The World of Sound - Chapter 179
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The moment he recalled a long-forgotten memory, Cheonhwa decided on his next destination.
His hometown and the place where a past tragedy occurred.
I decided to go back there again.
It wasn’t my intention to find the rest of the memories.
Because I’ve already found all the memories I had forgotten from that time.
Because I could remember everything vividly.
‘Is that why it felt familiar?’
But the reason I decided to visit there anyway was because I had something to check.
The whereabouts of the last piece of the Asura statue that even the demonic cult is desperately searching for, as well as the evil spirits of the past.
The last thing his father put into his hands was the thirteenth piece they were looking for.
‘I’ll have to check.’
It was my father who created the statue that he called Asura.
His father, who was not a martial artist but was a great sculptor, had someone carve it for him, and when he finished, he was thrilled.
‘What kind of guys did this?’
The number of beasts was unknown.
At the time, he was too young and didn’t know what his father was making or who he was assigning the work to.
Although Cheonhwa had watched most of the work her father did from the side, she remembered that he would never let her near him when he was doing that work.
Perhaps the young Cheonhwa was afraid that he would be harmed by the evil energy of Asura.
But it was difficult for my father to cut it all off in one go.
The waves emitted by the Asura statue were not something that could be endured by an ordinary person, no matter how strong their mental power was, so the father created it in parts from the beginning and made it so that it could be combined when it was all completed.
To protect oneself, to complete the production itself.
That is why the Asura statue was the thirteenth sculpture.
It wasn’t something that someone took back and forcibly split into pieces knowing the dangers, but something that was designed and built from the beginning to be able to be put into thirteen pieces.
‘That’s a strange part. He wasn’t someone who had much greed for money. He didn’t lack for money to begin with.’
However, I wondered why my father took on such a dangerous job. He was an excellent sculptor and his salary was not bad.
No, rather, it was on the good side.
I don’t make or sell things often, but thanks to my excellent skills, each item has high value, so I remember living in a small but respectable manner.
So it was most likely for reasons other than money.
Whether it was a threat to your life or a challenge you couldn’t give up as an artist.
Knowing the dangers of it, my father prioritized the safety and happiness of his family, so it was likely the former.
Also, since the client was likely to be a member of the Demonic Cult, such a guess was even more possible.
But what Cheonhwa wanted to know was not who had requested it, but who had killed his father and taken it away.
‘Everyone should give up the idea of dying gracefully.’
I commissioned it from the Demonic Cult and completed it, so was it really necessary to kill him?
It could be that they intended to create such items through the Murderous Destruction, or to block the possibility of the same items being created again, but in any case, it was not the Demonic Cult but the Righteous Sect and the Sapa who ultimately obtained them.
Cheonhwa did not rule out the possibility that the Jeongpa or Sapa side may have done such a thing under the pretext of creating a dangerous item for the Demonic Cult.
And I thought that whoever did it would definitely pay the price.
Whether it be the devil’s cult, the orthodox sect, the evil sect, or anyone else.
He promised himself that he would wipe out everyone involved.
“I’m thinking of leaving now, what are you going to do about me, sir?”
“Hehe. Hyung, go and check. We talked about it and decided to stay here for a while longer. To check on the movements of the Demonic Cult guys and also to carry out this murderous act. Well, it’s not really a murderous act, but while carrying out the work that Hyung gave me, I realized something and wanted to improve my martial arts skills. Of course, if Hyung tells me to do something, I’ll leave right away… … .”
“Yeah. I have something I want to research with this guy, so unless there’s something that needs my help right away, I plan on staying here for the time being.”
“Well, it’s not like I don’t have anything to do, but it’s not urgent right now, so let’s contact you later.”
“What are you telling me to do? I am being asked to ‘request’ and I am giving ‘help’!”
“Well, let’s do something like that. Anyway, I’ll go first.”
“Oh, of course. Please call me whenever you have something to do! I will leave a message through Haomun and check as you said.”
Now that I’ve set my goal, I don’t hesitate.
Cheonhwa declared that he would set out again right away, and there was no need for Towang and Salgwi to go together.
They were two people who secretly got along well, but since they had learned similar martial arts, they seemed to have found areas where they could complement each other, and they said they would stay here to develop that, so I didn’t drag them along.
Because there’s nothing that needs their help right now.
Since they didn’t know how long they would stay here, they might not be able to contact them, but they decided to leave a message through Haomun when they moved, and Cheonhwa hurried back to Cheonhwadae.
Towards his hometown.
***
“Who are you? What business may I have…?”
In front of a manor house in a small county in Gangseo Province, a man was staring blankly at the main gate for a long time when a servant came out and asked him cautiously.
Normally, I would have yelled at them and chased them away, but the atmosphere was so tense that I couldn’t help but be cautious.
“No, I’m just someone who used to live here. I was passing by and had some old memories, so I looked at it. I’m going now, so don’t worry about it.”
Fortunately, the man who had been standing there for a while just looking at Jangwon bowed and left.
“A person who lived in the past… …?”
And in the place where he disappeared, the servant who had asked me had a puzzled look in his eyes.
It had already been over ten years since they had settled in this manor.
“It’s strange. It was so long ago, but I can remember it so vividly, and yet I’ve forgotten such vivid memories for so long.”
Cheonhwa, who had been spending a long time in front of the manor where he had lived and where his family had suffered a tragedy, turned around again.
He had never sold it himself, but he had no intention of reclaiming the manor, which had been abandoned and neglected for so long that it was now the property of a small group.
If you really think about it, you might be able to take ownership of it, but it was a place of pain along with memories, and there was no trace of the past anymore.
Now, it was difficult to spend time on such petty disputes.
If I wanted it, I could have just bought it for a lot of money.
Cheonhwa turned around and looked around the village and streets for a while.
Now, I wander aimlessly through the streets where no one remembers me, comparing my memories to mine.
Surprisingly, there were some things that had changed and changed, but nothing was wrong.
It may be meaningless, but I kept looking back and thinking about things like what was here, what I did and played in that alley, and where my friends’ houses were.
Among them, there were some friends I used to play with as a child who had taken over the family business and were still walking around with the same appearance as back then, but no one recognized me.
If I had lived an ordinary life, I would have been like them.
It’s bitter, but it can’t be helped.
Cheonhwa wandered around the small village alone, and Bukgungyeon, Noeryeong, and Muoh followed him without a word, as if they had read his complicated emotions.
“It doesn’t look like much has changed. Then let’s go.”
After looking around for a while, Cheonhwa must have gathered his thoughts and changed direction.
I left the village and started climbing the small hill behind it.
That’s because the place he’s looking for is somewhere on that mountain.
“… … There is.”
“Gaga? What are you talking about… … .”
Then, at some point, he stopped, but Bukgungyeon, who had climbed the mountain with him, did not notice what he was saying.
Maybe he has a secret place where he hides something?
That thought was only half right.
“Father, mother… … .”
As Cheonhwa lightly waved, the surrounding bushes that had been lush were completely cleared away.
A sharp wind swept through, cutting down and blowing away the thickets of bushes.
Then, a small, seemingly made-up mound appeared.
It was someone’s grave, poorly made and extremely crude.
Bukgungyeon, who didn’t know exactly what was going on, couldn’t intervene and just watched quietly.
“I promise you, I will find that evil spirit. And I will make him pay.”
“?!”
As he approached the tomb and leaned against it, a look of determination suddenly appeared in Cheonhwa’s eyes as he quietly swept the tomb with his hand.
At the same time, the mound began to be dug up indiscriminately.
“gaga……?”
With bare hands, without any tools.
But because it was filled with internal energy, the speed was amazing.
It seemed like he was just digging around haphazardly, but there was a special delicacy inside, and he was able to reach quite deep in an instant.
And, as I dug deeper and deeper, Cheonhwa’s expression hardened.
Is it because I’m digging up my parents’ grave?
No. It was because I felt something strange through the subtle sensation of my fingertips.
“What kind of guys are these… … !”
When they finally reached the point where only bones were scattered without a coffin, Cheonhwa’s expression became more eerie than Asura’s.
Someone has already dug this place.
They abused their parents’ bodies and scattered them carelessly like luggage.
The flesh had already rotted and returned to the earth, but Cheonhwa could tell at a glance.
What they did to my parents’ bodies.
At the time, he didn’t have the means to do much, so he just buried the body in the ground. However, the bones being scattered like this is something that can’t happen unless the ground is greatly distorted.
They must have mutilated and dissected the body.
They probably trampled on it at will, suspecting that it might have been swallowed and hidden, buried somewhere, or hidden inside a cut in the flesh and then stitched up.
And then it seemed like they just threw the pieces of the body away without any particular reason.
Cheonhwa’s spirits rose from within as he confirmed that the bones from the two corpses were tangled and scattered.
It was like pouring oil on the fire of Cheonhwa, who was already burning with anger as memories he had forgotten came to mind.
“Phew… … .”
However, at the moment, there was no clue as to who did it.
It’s not that there aren’t people around me who I can vent my anger on, but I had to endure it in order to know the full story of every incident.
It’s not time to blow it up yet.
Cheonhwa, who remembered it, displayed superhuman patience.
I felt like I was going to shed tears of blood, but I clenched my fists and looked at the scattered bones again.
To be exact, I looked down at it.
“… … ?”
Pok pok pok pok
Then we dig down into the ground again.
They had already dug down to the depths of one mile and did not stop even after discovering the remains of their parents.
In the first place, what he was looking for was not the skeleton, but something buried deeper.
So I dug down another 100m or so.
It would not have been easy for a child who had not even learned martial arts to dig the ground to a depth of one jang.
However, this is a place where they dug and dug with all their might for fear that their parents’ bodies would be damaged by wild animals.
And to keep his father’s last will, he dug the ground once again with all his might.
A day lower than a corpse.
He hid the things his father had left there and filled the ground again.
I placed my parents’ bodies on a mound and covered them with dirt again.
Now Cheonhwa was digging the ground like the child he was back then.
I already know what I want is there.
Because the tiny waves were transmitted through the soil.
And after a while, I found a small piece.
Heart of Asura.
It was just a piece, but the moment I held it, the waves that passed through my fingertips felt as if it were alive and pulsating.
In this way, the missing thirteenth piece, considered the most important part of the Demonic Cult, fell into Cheonhwa’s hands.
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