Episode 79
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A fact-filled rampage by a bald, XX-ring-like boy monk.
Choi Da-wit, who was being spat out with a machine gun in front, and Gyeon Ji-oh, who was secretly eavesdropping from a distance, were all momentarily stunned.
Kyeonjioh thought.
‘Is that what he just said true?’
It’s not Warur Mansion, it’s Hae-ta. Here?
No, how long has it been since the white bird entered the tower?
What the heck, it hasn’t even been two years, and in just a few weeks, a guild that was doing fine collapsed… …?
‘Choi David… … scary… … !’
There is no separate hand of minus that walks around.
Even if you just look at the summary of the incidents that Dongja Seung revealed in just a few minutes, there is no work that has not been subject to political manipulation, including sowing discord.
Once he sits down at the Hwatu table, he has the incredible power to sell not only his family deeds but also those of his cousin’s eighth cousin!
Geo thought again.
‘I should never be friends with that guy… … .’
You shouldn’t even go near it. Yeah.
It was in the midst of making such a firm resolution.
Choi Da-wit muttered in a suddenly depressed voice.
“If only Honggoya had the Great Guardian Law at a time like this… … .”
“That’s right. If Hong Daehobeop-nim comes to the meeting and only takes the elder’s side, the resignation issue and everything else will fall through… … .”
The boy muttered in a voice even more gloomy than Choi Da-wit.
“But on what grounds would you invite someone who left the sect due to family issues…? I heard your granddaughter’s condition is serious….”
“Should I give you my organs…?”
“Please stop talking nonsense and try to seduce Baldoje… … . It was one of the conditions for invalidating my resignation.”
“How could I do that when my deceased father even said a line…?”
“He really seems like a person who will ruin himself with his mouth and then perish again… … .”
They kept talking about this and that, but Geo couldn’t hear them anymore.
One dawn, on the way back to the temple from the valley.
Hong Ha-ya’s words passed through Geo’s mind like a flashback.
“Anyway, that’s why Wolgye Temple knows so much about me. Wolgye and my family are inseparable. Same goes for Hae-ta… … .”
“Hae-ta?”
“Yes. The one who protects Hae-ta in Seorak, the great guardian of the time who manages the formation and boundary is our great aunt.”
“Meow.”
“Right now, Dal-ya is still in Ulsan because of treatment. Phew… … If only I could find ‘Joe’, really… … .”
“Oh, oh, it’s cold outside. Let’s hurry up and go inside. Two, two, two.”
A conversation that went in one ear and out the other.
Hmm, I seem to hear something about Hae-ta a lot.
Well… … Maybe it’s natural since they’re all gathered in Seorak?
… … I just let it go, but now I know.
The mountain wind blows. Geo’s short hair flutters.
Gianzio sat in Rodin’s Thinker pose, thinking wistfully.
‘The fool was… … me… …!’
It’s not David Choi… … .
The one who was hit by this huge work board was King Geo.
All the things that had happened in the meantime flashed before my eyes like a panorama.
The arrangement of the Seonwoldang at Wolgye Temple, the unusually thin paper windows, the Honghae I met on a moonlit night walk, the boy monk I met after running away to avoid the 108 bows, the long-awaited barbecue I had been eating because of the vegetarian abuse at the temple food, the temple stay that was extended at the last minute due to a sudden memorial service, etc…
If we go back through all things, in the beginning there was ‘that monk’.
“Are you going back right away? You’ve come a long way. Why don’t you stay and go?”
‘Bohyun… … .’
Monk Bohyeon… … .
How far ahead in the future did you plan this board…?
The gentle smile of the living Buddha seemed to be looking down on the sentient beings as if welcoming them.
[The saint, the ‘reader of destiny’, tries to convince himself that there must have been some coincidence involved, saying that he couldn’t have done it all on purpose.]
Geo got up from his seat.
“Oh, oh, hey, he’s up. Hurry up and get up. Hey! Do-jeok buddy! Are you going now?”
The two idiots of 〈Hae-ta〉 suddenly rush towards us. Dongja-seung watches Geo closely.
He already had a sad expression, but it was even sadder when I found out the circumstances.
“Are you going to go? Have you finished making up your mind?”
‘It’s over.’
In many ways.
Kyeonji-oh looked around the wide mountain ridge.
The misty flower field and the lake are still beautiful. And the silver memorial standing in the middle is also beautiful.
Even the coarse lavender hair that blows in the wind this way and that.
‘Wow… … it was a long March.’
There’s no reason to give your heart to everyone, but there’s also no reason to be too indifferent.
That was Geo’s conclusion.
Gyeonjio stared blankly at Seorak and thought to himself.
“David.”
“……ok?”
“I like you because you’re naive and stupid.”
So, please don’t change in the future, my love.
Choi Da-wit, looking back, doesn’t know whether to be angry or laugh.
So Geo laughed.
“My name is.”
“… … .”
“Kyungjio. Geo. Close friends call me Joe for short.”
“……ah.”
“Choi David, do you want to be my friend?”
Shh …
The baby’s breath fluttered.
Seorak (雪嶽) was named after the mountain that has had a lot of snow and strong divine energy since ancient times.
Choi Da-wit nodded his head amidst the fluttering flower petals like a snowstorm in Seoraksan Mountain. Yeah. I want to… … .
Overlapping with it is the face I saw on TV as a child.
Geo turned around, laughing.
“Don’t worry about the meeting.”
A friend of a friend is another friend.
It’s your turn to benefit from being a ‘friend’, Hae-ta.
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It was close to midnight.
The Holy Spirit flower begins to bloom in the laurel forest.
The constellation is in full bloom as the moon’s shadow rises completely.
No matter how often I see this moment, I never get used to it.
Hong Ha-ya absentmindedly stretched out her arm and touched the starlight in the sky.
A week at Mars Training Camp.
The short period spent there changed the entire premise of Hong Ha-ya’s life to this day.
The awakened rank I was expecting was only an E-rank, and the relationship I wasn’t expecting at all gave me an unexpected answer.
The Holy Spirit that Baek Do-hyeon told him about stabilized Hong Ha-ya, a boy who had been living an unstable life.
Hong Dal-ya’s seizures have decreased, and Hong Ha-ya has found some peace of mind.
Just letting go of the ‘Joe’ I had been obsessively chasing changed my perspective.
I started looking around, and the aimless resentment I had been harboring inside my heart began to fade.
‘Just take it slow.’
Baek Do-hyeon said to believe.
Just trust and wait for the right time.
‘If you don’t lose your direction, the road is destined to lead you to your destination.’
Golden eyes shone through the thick glasses frames.
And… … maybe that ‘time’ was much closer than he thought.
Knock knock.
Light steps towards the rock.
It was a rhythm that had become familiar over the past few days. Hong Ha-ya happily raised her head. At the same time, she realized something.
“Honghae, watch your mouth.”
“……brother?”
“What kind of era and world do you think you live in?”
In this crazy world, there are people who are stronger than you can even imagine.
“Live always keeping in mind that one of them may be by your side at any moment.”
「… … .」
“Make sure to apologize to him properly.”
The reason why Baek Do-hyun spoke so coldly.
A small woman bends down on the rock, looking down at him from a seated position.
“what.”
“… … .”
“You figured it out before I even said anything.”
Wow, you’re quick-witted. I bet he’s got a good eye for detail.
Jianjio, the magician king Joe, has his chin raised.
“Yeah. I’m ‘Joe.’”
Unlike the light voice, the shadow became heavy.
The presence and level gradually expand. Before we know it, the shadow has covered the entire valley.
It was the shadow of a black dragon.
World ranking 1st, domestic ranking 1st.
The name of the present age and the world, ‘The King of Magicians’ Joe laughed.
“My price tag doesn’t quite match up to Baek Do-hyun’s request alone. If you would accept this condition as well, no… … I wish you had ‘accepted’ it.”
Of course you will, right?
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The morning we left Seorak.
The abbot of Wolgye, Bohyeon, asked.
“How was your four days in Seorak?”
“It’s just… there are more people than I thought.”
“When you look from far away, you see the land, but when you look up close, you see people.”
“What did you see, monk?”
The monk, who resembled the Tathagata but had a human face, smiled gently.
“And then I saw the kite.”
“And then I saw the kite.”
“… … .”
“Oh my, what the. You must be a fool.”
Stars, moon, fog, and mountains.
Kyeonji-oh turned around after staring blankly at the view of Seorak Mountain.
I walked my way without looking back.
It was the end of March, the beginning of April.
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and…….
What was waiting for Geo, who arrived in Seoul in a few days?
“Why, why… … why on earth!”
“omg.”
“Why on earth did you turn your phone off!”
It was Director Jang, Director Jang Il-hyeon, with a very haggard complexion.
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