Chapter 435: Chapter 435

Dan So-mi asked in a worried tone.

In fact, because of Jang Sam-tae and Mae-hyang’s behavior, and the shrieks coming from somewhere, it was exactly when she was worrying if something serious was happening here.

However, because Sa Do-hak was watching with his eyes chillingly open, she couldn’t dare to check inside.

Like that, about two more days passed while just reading the room.

Yeo Eun-wol, who recovered quickly, was soon able to walk, and thanks to that, she gained the courage to check this place. Wasn’t it a bit more comfortable having two people rather than being alone?

Dan So-mi quietly stepped inside.

Following behind her, Yeo Eun-wol clung to Dan So-mi’s side in an awkward posture.

Even if she could walk, it didn’t mean all her wounds had healed.

In fact, moving following Dan So-mi like this was also a situation where she was overexerting herself considerably.

However, the reason she followed to this place knowing it was overexertion was partly because she was dragged by Dan So-mi, but also because she somewhat guessed that Bi Cheon-woong was here.

“Ah… Hello.”

Yeo Eun-wol bowed her head with an awkward expression.

It seemed she was feeling fear towards Bi Cheon-woong to the extent that it was hard to believe it was behavior towards someone she had lived with for a time.

Naturally, they had met twice in bad situations.

Also, since she still couldn’t forget Bi Cheon-woong’s eyes shown in front of the dying Yeo Eun-wol, she felt unwarranted anxiety in her young heart.

“Yes… you were alive.”

Bi Cheon-woong looked at Yeo Eun-wol and asked.

Should he be happy, or should he try hard to kill his heart and pretend not to know.

Indescribable emotions surged.

What more should he say?

Bi Cheon-woong swallowed his breath in conflict.

“Mister, it’s the third time!”

At that moment, Dan So-mi naturally sat on the edge of the bed. She patted the bed and smiled brightly as if she wasn’t scared of the man-killing Bi Cheon-woong’s hands at all.

“Three times….”

“Yes, once when we first met… once here… and once the previous time. It seems you and I have a destiny of saving and being saved.”

She said with sparkling eyes.

That one sentence pierced Bi Cheon-woong’s heart.

He tried to kill her.

No, she was a child he had to kill.

Since it was a task he had to carry out risking his all, Bi Cheon-woong had absolutely no reason to be thanked. Wasn’t the reason he saved this child in the first place something that happened by chance while following the Heavenly Martial Emperor’s orders?

He wasn’t particularly trying to save her either.

It was just a coincidence, or a situation that could be called this child’s heavenly luck.

He still didn’t know why he tried to save her.

As he didn’t even answer while thinking such thoughts, Dan So-mi reached out her hand towards Bi Cheon-woong. The young child’s touch reached his hand.

“Thank you! What would have happened to everyone if it weren’t for you, mister… You are unmistakably our lifesaver.”

“…!”

Bi Cheon-woong trembled violently.

Emotions he had never felt even once until now surged up from deep inside his heart and dominated his mind. Without realizing it, his vision blurred.

And soon something hot flowed down his cheeks.

“Ah! Are you crying, mister?”

Dan So-mi shouted in surprise.

The moment he heard those words, Bi Cheon-woong raised his hand and touched his cheek. As the sensation of something wet was felt from his hand, he involuntarily held his breath and marveled.

‘Tears?’

Had he ever shed tears from birth until now?

No.

Bi Cheon-woong always had to survive in solitude, so he didn’t even have the luxury to shed tears. For him, who was struggling desperately, such a thing was no different from a luxury.

But to shed tears now?

All the situations he was experiencing right now stimulated Bi Cheon-woong’s dry emotions.

He smiled without realizing it.

His current state was so pathetic and funny.

* * *

“…….”

“Why are you just watching?”

Sa Do-hak asked Dan Woo-hyun, who was just watching intently. Despite the situation where Dan So-mi might get hurt by mistake, he wasn’t pleased with how he just left it alone.

Because he knew from the beginning that Bi Cheon-woong’s target was Dan So-mi, Sa Do-hak didn’t take his eyes off as if on guard.

If he showed even the slightest strange sign, he was ready to run in immediately and snap Bi Cheon-woong’s neck.

“I was wondering if dolls also have hearts.”

“Ha, you put the kids in danger for just that reason?”

“Don’t worry. Let alone internal energy, he won’t even have the strength to swing a sword.”

Just because he recovered his energy didn’t mean he could swing a sword right away. Right now, Bi Cheon-woong was in a situation where it was not easy for him to even stand up, let alone hold a sword.

The wounds were wounds, but the big reason was that Dan Woo-hyun had touched the meridians of his limbs all over his body.

Though the person himself probably wouldn’t know.

“So, do you think that guy will turn over a new leaf?”

“Well, it’s hard to tell.”

Sa Do-hak looked at Dan Woo-hyun smirking and made an astounded expression. Just a while ago he was trying to make him talk through torture, and now he was trying to embrace him again?

He couldn’t figure out Dan Woo-hyun’s thoughts at all.

“Do you feel sorry for him?”

“…It just feels like looking at the past me.”

“Oho… That guy?”

Sa Do-hak didn’t know the past Dan Woo-hyun.

But from the one word he uttered, he felt like he could know what kind of things Dan Woo-hyun had gone through in the past.

Of course, he couldn’t think that all situations were the same, but just seeing that they had dry emotions, the two seemed very similar.

“Still, well, it’s your decision so I won’t say anything… but if something happens, you will definitely have to take responsibility.”

“Yes.”

Sa Do-hak grumbled while emitting demonic energy profusely and soon turned his back.

What Sa Do-hak was worrying about was a problem that others could also well be concerned about.

Wasn’t he an opponent who had pointed a sword at them once?

However, Dan Woo-hyun smirked.

Should he say it was a long time ago now?

He recalled the time he first met the clumsy Jang Sam-tae.

Back then too, he definitely rushed at Dan So-mi holding a sword, right?

Although it is the way of the world that enemies become allies and allies become enemies depending on the time, he thought that perhaps Bi Cheon-woong would be as loyal to Dan So-mi as Jang Sam-tae was.

At the sound of chatting heard from inside, Dan Woo-hyun smirked. It must be the children talking loudly, but Bi Cheon-woong was accepting those things without a word of complaint.

Dan Woo-hyun looked up at the sky.

“A little more… firmly… so that child can live comfortably….”

Saying such words, he closed his eyes gently.

He had only one thought.

Just that Dan So-mi could live in this world a little more comfortably and peacefully. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that was the dream Dan Woo-hyun had.

In fact, it was different from Dan Woo-hyun’s life that had already ended a thousand years ago. That’s why Dan Woo-hyun kept a few thoughts in his head.

“The Jusan Archipelago….”

His eyes looking at a distant place blurred for a moment.

It seemed as if killing intent dwelled in them, or perhaps it seemed regretful. He seemed to make some resolution by repeating those words over and over in his head, but on the other hand, there was also a desire to erase it from his mind.

All those complex feelings stimulated Dan Woo-hyun.

“I wouldn’t highly recommend… the Jusan Archipelago.”

“Did you know?”

She parted the night sky and leisurely revealed her figure.

Wearing a pure white palace dress all over her body and wagging her nine tails, she looked at Dan Woo-hyun with a fascinating appearance. It was to the point of thinking that the moment men saw that woman’s face, they would be immediately sucked in and have no choice but to give up everything.

“I have been there… once before.”

The woman swallowed a groan and sweated coldly.

It was a very long time ago.

While running away to avoid the Blood Demon, there was a time she accidentally entered the Jusan Archipelago.

It was a place so miserable that it would not be an exaggeration to call it hell. It was to the extent that being chased by the Blood Demon was rather better.

The experts guarding the place were uniformly strong, and their senses were also quite sensitive, so hiding was also not easy.

“That place is where the Heavenly Martial Emperor makes his puppets. The security is that strict and there are strong people too. Touching that place is like declaring war.”

“Hasn’t he already done so?”

“It is hard to think what the Heavenly Martial Emperor did to you as a declaration of war. If he really intended to kill Dan So-mi, he would have sent someone other than Bi Cheon-woong.”

The one who knew about the Martial God better than anyone was the Heavenly Martial Emperor. Moreover, since all the fighting power of the Hunan Dan Family was revealed through the affairs of the Blood Demon and the Blood Heaven, he would have known that Bi Cheon-woong or someone at a similar level couldn’t kill Dan So-mi.

Even so, she guessed the reason for sending Bi Cheon-woong was a simple warning and threat.

“No, this is unmistakably a declaration of war against me.”

Killing intent dwelled in Dan Woo-hyun’s eyes.

Touching himself was fine.

Since he had lived such a life for a very long time, he would have no hesitation even if he walked a blood-stained path again.

But not Dan So-mi.

The only child he found.

The child who held onto Dan Woo-hyun, to whom life was empty and vain, and made him see reality.

The blade against that child, who still protected his side with a bright smile, and became the pillar of his heart, sending an unchanging appearance, soon became the trigger that made Dan Woo-hyun take up a sword again.

The woman silently looked at that Dan Woo-hyun.

After a while, she slightly turned her back.

Her expression held a smile on her lips as if throwing a sneer.

“Maybe he deliberately did that to see you like this now. And she would really like it. Your appearance now, if So-mi sees it, that is.”

Leaving those words behind, she lightly threw her body.

She didn’t even say where she was going. Her lightly soaring body easily stepped on the roof and crossed over the wall. Since it was impossible for her, who had an originally free personality, to be locked inside a fence, she might be leaving in search of freedom again.

Dan Woo-hyun was speechless for a while.

Closing his eyes gently, he seemed to be thinking about something.

He didn’t open his eyes for a long time.

After a while, about fifteen minutes passed, he looked at the sky.

“Things aren’t going as I thought.”

The woman’s words struck him like a dagger and pierced his heart.

It was a word that held back the ankle of Dan Woo-hyun, who had tried to leave on a journey alone with the thought of organizing everything.

Numerous thoughts stirred his mind, but what held him even more was Dan So-mi’s continuously drawn face.

He didn’t want to leave.

Such a feeling was strong.

How will the grown-up Dan So-mi live in this world in the future? What about the others?

In the past, he was someone who had no interest in anyone’s life, but now, other emotions continuously stimulated him.

Dan Woo-hyun let out a sigh, ‘Huu-‘.

His mind became tangled in complexity, and his body wouldn’t follow his mind.

And this complex feeling didn’t go away easily.

He was just looking at the moonlight and sorting out his thoughts one by one.

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