The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 11

Swordmaster Wants to Live in Peace – Episode 11

Shooting Star

“Oppa!”

Gooooooo.

Yu Seong-woo appeared before the Mountain King, who was still emitting tremendous energy, and Yu Ji-woo called out to him.

Yu Seong-woo, revealing himself, clicked his tongue slightly and said,

“Everyone, get behind me.”

“Wh-who are you?”

“I said, get behind me.”

“Yes.”

Overwhelming spirit.

No long explanation was needed.

Like beasts instinctively following the strong, people moved immediately at Yu Seong-woo’s words.

As people stood in a wedge shape behind Yu Seong-woo, he took a long breath and looked at the Mountain King.

The guy who died and was reborn had a strange power in his body.

“Oppa, is that okay?”

Yu Ji-woo asked.

Yu Seong-woo shook his head.

“It’s not okay.”

There was no way it could be okay.

If he hadn’t been here, everyone here would have been annihilated without a trace by that guy’s power.

The power contained in the Mountain King’s dead body was that terrifying.

The Mountain King’s heartbeat, who had risen, was getting faster and faster.

So fast that it seemed like it would burst soon.

Crack-!!

And after a while, the sound of the heartbeat stopped and an explosion was heard.

The Mountain King’s heart, which had been beating violently, had finally burst.

At the same time, the Mountain King fell forward.

Supporting himself on the ground with both arms, he raised his head and opened his mouth wide.

“It’s coming.”

Following that, a black beam of light spewed from the Mountain King’s mouth.

Energy as thick as a large tree was emitted to annihilate everything in front of it.

However, the power full of malice could not eliminate them.

At the same time as the beam of light was emitted, Yu Seong-woo swung his sword.

The sword imbued with blood-colored energy draws an arc.

The sword, drawn with a force that seemed to divide the sky and the earth above and below, silently cut through the air.

In an instant, the noise disappeared and the field of vision was filled with flashing blood.

The beam of light splits.

The beam of light, which was flying with malice to annihilate people, was split in half and spread out.

The beam of light, spreading in a fan shape around Yu Seong-woo, literally melted everything in front of it.

The center of the dense forest disappeared, and the sound of numerous trees falling like dominoes was heard.

Yu Seong-woo, who had split the beam of light, lowered his sword and took a long breath.

“He… split the light?”

Someone muttered in disbelief.

Yu Seong-woo looked ahead, wary of additional attacks.

However, the Mountain King’s corpse had also been shattered by the previous attack.

“…Oppa! Are you okay?!”

“I’m fine.”

In response to Yu Ji-woo’s question from behind, he walked through the collapsed Mountain King’s corpse with his sword in hand.

Then, after rummaging through the corpse with the tip of his sword, he bent down and picked something up.

It was the Abyss’s heart, the core.

The black bead, slightly larger than his rather large hand, pulsed slightly like a heart.

“Oppa, that! That’s the Abyss Core!”

“Wait, just a minute. I can’t keep up with the situation since earlier, but who are you?”

Yu Ji-woo shouted, and Hong Seo-hwa approached and asked.

She had cooperated earlier due to the atmosphere, but now she thought she needed to know exactly who he was, and continued speaking in a slightly trembling voice.

“Judging by the fact that you’re calling him Oppa, it seems like you have a relationship with Yu Ji-woo Diver. Could you give me a brief explanation…?”

Hong Seo-hwa spoke clearly, slightly suppressing her personality, then took the core that Yu Seong-woo threw and tilted her head slightly.

“He’s her biological older brother.”

Yu Seong-woo pointed at Yu Ji-woo with his finger and said.

Now, there was no point in hiding it, and it wasn’t a situation where he could hide it.

At his words, others looked at Yu Ji-woo as if demanding an explanation.

Yu Ji-woo hurriedly slapped her lips, which had called him Oppa several times, and nodded.

“That’s right. He’s my older brother.”

“I’ve never heard that you had an older brother… Moreover, one who’s an S-class Diver or higher?”

“Of course. My older brother disappeared 10 years ago. My older brother isn’t a Diver, he’s a Returner [someone who has returned from another world]. That’s right, he hasn’t been back long.”

Others moved their gaze from Yu Ji-woo to Yu Seong-woo with trembling eyes.

He just shrugged his shoulders in a confident posture, as if it didn’t matter.

“I think it would be better to go back for now. It seems like there are injured people too.”

* * *

The capture of the Level 2 Abyss that suddenly appeared in Sehyun City was successfully completed.

The fact that there were injured but no deaths was a great achievement.

Because none of those who entered the Level 2 Abyss hadn’t been prepared to die.

The moment people came out of the Abyss, those waiting outside cheered.

It was a tribute to those who risked their lives to enter the abyss and return alive.

Wowwwwwwwwwwwww-!!

“That’s an amazing cheer…”

“…When did you get here?”

Seo Yeon-jung’s heart almost dropped.

People’s attention was focused on the Abyss.

She was too.

So, when Yu Seong-woo’s voice suddenly came from right next to her, she was so surprised that she almost fell backward.

She didn’t see him coming, so when did he come? He appeared and disappeared without a trace, and without even a sign; it was like he was a ghost.

“Is the CEO… okay?”

“Does she look okay?”

At Yu Seong-woo’s words, she narrowed her eyes and looked at Yu Ji-woo, who came out of the Abyss.

A radiant core was held in her hand as she smiled and waved at the people.

She was safe. She had some injuries, but they seemed to be just scratches.

She let out a sigh of relief and said.

“The cheers of the people are like an addiction to those who claim to be honorable explorers of the abyss.”

“Is it a desire for honor?”

“Yes. It’s a desire that any Diver can’t help but have. Like celebrities or sports stars.”

In particular, Divers had a more severe desire.

Wealth and honor that cannot be compared to celebrities or sports stars.

They even had special powers different from others, so once they tasted the cheers, it slowly seeped in like a drug, turning Divers into people who couldn’t quit.

However, Yu Seong-woo wasn’t very impressed.

Perhaps it was because he had already experienced how people’s cheers could turn into criticism in an instant.

Or maybe it was because he was a strong person who had transcended even those things.

He stretched and said.

“Let’s go get some dinner.”

* * *

The incident in the Level 2 Abyss, which was safely concluded in Sehyun City, was decided to be kept secret.

Yu Seong-woo, who saved the lives of everyone in that place, wanted it that way.

Those who were saved also agreed.

Unless they didn’t cherish their lives, the events of the Abyss would not surface until Yu Seong-woo revealed them himself.

“Wow, this is delicious…”

At a galbitang [Korean beef rib soup] restaurant in Sehyun City.

He took out the meat attached to the ribs and picked it up with chopsticks, then brought the plump meat to his mouth.

When you chew the sweet and tender meat, the broth permeates and warms your mouth.

It wasn’t for nothing that people lined up to eat galbitang; it showed the depth of the taste without regret.

At Yu Seong-woo’s words, Yu Ji-woo also picked up a piece of galbi [beef short rib] and nodded.

“Wow, it’s really good.”

The two were eating together for the first time in a while.

She had finished the treatment with potions and left the cleanup to Seo Yeon-jung, and came to eat with Yu Seong-woo.

The two each ate a special galbitang and three bowls of rice, as well as half a dozen king galbi dumplings.

Due to the nature of Divers, they consumed a tremendous amount of calories, so they had to eat a lot.

Still not satisfied, the two ate a few more dishes like food fighters, and then quietly started talking.

“Oppa, what was that in the end? Do you know what it was?”

“Well. I don’t know.”

“Even if I ask other people, they say it’s their first time seeing it. I’ve done some research, but there’s nothing much to find.”

“…I’ve seen similar phenomena before. Suicide bombing by monsters before they die. It’s a suicide method of gathering all their essence and releasing it all at once before death.”

“That… The energy that guy emitted at the end wasn’t normal. It wasn’t the kind of power that a Level 2 Abyss boss could show.”

“Originally, dungeons, labyrinths, are like that. The only thing you can trust in a place full of monsters trying to eat people is your own strength.”

Yu Seong-woo said that and poured a glass of soju [Korean distilled rice liquor] into Yu Ji-woo’s glass, then poured a glass into his own.

Then, he poured it straight into his mouth and realized after a long time that soju was quite poisonous compared to the alcohol from another world.

“So get stronger. The only way to survive is to get stronger so that you can deal with such unexpected situations.”

“That’s really textbook. Okay, let’s hear some stories this time. Oppa, what were you doing in another world?”

Yu Ji-woo emptied her glass and asked. Yu Seong-woo thought it would be okay to tell her and opened his mouth.

The terrible things that happened in another world.

“The place I fell into was a barren place where not a single blade of grass grew. There were no people, only beasts.”

He fell into another world at a young age, and when he opened his eyes, he was alone.

The sky is red and the world is barren.

He couldn’t drink a few sips of water until he reached the place where humans lived, and he suffered from the threat of death.

The land of humans, which he reached after walking for days, was also extremely heartless.

“Later I found out that it was a border attached to the land of the demons. I couldn’t communicate, and they immediately tried to use me as food… If I hadn’t led the stupid guys with the great knowledge of the 20th century, they would have been destroyed long ago.”

Yu Seong-woo grumbled and continued to speak.

“But one day, a group of monsters attacked the village. Most of the villagers died, and I somehow survived and was rescued by a passing mercenary group.”

“Was that… a good thing?”

“It was a good thing. Until these bastards tried to sell me to a slave trader.”

Yu Seong-woo spoke cheerfully, but Yu Ji-woo had a pitiful expression on her face the whole time she was listening.

She thought Yu Seong-woo was okay because he didn’t show any mental abnormalities after returning to Earth.

More than she imagined, he was worn out and just became insensitive.

“There’s nothing special after that. I killed the guys who tried to sell me, I killed the guys who sold me, I ran away, I survived, and I finally arrived home somehow.”

As if that was enough, he drank the soju that Yu Ji-woo had filled again.

He doesn’t get drunk on ordinary alcohol.

Everything he ate in another world had poison in it, so he developed a tolerance to most things, so his body detoxifies most things.

With that, Yu Seong-woo finished the story and got up from his seat.

“I’ve eaten enough. Let’s go home.”

“…Okay.”

Yu Ji-woo followed and got up from her seat, and the two took a taxi and returned home.

As if they had promised, the two returned to their rooms and lay down.

Fatigue rushed over Yu Ji-woo at once.

Yu Seong-woo noticed it and went into his room and closed his eyes.

“Mountain King…”

The Mountain King he saw in the Abyss was not the guy he knew.

Only the wave of power was the same, but the form and combat method were completely different.

“I can’t see him as the same guy.”

It seemed necessary to find out a little about the Abyss’s generation structure.

If this kind of thing keeps happening, he couldn’t just stand by and watch.

Not only the Mountain King, but if guys stronger than him appeared.

The Earth would be over as it is.

“I should make a plan.”