Invincible with Twin Swords

Chapter 55 : Why Do My Eyes Keep Going Elsewhere?

I opened my eyes.

This time, it wasn't an unfamiliar ceiling, but familiar faces that I saw.

Deoksam, Parip hyungnim, and Dam Sook were looking down at me with worried eyes.

Where is Na Yeryeong?

"You've been unconscious for three days, so just lie still."

Has it already been three days?

"What happened? Is everyone okay?"

"Don't use that power again. If you use it one more time, we'll all meet in the afterlife."

Parip hyungnim explained the situation in detail.

"So you're saying I went crazy and cut down three members of the Ten Demon Unit?"

To have eliminated three members of the Ten Demon Unit with a wounded body.

The power of the Black-Scaled Blood Serpent is amazing.

"Including their heads. Even when you were stabbed, you didn't even scream once, and your whole body was covered in blood, and you were swinging your saber wildly. I've never seen such power. I've never seen you like that either."

I'll use it just one more time!

Against the Heavenly Demon.

If I can just kill that Heavenly Demon bastard, wouldn't it be okay to offer this one body to a crazy snake bastard?

"What happened to Naeng Muyeom? Is he locked up in the thunder prison?"

Deoksam suddenly lowered his head.

"No, that guy rushed at me in the darkness."

"He was being chased by two members of the Ten Demon Unit, and when he found you, he must have been happy and ran towards you. But?"

"I accidentally smashed his head!"

Th-that's right. It's not your fault.

Naeng Muyeom met a wild bear in the deep mountains on a dark night.

He was just unlucky.

"How did you handle the rest? Didn't Steward Gwak come? I had asked him in advance."

"Steward Gwak came just in time, so we're alive now."

"It's a relief that he arrived on time. Did he bring several skilled masters?"

I had asked Steward Gwak to prepare the strongest masters who could be gathered secretly.

"He brought two people."

No, was this man's network that narrow?

Even though I told him not to inform the alliance and to bring them secretly, only two people?

"No, this man brought only two people? I was going crazy and running wild, and you and Deoksam were on the verge of death, and only two people? How did those two solve it?"

"Two people who were like two hundred people came! The Sword Emperor and the Saber Emperor!"

Ah? Ah! The Sword Emperor and the Saber Emperor!

Then the story is a little different.

It's true that he brought the strongest people he knew.

Steward Gwak has a wide network.

"Well, it must have been solved simply. By the way, how did you calm me down? Why is your eye so bruised, Deoksam? And where is Miss Na?"

"Miss Na is currently being treated for her injuries. Your eye, Deoksam, was your own doing."

Even while the Sword Emperor and the Saber Emperor arrived and were dealing with the remaining Ten Demon Unit, I had continued to run wild.

Deoksam had tried to hug me from behind to calm me down, but his eye was hit by my elbow.

"Why Miss Na?"

"It seems she knew you would become like this. She arrived late and ran straight to you. Then she hugged you, who was running wild, with her whole body, rummaged through your clothes, took out a hairpin, and stabbed it into your heart. In the process, she was cut by your Ink Blood Saber and is now being treated for her injuries."

"No, I cut Miss Na? Me?"

My heart sank.

"It's not a big wound, so don't worry too much. It's just that the place where she was cut..."

Parip hyungnim couldn't bring himself to say it and lowered his head.

"Where is it? Why can't you say it?"

"I can't bring myself to say it. To a woman, of all people..."

Why? Why are you making me worry?

My anxious heart would not calm down.

I felt like I had to check her wound right away.

I shot up from my seat and ran to the Martial Alliance's medical hall where Na Yeryeong was being treated.

When I opened the door and went in, Na Yeryeong was lying in bed, asleep.

Did she get a wound on her face?

On a woman's face!

If I had wounded her beautiful face with my own hands, how could I ever look at her face again?

I hurriedly looked at her sleeping face.

A white face like snow, red lips like flowers, a high nose, and long, black eyelashes that covered her closed eyes were visible.

She's seriously pretty.

But the wound? Where is the wound?

At that moment, Na Yeryeong opened her eyes.

"Are you feeling a little better now?"

Na Yeryeong answered, struggling to sit up.

"The wound still hurts, but I think I'll be fine after a few days of rest. How are you, Great Hero Jin?"

"I heard everything. I'm sorry and thank you! You saved me, young lady."

It's true.

She jumped into me, who was like a beast running wild with the Ink Blood Saber, and she calmed my madness.

It was a situation where she could have lost her life if things had gone wrong.

"My life, of all things. By the way, you were very strong."

It's not my strength. It's the strength of a crazy snake bastard.

"Where is the wound? I have some golden sore medicine I got from the Medicine King Hall before, and its effect is amazing. A decent wound won't even leave a scar. I'll apply it myself."

"It's not a big wound. I'll apply it myself, so just give me the medicine and go."

"No. The effect of this golden sore medicine changes depending on who applies it and how, so I'll apply it myself. I've applied a lot of golden sore medicine during my ronin days, so I'm better at it than anyone else."

"It's okay. I'll apply it myself. I'll gratefully accept the medicine."

"No! I'll apply it myself! Where is it? Where is the wound?"

Na Yeryeong stopped talking for a moment, then glared at me and shouted.

"My butt! It's my butt! Just leave the medicine and get out!"

Ah? Ah! So that's what it was. You should have said so earlier.

I left the Medicine King Hall's golden sore medicine next to her and quietly went out.

Now she and I are in a relationship where we share a physical secret.

Perhaps I will have to take responsibility for her future.

It is only natural for a person who has wounded a woman's body to take responsibility for the rest of her life.

I went to see Gwak Yohong.

Although I was still in pain here and there because my wounds hadn't fully healed, I was able to move.

"So you're saying we should wrap this up quietly, Sect Leader Jin?"

"The fact that the Demonic Cult has planted a spy in the alliance is not a small matter, is it?"

"Since it's not a small matter, shouldn't we investigate it properly? It's the Demonic Cult, of all things."

"So we have to cover it up quietly. For now, I think you should be satisfied with the fact that the alliance's information is no longer leaking to that side."

"Why?"

"The Demonic Cult, which has been quiet for hundreds of years, is plotting something. We need to find out what it is. The Demonic Cult may consider Naeng Muyeom's death as just one spy being discovered. They will be careful, but they won't hide. But if the alliance steps up and pokes around here and there, they will hide in the darkness again."

In fact, as I was coming to meet Steward Gwak, I had thought about confessing everything about the future.

Though he wouldn't believe me.

I wanted to relieve the heavy burden on my shoulders.

But now is the time to secretly find out the revelation.

The Demonic Cult has always survived while being chased.

They won't be suspicious just because we're chasing them now.

But the fact that we are looking for the Heavenly Demon must not be revealed.

If they find out that we are looking for the Heavenly Demon, not the Demonic Cult, the situation will become difficult.

If the alliance moves, the movement is too big.

Perhaps another spy who is still in the alliance might find out.

My purpose is not to win the war with the Demonic Cult and uproot the Demonic Cult.

I just need to quietly find the Heavenly Demon and kill him.

If the Heavenly Demon does not exist, the Demonic Cult cannot move.

It is the only way to prevent a war.

"Alright. For now, the alliance will pretend not to know about the Demonic Cult. But remember one thing, that I am behind you."

"I understand."

"By the way, why are you, Sect Leader Jin, trying to uncover the Demonic Cult's plan? Even though you know it's a dangerous thing."

I said with a smile.

"To eat well and live well."

I have no intention of living by following righteousness and chivalry as a martial artist.

If I go around the Central Plains and deal with bad guys, I will be respected, but it's a hassle.

After I kill the Heavenly Demon, I will put a stake in Deoksam's and Parip hyungnim's businesses and live a life of leisure for the rest of my life.

I will also marry a beloved woman and have many cute children.

But all of this is possible only when this world is whole.

The Central Plains is a place where the righteous faction, the unorthodox faction, and the Demonic Cult are mixed.

Even if you don't eliminate all the evil in this world, the world will balance itself and go on.

The Heavenly Demon is a being that shatters all balance.

I have witnessed with my own two eyes the world burning because of him.

If he exists, this world cannot be whole.

So I have to kill him.

That's all.

"Oh! Where are the Sword Emperor and the Saber Emperor? I should at least thank them."

"Those two left the alliance this morning, each on their own."

The ones the Sword Emperor and the Saber Emperor had faced were the Demonic Cult.

Since they had crossed swords, they would have known that they were the elite masters of the Demonic Cult.

"Did they not leave any message?"

"They asked me this and that, but I told them I didn't know anything. In fact, I don't know anything. I told them to watch for a while."

Gwak Yohong is quick-witted, which is good.

It's also a relief that the Sword Emperor and the Saber Emperor didn't ask annoyingly.

"They said to stop by if you need anything."

It means they will be a source of strength.

"Which of the two?"

"Both of them!"

Ten days passed, and we left the Martial Alliance.

Mak Bulchu of the Heavenly Conduit Sect was holding the reins of the carriage again.

It will be a bit of a struggle to drive the carriage to the Forest of Swords, but it's still cheap.

They said at most four or five.

I complained that we almost all died because of the wrong information, and he couldn't even lift his head in front of me.

The fact that an information guild like the Heavenly Conduit Sect put a client in danger with wrong information is not a small matter.

I now have a justification to demand information more confidently in the future.

In the swaying carriage, Deoksam asked.

"Oh! You don't have to go to Guizhou? Even though you caught the pigeon."

At that time, my blood seemed to boil upside down.

No matter how important a responsibility I have to kill the Heavenly Demon and save the world, isn't family first before the world?

"The deputy commander and the sword unit members of the Changtian Sword Unit happened to go down to Guizhou, so I decided to stay there for a while. Steward Gwak pulled some strings."

My mother is now my only family.

There's no harm in being careful.

"Now we just have to go to the Forest of Swords and complete the new divination tool of the Soul-Taking Divine Woman, right? Then we're finally going to smash the Heavenly Demon's head?"

Does this guy skip all the intermediate steps every time?

"Deoksam! It's not that easy. First, we need the one-wood that will be the frame of the divination tool, and to do that, we have to pull out the One-Wood Divine Sword."

"Isn't it obvious that you, hyungnim, will pull it out right away? You solved the secret of the Heavenly Lord's Painting, which had not been solved for hundreds of years, in one night."

When the people around me are sure that I will succeed, it's awkward when I'm not confident myself.

"The Golden-Armored Divine Turtle is ready, so Great Hero Jong will start making the divine spirit tool as soon as he arrives. He expects it to take about a month."

"And in the meantime, you, hyungnim, will pull out the One-Wood Divine Sword?"

"I have to cultivate the ability to pull it out first!"

I spread out the Heavenly Lord's Painting again.

I had looked at it dozens, hundreds of times.

Now, the painting comes to my mind even when I close my eyes.

The Heavenly Lord Sword Emperor had gained enlightenment in various places in the Forest of Swords and had left one of them as a painting.

But with that one enlightenment alone, I cannot inherit his swordsmanship.

What he wanted was for someone who could understand his intention to come to the Forest of Swords himself.

He wanted them to gain the enlightenment he had felt in the Forest of Swords themselves.

"What on earth did you see in this painting, hyungnim? I can't figure it out no matter how I look at it."

Deoksam did not understand the enlightenment I had gained from the painting.

Even Parip hyungnim tilted his head.

It's not that the two of them lack understanding of martial arts.

But no one saw what I felt.

Perhaps the Soul-Taking Divine Woman's words that I was destined to be the 'one who sees the end of the sword' are true.

Because in my eyes, all the mountain peaks drawn by the Heavenly Lord Sword Emperor looked like swords.

Because the flow of the river looked like the movement of internal energy.

But why do my eyes keep going elsewhere?

My eyes were stopped at a place other than the mountain peaks and the river.

The place where the dark red sky and the yellow earth met