The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 52

Swordmaster Wants to Live in Peace – Episode 52

Maynard

Min Cheong-un, the Guild Master of Taengcheon, occasionally leaves his post.

No one knew where he went.

Even his father, Min Jong-ho, didn’t know where he went when he was away.

Since Min Cheong-un didn’t come out after returning home, even the paparazzi gave up trying to dig it up.

So where does he go? It was the basement of his house.

He’s known as a workaholic who doesn’t go home often, but he sometimes went home and didn’t come out.

He would enter the Abyss in the basement of his house and disappear.

“There’s a guy who wants to learn the Torrential River Sword. He seems to have quite a talent.”

“…….”

“I understand. Then I’ll bring him next time I visit. He’ll be fascinated by your swordsmanship and follow you. He’ll definitely be helpful.”

“…….”

“Then I’ll do that. Oh, and this is today’s tribute. I’ve carefully selected special items.”

Saying that, Min Cheong-un took out a heart that maintained its shape from the icebox he brought.

As he lifted the cold heart, the being standing in front of him took the heart in his hand and crunched it down.

After chewing up all the hearts in the icebox, Min Cheong-un smiled contentedly and opened his mouth.

“Then, please give me the next guidance. The essence of the Torrential River Sword, please impart it to me.”

* * *

The day to reunite with Maynard was not so far off.

I thought it would take a little longer, but Min Cheong-un’s call came sooner than expected.

Yu Seong-u headed back to Seoul in just a few days.

This time, without taking anyone, alone.

“Be careful on your way.”

“Come back safe, Mister!”

Before getting into the taxi to the train station, Yu Seong-u felt a subtle sensation as he was seen off by the two of them.

Why am I being seen off by these two?

Why does Yuwol have the expression of a widow-to-be sending her husband off to the battlefield, and so on…….

There were many questions, but he had already learned how to resign himself.

He nodded slightly and set off on his journey to Seoul.

After several hours, he arrived in Seoul and took the car sent by Min Cheong-un to move again.

The place he arrived at was Min Cheong-un’s house.

A magnificent mansion in the heart of Seoul.

Yu Seong-u was momentarily overwhelmed by the enormous size, but he rang the doorbell and went inside.

The mansion was large, but it was filled with an eerie feeling as no sign of people was felt.

As he headed to the front door, Min Cheong-un, armed with equipment, greeted him.

“Welcome.”

“Where are we going that you told me to come to your house?”

“You’ll know when you get there. Why I called you to my house.”

With those words, Min Cheong-un led Yu Seong-u to the basement of the mansion.

It was a secret staircase deep inside the mansion.

“This is my training ground. The place we’re going is inside the training ground.”

“……How can there be a place like this.”

Yu Seong-u answered as if he was surprised.

It was just for show.

As he walked down the stairs with the lights on, a wide training ground appeared.

A training ground similar in style to the one used in the basement of Meteo Industry.

And a large Abyss in the middle of the training ground.

The hole in the air, as if there was an error in the graphics, was full of alienation.

And then, he instinctively felt it.

There’s a strong guy inside.

‘……Maynard, is that really you?’

I sincerely hoped it wasn’t.

Because he was a colleague and a friend in the past…….

I met him as an enemy and cut off his head myself, so if I had to cut off his head again, I couldn’t help but feel sad.

“Then let’s go. My teacher is waiting inside.”

* * *

Min Cheong-un came to face the Abyss in his house one day while training alone.

S-class Diver, Min Cheong-un.

The Guild Master and pride of Taengcheon.

But he was still far from earning the name of the strongest.

‘This is not enough. I need more.’

Not enough.

I need more power.

I need the power to not lose to anyone.

As he was thinking that, the Abyss appeared before his eyes.

At first, he was wary, but before he knew it, he had stepped into the Abyss.

And he met him there.

‘A true powerhouse.’

The energy of a powerhouse that you could tell just from the energy flowing from his body, an energy that instinctively made you kneel.

It was clear that he couldn’t be seen as human, but communication was possible.

The being who made Min Cheong-un kneel with just his presence taught him a blue sword and mysterious swordsmanship.

Based on that, Min Cheong-un was able to become even stronger, and soon rose to the top as the strongest that everyone recognized.

It’s a shortcut, if you will.

But the strength is real.

Different from the innate strength of Divers made through Awakening.

A strength built up.

The price to pay was not small, but so what?

If I become the strongest and save more people, it doesn’t matter if a few people who the world doesn’t care about disappear.

Min Cheong-un justified himself and offered the hearts of ‘humans’.

Homeless people on the street.

Lonely old people who no one cares about.

People who are marginalized from society, people who no one would care about even if they disappeared, were taken away one by one.

“This way.”

Such days continued, and as he trained the Torrential River Sword and gradually gained strength.

The being who taught him the Torrential River Sword wanted a ‘second’.

Min Cheong-un, realizing that, looked for someone who would become the second with him.

The condition was that they had talent for swords like him.

Muzzling was unnecessary, because the moment they faced that presence, they wouldn’t even think of telling anyone.

That’s how he met ‘Yoon Seong-u’ while searching for the second.

Coincidentally, a Diver of the Red Dragon he met in a lecture at the Seoul Diver Academy.

Even though he had limited his magic power and was careless, he was the one who won a match against him.

It’s a shame that he couldn’t bring in a talent like Baek Woo-hyeon from the Korea Sword Association, but it was much easier to work with someone who didn’t have a high profile, so he decided on Yoon Seong-u.

Min Cheong-un crossed the black hole with Yoon Seong-u.

Beyond the hole was a rocky mountain with steep cliffs.

Originally, it was a place where waterfalls flowed and became rivers, so the shape of the water flowing remained intact.

If you walk up the road that used to be a river, that being is right below the cliff.

Slyly turning around, Yoon Seong-u was moving with a nonchalant expression.

How long will that expression last?

Soon it will turn into a face distorted with fear and shock.

Min Cheong-un firmly believed that.

Because even he, an S-class Diver who had seen all kinds of sights, was like that.

Yoon Seong-u, who is not even an S-class, would be more, not less.

‘Will he kneel and beg for his life? Or will he faint?’

Either way, it was sure to be fun.

But either way, none of Min Cheong-un’s predictions were correct.

* * *

The moment Yu Seong-u entered the Abyss, he felt like he was suffocating.

It was because he almost cursed the moment he witnessed the internal structure of the Abyss.

A barren rocky mountain where not a single blade of grass grows.

A cliff where a waterfall seemed to have flowed, and a wide road below it.

‘Maynard, your Torrential River (瀑河) has long been dried up.’

The beautiful waterfall and river had disappeared.

This Abyss was expressing that.

Yu Seong-u went up the place that used to be a river with Min Cheong-un.

The higher he went, the more his heart pounded.

Realizing that his heart rate had risen too much, Yu Seong-u calmed himself down by exhaling a long breath.

‘There’s no need to be nervous.’

He had already met Maynard, who had become a monster, and hadn’t he personally cut off his head?

Yu Seong-u took it easy.

He would cut down Maynard, who had become an Ascendant, again and return him to the soil.

And soon, he arrived at the bottom of the cliff.

There was a small hut there.

The crude hut made by stacking trees haphazardly looked like it would collapse at any moment.

“I’ve brought someone who will be the second!”

When Min Cheong-un shouted vigorously, the door of the hut opened with a small sound.

And what appeared was not a woman with shimmering light green hair and deep green eyes…….

It was a monster with skin that had turned like an old tree.

The place where the eyes should be was deeply sunken, and the place where the shimmering light green hair should be was full of dry fallen leaves.

Seeing that, Yu Seong-u slowly closed and opened his eyes.

The image of Maynard that he remembered was nowhere to be found, and it was still the appearance of a monster.

“……Ah.”

Maynard, who looked at Yu Seong-u and Min Cheong-un, parted her lips.

She, who had made a contract with a demon for some reason and became like that, looked at Yu Seong-u, not Min Cheong-un.

“You are…….”

Just as Yu Seong-u recognized Maynard, she also recognized him.

Even if the appearance has changed, the fierce sensation deeply rooted in her memory does not change.

“Maynard, you and I really have a miserable and damn life. It’s a really damn life.”

“Seong-u.”

“Yeah, it’s me. Yu Seong-u. You crazy bastard, you can’t let go of your lingering feelings and make me come find you again? I want some soju [Korean distilled spirit], damn it.”

With those words, Yu Seong-u roughly untied the stuffy hair tie that was tying his hair and shook his head.

Then, he swept his hair up and exhaled a long breath.

Min Cheong-un turned his head sharply at Yu Seong-u’s words and looked at him.

Soon, he frowned and jumped towards Maynard.

“You, you are!”

“Idiot. You’re just realizing it now.”

The sword with a bright red blade that he had already drawn after letting his hair down.

Min Cheong-un, realizing that he was the monster he had seen in the Abyss in Hongdae, shouted.

“You deceived me! You monster bastard! That means the Red Dragon is also in cahoots!”

“Seo Hwa only did me a favor. And I’m not a monster either. You stupid bastard, you don’t even know that I caught him for you in the Hongdae Abyss.”

“What are you talking about! You damn bastard! I’ll tear you apart and kill you!”

Yu Seong-u ignored Min Cheong-un, who was screaming, and loosened his body.

Maynard is a formidable enemy.

That state of becoming a demon is even more so.

Because he was an enemy who struggled when he first faced Maynard in the past.

I won’t be careless.

I shouldn’t show any gaps either.

As Yu Seong-u prepared to fight, Maynard also began to prepare.

She pushed Min Cheong-un back and went into the hut to take out an old sword.

The handle and guard were made of wood, and the blade was a chipped iron sword.

On the outside, it looked like an antique that no one would buy even if you sold it at an antique store, but if someone who has reached the realm holds it, even a spoon becomes a masterpiece.

It clearly has the shape of a sword, so it’s not something to be taken lightly.

“……Yu Seong-u, I don’t know how long it’s been.”

“It’s been a long time, hasn’t it? Let me remind you of the old days.”

“It will be different from then.”

“No, it’s the same. Do you think only you have become stronger?”

No more conversation is needed.

Swordsmen only talk with swords.

Even if one is the owner of a sword that has betrayed his comrades and has been broken.

You can have more conversations with just one clash of swords than with a hundred words.

And the next moment.

Yu Seong-u and Maynard collided in the center.

With hatred to kill each other fully loaded on their swords.