Chapter 331 – Side Story. Dream of Return (12)

“Cheonsalseong… Are you saying it really existed?”

What? Cheonsalseong?

I don’t think I was that crazy in my past life…

No matter how much I try to remember, I was just an ordinary person.

Of course, in life, there are things that make you angry and people you want to kill, but that doesn’t mean you can actually do it.

Maybe everyone feels the impulse at least once, like wanting to kill your boss who’s always late with your paycheck or wanting to beat up your former coworker who left work early with the bathroom key in their pocket.

But actually carrying out those impulses is a completely different issue.

It’s already difficult enough to hide a crime in modern society.

Anyway, in that sense, I was just an ordinary person in my past life. I’m sure of it…

I stop staring off into space by myself for a moment.

In the meantime, Park Soo-ho, who has regained his posture, starts running towards the guy he mumbled about earlier.

The frightened opponent inevitably shrinks back.

This leads to the weakness of the group, so it must be exploited.

Papabat.

Where did he get that much strength from his ragged body?

Park Soo-ho accelerates rapidly every time he steps on the ground. This is also a mimicry of the Gugungbo that the team leader showed.

“Uh, aaaaaah!!”

But I guess I’ve learned some martial arts.

As if aiming for a cross counter against his target, he reaches out his fist towards me from my past life.

However, Park Soo-ho predicted this by only seeing his arm twitching and quickly turned his head.

Pyeoeng!

“Aaaah!”

In the end, the bulky guy who received the blow unilaterally flew back and rolled several times before hitting the wall and stopping.

His nose is completely crushed, and his face is somewhat sunken, a fairly serious injury. If left alone, he will suffocate in the backflowing blood.

Originally, he was not a match for someone who could be defeated by an ordinary person’s punch.

He was at the first-class level and had properly learned martial arts, and judging by his size, he seemed to have also diligently learned external martial arts.

However, in the meantime, my past self seemed to have found a new way to use it and put a new trick in his punch.

Saryangbalcheongeun.

Unlike Ihwajepmok, which reverses the opponent’s strength, it is a trick that allows you to exert more power than your original strength by concentrating your own strength.

Speed, weight, the strength of extending the arm, the strength of twisting the waist, and so on.

Since I received a punch that I put all my strength into, even an attack without inner strength would have considerable power.

“This bastard!”

Two bulky guys who confirmed their colleague being hit surround Park Soo-ho on both sides.

Chapter 331 – Side Story. Dream of Return (12)

Realizing that I couldn’t just stand there, I sharpened my senses even more in the face of the life-threatening crisis.

“Haahhh!”

“Die!”

Fists flying towards me from both sides with loud shouts.

Park Soo-ho was the first to dodge the incoming fist by lowering his head. He then grabbed the thick arm of his opponent.

Of course, there was a difference in physique and strength, so he couldn’t just knock him down.

So, he moved himself.

Like a parkour artist, he threw himself towards the bulky guy and tightly clenched his fist.

“Hup!”

A blow that resembled a fist technique he almost got hit with earlier.

“Ugh….”

The guy who took the hit directly in the Adam’s apple staggered, and in that moment, Park Soo-ho tripped the other guy’s leg and pulled him forward.

Pyeong!

The guy who couldn’t resist being dragged along was hit in the face by his colleague who was aiming for Park Soo-ho’s back.

A loud thud and a completely broken nose.

“This crazy…!”

In the midst of the bulky guy who had become a murderer of his own colleague.

Park Soo-ho once again plunged into his arms.

Perhaps it was because he had watched how his colleague was hit earlier.

The guy who pulled his chin tightly, trying to protect his neck.

But that’s not what I was aiming for in my past life.

I spread my legs wide and twisted my waist to the limit.

With my whole body stretched to the limit, I sharpened my elasticity…and sharpened my nails.

“Aaaah! My eye!”

It may have been a clumsy technique, but it had enough power to gouge out a person’s eye.

Although it was Park Soo-ho who pushed his finger deep, he couldn’t be satisfied with that and entangled the staggering guy’s legs with his own.

Ankle lock.

It’s a popular technique, but was it too much for the bulky guy who was focusing on the pain in his eyes to endure?

Thud.

The giant body fell back and hit the back of his head on the ground.

And he never got up again.

Crack.

As I got up from my seat with a sound of something breaking, my past self. The tip of my finger was thick with brain fluid mixed with blood.

That’s four already.

Did they get scared after I took care of almost half of them in an instant?

The bulky guys who were surrounding Park Soo-ho earlier were now circling around cautiously, watching their surroundings.

But they must have known that they would be taken down one by one like this.

The bulky guys exchanged glances and attacked Park Soo-ho all at once.

With a cold gaze that didn’t feel like sympathy or empathy, my past self scanned them.

Was it a calculation that had finished in my head, or was it my instincts whispering in my ear?

At the same time, Park Soo-ho, who had confirmed the incoming attacks, took his stance without any hesitation.

A stance that resembled the martial arts the bulky guys were using, but it seemed to have developed a little more.

The talent that I had lived my whole life without finally bloomed brilliantly, soaked in blood.

He dodged punches and broke elbows to dislocate joints. He saw through the techniques and kicked first to disrupt their trajectory. He threw himself towards the square like a parkour artist.

If there was an opportunity, he would stab their eyes or bite with his teeth. He would take unavoidable attacks in a place where it wouldn’t hinder his movements.

His fingers broke when he stabbed an eye. Even when he dodged, his cheekbones were crushed. He chewed on their necks with perfect execution better than the bulky guys.

Since he hadn’t formally learned martial arts, his movements were rough.

He was either drunk on survival or wielding primitive violence like an animal.

However, every movement had the subtlety of martial arts. There was not a single unnecessary movement.

He borrowed the opponent’s strength since his own strength was lacking. He focused his power on one point and struck the enemy’s vital point.

That’s how he analyzed, induced, imitated, and developed…and finally knocked down three more in a fierce fight.

Park Soo-ho’s movements had a clear rule.

Hit with the necessary force at the necessary place when necessary.

He had created a rudimentary evasion technique by watching the opponent’s martial arts.

Of course, the price was not small.

His already battered body was completely destroyed.

There were more broken bones than intact ones, one arm was twisted in a strange direction, and his ribs were piercing his lungs, causing him to breathe heavily with blood mixed in.

It was something my past self had done, but even I was disgusted by the gruesome sight.

However, the three remaining bulky guys were the ones who were scared.

The reason was simple.

Park Soo-ho could still move.

Physically and numerically, they were superior, but it wouldn’t be long before that changed.

“Ugh, aaaaah!”

In the end, one panicked and started running away with his back turned.

“How can we beat that monster! This, this is a conspiracy! The higher-ups sacrificed us to awaken that monster!”

“You idiot! Don’t you know you’ll die whether you run or not!”

One bulky guy quickly distanced himself despite his colleague’s objections.

Due to the surrounding Jinbeop, my past self couldn’t leave this place, but he’s different.

They should know the way since it’s their own Jinbeop.

Park Soo-ho watched the guy who stepped out of the Jinbeop with complicated footwork.

He probably memorized it, so my past self might have found a way out too.

But instead of running away, Park Soo-ho headed towards the remaining bulky guys to completely sever the aftermath.

“Ugh…why did I have to be born in this era and suffer like this.”

“….”

Instead of answering the bulky guy’s trembling words, Park Soo-ho raised his arm in a strange posture.

The bulky guy laughed in disappointment at the sight and ran towards his last remaining colleague.

And in the blink of an eye, they both met their demise.

Park Soo-ho’s talent had fully bloomed, and he was able to crush the two first-class martial artists without any special tricks.

After knocking down the last two, Park Soo-ho’s tightly closed mouth finally opened.

“Ha…”

A sigh of pure exhaustion, devoid of pride, relief, disgust, or self-blame.

Park Soo-ho, with his still cold and sunken eyes, followed the path the fugitives had taken with staggering movements.

Step by step, slowly but surely, Park Soo-ho stepped out of the Jinbeop.

What, did he win? He didn’t die fighting? Did he die before he could get treatment for his wounds?

As I shook my head in confusion, my past self finally managed to completely step out of the Jinbeop. And then…

Bang!

“Ugh!”

The guy who I thought had run away was shot and fell.

…What? A gun?

“Hehe! I thought I ran away! Die! Die! Die!”

Bang! Bang! Bang!

“If I take their corpses…I can at least save my life…hehe…”

The guy muttered to himself like a half-crazy person.

Seeing that, I couldn’t help but open my mouth in shock.

It’s not a gun! It’s martial arts! Fight with martial arts!!

Maybe it’s because I thought it was my story and immersed myself in it, but I couldn’t help but scream in frustration and anger.

“That bastard is using sorceryyyy!!!”

With those words, I woke up from my long dream.