(143)
As usual, there are symptoms of dizziness, but soon the familiar scenery catches my eye… .
huh?
Master in a white robe.
Every time I come to the portal, it stands there and looks at me.
hahahaha… .
I must have missed my master so much that I even saw such nonsense.
It may be an illusion, but I’m asking if you’re doing well… what?
Is the vanity moving?
“You unfilial disciple!”
He suddenly came and fed me honey chestnuts, but I was beaten without a chance to escape.
what?
If the master you see in front of you is an illusion, there’s no way you’ll feel this kind of pain… .
“Your guy needs one more hit before he can come to his senses. What is the shape of your head? Is it a color style?”
“Are you the real master?”
“Then are there fake masters?”
“how… My master must have gone to the world of seongye after getting a good flight… .”
“Why am I doing the top line? There is no ramen, chicken, or alcohol in Seongye.”
Seeing how he sings ramen and his voice, he really is a master.
“Master!”
I ran and tried to hug him, but the master twisted his body to avoid it.
“What are you doing? Why is the male son creeping up to you? Did you get it wrong earlier?”
“How on earth… . Wasn’t it fresh?”
“how many times… Ugh, you stupid disciple. I didn’t even talk to you and went to the fairy world… What? What’s wrong all of a sudden?”
As he spoke, he took hold of his arm.
I quickly shook it off, but there is a sense of being caught in my hand.
“What are you doing… Are you crying?”
At the thought that Master had really returned, I burst into tears without realizing it.
I thought I’d never see you again… .
“If you disappear without a word, you can’t help but think that you’ve won first place… .”
“No, what… I didn’t even know things would turn out this way. stop crying Are you a kid?”
Even if I speak bluntly, Master pats me on the back.
“Master… .”
“Stop crying. Who really wants to cry?”
“Yes?”
“You son of a bitch, I’ve been waiting here for over a month and you haven’t come yet?”
“ah… isn’t it? I came last time to hold a ancestral rite, but the master was not there.”
“When I was alive and well, and the ancestral table was set up in front of the tombstone?”
“uh? You know. At that time, just in case, I searched not only the cave but also the bottom of the lake… .”
“At that time, you didn’t come so much, so I tried to leave, but Lu Dong-bin prevented me from leaving, so I went to the fairy world… No, let’s talk from the beginning.”
After talking with the master, he said that on the first day he disappeared, Lu Dong-bin came to ask him to make it to the top of the ship.
He refused because he didn’t want to win first place, but he said that he fought hard because he said he couldn’t do it.
I didn’t finish the top line because Master won, but when I came back, there was no camper, only a tombstone I had put up… .
The reason why I didn’t see it the last time I came with Sejin was that I waited for a while and then I didn’t come and tried to cut down the space to go outside, but Yeo Dongbin and Jang Sambong, an old friend of mine, came to visit again.
The master said he shouldn’t go out because he is not from this world, so he tried to ask for permission to go to the world of immortals, but I was visiting at that time.
I said no in the lineage.
“The timing is a bit off.”
“Don’t even think about going overboard like that. Does it make sense to hear it only once? You heartless bastard.”
I was hit with a honey chestnut once again.
It’s not that I don’t understand the master’s position.
If I hadn’t come here today, I would probably have seen it a year later.
But, of course, in the original work, the master said that he was ranked first, so I thought that he would have been ranked first, but it’s unfair.
“Is it my fault? Even when he first disappeared, I spent the entire day searching through the portals. To be honest, if the master hadn’t done anything stupid to come out and just waited patiently, I would have managed to meet him.”
“Keukheum, so are you blaming me now?”
“Anyway, isn’t it because we met like this?”
Again, the master raised his hand as if to hit the honey chestnut, but a light burst and Luciel appeared.
Oh right. Luciel was there.
I completely forgot about it while talking with the master.
“Hey, Master, this is… .”
“Don’t hit our Shin Hyuk! You ugly old man!”
“female… Inspirational?”
“Yeah, this crooked old man. Who are you, our Shin Hyuk, hit me!”
ah… It seems to be jojin.
* * *
Master and Luciel were on the verge of a fight, but they hurriedly took out a camper and ramen to calm the master.
“Great, this is delicious.”
“There are a lot of them, so eat slowly. If you eat in a hurry, you will pretend.”
Two chickens and sesame ramen from A Space are already four bowls.
“Chehehe. Don’t worry because it won’t happen. Are you still a gyoza?”
“The gyoza will be ready in no time.”
―You eat like a pig.
When I slightly glared at him in the sense of not saying such things, Luciel turned his head away.
I introduced myself properly earlier, but Master Young seems displeased.
But it’s not words, it’s intentions, so I’m glad Master didn’t listen.
“Why does your lover keep looking at me? Adult meals.”
“hahahaha… . It must be because the master eats well. And not Jungin.”
“It’s not Jung-in, but I heard all about our Shin-hyeok earlier.”
“Kuhm… There are also circumstances.”
“What is the matter? Now that I see it, I was distracted by the woman and was behind the scenes. Is that why you came so late?”
“Because it’s not like that. I’ll explain slowly, so eat first. The gyoza should be ready, I’ll bring it.”
I got into the camper and took out the gyoza.
“Yes, this is it!”
I explained about Luciel to the master who poured the steaming gyoza into his mouth.
“I knew that child was not human.”
“You knew? how?”
Luciel didn’t even take out her wings… .
“Because I have the same aura as those who attacked me when I first came here.”
“ah… .”
Come to think of it, when Master first came to this portal, he said he caught demons.
Since Luciel is also a fallen angel, he has magic.
“Soul separation is the same, and it is very strange that there is an existence that possesses the good and the magical. It’s somewhat balanced now, but I think it’s going to get in trouble with time.”
It is also a master to notice Luciel’s chronic problems at once.
“there… Master, can you purify Luciel’s demonic energy?”
Luciel’s condition was explained in detail and advice was sought.
He brought Luciel, who didn’t like it very much, and grabbed his wrist to see him.
As for me, the only thing I could do was heal the wounds inflicted by the Demon King, but if it were Master, it might be possible to purify it.
“So you’re saying that because it’s connected to the tree called Magyesu, demons are constantly eating away at this child’s body?”
“That’s right.”
“Then shouldn’t we cut off the connection with that tree?”
“… That is impossible.”
Luciel became the guardian of the demon beast and hid it in the gap of the dimension.
If the contract is broken, the Demon King will return to the Demon World and there is no way the Demon King will just watch it.
Luciel’s hometown, Heaven, will also be in danger, and considering that the demon king will descend on Earth later, you should never do it.
In the first place, the only way to cancel the contract between the demon beast and the guardian is the death of the guardian.
“Why?”
“The connection cannot be broken. I… So, how long can I last?”
“Didn’t I say earlier that the more the child uses strength, the faster it erodes?”
“That’s right.”
“Twenty years or so if I don’t do anything from now on?”
“Twenty years… What kind of small grain is that?”
In the original work, Luciel appears on the main characters’ sophomore school trip.
It’s about two years from now, but where Luciel was, time goes 30 times slower, so it’s 60 years.
In addition, Luciel does not fall until the end of the original story.
The original work ends about 10 years from now, so it should be fine for at least 300 years, but 20 years… .
“Well, I can hold out for another year or two, but I don’t think it will make a difference any more than that.”
“It can’t be. Please check again. Luciel, come here.”
“it’s okay.”
“What happens? Aren’t you coming soon?”
“I don’t like it.”
“You don’t like it, are you kidding me?”
I approached Luciel, but he ran back.
“Master, please eat. I will come and talk for a while.”
I chased after the fleeing Luciel and caught him.
He took out his wings and ran away, but he quickly caught up with Blink.
In the first place, as long as I’m wearing the necklace, I can’t be more than 1km away.
“Really, what are you doing to check again?”
“No!”
“Why is that?”
“Because the person called your master is right.”
“… .”
“You think I don’t know my condition? I was guessing it would be about that.”
“That… It can’t be. You actually have more time left.”
“What do you know?”
I can’t speak… .
I healed the wound faster than the original, but the reason why it is worse than the original… wait, could it be that?
In the original story, Luciel does not fight the main characters.
At first, the protagonists are told to prepare for killing Kainakhan, but when they see Kim Do-hyun’s face, they fall in love at first sight and talk without fighting.
But you fought with me
He took out all eight of them, even the wings, and fought with all his might.
“Is it because of the fight you had with me when you first met?”
“Will it be like that just because we fought once? Originally, there was only that much left.”
Luciel’s eyes wavered as she spoke.
It’s a lie.
But it certainly doesn’t make sense that his condition deteriorated that much just because he fought one battle like he said… .
Ah, I realized.
It’s not just the combat that has changed from the original.
Unlike the original, Luciel studied soul separation magic in order to be with me.
The period he studied was less than two months in this place, but in his time, it was several years, and the number of attempts exceeded hundreds.
Even I, who played a supporting role, used up my mana almost to the limit with each attempt, so of course he must have used a lot more mana… .
Because of me.
“It’s because of the research on soul separation magic.”
“… .”
Seeing no answers, I think I was right.
“you really… .”
“If I hadn’t made magic, you would have dated a stray cat.”
Even so, while cutting down on one’s own lifespan… .
“no… .”
“It’s not like that tomorrow, isn’t 20 years long enough for humans?”
“Not for you.”
Certainly 20 years is not a short time by human standards, but Luciel is an angel who has lived for thousands of years.
Had he not studied, he could have lived at least 300 more years.
“It’s okay because I chose it.”
“It’s okay, what’s okay… .”
“I prefer 20 years of being together like this than waiting for you to come all month. You can’t turn back time now, can you?”
I say with a smile, but this guy is a really unstoppable idiot.
How much do you love me… .
“You really… .”
“I didn’t want to talk about it because I was afraid it would burden you. Good luck in the future if you know. I bought a lot of chocolate bars… Yeah, that thief cat, too, now stay away and focus on me… .”
I hugged the guy who pretended to be okay.
“Go, what is it all of a sudden? release it.”
His cheeks turn red as if he didn’t know if I would hug him.
If I really hated it, I would have pushed it away, but instead, it burrows into me more.
Thinking he was really disingenuous, I approached his face, but I had no choice but to stop and release the hug.
“Master, I know you’re watching, so come out.”
Because I felt the popularity of the master.
“Keuheum, he said he wasn’t Jeong-in, but that was a lie. It looks good, but you do what you do.”
“The master is secretly spying on me, but how… Ugh. Master, even though it’s a teacher-teacher relationship, privacy is a bit… 100 million!”
I had a honey night.
“Who steals a sneak peek? I’ve come to help at best.”
“What help?”
What are you trying to help by spoiling the atmosphere at best? .
“What help, man. Didn’t I tell you earlier? Twenty years of doing nothing.”
“no… Master, as I said before, the connection with the Demonic Beast cannot be severed… Ouch!”
It was a honeymoon again.
“Yeah, you bastard! Maybe I forgot what I heard earlier?”
“Yes? then… .”
“There is a way even if you don’t disconnect.”