๐๐ก๐๐ฉ๐ญ๐๐ซ ๐๐: ๐๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐
Moonlight sweeps away the darkness, the evening wafting in the window.
Siwoo sat in the living room, circulating his mana.
From his dantian to his heart, from his heart to his head, from his head to his arms, from his arms to his legs.
The mana flowed through his mana veins, the paths of mana, and spread through his body like roots.
It was a sensation that felt as distinct as the cool, warm, refreshing, and stuffy feeling of moisture touching his skin.
As if the dew that had gathered on the blades of grass was dripping down,
As if the ringer on his arm was dripping in one drop at a time.
Mana particles controlled with extremely delicate precision.
Throughout the world, there would only be a handful of people who could use it as finely as this.
He steadied his breath and,
Whewโ
Exhaled slowly.
Siwoo pulled out a very thin thread as if he was drawing out mana and then quickly rewound it, sweeping it into his dantian.
My physical condition has improved a lot more than before.
Siwoo turned up the corners of his lips.
His physical condition and mana control had increased a lot compared to when he had first returned to Earth.
He was still far from being 100% but it must have reached about 50%.
He had not needed that much power yet.
ใ๐๐ฅ’๐ค ๐ค๐ฅ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฃ.ใ
“. . .”
ใโ๐ฆ๐ฃ๐ฃ๐ช ๐ฆ๐ก ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐ฃ ๐๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐๐ค๐ฅ๐๐ฃ, ๐ช๐ ๐ฆ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐ ๐ก๐ฆ๐๐.ใ
“Shut up.”
Ding-dong.
The doorbell rang.
Did a guest come to this house?
Siwoo headed to the entrance, thud, thud.
An intruder, perhaps?
If he was an intruder, he wouldn’t have pressed the doorbell in the first place.
Bang.
“Who are you?”
“Hello.”
An unexpected person was at the door.
The A+ rank Hunter who he had beaten up like a dog during the one-on-one training.
[๐๐ก๐ข๐ญ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐]’s Chu Ha-min.
“What? Are you here to fight?”
Siwoo asked the question right away.
No, he asked the question that he had thought of.
“Oh, no!”
His tone of voice changed from informal to formal.
Chu Ha-min immediately waved his hands and shook his head.
“Is that so? Come in.”
Looking at the fruit basket in his hand, it seemed like he had come to apologize.
He had heard that an amicable agreement had been reached between HSIU and the [๐๐ก๐ข๐ญ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐].
Baek Geon-ho had said through Hwang Jeong-gu that ‘there was no need to meet him,’ but he was not interested in political issues anyway.
Siwoo did not care much.
“Are you feeling better now?”
“Yes! I’m almost fully recovered.”
When he had beaten him up, he had healed him roughly, but he had not regenerated him cleanly.
He deserved it.
ใ๐๐๐๐ ๐ฃ๐๐๐, ๐๐ ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ฆ๐๐๐ฅ ๐๐ฃ๐ฆ๐๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐๐๐ฅ ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ค ๐ฅ๐๐ค๐ฅ๐๐๐ฃ ๐ฅ๐๐๐ ๐ช๐ ๐ฆ. ๐๐๐๐๐ฃ ๐๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐.ใ
“So, what’s the matter?”
“First of all, our Guild Leader, Hunter Choi Sung-il, told me to come. He told me to apologize.”
Chu Ha-min knelt down, his fists on the floor, and bowed.
He was not some yakuza.
“And?”
“Yes??”
“You said ‘first of all.’ Doesn’t that mean you have another matter?”
“Ah. . .”
He did not change his posture.
In fact, he wondered if he had not taken such an action because of the matter he was about to say rather than the apology.
And Siwoo’s expectation was not wrong.
“Please. . . take me as your disciple!”
ใ๐๐๐๐ ๐ฃ๐๐๐, ๐ ๐๐๐๐ฃ ๐ฅ๐๐ ๐๐ฃ๐ฆ๐๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฆ๐๐๐๐๐ช!ใ
“. . . . . .”
Ha, annoying.
The kids he had harvested as seeds last time were already annoying enough. What was this?
Feeling Siwoo’s blunt gaze, Chu Ha-min began to desperately appeal to him.
He talked about the guild, his subordinates, and what Choi Sung-il had said.
“ใ กSo if you accept me as your disciple, you will not regret it and do my best to be loyal to you, Masterใ ก.”
“Hey, shut up.”
“. . .Yes.”
To summarize, he had fallen for Siwoo’s strength and wanted to serve him as his master for the rest of his life.
Since a master and a disciple were different from a lord and a vassal, it was a situation where he could have refused and kicked him out.
He did not have any good memories.
There was no need to be polite to each other during the fight (although it was closer to a one-sided beating).
However, Siwoo considered all the circumstances and tapped on the calculator.
Not a simple profit and loss, but a prediction for the future.
“Hmm.”
Besides, the way he had provoked Siwoo with cheap provocations and his current appearance were quite different.
At that time, an exaggerated wave of mana had flowed out, but now a calm and stable wave of mana was coming out.
In other words, his simple and reckless appearance was a fake.
His real personality seemed to be thoughtful and cautious.
“Can you fight?”
“Yes??”
Chu Ha-min blinked at the unexpected question.
It was because no one had ever asked him such a question.
“Yes, well. . . I’m known to some extent in Korea as [๐๐ก๐ข๐ญ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐]โs Asura. . .”
“Really? Why?”
“I’m an A+ rank Hunter. . . in my own way.”
This was the first time he had heard such a thing.
No, he had heard it before.
“What did your former master say?”
To Xiaolong.
“He said that I had potential, but that I would never become the strongest. He said I was too weak.”
“Are you still in touch with him?”
“Not at the moment. I only studied with him for about 11 months several years ago, and then my master went to China.”
“You learned for almost a year and that’s what you became?”
“Yes. . . And I’m sorry to interrupt you, but. . . how are you related to my master?”
Chu Ha-min finally asked the question he had been most curious about.
It was because he could not forget the look on Siwoo’s face when he had mentioned Xiaolong’s name.
“What’s the relationship?”
“Looking at how you use techniques similar to [๐๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐: ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐๐ซ ๐๐๐ฆ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐], I thought you might be his master or his junior or his disciple. . .”
“What did Xiaolong say about his master?”
Siwoo raised the corners of his lips slightly and asked back.