Chapter 79 – 1 Gold

“Oh, how have you been, guild leader?”
“Hmm?”

When I opened the guild’s gate and entered, Karin, as usual, was sitting on top of her oak barrel, sharpening her blade. She was a two-handed sword made of rare metal that glowed purple. I waved her hand at her.

“Was it the last time you brought a cane? Have you ever cut people?”
“No, damn it. What the hell are you asking?”

Did you cut three more after that?

The parade ground overall seemed free. There was no one there except for a few bald men cutting blades in the air. They said it was a recession these days, and it seemed that subscribers had disappeared. Business is not going well.

Karin, who came down from the oak barrel, approached me. She took one look at Cloudy behind me and then said to me.

“Who’s behind him?”
“Ah, this is my lover. Hey Cloudy, this is the guild leader.”

Karin and Cloudy met face to face.

Hmm, seeing the two of them, I had that question. Which of the two is stronger? Karin must have been fairly strong, but so was Cloudy. But in terms of age, I think Cloudy has more.

“…Nice to meet you. Can I call you Ms. Cloudy?”

Instead of looking at Cloudy, Karin opened her mouth.

“Nice to meet you. What can I call you?”
“Please call me Karin.”
“Okay then Karin-san.”

The two exchanged greetings. The eyes looking at each other were unusual, as if the strong recognized the strong. So if the two fight, who will win? I would like to see it once.

Cloudy whispered in my ear.

“Kat. I think it’s fine. Someone like that can teach you properly. Okay, I’m relieved. Glad you came to check it out.”
“Is that so?”

Did you figure it out then?

While doing so, Karin glanced at me. Then she asked me cautiously, looking to her left and right.

“Your lover?”
“Isn’t it pretty?”
“…”

Karin was silent at the boast of her lover her.

“It doesn’t make sense, but this is… What kind of talent can such a talented person be… “

Having said that, Karin examined my face as if tearing it apart.

“What kind of pair of plates is that kind of person… No, since he’s in good shape, is it okay if he just cuts his hair? It’s fucking weird. What the hell happened?”
“Well, this and that happened. That’s right. And the warlock Ms. Risha seems to be doing well. I’ve sent my regards.”
“Oh, so? That bitch is fine, but that’s…”

Karin’s expression was strange.

Personally, I thought of myself as a fucking handsome guy, but Karin didn’t seem to think so. She searched my face one after another with her suspicious face as if she was not convinced.

“Anyway, why did you come here after a long time?”
“Of course I came to learn how to cut. I got money.”
“Ohhhhh?”

She said with a sigh.

In a life-and-death battle, the job of a martial artist is just trash. It was so surprising that there was a prevailing ethos that it was manly to strike down enemies with bare hands. They were pathetic guys. The martial artist torn apart by the ogre overlapped.

“They’re like handicapped people. Kwonjuk is worth learning, but it doesn’t seem to be prioritized over weapon skills.”
“Yeah, that’s what I mean. But kids these days don’t know that.”

Karin seemed to have accumulated a lot. Let’s all learn to use knives instead of stupidly spending money on martial arts guilds. If the skill is the same, the side holding the weapon wins unconditionally.

It was impossible to catch the opponent’s sword with a golden hand. No matter how much the kwonbeop master flew and crawled, he could not defeat the swordsman master.

Karin, who had been muttering something like a martial artist, suddenly clapped her hands.

“Ah, that’s right. By the way, there was a rumor that a barbarian caught an ogre, by any chance?”

She listened to her gossip her.

“That… To be precise, I was the bait, and the final blow was fed by the Lady of Isvant. That’s how I made money.”
“It’s just amazing. Did I teach you so damn well?”
“No. When I caught the ogre, I didn’t use my swordsmanship at all. It was helpful to train my physical strength.”

It’s a series of surprises for me too. Now that she has money anyway, she has to learn how to sharpen herself from Karin.

“Yeah, anyway, I’ll have to let you know that I brought the money. I can start right away since there’s no one around and I’m free…”
“Wait.”

I turned to Cloudy. She was already sitting in the shade. She made eye contact with me and shook her hand.

“I’ll be watching you from here!”
“Look closely! Then, guild leader, get your money here.”

He took her purse from her bosom her and handed over her five silvers. Karin took it and put it roughly in her pocket her.

“So what do you want to learn? This time, I’ll give you intensive one-month courses. I’m fucking free, right now. Oh, but if you have a new guild member, you have to pay attention to them as well, so there may be times when you get pushed back.”

Karin, holding her wooden sword, took her stance. I too tried to pick up her wooden sword, but she shook her head. As I said before, when learning swords, real sword training is the best way. Sreung, I pulled out a bastard sword that made a sad sound.

“It doesn’t matter. I have a lot of fucking time right now. What I’m learning is how to deal with people again. Honestly, you can catch most of the monsters just by raising your basic stamina and strength, but that’s not the case with people.”
“Well thought of. There’s no use in catching monsters well. In the end, being a swordsman means killing people well.”

I also took a stand. It was in the posture of aiming a knife with a forward bend.
Karin admired a little.

“Hmm, it has a rather sharp taste… I guess you cut people? I like it. To improve your skills, there is nothing better than killing. If you have someone to kill, try killing them whenever you get a chance. It’s a way to rise to the top. Feed the knife with blood.”

Karin, who pointed her wooden sword at me, began to rant like that of an incomprehensible serial killer. She seemed to be tainting her mind just by listening to her. Indeed, as a mercenary, he has a unique set of values.

Karin seemed to believe that only serious killing in real life would lead to a true improvement in skill. I’m not in a position to deny that, but I want you to know that even though I’ve killed a few people, I still have a sense of rejection.

If I took one wrong step, I might die and go to hell. She’s only killed eight people so far, so it should be just fine.

“Really crazy. How many people have you killed?”
“Well… The fact that you can count them must be proof that you’re a kid. Now, let’s begin.”

ㅡPay!

At that, she jumped out, stabbing his knife right away. She aimed and stabbed her right in the face, but she simply lifted her knife and twisted the quedo of mine.

ㅡ Chaeyoung!

However, once done, it is not swordsmanship. She immediately twisted her wrist around her knife and tried to slash Karin’s side of her with the blade on her other side of her. Of course, that too was easily blocked, and with the tip of her wooden sword touching my uvula, the match was decided in less than three seconds.

“Well, I can see everything, but it was a decent attack just now. It’s hard to deal with a sudden stab in the face. If you’re a beginner, you’ll break your stance right away out of fear. You’ I’ll die in that moment.”
“Is that so?”
“What you need is training to defend your body and continue attacking when an attack fails. Since you already have enough kang, let’s just keep fighting and defending.”

It was memorization, so to speak. When you attack like this, you respond like this. And in that state, it attacks again, counters the incoming counter, and converts into an attack. I repeated that kind of attack and defense training for about ten minutes without a sigh.

“Can you get a feel for it?”
“Hee-eok… Hee-eok… Roughly. I know what it feels like, but that’s it.”

After 10 minutes of non-stop sword dancing, it felt like all the energy was draining out of my body. Beads of sweat ran down his forehead. But Karin didn’t break a sweat.

“Because a month is longer than I thought… If that’s enough, I’ll make it enough for me to continue fighting up to four times when I’m dealing with a hand-to-hand combat. Right now, it’s only two times.”
“If you have that level of skill, how much is it specifically?”

It’s Karin’s fourth time with a handshake.

“Well, you’re an adventurer, so if you put it that way, you can’t be a C-class. If you’re a C-class, you’re a learned person. They’re at the level of “Mercenaries or standing soldiers who ate a little bit of war food. It’s a little less than that. Because you don’t have enough experience in combat.”

As I always say, from C class, they were people who could be called quite strong.

According to Karin, skilled mercenaries who live until they open their eyes and close their eyes are said to have C-class skills, so you can guess their strength. Only kill, kill, and kill enemies to survive to become a good enough mercenary.

To be honest, I’m not that good.
At best, it’s only slightly above D-class.

“Even though you’ve killed people, you’ve never fought an equal opponent, have you?”

Karin pointed out to me, who was lost in thought. What she said was true. When I killed a person, it was by surprise or stoned to death, but there was never a life-and-death decision while competing with each other’s true skills.

“Ah, yes. Looking back, it seems that I only killed opponents weaker than me by throwing stones or killing them all with surprise bread.”
“It’s a little regretful. It’s good to catch bandits or wanted criminals to increase your experience, you. It’s a good experience to risk your life and fight with an opponent of the same rank.”

Fairness was not to my liking. I never fight against opponents stronger than me. When I fight with people, I tend to put up with it except when I want to win with this. Or run away without looking back.

Even if they fight, they use methods such as throwing stones or scattering sand.

If that doesn’t work, hit daguri. Win no matter what It is not ugly, but rather beautiful (it is ugly). I was a person who thought that was the true path of martial arts.

“It’s scary just hearing the fucking word. I don’t do that when I’m young. I’m learning swordsmanship to the last. And if you win no matter what you do, the person who said it’s swordsmanship suddenly said that? “
“It’s a pity. You show some talent.”
“Well, I might have a chance…But I plan to avoid that kind of thing for as long as possible.”

I had no intention of actively killing people. I’ve been to the point of going crazy lately, but if I kill a few more people, I might end up crossing a river that I can’t turn back even with Cloudy’s consolation.

As we continued our crazy conversation, it seemed like we could see the Teletubbies. In any case, first of all, she was a professional serial killer. There was nothing good about her talking for a long time.

“Let’s do it one more time. Come on. When it’s over, you can train your stamina.”

Even after that, Karin and I continued to exchange swords. In the process, I was able to learn some meaningful things. I’m sure my hands will get used to it in about a month. After the training was over, she asked Cloudy for his impressions of her.

“How are you?”
“Hmm, you did very well? Very good.”
“Is that so?”

Somehow, he seemed more satisfied than I was, so he suggested we run together. She ran for a while, then did strength training for a long time. The physical training lasted until well past noon.

After I finished my workout, when I saw my muscles tightened while undressing, I naturally said that. I muttered as if my brain was cracking.

“Muscle thumping lehu.”
“Huh? What did you say?”
“No. It’s nothing.”

It was still midday after leaving the guild.

In fact, the time was a bit vague. If you spend four or five hours in the morning practicing, your daytime hours will be empty. There was nothing to do, so I followed Cloudy, who likes to wander around, and went everywhere in the city. It was a date, so to speak.

I don’t know if I’m wasting all my money on this.

Anyway, I spent a month like that.