Who threatened Cheonma Hara with a knife - Chapter 130



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Who threatened to call me Cheonmahara with a knife? Episode 130

The bait is best when shaken (2)

Madouyoung, who was in deep agony, asked with extreme patience.

“If so, are you planning to move to the drama club?”

Madouyoung had thought of forcing Ilmok into a meditation club or hanging on to his trouser leg and promising not to disturb his nap ever again.

But both of them were actions that were suspicious in many ways. The latter, in particular, was something that an instructor should never do.

In response to Madouyoung’s question that was provoking him, Ilmok readily shook the bait.

“It’s not set in stone yet. I’m thinking about trying out other clubs. Well, if none of the other clubs work for me, I might end up going back to the meditation club.”

In the face of the temptation of Ilmok, Madouyoung displayed extreme composure and pretended to be indifferent.

“Okay, I understand. Oh, and apart from the club, there seems to be some misunderstanding. The reason I scolded you is not because I have ill feelings toward you. As a teacher, I can’t overlook the slacking off of the instructors.”

“Are you saying that if I go back to the meditation club, nothing will change?”

“Wouldn’t it be possible if you didn’t slack off?”

“… I will think about it that way and choose a club.”

“Please do so.”

Madouyoung nodded, then turned around and left.

‘Whew. At this point, I guess all suspicions have been cleared?’

Madouyoung thought. But in the end, he acted like an instructor.

‘It is said that small greed is great loss. If you try to get the ball and arouse suspicion, there is nothing more foolish than that. For now, the priority is to get rid of suspicion.’

Looking at the back of Madouyoung leaving in the distance, Ilmok thought.

‘I guess it’s suspicious.’

Contrary to his expectations, Ma Do-young was not free from suspicion at all.

* * *

The next day, as usual, I continued my experiential activities during club time.

The place I headed to today was the Doctrine Study Group.

To put it differently, it could be said to be a club that breeds pseudo-fanatics.

“Welcome. It’s a sight to behold.”

As I entered the building, Jeong Gyu-seok, the instructor in charge and doctrine education instructor, welcomed me.

It was a strange feeling.

‘Hmm. I thought you’d be offended?’

The three people I recruited into the meditation club were originally members of the doctrinal study club.

I don’t know how much the instructors value club activities, but I thought they would be upset because three of their subordinates had been taken away.

But why are you welcoming me like that?

‘Could this be another minion?’

Naturally, such doubts arose in my mind.

“Welcome!”

“Welcome. Ichimoku Kwando!”

However, the subsequent baptism of welcome could not help but dilute that doubt a little.

‘Why are there so many?’

Inside the hall, there were at least ten officials bustling about.

If the three I had left behind were still in this club, the number would be close to twenty.

Considering that each group had only twenty members, this meant that nearly half of them were members of the Doctrine Study Group.

‘Ugh. If I were the instructor, I’d be glad that three people left.’

Even though there were assistants, it was tiring for just two people to manage more than ten officers. It would have been different during regular training hours.

Above all, since all the officials are gathered in the doctrine education club, other instructors who have more time on their hands cannot help but envy them.

‘I have a lot of work to do, but when my colleagues are relaxed, it’s like a dog in many ways. Yeah.’

It was a moment that brought back memories of my days as a civil servant.

And the question of why only the doctrine study clubs were crowded with officials was resolved as quickly as it arose.

‘Just looking at Jin Ha-yeon… .’

The Magic Hall’s officials are promising young talents of the Demonic Cult.

And the term ‘promising prospects of the Demonic Cult’ could be said to be synonymous with ‘potential pseudo-fanatics’.

Therefore, from the perspective of the Magic Hall’s disciples, it was only natural that they would join the Doctrine Study Club if they did not have any special hobbies.

Baekcheon and Bang Mihwa, who are obsessed with theater, and Dokgo-pae and Mak Ho-yeol, who are obsessed with physical beauty, are just special cases.

And those who were swayed by them and joined, like Bang Mi-hwa, Jeong Hyeon, Joo Seo-yeon, and Kwak Sul, are just pitiful people.

Is it because I’m always being swayed by those weird guys and poor guys?

‘How is it that almost half of the officials are members of this club, but I don’t know a single face?’

It’s not like I didn’t really know any of the faces. But I’ve been living in the Magic Hall for over half a year now.

It’s just that I didn’t have a single person I was even slightly close to.

It was understandable that I would feel skeptical about my relationships, which were limited to only those who were particularly crazy, but there was no reason for me to feel that way.

‘It’s just because those crazy people are sticking around.’

Because flexible blaming and mental victory are the secrets to clear and sound mental health.

“Okay, now that everyone seems to be present, let’s split up into groups. This is my first time participating in the Ichimoku Kwando, so I’ll be working with groups of people I already know.”

“???”

Although we didn’t have a grasp of the situation, we moved according to the guidance of Instructor Jeong Gyu-seok.

Perhaps because it would be impossible to have a conversation if too many people were talking at once, Instructor Jeong Gyu-seok divided the officers into three groups.

Each group has five or six people.

And those who sat at the same table as me welcomed me again.

“Please take good care of me. Ichimoku Kwando.”

“I hope you had a good time.”

At their friendly greeting, I smiled awkwardly.

‘… These are people I really only know by face.’

Thanks to the consideration of Instructor Jeong Gyu-seok, they were people I had met before.

They were in the same class, had been in the same group during the exam, or had been in the same class together for a short time.

“Nice to meet you. Please take care of me.”

Immediately after a brief greeting.

“Today’s topic is Catechism 13:5, so let’s each begin the discussion.”

Following the instructions of Instructor Jeong Gyu-seok, the full-fledged club time began.

“Then, I will proceed in order starting with me.”

One of the officers in the same group as me opened his mouth and started talking excitedly.

“The Seven Great Heavenly Demons, the Heavenly Demon of Light, said that in order to truly punish evil, a greater evil is needed. The hypocrites of Buddhism and Taoism define murder as evil, but this is nothing more than hypocrisy. Only by cutting off the seeds of evil in advance can we save the living beings who will suffer from evil.”

In response to the leader’s claim that all bad guys should be killed, perhaps because he was a hardliner steeped in the doctrines of the Demonic Cult, another leader raised his hand and protested.

“It seems you have misunderstood what the God of Blood, the Heavenly Demon, said. It is right to punish evil with evil, but I think it is dangerous to indiscriminately commit massacre. As Prophet Jeong said in Chapter 3, Verse 10, all humans have evil hearts. Does that mean that all humans should be killed?”

“I agree with you. As you can see in Chapter 10, Verse 3, the Bloody Heavenly Horse, one of the five great Heavenly Horses, said that ruling the world with a devil means guiding living beings to be wary of their own evil intentions so that they do not fall into evil.”

They talked as if things would proceed in order, but they both passionately asserted their opinions, creating an atmosphere where it seemed like a fight was about to break out.

And this wasn’t just my group’s story.

“The government is now distorting the doctrine!”

At other tables, too, people were shouting at each other with their eyes wide open, as if they were going to kill each other, each babbling about the doctrine as they understood it.

“Look at Chapter 5, Verse 7 of the Catechism!”

“Oh, my! The prophet said!”

As I listened to the talk about the doctrine coming from all directions, I began to feel dizzy.

It wasn’t because I didn’t know the content.

Damn it, I had to memorize the doctrine while being harassed by Jin Ha-yeon in order to enter the Magic Academy.

I had memorized it so well that whenever they mentioned a phrase, it would naturally come to mind.

For example, the Blood Rain Heavenly Horse that the same group’s official mentioned a little while ago.

‘He’s a crazy psychopath.’

He said that he had to stop the evil deeds of sentient beings with a bigger demon, and he chose to periodically execute evildoers in front of sentient beings to frighten them. In order to make them not even dare to commit evil deeds.

He was later called the Bloody Heavenly Demon because he used the Heavenly Demon God’s power to tear apart the entire body of the villain, causing blood to splatter everywhere.

The reason why my head was spinning even though I already knew the information was being shouted out from all directions was simple.

It was because it was information I already knew.

After entering the Magic Hall, the contents of the doctrine that I had avoided as much as possible were filling my head again.

As I looked at their faces as they screamed and shouted, Jin Ha-yeon came to mind.

It was said that his eyes were filled with madness. He was talking excitedly, believing that all truth was contained in the doctrine.

To be honest, I studied and memorized the catechism, but that was my position.

‘Just, if you hang it on your ear, it’s an earring. If you hang it on your nose, it’s a nose ring.’

I listened to Jin Ha-yeon’s explanation diligently, but honestly, it felt like it was forced on me. So rather than trying to understand it, I just memorized Jin Ha-yeon’s explanation and moved on.

There were many cases like that. When something happened, people would say, ‘As expected, there is no mistake in the words of the old sages.’

However, even among the words of the old sages, there were quite a few contradictory ones. The most representative examples are the saying, “The more the better” and “The less the good.”

If something is too much, it is good for the more it is, but if it is not good for the more it is, it is bad for the more it is.

Likewise, there were some clear contradictions in the contents of the doctrine.

However, Jin Ha-yeon didn’t think that way at all.

When there are passages in the doctrine called A and B that contradict each other.

In the case of ‘자’, it was explained as ‘since it was done according to the doctrine of A, the doctrine is the truth’, and in the case of ‘축’, it was explained as ‘since it was done according to the doctrine of B, the doctrine is the truth’.

It was so absurd, but I just thought, ‘This is how cults do it.’

Because if I pointed it out, I thought they would call me a heretic and try to kill me, or they would not stop brainwashing me until I accepted it.

And now here.

“Oh! So, is Park Gwan-do saying that what Gwang-hyeol-cheon-ma-nim said was wrong?”

“That’s an exaggeration! Isn’t that what I meant? You are the one who is misinterpreting the words of the Heavenly Demon Lord Gwanghyeol!”

The prospective fanatics were talking about the doctrine of the Heavenly King Day and Night just like Jin Ha-yeon did back then.

Because of that, I was half-conscious.

“What do you think of the Ichimoku Gwando?”

“Come to think of it, Ichimoku Kwando hasn’t said anything yet.”

The pseudo-fanatics all focused their gaze on me. Their eyes were so clear that they looked like they were truly crazy.

‘Uh, um… So are you a hardliner or a moderate?’

The hardliners wanted to kill off all the bad guys, while the moderates thought that humans are inherently evil and that only the most extreme evildoers should be torn to pieces as an example to instill a sense of caution in all living beings.

‘… Either way, we’re going to kill each other, right?’

These crazy cult fanatics were just people who wanted to kill first and then see what happened.

But I couldn’t accuse these guys of being crazy.

Poor guys who have been brainwashed since childhood.

It wasn’t because of winning.

‘If I say something wrong, I could turn into an inquisitor…’

Because the madness that sparkled in his eyes was not ordinary.

After much thought, I opened my mouth appropriately.

“There are problems on both sides. All humans are evil, so it doesn’t make sense to kill them all. However, who defines what constitutes an evil person who has crossed the line? There is only one person who can define it. It is the Heavenly Horse of the time.”

If you guys are hardliners and moderates, I’m in the middle.

The fanatics nodded, as if they were convinced by my answer.

“Indeed, in the end, it all comes down to the will of the Supreme Being.”

“Indeed, it is a thought worthy of a disciple of the Supreme Being. However, since we are also the talents of the new religion who will dream of becoming the leader in the distant future, shouldn’t we set our own standards?”

And they began to fight among themselves again, each arguing over his own doctrines.

I sat there blankly, watching the fanatics bicker, and made a resolution to myself.

‘… Even if I change clubs, I will never come here.’

I will not go near the Doctrine Study Group.