Tale of a Scribe who Retires to the countryside - Chapter 15

At Nodosa’s words, Saja-hyuk replied with a sneer.

“So do you.”

“Well.”

Nodosa shrugged.

“I don’t know. I think I’m a little old.”

Nodosa shook his head.

“There’s nothing interesting these days. I don’t have a guy who can deal with me. The last time a young man who applied for me to dance all day, saying he was proud of his sword, it was not so much fun. Murim Foreign Affairs also has a lot of water lately. I can’t wait to see what the young guys are doing without polishing their weapons.”

“You did a helluva thing. What’s good about dancing with an old guy like you?”

“Hmm, isn’t it? He liked it later, turning it over to his eyes……………”

“Hyping. You don’t know that if you get caught in your egret, it’s not easy to put the sword out of your hands?”

“No. Maybe it’s because of my charm that the young man didn’t lay his sword?”

Nodosa said with a smile.

“The true charm doesn’t disappear when you get old.”

“That’s what I said.”

“How about anything?”

Nodosa said, sweeping his beard leisurely.

“The truth is the truth no matter who says it. It’s just a non-essential thing.”

“As I know.”

Saja-hyuk laughed and said, ” Oh, my god.”

“Mostly thieves say that.”

“Hoo-hoo-hoo.”

Nodosa laughed. And he looked at Sajahyuk.

“If you’re doing this.”

With a still smiling face, Nodosa said.

“I think I can go back to that time at any time. It’s a nostalgic day when ten days and ten nights of rest give each other swords and swords.”

Shoot me.

The wind blew. After a while, Sajahyuk said.

“It’s mistaken.”

“Yeah, I’m mistaken. It’s just a dream. It’s like our life.”

Silence fell. The two men, facing the sword and the sword, looked at each other and said nothing. How long has it been like that?

“Now.”

Nodosa opened his mouth.

“It’s hard to stand like this, so wouldn’t it be nice to stop finishing now? It’s been a long time since I’ve been rejected like this, and the white road may be tormented.”

A third person, Son Bin, could see that his words were nothing but excuses.

What he said was hard, maybe it wasn’t the pain of the past that he couldn’t go back to?

“I do.”

Saja-hyuk replied.

“At last, Powell’s patience seemed to have bottomed out.”

sk.

Powell’s end faced the ground.

Hoo-woong.

Standing in front of the huge momentum pouring from Saja-hyuk, Nodosa said, Nazim said, ” I’m not going to be able to do that.”

“Surin.”

“Yes.”

The young man’s voice was tense. However, Nodosa’s expression was mild.

“See. This is my naked figure.”

Son-bin noticed that his voice was trembling finely. Unlike his mild expression, Nodosa’s eyes sparkled with vivacity and joy.

“And this is my do.”

Whook.

Powell, who had stopped, began to move slowly. His black figure draws a large circle, as if to encompass the heavens.

It was the beginning of the Powell Eclipse, the island’s eve. As soon as the circle was completed, the moonlight poured down, like a fate that could never be stopped.

∴

Hoo-woong.

The dry leaves flew away, as if in a gust. And Nodosa’s sword, the egret, scattered the blue light everywhere.

Shish-sik.

In the pouring moonlight, Nodosa moved like a sheep dancing on her own.

But every movement of his was, in fact, like a dangerous stunt on the border between life and death.

Every time his sword passes through the air, a sharp swoon, like a lie, occurs regularly.

Bang! Bang! Kwang!

It seemed to strike something black in Nodosa, or it seemed to swipe. And the last sword.

Kuuung!

A heavy swoon burst from his sword as if it rang through the earth. With that, Nodosa’s body was pushed back.

I can’t wait to see what’s going on.

Nodosa’s body begins to rotate, and his feet leave complex traces on the floor.

Nodosa, like a fallen leaf swept by the wind, seemed to be pushed without measures, but eventually succeeded in stopping.

Ting!

With a sharp sound, Nodosa’s movements stopped.

“Hoo.”

His hair was disheveled and his beard was mangled. There were traces of vanes in sharp pottery here and there on his clothes.

But his sword egret was blooming blue. Still.

“Awful.”

Nodosa grunted.

“How can you be stronger than you were then? If you look at me now, I think everything we did that day was bullshit.”

“You took it.”

Saja-hyuk said slowly. He lowered his posture a little and looked at Nodosa. Powell, his black counterpart, faces the night sky at an angle.

“Yeah.”

Nodosa said. His eyes were full of joy.

“I received your Powell eclipse. I have, and my egret.”

Saja-hyuk’s eyes were complex. He slowly lowered Powell.

“Then.”

Powell, slowly descending, drew level and turned sideways.

“I need to go next.”

‘Next?’

Son Bin, who was listening, looked up.

‘What’s next?’

That was the moment Son Bin thought.

Powell, the great master of Sajahyuk, was facing the night sky. It’s like a flag straightened up against the sky.

“That’s an honor.”

Nodosa laughed and said.

“You’re the first opponent of Powell’s transplant.”

“Yeah.”

Saja-hyuk, straightening Powell, said.

“This is Powell transplant, Moonwang Mancheon.”

Whook.

The next moment, blue moonlight filled the sky.

∴

Blink, blink.

Son Bin blinked.

‘What? Did I lose my mind for a minute? No, I can’t.’

It’s not going to happen. Since the two men’s demeanour began, all of Son-bin’s nerves have been focused on demeanour.

It’s a decisive moment when tension is at its peak, so you forget to breathe.

I just saw and heard Saja-hyuk say “Moonshine Mancheon,” and his grandee Powell was facing the sky.

But what is this sight that suddenly unfolds in front of your eyes?

‘Alternative when, no how…….’

The sight in front of my eyes was very simple. Saja-hyuk is standing, and Nodosa is slowly falling. Just that.

But the problem is that we can’t know how it happened, or which way it happened.

Grass.

Nodosa’s body collapses helplessly to the ground. Son-bin glanced at the young man.

His face was tinged with consternation, as if he did not understand the sight in front of his eyes.

But it was just that moment.

“Big Ah!”

At the same time that Nodosa’s body fell to the ground, a sound like the howl of a beast burst from the young man’s mouth.

And the next moment, his body stretched like an arrow toward Sajahyuk.

Sheik.

“Well.”

Saja-hyuk looked at the young man who was standing towards him and uttered a sound.

And the vicar, who was holding it in one hand, grabbed Powell with both hands and drew him lightly up.

Kwang.

The result was determined in an instant. The young man neither escaped nor overcame Powell’s attack.

The young man’s small body is floating in the air at the moment, and he is crushed to the ground.

Grass.

Before his body reached the ground, the young man had already lost his mind. The fire he was holding goes off, and there is silence again in the vacant lot.

“Wook.”

It was the fallen nodosa who groaned. Moro collapsed and he raised his body hard.

“Big.”

Nodosa’s body shook as he stood up. However, Saja-hyuk only looks down at him with nonchalant eyes.

After a few more stumbles, Nodosa barely raised himself and stood on both feet. His hand no longer held the sword.

Nodosa said after a moment of silence to pick his breath.

“Thank you.”

Nodosa said in a voice that seemed to be cut off soon. His gaze was toward the collapsed young man.

“You saved that child.”

“Didn’t I tell you?”

Saja-hyuk replied.

“I will never be of the same class as you.”

“I did.”

Nodosa laughed furiously.

“You’ve always been a keeper of your word. I didn’t……”

Nodosa’s eyes were intertwined with complex heartbeats.

“Cool.”

The nodosa spits a fierce cough. He raised one hand and blocked his mouth, but imperceptibly his hands and white beard were red with blood.

“Oh, my god, I think I’ll go before you.”

Nodosa laughed as he looked at his blood-stained hands. Then he raised his head and looked at Sajahyuk.

“You have something to ask me, don’t you?”

Saja-hyuk was silent for a moment.

“Yes.”

Nodosa laughed.

“Thank god. At the end of the day, I have something to ask for. Tell me.”

Saja-hyuk shook his teeth. And he said slowly, spatly.

“Why?”

Anger rose in Saja-hyuk’s eyes. It was the first sight of pure, passionate anger since the demeanour.

“Why did you do that? Alternative…….”

I can’t wait to see what’s going on.

Saja-hyuk ground his teeth.

“Why ye!”

Saja-hyuk said as he shouted.

“Because? Hoo-hoo, cool.”

Nodosa laughed with a wistful laugh. He then covers his mouth and coughs violently. His clothes are stained with blood.

“Huuuu.”

With a long sigh, Nodosa said. His eyes look far beyond the Sajahyuk.

“Do you remember that day, you showed me Powell’s three herbivores, Powell’s three?”

Saja-hyuk looked at Nodosa in silence. Nodosa said.

“The moment we saw it, we realized. As long as you are there, no one will jump over you. When the island is completed before the day and after the moonshine, until the last three days of Powell, we have no choice but to stay under you forever.”

Nodosa laughed wryly. Saja-hyuk said with a look of anger.

“Were you only that much of a human being who cared about the world at best?”

Nodosa shook his head with a smile.

“No, no. In fact, it doesn’t matter who’s up and who’s down. It’s not such a problem.”

Nodosa said.

“The problem was that your Powell’s expression was like a huge wall blocking in front of us. It’s such a huge wall of despair that no one can move forward as long as your Powell Samsi is there. Actually, after that day, it was so hard for me to hold the sword again. Very…….”

He turned his head and saw the fallen young man.

“Very, very hard.”

Nodosa looked at Sajahyuk. His eyes are straight toward Sajahyuk.

“So it was. Someone didn’t have anything to do with it first. That’s what we did.”

Saja-hyuk received Nodosa’s gaze straightway.

It’s a great game.

Saja-hyuk grinded his teeth. But I said nothing more.

“I have a favor.”

Nodosa said.

“Can you take charge of this child? ”

Nodosa’s gaze toward Saja-hyuk was shining like a clear night sky.

“Now he’s barely dressed in human clothes. I know I don’t deserve this request from you….”

Dosa saw the fallen young man. There is warmth in his eyes.

“Poor child.”

“Poor?”

Sparks sprang from Saja-hyuk’s eyes.

“How dare you say that in front of me? That’s you, too!”

Saja-hyuk shouted. It was a sight Son Bin had never seen before.

“How dare you tell me!”

Boo-woong.

Powell, Saja-hyuk’s grandee, stood up. Nodosa closed his eyes.

Even now, Powell seemed to fall toward Nodosa’s head, but neither Nodosa nor Lion Hyuk moved.

Shoot me.

The wind rose. And after a while, Powell slowly hid himself in the sheath.

Throng.

Nodosa opened his eyes.

“I can’t do that.”

Looking at Powell from a distance, Sajahyuk said in a dry voice.

“Is that so?”

Nodosa saw Sajahyuk’s eyes. What he found in his eyes, Nodosa’s eyes blur.

“Yeah, I did.”

Nodosa muttered, as if alone. Nodosa saw the collapsed young man. Nodosa, silent for a moment, then looked up.

“You.”

“Yes?”

Suddenly called, Son Bin answered with surprised eyes. Nodosa smiled.

“Yeah,it’s you. Come here.”

Nodosa beckoned and called Son Bin.

A bewildered Son-bin saw Saja-hyuk on the hill, but Saja-hyuk looked elsewhere and remained silent. It’s like it’s nothing to do with yourself.

“Come on.”

At Nodosa’s urging, Son Bin moved his feet. Nodosa smiles as he approaches.

“Something in your name?”

“I, I say that Son’s name is blank……………”

“Son Bin. That’s a good name. Something to do?”

Somehow, it’s a familiar tone like the old man in the neighborhood. But this nodosa is not an ordinary person. Son Bin replied carefully.

“I’m preparing for the meeting, but this time I’m off……”

“Oh, poetry. So you’re not a giant now? You must have read a lot of books.”

“That, yes, but……”

“So, you, why don’t you teach me a little?”

“Yes?”

Nodosa smiled.

“It’s not going to be difficult. I don’t want you to be a warrior like you, I just want you to teach me a little bit of a dorina who lives.”

Son-bin saw the young man lying on his heels. It was obvious that the subject of Nodosa’s story was this young man.

“But I am…….”

“Oh, I know. You’ll be busy following this guy for a while. I’m not asking you to do it now.”

Nodosa said.

“It’s just that if you have some time later, or if you have a relationship and you meet, you ask me to do that. Later, I mean.”

The laughing nodosa looked just like a good-hearted local grandfather.

‘Hmm.’

Son Bin thought. It’s like a story about catching a floating cloud that has no commitment, if it’s time later or when it’s time for a relationship to reach it.

Something that doesn’t mean anything and can’t actually happen, like a greeting that’s just ritually thrown.

‘If that’s enough…….’

This nodosa is not an ordinary person. Like Saja-hyuk, there is no one in Son-bin who will refuse in his presence.

Son Bin’s conclusion came briefly.

“All right.”

Son-bin nodded meekly.

“I do.”

“Oh, thank you.”

Nodosa took the hand of Dap-seok Son-bin.

Son Bin was amazed. Nodosa’s hands were too thick than he thought, and his hands were red with blood.

“But you, will you bring my sword to my friend?”

‘Sword?’

Son-bin turned his head to follow Nodosa’s gaze. A sword, which Nodosa said was “egret,” was lying on the floor.