The Reincarnation of Fusion Punk - Chapter 237



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#239. Master and Disciple >

#239.

“hmm.”

I asked.

“How old was Cheongpung when he first became famous at Muhak-gwan?”

Then Rubenka responded with a calm voice.

“He must have been considered a monster among monsters even before he entered the academy.”

“Unfortunately, I won’t be able to take the youngest title. I have no choice but to try to turn things around as a latecomer.”

“······Youngest title? What kind of weird stuff are you talking about?”

“Have you never played a game in your life?”

“Why do you have to do that?”

Van Lubenka, Lena’s sister.

There is a unique atmosphere that goes beyond simple beauty.

It’s a cruel world for the ugly Dolphin, but with his looks, being the eldest daughter of a famous businessman in the city, and being a magical genius, he can’t get lost in a world that’s already his own, like a game.

The reason I’ve been so shy since I was little is probably because I’ve been kind to everyone I meet.

Rubenka’s beautiful eyebrows wiggled like an earthworm.

“I can tell from your expression that you were cursing me inside just now. Is it fun?”

“Rubenka.”

“why?”

“Stop bothering me and go get me a glass of water.”

“······.”

Rubenka, who had been hesitating, quietly went and got a cup of water.

Chomp!

As soon as I received a cup of water, I sprinkled it on the floor. Then Rubenka started a fire and wiped the moisture off the floor. Thanks to the steam and the heat of the fire, the dry room became warm.

“The weather is dry and chilly these days. That’s right.”

“······huh.”

“Go and get me a glass of lukewarm water to quench my thirst.”

“······Yeah, shit.”

“Should I use fire instead of water too?”

“······I’ll get it to you quickly.”

Because of her past, Rubenka hurried to get water. I had this kind of time to socialize periodically. We, who had been awkward with each other as a vertical relationship between the youngest servant and the rich girl, are changing into a horizontal relationship that doesn’t care about water or fire.

“Mary, I heard you’ve been training with Dylan lately. How’s it going?”

Mary, the android who serves Rubenka, responded.

“Yeah. I think he’s more satisfied than when he was learning at the Academy. He’s serious about it because his personality is similar to that of a magician. Sometimes, he even seems like a master and disciple.”

As expected, she was a woman born with the fate of a violent warlord.

Still, it is worth praising the fact that you are training magic with Dylan, a level 9 high-ranking magician.

Dylan is also a man who uses fire magic to the extreme. As talented magicians, he is very intelligent, so there is something to learn from each other.

Mary said.

“And after receiving the Ban Bio Company’s business back from Sacheon Dangga Corporation, Lena’s complexion brightened a little. It’s possible that this has had a positive effect on Rubenka’s psychology.”

“Okay, I’ll go now.”

I got up and left Rubenka behind, who had run to get water.

I can see cars going to work outside the window.

As the weather got colder, the amount of smoke being pushed onto the roadside was greater than usual.

It was three months since I met my first disciple.

‘You said four months… so now there’s only one month left.’

* * *

A restaurant at the edge of the central district of Ragnarok City.

Puhaha—

The tavern was unusually crowded and noisy today. Every single one of the twenty or so tables was occupied. That was understandable, because it was the day when the six thousand or so selectors of the company would pour out after receiving permission to go out once every two weeks.

“Listen. It was when I was a hunter.”

A middle-aged man with bulging arms is talking drunk. His face is so red, redder than a strawberry, that you’d believe he’s a bandit who jumped out of the screen.

“Usually, the strength of a corpse is proportional to the age. However, there are times when it jumps. That is when corpses that have eaten enough humans to fill their bellies transform.”

“Pervert? Is that what it means to be completely transformed as a human?”

“Not similar.”

The middle-aged man nodded. He was undoubtedly a body hunter, and a skilled person who passed the first 100 selections. As a hunter, his personality was not twisted, so everyone was focused on him.

“Even a sloppy corpse can become quite powerful if it successfully undergoes one transformation. And the corpses that become stronger in this way don’t just end with one. They also eat people somewhere and enter the eggshell. Like a human who has attained enlightenment, they continue to evolve and evolve. That’s why it’s natural for humans to be pushed back.”

Someone asked.

“So if you eat a lot of people and go to a quiet place and continue to transform, you’ll become a huge monster? Like the named entities?”

“No. It’s not always a success. This is an extreme story, but since they’ve eaten a lot of people and accumulated nutrients, there are cases where corpses that smell the scent attack and eat them. If the eggshell breaks and the transformation fails, they just lose all their energy and die inside.”

He took a sip of his drink and continued speaking.

“But the problem is that those who have transformed through feeding on humans are particularly cunning and persistent. With their increased strength, they seek out more prey. This is what I heard from my senior hunters.”

“It’s scary······.”

“But there’s no need to be afraid. All the martial arts skills that Ban Company has provided are considered peerless. Those who run away in fear during a fight will die first.”

In their conversation.

“······.”

A seat next to a pillar in the corner of the bar.

As he was rummaging through the soup alone, Yu Baek’s ears kept perking up.

I couldn’t go out for three months and just stayed home to practice. I was already in a bad situation, so I didn’t have enough free time to carelessly skip practice and go out to play.

So today is Meng Yu-baek’s monumental first outing.

Luckily, as soon as he got outside, he ran into the selectors from the Van Company that he had been curious about. And because he found their stories quite interesting, Yu-Baek listened halfway through filling his stomach.

‘As expected, everyone learns things differently.’

Hahaha!

After that, the selectors of the anti-company chattered about this and that and filled their bellies with alcohol. Since the anti-company and Ragnarok advocated freedom, there didn’t seem to be any rigid hierarchy among the selectors receiving training. After all, the process of learning new things every day must be enjoyable······.

That was when.

There was a quiet whispering coming from another table.

— By the way, I heard that our selectors might be mobilized for the punitive expedition soon.

At the suspiciously whispering sound, Yu-Baek’s ears opened wider.

— So you’re finally going to make me do something. But where did you hear that story?

— Shall I tell you that? I have to hear it somewhere.

— Subjugation······Honestly, I’m still scared of fighting corpses. Surely they wouldn’t drag me here by force.

— Anyway, I’m going to stop here and go. Heh heh.

– what?

— Think about it. We have already received the excellent martial arts chips and essences they promised. Our selected group has been given essences above intermediate level. We have gained enough internal energy in the past three months, so there is no way we can just be dragged to a place like a subjugation and die a pitiful death.

“······?”

Yoo Baek’s face was dyed with the utmost absurdity.

Are you saying that you’ve already got everything you need, so you’re going to run away?

The face of the man who said that was full of unfounded confidence. The man who was whispering along with him spoke with concern.

—······Hey. What if I get caught?

— Are you kidding me? That’s funny. Half Company is a company that only acts as king within Ragnarok City. If they go to another city on a cargo carrier, what are they going to do? Do you think the Twelve Emperors will come after me to catch me? Last time I went out, I got drunk and got into a fight, so I cut my friend down with a single sword. They pretend to give everything to others, but they’re really heartless bastards.

— No, that’s because he beat up a person······.

— Shut up. I have to drink now, so don’t talk to me. I won’t talk to you again, so keep your mouth shut.

— Hey, how many cargo carrier tickets did you get?

— Now I can finally understand.

“······.”

Their whispering conversation made my hair stand on end.

It’s not that the company forcibly selected them. The company treated the selectors with very good conditions and treatment. No company in the Federation recruits employees in such a drastic way.

Those who only try to take advantage of that favor.

Most of the residents have cleared out all their assets and come all the way to the distant Ragnarok City. There must have been many residents who wanted to be chosen more desperately than they did. Of course, each of their goals would be different, but once they have been chosen, shouldn’t there be some basic morality?

How could you apply with such a light mind······.

— Especially that crazy person from the Twelve, I can’t believe it at all. What good is having so many heroic tales? If you look closely, there are far more crazy things he’s done. In the end, just like Odin, he’s a lunatic who doesn’t know when or what he’ll do if he doesn’t like it. How many people did Loki save? He abandoned them all, how many hundreds? What if he uses the selectors as meat shields and sweeps away all the essence and achievements?

In that moment, Yu-Baek’s eyes sank.

“hey.”

“?”

Before they knew it, Yu Baek was standing right in front of them, whispering.

A man as big as a bear and a short man next to him.

Those who had been chatting away until just a moment ago closed their mouths as if nothing had happened and asked.

“What are you doing all of a sudden, kid? You’re ruining the taste of the drink.”

Yu Baek scratched his head and asked a question right away.

“Have you ever talked to the Twelve?”

“With the Twelve? Are you there?”

“So you’re saying that you’re going to run away in fear without even knowing much about it?”

“······Hey, did this kid just turn around?”

Knock knock—

The large man who had been regarded as a sibbi suddenly stood up. Then, he looked down on Yu Baek, who was two or three times smaller than him, as if ignoring him. His gaze lingered for a moment on the waistband where the scabbard was hanging, but it was only for a moment.

“Of course there wouldn’t be a brat like you among the top hundred, so you must be one of the five thousand, the lowest-level selectors. It seems like you’re really drunk after drinking alone during the day. Judging from the way you’re talking nonsense.”

The large man was in the second selection group of one thousand people.

And from the beginning, he was a level 4 man. He wasn’t one of the first hundred selected, but he was a man who boasted strength within the group of a thousand.

“······.”

Rather, Yu-baek frowned at the man’s spirit of acting so arrogantly, but his hearing had gotten better recently and he could even hear the sound of ants crawling. So he couldn’t have misheard. He opened his mouth without backing down.

“I smell alcohol. I don’t think I’m the one drunk. I even recorded it.”

Actually, I didn’t record it, but that’s what I said.

As the voice grew louder, attention began to gather.

Okay then.

“···This little bastard doesn’t even know what he’s doing!”

The big man waved his arms threateningly, as if he wanted to sort out the situation as quickly as possible. The big man was already a level 4 man before he entered the company.

Phew!

A palm larger than Yu Baek’s head was directed at her cheek. The strong wind pressure made her hair disheveled before it even touched her.

however.

Tub.

Yu Baek grabbed the thick wrist so easily.

“Ugh!”

A short, loud scream filled the noisy bar with silence.

“······If that’s the case, you shouldn’t have taken up the seat at least. How can you act so fatally like that? It’s embarrassing.”

At that moment, a young voice echoed clearly. At that voice that had settled somewhere, all the other tables’ eyes turned towards Yu-baek.

A boy with a big, struggling body and a light grip on his wrist.

Naturally, a curious voice came out from the crowd.

— What a brat······

— That big guy, wasn’t he a level 4 drone?

— It’s been a while since I reached level 5. I’m the guy who was bragging about being a thousand-man general.

— Then what about that kid? I’m seeing his face for the first time.

“······.”

The number of curious eyes watching is increasing. Like the onlookers at the bar, they seem to be hoping that the fight will become a little more heated.

Sigh.

It was his first time going out, but Yu-baek, who didn’t want to get involved in an accident from the first day, eventually let go of his tightly held wrist.

“Don’t talk carelessly next time.”

Kkwaduk!

“—!”

When he relaxed his grip, the large man’s wrist was sunken in the shape of Yubaek’s fingers.

With his face pale and his wrists dangling awkwardly, the large man fell down without even screaming in pain. Sweat ran down his back, as he had never thought he would be so frail.

Now everyone in the bar was looking at him. Even the middle-aged man with visibly torn arms, a former body hunter, was staring blankly at Yu Baek.

“······ha.”

Suddenly, Yu Baek felt guilty and ashamed, thinking that he had used his power against a weak person. The Wireless Earth God Art that his master had taught him. As his mastery of that strange technique deepened, he felt that even in situations where he was angry, his heart became weaker.

Yoo Baek was a cold rice within the company, unable to say a word properly. He felt like a pathetic person, already showing off his strength after only learning martial arts for three months.

If the master is criticized, will the disciple do the same thing?

I felt like something had faded. I didn’t learn martial arts just to show off······.

Soon, Yu Baek ran away from the restaurant.

There was still some soup left on the table that hadn’t cooled down yet.

* * *

Other people. No. Not other people.

Even in the eyes of the selectors who immediately benefited from the anti-company······Is the Master really that crazy?

Because I am a disciple, am I unable to properly see the other side of my master?

Yu Baek, who was lost in such thoughts, suddenly opened his mouth. It was after he returned from going out and finished his evening training.

“Master.”

“uh.”

“When can I learn the next sword?”

“Yubaek-ah.”

“yes.”

Gulp—

“You went out and didn’t eat?”

“Oh, I ate it. Red soup.”

“Tangsuyuk is good. That must have been pretty tasty.”

“yes.”

“Since you’re already out, why don’t you pack something for me too?”

“······ah.”

Yu-baek was left speechless by the master’s earnest mumbling. However, if it ended up like this, it would just be passed over again, and he didn’t like that. After spending almost every day with him for three months, he knew what the master would do next. This won’t do. I have to go eat right away. He’ll just leave without saying anything.

In the end, with the thought that “I don’t know either!”, Yu Baek opened his mouth.

“Some people say that the Master is crazy.”

“It’s that guy Rudolph.”

“No. He’s a man who kills people when he doesn’t like it, and he’s a man who, although he’s skilled, you never know when he’ll do something.”

“That’s very objective.”

“Master.”

Yubaek stared at Revan with sunken eyes.

“I heard that there will be a punitive expedition some time soon.”

“Yeah, that’s right.”

“I want to go too.”

“Okay then.”

“······.”

At Revan’s cheerful answer, Yubaek spoke in a loud voice.

“Why doesn’t the teacher ever say anything unpleasant?”

“If the top and bottom are tied together, it will be difficult to move forward later. Let’s move from a vertical structure to a horizontal relationship.”

The teacher sometimes spoke incomprehensibly. Words that came out of his own firm world without any editing. However, now that he had gotten used to such things, Yu-baek continued speaking right away.

“Other people are worried that my martial arts talents will be in vain. Why are you so indifferent, Master?”

“What? You knew that?”

“Master. Do you think I’m a fool? I might be fooled for two months, but the time that has passed has already been three months.”

“I found out today. Which guy is the worst actor?”

“This is Brother Vance.”

“I knew that. He’s just less fit.”

There was a brief silence.

Revan, who was sitting next to Yu Baek, opened his mouth immediately.

“Yubaek. Do you know why I beat up that Dolph?”

“······Are you bothering me?”

“Mind. For the stability of mind and body. To regain my sanity. My past teacher was also a madman and did the same. However, your mind is pure, unlike my teacher or me. Furthermore, you learned the Wireless Earth God Art early on, so your mind and body are stable. You also achieve quickly. That’s why I don’t really need to beat you up.”

“······.”

Revan’s indifferent eyes scanned Yubaek.

Even though they were close disciples, their eyes were not easily understandable no matter when they saw each other. It seemed like the teacher’s words would not end there, but Yu Baek threw out what he wanted to say.

“It’s strange. After learning the mind method, I feel like my mind has become weaker for some reason. Today, I accidentally broke a man’s wrist, and I feel very ashamed and guilty.”

Then the teacher answered with a face that seemed to say, “Of course.”

“It’s not that it’s weakened. It’s that it’s filled with harmony.”

“······?”

“Yoo Baek-ah. If you make a person sick and then laugh and show off your strength, you’ve become dull. Even things that don’t matter are the same. It’s not that you’re strong, you’ve been cut down and cut down, so you’ve become dull. If you make a mistake, you’ll become a crazy person who can’t easily recover. If you have nothing more to cut down, and you’re completely empty inside, your feelings will quickly become distorted. Just like me who’s hungry because I didn’t eat the tangsuyuk on time.”

“······.”

“You only need to hone your martial arts. It is normal for you to be shaken by the thought that I am a crazy person. Just look at what you want to see. Then it will be filled on its own. That is the right path.”

“To my eyes, you don’t seem like a crazy person, Master. Except when you hit your brother—”

“If you haven’t seen that side of him, then that’s enough. I’m glad I haven’t shown him anything I haven’t seen before to my first disciple.”

“······.”

Yu Baek had vague imaginations in the past.

At that time, I thought that the existence of Muin was a swordsman who wandered the world with a single sword. They were special masters who influenced the times with a single sword, who pursued enlightenment of ascension that ordinary people could not even approach, and who polished their skills in order to come to the world one day.

“······.”

However, the master he had become acquainted with by chance seemed a little different from what Yu Baek had imagined in the past. If you take away his incredible power and the aura he gave off without anyone knowing, he seemed like someone you could see on the street quite often.

······As I was thinking about those things, some time passed.

Before I knew it.

Yu-Baek, who had come out of his thoughts, raised his head. He saw his master sitting silently on the ridge where bamboo shoots were growing. A short time. He didn’t know what had changed, but Yu-Baek asked the question he had asked earlier.

“Master.”

“okay.”

“When can I learn the next sword?”

Okay then.

The master of milk, Revan, answered with a haha—laugh.

“A month will do.”

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