Bachelor Swordsmanship Remastered [EN]: Chapter 48

“I apologize for disturbing your sleep.”

The person apologizing to Unhyun was a young man who still looked quite young.

He was supporting another young man and apologizing to Unhyun.

The young man being supported looked a bit older and was clearly drunk at a glance.

“What? Someone’s here. Did I sleep in this cramped place?”

The drunken young man squinted at Unhyun and grumbled.

“You can’t go in like this. Please sleep here tonight.”

The younger man spoke soothingly and bowed deeply to Unhyun.

“I’m sorry, but could you possibly share your room just for tonight? There are no other rooms available, and as you can see, he’s not in a state to be seen by others…….”

Unhyun could roughly guess what was going on.

Judging by their attire, both of them were disciples of the Moryong Clan [a fictional martial arts clan].

Most likely, the senior disciple had been drinking late, and the junior disciple had brought him here.

Unhyun’s brow furrowed involuntarily, but he couldn’t refuse.

“I suppose there’s no choice. If there are no other rooms, I have no choice.”

He wasn’t exactly thrilled to have a drunken guest barging in at night.

However, he was leaving tomorrow anyway.

He could simply put up with a little inconvenience.

“I’m sorry.”

The young disciple kept bowing and apologizing to Unhyun.

However, the drunken young man, who should have been apologizing, only added fuel to the fire.

“Hey, bring me some more alcohol.”

“You can’t. You’ve already had too much…….”

The young man looked troubled, and the drunken young man’s expression soured.

“Are you looking down on me too?”

The disciple who had been supporting him couldn’t answer.

“Just bring me the alcohol!”

Now he was even raising his voice.

The young disciple looked embarrassed and said as if he couldn’t help it.

“Okay, but please be quiet.”

Only then did the drunken young man stop shouting.

The young disciple helped him onto the empty bed and took off his shoes.

Click.

The young disciple disappeared outside.

The drunken young man sat on the bed, leaning his back against the wall.

Unhyun frowned and watched them, then shook his head and lay back down.

‘Anyway.’

It was none of his business what they did next to him.

The brightly lit lamp was annoying, but it wouldn’t matter if he turned over.

Rustle.

Unhyun tried to cover himself with the blanket and go to sleep.

However, a drunken person always tends to involve those around them.

“Sorry to bother you while you’re sleeping.”

A slurred voice reached Unhyun’s ears.

He said he was sorry, but his tone didn’t sound apologetic at all.

Unhyun didn’t answer.

Since he was drunk, he could just ignore him.

However, the drunken man was surprisingly persistent.

“Hey, I said I’m sorry to bother you while you’re sleeping?”

His voice grew louder.

Unhyun frowned. A bad feeling flashed through his mind.

“Hey! While you’re…….”

Just as he thought. He was now shouting.

Unhyun finally realized that he had no choice but to respond, so he threw back the blanket and got up.

As a scholar, he couldn’t be rude enough to answer while lying down.

“Ahem.”

As Unhyun got up, a triumphant smile spread across the drunken young man’s face.

“Well, I’m sorry to have bothered you while you were sleeping.”

Unhyun replied curtly to his unapologetic voice.

“It’s fine. But please be quiet.”

He was in a bad mood, so his words couldn’t be kind.

How could he speak kindly when someone, a disciple of the Moryong Clan no less, came in drunk in the middle of the night and caused a ruckus?

Unhyun answered curtly and tried to lie back down.

“Hmph! Are you saying I should just shut up and stay out of sight?”

Unhyun turned to look at the drunken young man.

He seemed to be deliberately picking a fight.

Well, if he was going to be quiet, he wouldn’t have been making noise from the start.

“You seem to have had quite a bit to drink. Why don’t you rest quietly? I also have to hurry on my way early in the morning.”

“Pathetically making excuses……. It’s the same thing in the end, damn it.”

The drunken young man chuckled and muttered.

Unhyun’s eyes narrowed slightly.

“Aren’t you being too rude for a first meeting?”

The answer to Unhyun’s words was laughter mixed with mockery.

“Heh heh heh. First meeting? Rude? Coming here to freeload and acting all high and mighty…….”

Something hot surged up from within Unhyun.

His feelings toward the Moryong Clan’s disciples were already bad enough because of what had happened during the day.

On top of that, this third-rate thug, pretending to be a disciple of the clan, was openly looking down on him, so he couldn’t help but get angry.

“Before you talk about others, look at yourself. What kind of state is a disciple who trains with the sword in?”

Considering his age and what he had learned, he should have been patient.

But Unhyun’s mind was already twisted enough, so he couldn’t help but throw out a word.

However, the drunken young man had also been in a state of twisted emotions for a long time.

“State? What’s wrong with my state? A frail scholar acting all high and mighty?”

“Scholar? Why are you speaking so informally? If you’re a disciple of the clan, you should act like one! How can you wield a sword while looking down on people like that!”

Unhyun’s reaction was quite sharp, but the other party didn’t back down.

“What does it matter to you whether I wield a sword or not, damn it!”

The young man shouted, panting, and then spoke as if he couldn’t contain his anger.

“Swords and all that crap, what’s so great about them……. Hey! Aren’t you going to bring me the alcohol soon?”

The young man shouted outside.

It was at that moment.

“What did you just say?”

Unhyun said in a calm voice.

“I said swords and all that crap are bullshit, why?”

“Is that something someone who wields a sword should say?”

“Hmph.”

The young man laughed as if it were ridiculous.

However, Unhyun’s words were not over yet.

“Although I am a scholar, I know well what kind of mindset warriors have when they wield a sword. But how can you, as a disciple of a martial family, utter such words so carelessly? Even if you are drunk, aren’t you ashamed of yourself?”

It was a very scathing rebuke.

However, the young man chuckled.

“Seriously, now even the smallest things are trying to teach me.”

In the young man’s eyes, the person who should be ashamed of himself was Unhyun.

How many people were hanging around the clan, hoping to gain something?

They all turned their backs when the clan was in trouble.

The young man, who had been smirking, looked straight at Unhyun and said.

“Why, are you going to teach me how to use a sword?”

The young man’s eyes were quite threatening.

Even though he was drunk, the martial arts he had learned were still there.

However, Unhyun replied in a calm voice.

“If you want to learn, I have nothing to hide.”

A strange light flickered in the young man’s eyes.

But that was only for a moment, and a sneer spread across his face as he spat out a word.

“……Let’s go out.”

“Let’s.”

Unhyun’s answer was without hesitation.

The young man got up from his seat as if he had been waiting for it.

Unhyun also jumped up from the bed.

***

Behind the clan, there was an open space in a small forest.

Whoosh.

In that open space where the wind passed by, Unhyun and the young man stood facing each other with wooden swords.

There were no lamps, but the bright moonlight illuminated everything as if it were daytime.

‘Why did it come to this…….’

Unhyun clicked his tongue inwardly.

It shouldn’t have come to this.

However, the words that drunken young man had uttered had really angered Unhyun.

The young man who had come outside forced the junior disciple who had been supporting him to bring him a wooden sword, and in the end, the two of them ended up facing each other in an empty open space with wooden swords.

‘Since it has come to this…….’

Unhyun felt the texture of the wooden sword and calmed his breathing.

It was his first time fighting, but he had no intention of being defeated by someone like that.

How pathetic must he be to be drinking like that?

While disrespecting the sword, so he thought he would teach him a lesson.

However, the drunken young man had the same thoughts about Unhyun.

‘Hmph.’

The young man looked at Unhyun and chuckled.

Those who didn’t even look at the clan when it was in trouble were now swarming around with smiling faces, trying to curry favor as if the clan was gaining power.

In his eyes, they were no different from a pack of wolves.

But one of those stragglers was acting all high and mighty and fearlessly stood facing him like this.

It was truly ridiculous.

‘He must think I’m easy to deal with because I’m drunk, but you’ve messed with the wrong person today.’

He may be living in a drunken stupor now, but he was once a promising martial talent and had been recognized for his skills to the point where he held the position of a senior disciple in the clan.

Even if he hadn’t wielded a sword for a while, how could a frail scholar like that be a match for him?

Asking for a wooden sword was a consideration in its own way.

‘I’ll give him a wake-up call.’

Cough.

Moryong Jin leaned on the wooden sword like a cane and deliberately spoke in a swaggering voice.

“Well, since you’re going to teach me, go ahead and try.”

However, Unhyun didn’t move.

“Have you forgotten your manners after getting drunk? If you want to be taught, make the first move.”

‘Ha.’

Moryong Jin burst into laughter inwardly.

If he attacked first, that scholar wouldn’t even be able to move.

“Well, don’t say I didn’t warn you.”

Moryong Jin said to Unhyun and grabbed the wooden sword with one hand.

The disciples of the clan practice one technique hundreds, even thousands of times. The same goes for even the simplest techniques.

Those movements that have become completely ingrained in the body are not easy for ordinary people to follow with their eyes.

Especially on a moonlit night like this, and even more so when facing each other.

Without being able to properly judge the distance, they will not be able to avoid it, and they will not even know what happened.

Whoosh.

Moryong Jin swung the wooden sword once in the air and then looked at Unhyun.

“Here I come!”

Thud.

Moryong Jin’s body lightly kicked off the ground. And in an instant, he rushed in front of Unhyun.

Moryong Jin smiled as Unhyun’s arm, which he had targeted, came within range.

It was at that moment.

Clang, thud.

With a dull sound, Moryong Jin’s wooden sword lost its direction.

At the same time, Moryong Jin lost his balance and stumbled past him.

“Huh?”

Thud.

Moryong Jin barely stopped himself from falling and turned around.

Unhyun was still standing in the same place.

Moryong Jin was momentarily bewildered, unable to grasp the situation.

Clearly, his wooden sword had been aimed at Unhyun’s arm.

But somehow, he had passed Unhyun.

‘How did this happen?’

He looked at Unhyun, but all he got in return was a calm look.

That look fueled Moryong Jin’s anger.

Moryong Jin readjusted his grip on the wooden sword.

“Hmph.”

Thud.

Moryong Jin lunged at Unhyun again.

This time, he didn’t let his guard down and kept his eyes on Unhyun until the very end.

Moryong Jin smiled triumphantly as he confirmed that Unhyun hadn’t made any movements until the last moment.

And then, at that very moment, Moryong Jin saw it.

Swoosh.

Unhyun’s wooden sword was slowly starting to move.

And that slow wooden sword of Unhyun’s was already brushing aside Moryong Jin’s wooden sword as if to show off.