The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 40

Swordmaster Wants to Live Peacefully – Episode 40

Swordmaster Wants to Live Peacefully Episode 40

Luna

“Hurry and get inside! Hurry!”

Rumble.

The Abyss’s hole connecting dimensions was about to disappear.

The Towel Tribe members who had been waiting outside quickly vanished into the Abyss.

As they had requested, the meteor shower dealt with the Sword Demon, but it also destroyed the core that maintained the passage.

The meteor shower’s mistake was not realizing the core was the sword.

“Who would have known a sword would break so easily?”

If there’s a sin, it’s that I’m too strong.

Yuseongwoo muttered, waiting for all the Towel Tribe members to enter beside the shrinking Abyss.

“Are you feeling alright?”

“I’m fine.”

Yuseongwoo nodded in response to Yuwol’s question.

Yuwol, who had watched the fight between the Sword Demon and Yuseongwoo from afar, clearly saw him getting hurt.

The sight of blood flowing from his right arm was still vivid in her mind.

“I said I’m fine.”

Seeing Yuwol’s worried expression, Yuseongwoo rolled up his sleeve to show the injured area.

Only a faint scar remained there already.

It was a terrifying recovery rate.

“Satisfied?”

“……Your recovery is like a troll’s.”

“Not as good as a troll.”

Yuseongwoo, who briefly explained that this was a minor technique to manipulate blood flow in the body, looked at the Abyss.

The Towel Tribe members who had been waiting outside had all entered, and now only Yuwol remained.

“……If I leave like this, the Moon Door you requested will be impossible. Are you really okay with that?”

“It can’t be helped. Besides, aren’t the offerings insufficient anyway? It’s my fault this happened.”

If the Abyss’s core had been safely preserved, there would have been no need to move so urgently, and the Moon Door would have been possible.

Yuseongwoo gestured for Yuwol to hurry up.

It was a gesture to leave quickly before any lingering feelings arose.

“Hey, aren’t you leaving?”

“…….”

The size of the Abyss was now only large enough for one person to barely pass through.

The door would close very soon.

Yet, Yuwol simply smiled and looked at Yuseongwoo.

“Hey.”

“Yes, Seongwoo-nim.”

“Is this for real?”

“It’s a conclusion I came to after much thought. I’ve finished the handover, and there are other talented people besides me, so there’s no need to worry about the Towel Tribe.”

“I mean, are you okay with separating from your family with this choice? You might never see them again.”

“I might regret it someday. But I’ve made up my mind. Someone needs to stay on Earth and clean up the mess, too.”

“I can only call it a foolish decision.”

“Sometimes, being a fool isn’t so bad.”

She wouldn’t give up a single word.

Did she not know how heartbreaking it was to be separated from family?

As Yuseongwoo thought this, he recalled the path she had walked.

Numerous Towel Tribe members must have died at the hands of Jeron.

She must have experienced countless farewells, and it was amazing that she hadn’t given up on her own life while enduring for the sake of her people.

Yuseongwoo had also almost given up several times while walking the path of hardship.

That meant her decision was not a simple whim, but a conclusion she had reached after a long time of consideration.

He sighed deeply.

How long had it been since he met someone with such stubbornness?

Yujiu was also stubborn, but Yuwol’s stubbornness was beyond imagination.

“……Do as you please.”

Now, there was really no turning back.

The Abyss behind Yuwol closed.

It was an Abyss that even Ireland couldn’t handle, an Abyss where the Towel Tribe members had appeared, estimated to be level 1 or higher.

* * *

“Catch!”

“I, I caught it!”

Yeonam Private Elementary School.

P.E. class for the 3rd grade, 4th class.

Taking P.E. class easy was the same as ever, so the students were enjoying dodgeball at the teacher’s words.

It was a class match dodgeball with mixed classes, so boys and girls were mixed together.

‘Strike first, win for sure!’

Nox, who received the ball from a classmate, recalled Yuseongwoo’s teachings and threw the ball.

Of course, if she threw it with all her might, it wouldn’t end with just broken bones, so she adjusted her strength to some extent.

Even so.

Bang!

The straight-line fastball, making a terrifying sound, knocked down not one, but three opposing students.

Nox, who quickly gained a numerical advantage, caught the ball thrown by a classmate on the other side and said.

“Give up if you don’t want to get hit.”

“A, as if we’d give up! We’ll block it no matter what! Everyone!”

A male student on the other side gathered his friends and took a position.

Five people stuck together in a pyramid shape with the determination to block Nox’s merciless shot coming from the front.

“Then I have no choice.”

“Go! Nox! Show them your secret technique!”

“Se, secret technique?! What on earth did you prepare, you demon!”

‘There’s no secret technique or anything.’

She was just throwing it.

Still, Nox couldn’t let her friends’ expectations down, so she prepared a windup, raising her foot high like she was playing baseball.

Following that, she released the power gathered in her hand and said.

“Destiny Shot of Fate!”

Bang!

The dodgeball that flew with a refreshing sound stuck to the position where five people were attached.

The male student who blocked the ball from the front seemed to be blocking the ball with a painful expression.

Eventually, however, five people couldn’t beat one person and fell down.

The ball bounced back with resilience and was once again held in Nox’s hand.

As she held the ball in one hand and silently looked at the other side, the frightened students shouted.

“T, teacher! We give up! We want to give up! We want to give up!”

“Please let us give up!”

“This isn’t a dark dodgeball where we have to die if we lose!”

It was Nox’s perfect victory.

And after school, Nox left the school gate with light steps.

As a result of going to school for a few days, she was now an elementary school student who could find her way home alone.

“Nox! Let’s go home together!”

“Okay!”

She also made friends to go home with, and she was having the best days.

Even though there was no one at home when she got there.

Yuseongwoo was overseas for work, and Yujiu was late coming home.

Still, Nox thought these were the best days compared to those days when she was trapped in the castle’s basement.

She ate a lot of delicious food, and look, she even had friends to go home with.

Nox parted ways with her friends in the apartment complex and took the elevator back home.

What should I order for dinner tonight? She opened the front door while imagining happily.

“I’m home~”

“You’re back?”

She didn’t expect to hear a reply, but a reply came from the living room.

Nox sprinted down the hallway and arrived in the living room, where Yuseongwoo was lying on the sofa watching television.

Nox hesitated for a moment at the sight of him after a long time, but soon realized it wasn’t an illusion and dived in to hug Yuseongwoo.

“It’s been a while!”

“What’s wrong with you? Get off.”

“I want to stay like this for a bit.”

“Did you eat something wrong…….”

Even as he said that, Yuseongwoo didn’t actively try to push Nox away.

It was annoying, but he thought that she might be acting like this because she was feeling like a kid after seeing him after a long time.

Let’s think from other people’s perspectives.

That was also a lesson Yuseongwoo learned from this incident.

After a while, Nox, who had fallen off Yuseongwoo and sat on the sofa, asked.

“Was the Ireland thing resolved well?”

“Yeah. That’s why I came home after resolving it. It wasn’t a big deal. They were making a huge fuss over one strange guy.”

It was a national fuss, though.

Yuseongwoo, who had finished the Towel Tribe’s request, took a short break in Ireland and then returned home by plane.

Just in case, Yuwol said she would contact him later about the Moon Door.

‘I didn’t give her my contact information.’

Well, she’ll contact me somehow.

Yuwol was stubborn but quick-witted, so she would contact him on her own even if he didn’t give her any special means of contact.

Just like she came to his house through Meteor Industries.

“By the way, it’s a bit noisy downstairs.”

“They said someone new would be moving in yesterday? They asked for understanding because it might be a bit noisy.”

“Is that so.”

I wonder who’s moving in.

The apartment Yuseongwoo currently lived in was the penthouse of Yeonam Castle.

Even if it wasn’t the penthouse, the price of the lower floors was in the billions [of Korean won, roughly equivalent to millions of US dollars], so it meant that someone with the ability to accumulate that much wealth was moving in.

He didn’t care who moved in as long as they didn’t bother him, but for some reason, Yuseongwoo felt uneasy.

It was the same anxiety he felt when Yuwol rang the doorbell.

It was as if his peaceful daily life would somehow be disturbed.

Ding-dong~

And at that moment, the doorbell rang.

A chill ran down his spine, and Nox jumped up from her seat and headed for the front door.

“Hey, hey! Don’t open the door!”

“No! It’s Jiu unnie [older sister]!”

“There’s one more!”

Ignoring Yuseongwoo’s words, Nox flung open the front door.

Standing in front of it were Yuwol, with her straight-down ears and silver-white hair braided down, and.

Yujiu, standing in the back as if she was in trouble.

“Oh my, we meet again. I don’t know if you remember, but I’m Yuwol.”

“Ah, hello…… I, I’m Nox!”

“Yes, Nox-yang [a polite suffix]. We’ve moved into the house downstairs. Please take care of us in the future. As good neighbors.”

“Ta, take care of you……?”

Yuwol smiled beautifully and greeted, and Nox responded with an awkward face.

Yuseongwoo realized that the expression ‘my head is rotting’ was accurate [meaning he’s in disbelief and things are going wrong].

* * *

“The reason I came to visit today is not only to greet Seongwoo-nim [a polite suffix], but also to explain things about the Moon Door.”

“Wasn’t the Moon Door impossible? There are no offerings either.”

“That’s the case with a normal Moon Door. But there are several ways to do the Moon Door, and there’s a way to try among them.”

“What is it?”

“It’s like pulling in the Moon Door that will be used in the future. It’s like saying, ‘Please let us use it just once since we won’t be using it for a while.'”

Yuseongwoo, who drank a glass of cool cola, burped softly.

Then, he frowned and tilted his head.

“Is that possible?”

“Perhaps it will be a direct meeting between Seongwoo-nim and Luna-nim, so I don’t know how many years will have to be paid. Using the existing offerings will reduce it a bit, but…….”

“To go that far?”

“Because that was our contract. That.”

“Wait, oppa [older brother], you decided to receive the Moon Door in exchange for resolving the Abyss?”

“So what.”

“Th, Yuwol-nim, do you know what level the Moon Door oppa decided to receive is?”

Yujiu didn’t know the exact details of the contract between Yuwol and Yuseongwoo.

He was her brother, so she thought he would receive appropriate compensation on his own.

But that was the Moon Door.

The Moon Door, a divine oracle, the ability to foresee even national disasters, costs astronomical sums at once.

It’s not something anyone can receive just because they have money.

“It’s a Moon Door of special grade or higher.”

“Special grade or higher…….”

The grade of the Moon Door varies depending on the scale of the revelation, and special grade corresponds to a national disaster level.

It requires that much astronomical money.

So far, only three ‘countries’ have received special grade Moon Doors.

Yuseongwoo demanded such a special grade or higher Moon Door as compensation, and Yuwol accepted it.

Yuwol smiled and continued.

“I think what Seongwoo-nim wants to hear from the Moon Door is definitely something that will determine the fate of the world.”

In whatever way.