Learn Martial Arts

“You didn't try to fight secretly, did you? ”

“I was trying to reduce the damage. ”

On that side of the line, Seo Ming laughed with a sigh. Baek Hyun came and sat on the couch. Seo Min-sik giggled on the other side.

“It wasn't a thug, it was the East Sea. If you fight there, of course you see it. ”

“But there was no damage. Maybe some fish died. ”

“Well, there were no fishing boats. What happened to your phone? ”

“It was crushed.”

His body was so cut off, it was extravagant to want his phone to be safe. At least I'm glad you're okay. If you think of it as a good thing, you should consider it a good thing you didn't die.

“You smell blood. ”

Sarah snorts and snorts. In that words, Baek Hyun looked down at his body. The torn black hair was repaired, and the accessories didn't stink of blood from the clothes. But the body, soaked in blood, smelled of blood.

“I almost died. ”

“Lost?”

Sarah opened her eyes and asked. Seo Colony was surprised by Baek Hyun's answer. Baek Hyun nods again.

“Lost.” “What? Didn't you win? ”

“Didn't you get the video? ”

“The picture was frozen and cut off on the way. I thought you'd come back and win, of course. ”

“No, I lost. ”

Returning to performances, I retreated the defeat several times. Gummuhee did not kill Baek Hyun, he did not kill him. It was an undisputed defeat.

“What about gummu-hee? ”

Shanak asks. When he tells you that gummuhee is gone, Shanak shakes his head with his tongue.

“It bothers me. You don't even know where you went. ”

“Even so, I don't think I'm going to have any more accidents. ”

“I don't know. And how do you convince people? ”

“I said I couldn't catch him and I ran away. ”

“That's plain. It's none of my business. ”

Shanak murmurs. A sewing doll sits by his side and listens carefully to the story. Baek Hyun looked at her and said,

“Can I talk to you for a second? ”

[Huh?]

“Quiet, both of you. ”

The sewing doll flew to Baek Hyun. Baek Hyun grabs the sewing doll with both hands and raises his body on the couch. Seeing Baek Hyun like that, Seo Min-sik was frightened and asked.

“Hey, where are you going? Do you know how many reporters are down there right now? The helicopter came closer without fear...”

“You tell me yourself. ”

“What the fuck? ”

“So, let's do this. I've fought hard, but I'm a little short on strength. I've been badly injured. Monsters fled with heavy wounds like me, and I didn't catch up with them and came back as a wounded man. This is how it works.”

“Do you write novels? ”

“What am I, a superman? I'm not pretending to solve everything. I missed a monster, but it won't fly like Santorini. Tell me about it by sticking you in the right place. Don't you think colonization is better than what I do? ”

“You're handing it over to me because you're annoying! ”

“Yes, my friend. I've been fighting so hard before, so do me a favor. ”

The frowning voice makes the face of the colony wrinkle. After a moment of silence, he sighs and nods. Thinking about the interview I did after coming back from Santorini, I certainly thought it would be better for the representative to state his position instead than for that lunatic to do it himself.

“Just promise me this. For the time being, don't go around packing. That way you can sell the medicine because you're injured. ”

“What about Abyss?”

“Only people get away with it. You know what? I'm gonna get ready. ”

In this case, Seo Ming was a pro. He immediately pulled out his cell phone and began writing stories that would be buzzing in the interview. Baek Hyun smiled and turned around with a stitched doll.

“Shouldn't people listen? ”

“... well, it's a bit of a private matter. ”

In response, Shanak nodded without saying a word. Sarah's eyes narrowed as she looked at Baek Hyun's back with a stitched doll facing the room.

“To the doll...! ”

Sarah didn't beat the sewing doll for nothing. If you look at what kills and fits well, if you talk straight to the two of them, the distribution explodes. Moreover, the target is a doll, not a person.

‘Last time you were jealous of me. ’

I'd rather switch directions to encourage jealousy. Then the opponent... turns her head and looks at Shanak and Seolmin sitting in front of her. After thinking about the daily series of political fights, Sarah shakes her head. No matter how jealous I intended, I didn't want to be alone with them.

[I feel horrible...]

The sewing doll in Baek Hyun's arms trembled.

“Why?”

[I feel like I'm going to get beaten up again. If I had known this was going to happen, I would have put something else in my body, not a doll. A rock or something.]

It was a murmur I didn't know. Baek Hyun came into his room with his head crouched. Because of this, the sewing doll was treated more harshly by Sarah. Sarah had never been in her room before.

[What kind of counseling do you want?]

“Death, soul, something like that. ”

Baek Hyun sat in bed. The sewing doll in his arms flew round and sat on the chair opposite him. She moves her short doll arm and stretches her arm, and she spills a grotesque laugh.

[You've found the right expert.]

“Cancer, by the way. ”

Ursdae accepted the words of the sewing doll. Then the stitched doll's shoulders twitch. Honestly, she always gets a good tea when she talks about floating.

[Now, talk to me. I will tell you about the life, death, and shining of the immortal.]

“It's not that grand...”

Where do we start? In order to ask about gummuhee, we must start with the story of Uza. Of course, we don't tell the whole story of Uza.

The death of his wife, the sword, and the gummuhee he met in person. Until the end of Baek Hyun's story, the sewing doll said nothing. Sitting on the couch, she heard the story of Baek Hyun without even fluctuating. Only after the story was over did the sewing doll react. Peep. The head of the sewing doll leans sideways. The puppet's eyes shine differently than usual.

[Let me ask you first.]

It was the same voice, but I felt different. One day, my ego changed. The long years of living as a creed give rise to an inevitable madness of spirit. Especially the rapidity that comes from humans is difficult to deal with that inevitable madness. That's why the nightmare maker is separating himself. What is now in front of Baek Hyun's eyes was one of the nightmare makers, not the prickly sewing doll.

[What do you want to do?]

“... Yes? ”

[I heard your story. It's a very interesting story. The existence of the sword killed the Wand of Heaven. Uza breaks his sword. Uza's story ends with that, but it's not. Gummuhee appeared in Abyss, and I met you.]

The decision maker of the nightmare spoke in a grave voice.

[As part of my affection for you, I want to give you an answer. So I'm asking you. What do you want to do? No, what do you think I want?]

Baek Hyun didn't answer the question immediately. What do you want to do or what do you want to do? Those two were clearly different words.

Somehow, it felt like the words implied that what Baek Hyun wanted would not be done.

“... of course I hope it goes well. ”

Baek Hyun said with a bitter expression.

“I want an end that I can be satisfied with. No one is unhappy. ”

[I thought you'd say that.]

The Nightmare Decider nods slowly.

[As an observer of the self in this doll, you have a great obsession with the human aspect you still hold. I don't know if it's because of the perception that you're not normal, or if it's because you're naturally going away. Maybe it's broken in the process of building the power you have.]

Baek Hyun laughed bitterly at the words. It was undeniable.

[Especially in the emotional part, it doesn't stand out. You have a body and strength that transcends humans, but your emotions remain human. I don't mean to belittle it and be useless. However, it is only advice that you should go as the one who went first. Rather, it's an extraordinary case of distinguishing oneself as clearly as I do. I've seen, experienced, and learned too much.]

Not all transcendents and rapids from humans share their selves as extreme as nightmare makers. Just, she saw, went through, and found out too much, as she said herself.

Her spirit is not frenzied by living her life as a rapid. Since she was already a human being, her mind was filled with madness.

[I like your kindness. Even if it's a compromising courtesy that only those involved allow. So, I knew exactly what you wanted. You have no choice but to answer that. Knowing it's impossible on its own.]

“You know me very well. ”

[Just a few months. I've been with you for months, even if it's the dust of my whole life. You know, at least enough time to understand.]

“That's impossible, isn't it? ”

Baek Hyun looked at the nightmare maker with depressed eyes.

“What I want. Well, happy ending. ”

[You must know.]

“Everyone dreams of hope they don't know. ”

[Most of them are betrayed by that hope. It's not very exceptional. In the absence of hope, I dream that I don't know.]

The Nightmare Decision Kick laughed.

[First you have to understand this. Gummuhee, no. The Wand of Heaven is dead.]

“I know.”

[He's really dead. In other words, gummu-hee is a completely separate person, not a cloth rod.]

“... but I knew Uja. ”

[Yes, I do. But knowing Uja doesn't mean that gummuhee can't be a bonanza. The real Wand of Heaven died a long time ago.]

The Nightmare Decider moves the short doll's leg. The figure of the doll sitting with his legs twisted was so laughable that he couldn't smile a bit.

[A simple thought would be circular, but that doesn't apply. If it really is a glimmer, the Wand of Heaven can never be gummuhee.]

The nightmare maker spoke.

[Since I haven't seen it myself, I have no choice but to guess what you've seen and experienced and told me. You told me there seemed to be three selves, didn't you?]

“... yes. ”

An eye that had a horrible life.

A hesitant body.

The face that seemed to cry.

[If it really is, I think, The sword that killed the Wand of Heaven. The Swordsman. If you just listen to me, it's a special machete. A weapon with self is quite common, but a weapon with such ‘power’ is not uncommon. If Egosod controlled the owner, he's a Mage Gum.]

“... yes. ”

[The Swordsman killed the Clown Wand. The reason I killed him is because I want him to be separate. It's not that important right now. Her body died by the sword, and her soul was swallowed by the sword.]

“Swallowed?”

[For now, think about it. And... I don't know why, but it took me so long to make the flesh. Maybe I was bent under the other owner's hand a few times before I made the flesh, but... maybe not. You know why.]

Baek Hyun nods slightly. If he had, the Swordsman would have swallowed up the master again and gone to Uja. The obsession with the Sword, which I heard from Uza, was not unusual.

[I didn't check it myself, but I think it's a magnificent object comparable to the Black Perforated Wise Man's Stone. Even if it's a little sluggish, it's enough to pay for the 'rapidity’ of gummuhee.]

“... you said that the sergeant swallowed the soul of a cloth rod. Then, isn't it possible that gummuhee could be a cloth rod? ”

[That's another problem.... you mean, how do you think I should define me?]

“Yes?”

[Your name is Baek Hyun. You, you. Yeah, I used to think you might be a chaotic apostle or an Abyss Throne, but... well, let's put that aside. All I see is you, Baek Hyun. You think so, too?]

“... I am me. ”

[Yes. So do I. I'm a nightmare maker, and I'm telling you right now that I'm a piece of myself that accounts for most of my ego, but I'm definitely a nightmare maker. By the way.]

The voice of the nightmare maker paused.

[I don't remember the past, am I really me?]

“Yes?”

[Or am I really the only one with memories of the past? Baek Hyun, what you can be now is because you have a past until now, and you remember it. Me, too.]

When asked who it is, Gummuhee replied that I am only me. When asked about the cloth rod and Uzza, he replied that he did not know.

[The Wand of Heaven is dead, and Gummuhee is a completely separate person. You're... thinking wrong. You may think that the soul of the Wand of Heaven is in the body of gummuhee, but that's wrong. The human soul is very weak.]

“What does that mean? ”

[The same is true of souls, just as humans don't live and die for a hundred years. Especially the spirit that left the flesh is not worn very easily. The wand must have been a brilliant unmanned maneuver, but you were killed like that by a sword.]

The Nightmare Decider shook his head.

[Of course, even a human soul can be a long-lasting donkey or a demon if you add a strong concentration. But a human being like that is no longer who he was. There may have been such an obsession with the Wand of Heaven, but I don't know... I think the soul of the Wand of Heaven has already completely destroyed itself. Poor thing, but I can't help it.]

I said that, but the words of the decision maker of nightmares did not contain any sympathetic feelings.

[But even if the self is destroyed, 'memory’ remains.]

Terribly.

[That memory is left to gummuhee. Memory... even if it's not his. Let's move the emotions. It's like listening to someone you don't know and empathizing with. No wonder it's not listening, it's empathizing if it's left as a memory. Gummuhee recalls the memory of the Wand of Heaven and empathizes with it.]

“... then what is gummu-hee? ”

[A newly established self in rapidly made flesh. Neither the Sword nor the Wand of Heaven. She's just gummu-hee.]

“... I don't know. ”

I wanted to deny it somehow.

“Why did you do that? I'd rather be a swordsman than a swordsman...”

[There must have been a reason. I mean, I don't think he has a great ego.]

“Yes?”

[The actions of the Swordsman are fanatic and not simple. He took the body of a cloth rod, and he killed everything he cared about. And he got Uza to kill the cloth rod. If he had such a great ego, would he have? That behavior is so simple that even a dizzy child can't do it. If you destroy something your mother cares about, you'll be flattered.]

The Swordsman destroyed everything in Uza. Even when he was held in the hands of Uzza in a disastrous mood, the Swordsman said he was laughing. Then he said, "Let's go back to the mountain."

[As long as you're not a lunatic, if you go through with it, you hit school.]

Of course, Uza broke his sword.

[It is common for long lasting objects to become stubborn. Depending on the power you have, you can become more than just a bully. Gummuhee is a demon born like that, and is the sword of the sword, separate from the sword. Within that gummuhee, the spirit exists as an ideology.]

The Nightmare Decision Makes a Body.

[You wanted a happy ending, but this isn't happy in the first place. You can't change the tragedy that's already happened. Of course, it's hard to think. Gummu Hee must have a memory of a cloth rod that died. According to your point of view, you can think of her as the rebirth of the Cloth Wand.]

“... rebirth...”

[Absolutely not in my view. It's a rebirth. It happens right away, and it's not uncommon to have memories of the past. Given the origins and the spirit of gummuhee, she is never the rebirth of the Wand of Heaven. In the first place, you have to build a proper causality in order for such a rebirth to happen. The life of the cloth rod I heard from you is not great enough to be reincarnated, even if it's a sad death.]

Baek Hyun held his fist tight. With a crying face, with eyes to kill, with a hesitant body. The appearance of gummuhee standing like that did not disappear in my head. There is also a Uja saying that a waterfall is always drunk in a house close by.

[Who do you want to save?]

Seeing Baek Hyun sitting with his frowned face, the nightmare maker slowly asked.

[If you want to save the Wand of Heaven. This is the most realistic advice I can give you. Kill Gummuhee.]

“... kill him. ”

[If you kill her, you will be able to free the soul of a cloth rod whose self has already been destroyed. After that, the soul of the Wand of Heaven will enter the Ring of Yungyeong and be reborn one day.]

“... I don't think it's salvation. I...”

[It will be salvation for the wand of heaven.]

Baek Hyun raises his head and looks at the nightmare maker. I felt that transparent doll's eyes were smiling for some reason.

[You want to save Uza. It's not the wand you don't know, it's the Woman you know. You want to send your dead wife to Woo to meet you?]

“... because I think it's a happy ending. ”

[I also said it couldn't be done. I'm going to say something that you're going to hate very much from now on. But I have to tell you. Even if you don't like it, I don't think it's a pretty bad idea. Please don't hate me. At least this doll's ego.]

Baek Hyun holds his fist tight and looks at the sewing doll. After a brief silence, the sewing doll said:

[If you kill gummuhee, and take out the soul of the wand. I'll make an undead out of that soul. Very thorough and perfect. The Undead, faithful to the memory of the Wand of Heaven.]

As the nightmare maker said.

The moment she said that, Baek Hyun felt an incredibly vicious killing. The air in the room immediately froze and the furniture trembled. The nightmare decision maker bitterly laughed in front of his humble life.

[I knew this would happen. I thought you hated it. It wasn't bad for me, though. Undead has a bad taste. I didn't want to lie about bringing you back to life.]

“... if you thought you'd hate it, why didn't you? ”

[That's what I can do. I can't help it if I don't like it. If you really want to save Uja...]

“I want to save them both. ”

[Yep, okay. So let me show you another way. This is a way I don't want to suggest it. These are things I can make sure of, but this is... something I really hate. I'm counting on hope I don't know.]

“I like that. ”

[So I'm telling you.]

The Nightmare Decider sighs for a long time.

[Black Rose Queen or Pure St. If they are, they may give you the answer to the salvation you want.]

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