The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 231

Swordmaster Wants to Live Peacefully – 230

Ascendant Hunt (5)

The orc hunt, which I thought would be quite intense, ended anticlimactically due to Veronica’s intrusion.

It must have been a desperate battle from Beyu’s perspective… but he couldn’t overcome Veronica’s outrageous greatsword skills and the pressure of the meteor shower behind him.

And so, Korea once again overcame a disastrous situation.

For now, Yoosungwoo returned to Sehyun City with Veronica.

She said she only brought her passport and weapon, took a private jet, and then did a mid-air jump…….

“You’re as hopeless now as you were back then.”

Yoosungwoo looked at Veronica with cold yet warm eyes.

When will this blockhead disciple ever grow up…….

But Veronica, unaware of Yoosungwoo’s feelings, just sat on the sofa and grinned.

‘…It still doesn’t feel real.’

That Veronica is alive and back in front of me.

The resurrection of the dead.

To be precise, it’s a story straight out of a novel, about the soul of a dead person flowing into another world and settling there.

‘No, in this world, it’s no longer just a story from a novel.’

Yoosungwoo saw Veronica’s death. The Sword Spirit’s final expedition to defeat the Demon God.

Veronica died, and he held her body and shed tears.

The tears he squeezed out for the death of his disciple, who was like a child to him, were still vivid.

Both of them deliberately avoided talking about that time, but one day, they would look back on the past and talk.

“Grrr……”

But when I got home, Knox, who had been waiting, hid behind the sofa, only peeking out his eyes and glaring at Veronica across from him.

Even making growling sounds that he usually doesn’t make.

It was like a puppy guarding against a stranger who came to the house.

He usually doesn’t act like this even with strangers.

Yoosungwoo reached out, grabbed Knox by the scruff of his neck, and lifted him up to sit on the sofa.

Then, he clung to him and glanced at Veronica.

“Boss, who is she? Why is she so close?”

“A dragon we keep at home… Ah, is that why?”

Yoosungwoo realized why Knox was so wary of Veronica.

Could it be because one of Veronica’s nicknames is ‘Dragon Slayer’?

Because she uses a greatsword, she shows terrifying performance in battles against large species, and she also played a big role in battles against dragons.

She has a history of smashing the heads of several dragons who sided with the demons or became undead.

Their hatred must be lingering in her soul, making dragons instinctively recognize her with disgust.

That’s why dragons in the other world would immediately breathe fire at Veronica when they saw her.

Just like Yoosungwoo forcibly awakened Knox’s instincts in the past, the hatred for Veronica was at that level.

“Dragon?”

Veronica showed a fierce reaction to the word dragon.

She must have suffered a lot from dragons since she fought them so much, so she didn’t have a good relationship with them.

Yoosungwoo put his hand on Knox’s head and shook it.

“Get a grip. She’s not going to eat you.”

“Kkiing……”

Right now, his instincts were taking precedence over reason, and Knox was making sounds that didn’t sound like a person.

He patted Knox, who was hugging him. Veronica frowned at the sight.

“Boss, you’ve changed a lot?”

“What?”

“…You never did that for me.”

“Well……”

Yoosungwoo was momentarily speechless.

Had he ever been so gentle with others in the other world?

Even after thinking about it, it didn’t seem like it. He was too busy trying to survive.

“I have a lot more leeway now. And he’s still a kid.”

“I didn’t know the boss was so lenient with kids.”

“If I wasn’t lenient, you would have been abandoned and died the day we met.”

“You are lenient!”

Knox was completely embraced by Yoosungwoo and didn’t want to let go.

It seemed like he needed a little more time to come to his senses.

“But the boss killed a lot of dragons too. But why is he only like this to me?!”

“I don’t know either.”

Veronica and he had killed a similar number of dragons, so he didn’t know why Knox was only afraid of Veronica.

Could it be because he’s used to him since they’ve been together for quite a while?

Yoosungwoo slowly stroked Knox and asked.

“But Veronica, there’s something I want to ask you.”

“What is it? Ask me anything! Then you have to answer my questions!”

“Well, okay. What I’m curious about is what you said. You saying you’re number 1. Does that mean the others have come to Earth too?”

“Um, I don’t really know! I made a choice.”

“Choice?”

“Yeah. During the last expedition… I died, right? Because I wasn’t good enough. Or the opponent was too strong.”

Yoosungwoo quietly listened to her story.

He decided to postpone the story about death for a while.

“After I died, I thought, ‘This is it,’ but then a goddess appeared in front of me. It was the Goddess Serea I had only heard about!”

Serea.

It had been a long time since he had heard that name.

After Yoosungwoo flew to the other world and became so strong that others couldn’t even dream of challenging him, he made a deal with the Goddess Serea.

If he defeated the Demon God, she would send him back to Earth.

“The Goddess Serea said that the boss had defeated the Demon God and would grant me a wish. So I asked her to increase the wishes to a hundred, but she said that wasn’t allowed.”

“That’s like you.”

“So I asked her to let me follow the boss. But since my body was already dead, resurrection was impossible, so she said she would send my soul.”

“So you came to Earth, is that it?”

“Yeah! I wanted to go straight to the boss, but I couldn’t find out where the boss was……”

It was only natural.

Whether there was a difference in the timeline, Veronica came to Earth five years ago.

It was long before Yoosungwoo returned to Earth.

“So I waited for the boss while building up my strength. Since the Goddess Serea granted my wish, wouldn’t she have granted the wishes of the others too?”

“You’re saying the others would have asked to follow me to Earth like you did?”

“Yeah!”

Veronica may be a bit… simple, but her intuition was good.

If there were really guys who followed him to Earth…….

Then, they would all have to gather together and finish the stories they hadn’t been able to tell.

For some reason, he felt like he was going back to the past every time he talked.

“Boss, boss, can I ask now? There’s something I’ve been wondering about.”

“What is it?”

“Who did the boss marry? That woman? Or the woman in that room? There are so many women around the boss!”

Yoosungwoo narrowed his eyes and glared as if to say, “What nonsense are you talking about?”

Veronica hesitated and continued, feeling his sharp gaze.

“W-we made a bet in our expedition team. On who the boss would marry. I’m curious about the result……”

“She’s my sister, and that elf locked in that room is not even worth reconsidering. No, why do you think I’m married in the first place?”

“The boss always said that! I’ve seen you reject girls who asked you to marry them, saying you didn’t have time! So I thought that if you came back to Earth, you’d have more time…… By the way, I bet on marrying a cat-like woman. The boss likes those kinds of women, right?”

“So that’s why you think I’m married? That’s absurd……”

As expected, Veronica is a blockhead.

It’s a reasonable inference, but why does she assume that he would have more time and get married?

Yoosungwoo flicked his finger and sent an aura flying, giving Veronica a remote flick on the forehead.

Veronica’s head snapped back from the aura that hit her forehead.

“Kkyaaaa!”

“I’m not married. I don’t really have any plans to. There’s still a lot of work to be done……”

He wanted to live peacefully, but the world’s flow had changed too drastically.

He was standing in the middle of a typhoon. Even if it was the eye of the typhoon where the wind was weakest, it would be difficult to resist the strong current.

If it wasn’t for this kind of world… as Veronica said, he might have had someone to date, if not marry.

“T-then the bet is on hold. That’s a relief. I was terrified that I had lost.”

“Who are the guys who made the bet? Name them.”

“That’s not allowed! Secrets must be kept……”

Veronica covered her mouth with both hands as if she couldn’t say that much even if she was beaten.

Yoosungwoo sighed deeply and thought.

‘I chose the wrong expedition members.’

To think they were crazy bastards who bet on whether someone was married or not…….

He was so dumbfounded that he was losing his mind. He knew they were crazy bastards, but he didn’t know they were this crazy.

“Well, there’s nothing else you bet on, right?”

“……”

Veronica avoided his gaze.

That meant there was more.

He couldn’t believe that this kind of guy was a Swordmaster with the purple title recognized by the Empire.

“……Okay. Do whatever you want.”

There was nothing he could do even if he knew, so Yoosungwoo just gave up.

“What are you talking about so much fun?”

Yoo Jiwoo put snacks on the table and sat on the sofa.

Veronica stared at Yoo Jiwoo and pointed her finger, shouting.

“The boss’s younger sister! It’s real!”

“…I’m Yoo Jiwoo. I heard you’re my brother’s disciple, but you seem quite rude……”

“You have to understand. That guy’s personality won’t be fixed until he dies.”

“Well, then.”

Yoo Jiwoo coolly accepted it, perhaps because she had experienced so many people so far.

She had learned that it was more tiring to take it seriously.

“Sorry, sorry, this was also a bet. About the boss’s younger sister.”

“This was also a bet?”

“These bastards really……”

“Yeah. The boss sometimes talked about his sister. He said he had a smart and cute sister. He said he was going to defeat the Demon God to see that sister again.”

Yoo Jiwoo looked at Yoosungwoo with an unbelievable expression.

It was a face that asked if he had really said those things.

Yoosungwoo couldn’t say anything. He had been rambling on, intoxicated by the emotions of the night sky and the bonfire.

“But I didn’t really believe it. How could such a sister be under this kind of boss… There were many rumors that the boss was crazy and lying. But I believed it!”

‘I’ll have to beat them up one by one when I see them later.’

Veronica picked up a cookie, crunched it, and laughed.

Yoosungwoo sighed again and said.

“You have nowhere to go, right? Sleep here tonight. You must be tired from coming from Sweden, so you can rest for a few days.”

“Really?! Boss is the best!”

Veronica jumped up from across from him and flew towards Yoosungwoo.

Yoosungwoo blocked Veronica’s charge with his foot.

It wasn’t difficult to block because it was a close combat attack that he had almost been hit by several times in the other world.

She, who had been hit in the abdomen by his foot, fell to the floor and clutched her stomach.

“This feeling… It’s been so long. The boss hasn’t changed after all……”

Yoosungwoo seriously wondered.

Was it really a good thing to take Veronica as a disciple back then…….