The Nature of Possession

29 – EP.3 The World of Nothing and Narrow-2

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Something cold falls on your forehead.

– Talk talk

Falling in a steady rhythm, the impression is naturally frowned upon.

“Ugh…”

The green ceiling fills the eyes. In the middle of the dense forest, I was lying down.

Just lift your head slightly and examine your body.

– Squeak

The overly soft fabric, it was definitely the one I was wearing before I fell.

‘Then he didn’t die.’

I thought he must have died and moved to another dimension.

While falling, he was caught on a tree and seems to have survived. Instead, my back hurts.

“Ugh…”

When I woke up, fatigue and pain hit my body all at once.

Once you wake up, if you stay in a place like this, you won’t be able to eat or die.

“Huh? You’re awake.”

A human voice can be heard from a place not too far away.

At the end of his gaze was a woman poking at a burnt tree.

Tattered clothes and charcoal soot on his face.

It just didn’t look normal.

“the poor?”

“It’s not a beggar!”

When I said what I saw, I got angry.

When I stared blankly at the sight, at a loss for words, she continued with a slightly sympathetic expression.

“Ah, of course I don’t think open people are bad.

“No, I wasn’t thinking of anything like that.”

“Hey! Then you think open people are mean and vulgar! You racist!”

“Oh, stop it, you idiot.”

I cut my tongue because I was afraid the story would follow the same pattern.

“What an idiot!!! I’ve never heard of such a thing in Meng.”

“Okay, where are you?”

“Even if you ask where it is, it’s near Hanam.”

“Kkeuh… If it’s Hanam, is it Hanam-si, Gyeonggi-do?”

“gyeonggi-do?”

Unexpected questions come back.

Check her peddler again before leaving town.

Just looking at it, the clothes that are not modern costumes, the sheath on the waist, the mysterious movements of the people who chased me yesterday…

‘Could it be martial arts…?’

Are you that martial artist I know?

If that’s the case, it makes sense.

“hahahaha…”

“Um… are you okay? Did you hit your head hard when you fell…”

She looks at me as if she is very sorry.

“First of all, let’s start with the voice. My name is Kang In-ho.”

“You’re Confucius Kang. My name is Soyeon Namgung. But what about your hands?”

She wondered at the hand she had extended to shake hands, and took a hug.

Oh, is this the national rule here?

I take a hesitant posture and imitate her movements.

As if we introduced ourselves on a blind date, an awkward atmosphere lingers between the two of us for a while.

“That… can I call it Namgung Sojeo?”

“Oh yes. What…”

Hey, why are you blushing?

“I’m not in a hurry, but… Do you know the way to the surrounding city? Village?”

“Ah, I’m on my way too, let’s go together. But…”

“???”

“I don’t think you’ll be able to go far with that outfit.”

She points to the oversized clothes.

“Because I don’t have any other clothes.”

“Oh, then try on this outfit.”

She takes out the clothes from the luggage she was carrying.

“Ah yes thank you.”

I was worried that it might be women’s clothing, but luckily it’s for men.

I don’t know why the hell they have men’s clothes.

“Because I’ve worn it often. It’ll probably fit you.”

As if to satisfy my curiosity, I heard Soyeon Namgung’s voice from afar.

So why are you dressing up as a man?

After I changed my clothes like that.

“Are you ready?”

He speaks in a lively voice.

“Yes, yes… Let’s go.”

I hurriedly follow her as she runs away.

There is no one to turn to in this strange world.

My life is spectacular.

***

Five days since the intruder was sighted.

Heavenly Demon and Youngma return to school.

“I want to see the headmaster.”

As soon as she steps into the palace, a huge crowd prostrates herself to greet her.

If a person with small walls saw it, it would have felt burdensome, but it didn’t seem to enter her eyes.

Without paying a glance to the people lying on her stomach, she went to where she was staying.

Heavenly Demon Palace.

The place where the head of the Heukcheongyo resides.

It is a place where very few people who have been recognized by the religious leader can enter, and most of the people who have been involved in Heukcheongyo have never visited it.

The seat she sat on was high and wide, like an emperor’s throne.

“I want to see the headmaster.”

“Listen.”

Hearing a thin, soft voice, the priest opened his mouth.

A thin man enters and bows down to her, and the woman sitting on the throne makes a slight bet.

“Chief-General. So… did you find out?”

“Unfortunately, we have not been able to find out about its identity.”

“You are no different from those worms.”

With a shaking, the man’s head is slammed into the ground.

“Sorry. However, I interrogated the guards and recorded their appearance. But…”

Even in the midst of being crushed by the powerful force, the man continued his words without any change in his voice.

“However? I don’t like talking back.”

Her eyebrows rise uncomfortably.

“It wasn’t a face against the directory.”

“I thought some crazy sectarian guy would have entered, but it seems that wasn’t the case.”

“As it turns out, yes.”

“What about the other forces?”

“Doesn’t the Headmaster know better that there is no other force that dares to invade the main school?”

Well, I burned them all. she chuckled.

“So what? I didn’t come to hear this report. You mean an intruder fell from the sky?”

“It’s similar. Can I tell you the details at my palace?”

“Yeah, there’s nothing I won’t listen to when you say that much.”

The priest followed the governor to the palace of the emperor.

As if preserving the scene of the incident, the palace of Jeje was kept in the same condition at the time of the invasion, but the priest did not hide his anger at the mess with mud feet.

Thanks to this, the stone pillars shook with a clattering sound. As if this situation was so natural, the commander-in-chief did not even show it.

The governor took off his shoes, bowed twice, and entered the palace.

As he entered along the road, he pointed to the broken coffin.

“It’s a trace of being broken from the inside out. Since there is no sign of the Kimunjin working, it can be said that there was no intrusion from the outside.”

“It didn’t fall from the sky, it seems to have risen from the ground.”

The priest slowly approached the casket and pathetically swept the broken fragments.

Looking at the hand with longing, the commander-in-chief cleared his voice and took out a piece of paper from his bosom.

“This is what an intruder looks like.”

“Okay, let’s see what kind of mug it is.”

The action of the Heavenly Demon stopped abruptly as she unfolded the painting the artist had drawn.