Invitation to the Chatroom of the Gods - Chapter 77



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Episode 77 – Untold Truth (2)

Cheongwoon suddenly stands in front of Namgung Yerin.

I thought I had seen things wrong, but I wasn’t.

Anyone who saw him with his broad shoulders, manly, well-built body, and chivalrous yet attractive face would have thought he was Cheongun.

“Why are you so surprised? As if you saw someone you shouldn’t have seen.”

Is it a fantasy? A dream? An illusion? An illusion?

But no matter how I looked here and there, no matter how I cooked, it was Cheongun.

“Wow, why is Prince Yun here······?”

“Am I not supposed to be here?”

“Well······.”

I was left speechless.

“So, can I stay here now?”

“What, that… no! More importantly, how did you get here?! I mean, uh, how did you know?!”

“What are you talking about?”

“I’m here!”

“I had a hard time finding it.”

Cheongun shook his head as if to say, “Stop talking nonsense.”

“So, what I’m asking you is, why did you leave without saying anything?”

“···Huh? I already told you that I was leaving first.”

“Are you talking to me?”

“No, I asked you to pass it on to Miss Jonathan.”

“······ah.”

Cheongwoon nodded slightly as if he had finally understood the whole situation. However, he did not bother to say what he had understood.

“Since we’re here, would you like to go sightseeing together?”

It was a sudden suggestion to go sightseeing together.

“Tourism···?”

“Isn’t Akyang one of the three great cities in the world? Neither you nor I could properly enjoy the Yongbongji Festival, so I thought we should go sightseeing since we’ve come this far.”

* * *

Namgung Yerin and Cheongwoon toured all the famous sights in Luoyang.

But in fact, it was a famous place that I had already visited once before Cheongun came.

Moreover, since these were places I had just visited, I didn’t feel particularly excited or anything new.

As expected, there was nothing new.

The sights that we were seeing together with Cheongun were things that Namgung Yerin had already seen and experienced.

Cheongun couldn’t give Namgung Yerin anything new.

But why is that?

Baekmasa Temple and Yongmun Grottoes, which can be seen together with Cheongun, and Yeongnyeongsa Temple and Gwanrim, which can be walked together with Cheongun.

And now, to Mt. Sungsan (崇山), which we are climbing together with Cheongun.

More than I thought, more than I thought······.

It was so much more enjoyable. It was so much fun.

Everything with Cheongun felt new, like it was my first time experiencing it.

Even ordinary street food tastes better than any delicacies when eaten with Cheongun, and even an ordinary scenery looks more spectacular when seen with Cheongun.

Luoyang, where I roamed around like Cheongun, was a very large city.

When I was exploring on my own, there was nothing to see, but now I’ve been walking around all day and haven’t even seen half of it, it’s such a huge city.

It meant that there was half more joy and happiness left, but the more joy and happiness Namgung Yerin felt, the stronger her feeling that she had to stop here became.

Namgung Yerin······was not someone who could be with Cheongwoon.

I was not qualified to stand next to Cheongwoon, and in the end, I would only end up holding Cheongwoon back.

As we were looking around the sights, time passed quickly and the night sky became dark.

Namgung Yerin climbed the mountain path of Sungsan Mountain with Cheongun in silence.

The darkness on the mountain was thick, but today the full moon was particularly bright, illuminating the path ahead.

I was worried that a group of bandits might attack, but when I thought about it, I realized that there were hardly any bandits in Sungsan because it was Shaolin territory.

Above all, since Cheongun was by my side, it was nothing more than a ‘groundless worry’ that the sky might fall.

Namgung Yerin and Cheongun climbed to the top of Mt. Sungsan and sat side by side.

The night sky seen from the top of Mt. Sungsan was truly beautiful.

In particular, the full moon that had risen completely was a spectacular sight in itself, and Cheongwoon gazed at it blankly and then spoke to Namgung Yerin.

“It certainly looks a lot like you, young lady.”

It was a word with many meanings.

However, Namgung Yerin could immediately tell what Cheongwoon meant by that.

Namgung Yerin’s talent, born with the energy of the moon called ‘Geuk-eum’, is ‘Geuk-eum limb body’.

Considering that Akjihak’s talent, born with the energy of the ultimate demon, was the body of the ultimate demon, it was also a talent that could potentially ascend to the heavens beyond the heavens.

From the beginning, it was a talent that could not possibly be ordinary, as it was the yin energy of the moon that could receive the yang energy of the sun.

So Namgung Yerin felt even more miserable.

Even with such talent, he couldn’t even reach the level of Akjihak, who was of the same talent level.

Namgung Yerin quietly raised her head and looked up at the night sky.

The full moon I looked up at according to Cheongun’s words was truly beautiful.

The moon was brightly illuminating the night sky, creating gentle silver waves like Namgung Yerin’s hair.

It looked like the sun that illuminated all things······.

“That too… is just something that shines by parasitizing on the light of the sun.”

In the end, the moon is just the moon.

A being that can never shine on its own, and can only shine by ‘leaning’ on someone.

······I am a being that can only shine by holding onto someone’s ankle.

That was Namgung Yerin’s extreme yin body, and that was the woman named Namgung Yerin.

If Namgung Yerin was the ‘moon’, Cheongun could be called the ‘sun’.

The sun gave its light to the moon, but the moon gave nothing to the sun.

I just took in the light and showed it off as if it were mine.

From birth, Namgung Yerin was not qualified to stand next to Cheongwoon, and her innate talent was such that she had to hold back others.

It’s not that the fact is sad······it hurt.

I tried hard to deny it, but it was definitely the truth.

No matter how harsh the truth was, she could not turn away from it, so Namgung Yerin was finally able to admit it.

From the beginning.

That means I had no right to be with Cheongun.

Still, I was happy that I could make memories with Cheongun, at least for the last time.

Namgung Yerin silently pulled her legs together and buried her face between them.

“Lady Namgung.”

And then I heard Cheongun’s words.

Namgung Yerin did not raise her head. She could not raise it. However, Cheongun did not care about that and spoke to Namgung Yerin.

“The sun can rest during the night because there is the moon.”

The moon is not a parasite to the sun, but rather helps it.

It is not the moon that leans on the sun, but the sun that leans on the moon.

So, it is not that the moon holds the sun back, but that the moon shines in place of the sun.

“So I don’t think you necessarily have to become a star that shines on your own.”

After hearing Cheong-un’s words, Namgung Ye-rin finally lifted her head, which had been buried, slightly.

Cheongwoon’s gaze was not on Namgung Yerin, but on the night sky. Namgung Yerin followed Cheongwoon’s gaze and naturally looked up at the night sky.

A dark night sky that looks like spread-out ebony.

But the night sky wasn’t completely black.

The moon was shining brighter than the stars, illuminating the night sky.

The moonlight shining on Mt. Sungsan was dyed silver, and it presented an ecstatic sight as if the waves of the Milky Way were wrapping around the moon.

But that was clearly not the light of the moon.

It was the light that the sun gave off for a moment, the light that gave the sun a moment to rest, and the light that was invaluable to those who walked across the night sky.

It is the moonlight that illuminates others, even though it does not emit light itself.

“Just by ‘receiving’ someone’s light, you can make the world so beautiful and rich.”

Cheongun’s words were no longer directed at the moon rising in the night sky.

Cheongun’s words were now directed at Namgung Yerin, the moon of the extreme yin body.

And so, the face of Cheongun is illuminated by the soft moonlight.

Namgung Yerin couldn’t bear to look straight at Cheongwoon’s face.

“Really··· Really···.”

Suddenly, tears welled up in my eyes.

The reason······was unknown even to Namgung Yerin.

“With that face······ Don’t say that······.”

Namgung Yerin’s teardrops, which had been sobbing, burst out like flower buds in early spring. As expected, the reason······was unknown to Namgung Yerin either.

I just······ just cried out loud.

Cheongun didn’t say anything special to Namgung Yerin.

He didn’t ask her why she was crying, didn’t try to soothe her, and didn’t offer any other words of comfort.

Just without saying anything.

Cheongun only offered his shoulder to Namgung Yerin.

It seemed as if he was saying this to Namgung Yerin.

As the sun leans against the moon and rests for a moment during the night.

Someday, when Cheong-un, like Namgung Ye-rin, is tired and worn out and wants to collapse, she asks him to become the ‘moon’ that he can lean on and rest on.

Cheongwoon silently offered his large shoulders to Namgung Yerin. He silently stayed by Namgung Yerin’s side.

Was that why?

“Really······ Really······.”

Namgung Yerin seemed to have cried for a long time, leaning on Cheongwoon’s shoulder.

* * *

I’m not sure how much I cried, but I think it must have been ‘a few hours’.

I think I cried so much that I couldn’t even cry anymore, but after I let it all out, my mind was at peace a lot.

Only when her mind calmed down like that could she look at the situation objectively. And if Namgung Yerin’s feelings were to be expressed in one word, it would be a fucking mess.

‘I must be crazy···! I’m really crazy···!!!’

So, it was a huge hit.

I wanted to find a mouse hole and hide there. So I rolled my eyes hard, but I couldn’t find a mouse hole anywhere.

Cheongun still didn’t say anything.

He was silently looking at something, lending his shoulder to Namgung Yerin.

I wanted to check······what I was looking at.

But I didn’t have the confidence to face Cheongwoon, and now, if I saw Cheongwoon’s face, my heart felt like it would burst.

No, Namgung Yerin was certain that it would definitely explode.

After much thought, Namgung Yerin carefully raised her body from where she was leaning on Cheongun’s shoulder.

“Are you feeling calmer now?”

Then, all of a sudden, Cheongun’s voice was heard.

Namgung Yerin rolled her eyes left and right once and barely opened her mouth.

“············yes.”

Then he closed his mouth again. He pulled his legs together again and buried his face between them. Otherwise, he felt like his red face would be caught.

Cheongun quietly watched Namgung Yerin like that and said.

“Young lady, even tiger cubs are afraid of adult wolves.”

It was a word heard amidst the silence broken only by the sound of crickets.

“Just as even a tiger called Sangun (山君) cannot defeat a wolf when it is young, it is not much different in that a young lady cannot defeat Akjihak.”

His words stabbed Namgung Yerin’s heart.

But it was really strange. It didn’t hurt. My chest had been hurting so much just a moment ago, but now it really didn’t hurt at all.

“I hope you won’t be too discouraged, because the time hasn’t come for you yet.”

Except that my heart was pounding so hard that it hurt my chest.

Seriously······ Where on earth do they get such words?

Is it something you train separately like martial arts training?

Then, this is the moment! Is it like stabbing a dagger into a woman’s chest and capturing her heart?

So, that means he says those kinds of things to other women too, and although it was a bit annoying, when I thought of it as Namgung Yerin herself, I was able to forgive the world.

This is really······.

“Hey, can I ask you one thing?”

“Go ahead.”

“Back then… there was something Akjihak said.”

“What are you talking about?”

“Why······.”

-Surely your justice was that woman?

“Why do you stop talking?”

“Oh, no… nothing.”

Namgung Yerin’s head was a complete mess.

“Then may I ask you something on your behalf?”

Cheongwoon’s question suddenly asked.

Before I could ask what it was, Cheongwoon’s voice was heard first.

“What was it?”

Namgung Yerin raised her head without realizing it.

Then, suddenly, when their eyes met, Namgung Yerin hurriedly lowered her gaze. Then, trying to act calm, she slowly opened her mouth.

“What······?”

“It’s a wish.”

“···What is your wish?”

“You said that if you defeated Akjihak, I would grant you one wish.”

Namgung Yerin’s eyes opened wide like a startled rabbit.

You······still remembered that?

“That, that, that… why all of a sudden…?”

“I was just curious.”

Cheongun’s voice seemed to be telling him to look this way.

However, since it seemed like there was nothing she could do if she saw Cheongwoon’s face now, Namgung Yerin tried hard to avoid eye contact and answered.

“Okay, okay. Anyway······we couldn’t win.”

“It might sound strange if I say that this is an apology for my indifference to you all this time······.”

Cheongun thought for a moment, then quickly continued speaking.

“If it’s something I can help you with, I’ll do it.”

“······yes?”

“I have a wish. What was it?”

“Ah, no······.”

Namgung Yerin’s mind was in a state of disarray, to the point of being in disarray.

And right then.

Squeak!

Suddenly the cry of a bird of prey was heard.

It was coming from the night sky, and when I looked up, there it was. A falcon was flying around and around above Cheongun and Namgung Yerin.

“What about the response?”

The falcon raised by Cheongun, Eungseon.

It was a dark night, but the falcon was looking straight at where Cheongun and Namgung Yerin were.

As if it wasn’t true that he boasted the best eyesight among birds, Eungseon was shot down like lightning to where Cheongun and Namgung Yerin were.

The squirrel that had landed on the ground folded its wings and came up, bouncing off the ground.

Then, he noticed Namgung Yerin and stopped, as if he was walking away······.

Huh?

He nodded at the ominous atmosphere.

And once with Cheongun. Once with Namgung Yerin.

Cheongun once again and Namgung Yerin once again.

Finally, the gaze suddenly turned towards Cheongun······.

Huh?!

He seemed to think that she had gotten married again without telling him.

“That’s not it, Eungseon.”

Cheongun waved his hand as if to clear up the misunderstanding, but Eungseon just glared at him with sullen eyes.

Then suddenly!

As if now was not the time, Eungseon poked his leg with his beak.

There was a letter tied tightly to Eungseon’s leg, and Cheongun tilted his head and untied the letter to check its contents.

And Cheongwoon’s face hardens in an instant.

What is the content?

Before Namgung Yerin could ask, Cheongwoon told her first.

“The lady is in critical condition right now.”

Daughter of Sacheondangmun, Dang So-hyang.

Her life, which did not have much time left, was coming to an end.