Chapter 356: Giving Orders Like That
As the sound of the waterfall echoed around us, Cheonak, who had been silent until now, finally spoke.
“So in the end, you spent all this time with us just to say that?”
I nodded.
“Even if I’d said the same thing forty days ago, the meaning wouldn’t have been the same. I tried to endure in my own way. Coming here, creating Dark Fragrance Drifting, and learning a few things through sparring were just incidental strokes of luck. But I had always intended to say that it was Makgunja and Sister Jinhyang who saved me.”
Fortunately, it seemed that at least some of my sincerity had reached the two of them. I could tell from their expressions and silence.
Cheonak and the White-Robed Scholar exchanged glances, then smiled at the same time with expressions like air leaking from a balloon.
The White-Robed Scholar let out a short sigh and said,
“You really are something else. I’ll acknowledge you. Whatever that acknowledgement may mean, you’re the most absurd man I’ve ever known.”
Following his words, Cheonak added,
“If Dark Fragrance Drifting means what you say, then even the youngest disciple and Sister Jinhyang in heaven will be pleased. To think you endured here just to say that. I thought you’d only stayed to grow stronger—it seems that was my narrow-mindedness.”
Just knowing that the two of them understood my intentions made me want to bow to them in gratitude.
I had sparred against these two for over forty days. What kind of name should be given to this sort of battle? It was just as grueling as the fight in Dongho. It wasn’t simply a contest to determine who won or lost—that made it all the more exhausting.