Chapter 41 – Chapter 4 – Why Is It Here?

“..Dare..”

-Kudeudeuk

It’s been a long time since I’ve been so angry.

His head went cold and his eyes sunk.

“How dare you use that child to mock me..?”

Even if he crossed the road, he crossed it firmly.

To dare to do something that no other group dared to forgive, in the world’s most hated Blood Religion.

To use the worst sin of my life like this.

-Koo-Goo-Gung

“You’d better not think about dying in peace.”

“Hee, hee…!”

Master. You said to be kind even to the wicked,

I don’t treat Blood Religion bastards as human beings.

The moment I lifted it up to swing the sword

– Flinch

“…”

I could feel the gaze on the other side of the empty wall.

He changed direction and swung his sword in that direction.

– Patter

The walls were cut cleanly, and fragments scattered across the floor.

And it was a fleeting moment, but I saw it.

The way something slips out of the house.

“Is there!”

I swung my sword to stun the impersonator and followed something that ran away and came out of the house.

‘Cheonseo(天鼠)?’

The black angel, which should live in a cave-like place, was flying at high speed as if it were trying to escape from me.

‘Come to think of it, even in Anhui…’

Even then, I saw the cheonseo.

I thought flying around the lake in broad daylight was suspicious and fired my sword, but I thought it was a habit I didn’t know about and I just passed it on, but seeing it appear in the current situation, it’s hard to think it’s a coincidence.

I don’t know exactly how, but it must be related to the blood bridge.

-Tadat!

Spreading light air, he stepped on the roof and started chasing the Book of Heaven.

It’s unusually fast for a cheonseo, but even so, it’s a minor thing.

Just because they had wings didn’t mean they were faster than humans.

-Flap and flap!

After I narrowed the distance to Seo Seo, who flapped her wings desperately, as if she knew I was chasing her.

“Huh!”

-Peeing!

He swung his arm wide and threw his will into the sword.

As if the sword were alive, it moved by itself and flew across the air at high speed.

– Push!

“Keeek!”

Pierced one wing of the Book of Heaven.

The Book of Heaven, which lost its ability to fly, began to spin round and round and fall.

-Gasp!

I caught it right before it hit the ground.

“Kiki…”

“Now.. Now what should I do with this insignificant thing..”

There must have been a reason why the Cheonseo was there.

It must have been there for a reason.

‘For what purpose?’

There was not a single trace of something tied to the foot to think that it was for use as a telegraph book.

I thought about the use of the heavenly book until I frowned, but at least I couldn’t think of its use within the knowledge I had.

‘Actually, this heavenly book is a spiritual object, so it can understand human speech…’

Considering the unusually fast speed during the run earlier, it was possible.

“Well… If it’s not right, Namgungse is nearby. If you ask them for cooperation, you’ll be able to figure it out right away.”

“Beep..”

The moment he stopped struggling and was about to return to the impersonator’s house while holding the drooping heavenly book

-Pop!

“…?!”

The Celestial Book scattered into a black mist and disappeared in an instant.

I didn’t see it wrong.

Really scattered

“What is this…”

‘Lee Hyeong-hwan-wi(移形換位)?’

Was it really a spirit creature?

No, even if it was a spiritual creature, it wasn’t at that level.

In a way I can’t even detect. It was not at the level of a spiritual creature that disappeared while being held in your hand.

‘Did he be possessed by a fox…’

I wondered if the nine-tailed fox, which had the ability to transform into various animals, had changed, but if so, at least something should have appeared here. At least a small bug.

Now it was really ‘scattered into a mist’ and disappeared.

“Her..”

In a situation where I couldn’t understand the reason, I decided to use the clue I had first and went back to the house where the wall was broken.

“…”

-Kkadeuk

Before going, the impersonator who had already set up had become a cold corpse bleeding from his body.

No matter how much I went out to chase, it was only for a moment.

In the meantime, there was no sign that anyone else had approached this side.

‘It was like that.. You guys have always been like that..’

In the past, blood bridges used to kill failed subordinates in unknown ways.

Even if they tried to subdue and capture them alive and dig up information, they were clearly not holding poison in their mouths, but they lost their lives in an instant or even exploded in severe cases.

‘Anyway, it’s clear that you’re in Anhui, so even if you search everywhere…’

While I was burning my anger toward the Blood Bridge, a fact came to mind.

“…A faceless ear?!”

I forgot.

When I visited this house, after asking me to wait outside, I was so mentally driven that I forgot about his existence.

I hurried out of the house, but of course I couldn’t see him.

-Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud!

“No way… No way…”

My heart started beating faster than ever.

An ominous thought came into my mind.

There’s no way the Blood Religion bastards will leave those who came with me alone.

“We need to find it quickly…”

I hurriedly started looking for his traces.

I hoped he would get tired of waiting and go back to his inn alone, but his hopes were shattered when he saw the marks he had found on the ground.

“Ah..”

There were traces of the characteristic drag on the ground.

It is presumed that he was kidnapped by picking him up from the middle, as the traces soon disappeared.

It seems that the traces were not completely erased because of the hurry, but the traces were also difficult to find.

No matter how high the realm is, it is a body that has only trained the sword.

There was no way he had learned tracking techniques.

‘..Still, I have to find it.’

As long as you know how the Blood Bridge kidnaps people, you shouldn’t delay even for a second.

Now that the man I came to Anhui just now turns out to be a fake Dan Yousheng, the real Dan Yousheng…

‘…Bloody bastards…’

-Kidduck

If you ever hurt him, he will never forgive you.

Never.

* * *

“Ugh…”

My head hurt.

After Shin So-je followed his man into the house, he leaned against the wall and fell asleep while he received a strong shock to the back of his head, so he had no memory.

“What is this all of a sudden…”

She unconsciously raised her arm to stroke the back of his head, but realized that it wouldn’t work.

– Clap

“..What is this.”

Her body was chained to a pole.

It didn’t take long to understand the situation.

I was hit in the back of the head and passed out, then I woke up and my body was tied up?

Naturally, I couldn’t help but think of two words: kidnapping.

‘Such a ten…’

What kind of lightning strike is this all of a sudden?

Finally, I thought I played to my heart’s content yesterday, but to be caught up in something like this again in one day.

What a cursed fate.

“Oh, you’re awake.”

As she lamented her own fate, a woman’s voice was heard.

Looking at the place where her voice came from, she had the impression of a sickly woman overall.

The paleness of her skin made her look like she had a disease.

“If you answer the questions quietly, you won’t see any blood.”

It’s the first time I’ve been directly victimized, but it’s a scene I’ve seen quite often in movies and novels.

And in those scenes, if you refuse by saying, ‘Do you think you’ll answer that!’, ‘I can’t help it if I have to see blood.’ It will lead to the scene of enduring the arduous torture as it leads to the lines of

“Yes. I’ll answer everything. Ask anything.”

Why did I rebel

“…”

A look of bewilderment filled the woman’s expression, as if she was embarrassed by my cooperative attitude.

“Aren’t you rebelling?”

“I hate being sick.”

“…Hmm. Well, good is good.”

A woman stood in front of me and she started asking questions.

“What’s your relationship with the swordsman?”

I got stuck on the first question.

“Who is the swordsman?”

“…The woman you used to go with. No, but don’t you know the sword?”

“Because I’ve been living in the mountains…”

“This must be tortured…”

“No, you really lived in the mountains?! They say they answer everything even if you don’t torture them!”

I know what will happen if I rebel or spit out false information, but I can’t stand it.

I really hate being sick.

“…Yes. Regardless of this. Master’s question should be addressed first. Where did you get that bloody robe?”

It probably refers to the hermit’s cloak.

“The God of Heaven and Earth gave it to you.”

“…Yes?”

“I am a fortuneteller who can handle a little bit of heavenly records, and I think it might be related to that.

Each time I answered, the woman’s expression became more and more questionable.

It wasn’t that the gods of heaven and earth gave it to me, it was something I collected and bought, but that was it.

“Are you a guru?”

“I’m not a guru, I’m a fortuneteller.”

“Then is it Sapphire?”

“He is a sorceress who handles magic that is good for Suncheon and bad for reverse heaven.”

“…I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

The woman frowned and scratched her head.

But I did tell the truth.

“Then I’ll have to ask you this first. Do you know anything about the Hermit or the Hermit? My master said that to you.”

‘…Uh?’

Hermit? Hermit?

This is the name I saw in the shop window when I bought this cloak.

A hero who played an active part in the war.

‘Why is that name here? No, isn’t Hermit English in the first place?’

I was speechless in a situation I could not have imagined at all.

It seems that there is something in this world that I do not know.