The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 30

Swordmaster Wants to Live in Peace – Episode 30

Swordmaster Wants to Live in Peace Episode 30

The Towel People (4)

“That persistent bastard…”

I never imagined they’d stake out a restaurant.

Just what kind of senses do they have to track me down here?

As Yoo Seong-woo made a blatantly displeased expression, the Towel person with silvery-white hair cascading down spoke.

“Finally, finally, I’ve found you. You were in a place like this.”

“You’ve got the wrong person.”

Tap.

Yoo Seong-woo coldly brushed off the Towel person’s hand, grabbed Knox’s hand, and started walking towards home.

However, despite the harsh treatment, the Towel person scurried to block his path.

“Please, just listen to my story once. I beg you.”

“Why would I? I’m telling you, you’ve got the wrong person. And I don’t believe in that kind of religion.”

“I came looking for you. I came to find the strongest person in this land, you.”

“I’m terribly weak, though. I can barely lift a spoon.”

Knox thought he should at least make a believable lie.

Who would believe that after seeing those bulging muscles?

“Re, really…?”

There was someone who believed it.

Knox gave up thinking at the absurd sight and simply held onto Yoo Seong-woo’s sleeve tightly.

“Yeah, so just go away.”

He didn’t even have the energy to deal with them.

Yoo Seong-woo once again walked past the Towel person.

The Towel person, who was standing behind him, wondering if they had really found the wrong person, perked up their ears and said.

“Th, that’s a lie! How can you barely lift a spoon with those muscles! Besides, the moon is telling me right now. That you are the person I’m looking for!”

Shouting that, the Towel person tripped and fell spectacularly.

Yoo Seong-woo was going to ignore them whether they fell or not, but Knox, who was holding onto his sleeve and following him, glanced back and said.

“Uncle, shouldn’t we at least hear them out? There seems to be a reason why they’re going this far.”

“No, you shouldn’t listen to things like this. Once you listen once, they’ll keep asking you to listen without end.”

“But that lady looks so pitiful. Her stomach keeps rumbling like she hasn’t eaten…”

The Towel person, who had fallen pitifully to the ground, looked at Yoo Seong-woo with tearful eyes.

It was fortunate that there weren’t any people around, because if anyone had seen the Towel person falling and crying in a place like this, it would have become a hot topic on social media in an instant.

Still, when Yoo Seong-woo didn’t budge, the Towel person shouted.

“If you don’t help, the world, the world will be destroyed! Really!”

“A cult.”

After the Abyss appeared, the number of people making such claims had increased a lot.

It was a human trait to rely on religion when confused.

Yoo Seong-woo recalled seeing an article about a religion that claimed the world would be destroyed, so they should enter the Abyss early and find a new world.

“N, no! It’s true! This world is in great danger right now!”

“Haa…”

It was a familiar pattern.

He had experienced it so many times when he was in the other world that he was getting neurosis.

Most of them were scams, and the ones that seemed real were traps to kill Yoo Seong-woo.

He closed his eyes and spread his senses.

There were five presences hiding nearby.

And they were quite strong.

Yoo Seong-woo turned around and said.

“If you tell all the guys hiding around to get lost, I’ll listen to your story.”

“…Everyone, step back.”

The authority of the Towel person in front of him was tremendous, as those hiding nearby quickly distanced themselves.

Yoo Seong-woo pointed to a nearby cafe with his finger and said.

“Let’s go there. It’s not good to talk on the street.”

“…Yes!”

Yoo Seong-woo, Knox, and the Towel person moved to the cafe.

It was a slightly secluded spot with partitions.

“Uncle, this is really delicious.”

Knox was all smiles as he enjoyed various cakes and chocolate drinks in front of him.

Yoo Seong-woo, with a strawberry shake in his mouth, stared at the Towel person as if telling them to hurry up and talk.

For reference, there was only a glass of water in front of the Towel person.

“…I should introduce myself first. I am Yuwol, the priestess of the Towel people, who inherit the blood of ancestors from the moon.”

“Moon rabbit.”

“Towel people.”

Isn’t that the same thing?

Yoo Seong-woo twitched his eyebrows and quietly listened to Yuwol’s story.

“The Towel people are born with mysterious abilities passed down through generations. It’s the ability to hear the moon’s voice, called Wolmun [Moon Hearing].”

“So, what’s the point?”

“The moon far away told me to find the strongest person in Korea. So I headed to Korea and arrived here.”

“No, never mind that. Tell me about the world being destroyed or something.”

“Ahem, I have no choice but to tell you. One day, the moon said. Luna, the great god of the Towel people, said that a great danger would come to this land.”

Yuwol took a sip of water and continued.

“The black holes that appear all over the world, they are distortions caused by dimensions coming into contact with each other.”

“I know that much.”

“But what if this was started by someone’s conspiracy? It is clear that we cannot stand idly by.”

Yoo Seong-woo’s face contorted at Yuwol’s words.

It wasn’t that he had never thought that the Abyss was caused by someone’s conspiracy.

Knox’s testimony and existence proved that.

But he never thought he would hear it so directly from someone else’s mouth.

“The distortion of Earth is more serious than other dimensions. Unlike other dimensions, where there are only one or two Abyss, hundreds are being created all over the world…”

“What was it like where you lived? You didn’t come to Earth for no reason.”

“…That’s a good point. The Towel people’s land, ‘Bluemoon,’ has been mostly eroded by invaders. Since there is no way to save it on our own, we sought helpers from outside, and that’s how we arrived on Earth.”

Yuwol spoke with a slightly pained expression.

It could be seen as a flaw of the Towel people, who are treated nobly on Earth.

Originally, she didn’t even intend to reveal this, but she opened her mouth because she was convinced that Yoo Seong-woo in front of her was definitely the ‘savior’ she was thinking of.

He is someone from whom nothing is felt, but that is why he is even more bizarre.

Besides, the girl next to him, who is cutely eating cake with a fork, also harbors an endless darkness, though she is hiding it.

Both of them in front of her were beings that even Yuwol, the best of the Towel people, could not handle.

“Why do you have so much on your face?”

Yoo Seong-woo wiped Knox’s mouth, which was covered in cocoa powder and whipped cream, with a napkin and said.

“So, the reason you came to find me is to save your land, is that it?”

“…I won’t say anything so presumptuous. I just hope you can lend us a little bit of your strength.”

“I won’t. I might if there was a reason for me to do it. But there isn’t any at all.”

“Many lives are at stake. Can’t you consider that part?”

“I won’t. I’ll only suffer once. I’m not crazy enough to walk into a battlefield twice to see what happens.”

Yoo Seong-woo was cold.

He was not willing to go to a foreign country, let alone another dimension, to solve the problem, unless it was something he was facing right now.

Besides, as he said, he had returned to live in peace.

He didn’t come back to go to the battlefield again and fight as if throwing his life away.

“Look for someone else. I’m busy enough protecting my people here right now.”

“…”

Yuwol couldn’t answer his words.

It was a reasonable thing to say.

The Towel people are a strong race.

But asking for help to defeat the invaders who drove out such Towel people was a great risk for Yoo Seong-woo as well.

Because it was an enemy that he might have to risk his life to face.

Without offering any compensation, simply taking the lives of others as hostages was not something that the leader of the Towel people should say.

Yuwol’s ears drooped for a moment as she realized her mistake.

“…I’ll come again next time. After preparing more properly.”

“Don’t come. You guys take care of your own business.”

“Next time, I will definitely come with a reward that you will be attracted to.”

“I told you not to come.”

“See you next time.”

Was she not listening to people?

Despite Yoo Seong-woo’s words, Yuwol bowed her head and left the cafe.

Yoo Seong-woo sucked up the remaining strawberry shake with a straw and let out a long breath.

He didn’t have the luxury to interfere in other people’s affairs.

There was no reason to interfere either.

He knew very well that he was not the kind of person who was ingrained with the spirit of sacrificing himself for others.

“Don’t you have to help?”

“There’s nothing to gain from helping. I’m the only one who suffers, and those guys are happy that they’ve regained their land. I know it well because I’m a veteran…”

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE─!!

“Damn it…”

A person who can boldly swear even in front of a child.

That was Yoo Seong-woo.

He frowned at the Abyss alarm that suddenly started pounding his eardrums.

“W, what is that sound?!”

“It’s a signal that something annoying is about to happen. Stick close to me for now.”

Knox stuck close to Yoo Seong-woo and trembled.

Yoo Seong-woo first assessed the situation around him.

The people inside the cafe were rushing out in a hurry at the alarm sound.

The part-time workers were also guiding people to evacuate and joined the ranks.

Yoo Seong-woo was about to leave the cafe with Knox when he stopped at the screams coming from outside and looked out the window.

“Woah.”

The people who had left the cafe had all disappeared.

All that remained in front of the cafe was a black hole that was slowly growing in size.

The appearance of the Abyss. And right in front of his eyes.

“O, oh?”

Suddenly, Knox floated up from his seat.

As he was watching to see what was going on, Yoo Seong-woo’s body also began to be drawn towards the Abyss.

The gravitational pull generated from the Abyss was attracting the surrounding creatures.

Yoo Seong-woo grabbed his arm and pulled him close, resisting the gravitational pull.

However, the increasingly strong gravitational pull broke the glass window of the cafe that Yoo Seong-woo was standing on, and soon completely sucked him into the Abyss.

“This is crazy.”

He was going to have to pay for the glass window.

Yoo Seong-woo hugged Knox and was sucked into the Abyss along with the glass shards.

* * *

“Ha, seriously. It’s a real mess.”

A sudden unexpected situation.

The Abyss suddenly appeared and sucked in the nearby creatures.

Since the creatures included humans, civilians who were not armed at all were sucked into the Abyss.

Divers [Those who enter the Abyss] drawn from most of the guilds in Sehyun City came out as rescuers, and among them were the Towel people from overseas.

“Why isn’t oppa [older brother/term of endearment] answering his phone again?”

Yoo Ji-woo, the CEO of Meteor Industries, nervously called Yoo Seong-woo’s smartphone, but he did not answer.

‘Did he get caught up in it?’

It was possible for her brother to do that.

Besides, the priestess of the Towel people was also among those who were sucked into this Abyss.

‘The two of them met, and the Abyss happened to be created at this spot, so they were both sucked in?’

A sense of unease swept over her in an instant.

As Yoo Ji-woo frowned and pondered, Seo Yeon-jeong, who had approached her, held out a tablet.

“CEO, this is the surveillance camera footage we secured.”

She checked the video of the situation in front of the cafe through the tablet that Seo Yeon-jeong held out.

There was some noise due to the influence of the Abyss, but since there was a distance, she could see what had happened.

People poured out of the cafe with the alarm and disappeared as they were.

Into the Abyss that appeared on the main street in front of the cafe.

After the people disappeared, the last two people to be sucked into the Abyss along with the cafe’s window.

It was blurry, but no matter how she looked at it, it was Yoo Seong-woo and Knox.

“…When will the rescue team be organized?”

“It will be completed within an hour at the earliest. The reconnaissance team is currently assessing the internal environment.”

“We need to move up the time! This won’t do!”

Seo Yeon-jeong briefly looked puzzled at Yoo Ji-woo’s intense reaction.

Then she shouted.

“We have to go save Knox!”

“I will try to hurry as much as possible.”