The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 4

Swordmaster Wants to Live in Peace – Episode 4

Swordmaster Wants to Live in Peace Episode 4

The Peace Regained

“Oppa, just take me home today.”

“Shall I escort you to your residence?”

“Yes.”

“Let’s go, Seong-woo.”

“What, are we just leaving like this?”

“What? Is there something you want to do?”

“No, not really.”

I just want to go home and rest.

Yoo Seong-woo followed Seo Yeon-jung to the underground parking lot, while Yoo Ji-woo headed to the top floor of Meteor Industries.

The siblings’ touching reunion ended there.

Unlike Yoo Ji-woo’s car, Seo Yeon-jung drove a large black SUV.

It was spacious, which he liked, unlike when he rode in Yoo Ji-woo’s car. Seo Yeon-jung drove towards Yoo Ji-woo’s house and started the conversation.

“Seong-woo, have you ever thought about working as a Diver?”

“That Diver thing again. I have no intention of doing it. I don’t even know what’s going on with the world…….”

“Humans adapt to the times. Divers are just one of the professions that have emerged. Life-risking jobs have existed in every era…….”

“I’ve been fighting in another world for over forty years. I don’t really want to fight anymore.”

Yoo Seong-woo said, sinking into the plush passenger seat.

He had been fighting constantly, and now he wanted to live in peace. That was all he wanted.

However.

WEEEEEEEEE-!!

“……What’s that sound?”

“It’s an Abyss alarm. It’s common in Sehyun City, where Abyss appearances are most frequent.”

“Everything crazy is just common, I guess.”

Isn’t the Abyss a hole where monsters pop out?

How is this city, where that’s common, so crazy?

As Yoo Seong-woo grumbled, Seo Yeon-jung continued.

“Judging from the alarm, an evacuation advisory has been issued for Seobaek-gu. It’s in the opposite direction from your house, so you don’t have to worry.”

Listening to her, Yoo Seong-woo couldn’t help but think that this world was insane.

Since when did monsters suddenly start popping out, and alarms ringing become commonplace?

“It’s the end of the world, the end of the world…….”

Yoo Seong-woo lay down on the seat, using the alarm as background music.

* * *

I’m happy.

Yoo Seong-woo was enjoying the happiest time he’d had in recent years.

He didn’t have to fight, and the bed was comfortable.

As successful as Yoo Ji-woo was, her house was also extraordinary.

A luxury brand apartment called ‘Yeonam Central Park & River View’.

And it was the top floor, built like a penthouse.

His younger sister was so successful that Yoo Seong-woo also benefited from it.

There were plenty of rooms in the house, so he took the sunny room as his own.

He slept for about thirty hours, repeating the cycle of eating and sleeping for about a week.

Due to the nature of Yoo Ji-woo’s job, she didn’t come home often, and when she did, Yoo Seong-woo was always asleep, so he only saw her face once during the week.

Anyway, after eating well and resting well for a week, Yoo Seong-woo, who had fully recovered his energy, sat cross-legged on the bed as soon as he woke up and checked his condition.

‘When I returned to Earth from another world, my equipment disappeared.’

They were armors that I had worked hard to obtain, but they all disappeared as if they had evaporated.

Thanks to that, I had to do a nude show.

And one more thing, I felt a sense of incongruity.

“Ilsaeng.”

He raised his hand and called for his sword. Then, a blood-colored sword appeared in his hand.

It was his first sword, which was pure white when he first obtained it, but now had a creepy color stained with blood.

“As expected, the sword blade has become a little shorter.”

It wasn’t that much shorter—only about 3cm—but this meant that something was wrong with him.

Ilsaeng was not an ordinary sword but a sword spirit [a mystical weapon bonded to its wielder’s soul]. It was a special sword that even shared its soul with its owner.

“Another world, come forth.”

He stretched out his other hand and spoke. He was trying to summon the second sword engraved on his soul, just like Ilsaeng, but it didn’t respond.

But despite his muttering, nothing happened.

Yoo Seong-woo scratched his head, sent Ilsaeng back, and closed his eyes, sitting cross-legged to figure out what was happening to his body.

He maintained a steady breath and looked into his own inner self.

‘……Hmm, this is.’

He focused on his soul. Within the soul, which consisted of a hazy blood-colored mass, seven swords of different shapes were stuck, as if binding it.

Yoo Seong-woo looked alternately at his soul and the swords and realized what the problem was.

When crossing dimensions, a ‘discrepancy’ seemed to have occurred. It didn’t particularly affect his body, but his soul had a kind of crack because it was quite a shock.

The scars engraved on the soul would gradually heal over time, so it wasn’t that big of a problem.

For the time being, he couldn’t take out any swords other than Ilsaeng, but it was only a small penalty for Yoo Seong-woo, who had reached the realm of Swordmaster.

‘Ilsaeng alone will be enough.’

In fact, when he defeated the Demon God, he was holding his first sword, Ilsaeng.

When I think about it, there may be no need to take out the second sword in the future.

The other world he was in was a place that wouldn’t function properly without him. It was a place that would have soon been destroyed if he hadn’t been slicing up monsters on the front lines.

But Earth was doing well even without Yoo Seong-woo, unless a huge threat suddenly appeared that would threaten the survival of mankind.

“Ha…….”

He finished contemplating his soul and lay back down on the bed.

He was thinking of going back to sleep when the smartphone next to his bed rang.

Yoo Ji-woo had arbitrarily given him the latest model, saying that he should have at least one means of communication.

He reached out and looked at the screen that appeared on his smartphone, and it was a call from Yoo Ji-woo.

“Hey, what’s up? Are you busy? No, you can’t be busy. You must have been sleeping all day again.”

“Can’t you just leave someone who came back from another world alone? For about three years.”

“Do you want to play around for three years?”

“I wish I could.”

“Why has my brother, who returned after 10 years, become so hopeless? The brother I remember was someone who solved everything ahead of me.”

“The younger sister I remember was also a cute and diligent… well, she’s still diligent now. Anyway, why did you call? To see if I’m alive?”

“That’s part of it, but I was wondering if you should register as a Diver first.”

“I said I wouldn’t do things like Diver.”

“It’s not like I’m telling you to do it. There’s a mandatory Awakened registration system in Korea. Returnees have to go through verification, even if they don’t register as Divers.”

“Is there such a thing?”

“I found out about it recently. It’s a law that was created after a returnee caused a ruckus a while ago.”

At Yoo Ji-woo’s words, Yoo Seong-woo clicked his tongue.

He was already annoyed to death by rolling around at home, but now he had to go out and register as a Diver.

“What happens if I don’t do it?”

“They’ll bother you a lot. Just go and register, even if it’s roughly. You don’t want to work as a Diver anyway, right? Korea has strict laws related to Divers.”

“Should we just immigrate overseas?”

“No way. Korea is the best place to live if you have money. Overseas is even more of a mess because it’s not strict. If you don’t want to stand out, it’s okay to register as D-class, so just register.”

“……Tsk. Okay. Send me the address where I can register.”

“Okay.”

And the call was cut off.

Yoo Seong-woo checked the message from Yoo Ji-woo and lay down for a while before getting up.

It was a solo outing for the first time in a long time.

* * *

Korea currently operates a ‘Mandatory Awakened Registration System’.

A system that is only possible in Korea, which has managed its population through the resident registration system for decades, something other countries cannot do.

Other countries tried to introduce a mandatory Awakened registration system, but astronomical amounts of money were needed to design the system from the beginning, and the opinion that it was a violation of human rights was strong, so it was abandoned.

Korea was the only country that introduced a law that required people to voluntarily report that they had awakened [developed supernatural abilities].

This was possible thanks to a systematic computer system and resident registration.

At first glance, it looks like a violation of human rights, but it was a system with many advantages that other countries benchmarked.

The crime rate of Awakened in Korea, which introduced the Awakened registration system, is significantly lower than in other countries thanks to the registration system.

In Korea, Diver registration was essential to enter the Abyss [a dangerous alternate dimension] as a freelancer without belonging to any organization.

“There are really all kinds of systems.”

Yoo Seong-woo, who was looking into the Diver registration system, stopped by a hair salon before going to register as a Diver.

It was because of Yoo Ji-woo’s order to clean up his ragged hair.

She recommended a shop near her house that she goes to and said that she had already made a reservation.

“What kind of hair salon is this…….”

It was huge, as if the business was doing very well.

He, who had never been to such a store in his life, stood in front of the entrance for a moment before opening the door and entering.

Then, an employee greeted him cheerfully.

“Welcome! Did you make a reservation?”

“My sister did.”

“Ah, are you CEO Yoo Ji-woo’s brother?! I’ve heard the story! This way, this way!”

As he sat down in the seat guided by the employee, employees gathered around him and quickly prepared to cut his hair.

A cutting gown around his neck.

As he looked at his slightly ridiculous appearance in the mirror, the employee said.

“Do you have a desired style?”

“Just moderately. Just enough not to be annoying…….”

“Then we’ll cut it as we see fit!”

The employee immediately picked up scissors and a comb and began to trim his hair.

A flashy hand movement that you would believe even if he said he was an Awakened.

In an instant, Yoo Seong-woo’s long hair was cut off with a rustling sound.

And before long, his long, unkempt hair became neat.

It wasn’t too short, and after cutting it to cover his eyes slightly, he parted and combed his hair.

The employee, who roughly estimated the length, even shampooed his hair and perfectly finished several touches such as eyebrow trimming.

Yoo Seong-woo, who had cut off his long hair, felt awkward looking at himself in the mirror.

He shaved his beard and cut his hair.

The employee who cut his hair looked alternately at the mirror and Yoo Seong-woo and was speechless.

“……Wow, I feel like I’ve created a work of art. No, is it because the original is so good? You’re CEO Yoo Ji-woo’s brother, wow, really.”

It was not unreasonable for the employee to overreact.

Yoo Seong-woo, who had cut his hair, was, without exaggeration, a completely different person.

Yoo Seong-woo was originally a pretty decent-looking person, but his appearance was a mess due to hardship.

He had rested well for a few days and had a human face, and when he cleaned up his hair, it was good enough to say that he had transformed.

His features were neat, and the muscles under his hair were firm.

As his black hair swayed slightly, his slightly bloodshot eyes also looked like an attractive point.

It was the kind of feeling that he could debut as a model right now.

The employees who had gathered around him laughed, and the employee who touched his hair took a picture.

“Why the picture?”

“The CEO asked me to send it to her!”

“That kid…….”

“Please come often in the future! I thought you were an unusual person because you were the CEO’s brother, but I never imagined you would be such a handsome man!”

“Why so much…….”

It’s an awkward compliment.

Yoo Seong-woo, who had been cleaned up in the midst of the employees’ welcome, left the shop and immediately headed to register as a Diver.

There were quite a few people who looked back until he got in a taxi, and there were also people who asked for his number.

It was quite annoying to stop after walking a few steps, so he was able to arrive at the center with a consistently uncomfortable look.

“I’m here to register as an Awakened.”