Chapter 144 – Chapter 144 – A Man’s Anecdote

Early in the morning, the day after receiving the prophecy.

As I was making coffee with a slightly hazy mind, I heard the password on my front door being pressed.

“Ah.”

Noticing that the appointed time had come, I took the frothed milk out of the steamer.

A savory and thick latte.

Let’s go to the living room with a cup of coffee according to the taste of Kim Ji-hye, who is visiting now.

Kim Ji-hye entered with an unlit cigarette.

“You’re here.”

Let’s smile shyly and hand over the coffee.

Kim Ji-hye snapped her fingers, making her cigarette disappear and she silently took a sip of her coffee.

“How about it?”

Kim Ji-hye continues to sip sips without saying a word.

Then, Kim Ji-hye looked at me blankly, and she gave me a compliment.

“It’s delicious, I’m glad I bought you an expensive coffee machine.”

“I’ll keep riding every morning.”

“Then good.”

It’s hard to tell, but Kim Ji-hye, who was slightly twitching the corner of her mouth, took her coffee and approached the sofa.

Dump.

Kim Ji-hye, sitting swiftly astride her chair, pointed the tip of her chin at the opposite chair without her saying anything.

I sat down on a chair facing Kim Ji-hye.

Kim Ji-hye pressed her eyes where her dark circles came down, and let out a sigh.

She seemed to be struggling with how to get her words out.

In fact, until the moment Jihye Kim drove me into her car yesterday and dropped me off at her room, she hadn’t talked to me much.

Kim Ji-hye, who simply asked questions such as ‘Are you feeling well’ and ‘Are you tired?’, Left at the end only saying, ‘Let’s talk about the details tomorrow’.

As the moment to bring out the details now approached, Kim Ji-hye asked me a question.

“Did you sleep with Lee Mi-ryeong?”

“… Yep.”

“Haaaaa way of it of that, even if Lee Mi-hee, Lee Mi-na, and Yin Qi are combined, the amount of Yin Qi in your body cannot be explained otherwise.”

Kim Ji-hye took a cigarette out of her mouth and let out a sigh.

I hurriedly spoke to Kim Ji-hye, waiting for her eyes to be taken away by her decadent charm with her half-undressed suit.

“They, the Tailed Foxes made a promise that they would be ‘unconditionally’ friendly to us from now on.”

“That’s right, it just has to be that way.”

“… Yes?”

“It is said that from the moment we received the Wisdom of Origin in the first place, you and we were on the same boat. Even if we let this fact know elsewhere, the Tailed Foxes will inevitably have no choice but to cooperate with us.”

Kim Ji-hye looked at me, who was dazed, and praised her, saying she did well.

“Even if we cooperate, we couldn’t have predicted how far that cooperation would go. But thanks to you, I think we can expect cooperation to the extent that even that squirrel fox can be used. In the first place, that fox also thought that he would eat your precious energy raw. I guess I didn’t think about it.”

Kim Ji-hye sighed again and tapped her cigarette.

“Everything went well. With the prophecy of prayer, the full cooperation of the Tailed Fox Clan and your growing yin. No matter where you look, it’s a great result. It’s just that you went into a fox den in a week and brought all four foxes with you. No one expected it at all.”

Haha… I’m glad it’s a good result.”

Kim Ji-hye, who was looking at me with a mysterious expression scratching her head and laughing awkwardly, snapped her fingers.

“Okay, let’s stop talking about these foxes… Tell me about your final ordeal and origin foreknowledge.”

“Oh, is that it?”

I explained about the third trial and origin foreknowledge.

A pool of blood, a half-scaled green dragon in it, and a girl with green hair revealed at the end.

Kim Ji-hye, who had listened to her with a head nod, was slightly silent.

Tuck, Tuck.

Jihye Kim, lost in her thoughts, snapping her fingers like her habit, opened her mouth shortly after.

“Unconditional favor and trust for strangers. Apparently, this is a wisdom that applies to me as well.”

“… Okay?”

“Hanjun Kang, did you say that the green-haired girl might be the guest you will come to after you go through this ordeal?”

“Yes.”

In response to my firm answer, Kim Ji-hye calmed her dark eyes.

“Then, who do you think this woman’s true identity is?”

“… That’s it.”

A green-haired girl with a noisy face eagerly reached out to me.

The last words she uttered to me were, ‘Oh… La… Bur’.

Unless you were an idiot, you could at least know that the word meant older brother.

Moreover, the horns sprouting from her head and the green scales that appeared on her skin at first glance indicated … A dragon.

I am the only one who inherited dragon blood.

And a girl of trial in the form of a dragon.

No matter how much I think about it, I think the girl’s true identity is…

“Are you my half-brother or a relative?”

It seemed like there was only this.

As if Kim Ji-hye expected my answer, she answered with a single stroke.

“Not.”

The answer without a second’s hesitation.

Let’s ask if we can be that sure. Kim Ji-hye told me one thing in a cold voice, as if telling me to keep in mind.

“Kang Han-jun, you can never have a younger brother. On the shadow family side, there may be cross-blood connections, but on your side, never on your side. On your mother’s side, you can never have blood.

Widely.

Kim Ji-hye, who made her cigarette disappear from her mouth, looked at me with cool eyes.

“That’s why I said that I think it’s a wisdom that applies to me too. If it weren’t for this wisdom… I’m sure I would have thought that I might harm you, and I might have killed you.”

“… Yes?”

“It’s a bit of an extreme example, but one thing is for sure, if I hadn’t listened to this prophecy, I’m sure I’d have kept that woman away from you who didn’t know that she was a dragon. I already feel the future turning upside down… It’s so fucked up.”

Jihye Kim rose from her seat.

Kim Ji-hye, who was fixing her loose suit, advised me again.

“Remember, Kang Han-joon. Your mother’s blood can never carry on. Ponds of blood or things like that… I’ll find out in my own way and then let you know.”

Seeing Kim Ji-hye’s behavior as if she was about to leave her house, I asked about my future whereabouts.

“Then, what’s the schedule for today? Are you training with the Shadow Family like last time?”

“No, for now, stay around here. Just in case, he might come today or tomorrow.”

While taking a nap, I thought about whether I should train with Hong Ma-dong.

As if Kim Ji-hye, who was leaving the front door, remembered something, she looked back at me.

“Oh, and Kim Cha-ryeok. He’s been injured for a while now, so he’s confined to his house. Go visit him.”

“Where are you?”

“The house right across from you. I got that guy’s room in the first place, so this is the house across from it.”

Kim Ji-hye opened her front door wide, pointing her finger at her front door.

“Then, I’m going because I’m busy. If anything happens, call me.”

Ki-Ik, Tang.

The front door was closed.

In the room left alone, I was lost in thought for a moment.

I headed straight for the house in front.

* *

Password 1111.

The guy’s old password, which says that all men should push one number like a man, was the same.

As I unlocked the front door and entered, he greeted me clinging to the pull-up bar.

“Well, it’s been a while.”

“How did you know?”

Since he was showing his back, Kim Cha-ryeok couldn’t see me.

“I can hear your footsteps just by hearing them, Hanjun. We’re close friends.”

It was a question I asked without thinking, but I felt a little goosebumps at the answer he answered.

“What kind of bullshit is that, take this.”

I threw the plastic bag in my hand at Kim Cha-reek.

Charyeok Kim did a bag tumble on the pull-up bar he was holding, and he snatched the plastic bag as if nothing happened.

“Oh, thank you, Hanjun. I was just making baeksuk.”

What I put in the plastic bag was his favorite chicken breast pack.

He said he was sick, so he bought it as a visit.

I couldn’t find out where the pain of Kim Cha-ryeok in front of me was.

“Hanjun, have you eaten?”

“No.”

“Then let’s go together.”

Coo-!

He brought a boiling pot.

The guy who unwrapped the chicken breast I brought inside smiled and cooked me some rice.

“Ruler.”

A bowl of rice piled up like a mountain.

At first glance, it looked like three bowls, but with his common sense, I was handed a bowl of rice, and I ate it in silence.

Surprisingly, the baeksuk he cooked was incredibly delicious, although I didn’t want to admit it.

A savory yet deep flavor.

While admiring the unbelievable taste of chicken breast, he sat down in front of me and ate rice.

Swish, swish.

“What is that?”

“It’s seasoning.”

“So, the usual condiment is something like pepper… No, that’s it.”

A crazy bastard who puts protein powder in a pepper shaker and sprinkles it on white rice.

Knowing that he was such a guy from the beginning, I didn’t bother anymore and continued my meal in silence.

As I was eating alone with him, thoughts of the past came to my mind.

For a moment to be lost in memories, I asked him a question.

“Hey, where did you get hurt?”

“Well, it hurt a little. It’s not a big deal.”

“From the outside, it doesn’t look like much… But you’re hurt inside, right?”

I tapped my chest with my fingers.

Constitution.

Instead of manifesting yin and yang externally, magic cannot be used.

The ability to specially strengthen my body or strengthen my weapon.

Let’s ask the principal, thinking that he might have hurt himself while taking a class.

Kim Cha-ryeok nodded, saying yes.

“That’s right. I used too much yang qi, and the passageway inside my body that draws out yang qi got damaged. Thanks to that, I’m only doing light exercise like this at home now.”

“I think I heard you’re learning Tai Chi… Wait a minute. Tai Chi… Solar Quan?”

I noticed something strange.

Obviously, when I heard it before, it was taijiquan, but when I talked to Kim Ji-hye, he said that he was learning sunquan.

What the hell is it?

When I expressed my doubts, like a guy I’ve been hanging out with for years, he told me what I was curious about.

“I learn both. Taejiquan is a martial art that Master teaches me separately because I have fun dealing with Yang Qi. Taejiquan is what I learn in return for practicing Taeyangquan.”

“… Price? What do you mean by that?”

“At first, Master’s interest in me was tremendous. Seeing that I could control and move even the smallest parts of my body, he called me naturally invincible and taught me Taijiquan with anticipation.”

“Yeah, to be honest, it would be strange if you weren’t naturally boneless. That’s why.”

Tear the chicken breast and eat it, let’s show interest.

Kim Cha-ryeok continued as if it was nothing.

“But while learning Taijiquan, I was fascinated by the heat of Yangqi. Immediately, I gave up the power to deal with both Yin and Yangqi at the same time, to appease me who only sells Yang. I have been taught.”

“… Are you an asshole?”

“A man must be an asshole. Just as much as I’m fascinated by muscles, I’m fascinated by the power of this yang. An explosive and intense medium. Tore muscles off based on that… It was really fantastic.”

“Wow, the real principal must have hated it.”

“Hmm, that’s right. He sometimes shouts, ‘Because he’s bald, he’s so crazy about taking care of his yang!’… I think he’s actually right. He gets more sunlight than others, and there’s also an anecdote like that.”

“… Anecdote?”

What am I talking about, I looked at Kim Cha-ryeok.

Kim Cha-ryeok tilted his head as if he didn’t understand me like this, then asked.

“Haven’t I told you before? The story of being bald.”

“What do you mean, weren’t you bald from the start?”

“Hmm… I guess I never really said that. Look at this, this is my old self.”

Kim Cha-ryeok, who took out his cell phone, tapped his cell phone with his big fingers.

And he put the screen in front of me.

The person who appeared on the screen… Was a tall man whom even idols could trust.

“Fuck, don’t fuck. Really.”

I unknowingly spat out curse words and denied it.

Then Kim Cha-ryeok silently took down the photo as if it were real and showed the name tag attached to the bag.

‘Kim Cha-ryeok.’

“It must be the same person.”

Swoop.

The scars on the fingertips, and the small scars shown in the enlarged picture.

“Fuck, are you really not fucking?”

“Well, I guess we need more proof.”

Kim Cha-ryeok flipped through the photos.

Every time I looked at the picture, proof that this handsome guy was Kim Cha-ryeok popped out.

Each time I denied it more and more.

“Aaaaagh!”

I ran to Kim Cha-ryeok.

“You crazy bastard, what the hell did you eat to become like this?”

I screamed.

Towards the inner side of poor Kim Cha-ryeok who was eaten up by his muscles.

Towards that handsome appearance that is hiding somewhere.

I cried endlessly.

Then, Cha-ryeok Kim said, “Hmm… It happened a long time ago,” And began to tell his old anecdote step by step.