Episode 7. Trapped in the Mirror
I tried to reach out to the outside of the room where the medicine was applied, but the mirror blocked my way and I couldn’t go any further.
“You monster! Don’t touch my stuff!”
The lover thought that he had been attacked by a monster.
The monster trapped in the mirror has switched places with me!
But the monster paid no attention to his words and ran around the warehouse with a cheerful face.
The lover trapped in the mirror gnashed his teeth, but there was no solution.
‘Ugh! I got attacked by a monster!’
Yeon-jeok, who was clutching his head in anger, kicked him without thinking.
puck.
The elementary school book that was caught in my foot flew to one side.
Strangely enough, the world inside the mirror seemed no different from the inside of the warehouse.
The man walked around in the mirror, grumbling and grumbling.
It didn’t take long for him to realize that he could move just the size of a warehouse.
“Bad kid… … .”
I started swearing on my own.
You tricked me into confining me in a small space!
I was so angry and frustrated that I kicked the mirror, but only my toes hurt.
And so, after five years of living in a warehouse, Yeonjeokha’s life in the mirror began.
***
All the girl in the mirror did was look at monsters all day long.
The monster repeated what it had done before.
They received food through small holes, defecated in jars, and loafed around.
There was only one thing that was different from his usual self. The monster always laughed, no matter what he found funny.
At first I was angry, but as time went on, the monster’s actions seemed pathetic.
Aren’t they no different from dogs and pigs?
He hurled insults at the rival monster, calling him “an idiot!”
Then one day.
That day too, Yeon-jeok got angry and jumped up and down when he saw his child eating his flower bread.
“Stop eating it! It’s mine!”
As Yeonjeok-ha was glancing back and forth in the mirror, a lightbulb containing a painting appeared in his eyes.
Of course, there was a light bulb inside the mirror.
Although I wasn’t hungry, I approached Gwangjuri just in case.
A twisted firework was contained in the light box.
What does the flower in the mirror taste like?
Suddenly, my mouth started watering.
When I picked up the hard rice cake and put it in my mouth, it melted and went down my throat. The sweet and soft taste was incomparable to anything I had ever tasted before.
Yeonjeok looked around as he swallowed three fireballs in one breath.
A water jug appeared in his eyes.
If dry turmeric tastes like this, what does water taste like?
I scooped up some water from the jug with a gourd.
It should have a musty smell, but the water in the mirror was different. Just smelling it makes my heart feel refreshed.
I tasted some water with excitement.
His heart fluttered at the cool and sweet taste. From then on, he drank it without thinking.
When he was too full to drink any more, he withdrew with a satisfied look on his face. It seemed better than outside, except that it was inside the mirror.
***
In a mirror, you can’t even tell the passage of time.
I missed the fresh breeze coming in through the small window.
I desperately wanted to see the tree visible through the gap in the food hole and the weeds growing underneath it.
There was no wind inside the mirror, and even when I tilted my head, I couldn’t see beyond the gap.
Then one day.
Yeon-jeok, who was wasting time doing nothing, suddenly realized that he was just a monster outside the mirror, eating, pooping, and lazing around.
He felt he had to do something, so he picked up a stick.
The monster outside the mirror is not me, only the face is the same.
That means the movements he learned through him were not his own imagination.
The nine thousand laws and nine movements came to mind clearly.
Yeonjeok got up from his seat and repeated the movements he had learned one by one.
Then suddenly I felt something strange and turned my head.
Funnily enough, the monster outside the mirror was glancing at himself.
The monster seemed to be interested in what was happening in the mirror, just like its past self.
For a moment, a brilliant idea crossed my mind.
The monster outside the mirror not only has the same face, but also seems to be just as curious as you.
What if we made the monsters come closer?
And if he did what the monster had done to him, wouldn’t he be able to get out of the mirror? Somehow, he felt like he could grab the monster’s head too.
I carefully recalled the actions of the monster I was in love with.
He showed off everything from the nine thousand laws to the nine newly learned movements without stopping.
But the monster only glanced at me and didn’t come closer.
The angry lover hit the mirror with a stick and screamed.
“Hey! You monster! Show some interest, too!”
I flinched in surprise at the sound of my own voice calling out to me.
This is the first time in my life that I have ever yelled at someone.
I felt a mixture of anxiety and pleasure.
It seems like my brothers cursed so much because of this thrilling feeling.
“This son of a bitch!”
“You lowly bastard!”
“You little punk! Come here!”
Since I thought that no one would be watching anyway, I mobilized all the curses I had heard from my brothers.
I feel like my stuffy mind is getting a little bit more relieved.
After a long argument, the lovers returned to their original seats.
To get out of the mirror, you have to arouse the curiosity of that monster.
In this narrow mirror, what you can do is determined.
The long movements the monster had made were repeated until they were worn out and worn out.
Then one day, Yeon-jeok discovered that there was a ‘similarity in the movements of the eighteen’.
There are nine ancestral laws of the Yeon family.
But what about the nine that follow?
The eighteen movements flowed naturally as if they were originally one sword technique.
How does that monster know nine moves that my dad doesn’t?
Suddenly, the thought occurred to me, ‘That monster might be Yeon-shi’s distant ancestor.’
Then, it may be that your face is similar to mine.
‘Were the ghosts of our ancestors trapped in the mirror?’
I felt sorry for having cursed at him all this time, thinking of him as the ancestor of the Yeon family.
But after thinking about it a little more, I don’t think that’s true.
Because that monster wasn’t like that from the beginning.
At first glance, he looked exactly like himself when he was six years old.
There’s no way that the ghosts of your ancestors could grow old like you!
“Oh, what is it?”
Yeon-jeok, who had been pulling out her hair, turned her gaze out of the mirror.
Then suddenly my eyes met with the monster’s.
Looking closely, the monster’s face looked similar to his own, but was different.
His face brightened.
He looked so bright, as if he had never experienced anything sad before.
He himself has never made a face like that even for a single moment.
I think I know for sure now.
That is not an ancestral god, and certainly not me.
‘That’s just a trick by some unknown monster.’
It’s just pathetic that he once mistook that for himself, and even thought of it as an ancestral spirit.
I let go of my fear and anger towards my romantic partner.
And I decided to regard it as a mountain that had to be overcome somehow, an enemy that had to be defeated.
‘We need to change our methods.’
The nine thousand laws do not attract the attention of monsters.
Suddenly, the book the monster was reading caught my eye.
The monster looked at me and touched my body, even tapping my head.
‘It’s clearly elementary school… … .’
I picked up the book, thinking that I was being fooled.
As expected, the letters written on the cover are Elementary School.
‘damn.’
I feel like I’ve been tricked by a monster.
“You bad boy!”
He turned the page roughly, swearing.
Swish, swish.
The Sutra of the Mysterious Woman.
‘huh?’
The three characters written on the cover of the book were ‘Hyeonnyeo-gyeong.’
Whenever the adults in the family opened their mouths, they would say, ‘Our ancestors have lost the wise woman.’
‘Why is this in the mirror?’
It would be embarrassing if the Yeon clan found out.
“Huh! This is a waste!”
The Yeon clan members, from children to the elderly, all cursed and harassed him.
Are you saying that he is the son of a slave brought by the grandmother from Baekgajang?
They blamed their mother and themselves for their father leaving Gangho.
Now I know why my dad left Gangho.
Dad knew he was going to die soon and wanted to spend the rest of his life with Mom.
After his mother died and his father died, the Yeon clan locked themselves in a warehouse.
He grabbed the woman he was dating and shouted.
“If I mix with the Yeon clan, I am not human!”
I wanted to give up my last name because it was dirty, but I decided to endure it for the sake of my father.
Instead, I plan to never associate with the Yeon clan again for the rest of my life.
What should Hyeonnyeo-gyeong do?
Of course I won’t teach you.
If anyone asks, I’ll just say that I woke up while I was locked in the warehouse.
Just thinking about it makes me feel good.
To do that, you must first learn the Hyeonnyeo Gyeong and step out of this stuffy mirror.
The monster was quite troubled while looking at the wise woman.
That means you haven’t mastered it completely.
If you show me a new secret of swordsmanship and wisdom, I’m sure I’ll be curious.
The young man began to read the Sutra of the Virtuous Woman, just as the monster had done before.
It started with an introduction to the new girl, Gucheonhyeonnyeo.
As I continued reading, I came across a breathing method with an unfamiliar name called ‘Nine Heavens Like One True Scripture’. It is said that the Nine Heavens’ wise woman herself created this, and if you practice according to this true scripture, you will transform from a fish into a great penguin.
That’s not the end of it.
From the middle part, there was an explanation of the eighteen movements that had been learned so far. The nine familiar movements were, as expected, the ‘Nine Thousand-Year-Old Law’.
Next, the names of the nine movements learned from the Yokai were revealed.
Nine Heavenly Sword.
Is this a swordsmanship that reaches the heavens beyond the heavens?
Now that I look at it, it seems that the Yeon clan only learned the nine ‘Nine Heavenly Laws’ and called them the ‘Nine Heavenly Swords’.
First, I memorized all nine hundred characters of the Buddhist scriptures of the Nine Thousand-Yeoil Jinkyung.
And as it is written in the Gocheonyeoiljingyeong, I breathed in, gathered my breath, and slowly exhaled, repeating this process.
Countless hours have passed.
When the nine hundred character Buddhist scriptures written in the Goocheonyeoiljingyeong were deeply engraved in one’s bones, a single grain of rice-sized essence was finally created in the lower abdomen of Yeonjeokha.
The love in the mirror was not aware of hunger or sleep, and was also out of sync with the flow of time.
As the rice grew to the size of an acorn, the crown of the head opened and the innate energy began to accumulate little by little in the Baihui point on the head.
I was so immersed in the pleasure of the first ever lucky breakfast that I couldn’t open my eyes.
After a hundred days, the innate energy of the Baihui blood overflowed and finally flowed through the Immaek and accumulated in the Dantian.
When the Wonjeong and Seoncheon energies met in the Danjeon, the two energies fused and became one, just like the Taegeuk.
Finally, the nine heavenly energies recorded in the Nine Thousand Years’ Jingyeong were created.
Although he didn’t know it, it was the same boy in the mirror who had been sitting there for a long time, just breathing as if he was dead.
As soon as the Nine Heavenly Energy was created in the Danjeon, Yeonjeok opened his eyes in a flash.
I had nothing else to do, so I focused on it, and ended up getting something called the Nine Heavenly Ki. Now, I only got the Nine Heavenly Ki seed, but my body feels different than before.
Yeonjeokha muttered with an ambiguous expression.
“They said that the Nine Heavens will come in the midst of nothingness, so they told us to wait with an empty heart… … .”
The problem is that I don’t yet know what feelings are like emptiness or emptiness.
Wuxia,
