Chapter 531 – Hard Liquor -2-

“While living in various worlds, there must be a name that you particularly cherish.”

“···.”

Putting down his clinking glass of wine, Musin raised his head and looked at the roof of Jeonggak.

‘Is it the name? I’m curious about something unexpected…’

It’s not like it doesn’t exist.

Like Roman, he was born a mortal who was trapped in a bondage. It is not a case of having an expensive true name like the creators.

There is no problem if you let us know.

Nevertheless, I think about it carefully.

Regardless of your intention, it reminds you of a piece of the past.

As time went by, he was revered as a military deity, but Roman was the first person to be asked his name after he was placed in the image.

‘···A name I particularly cherish.’

If it’s a name you remember even if you forget all the other years, then just leave it.

If it’s a name you cherish and want someone to call you, leave it alone.

Even though I haven’t called anyone for such a long time, I remember it in my head. I am holding on to it so as not to forget.

“There are many names that I cannot remember, perhaps because I erased them from my memory with intention. There are also a few names that are vague, but I half remember.”

“···.”

“I lived a long time for nothing, and I lived a lot for nothing. The stairs I climbed to eternal life was not a very pleasant area.”

“I’m interested.”

“···It’s strange. If someone hints that it’s a bad past, at least refuse out of courtesy.”

Even though I said that, I definitely wasn’t offended.

Since the corners of Musin’s mouth were slightly raised, Roman slyly took out the fruit he had prepared to use as a snack.

“If you don’t feel comfortable speaking English, don’t do it.”

“That’s it. What on earth is this?”

“Now, snacks and conversation money.”

Roman handed a cleanly cut apple to Musin, who clicked his tongue.

The sound of crunching and chewing flesh spread from the main entrance.

“Hmph, fruit isn’t enough, but I brought some perfect alcohol, so I’ll pay you full price.”

“You’re being tsundere again.”

“Whether it is Tsun or Cheon… I don’t know if those words are insulting to me, right?”

“Is that possible? No matter how brave I am, I never do something like that to someone’s face. I’m just talking to myself, so I just ignore it.”

“Ha… Well, that’s good. Take your time and listen. It seems like a bit of a long rambling for just one name.”

Roman was curious about Musin’s name so much that his whole body itched, but he did not urge him to tell him right away.

As this is a story that continues while drinking, sufficient maturation will create the taste.

“The beginning of this position is -.”

At first I didn’t know why. I wasn’t dead, but my memory was lost.

One day, when I opened my eyes, I found myself in the body of a newborn and not in Joongwon.

With that day as the boundary.

Without knowing that she was being played by her creator, she continued to face a world she had never seen before.

How many times has she been reincarnated and lived a new life?

Roman received eternal life once, but he repeated it to the point where he gave up remembering the number.

Musin’s sensitivity and sharpness reached their peak as the reincarnation continued regardless of his will.

“It’s that late to get to Transcendence? That’s surprising.”

“Is that possible? From the second or third time onwards, eternal life was something that I could grab if I stretched out my hand. I just went through reincarnation again and again and did not cross the wall until I met my hometown, Jungwon.”

“···.”

“You may have experienced it, but when you break free of the shackles, knowledge naturally blooms, but before you climb up, you are ignorant. At that time, I wasn’t sure if I could move to another world, and it wasn’t until I reached the level of transcendence that I realized that what I had been doing was pointless.”

“Well, I understand. Even if I gain eternal life, I can’t set foot on uneven ground.”

I am not a military person who can show off.

Roman, who has clashed weapons, knows best that those words are not lies.

“I don’t know how many lives I’ve lived. After a life of accumulating martial arts with only a sword, I woke up again in the long-awaited central plain.”

“···.”

“I didn’t even check the calendar, I just followed my memory and went to the places I missed.”

After drinking strong alcohol, Musin continued to reminisce.

“Of course, it was already too late. The master woman I wanted to meet again had become something of the past to the point where I couldn’t even find her grave or her relatives, let alone hear a rumor about her.”

A word that clearly refers to someone appeared.

In Musin’s voice, rare emotions are revealed.

‘Samae…?’

It probably means a female disciple who is lower than herself among the disciples who serve the same teacher.

Roman rubbed his chin at the unexpected story and concentrated on the story that followed.

“While I went through repeated reincarnations, time also passed for Jungwon. I faced the reality I had been ignoring, and any hope I had for it disappeared that day.”

I lost my destination and direction in life.

The wings that were held precariously by being tied together by longing were broken and broken and lost their shine in an instant.

In the bitter futility that calls for suicide, Musin raised his sword and aimed it at his own neck, but even then, the suspicion that the nightmare of waking up in a new world would continue.

“So.”

Musin crossed the wall.

The wings were woven once again with the razor-blue blade and cold martial arts.

If nothing can be resolved, I want to at least remember the Four Masters on this earth.

I voluntarily surpassed the weak species of humans.

It was a different form from Roman, who unconsciously climbed over the wall during the battle, and the level of perfection of Mushin, who released the growth he had continuously suppressed, was on a different level.

“The moment I left the bounds of mortality, the Creator who created this place came to visit me.”

A development that actually forces you to focus.

Roman forgot to pass the drink while holding his glass and listened to Musin’s story.

“Even though I endured it and finally achieved eternal life. He praised me equally, saying that it was faster than he expected. And I also heard why he had to have the karma of reincarnation.”

“I guess the reason was different from mine.”

“···How can you speak with such confidence?”

“Just.”

All I can see is the mouth, but it’s funny to say that it looks like that from the expression, so I cut it off with a short answer.

Musin laughed at Roman’s response and expressed his approval.

“Well, it’s just as you said. It was a trivial reason. It was like an experiment with other creators.”

“···.”

“The idea was to let the creatures bestowed with favor experience various worlds, absorb various hardships and powers, and create powerful sentinels. They were trying to create something unknown that would surpass their upper limits by uniting their limitations.”

After that, the ending was worse than Roman expected.

After understanding the post-war situation, Musin tore the creator who was said to have created him to death on the spot.

He cut out all the souls of the creators who would have looked down and observed him with interest.

What made her angry more than anything was not just the feeling that she had been played into the hands of God.

How did Samae fare when he disappeared? Did someone take care of the immature Samae? Did someone take advantage of her weak and swayed personality for malicious purposes?

They were transcendent from birth and could not properly understand their anger until the moment they disappeared.

“···Hmm, you were unusually talkative.”

“What do you think?”

Musin cleared his throat, cleared his mood, and picked up a bottle of alcohol.

“When I think of them, the girls who rule the world in front of me are very upright and upright.”

“The Goddess… She may be a bit quirky sometimes, but she is honest. That’s why she sometimes helps.”

“Not everyone who is in charge of creation is like that. If we were to compare it right now, wouldn’t there be a creator who deceived and ate a female child?”

You’re talking about the demon god of Pandemonium.

Roman nodded at the appropriate explanation.

“Well, it wouldn’t have been a good thing if I had been caught by a guy like that and been reincarnated.”

“You know very well.”

Only then is it time to take a breath.

Pass the flowing liquid into the drinking glass at the same time.

Roman, holding a piece of apple, expressed curiosity about the story behind it.

“So, what happened after that?”

“What you see is what you see.”

Afterward, a sense of futility flooded the entire body, and the midfield was painful just to look at.

I led my tired mind and tied myself to the image.

As I spent eons alone, I struggled to forget the longing that filled my head.

It was natural to swing the sword to fall into a trance, and like the book Roman found, he wrote about lives without fear and scattered them in various dimensions.

He always gave flashy reasons to the people he encountered, saying that he would teach them by continuing the martial arts, but the conclusion was lonely. I needed something else to focus my mind on to ignore the longing.

As I went on like that, I got to a point where I could laugh even when I thought about it like now.

“It looks like the way you used to be with your sister-in-law is what you look like now.”

“···That’s right. Does it seem full of regrets?”

A voice that makes you know what kind of eyes are under the eyepatch.

When asked dryly, Roman laughed and asked what he was saying.

“It’s my own way of remembering, right? It’s romantic.”

“···.”

“Do you know? Someday, when we meet, I’ll recognize you because of that.”

“Ha! That’s it. I don’t even want that kind of coincidence.”

I grumbled because I really didn’t want it anymore.

Even Mushin once thought that way, so it’s annoying.

“Anyway, since I listened to a story that was nothing more than a complaint, I guess it’s okay to tell me the name from back then.”

“It’s not even an honorific term, so it’s strange to call him a warrior. You should at least know a proper name to call him.”

“Even if I were told to use honorifics, I wouldn’t use them…”

“I know.”

A face that asks why you are asking the obvious.

Musin smiled, dumbfounded. And with a much relieved heart, I opened my lips.

“My one and only name is…”

The habit of saying ‘Bonjwa’ fell out of her mouth.

In other words, it makes you feel the truth.

“It’s Dokgorin.”

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Musin asked Roman’s understanding.

When Roman said he wanted to quietly meditate today rather than swing a sword, Roman nodded that he understood.

I opened my mind to go back.

It was fine up to that point.

What was truly absurd was the short conversation we had at the moment Roman was leaving.

– ‘Dokgo’ is your last name and ‘Rin’ is your first name, right?

– That’s right.

– That’s a pretty name. See you next time, Lin.

– !

After that, he disappeared without a chance to say anything.

It’s like just calling people names whenever it’s convenient…

I don’t know where this sense of distance came from.

“···Stupid guy.”

Even if we try to correct it, is Roman the kind of person who will listen?

I give up with a laugh and turn my back.

She sat right on time and fell into the happy past for the first time in a long time.