Book 2-1.7 The Master Returns (I)
Chun Myung Hoon was not happy.
In
fact, he was VERY unhappy. He had returned after a five year long trip
around the continent, and rather than feeling the special passion of the
desert people, he saw that a chaotic atmosphere was surrounding the
oasis.
The number of boundary warriors who seemed like they let loose a bit.
But
the biggest reason was the fact that Librie, who knew who he was,
shouted for the warriors to catch him as soon as he showed up, and as a
result, warriors who he was at least somewhat familiar with, were coming
at him with their shamshirs. How could he be happy?
He couldn’t kill them, nor could he hurt them. They were all warriors of Pareia, and will later be with his disciple.
Chun
Myung Hoon was throwing a fit internally as he moved his body left and
right to dodge the attacks and waited for a person who would recognize
him to show up.
How long had he been dodging for? The person he
was waiting for did not show up, and instead, the number of warriors
coming at him started to grow. Chun Myung Hoon became extremely angry
and shouted very loudly.
“Yulian!”
Although the voice was so
loud that anybody in that large oasis would be able to hear it, there
was nobody whose eardrums ruptured or anything like that. It was thanks
to Chun Myung Hoon’s ability to control his power.
“Yulian, that punk. His master has shown up and he doesn’t even show his face.”
Chun Myung Hoon’s voice started to bring forth more warriors.
It was because of Librie’s shouting as well as the name they were hearing.
‘Something is weird.’
Chun
Myung Hoon was certain that something was off. His disciple was not the
type to not come out even when he was shouting like this, and even if
he wasn’t here, it would be normal for Baguna, his family members, or
even Tuma Takaka, who used to play Yulta with him, to show up.
Plus,
the warriors swinging the shamshir at him didn’t seem like they wanted
to do it. He couldn’t see their usual valiant natures at all.
‘Something must have happened.’
Chun Myung Hoon was extremely smart and had great intuition; he could easily tell that something must have happened in Pareia.
He
looked around trying to find a familiar face. Although five years had
gone by, Chun Myung Hoon’s memory was completely fresh, as if he had
just seen them yesterday.
‘I see one.’
The person he noticed was Veruna, someone who he often saw close to Baguna.
As
his body started to fly, he instantly moved past the surrounding
warriors and grabbed Veruna. He then flew at a speed that was hard to
believe was humanly possible and moved far away from the rest of the
people.
“What did you say?”
Chun Myung Hoon, who had grabbed
Veruna, spoke as if he could not believe what he heard. He even sounded
like he was in complete disbelief.
Veruna started to speak again.
“It’s
something that is difficult for me to believe as well. For our Young
Glow to plot out a rebellion like that and murder the Glow. This is just
……”
“So where did Yulian go?”
“That day, Grace-nim……”
“Grace?”
At Chun Myung Hoon’s reply, Veruna realized that Chun Myung Hoon was really out of the loop and started to explain.
“Ah!
Senior may not know of it. Yulian-nim was married four years ago. You
don’t know how much Yulian-nim suffered trying to look for you back
then.”
“Well, I guess he was at the age to get married. So what happened to his wife, Grace?”
Veruna started to continue his explanation.
“So
Grace-nim came and told us that our current interim Glow, Librie-nim,
had murdered Baguna-nim, and that Yulian-nim and Pere-nim were being
attacked by her tribe members. She asked us to move immediately to help
them.”
“But?”
“The problem was that Librie-nim had arrived
first and told us that Yulian-nim and Pere-nim had rebelled and used
poison to murder Glow Baguna and the Mother of Pareia, Seina-nim. She
ordered us to go and catch the two of them.”
Chun Myung Hoon was confused and asked.
“Does she have the authority to give such an order?”
“When
the Glow, Mother of Pareia, and the Young Glow are not present, the
command of the warriors falls to Librie-nim as the most senior member of
the Glow’s family. But since the two of their stories were different,
the chiefs and warriors all fell into chaos. The different chiefs of the
Oasis, as well as the diplomat from the SIlence Empire were all here
for the Glow’s birthday, so chaos occurred in such a full oasis.”
“Hoh, it doesn’t fall to his younger son but to a woman……”
Veruna replied at Chu Myung Hoon’s comment.
“At
that time, all three of Baguna-nim’s sons were not present. Even the
third son, Orca-nim had fallen to the poison and was close to death.”
“This……”
Chun Myung Hoon flicked his tongue as he spoke.
“When did this all happen?”
“About a week ago.”
“So sad. Only if I had been here.”
Chun
Myung Hoon regretted the fact that he was about 10 days late because of
someone’s situation, and Veruna started to speak again.
“It’s already an arrow that has flown by. Shall I continue with the story?”
“Ah! I cut you off. Go ahead.”
“Anyways,
so people split into two factions, one supporting Yulian-nim and the
other cursing him, but because of the rule of the desert, they all had
to follow Librie-nim’s orders as she held the command of the tribe. The
Red Storm warriors who didn’t agree, as well as the Chief Shaman Tuma
Takaka-nim, protected Grace-nim and left the tribe. Librie-nim was
shouting her lungs out for us to catch them, but when nobody could be
sure about what happened, how could we lay our hands on the Glow’s
family?”
“It must have been chaotic. So then where would Yulian be right now?”
Veruna thought for a second before responding.
“I
would think that they headed towards the Rivolde tribe, where
Grace-nim’s father lives. That is probably the only place they could
turn to right now.”
“Can you draw me a map?”
“Will you head over there?”
“Of
course. There is no reason for me to stay here. I will get more details
from my disciple before making up my mind. If Glow Baguna is dead, that
is like killing my friend, so I need to pay my respects to the dead.”
“Then please take me with you.”
“Hmm?”
Many
people are lamenting the fact that they could not go with Grace-nim. In
fact, there are quite a lot of people just waiting for Yulian-nim to
return and tell us the truth with his own mouth.
“You all should have not listened to anybody and just captured all of them to figure out the truth.”
At Chun Myung Hoon’s response, Veruna nodded his head as he responded.
“We
had to listen to Librie-nim because of the rule. However, watching
Librie-nim ask all sorts of questions to the fat diplomat from the
Silence Empire, the people had to hold back their anger. Everybody is
doubting Librie-nim’s words. For those two brothers to really… even if
you were to say they were possessed by the devil to do such a thing,
would they have been so careless? Everybody knows of their strength, and
there are so many warriors who follow them as well.”
Chun Myung Hoon nodded his head.
‘He is a bit useless but you have to at least admire his personality. He at least shows small signs of being good.’
Chun
Myung Hoon remembered the first time he met Yulian, as well as Yulian’s
response when they met with the Dragon. He laughed happily once before
speaking.
“Alright. Come with me. I’m sure Yulian will like it if someone who knows the situation from the inside shows up as well.”
Chun Myung Hoon made up his mind to catch up to Yulian.
