A Stuffed Cheonma in my Head - Chapter 111



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Episode 111. Save the Blind!

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I was sitting on the stairs, eating chicken skewers and looking out at the street.

I noticed some ominous signs.

It was the sound of very gloomy people, scattered all over the streets.

… … It was annoying.

They were sometimes mixed in with the crowd, sometimes standing in one place watching the street, and sometimes on the rooftops.

According to the Black Prince.

This place is a hotbed of all kinds of slander and intrigue.

There is a high probability that they are the 1st prince’s henchmen.

So what should we do?

The answer is simple.

Just crack your head open.

I am a naturally confident man.

A cool swordsman who doesn’t run away or avoid the bastards, but rather smashes them head on. That’s me.

Of course, if it were to break, I would be a wise man who would run away with all my might without looking back. That’s me too.

But since I’ve been with Cheonma, I’ve become stronger.

There’s no running away anymore.

Because I can break their heads.

If it bothers you, just break it.

Like firing a chicken skewer shell at the fat countess.

So then, how do you catch it?

There is a way to catch fish.

If you run after them, splashing around, they will slip between your legs and escape.

They swim at incredible speeds and are often trampled like that.

How can we get rid of all these desirable things?

Just make them chase me backwards.

Just bait.

Hold up some delicious food, spread an appetizing scent, and wave it gently in front of them.

In that case, they mistake themselves for predators while being prey.

Instead, it chases after you fiercely and bites the bait viciously.

It takes a long time to catch it directly, but if you change your strategy, it will happen in no time.

This is a paradigm shift.

Just thinking from a different angle can lead to such different results.

Look at this.

Didn’t they all come rushing in?

[… … long.]

Up to this point, it was within my calculations.

But there was something I didn’t expect, and that was Sir Ashley.

Did I underestimate the Knight Commander of Starvanger?

Her inaction exceeded my expectations.

Pot!

In a dark alley, a golden flash of light appeared.

She became a ray of golden light and passed through the black-clad man whose voice he did not want to hear.

puck!

She was leaning forward at an angle, with her rapier drawn back.

The next moment, there was a wall of assassins surrounding him, beyond that.

Leaving behind only the afterimage of a flash of golden light.

……thud!

The guy who forced her to make a choice was instantly crushed with his chest pierced.

It was only after she appeared on the other side that he fell to the floor.

Sir Ashley chose the third option instead of the easy choice he had presented.

Death, not surrender, but resistance.

“… … !”

To be honest, I was surprised.

I didn’t know it was this strong.

Even I missed her movements for a moment.

“… … !”

I could see the eyes of the assassins surrounding us widening.

Because he was wrapped so tightly, all I could see was his eyes, but I could easily guess that he was surprised.

It wasn’t just me who was surprised, it was also a little comforting.

[Hmm. Pretty good.]

Even the Heavenly Horse muttered quietly as if it was interesting.

Sir Ashley turned around, holding his rapier glinting in the sunlight.

There was no trace of blood on her gray armor, visible beneath her stern expression.

It was a completely different sight from me, who was always covered in blood whenever we fought.

“and…….”

I stared blankly at the knight holding the rippling sunlight in his hand.

There was a small shock.

It’s this strong.

Can you guarantee that you will win if you fight her?

Is this the power of a knight commander representing an order of knights?

Does this mean that Sir Curtis was appointed as a Knight Commander because of his abilities other than martial prowess?

“… … .”

Sir Ashley took up his position again, his face expressionless.

At the same time, they jumped up like a swarm of locusts.

“Get out of here!”

puck!

But before they could even jump, there was another flash of golden light, and another man in black fell to the ground with his chest pierced.

His wide-open eyes seemed blinded by the sunlight.

Sir Ashley, who returned to my side with two charges, immediately raised his head and looked at the men who had jumped up, then drew back his rapier as if aiming an arrow and aimed at them.

And then, bang!

I stepped on the truth.

A flash of light shot diagonally from the ground to the sky.

The straight line did not block the ground and the sky. It just stretched out.

“and…….”

Without realizing it, I slowly lowered the band that was covering my eyes.

I wanted to observe it with my naked eyes.

I watched her fight in pure admiration.

thud!

She stepped on the trigger again.

But this time it wasn’t the floor, it was the wall.

She leapt into the air and nimbly slid between the walls, piercing through the men.

It was like watching a bee piercing a fluttering butterfly.

Their limbs fluttered as the dark alley flashed golden.

It was a cruel but beautiful sight.

“Hey… … .”

As I was watching the sight, I suddenly became curious.

How do they create such ray-like charges?

I observed her with my blindfold up.

As I watched her running around the alley with a flashy look in her eyes, I observed her intently…

I soon figured out how.

[Look at his feet.]

The secret was in her feet.

It was the art of explosion.

Just before Ashley lunged, a huge amount of mana built up in her feet, then with a bang! she disappeared.

It was a charge that exploded the mana accumulated at the feet in an instant and with that power, it was enough to leave an afterimage.

Even my flight record that brought about the bloody world surpassed its instantaneous speed.

A thrust that dashes forward at explosive speed, extending so far that the afterimage stretches, and strikes at a single point. A golden flash of light is drawn.

That was her identity, her strongest attack, and her fastest evasion.

[Unstable.]

Of course, as with all attacks, the fact that it wasn’t a panacea could be guessed from her movements, which hesitated slightly after the charge.

It seemed to me that there was a tremendous amount of stress on the ankle.

When it starts off with a bang, and when it appears on the other side and stops.

It was a miracle it didn’t break.

[But… it’s stable.]

Ashley seemed to be handling the massive load well.

He was controlling that power.

If it weren’t for that, the dash would have been a one-time thing. It wouldn’t have been possible to fly back and forth between the walls like this continuously.

[Hmm… … He’s hotter than he looks.]

Explosions are inherently dangerous.

If you use it on your own body, it goes without saying.

But her sturdy ankles were able to withstand the tremendous load generated by the demonstration of the technique.

Of course, it is not a technology that was completed overnight.

[It’s also poisonous.]

It seemed like a realm that could not be reached through normal training.

There must have been a lot of worry, practice, injuries, and trial and error.

Her feet were probably twisted and bruised.

‘The principle of explosion… ‘

A sharp realization came to me.

I immediately raised my internal energy and gathered it at my feet.

I was able to follow along without any problems up to that point, but the explosion was far away.

“hmm.”

Ashley’s sunlight-like mana is like a combustible substance that explodes as soon as it gathers.

Even if I concentrated my internal energy in one place and suppressed it, it would only gather together softly and then disperse peacefully.

“Why can’t I?”

I was able to imitate the feeling of being stuck on my feet, but no matter what I did, I couldn’t get it to explode.

[It’s a difference in nature.]

“Difference in temperament?”

Cheonma explained.

[It’s not complicated. That guy’s qi is of an explosive nature, so it explodes easily, but your qi is of the opposite nature, so it doesn’t explode.]

“My, he’s more gentle than I thought.”

[That’s right.]

“hmm.”

Even so, I wonder if this explosion principle could be used somewhere… … .

Even if the nature of the energy is different, it is a shame not to be able to use it.

Cheonma gave me advice as I was feeling regretful.

[Martial arts are the learning that is accumulated through repeated contemplation. Contemplate and make it yours someday.]

“check.”

So I first put the golden flash explosion’s martial arts into my head.

With my foolish thoughts wiped clean away, I was mesmerized by her beautiful sword dance, stinging like a bee.

The guys were being torn apart by the beam of light.

She mixed in some slashes as well as thrusts during her lunges.

Of course. The rapier is a sword specialized for stabbing, but it’s not like it can’t cut.

However, because it was a charge at such a terrifying speed, it seemed as if he was holding back from cutting for fear of his sword breaking.

While I was watching so intently… … .

There were people who approached me.

The intentions of these vile men are obvious. Why would they approach a weak, blind man in the middle of a fight?

‘How dare you ignore a blind person.’

It was something that would have angered the blind association.

I let them approach.

They slowly approached me, put a knife to my neck, and shouted.

“Golden flash! Don’t move!”

“Ooh.”

The poor blind man was taken hostage.

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fault.

A blond knight who had been drawing golden flashes across the ground and sky descended.

She looked at the person who had shouted at her.

He was holding a blind man and holding a knife to his throat.

Since she was stronger than expected, they changed their strategy.

“Drop your weapons!”

“… … .”

Ashley looked at the blind man who had been taken hostage.

He had a black cloth wrapped around his eyes and one arm was wrapped in a bandage.

To anyone who looked at him, he looked like a helpless, injured, and pitiful blind man.

It was even more so because I couldn’t feel any mana.

The poor blind man let out a pitiful scream.

“Hey, save me!”

“Stay still!”

Ashley stared blankly at the sight.

It was a face as if it was looking at something extremely strange.

An expression as if one has encountered an incomprehensible monster that cannot exist in this world.

While Ashley was dazed like that.

The remaining survivors descended around her and slowly surrounded her.

The assassin who had taken the poor blind woman hostage threatened her again.

“Put your sword down!”

“… … .”

But Ashley just stared at him.

The distance between them was never close, so Salsu spoke in a confident tone.

“Go ahead and try. Do you think it would be quicker for you to pierce me from this distance, or for me to slit Iza’s throat?”

“… … .”

“I’m confident. Are you sure you want to try it?”

“… … .”

Ashley just stared at him.

“Save the blind!”

The terrified hostage screamed again.

“There’s nothing I can do.”

Salsu was determined to prove that his words were not an empty boast.

At the moment when he was about to slit the hostage’s neck just enough to not kill him in order to reveal his true feelings.

“……uh?”

The dagger did not move.

“… … !”

Salsu’s eyes widened.

The blind man who had been taken hostage was now holding the blade of a sword with his bare hands.

Even when I tried to pull it out, it didn’t budge at all, as if it was stuck in a rock.

The blind man said with a grin.

“Save me, save me!”