We followed Jeong Ha-rin past the last gate and arrived in front of the Martial Alliance Leader's quarters.
"If you want to see my grandfather, you can go in here."
"Thank you. Thanks to you, we ca comfortably."
"If you're grateful, buy a al soti. Do you know how many delicious restaurants have opened up around the Martial Alliance?"
"I wouldn't know."
"Right? So let's go together next ti."
"Yes. If I have the chance."
Jeong Ha-rin, after smiling brightly at my master, ca right up to , brought her face close, and said, "Let's et again soti, our young Taoist. I'll show you around this area."
"No. It's alright. You must be short on ti to et other people."
"No! There are so few martial artists my age around here, so I'm so lonely!"
She said, her eyes wide.
Her speaking eyes are just like looking at a deer. It was like that before, but her appearance is really not an exaggeration to say that it's the best in Henan Province.
Of course, I'm not going to fall for that appearance now.
"Let's definitely go together next ti if we have the chance."
"I don't think that will be possible. I don't think I'll be in Kaifeng for long."
She, without caring about my dry reply, answered with a smiling eye, "Really? For so reason, I feel like there will be a next ti."
"Really? I don't think there will be."
"We'll have to see about that later, won't we? Taoist Hyeon Yang. Then I'll see you next ti. Have a good eting with your grandfather."
"Thank you for taking us this far."
"Then, I'll be going."
Jeong Ha-rin, after bowing her head slightly, disappeared sowhere.
Before entering the Martial Alliance Leader's quarters, my master stopped his steps and, looking at , said, "Why did you do that?"
"What do you an?"
"I an your attitude towards Ha-rin. It was not like you at all."
"That's..."
What kind of expression would my master make if I told him that she was my girlfriend in my past life and I was brutally dumped, so I didn't want to get close to her?
Of course, I couldn't say that, so I mumbled, "We're on our way to et the Martial Alliance Leader, aren't we? I'm also a person, so I'm incredibly nervous. But she keeps asking to have a cup of tea or a al, so I'm all over the place."
"Really? You're nervous?"
Fortunately, that answer seed to have worked, and my master smiled broadly.
"I keep forgetting that you can have that side to you. For so reason, I thought you wouldn't know what nervousness is, and that you could even co and go in the Martial Alliance as if it were your own ho if I let you loose alone."
"Ha... haha... it looks comfortable because I'm following you, master. How could I go around alone?"
"That's true."
Of course, I am familiar with the Martial Alliance and Kaifeng to the point where I can walk around with my eyes closed.
My master started walking again, taking with him.
Now, it's really ti to go and et the Martial Alliance Leader.
***
anwhile. Jeong Ha-rin, who had returned to her room after parting with Hyeon Yang and Unhwi, was thinking about the young Taoist she had just t.
No, to be precise, she was cursing him.
"What on earth is wrong with that man? How can he show such an attitude towards ?"
She was not used to being treated like that by a man.
Most n would grin from ear to ear at her suggestion to have a cup of tea or a al, and even if it was a man who didn't fall for that, he would lt at her smiling eyes.
"Is it like master, like disciple? Anyway, I don't like him at all."
Young people her age are at a very vigorous age.
An age where they can't control themselves yet and can't control their emotions.
Even if it was a Taoist, or even a monk from Shaolin, no one had ever shown such an appearance to her, so she was even more bothered by the young Taoist nad Unhwi.
"Well, let him do as he pleases!"
She spat out her words as if she were throwing a tantrum and plopped down on a nearby chair.
As she sat down and closed her eyes for a mont to calm her anger...
Suddenly, the cold expression of the young Taoist she had seen a little while ago ca to her mind in the darkness.
The more she tries not to think about it, the more she thinks about it.
"His face might be a little my type..."
But to be honest, there are plenty of n as handso as that Taoist in Kaifeng.
Because in Kaifeng, where the Martial Alliance is, there are many young next-generation talents sent from each family and sect, and apart from that, the downtown area is well-developed, so even young masters who don't know martial arts often co to play.
She, after thinking about why she was like that, ca to one conclusion.
"That expression... I want to see that expression crumble."
She, with a faint frown, once again recalled Unhwi's face.
"I'll make sure you can never make that expression at again..."
She, as if making a promise, stood up and left the room again.
For so reason, it was to ask her friends for help.
***
The Martial Alliance Leader's quarters are huge.
In fact, it's just a nice way of saying it's a residence; it's safe to say that there is another manor within the Martial Alliance.
Inside the residence, there is a small pond, and a small bridge that crosses over the pond.
In the pond, several carp that the Martial Alliance Leader personally feeds are swimming, and around it, graceful willow trees are planted.
And in between, as if it were a natural thing to be there, a person who blends in with the scenery.
A person who exists so naturally that it reminds one of a landscape painting along with the scenery.
'Martial Alliance Leader...'
Sotis I feel this sensation.
The feeling I get when I already know him, but he doesn't know at all.
The feeling of being very happy to see him, but not being able to pretend to know him...
"Alliance Leader, it is Hyeon Yang."
At my master's words, the scenery moves.
The Martial Alliance Leader raised his head and looked our way.
To be precise, he is not looking at us, but at .
Perhaps since he had already heard from my master that I was coming to be introduced this ti, he is looking at first.
For a very short mont.
As if a person had popped out of a landscape painting, the presence of the Martial Alliance Leader begins to be felt.
He, who had beco a materialized person rather than a painting, walked this way and, looking at my master, said, "Hyeon Yang. I was waiting."
Perhaps a ssage had been sent to the Alliance Leader when we passed the first gate, and from then on, the Alliance Leader had co out and waited for us.
The fact that he is standing here now was not a coincidence.
He looked at again and said, "This child... is Unhwi."
"That's right, Alliance Leader."
I t his eyes.
The Martial Alliance Leader, Jeong Baek-cheon.
Although the Alliance Leader was not a person who had learned Taoist martial arts, he was more of a Taoist than anyone I knew.
He likes to be in harmony with nature, and he is not a person who looks like he would fight well.
And even when he is this close, his qi is so natural and comfortable that it's hard to tell if he has learned martial arts or not.
Literally, he is a person who is just as he is, natural.
'But, the most frightening thing in the world is also nature. Just as there is the word 'natural disaster'.'
Because if he uses his strength once, a power that can literally shake the heavens and the earth will be generated.
If one were to discuss who is the strongest in the current orthodox martial world, the Martial Alliance Leader, Jeong Baek-cheon, is naturally among the top five.
"You have a good... qi. I am Jin Baek-cheon. Although I am lacking, I am in charge of the Martial Alliance."
"I am Unhwi. It is an honor to et you, Alliance Leader!"
"But you... have we t sowhere before?"
"N-No. This is my first ti in Kaifeng."
"Really? I haven't left Kaifeng for the past few years either, so it would be right that we haven't t... but I have a strange feeling that I've seen you sowhere."
He said, tilting his head.
Since a person who seems to be closer to an immortal than a Taoist is saying that, I wonder if he is saying it knowing sothing.
However, he soon muttered to himself that he often forgets things like this as he gets older, and then looked at again.
"By the way... amazing. It's an amazing achievent that doesn't match your age at all. Did your master teach you well?"
Then my master, with a broad smile, answered for , "To be honest, I have done almost nothing. He was born with the qualities of a once-in-a-millennium talent, and he was also born with a diligent nature, so the result is that he has achieved such a surprising achievent."
"Haha! Hyeon Yang. Did you know how to make that expression? Anyone who saw it would think you were looking at your own child."
"Although he is not my biological son, shouldn't a disciple also be thought of as one's own child?"
"What? I never thought such words would co out of your mouth!"
The Martial Alliance Leader, who had been speaking softly until a little while ago, raised his voice as if he were a little excited by the unexpected side my master was showing.
And at this mont, the one who was surprised was not just the Martial Alliance Leader.
I was also incredibly surprised.
First of all, I didn't know that my master thought of that way, and the fact that he said it in front of soone else... and in front of the Martial Alliance Leader at that, surprised .
Because saying such a thing in front of the Martial Alliance Leader ans he is speaking his true feelings without a single lie.
"Well. I can see what this child ans to you. And also your intention in saying that."
"I had no intention at all..."
"Tsk. Who are you trying to fool? Hyeon Yang, you. Aren't you trying to subtly tell this? That Unhwi is like my own child, so don't give him too difficult and dangerous missions."
"Hmm, hmm... no. Alliance Leader. Don't we grow through difficult and hard missions?"
Although my master made an excuse, the Martial Alliance Leader let out a laugh as if he knew that wasn't it, and my master, embarrassed, scratched the back of his head.
To be honest... I was moved. A lot.
I think I did well to co to the Martial Alliance with my master.
More than anything, because I was able to feel directly how my master, who usually rarely expresses such things, thinks of .
But apart from that, if difficult and dangerous missions don't co, that's also quite a problem.
From now on, I was planning to travel the martial world in earnest and grow by finding the fortuitous encounters that have no owner yet.
To do that, I need more missions, and missions that require to go further.
Within a year.
Because I have to sohow beco stronger than the Demonic Flower Hall Master before I et him again.
At that mont, the Martial Alliance Leader looked back at .
Although he is smiling, his eyes are emitting a light that seems to suck you in.
He suddenly laughed heartily and then opened his mouth.
"But Hyeon Yang. Your disciple doesn't seem to think so. Look at that gaze now. Isn't it an expression as if he's asking for a mission as soon as possible?"
"As you know, Alliance Leader, children and disciples don't always go as one wishes, do they?"
The Martial Alliance Leader looked back and forth between and my master and smiled with satisfaction.
In his view, the relationship between my master and seed very close and good.
"Yes. I can see what kind of relationship you two have, and also what kind of child Unhwi is. To be honest, I've heard a lot about this child from here and there in the martial world. Recently, sothing happened in Chang'an, right?"
As expected, the Martial Alliance Leader is the Martial Alliance Leader.
In fact, although Minister Jeong's matter was not greatly related to the martial world, he seed to know everything I had done.
He turned his eyes and looked at again.
But that gaze is not the comfortable gaze it has been until now.
It seems as if a fire is burning, and at the sa ti, it is so cold that it is like ice, and on the other hand, he looked at with a gaze full of youthful passion, and he said, "I have sothing to ask you."
"Yes. Please ask."
"Do you know anything about a monk nad Il-won... no, a forr monk?"
Monk Il-won.
The very person who had infiltrated the Shaolin Temple to spy on , and had even gone to the Taoist-Buddhist Great War and Zhejiang Province with .
Right now, the Martial Alliance Leader has surely figured out that there is so relationship between him and .
'This might be a kind of test.'
I, calmly receiving his gaze, softly opened my mouth.
"That person... was a spy of the Demonic Cult."
"......!"
"......!"
The Martial Alliance Leader made a very surprised expression, and my master also looked back at with a surprised expression.
(End of Chapter)
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