The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 363

Swordmaster Wants to Live Peacefully – 362

Goblin Goblin Goblin (3)

Before overwhelming power, petty techniques are useless.

Clutching each other’s *satba* [샅바 – Korean wrestling belt] so tightly they were about to tear, both thought simultaneously. Without technique or anything, it would end by overpowering with sheer strength.

Almost at the same time, they both summoned their strength. Just that alone made the earth tremble, and the sand of the wrestling ring slowly floated into the air.

The clash of power against power. The goblins watched with horrified eyes the distortion of space that occurred between them.

Until now, no one had been able to draw out Dowa’s full power.

A human from outside not only drew out Dowa’s full power but was also pushing her with pure strength.

“Keeeeeeeeaaaaaaah!!”

With a roar that shook the heavens and the earth, Dowa lifted Yoosungwoo. Yoosungwoo’s feet slowly lifted off the ground.

Dowa, exerting all her strength, lifted Yoosungwoo and, throwing her body down, flipped him backward.

Yoosungwoo’s body drew an arc in the air and fell to the ground. If this continued, his back would slam into the ground first, resulting in Dowa’s perfect victory.

However, Yoosungwoo did not submit so easily. Before his back touched the ground, he lifted his waist, planted his legs on the ground, and endured the flip.

The goblins, who had been silent, burst into exclamations at the perfect bridge form displayed by Dowa and Yoosungwoo.

Dowa’s flip was perfect. Among the goblins, there would be no one who could withstand her technique.

But Yoosungwoo endured it. In an even more perfect form!

When Yoosungwoo resisted without going over, Dowa gritted her teeth and put her weight on him to press him down, but Yoosungwoo’s two legs were as firm as the roots of a giant tree.

His strong waist did not allow his back to touch the wrestling ring.

“Now it’s my turn.”

Yoosungwoo muttered and began to exert his strength. The blood vessels on his arms and legs stood out clearly, and his muscles twitched, emitting dragon force.

“Uh, uh?”

Dowa’s voice, sounding flustered, was heard. This was because Yoosungwoo was lifting Dowa in a bridge position.

Yoosungwoo, who lifted Dowa into the air with unbelievable strength in an impossible posture, said.

“Any last words?”

“…Be a little gentle.”

“I’ll try to be.”

Dowa’s body completely flipped over. She dove onto the wrestling ring with a roar, not with her back, but with her stomach, and after lying there for a while, she got up, covered in sand, and laughed.

“Puhahahahaha! A complete defeat! I lost in wrestling, this is a first!”

“It was a good match, Dowa.”

When Yoosungwoo extended his hand, Dowa grabbed it and got up, then increased her reduced size again.

Then, she put her arm around his shoulder and shouted.

“Sons, daughters! Brothers, the time has come! Let’s drag the gods of the Jade Emperor Palace down with our new brothers and beat them soundly with clubs!”

* * *

The goblins’ banquet continued until morning. They drank and ate until dawn…….

Yoosungwoo felt a hangover for the first time in a while, keeping up with them, who didn’t seem to know when they would be satisfied with eating.

The only ones who slept well were the child goblins and Knox, who had fallen asleep early.

As he sat for a moment and chased away his hangover with Aura, he raised his head and saw Dowa sitting on the roof of Dowa’s palace, the highest point in Shinshi.

Yoosungwoo jumped up and took a seat next to her, saying.

“To be drinking again after drinking so much. Is your liver made of steel?”

Dowa was still drinking from a gourd, carrying a liquor jar at her side, as if she hadn’t had enough, even after drinking all night.

She chuckled and replied.

“I can’t stop drinking when buckwheat jelly and alcohol haven’t run out yet. Back in my day, you had to drink for about seven days and nights to say you’ve had a little drink.”

“When was that? When the southern part of the Korean peninsula was called Silla [an ancient Korean kingdom]?”

“Heh heh heh.”

Anyone who has studied history a little would know the name ‘Bihyungrang’.

A figure from the Silla Dynasty, only described in the *Samguk Yusa* [Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms, a collection of Korean folktales, legends and historical accounts], a man with the ability to control ghosts.

Yoosungwoo remembered the name of Bihyungrang’s mother.

Dowa(桃花) [Peach Blossom]. The identity of Bihyungrang’s mother was a goblin disguised as a human. When he realized this, he thought that they had been with humans for a really long time.

“You’ve managed to survive on the Korean peninsula for over a thousand years. Despite so many things happening…….”

“That’s what the life of a goblin is like……. Well, there’s nothing special about it.”

Dowa said that, but her expression from the side was full of bitterness.

Humans cannot accept the strange (怪異), the monstrous power and chaos (怪力亂神), and the unknown (未知).

What was the life of Bihyungrang like, and what was the end of Hong Gildong, whom Dowa mentioned?

In the end, they were killed or driven away by humans.

“Humans and goblins were ultimately destined not to mix.”

“…….”

Dowa handed Yoosungwoo a gourd filled with alcohol.

Yoosungwoo emptied the gourd as a hangover cure and said.

“How could that be? Even oil and water can somehow mix, so why can’t humans and goblins, who can communicate, mix?”

When he returned the gourd, Dowa drank the alcohol and opened her mouth.

“That’s how it was in the past. When the age of mythology came to an end, the heroes born among humans pacified the troubled times, but to them, strange beings like us were incomprehensible, just objects to be rejected.”

“Goblin King, when are you talking about in the past? The Joseon Dynasty [Korean kingdom from 1392 to 1897], where the story of Hong Gildong took place, was hundreds of years ago. The trends are very different now from the past.”

“…Very different?”

“Yes. You guys have lived in isolation from the secular world for too long. Now, even if Western fairies walk around on the streets, no one says anything.”

They might look at them with a bit of curiosity…….

They don’t hang them in stocks and beat them or burn them as they used to.

In particular, goblins would be familiar to Koreans today through various fairy tales, so it would be easier to accept them. There are already many beings walking around in the world, so nothing would change even if one more goblin was added.

“I recommend moving to Geomgye. You’re waging war against the Jade Emperor Palace, and if you’re so far away, it’ll be hard for them to find you.”

“That’s…….”

“Come grandly so that everyone can see. Everyone in Geomgye will welcome you.”

Everyone will.

At first, they may have a sense of rejection towards the existence of goblins.

But what can they do when the owner of Geomgye accepts them?

If they don’t like it, they have to leave.

Dowa looked at Yoosungwoo and smiled.

“You’re saying quite bold things. You can’t just accept goblins carelessly.”

“Well, is there a problem?”

“From ancient times, it’s said that you shouldn’t carelessly bring in ominous things into your house.”

“You’re saying ridiculous things. How can you call the comrades who will fight together from now on ominous? You will be recorded in later generations as heroes who fought for the Korean peninsula.”

“Hmm…….”

At Yoosungwoo’s words, Dowa smiled meaningfully, then reached out her large hand, grabbed his face, and examined it from side to side.

He brushed her hand away, asking what she was doing, and took out alcohol from the liquor jar with Aura and sipped it.

“Oh, is that Taoism?”

“It’s a different world’s method. It’s a bit different from Taoism or magic. Well, I’ll take this opportunity to confirm, how many can you handle if you’re up against the Jade Emperor Palace?”

“If the elders are each lower-ranked, three, if they are middle-ranked, one. I can tie up one god-level being.”

“Hmm.”

“It might be a bit lacking, but…….”

“No, that’s enough.”

Yoosungwoo got up from his seat and stood in front of Dowa. He smiled as he faced the sunrise.

“It seems like everyone is still asleep, so I’ll show you.”

He had never shown Dowa his full power before.

Even when wrestling, he only faced her with pure strength without using divine power or Aura.

He, who was skilled at hiding his energy due to his life in another world, had been suppressing his power since before entering Shinshi.

Since there was no one in Shinshi who could recognize his full power, it was the first time he was showing his full power since entering Shinshi.

To show his comrades who would fight together in the future what kind of person he was.

As Yoosungwoo took a long breath and drew up all his divinity, he began to appear to Dowa not as a human, but as something else.

He had the form of a human, but he was not a human. He seemed closer to something conceptual that transcended humans.

His entire body flickered as if it were burning, mixed with eight colors, and only red light was watching her in the place where his eyes should have been.

“……You.”

It was a lofty divinity.

A feeling that even those heavenly divinities could not treat carelessly, and that he could easily chew up two or three god-level beings.

It was intense. The flames and gaze of his burning body burned and watched everything in the world, and there would be nothing he could not cut the moment he held a sword.

The sword in his hand would cut mountains, divide the sea, and even cut the world, so he was an existence who would split even the stars in the sky in half and place them under his command.

Yoosungwoo, who had gone far beyond being human, knelt on one knee in front of her and met her gaze.

-Dowa.

A flickering voice.

A shocking voice that was not heard by the ears, but struck the soul.

He reached out his hand. A powerful god who could not even be compared to himself, for himself.

-I want to be with you. Yoosungwoo, the owner of Geomgye. It’s a world that’s already half ruined, but it seems like there’s at least one or two chances left to fix it.

“…That’s what I wanted.”

The moment Dowa placed her hand on Yoosungwoo’s hand, his appearance returned to human.

Yoosungwoo grabbed Dowa’s hand tightly and pulled her up from her seat.

“The day you come to Geomgye will be a day of celebration.”

Dowa felt a strange emotion at that moment. Behind his back was a perfect sun.

It was as if the sun had cast its shadow on the world of goblins, which had been full of shadows for a long time.

Dowa smiled brightly. It had been a long time since she had smiled like this.

She shouted loudly.

“We’ll have to hold another banquet like today then!”

* * *

Yoosungwoo and his party left Shinshi after receiving extreme hospitality from the goblins.

Yoosungwoo, who heard that they would formally visit Geomgye after the migration, returned to Geomgye with the three.

Of course, they didn’t return comfortably.

Since they had come to Mount Kumgang, it would be a shame if they didn’t catch monsters, saying that Mount Kumgang is best enjoyed after a meal.

Mount Kumgang was a place where the mountain range was rugged and monsters were rampant because they could not handle the abysses that opened everywhere.

Yoosungwoo led the three and gradually cleaned up the monsters of Mount Kumgang for several days.

“If I had known this would happen, I should have brought some other kids with me.”

“…I hope, next time, other people will be with us too.”

“That’s right. Really. It’s a shame that we’re the only ones having such a good time.”

“…….”

Knox couldn’t say anything and shut his mouth.

It was too hard to bring other people in.

After cleaning up most of the monsters in Mount Kumgang for several days, Yoosungwoo returned to Geomgye to prepare to welcome the goblins.

And then.

“…What is that?”

“Isn’t that a wedding dress?”