Episode 21. good things to share (2)
As soon as Ralph finished speaking, two people emerged from the forest.
rustle-.
The first person to come out of the bush is John.
He looked no different from six months ago.
But the man following John was different.
His height, which was much shorter than his peers, grew quickly and reached 170 cm in half a year.
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My body, which had been somewhat fragile, now felt quite muscular and full.
Yuri’s face is still that of a youthful youth, but from the neck down, she’s become a completely different person.
Cut-.
A sword wobbled from his waist as he walked out of the forest, and light blue earrings glistened in the sunlight.
Jerk-jerk-.
Ralph frowned as Yuri, John, and those who were late walked in unconcernedly.
“Are you late?”
“Hmmm, I was trying to tell him the strategy to win this match… … .”
Yuri snorted at Yohan’s words.
“You sound like a winning strategy. Waiting for inspiration to poop, you’re late!”
“this guy!”
“why!”
“… Do you know the pain of a constipated person!”
“I don’t know, something like that.”
“Only those who understand this pain should throw stones at me!”
“Old man, if you can’t even poop properly, what are you good at?”
“What, you bastard?”
It was Ralph who had no energy to get angry when he saw the two of them arguing loudly after being late.
I’ve been watching that every day for half a year, and now I’m tired of it.
He sighed and waved his hand.
“Stop it and let’s get started. How many months has this been since it’s just sparring with the kids?”
“You were the one who asked me to make that bet?”
“I didn’t know this would take this long! I thought it would be over in a few days at most!”
In response to Ralph’s reaction, John looked at him and said, ‘So, what should I do?’
The corners of Ralph’s eyes, which had soared, sank helplessly.
“… Okay, let’s really start over now.”
At those words, this time, Yuri took a step forward and intervened in the conversation.
“This sparring, let’s do it with a real sword.”
“A real sword?”
Yuri nodded, and Ralph turned his head with a slightly worried look.
just as expected.
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Muchi had his eyes wide open with a surprised face.
“Yu, Yuri hyung?”
In the first place, I just didn’t like sparring, but suddenly it’s real sword sparring?
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Muchi was confused and didn’t know what to do.
When Ralph sighs and tries to refuse the match with the real sword.
“Hey, you jerk.”
It was the nickname Yuri used when calling Muchi for the past half year.
Hearing this, Muchi stared at the glass with big eyes.
Facing Muchi’s bewildered gaze, Yuri grinned.
“Didn’t you say you didn’t know? Why do you work so hard to learn a skill that can only be used to harm people?”
“ah… … .”
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Muchi opened her mouth slightly, recalling a story she had told her before.
In the meantime, Yuri put her hand on the hilt.
Sreureung-.
A silver sword that gradually reveals itself.
If there was something awkward about Yuri handling a wooden sword half a year ago, now there is not even the slightest awkwardness.
sereung-.
Yuri aimed the fully drawn sword at Muchi.
The moment when Muchi’s embarrassed face at the tip of the sword was in his field of vision.
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Memories from the past flashed through Yuri’s mind.
* * *
3 months ago.
The time when the sun has completely set in the west.
Oooh ah-.
Somewhere in the woods, the sound of someone emptying their stomach resounded loudly.
Weck- Weck-!
Grabbing a tree and vomited, Yuri took a quick step forward.
After a short walk, he arrived at a nearby stream, rinsed his mouth, and sat down leaning against a nearby rock.
“Ahh… … .”
A moan leaked out.
It was right that he did not have the energy to endure the leaking moans.
Not that it wasn’t, but his appearance was spectacle.
Scattered hair and deep dark circles.
The clothes were covered with sweat and dust, and I couldn’t even guess what color they were originally.
“Keep-.”
puck- puck-.
Yuri slapped both thighs.
Legs shaking like a newborn fawn.
I had to let go a little bit when I was resting.
However, after tapping my legs a few times, I gave up because my whole body was sore.
He stretched out completely and looked up at the reddened sky.
The world went round and round.
“Lord, I’m going to die… … .”
He said so, but Yuri knew.
It’s just hard enough to die, that you won’t die.
If he was really going to die, he would have already reached the goal before he even grumbled that it was difficult.
It was a realization that I learned through my body over the past three months, overcoming death myself.
How many times have you looked up at the sky?
New fluid- New fluid-.
Yuri’s breathing soon became even.
right at that moment.
“Oops!”
Yuri hurriedly shook her head and raised her upper body.
His face was pale as if he had been in a nightmare.
‘Oh, I almost missed my quota today.’
If I went to sleep like this, I would definitely wake up tomorrow.
If that was the case, I wouldn’t have been able to complete today’s chi training, and Old Man would have recognized it like a ghost.
‘It’s hell from then on.’
I used to curse at pulling a cart under the guise of physical training.
In the training that started in earnest, John became a devil and rolled himself harshly.
To the extent that I miss the days of pulling a cart.
Still, Yuri didn’t complain.
He just silently follows John’s training schedule.
“Okay.”
He frowned and tried to stand up, but turned his head away.
“What are you doing there?”
The place where Yuri’s sharp gaze was directed.
There, hair stood out through the bushes.
At this, Yuri clicked her tongue as if she was pathetic.
“Tsk. Hey, pay the price. Can’t you see that?”
The grass rustled at his bruises, and a giant appeared.
“lol.”
Yuri’s sigh deepened as he watched Muchi scratching the back of his head awkwardly.
‘ha… I guess I lost to a guy like that.’
Seriously, every time I saw him, I felt a sense of shame.
What do you do when you get distracted by your size?
What would you do if your skills were unofficial level 1?
He’s a 13-year-old child who doesn’t know a thing about the world about what he thinks and does.
“Oops!”
iron puduk-,
“… … .”
Watching Muchi trip over a vine while walking out of the bush, Yuri corrected her thoughts.
‘… That bastard, it’s clear that he lied about his age. Otherwise, I can’t fall like that!’
What is thirteen years old?
He was big, but he was worse than a 10-year-old kid.
“ah… … .”
“b*tch, if you fall, get up quickly. What are you doing?”
“Yes.”
“Shake off the dirt on your body!”
“huh.”
“Ah, stuffy bastard!”
Despite her irritation with her mouth, Yuri couldn’t push away the approaching guy.
Contrary to what he looks like, he’s a gentle guy.
In addition, he took care of me a few times, and now Moo-chi, who chases after me hyung, hyung, on the street, feels a little cute… … .
Startle!
Yuri was surprised and brushed off his thoughts.
‘Am I crazy because I was beaten so badly by old man… Isn’t that bear cute?!’
No matter where you look at it, it was never cute.
It’s a look that would suit a bandit, no matter who sees it.
As Yuri quickly shook her head, Muchi, who was sitting next to him, asked.
“Hyung, where are you sick?”
“Hey, don’t call me brother from now on.”
“then?”
“Call me brother.”
“why?”
“Don’t ask why, just do it!”
“huh. older brother.”
“Okay, that suits you just fine.”
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Muchi gave a strange sigh of relief and looked at Yuri.
he asked, hesitant.
“Yuri hyung… … .”
“Write!”
“Tongue, brother!”
“why?”
“that… brother… What are your thoughts on training?”
That was the curiosity that Muchi had been harboring while watching Yuri.
For the past three months, Yuri has been overexerting herself to the point of being horrendous.
From Muchi’s point of view, it was more like torture and self-mutilation than training.
However, Yuri, who actually practiced that kind of training, looked so calm.
It was something that Muchi couldn’t understand at all.
On the other hand, Yuri, who heard Muchi’s question, also looked at her incomprehensible.
“What are you talking about? What are your thoughts on training? I just do it.”
“are you all right?”
“Yeah, it’s not hard.”
“Me, really?”
“huh. It’s not hard, and I think I’m going to die.”
“Yeah, but why are you doing it?”
“Why? Are you just doing it?”
“… … ?”
Looking at Muchi tilting her head as if she couldn’t understand, Yuri replied.
In a very calm voice, as if it were very natural.
“Because the goal has been set.”
“target?”
“Yes, I want to be strong. I don’t want to lose because I’m stronger than anyone else. That’s why you do it.”
“… … .”
“I train because I want to be strong, but what do I need to think about? I just do it every day.”
“Aren’t you tired? Aren’t you tired?”
“It’s boring. still… … .”
For a moment, Yuri’s eyes, which were silent at the end of her words, had strength.
“I am not tired.”
Those were the words that Yuri was repeating to herself.
when you just started training.
Amidst the terrible muscle pain that plagued his whole body, he gritted his teeth and made a resolution.
‘The one who does not get tired of being repeated wins.’
I will overcome this repetition and become a winner for sure.
Yuri, who once again made up her mind, threw a question first this time.
“Then why did you learn horsemanship?”
“Grandpa made me… … .”
“You didn’t want to?”
“I didn’t want to do it at first. Just, I make my grandfather lift heavy things and climb cliffs.”
“Climb the cliff?”
“Yeah, at first I fell off the cliff while climbing it.”
“Did you fall and hurt your head? What was there at the time?”
Yuri’s eyes sparkled.
It’s as if he found out the secret of Muchi.
‘That’s what it was! This guy was a genius when he was young, but fell off a cliff and hurt his head! If not, there’s no way I’ll fall like this!’
Yuri was so sure.
“hmm… At that time, there was a stone the size of a fist underneath.”
“That fist must be a stone the size of your fist, right?”
“huh.”
“Then it must be a stone the size of my head. anyway so? Did you hit your head there?”
“huh.”
“also!”
“So it broke.”
“Your hair?”
“No, the stone… … .”
“… … .”
“Why are you looking at me like that?”
“just… I want to be a really great master.”
It’s like an ignorant stone head.
If you fall off a cliff and hit your head with a stone, and the stone breaks, how hard is your head?
Yuri sent a puzzled look.
Ignoring such stares, Muchi continued her conversation happily.
“Anyway, that’s why I didn’t like it at first… It’s fun now! Moving your body, lifting heavy things!”
“Then what is the problem? After all, isn’t it enough for you to have fun learning machete?”
“however… no.”
“huh?”
“Learning horse chess is fun… To hurt others with it… no.”
“… … .”
“Brother, I really don’t know. Why is it so hard to learn a skill that only hurts people… … .”
“hmm… hey!”
“huh?”
“Why do you hate hurting others?”
“Yeah… Are you sorry?”
“So what if someone attacks you first? Would you be sorry if I attacked and hurt that person?”
“hmm… … .”
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Muchi pondered for a moment before replying.
“Isn’t it okay if you don’t get hurt?”
“what?”
“I’m strong, so I don’t get hurt. Even if you get hurt, you’ll get better soon. however… If I hit you lightly, the other kids hurt a lot.”
Yuri’s expression hardened at that answer.
At the same time, the words John said passed quickly through his mind.
[Do you know why I made you, who couldn’t learn anything, fight against Muchi?]
Defeat suffered in sparring with Muchi.
It was the first defeat of Yuri’s life.
No matter how much he did not use incarnation, the shock of defeat did not go away easily.
At that time, Yuri realized again as if engraving the facts she knew in her head into her bones.
That he is not an ‘invincible’ being.
That he, unable to use his incarnation, was just an ordinary orphaned child.
As I recalled that fact again, the feeling of defeat came over me even more strongly.
John laughed as if he knew this.
[Because a person who has never lost doesn’t know. How disgusting it is to be defeated! You say you learn a lot from defeat? tell me not to scream There is only one thing we can learn from defeat… It’s just misery!]
The stronger one has faith in oneself, the more miserable they feel at defeat.
John himself did.
Yuri, who was defeated by Muchi, would be like that.
[Only those who feel miserable through defeat become desperate, and grow by taking advantage of the heart that does not want to lose again.]
A glass of natural talent will become stronger exponentially with a little training.
Because of this, Yohan wanted to let Yuri experience before she started full-scale training and before she reached the point where she couldn’t be defeated even if she wanted to.
The misery of defeat.
It is better to be beaten first, because the wounds of defeat now will heal much faster than the wounds of defeat 10 years from now.
John’s intentions were properly communicated to Yuri, and Yuri was able to fully wake up through the day’s defeat.
That’s why Yuri was able to feel something he didn’t know before in his conversation with Muchi.
‘It’s because it’s a little less, the kid is nice. That’s for sure.’
However, the fact that Muchi can feel sorry even after hitting the enemy.
Being able to be considerate without hurting the other person!
‘… It’s because Muchi is strong.’
It is the composure of the strong, and the mindset you can have because you do not know defeat.
That’s why it’s a dream come true.
‘Is that so?’
The corner of Yuri’s mouth rose slowly.
He was able to open his eyes anew with the defeat of the day.
I also felt the worst misery of my life.
‘You don’t know about this good thing?’
He was still unaware of the misery of defeat.
‘No, then! Thanks to you, I was able to open my eyes!’
This time I’ll open your eyes
‘Wouldn’t that be fair?’
I was really curious.
Can Muchi feel sorry for the other person even in a situation where he seems to lose?
Can you be considerate of your opponent?
Is it really so?
A smile spread across Yuri’s lips as she looked at Muchi.
* * *
The smile she had 3 months ago led to the current Yuri.
he said, snapping the tip of his sword.
“The thing you said you didn’t know… I’ll let you know today. Why did I learn the art of wrestling, why did I wield a sword like I was about to die!”