Episode 88. This is not a breakup2014.07.05.
Shoot!
The grass along the riverside swayed like waves in the night wind.
The moonlight shattering on each blade of grass was enough to create the illusion that you were standing in the middle of the sea. The night sky full of stars shines overhead like a navigator’s indicator.
Sabak.
Sonbin, who was quietly catching his breath, raised his head when he heard someone approaching.
“Are you in the way?”
A low woman’s voice. She was none other than Sa Su-yeon.
She was standing neatly dressed as always, with a slightly nervous expression. Her face, with the blue moonlight drawing thin lines, is beautiful.
“no.”
Sonbin answered with a smile.
“I want to ask you something.”
“which… … .”
Sreung.
A cold, shining blade appeared at her fingertips.
Her eyes looking at Sonbin did not waver at all. The warm smile she used to share with her children during the day had disappeared like a lie.
“With my sword.”
It was Sonbin’s first time hearing this expression, but he understood it immediately.
To ask a question with a sword means to answer with a sword.
It was Bimu’s request.
“All right.”
Sreung.
A white heron appeared in Sonbin’s hand. Sa Su-yeon sighs softly at the beautiful figure revealed under the moonlight.
“It’s a really beautiful sword. “Did you still have it back then?”
It was probably referring to the time when we headed towards the snowy mountain together.
Sonbin nodded.
“yes. It was entrusted to an old Taoist for a while. “Someday, I will have to give it back.”
Sa Su-yeon looked slightly puzzled. The White Egret is a sword that anyone can admire just by looking at it. Of course she knew that entrusting such a sword to her was not at all literal.
But that’s not important now.
“You learned the Hyeoncheongyeol technique.”
“To be exact, it is the Hyeoncheon Grand Ganggyeol.”
Sonbin smiled bitterly. It was because the image of that person, Sajahyeok, came to mind without realizing it.
“Your father said you did a good job, but I don’t dare compare you to Hyeon Cheon-gyeol.”
The only evaluation of his performance in Hyeoncheon was a short word from Sa-hyeok Sa-hyeok.
But that alone was enough for Sonbin. Because Sa-hyeok was the only one who could criticize Hyeoncheon’s great Ganggyeol.
“is that so?”
Sa Su-yeon smiled faintly.
“If so, please show it to me.”
Whoops.
At the same time as those words were said, a tremendous amount of energy began to pour out of Sa Su-yeon. She was stronger and sharper than Sonbin remembered.
An overwhelming force reminiscent of Lion Hyeok was emanating from the slender Sa Su-yeon.
“What is your sword like?”
Sa Su-yeon’s eyes were shining coldly. Sonbin answered, facing the force like a strong storm.
“Although it is not comparable to Sojeo.”
Ugh.
Accompanied by Sonbin’s low voice, the white heron began to cry quietly. As if resisting Sa Su-yeon’s momentum.
“I will be happy to answer.”
Sa Su-yeon, whose eyes were coldly shining, laughed. She said with that really satisfied smile of hers.
“great.”
Huh.
A pale blue energy stood on her sword. The energy on her sword, as if it were a tangible blade, cannot even be compared to before.
However, Sonbin actually felt calmer.
Ugh.
A faint warmth transmitted through hands. The low sound of the egret seemed rather happy.
The energy that Sa Su-yeon exudes is enough to make your skin tingle, but there is no sharp hatred in it.
The only thing there is is a determination that is transparent.
The endless night sky, the vast earth, and even the blowing wind seemed to gently embrace the two people.
Hung.
A pale blue energy began to draw a circle in the air. There was no warning or sign, but Sonbin could clearly see the moment her sword moved.
Because that was the beginning of Sajahyeok’s path to enlightenment.
Shing.
Sonbin’s sword cut through the air and drew an arc.
Two swords, completely identical to Sa Su-yeon’s, but with completely different flows, approached each other without hesitation. And the tips of the two people’s swords met in the air.
Jang!
A sound like something breaking came from between the two people.
∴
“I guess I’m old too.”
“You’ve been old for a while now.”
Namaknogun frowns at Sinui’s words.
“But why are you suddenly self-reflecting?”
Shinui asks as he raises his glass.
“Look at that.”
Noh-gun gestured with his chin at the two men dancing together.
“If I had seen something like that before, I would have jumped in with the major sword without hesitation… … .”
After a small sigh, Noh spoke.
“Now I feel happy just watching.”
“joy.”
Sinui said after taking a sip of his drink.
“You’ve finally become a bit of an adult.”
It was a tone devoid of any sarcasm, but rather full of regret. Noh didn’t respond, just quietly raised his glass.
Jang.
Again, a sound as if something was breaking was heard. Sinui raised his head and looked at the two people dancing together. Under a night sky full of stars, shining trails were embroidering the air.
“Yuna seems to have made up her mind, too.”
Sinui said as if muttering.
∴
Paralock.
Sa Su-yeon’s clothes fluttered loudly. Sa Soo-yeon draws a circle with graceful movements as if she were dancing. However, it was an unavoidable choice to let go of the rebound that returned to him.
widely.
Sa Su-yeon stopped. Dry grass and small stones were blown away by her momentum, and the long lines made by her toes were already leaving quite a few traces here and there in the clearing.
“Incredible.”
Sa Su-yeon said. Although most of it has been washed away, I can still feel the slight shock in my hands. It is due to her own history that her Sonbin’s sword returned.
“Is this how you defeated the man from the Blood Dragon Gate?”
“That’s right.”
Sonbin answered. Although he is clearly holding a white sword, what is felt from him is not the spirit and spirit of a warrior, but the calmness of a scholar holding a brush while intoxicated by the moon.
The white heron’s blade shines like an illusion under the moonlight and lets out a low cry.
“But, did Hyeon Cheon-gyeol have this kind of swordsmanship?”
“Hyeoncheongyeol cannot be defined. It is like a proud flow, and we can only tell its past traces.”
Sonbin said with a smile.
“You know, sir.”
Sa Su-yeon also smiled.
“Even the answer is the same.”
It was not said who it was like. But they both knew who it was.
“Now there’s only one left.”
Okay.
Sa Su-yeon said as she raised her sword.
“After that day on the snowy mountain, I thought and thought. I thought over everything you said, word for word, several times. Then, suddenly, one thing started to bother me. That means you caught the Jade Dragon off guard with a Jade Dragon attack.”
Sa Su-yeon’s eyes shone under the moonlight.
“He had a strange obsession with Jade Dragon Station Rincham. So I thought maybe, just like back then, you agitated him with your words, or shook him with your bravado. Of course, I thought that was all there was to it.”
The Okryong was unusually angry at Sa Su-yeon’s attack on the Okryong. And even then, Sonbin succeeded in agitating him with words. So much so that he didn’t even notice Sajahyeok’s approach.
“But now I’m wondering if that means you literally stabbed him.”
Ugh.
Her sword glows pale blue again.
“Show me. “The Jade Dragon Station Rincham you completed.”
“All right.”
Sonbin said. Holding the white sword with both hands, he pointed straight at Sa Su-yeon.
‘Is this the Jade Dragon Station Rincham?’
Sa Su-yeon was puzzled for a moment. She also knows the true nature of the Jade Dragon, as shown by her lion, Hyuk.
It is never that kind of attitude.
However, Sonbin no longer moves and only the white heron’s blade sparkles under the moonlight.
Faaat.
When Sa Su-yeon lightly stamped her foot, her sword was instantly struck by Son Bin.
Phew.
The wind picked up where she passed, and a pale blue blade fluttered down towards Sonbin like a death sentence.
And at the last moment, the white heron, which had been silent until then, began to slowly move from top to bottom.
Hung.
‘ah.’
At that moment, Sa Su-yeon saw. She tolerated the perfect jade dragon’s anger, not at all different from that of her father, Lion Hyuk, who had shown her.
Now, the very Geomro that I thought I would never see again was proudly showing up there. Like the blue moonlight that fills the world.
∴
“Sozer!”
Sa Su-yeon blinked at Son Bin’s urgent voice.
“Are you okay?”
Sonbin’s eyes looking at him were full of concern. It was only then that Sa Su-yeon realized that she was standing blankly.
Have I lost my mind? But that can’t be true. Because he clearly remembers Sonbin’s sword falling from above towards him, and then rising again.
After that, Sonbin’s sword stopped as if it were a lie.
“Sozer?”
Sonbin calls her again in a concerned voice.
“What’s next?”
Sa Su-yeon said. It was a voice that couldn’t even be heard properly because her throat was locked, but Sonbin managed to understand it.
“next?”
“I’m talking about the next herbivorous meal of Okryong Station Rincham.”
Okryongyeokrincham is a one-second meal. Didn’t Sa-hyuk tell Sa-su-yeon that he would complete the chosik?
“There is no next time. “The Jade Dragon Station Rincham itself has already been completed.”
Sonbin said. It was an answer that Sa Su-yeon had never thought of, but Sa Su-yeon was easily convinced. No, she had no choice but to be convinced. Anyone who has seen that sword would do the same.
“is that so… … .”
Sa Su-yeon muttered quietly. And then she suddenly saw Sonbin.
“Did you see this sword too, Dad?”
“yes.”
Sa Su-yeon closed her eyes. And again she opened her eyes and spoke quietly.
“thank you.”
“no.”
Sonbin said. But somehow, at her words, something warm rises in her heart and her eyes become moist.
Sa Su-yeon smiled. Her smile was shining brightly under the moonlight.
* * *
“No!”
Soso shouted in a voice that sounded like he was about to cry. Lovebird was already shedding tears.
“Why are you going? “We can just stay here together.”
Sa Su-yeon smiled and stroked So So’s head.
“It’s not going very far. “I will come back again.”
“B-but… … .”
“I’m going to go and get permission from my grandfather and grandmother and come back. “They don’t know anything yet.”
“It’s far away? “Is it taking a long time?”
The lovebird asks, looking up at Sa Su-yeon with tearful eyes.
“well? “It might take a little longer.”
“Then I don’t like it!”
“are you okay.”
Sa Su-yeon said while hugging the lovebird tightly.
“I will definitely come back. So, I will braid Lovely and Soso beautifully every day and give them flowers.”
But Lovebird’s tears did not easily stop. The other kids surrounding her also had sullen expressions.
Jawoo, who looks like an alley leader, runs towards Sonbin and looks up with wide eyes and says.
“teacher! “My sister’s teacher is leaving.”
Instead of answering, Sonbin gently stroked Jau’s head. His mind was equally confused. But he couldn’t say anything.
As if replacing my thoughts, I heard the heavy voice of Shinui, who was sitting next to me.
“I’m going to come back.”
Seeing Sa Su-yeon trying hard to comfort the children, Eui-ui said.
“He may be alone in the world, but he is not Yuna’s mother. As Yuna, this is the first time in her life that she is visiting her mother’s home, but the first news she hears is that of her child’s death… … . Tsk.”
To young Sa Su-yeon, her mother would sometimes talk about her parents’ family. She even promised me that one day we would go together holding her hand.
But that promise could not be kept.
One day, her mother suddenly couldn’t return, and Sa Su-yeon had to stay with Sa-hyuk in a place with nothing.
“But Yuna will have no choice but to go.”
Sonbin had no choice but to nod. If you think about his situation, living without even knowing whether your child is alive or dead is not something you should do.
Even though it is tragic news, it is Sasoo-yeon’s responsibility to announce it.
It was not easy to soothe crying children. After barely sending her children away, Sa Su-yeon carried her luggage and came out. She doesn’t have much luggage anyway. Just like she did back then.
“Are you going to be okay?”
Sa Soo-yeon smiled at Son Bin’s worried words.
“I am not a child like Soso or Lovebird. Do not worry.”
“But I went that long way alone… … .”
Sa Soo-yeon will return to where she lived with Sa Sa-hyeok. There, he must collect his belongings and visit his distant maternal family, whom he has never seen before.
Sonbin has already said that he will not leave her alone. I will never let her go as sick as she used to. However, Sa Su-yeon spoke with a smiling face.
“are you okay. “It’s different from back then.”
Sonbin still couldn’t let go of his regrets.
“He said that Hyeoncheongyeol is like a great Tao and that he knows where to go on his own.”
Suddenly, Sa Su-yeon spoke to Son Bin.
“So you don’t have to worry.”
“Are you concerned? “What kind of concern are you talking about?”
Sonbin’s expression as he asked the question was very serious.
Sa Su-yeon smiled without realizing it. He was trying to give me advice about his history, but at best he felt stupid for telling me about it.
“that is… … “No, no.”
Sa Su-yeon smiled and shook her head. For some reason, I thought it might be okay to keep it the way it is.
Sonbin tilts his head. She doesn’t seem to understand why she says such things.
“Oh, and.”
Suddenly, Sa Su-yeon held out something. It was long and thin, wrapped in silk.
“This… … .”
“It’s that sword.”
“ah.”
Sonbin frowned without realizing it. It was the broken blade that was stuck in Sa Su-yeon’s chest.
As I was wondering if I had ever had something like this, Sa Su-yeon’s voice continued.
“This is my first time going to my maternal grandparents’ house, and I don’t think I can take something like this with me. But I don’t feel like throwing it away either.”
Sa Su-yeon said, looking down at the blade in Son Bin’s hand.
“Can you take care of it for a moment?”
“All right.”
For her, this is a memory of a moment she will never forget. Just like the meaning that Hoa Sword has for Sajahyeok.
Sonbin said.
“I’ll leave it to you for a moment.”
“thank you.”
Sa Su-yeon slightly bowed her head and approached Sinui.
“I want to go.”
“be careful. “Please keep in mind what I said.”
“yes.”
Sa Su-yeon also bowed her head to Noh-gun.
“Until we see you again, stay healthy.”
“Sniff. Even if I want to be sick, I can’t. “Because this noisy guy is around.”
The old man turned his head and grumbled. Sa Soo-yeon, who was smiling, approached Dang Wol-ah, who was a little away. She was, as always, small and delicate, her face covered with her cotton yarn.
“When I come back, I will be a more beautiful young lady.”
Tang Yue’s mood had changed a lot in the past few days. Unlike before, when she was just a delicate girl, now, little by little, she is starting to look like a full-fledged young lady.
“I don’t care if you don’t come back.”
Tang Yue’er said in a cold and quiet voice.
“But don’t make Prince Sun wait long.”
Sarah.
Suddenly, Sa Su-yeon stretched out her arm and grabbed Dang Yue-ah’s small hand. Dangwol-ah’s shoulders trembled in surprise, but he did not take his hand away.
“You’re always so nice.”
Sa Su-yeon said, looking through the cotton thread at Tang Yue-ah’s slightly trembling eyes.
“When I get back, I’ll touch your head again.”
Tang Yue’er didn’t say anything. With a smile, Sa Su-yeon let go of her hand and approached the horse that was tied in front of her door.
widely.
Sa Su-yeon released the reins and mounted the horse with light movements.
Purr.
The horse toured. Sa Su-yeon stretched out his hand and lightly stroked his horse’s neck.
“Then, I’ll come back.”
Sa Su-yeon said that in a light voice. And he stamped his foot right away without waiting for others to react.
“ha!”
The horse immediately kicked the ground.
Cluck, cluck.
“Sa Soje!”
Sonbin called, but Sasuyeon did not turn around. So Soo-yeon Sa left the petition.
∴
Takkak.
As soon as the horse left the petition, Sa Su-yeon stopped the horse. And only then did he turn his head and look back.
It wasn’t a long time, but the familiar sight of the village felt like a farewell to Sa Su-yeon.
“are you okay. “I am not alone.”
Sa Su-yeon spoke softly. Those words she couldn’t bear to say in front of him, and just thinking about them made her face turn red.
“As long as you think of me, I will never be lonely. So this is not a breakup.”
Shoot!
The wind blew. With the wind blowing her hair, Sa Su-yeon spoke quietly.
“We will definitely meet again.”
Warmth rose from beneath my cold chest. Sa Su-yeon turned her head. And she stamped her foot vigorously.
“ha!”
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