As Prophet - Chapter 82
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Episode 82. 15 to 1
Was he going to end it here? The prince changed the subject.
“So-saeng plans to stay here for the time being and continue his studies.”
“Shouldn’t we look into the affairs of our relatives?”
“What would a royal relative do? Not doing anything is serving the country.”
“It’s quite different from the early days of the founding of the country. The royal relatives who devoted themselves to founding the country had private armies, and politically dangerous things happened. So we abolished the private armies, eliminated the royal relatives’ military power, and placed them in the Royal Family Office to monitor them. There was the Prince’s Rebellion, and many people died. So we prohibited the royal relatives from participating in politics. If we were swayed by the royal relatives, it would be difficult to establish royal authority. But what should the royal relatives do in these peaceful times? It is meaningful to think deeply and establish a separate role for them.”
“I will receive your order.”
When it is not a name, but is called a name, it is an expression of what role it will play.
“No, no, I’m not saying you should do anything right now. There was a time when it was better not to do anything, but now is not the time. Now that you’re free from the threat of assassination, you can act, but I thought, what if it’s the work of a royal relative?”
“It will be as you command.”
What a peculiar father-son relationship. Is that how kings and princes are supposed to be? Dalcheon moved his body while the topic changed and met Do Seung-ji’s eyes. His gaze was not friendly. I don’t know what I did wrong to myself to be like this. They must be bothered by someone who is outside their frame, but he looks down at them with eyes that seem like they are going to devour them.
The king noticed Dalcheon’s gesture and immediately changed the subject of the conversation.
“Would you like to come into the palace and work?”
That’s what it means in the end. Since you are strong and skilled in martial arts, come in and do escort work.
“Your Majesty, you have already told me that the work I am doing now is very important. I enjoy teaching children. I have no intention of taking on another position, so I am very sorry, but please withdraw my order.”
“I asked for your opinion, not your order. Wouldn’t you be able to play a bigger role if you entered the palace?”
“I am not well-educated and cannot handle big things. I am just a strong swordsman. Please take my orders.”
“Yeah, it makes sense if Jim needs that knife handle.”
“In this peaceful world, it would be unfair for someone like me to be mixed in.”
“How arrogant of you.”
“I am sorry, Your Majesty.”
Since he was not immediately convinced, the king changed direction slightly.
“Are you that strong?”
“If you are humble and pretend not to be, you can barely fit in this world, but if you reveal your true nature, you will not be able to join in. Imagine a huge tiger roaring right next to you while you are eating breakfast. It is a thing that shakes the very foundation of the world.”
“Oh my! To Jim, he looks like just an ordinary boy.”
“I hope it appears that way.”
Dalcheon shook his head again.
“I want to see. Your martial arts… … .”
“majesty.”
“Isn’t that okay?”
“I’m sorry.”
“The escort that performed today was selected and brought by the best of the Imperial Army. I would like you to have a duel with them. This is an order.”
Baek Sa-ban, sitting next to him, fidgeted. His gaze wavered unsteadily, then he sat up straight, looked at Dal-cheon, then at the king, then back at Dal-cheon, and then swallowed dry saliva repeatedly.
“I will do so.”
Dalcheon bowed deeply and stood up.
He called out to fifteen of the best soldiers of the Royal Guard as he went down to the side space, avoiding the training ground where the young guys were studying.
“His Majesty has ordered the military action.”
“With you?”
The King’s Villa opened its eyes wide and looked at Dalcheon carefully. Even if he is an officer, he is still a bum… Dalcheon avoided eye contact and gestured downwards.
“Yes. Follow me. I’ll do it this way.”
“Ugh.”
The king, the grand prince, the chief minister, and the Baeksaban took their places on the floor. Dalcheon, who had come down to the training ground, pointed to fifteen people.
“Everyone, come at once.”
“Huh, what do you know about us!”
“I’m sorry, but it’s Myeong.”
He said to do it, but didn’t say anything specific. He didn’t say to do it 15 to 1, but when Dalcheon said it was his order, the royal guards came down, shaking their shoulders.
Dalcheon shook his head as they each grabbed a wooden sword from the weapons rack on one side of the training ground.
“It’s a real sword.”
“People might get hurt.”
“It’s a real sword fight.”
“Ugh.”
Dalcheon called fifteen people without any rules for the ceremony.
“Come on. This is your only chance to fight the master of Hwagyeong. If you fight the master anywhere else, you will die.”
“A flower? Sipa. Are dogs and cows all flowers?”
“That’s just what I’m saying. Just come at me.”
After a while, fifteen men with real swords surrounded Dalcheon. It was obvious that those who had been studying in three different places had come running, and they surrounded Dalcheon in a circle around the training ground. Dalcheon made the onlookers step back. The instructors pushed back the children who kept coming forward to secure some space.
The King’s villa looked up. The King just looked down expressionlessly. When he saw the Grand Prince, he made a gesture with the tip of his chin. The young man gestured for him to come in, as if he was doing it on purpose. It was quite a touch.
“Come now. You must come when I give you a chance to strike first.”
The Geumgun Villa blew its whistle and gave the order to attack.
“Attack! Break it somewhere!”
It was a command. The royal guards rushed toward Dalcheon. A long sword flew toward Dalcheon’s neck. Dalcheon didn’t even draw his sword. He belatedly drew his sword, twisted his body, easily dodged, and cut his waist with the back of his sword. There was a sound of something breaking, and a scream tore through the languid air.
“Ahh!”
That was the beginning. He jumped into the midst of dozens of swords flying around and lightly swung his sword. When he blocked, the enemy’s sword flew away, and when he struck, there was a sound of it breaking somewhere. Cheol-lik’s skirt spread out like a fan, and when he was hit once, he fell down in vain.
Tata, tatadak, tatadak, tata.
Dozens of thumping sounds were heard, and before half an hour had passed, all fifteen of them had fallen to the ground. It seemed as if they had been spared, but they were unable to get up because they had broken something.
Dalcheon walked to one side of the group and bowed to the king sitting in the main hall. He held the hilt of his sword and bowed respectfully, indicating the end of the ritual.
The exclamations that burst from the children’s mouths turned into cheers and they shouted toward the sky that was entering the summer season.
“Ahhhhhhhhhhh!”
The students and instructors who were learning from Dalcheon could not close their gaping mouths. They knew that Dalcheon’s martial arts were high-level, but they did not know that it was to this extent. Dalcheon called his instructors.
“No one was seriously injured, but please look after the injured.”
“Yes, your majesty.”
He turned towards the children.
“Enough sightseeing! Back to studying. Hurry up!”
At Dalcheon’s command, they rushed to the place where the children were studying. Dalcheon approached the person who couldn’t get up and tapped several acupoints. The person who couldn’t breathe exhaled deeply, and the person who had been twisting his arms and shaking got up fine.
“Thank you for your hard work.”
I began to feel sorry and sorry for those who had been mobilized to show off.
* * *
“I have dazzled Your Majesty’s eyes with my trivial martial arts skills.”
When he came up to say hello, he didn’t seem like the innocent child he was at first.
“That’s amazing.”
“I only fought them with my bare hands and lightly hit them with the back of my sword. No one was seriously injured.”
“Is that adjustable?”
“That’s the only way. It’s not a matter of life or death.”
“I tried to see the skills of our escorts, but it was like putting an adult and a child together.”
“I’m sorry. But I’m still a civilian… … .”
Bow your head like a sinner.
“If you use that kind of history, can you fly?”
My strength and power are just a part of the whole that makes up a human being, but to them they are just talents.
Dalcheon took a step back and jumped. He flew to the top of a large ginkgo tree not far away. He stood on one leg at the end of a very thin, precariously tall branch and swayed in the wind. Dalcheon jumped down slowly. However, it was clearly a human body, so it had weight and was affected by gravity, but it fell slowly like a feather.
“That’s about it. I can’t fly like a bird.”
The audience was so shocked that they couldn’t close their mouths.
“It is said that the Chinese sage Lu Dongbin flew on a sword.”
“Yes. It is a sword that is adjusted to fly by force, and this body is riding on it. It can fly quickly.”
“You can do it?”
“I don’t do it because I don’t feel the need to, but there’s nothing I can’t do.”
“Can you show me?”
Dalcheon laughed bashfully.
“How can you look at something that disappears right before your eyes? Ahaha.”
Dalcheon seemed determined to show everything he wanted. He hated being seen as having some strange talents by others, but today he seemed like a completely different person.
“I heard that you can kill a person with willpower alone.”
“It strikes the void with its force and presses on the weakest part of a person, causing death.”
“Weak point? Smashing the air?”
The audience was shocked.
“It can’t be demonstrated.”
The king pointed to a bird sitting on a tree branch. Dalcheon bowed his head deeply.
“I do not kill.”
It may seem like he is defying the king’s orders, but Dalcheon firmly stated that he could not set such an example.
“You’re like monks. You avoid killing.”
“How much less would you kill a person? It is something you absolutely cannot do.”
“I see… … That’s right.”
The more the king saw him, the more he became greedy. There were countless people trying to get official positions. It was a time when most people who passed the civil service examination were not appointed. I had no trouble hiring the person I wanted, but I said, “This person is not it.” He treated the things the king could give him as dust in the wind. There are things that even power cannot do.
“Would you not like it if I gave you the rank of general?”
“majesty…….”
I couldn’t count how many times I bent over today.
Dalcheon changed the subject and introduced the various aspects of the school building, focusing on the half-built building. He introduced it to the new officers and parents of the school building many times, so he did it skillfully and quickly. Do Seung-ji muttered as if he was complaining.
“It’s no different from a training center.”
“I followed the training center’s organization structure.”
“Hmm, hmm. But it’s a bit small.”
“Yes.”
The king stood in the place where the gichang was being studied and asked.
“Should I just send you to the training center instead?”
“I am sorry. I will devote my life to nurturing this Yangju Academy.”
“Oh my! Why? The training center has good facilities, lots of people, and enough slaves, so there shouldn’t be anything lacking… … but you don’t like government officials?”
“Yes.”
“Then what if the king establishes a private training center?”
There was no such example. There was a time when it was taken for granted that even if a person with great ability was considered to be undervalued during the stable period, he would be burned. There was a time when those who worked hard to found a country passed away without a sound. Do Seung-ji took two steps forward and turned his body.
“Your Majesty, there is no precedent for this.”
“That’s what they say.”
“There has never been an instance of Your Majesty’s request being refused like this.”
“That’s right. How bad must the king be.”
“How about you just return to the palace?”
As the group was making a fuss, they realized that the people studying at the school were the king. The king stopped in a place where people could hear him clearly.
“What do you think of your arrogance?”
“You will receive that punishment sweetly someday.”
“You know that? What’s the solution?”
“I won’t stay in this world too long.”
Dalcheon bowed. Maybe it’s time to end this crazy thing. I want it, but I also need to know how to let go when circumstances don’t allow it. There are many people who didn’t know when to let go, and who held on and ended up ruined. Now is the time to go back, but they say no, hope it’s not, and pray it’s not, and they live holding on to what isn’t.
“This guy!”
“I don’t know if now is the time.”
“Oh, that’s not what I meant. Oh, my! How ridiculous of you to leave. Someone once said that the most important thing in living with a genius is to acknowledge differences… … Think about it yourself. How could I not ask questions when I’m different from you? Fortunately, you answer every single question, so I think I have some idea.”
He stopped Dalcheon, who was one step ahead of him, to guide him. Even the king does not want this guy to disappear now. They say that if you go to the mountain, you will never see him again, but he cannot miss the pumpkin that came with the vine.
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