Surviving as a Cripple in Murim

20 – Giving someone a name is (12)

“But the arm is-!!”

“… Are you okay.”

My body is shaking. The trembling of the excess is transmitted. Embarrassment, fear, guilt, and other emotions pour out along with tears.

Embrace the overhang more strongly. It’s so strong that I can’t even think of useless anxiety… Strongly… hug

Maybe it’s because a lot of blood was shed… My mind is foggy, so I wonder if it’s a previous life… Are you alive… I don’t remember exactly, but I once broke a large planter.

It was so long ago that I don’t even remember why I broke it. Maybe he got mad at something and broke it.

To break a pot just because you’re angry… It’s a messed up childhood.

But the funny thing is that I broke it myself and was startled and scared by the louder sound than I could have imagined.

Don’t even think about running away, let’s just stare down at the pile of broken potted plants and dirt scattered on the floor in a daze. Her mother rushed over and hugged me.

My mother did not even look at the broken flower pot and comforted me by asking, “Are you okay?” “Are there any injuries?”

Remnants of the past that can’t even be called a blurred memory as soon as it’s already blurry. But the warmth I felt then… Because it’s warm… Because it’s soft…

I still have vague impressions of that day in my heart.

I want to share some of the remaining warmth with the child who is silently crying in my arms, so I hug her tightly and read it.

“It’s okay… I don’t hate… I don’t hate… I’m not afraid….”

I slowly raise my head, meet the teary blue eyes looking up at me, and forcefully straighten my face convulsing with pain and smile.

“… I’m fine. It’s okay, don’t cry.”

Looking at the cartoons, I couldn’t understand why the teacher characters were so confused in front of the main character. It makes sense now.

A teacher originally only wants to show a cool side to his student.

… As a result, Gwahae couldn’t stop crying. Instead, she hugged me in her arms and cried and fell asleep from exhaustion.

I wanted to fall asleep too, but I thought I would fall asleep forever if I fell asleep here, so I somehow managed to stay awake.

Woong-woong~ Woong-woong~

“Brother! Young master! Are you alive?!”

I see several people approaching, led by Jangsam. The level that appears after work is at the level of a police officer in a B-grade horror movie.

Check the sleeping face of Gwahae. Definitely fell asleep Now you can unlock Master Mode.

As people approach, pain that has been ignored at the thought of being able to live now becomes a reality. Tears and pain pour out.

She bursts into tears and shouts at Jangsam, who runs away with her face contemplative. I didn’t even want to cry, but it hurts so much that tears come out.

“Heeing- I’ve had so many things happen. Heuk-heuk- It’s unfair that he’s a sick leg… There is no real answer when it comes to eight soldiers. hehehe – because it hurts to death. Bring the senator quickly. Eolleung.”

***

I realized after I injured my arm.

I could see why Shanks didn’t tell East Blue Jober that he had his arm cut off, but instead bluffed that she gave it to ‘New Age’.

“No?! How did you get your arm to become Lee Ji-kyung?”

“… It was actually bitten by a 10-year-old girl.”

I still can’t forget the eyes of the congressman, who was crushed as if he had seen an irreplaceable asshole in the world.

Now that I look at it, Shanks was a good fighter and a smart kid. I won’t be honest next time…

“Ah- you mean this. I gave it to the first person in the world in the future.”

Let’s think about that while looking down at the bandaged left arm. Miss Zhuge, who came to visit the hospital, spoke to me as if she was bored.

“How is your arm?”

“Yes. Thanks to you, I’m getting better…. But was it really okay for me to feed the ‘Summoning Team’?”

Shaolin Summoning Squad. An excellent elixir that contains all sorts of rare herbs and Shaolin’s secret arts that can greatly improve internal energy when taken.

It is less effective than naturally occurring elixirs, but it is the elixir of all elixirs that can only be obtained with a lot of money and a connection with Shaolin.

I didn’t get much of the effect of enhancing internal energy because I used up most of my energy to recover my body. The internal energy has doubled since before the injury. It’s not for nothing that Shaolin’s illusion is excellent.

“You may be a cheeky kid, but your baduk game is beautiful. Beautiful things should be left to the world.”

I was able to live thanks to him, but he really likes baduk. Still, if it wasn’t for Jegal, it might have taken longer to get better. Maybe he lost an arm.

I’ll set aside a day later to say thank you formally.

When Yang Jegal’s evaluation within me was about to rise vertically, Yang Jegal held out a go board and stones in front of me.

“Seeing that you are in good shape, you can play Go. Lay the two points.”

“… Sir, am I hurt?”

Let me shake my injured left arm. Yang Zhuge pointed at his right arm with his chin.

“The advantage of Go is that you can play it with one arm. If you don’t want to leave, throw up the summoning group.”

… A f*cking inspiration who is crazy about Go.

Of course, I couldn’t spit out what had already been digested, so I had no choice but to play Go. And while I was playing Go, I asked what happened while I was being treated.

Tak.

“Jegalse said that he should kill Gwahae inside.”

“… So?”

At my trembling question, Yang Jegal played Go with a carefree face.

“So, of course, I ‘persuaded’ him to say no. As I said before, I always keep the promise I made with my Go friend.”

You kept your promise to take care of Gwahae. It wouldn’t have been as simple as that. No matter what, I am grateful to you.

***

“Too much, too heavy. ~Go away.”

My cheek was pushed like a rice cake on my outstretched right arm, but it gradually approached me as if I would not give up.

“… No. Sleep together We will be together forever.”

Before, he was a kid who followed behind like a baby chick, but after the runaway incident, he tries to stick around more. Almost obsessive.

Whenever I go somewhere, I ask ‘Where are you going?’ Or when I talk to someone, especially a woman, they interrupt me by saying ‘Who are you?’.

Even now, like a bulldozer, he is pushing my arm away trying to crawl into my bed. I wondered if I should be scolding him, but the way he was trying so hard made me laugh without knowing it.

Too late to distance yourself.

In the end, my heart was weak, so I moved the seat to the left and pulled up the blanket to make a place for Gwahae to come in.

“I can’t help it. Now, let me come in here.”

“Yes!”

Gwahae smiled so brightly that I couldn’t remember his usual expressionless face, climbed into the blanket and hugged me.

Since it’s midsummer, sleeping next to each other can be hot, but since Gwahae’s skin is soft and cool, sleeping next to each other is cooler.

The problem is that when I sleep, he keeps getting on top of me. Inconvenience is also inconvenient, but I have to be more careful these days because I injured my left arm.

“If you get on today… You are already asleep.”

Gwahae was fast asleep.

It’s not like you have to wake me up and nag me, but I think I’ll just sleep today. I’m tired.

Mancheon closes her eyes and goes to sleep. Two bleakly shining blue eyes opened in the dark room.

Gwahae gazed at Mancheon’s side face with two bright eyes even in the dark. Continue- Continue- Watch quietly until Manchun falls asleep.

As time passed, it was judged that Mancheon was completely asleep. Gwahae walked on the cumbersome blanket, climbed on top of Mancheon, rolled up her body, and made a nest to prepare for sleep.

Put your ear to her chest and listen to her heartbeat.

My heart beats. She is alive safe.

Gwahae fell asleep this time with the steady beating of Mancheon’s heartbeat as a lullaby.

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A late night when everyone was asleep.

The warriors of Jegal Sega who were ordered by the elders of a faction different from Jegal Yang… To be precise, the killers, now unrelated to the Jegal family, approach the guest house where Mancheon and Gwahae are sleeping.

“It kills quickly and hides quickly.”

“According to the information, the child of the Sama family is also with them.”

A man who looks like the leader of the killers draws a sword.

“It doesn’t matter. In the first place, it is a family that has no power except for a lot of money. The old man will take good care of it.”

At that, the masked men nodded and drew their swords.

A total of ten killers close the distance to kill Man-cheon and Gwa-hae, who are sleeping unknowingly. And there were eight of them.

“Kuk-!”

The two killers, who had been fine until just now, let out a desperate cry and fell to the floor dead. In the sudden situation, while the remaining eight shooters panicked, another two shooters gave out a agony and collapsed.

Six are left now.

“Everyone gather!”

Two more people died while the sprinkler captain shouted. Four left.

It’s strange. It wasn’t such a dangerous mission. It must have been a simple mission to kill two sleeping children.

Something flashed in the dark and flew towards the sprinkler commander. He reflexively raises his knife to block it.

Kang-!

The sound of metal colliding with metal echoes in the still darkness. However, the captain stopped, but the subordinate did not.

There are only three left.

Swallow your saliva and focus your mind. I raise my eyesight so as not to miss even a small thing. As a result, the killers found a shadow of a person they had never seen before.

Ting.

A clear sound rang out and another watering can fell.

Only two left.

My mouth is dry from tension and my back is wet with sweat.

The clouds that covered the moon recede as time passed, and the transparent moonlight lifted the curtain. As a result, the face of the person who was hiding by occultism was also revealed.

A normal face everywhere, a normal physique everywhere. It’s so ordinary that you can’t believe that he killed eight murderers in an instant.

More than anything, I know that ordinary face. After receiving the mission, he thoroughly investigated the surroundings of Mancheon and Gwahae. He was obviously an ordinary servant. How could that guy…

“Jangsam, a servant of the Sima family… humming?”

“Take off the boom. You look stupid.”

Another murderer’s heart is pierced to death by an iron ball thrown by Jangsam. There is only one left now.

“Uh-why is someone as talented as you?! The Sama family must have only money-”

“Huh- Heh heh heh.”

The cry of the screaming killer is drowned out by the quiet, creepy laughter. Jangsam looked at the sprinkler commander as if it was absurd.

“The most untrustworthy tribe in the world is the Sima family. You can’t believe what you see.”

“… What the hell are you?”

“Samase is also a servant, an escort, and a waterman.”

As soon as the words were finished, iron marbles flew.

Kang-!

As soon as you think you’ve blocked it, a second iron ball flies in and pierces the body of the sprinkler commander.

“Kuk-Keuuk-!”

Captain Sprinkler fell slowly to his knees as if his body had been pierced by a hot iron. Jangsam approached him and spoke to him kindly.

“A life in which each other’s hands are stained with blood. Don’t worry about the body. I’ll take care of it.”

Let Jangsam put his hand to his face. An amazing thing happened. Even as the commander of the sprinkler was dying, he couldn’t believe what was happening right in front of his eyes.

“Yourself” Was looking down at you.

“Ah- Ah- Was it this kind of voice? Gather everyone!”

At that nightmarish sight, the commander of the sprinkler lost consciousness and died slowly.