Perfect World [EN]: Chapter 307

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“What are you talking about! Sister Apprentice! Are you going to call me Moon Lord then! I am currently the Moon Lord of Guirimoon.”

Even so, Beomseok was still displeased. No matter how much one’s experience counts, this wasn’t the military.

“I can acknowledge you as Moon Lord, but never as a Senior Sister. Aside from the fact that I am older, your skills are better.”

“Hehe. Is that really the case?”

He flicked the sword in his hand and stared intently at Riza.

“If you really can’t believe it, we can show you here? Let’s decide Senior Brother and Senior Sister through a match. How about it?”

That was what Riza wanted too. Beomseok called himself an outstanding swordsman, but humans are beings that tell lies, so she couldn’t trust him without verifying. And even if he was right, she didn’t think there was any reason for her to lose. No matter how great he was, she could easily win depending on the conditions.

However, she shook her head mercilessly. There was something she had to do first.

“Later. My father’s memorial service comes first.”

Beomseok understood immediately. He was Korean, so there was no way he wouldn’t know the importance of memorial services [ancestral rites performed to honor deceased family members].

“That’s a given. I’m not someone who can’t even understand that much.”

“Thank you. Then let’s go to Father now.”

After saying that, Riza began to climb the mountain along the path behind the house. Beomseok, who had nothing to do, followed her to Dante’s tomb. Climbing halfway up the mountain, Beomseok could see a small mound. Looking at the well-groomed grass and drainage facilities, it seemed that Riza had taken care of it with considerable care.

“It’s here. Come this way.”

Riza neatly arranged the food she had prepared in front of the tomb. It greatly violated the rules of Hongdongbaekseo [a detailed guide to traditional Korean funeral rites], but Beomseok didn’t interfere much. He thought that as long as there was sincerity in the memorial table, there was no need to fuss over etiquette. And there was no reason to apply the Korean-style memorial table in this game.

Finally, Riza placed the wooden memorial tablet and stepped back, and Beomseok said.

“Are we going to start now?”

“Yes.”

Riza answered briefly, inserted incense sticks into the incense burner for the ancestral rites, and lit them. Then, she knelt down and made a fist salute once, followed by bowing deeply. Looking at this, it didn’t seem to be a Korean-style memorial service. Usually, in Korea, they would do two big bows. Beomseok, who was standing behind, felt awkward just standing there, so he lightly performed a ceremonial bow.

After a while. Riza quietly began to recite.

“Father. Finally, a disciple has entered our Guirimoon. He is Father’s disciple.”

Awkward, but Beomseok bowed again towards the tomb and said.

“Master. This is Oh Beomseok. Although you are in the afterlife, I look forward to working with you. I will take good care of my Junior Sister, so don’t worry.”

Riza suddenly glared at him with sharp eyes, then spoke to the tomb again.

“No. I am the Senior Sister.”

“Hahaha. I will win in the upcoming match, so I am the Junior Sister. You know that, right? Hahaha.”

“Father. That will never happen. He can never beat me.”

Beomseok, who had stiffened the muscles in his forehead, got up from his seat. He was not an easy opponent enough to lose to Riza. He had to make her feel this fact painfully so that such arrogant words would not come out.

“Okay. Then we should start preparing.”

She put out the incense in front of the tomb and said.

“Yes. Of course, we should.”

“But what method are we going to use to determine the winner? Should we just have a sparring match?”

“Of course, I am confident in direct sparring, but our Guirimoon’s main focus is assassination. It would be good to have a match that makes the most of that characteristic.”

“What kind of method is it?”

“The battle area is the entire mountain peak where Father is. The time is infinite. The one who surrenders first or receives a fatal blow loses. Of course, leaving this mountain also results in defeat.”

Beomseok stared at her intently. No matter how he looked at it, it seemed that Riza had proposed a duel in a way that was advantageous to her.

This area was her territory, and considering the characteristics of her combat skills, there was no way to find a more advantageous duel method than that. But he decided to just let it go. It was a problem that he was not familiar with the geography, but he also had a knack for assassination and mountain combat.

“Whatever. Do as you please. But don’t say anything else after losing.”

“Of course. You’re the one who shouldn’t change your mind.”

“Okay. Then let’s go down and get our equipment.”

“Yes.”

Soon, Beomseok and Riza went down the mountain. Then, they wore their suits and swords from the training room and stood at the entrance of the mountain again.

“So, what do we do now?”

Riza looked at him with a leisurely smile on her face. She seemed to be in a good mood that Beomseok had fallen for her trick. She knew the geography of this mountain inside and out, so the chances of winning were high. So, she decided to do him a favor.

“Go up the mountain first. I’ll go up in 20 minutes.”

“Then does the battle start in 20 minutes?”

“Yes.”

“Hehe. Okay. Then see you later.”

Beomseok, with a triumphant expression, began to walk up the path.

If he could secure a location first, he could gain an advantageous position in the battle.

He went to a place where Riza couldn’t see him and carefully jumped onto a tree. She didn’t know that he was skilled in mountain warfare, so she would never have dreamed that he was moving in this way.

Beomseok moved between the trees, trying not to leave any traces, and looked for a place to ambush. If he could hide for a long time without being detected, he could instill anxiety in Riza.

‘Okay. Where would be a good place?’

After moving for about 15 minutes, a cave appeared. It was a natural cave, but it was not very deep and could be easily detected, so it was not a good place for an ambush. He mercilessly abandoned his attachment and jumped again.

“Would that be appropriate?”

Beomseok stopped moving again and stared at a rotten old tree that had fallen to the ground. Countless finger-sized bugs were crawling around, which was good for food supply, and countless grasses were growing around it, which was great for concealment. And when he approached and looked, there was a puddle under the old tree, which was good for hiding.

The only problem was that if he was ambushed, he would be trapped without being able to escape, but the probability of that happening was very low. To approach the old tree, he had to go through the bushes, so there was no way there wouldn’t be any signs.

He could respond to the attack in that time.

He quickly jumped down to the ground and entered the puddle under the old tree along the narrow path in the bushes.

‘Okay. I’m going to start enduring here for a while.’

As evening approached, fog began to form around the area. If that was the case, it would be easier to hide, so it couldn’t help but be a big help to Beomseok. He ate the bugs crawling between the old trees and the water he had brought, and then went to sleep.

‘Then. Shall we start slowly?’

Two days later. Beomseok began his full-scale activities. By now, Riza would either be restless with anxiety, or she would have thought he had run away and gone home. If it was the latter, victory was certain, and if it was the former, the chances of victory were high. In many ways, it was advantageous to him.

Beomseok climbed the trees again and went to the tallest tree in the area. It was to find out Riza’s location. And before long, he found out her location. Perhaps she was careless, but Riza was exposing her body and searching the nearby grassy area.

‘Was I overestimating this person too much? Is she showing such carelessness just because two days have passed? Well. It’s not bad. Thanks to that, I’ll be able to decide the outcome early.’

Beomseok quickly went down the hillside to end this confrontation.

“Where the hell did this guy go!”

Riza, who had been wandering around the mountainside, grumbled with all sorts of expressions. She had been roaming the mountains for two days to find Beomseok, but she couldn’t even find a trace. There was no way this could happen unless he was a ghost.

“That guy must have gone down the mountain. Otherwise, there’s no way I haven’t found him yet. I’ll have to go down and check it out.”

But soon she shook her head. If she got caught doing that, it would be her defeat without a doubt. There was also a clause in the defeat conditions that she had to go down this mountain.

“Hoo~ Okay. Just in case, let’s look for him until tomorrow. There’s no way an ordinary person like him would be in this mountain for three days.”

Riza bit her lip tightly. It was because she resented Beomseok. She had decided to stay one more day, but in fact, she firmly believed that he had left this mountain. He came to Father’s grave and promised to serve him as his master, but he ran away because he didn’t want to serve her as his Senior Sister, which was too absurd.

Whoosh.

At that time, the sound of a cool wind was heard. Riza, startled, quickly reached for the sword hanging on her waist, but it was already too late. A cold metal sword had already swept past her neck.

“H, how on earth……?”

Beomseok, who was hanging upside down on a tree branch, tumbled and landed on the ground. Then, he took off his helmet and walked towards Riza.

“What do you mean how? I cut your neck with my sword, so you lost. Hehehe.”

“No. I’m asking how you beat me!”

“Can’t you tell by looking? You were careless and passed under the tree where I was ambushing, and you got hit. Do you still not understand the situation?”

Riza still had an unbelievable expression on her face. Her father, Dante, had said when he was alive that there was no one who could beat them in this mountain. In particular, swordsmen are bound by rules and specific areas in the Colosseum, so they show great weaknesses in mountain warfare. Looking at this, she should never have lost.

“That can’t be! There’s no way I can lose so absurdly!”

Beomseok burst into laughter and said mockingly.

“Hahaha. Are you kidding me right now? Persistent assassins hide in the toilet cesspool until their flesh rots to wait for a single blow. But you’re showing such carelessness after only two days, and you’re saying you lost absurdly? Even a passing sparrow would laugh while pooping.”

“How do you know that! And there’s no way there are assassins in this world!”

Beomseok pointed to himself with his index finger and said.

“I’m here.”

“N, no way! You’re a swordsman!”

“That’s right. But there’s no law that says someone who has learned assassination can’t become a swordsman.”

Riza stared at him with a blank look. Certainly, there was no such law. She had also learned assassination, but she was aiming to be a swordsman.

She shook her hand as if she was frustrated and insisted.

“Let’s have another match! I didn’t know you used assassination! If I had known, I wouldn’t have been caught so absurdly.”

“Why do you think you wouldn’t have been caught?”

“Because I also use assassination.”

“Oh really? But what should I do? I didn’t know you used assassination either. Then what you just said would be an excuse, right?”

Riza closed her mouth like she had eaten honey [became speechless]. It was because she hadn’t told him that she used assassination either.

“B, but…….”

“Okay. Then I’ll give you another match.”

“Really!”

“But! This time, we’ll have a head-on match. Assassination battles take too much time.”

Riza pouted her lips. Beomseok had directly introduced himself as one of the top three outstanding swordsmen in the world. No matter how good she was at head-on battles, she didn’t think she could beat Beomseok.

“A head-on match is disadvantageous to me!”

“Instead, I won’t use weapons like swords.”

If that was the case, it was worth a try. There was a significant difference in power between swordsmanship and bare-handed fighting. That’s why there was even a saying that swordsmanship was three times better than martial arts.

“Okay. Let’s do that.”

“Instead. If you lose this time too, you’ll serve me as your Senior Brother without saying anything.”

“Yes. I understand. I won’t say anything else this time.”

“Okay. Then let’s go down.”

Soon, Beomseok and Riza moved to the thatched house at the bottom of the mountain together. Fortunately, there was a large yard there, making it a perfect place to spar.

Beomseok, who arrived at the thatched house, went out to the yard first and gestured to her.

“Okay. Let’s start.”

“Are you going to start already? Let’s take a break for a while and then do it.”

That was out of the question. He had rested well for the past two days, while she had been wandering around the forest. He was physically superior, so he couldn’t miss this opportunity. Well, he would have been relaxed at other times, but if he lost today, he would suddenly have a Junior Sister. He couldn’t experience such an embarrassing thing, so he had to win no matter what.

“It’ll be over soon, so come quickly. Do you think I’ll take forever to fight you?”

Riza, who was angry at his ignorance, made her face turn red. Even though she had lost absurdly, she was not an easy opponent. Even if Beomseok was a great swordsman as he said, she thought she could beat him if he didn’t have a sword.

She immediately drew her sword and stood in front of Beomseok.

“Okay. I’ll make you take back those words soon.”

“Hehe. Do as you please if you have the ability. Okay. Should I go first? Or are you coming first?”

Riza, narrowing her eyes, grabbed the hilt of her sword tightly.

“I’ll start first. Okay. Here I go!”

At the same time as those words, Riza’s Kataga [a swift sword technique], scattered in the air, rushed towards Beomseok. It was the best surprise attack to punish his arrogance. But Beomseok, who had been preparing in advance, leisurely stepped back and dodged the trajectory of the sword.

============================ Author’s Notes ============================

Hull. Today, I accidentally clicked on the Neighbor Management menu in My Information, and there are so many people who have applied to be neighbors. But what is this? I’m curious. +,.+;;;

Then everyone have a good day. I’ll see you all again tomorrow.