Surviving as a Cripple in Murim

10 – Giving someone a name is (2)

“It may be meddling, but it’s stupid to just stay still. If your legs are fine, at least run away.”

At my pointless fuss, Zhuge So-and-so muttered a small word and spoke in an incoherent manner.

“I… leg… slow… “

Tweet~! Tweet~!

A sparrow sticks out its head from the hands of Zhuge So-and-so. It was a sparrow with one wing injured.

Apparently, if he escaped, he could have been caught and taken away, so he seems to have crouched down to protect the sparrow…. Stupid kid

To be beaten to the point of being messed up just to protect one sparrow. If I hadn’t intervened in the middle, I would have been seriously injured or killed by getting my head stamped on a stone. Really stupid kid

“… Then, instead of just being beaten, you should at least shout for help.”

Jegal so-and-so shook his head quietly as he looked down at the sparrow that was chirping cheerfully, chirp-chirp, as if he liked his soft hands.

“I… helping… Person… No… not even tweets… no… So… I… to help… Going to be.”

I am speechless at the pure blue eyes.

A child who is hated by the family head. You don’t know what kind of disadvantage you will face later if you help. That’s why there is no one to help.

A small and fragile body in the rain for my age. Tattered and ruined rags here and there. It is a look that can never be thought of as the self-restraint of a prestigious family.

Today is the first time I’ve seen myself being bullied, but what kind of life have you lived? I get a rough sense of it.

If I had been in the same situation, I would have taken an oil canister out of the warehouse and set it on fire while everyone was sleeping, let alone rescued the injured sparrow.

“Ha ha ha ha ha! It burns well like the forest of Yiling!!” … While saying

I am reflected in the eyes of Zhuge So-and-so. It is an eye that looks at something very strange…. The person who helps is amazing. It’s a silly life.

“I kept it today, but what will you do next time those guys go after the sparrows? It looks like he’s injured and can’t fly.”

“…… “

At the mischievous question, Zhuge So-and-so kept his mouth shut and cherished the sparrow. For some reason, Master’s words come to mind right now.

‘If you have learned, then you will teach… ‘

I look at the blue eyes that are as pure and beautiful as the morning sea. It’s nice to see it again. It is pure snow.

Yes. It’s a big deal to tell you about martial arts. I was bored at the time, and it must be something like peanuts to relieve my boredom.

Once you have made up your mind, don’t hesitate. It’s a waste of time. I ask in a calm voice to Jegal, who is restless like an idiot.

“Do you want to learn martial arts?”

The girl called Jegal So-and-so was a strange boy.

Although he was not an old man, he carried a cane and, unlike the others, did not ignore, hit, shout, or be afraid. This was the first time ever.

It was the first time I received help from someone. There were people who gave food, but it felt like someone ordered it and gave it no help. But the boy was different. He didn’t feel like someone was forcing him to help.

The girl was curious about the boy’s name. A girl who doesn’t know many things, but she knows that everything in the world has a name except for herself.

The sun is shining up there. The boy is holding a cane in his hand. And until the boy appeared, the only ‘chirp’ that he had a conversation with himself was chirp-chirp-chirp because he cried.

That’s why I didn’t know what the ‘martial arts’ that the boy taught me was, but I wanted to know more about the boy, so I nodded my head.

… Come to think of it, it was the first time that someone taught me something.

***

First of all, since he wasn’t a proper person, he ordered the maidservants to wash Jegal so-and-so and put on clean clothes.

The maids who refused with a shocked look on their faces, but let’s stab them with money. He did as he was told with a grumpy face. Also, money is the best.

As I waited in the room, a dry, dry Jegal so-and-so came in. Even when he was messing around, he thought he had a cute appearance, but after washing, he was definitely a cute kid.

Silky dark hair reminiscent of the dark night sea with white skin…. I don’t think I’ve managed it separately, but how can my hair look so good? That’s interesting.

Zhuge So-and-so looked around her room, fiddling with her soft new clothes. It was like a wild animal given to humans.

Hmm~ But I’ve felt it since before, but calling me Jegal so-and-so is annoying. I’ll have to think of a suitable name.

A strange child born from the sea with a complicated secret of birth that no longer knows the truth.

“Excessive.”

When her eyes met Jegal So-and-so, who was looking around the room, turning her head here and there. She said involuntarily to herself. It’s a fitting title for something that just popped up in my head without much thought.

“Passing and passing (過). Sea sea. Excess (過海). Zhuge and Sea.”

Did you notice that it is a word that calls you intuitively? I could feel Jegal and Hae’s gaze.

“……My… name?”

“It’s inconvenient to call someone something. Sounds like a pretty good name, how about it?”

“How to use…?”

Don’t you know how to write? What did you do without teaching your child to read and write? I have no choice but to teach martial arts at the same time as writing.

Writing plays a very important role in helping people live like human beings. Much more important than martial arts. It is good to learn martial arts, but writing is essential. So, take out a piece of paper and slowly write your name on it to explain the meaning.

“Passing and (過), passing. Sea, sea, as blue as your eyes. Gwahae (過海), cross the sea.”

Gwahae’s eyes, which were thought to be pretty but blurry and powerless until now, are shining brightly.

“… Excess.”

Hold the piece of paper with your name on it with your tiny hands and keep your eyes peeled. I’m glad you liked it.

It’s a fake name that will only be used until Jegal Se is released later and he gets his real name, but I’m proud that he likes it like that.

Gwahae mumbles his name written on paper for a long time. He looked around his head as if thinking of something. He picked up a blank piece of paper and handed it to me.

“Name… let me know… write… “

Come to think of it… I didn’t give you my name I forgot. Gwahae slowly writes his name on a piece of paper and explains the meaning.

“To deceive, to deceive, to cover. The sky is what you see when you look up from the outside. Mancheon (瞞天) covers the sky.”

Once again, Gwahae held the paper with his name on it as if it were a treasure, and stared at it intently to memorize the letters with twinkling eyes.

“Only… cloth… ten thousand thousand… Ten thousand… “

After repeating the name several times in his mouth, he immediately took up a brush and began to write his name and my name on a blank piece of paper. To be honest, it was a waste of paper because I was at the level of drawing a picture of an earthworm with ink as I had just learned letters.

But it doesn’t matter. When teaching a child something, the important thing is to make it fun at the very beginning. If the gwahae is having fun with learning to write, you can throw away a few sheets of paper.

And it’s not even my paper in the first place. This paper was given to Jegal Sega to use when studying.

Excited at the first word he learned and the first brush stroke, he watched with satisfaction as he mercilessly painted over the paper to the point of damaging it.

Great job. With Zhuge. Don’t worry about paper prices. Bankrupt Jegal Sega, which forfeited its duty to provide basic education.

Gwahae held out a piece of paper to me as if a satisfactory result came out after dozens of sheets of paper were sacrificed. On the paper, the name of Gwahae was written in a crooked handwriting.

“Ten thousand…excessive…!”

It’s basically an expressionless face, so it’s hard to read his emotions, but he looks pretty happy seeing the light blush on his cheeks.

Mancheon and Sea (瞞天過海). Cover the sky and cross the sea

How can I say it, it makes me laugh. When I put the name on it, unnecessary grandiose words came out.

As I quietly smile, Gwahae looks at me expecting something. It is the face that children show and show off their creations to their parents in ceremonies.

Um~ To be honest. The handwriting is also worm-like and the left and right symmetry is not correct. There was too much ink splashed all over the place. The paper is also crumpled and on the verge of tearing.

… But for the first time, it was well written.

I took out the medicine from the snack bag and bit into Gwahae’s tiny mouth. And gently stroked her hair.

“Something talented. If you practice a little more in the future, maybe you will make a name for yourself as a master calligrapher? No.”

Gwahae didn’t respond to my praise, just lowered her head and munched on the medicinal fruit like a squirrel.

Are you shy? I thought he was a wooden-looking guy with few facial expressions. There are also cute corners.

From any angle, he was an ordinary child who was happy to be praised by someone, shy, and deliciously eating a sweet snack.

Maybe Gwahae’s father was not a foreigner? In Moorim terms, it is Saekmokin.

My reasoning is roughly like this. First, So-wol, who went missing in the sea, was found and rescued by a foreign company after floating around. Sowol misunderstood that he had come to Yonggung because of the foreign and unfamiliar appearances and items he had never seen before.

If you look at old records, there is a record that foreigners were mistaken for goblins because they were unfamiliar with them. It’s similar to that.

And as I expected, Gwahae’s father would be at least the captain of the ship, or someone with a very high position.

Anyway, after all the circumstances, Sowol and the captain fell in love. However, the captain found out that she had a fiancé in her family, and So-wol couldn’t leave her family behind, so the captain gave So-wol the gold and silver treasures he had obtained from the business and sent her back to the mainland.

“Kuhhhhh… “

Even thinking about it, I laughed because it was absurd. I watched a lot of cartoons in my past life. Even if it’s a cartoon story, it’s a story with low probability.

Well, in the first place, this kind of story is fun to imagine the circumstances behind it, regardless of whether it is a wrong answer or a correct answer.

Let’s just let our imagination run wild and laugh. He tilted his head as if it was strange. Very cute look… What is that?

Doubting my eyes, I walked closer to Gwahae and pulled his cheek. When the soft, moist cheeks were caught by his fingers and stretched. White, pretty teeth were exposed. I have pretty teeth that are neat and regular.

But… However… It’s pointy. It is sharp like a shark’s teeth.

Let me look at the teeth with surprised eyes. Gwahae’s eyes darkened and he quickly covered his mouth. It seems to be a complex.

I’m sorry that I hurt you unexpectedly, but the existence of sharp teeth like a shark is more surprising than that.

Is it hereditary? I don’t know if it’s just fangs or some teeth that are sharp. Can a human have teeth that point like that?

Feeling discouraged, I closed my mouth and carefully watched Gwahae carefully munching on the medicinal fruits.

… Is your father a real dragon?