, a symbol that they worked at the academy.

These two were none other than Shim-gu and Byeok Ae-rin.

“Has elder Hyung-nim co here to teach a class?”

“Indeed. He’s over there teaching.”

She then pointed at a building. Kang-hyuk’s figure could be seen through an open window.

The sight of Kang-hyuk teaching touched Shim-gu. He had never seen such an expression beholding Kang-hyuk’s face before.

Shim-gu knew what kind of feeling that expression conveyed.

It was the expression of happiness.

Shim-gu was overjoyed. This side of Kang-hyuk was sothing that all of the mbers of Kwaepungdae had been longing to see for so many years.

He then turned to look at Byeok Ae-rin.

“So, why did you want to see ?”

“I have a favour to ask of you.”

“A favour?”

Byeok Ae-rin then took out a small piece of paper from her sleeve.

“Do you want to investigate sothing?”

She nodded, and spoke, “I do. Orabeoni, you heard, right? What happened on the students’ return journey?”

“I heard. Those Black Snake Sect bastards tried to target our kids!”

“My lord dealt with them personally. Unfortunately, there’s still another problem.”

“What problem?”

“We suspect that the Blood King Valley was controlling the Black Snake Sect’s actions. You need to find their location.”

Shim-gu expressed his dissatisfaction at the task. “Hey! That’s no easy investigation. All the people that have spoken of the Blood King Valley’s location ended up being beheaded!”

“I know.”

“If you know, then why are you asking of such a favour?”

“I’m just telling you that even if you only discover a crumb of information in regards to their location, let know.”

“Well, I guess that’s not too bad.”

Byeok Ae-rin then continued, “Also, there seems to be a rat infestation within the academy. Pay so attention to it.”

“Of course.”

Shim-gu’s face suddenly froze, as he gnashed his teeth.

“What is that? That unpleasant energy?”

“What’s wrong, Orabeoni?”

“I can sll the odour of rotten tobacco from sowhere.”

Byeok Ae-rin lifted her head and looked around. She then nodded.

“It’s Cheol-muk Orabeoni.”

Having found the source of the sll within a short period of ti, Byeok Ae-rin then spoke calmly, “I don’t know why he’s here, but I think things will beco rather noisy with his presence, don’t you think?”

“Indeed they will. We always get into fights.”

“In that case, my lord’s class will be disrupted, causing him to beco angry, right?”

Shim-gu’s mind began to wonder back to a ti in the past where he caused a commotion.

He recalled Kang-hyuk’s relentless blows to his abdon, one after another.

Simply recalling his fists seed to bring back the past pain.

Kang-hyuk’s speciality was striking a location he had struck before.

Shim-gu responded to Byeok Ae-rin’s prediction, “I’ll be beaten...a lot.....”

They sprang up, and began to run at full speed. What was most important was to leave the academy.

Ji Cheol-muk could sense Byeok Ae-rin’s movent.

‘Damn it! Where on earth are you going at such a speed?’

He grumbled, and changed his direction of movent. Byeok Ae-rin seed to be heading for the northern mountains.

Ji Cheol-muk finally ca to a halt.

A young man and a young woman were standing before him. Whilst he had never seen those faces, the young woman’s face seed to be sowhat familiar to him.

“Aerin-ah, it’s been a while! What’s with your face, is it the Ju-ansul technique?”

Byeok Ae-rin sighed at Ji Cheol-muk’s greeting, and spoke, “It’s good to see you again, Orabeoni.”

“But why are you here?”

“Well...why are you here, Orabeoni?”

“Well, I heard that Shim-gu, that fellow, was working in the academy as a cleaner. I wanted to have a good look at his new occupation, but I couldn’t sense his energy there so.....”

Ji Cheol-muk trailed off.

It was because the young man standing next to Byeok Ae-rin suddenly seed familiar. Unfortunately, Ji Cheol-muk didn’t recognize the man’s face.

‘Th-thinking about it....’

The man was clothed in black.

Soone that he knew also went around permanently clothed in black.

The fan in the man’s hands, and his earrings were also familiar.

He soon ca to a realization of who the man really was.

“It can’t be...are you Shim-gu?”

“This fellow, you finally realized! What? You wanted to co to see clean?”

Ji Cheol-muk was taken aback.

“This bastard, let’s settle things today, shall we!”

“Th-that’s what I was going to say!”

Ignited into fury by Shim-gu, Ji Cheol-muk picked up his long white pipe.

Byeok Ae-rin sighed.

“Hah...Both of you are too much. You two aren’t kids, for how many more years are you going to quarrel like this?”

Ji Cheol-muk and Shim-gu then spoke in unison, “This is sothing that is of significance between two n!”

“It’s more important than life itself!”

“Well, I understand that there is sothing important enough that you would risk your lives on it, but is it so important that you would accept my lord’s beatings for it?”

“...!”

The n hesitated at Byeok Ae-rin’s words.

“You know of the catastrophes that ensue after a fight between you two, right? We’re close to Jungcheon right now. If you fight here, people’s lives are at risk.”

Byeok Ae-rin grinned, but for so reason, her smile had a fear-inducing effect.

Shim-gu suddenly cried out, “Oh no! Co to think of it, I need to clean the classroom after the lesson finishes! I completely forgot! I guess I’ll have to leave now!”

Shim-gu imdiately ran towards the academy, while Ji Cheol-muk spoke with sweat dripping down his back, “I-I’d like to visit Kwaepungdae, I haven’t been there for a while. Ahem. Ahem ahem.”

He too left, with the speed of a flying arrow.

Byeok Ae-rin smirked as she looked upon them.

“My two Orabeonis are quite funny, aren’t they! Hahahaha!”

“Hm, so I’ve finished watering this area....”

Cheon Hae-gwang took a small book out from the inside section of his robes. The cover of the book read ‘Yeongyowon Log.’

It was a log that Cheon Hae-gwang himself had made for jotting down the tasks of his day.

He nodded after looking at the log.

“My work is done after I water that spot. I’d better hurry up and finish before Seonsaengnim finishes his class.”

As Kang-hyuk’s assistant, Cheon Hae-gwang was looking after the plants of his practice plot.

His education had been cut short after the extermination of his family, and so, his knowledge of

sacred herbs in comparison to most people of Moorim was a little lacking.

However, as he had a resolute wish to pay back Kang-hyuk’s grace, he was studying the subject with dedication.

‘I have to be a good assistant to him at the very least!’

As he was also receiving Baek-gap’s assistance in his study of sacred herbs, his learning process hadn’t been too challenging.

‘Thinking about it....’

He rembered that he had just seen a maid and a cleaner coming, and then leaving Yeongyowon afterwards.

He knew that she was nad Ae-rin, and did her job as a maid well, cooking delicious als.

But for so unknown reason, Baek-gap, who seed a lot older than the maid, behaved strangely around her, as though he was treading on eggshells.

He addressed her as ‘Shikmo-nim [1]’ and could barely reply when she spoke to him.

Therefore, following Baek-gap’s example, he too called her Shikmo-nim.

‘But it’s quite strange. She looks at in the sa way that a grandmother would look upon her grandson.’

She seed to be a maid with many mysterious facets to her, so much so that one could never really figure out her true identity.

‘If we’re thinking about mystery.... that young cleaner I saw earlier looked a bit strange as well.’

The cleaner was an acquaintance to Cheon Hae-gwang. They t on the day the field trip had ended, at Kang-hyuk’s residence.

He found it fascinating that despite most cleaning staff preferring to wear grey, the man was always clothed in black, and didn’t have a single speck of dust on his clothing.

‘But I rember that the maid addressed him as ‘Orabeoni’ earlier despite them looking similar in age, and they can’t be in a romantic relationship at the academy either.....could they be silblings?’

This was the most logical conclusion he could co up with.

The person that he found the most questionable was the person he was serving, Kang-hyuk.

He knew that Kang-hyuk was around twenty-four in age, yet Kang-hyuk claid that he was older than his father.

He laughed at it at the ti, taking the remark as a joke. Nonetheless, as sothing was still bothering him, he secretly asked Baek-gap after their return to the academy.

“Hyung-nim, how old is Kang Seonsaengnim?”

“Why do you want to know?”

“Kang Seonsaeng said that he was older than my father. So that’s why.....”

“Ahem. Ahem ahem.”

Baek-gap coughed, seemingly startled by his question.

He then responded with a sowhat vague statent, “When you walk up Moorim’s Wudang Mountains.”

“...?”

“My younger brother, the only truth is what you experience personally.”

Baek-gap’s strange response convinced Cheon Hae-gwang.

That there was indeed sothing more to Kang-hyuk.

“Have you watered all of them?”

Just on ti, Kang-hyuk’s voice resounded out from behind him. Cheon Hae-gwang imdiately turned around and bowed.

“Yes, I’ve just finished watering them all.”

“Good work.”

A familiar face stood beside Kang-hyuk. It was the music teacher, Chu Gung-wol.

He was a teacher that was close to Kang-hyuk, and would often co to Yeongyowon to relax, as well as help with tasks.

“We should go and have lunch. We’re going to eat with Chu Seonsaengnim today. Ae-rin said that she would prepare sothing special.”

“Okay! I’ll get the tools to take back with us to the residence!”

A thought flashed through Kang-hyuk’s mind in that instant.

‘Why didn’t I think of that before?’

Up until now, they brought the tools needed for gardening up to Yeongyowon from the residence, then take them back when a class was over. Kang-hyuk had finally realized that this was a waste of ti.

‘We can build a tool storage shed!’

A certain man appeared within Kang-hyuk’s mind.

‘That fellow’s pretty good at making things, if I rember correctly.’

Kang-hyuk looked at the rain bead that was dangling from his waist. The person that made this particular accessory for him was quite dextrous, and had a special skill for construction.

His skills were beyond that of an ordinary person, and so, the man had even been recomnded for the head position of Kwaepungdae.

‘I’ll have to et that fellow, seeing as he’s already in Nakyang.’

Kang-hyuk was already aware of that person’s presence in Nakyang.

The moon had risen.

Ji Cheol-muk was walking through the moonlit streets of Nakyang. He just had a large drinking session with his old subordinates at Kwaepungdae.

He called them to have a drink with them, and as he was buying, no subordinate of his could refuse.

The bill for the alcohol was quite high, but it wasn’t sothing that Ji Cheol-muk couldn’t afford.

He had stacked up a lot of money throughout his lifeti.

“Where did our.....hiccup...promise go.....hiccup.”

He was drunk.

He could easily eliminate the drunken energy from his body, but he didn’t wish to do so.

When he was heavily drunk, he would unconsciously begin to sing. Then again, at the sa ti, he would also feel a sense of sorrow.

The world was currently at peace. It was a world where one didn’t have to spill blood on a daily basis, like the world before.

He felt wronged.

‘I wish I could have lived in a world like this in my youth, damn it!’

He imagined that if he had t his elder Hyung-nim and the other mbers at a peaceful ti, they wouldn’t have had to endure such pain and difficulty together.

‘We didn’t fight so hard for a reward, but still...but still....’

He thought about the appearances of Shim-gu and Byeok Ae-rin when he t them earlier. They looked youthful, under the guises of the Byeonyongsul and Ju-ansul techniques.

Despite the fact that they may be accused of living under illusions, he could understand their feelings behind using the appearance changing techniques.

‘If only I could be youthful again, and live in a peaceful world....’

All of a sudden, a group of n strutted up to him.

“Hey, you! Old man!”

Ji Cheol-muk lifted his head to look at them. They were almost definitely thugs.

“Where are you going on your own?”

“You look like you’ve got so money, why don’t you give us so of it as alms for alcohol?”

“It would be better than you giving your life as alms, right? Hahaha.”

“You don’t look like you have much longer left to live, shouldn’t you try to preserve your body?”

The n sniggered at their own words, while Ji Cheol-muk looked upon them with a pitiful gaze, and spoke, “You bastards are like insects.”