A Stuffed Cheonma in my Head - Chapter 230



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Episode 230. I won.

“Ugh.”

The weather is starting to get colder.

Has it become full-blown winter already?

Every time he opened his mouth, heat escaped and dispersed into white breath.

“Ugh. Devil, aren’t you cold?”

Linda, sitting next to me on the roof of the carriage, asked.

I answered in a solemn tone.

“How could it be cold? I’ve been so focused on my training that I’ve forgotten about the cold.”

“Ugh. Lies. How is it not cold? I’m so cold I could die.”

Linda sat shivering in the carriage, hugging her knees as the cold wind blew.

As we enter the real winter, the weather has gotten colder, and the temperature is dropping as we go further north. Also, the cold wind is blowing on top of the moving carriage, so it’s strange that it’s not cold.

“So why are you following me? Go inside. There’s a magic stove installed inside.”

“But.”

“But so what.”

“I’m afraid the devil will get bored if he’s alone.”

“Don’t be bored. I’m busy training.”

“Training? It’s so cold?”

“Column. Even the bitter cold cannot hinder my cultivation.”

“Wow… … .”

“Go inside quickly. Don’t catch a cold.”

“What if the devil catches a cold?”

“I’m not a sleepwalker, so I’m fine.”

Linda tilted her head.

“Hanseo Bulchim? Are you eating?”

“It’s not about eating, but your body has graduated from both cold and heat. So stop talking and just go inside. If you do that, you’ll really catch a cold.”

Linda, her nose red, looked at me, smiling like an idiot.

“Devil, are you worried about me?”

“… … .”

I looked at Linda, who was laughing hysterically… and with a quick movement of my hand, I touched the guy’s acupoint.

Hit the button!

“Eww!”

He picked up the frozen guy with a strange sound, opened the door on the carriage roof, and threw him inside.

This carriage had an unusual design with a small door that allowed entry through the roof.

I’m currently using it.

“Eww!”

Thud!

As Linda fell onto the plush seat with a strange sound, Princess Lilia peeked up through the open door and spoke to me.

“Ashvan, aren’t you cold?”

“What is cold?”

“… … ?”

I shut the roof door behind me, leaving Monde’s grumbling about the cold wind coming in behind me.

From inside the carriage, the voices of Linda and Princess Lily, who were crumpled in their seats, could be heard muttering.

―The devil is said to be invincible in the cold, so he doesn’t suffer from cold.

-Hanseo Bulchim? What is that?

-I don’t know either. I think it’s like eating.

After chasing away the intruder who was disturbing my practice, I resumed my practice.

Swish—

He created the Seoljicheongyeomgong and created white cold air and blue flames in both hands.

I made its power very weak, and then I put it together very, very slowly and very, very carefully.

As we slowly combined the two guys who were pushing each other away as if they were enemies, they started to glow brightly and circle around like wild dogs chasing each other’s tails.

The moment it showed signs of changing into a reverse light, it was dismantled and blown away by the wind.

“Whew… … This isn’t usually difficult.”

My current level is Seolji Cheongyeom Gong Chilseong.

It is now quite natural to simultaneously emit two opposing energies.

Mixing is not difficult either.

However, there seemed to be no way to make these two enemies get along naturally.

In order to advance to the next level, namely the Eightfold Path of Seolji Cheongyeom Gong (雪枝靑炎功), you must make the two of them get along well.

If that’s the task given to me, I can’t see any clues at all.

Rather than forcibly combining the two opposing energies, these guys should be made to naturally blend together while maintaining their original appearances and properties… … .

I don’t know what the hell this is.

If you bring them close to each other, they push away violently, and if you use more force to eliminate that resistance and forcefully close the distance, they spin around in circles and make a lot of noise.

What on earth do you want me to do?

It was something that would make a ghost cry.

A state where you keep worrying until your head spins and you try everything, but you can’t even grab onto a straw.

I muttered in a half-resigned voice.

“… … I think it’s time for me to get some valuable advice from my master.”

Cheonma replied in an indifferent tone.

[Didn’t I say that if it’s an enlightenment that can be conveyed through words, then it’s not true enlightenment.]

“Still, wouldn’t it be okay to have a little clue?”

[A clue… … . I can tell you that much as a matter of duty.]

I immediately corrected my posture.

“I’m listening.”

[Try to force the two energies together like you did earlier.]

I did as he said.

Then, as usual, the white and blue ones were spinning around in circles.

It was a lovely sight, as if a white wolf and a blue wolf, who were enemies, were chasing each other’s tails.

“What is this?”

[That in itself is an important clue.]

“……this?”

[I gave you the clue. Now the rest is up to you.]

“… … .”

[Look into it for a long time and think about it. There is nothing more valuable than realizing it on your own after going through countless troubles.]

“… … sick.”

Seolji Cheongyeom Gong can be said to be a type of swordsmanship.

Its final form is, as its name suggests, a pure white tree branch with blue flames coiled around it like a snake.

So, that means you have to freeze the sword white with ice and then surround it with blue flames.

Maintaining each of their properties means maintaining a repulsive force that pushes them madly away from each other.

Maintaining that fierce repulsion, but blending in harmoniously, gently, naturally, without explosion.

How can we make a white path between the swords and make a nest on top of it?

I just couldn’t understand it.

I watched the white wolf and the blue wolf go round and round until they finally bit each other’s tails.

My eyes are spinning.

“Ahh… … !”

I scratched my head and jumped down onto the front bench with an empty mind.

Dauphin, who was wrapped in a fur coat, greeted my appearance with a bright smile.

“Oh, little brother. Are you done with your training?”

“For now.”

“But little brother. Aren’t you cold? Wear thin clothes.”

“The cold only affects the weak.”

Dauphin raised the corners of his mouth.

“Oh, that’s pretty good. It’s grown a lot.”

Dauphin must have been bored driving the carriage alone because he started talking nonstop as soon as I arrived.

But it didn’t feel noisy.

There are people like that.

A person who doesn’t talk much, but is noisy when he opens his mouth.

A person who talks a lot, but doesn’t feel noisy even when you listen.

Dauphin was the latter.

First of all, not only was the story fun to read, but it also had a calming effect when I listened to it.

What should I say? It reminds me of the old days when I used to sit around in the Sherwood Mercenary Corps hideout and joke around like a bunch of pathetic guys with nothing better to do.

I cooled my head by watching the night scenery roll by as the carriage moved forward, treating the sound of Dauphin’s horse as white noise.

Then suddenly, a question occurred to me and I opened my mouth to ask.

“Brother Do.”

“hmm?”

“I think I know that wild princess.”

“yes.”

“How do you know each other?”

How on earth do the thief and the princess know each other?

For me, I couldn’t find any common ground.

Moreover, I couldn’t help but be surprised at how close they seemed to each other.

If you leave out all the things like status and situation, it looks like you’re seeing a mischievous uncle and a little girl who looks like him.

“It’s nothing. I kidnapped her briefly a long time ago for work.”

“……hijacking?”

It was the Dauphin who said that he had kidnapped the princess of a country as if he had just come back from a short errand.

“That was when the princess was quite young. She pretended to be brave on the outside, but she was still a little kid. Eventually, she got scared and hid in a corner and cried.”

Who wouldn’t be shocked if they were suddenly kidnapped by a dark-skinned man?

Besides, if it was a little kid, he wouldn’t be able to hold back his tears.

“so?”

“So I played with her. I showed her the butterfly knife trick and she stopped crying right away? Hahaha.”

“… … .”

“That’s how our relationship developed, and from then on, whenever I passed by, I would sneak into the palace and see their faces.”

Dauphin looked up at the night sky with an expression on his face as if reminiscing.

“You’ve grown up so much now, but you were so cute back then. You were just a rat.”

Dauphin laughed heartily as he remembered that time.

I’m not sure, but it seems like it was a story before Dauphin retired as an assassin.

“No, why did you kidnap the princess in the first place?”

“Well? I don’t remember very well, but I think it was to gain an advantageous position in negotiations with the royal family.”

“… … It’s not a threat?”

“Hey, little brother. Don’t say such scary things.”

An organization that threatens the royal family?

What kind of place is that?

I shook my head gently.

“… … This is ridiculous.”

Not only was the kidnapper who played with the kidnapped target strange, but the princess who had fun playing with the kidnapper who kidnapped her and continued their relationship with him after that was also not normal.

“Ugh.”

Why do I always get involved with weird guys?

[? Are you asking because you don’t know?]

“Then, Master, you know?”

[You’re the only one who doesn’t know.]

“… … ?”

At this time, Dauphin said something unexpected.

“Oh, little brother.”

“hmm?”

“Did you say you were going to get the Sherwood guys back together?”

“Yes. We have to make Sherwood great again.”

Wouldn’t it be a true resurrection if we gathered all the scattered ones?

“Then ask Lord Monde about the whereabouts of ‘that guy.’”

“That guy?”

Who are you talking about?

Dauphin looked at me and raised the corners of his lips.

“Why, there’s that guy who’s crazy about women.”

“ah.”

There was a name that immediately came to mind.

“I know that guy is a colleague of Sir Monde.”

* * *

As I was running through the night passage, I soon reached the end.

The bright sunlight began to rise through the darkness and break the night.

Since we had just gotten a little bit away from Milgard, the horses decided to take a break and eat.

Meanwhile, Dauphin, I, and Schmidt took turns as coachmen.

Linda was sleeping so soundly that I didn’t even notice her when I picked her up, so I left her alone.

It’s strange that you only mentioned blood transfusion and not horse blood.

Anyway, since I had slept enough, I shook Linda awake.

The blood that was being drawn should have all cleared up by now.

“Linda?”

“Huh?”

I called Linda, who was still half asleep, in an affectionate tone.

“Get up, you crazy thing. You need to eat.”

“Ugh… … .”

Linda, her face half-asleep, groggily got out of the carriage and with half-open eyes, untied the harness with Schmidt and let the horses rest, while the rest of the group prepared the meal.

Since Dauphin was good at cooking, he was put in charge of the kitchen, and I was in charge of getting the ingredients.

Of course, I could have just eaten the jerky, but since I had a good cook and a princess, I decided to be greedy.

“Brother, catch the big ones! Not the little ones like rabbits!”

I walked into the forest, escorted by Chef Dauphin.

As he was wandering through the snowy forest hunting, a curious princess followed him.

As the princess followed, her guardian knight followed as well.

“Lily.”

“yes?”

“Why are you following me?”

“Just like that.”

“It’s cold, so stay inside the carriage.”

“I felt stuffy and wanted to go for a walk. And it’s not that cold.”

“… … .”

I stared blankly at Lily, who was wearing Sir Monde’s outer garment.

She looks like a noble lady who really disobeys, wearing an ill-fitting adult male outerwear draped over her shoulders.

Sir Monde, who had his outer garment stolen by the princess, was grumbling behind her, repeatedly sweeping his arms down his chest.

“Can I follow you? I’ll be quiet.”

“… … As you wish.”

I walked through the forest with a curious princess and her grumbling guardian knight following me around, often wandering around.

Four pack, four pack.

Then, suddenly, he discovered what appeared to be a deer’s footprint and raised one hand.

Lily held her breath, and Sir Monde opened his mouth wide and let out a silent yawn.

‘… … There’s no need to hold your breath.’

Anyway, we decided to hurry because it would be a big problem if the princess suffocated to death.

I immediately spread my sight wide and captured the location of the deer in the distance.

He formed a night spear in his raised hand and threw it down immediately.

Thud! Thud… … .

A sound of something collapsing was heard from a distance.

Lily, whose eyes had been wide open, only let out a sound when I nodded.

“Wow! Did you catch it?”

“yes.”

“Wow! Wow!”

The princess started to flutter and started to walk quickly across the snow toward where the sound had come from.

Her guardian knight and I followed behind her slowly.

So, as we naturally ended up walking side by side with Monde, I decided to strike up a conversation.

“Mond Sir.”

“why.”

“Is your name just Monde?”

When asked what his second name was, the man, who looked more like an alley thug than a knight, shrugged his shoulders.

“I didn’t receive it.”

“why?”

“I feel like I’m a bird that can’t be free.”

“Hmm. You know something.”

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Monde Kyung glanced at me.

“You too?”

“That’s what it is.”

“Was it a knight?”

“So to speak, he is a knight and a mercenary. Although the colors at the back are dark.”

Mond looked at me as if he was surprised.

“Have you received the appointment?”

“I got it.”

“To whom?”

“From there.”

A strange sense of competition enveloped the two of us.

Lord Monde looked at me blankly and answered.

“I got it twice.”

“Twice? That’s quite a lot.”

“The first one I received from Viscount Cambel. The second one I received from the princess you see up ahead, after I was expelled from the Royal Knights.”

“I guess you are the princess’s knight.”

“yes.”

“It’s romantic.”

“What about you?”

I replied with a bitter smile.

“I am, so to speak, the sword of the king. And a free sword at that.”

“What?”

Monde’s eyes opened wide.

“Are you a knight of His Majesty the King?”

“yes.”

“No way. Then there’s no way I wouldn’t know.”

“Oh, there was a misunderstanding. It’s not Maia.”

“then?”

I pointed to the east where the sun rises.

“The world below the cliff.”

Lord Monde followed my finger and looked east, then looked at me with a strange look in his eyes.

“… … Blake?”

“bingo.”

“… … !”

Towering.

Monde Kyung stood there as if shocked and stared at me blankly.

I felt his intense gaze on the back of my head as I walked forward.

I won.

[… … Well done.]

The sound of the horse clicking its tongue could be faintly heard.