Myst, Might, Mayhem

Chapter 166 – Variables (2)

Originally, Wi So-yeon was from a renowned martial arts family under the Heaven and Earth Society.

Heroic Spear Wi Family.

Born as the daughter of a martial arts family that specialized in spears, she was weak and sickly from birth, always having to lie in bed.

The head of the Wi Family had low innate martial talent, with his martial arts only reaching the perfected Peak Realm, so he thought his daughter Wi So-yeon was simply suffering from an ordinary Meridian Blockage syndrome, causing her to be weak.

So, he told her not to learn martial arts and to live an ordinary life.

However, having inherited the blood of a martial arts family, she wanted to learn the family’s martial arts like her other siblings.

It was too difficult to simply lie in bed and watch.

Therefore, despite her illness, she secretly trained in martial arts without her father or family knowing.

But it was not easy for her, born with the Heavenly Yin Absolute Meridians, to willingly learn martial arts.

Eventually, the Heavenly Yin Absolute Meridians went out of control.

[Aaaaargh!]

Unable to control her rampaging energy, Wi Hyeon, the head of the Wi Family, took Wi So-yeon to the inner city with the token of merit he had received from his grandfather’s time.

He believed that only the doctors or executives in the inner city could save her.

But then, a coincidental incident occurred.

[Society Leader, we pay our respects!]

[Ah, ah. No need for formalities.]

The Society Leader, who was receiving treatment in the inner city, had come to visit.

The Society Leader, whom even her father had never seen in person, had come to see her…

The Society Leader stared intently at her face, then stroked her head once and muttered incomprehensible words.

[As expected?]

What was as expected?

It was puzzling even in the midst of pain, but even more surprising words flowed from the Society Leader’s mouth.

[Do you want to save this child?]

[Y-Yes, I do.]

[Then hand this child over to me.]

[Pardon?]

[Didn’t you hear me? I said hand her over to me.]

Thus, having caught the Society Leader’s eye, she was taken in as a disciple on the spot.

The Society Leader, who was interested in the strange Meridian Blockage syndrome called the Heavenly Yin Absolute Meridians, where true energy was endlessly generated, accepted her as a disciple and tried to cure it.

However, even he, one of the Six Heavens, considered the pinnacle of the current martial arts world, was ultimately unable to completely cure the Heavenly Yin Absolute Meridians.

In the end, the limit was temporarily blocking the meridian pathways and suppressing the energy that tried to rampage using a breathing technique.

This Forbidden Gate Secrets breathing technique devised by the Society Leader was highly effective.

However, due to the increasing rampage of the Heavenly Yin Absolute Meridians that grew stronger by the day, she had to suffer periodic pain that felt like all the blood vessels in her body would burst and she would die.

[Aaaah!]

The intervals between these bouts of pain grew shorter as the years passed.

At first, it occurred once every few months, then once every two months after two years, and once a month after another year.

Wi So-yeon was gradually realizing.

If these intervals became even shorter, her life would be in danger someday.

‘Is the curse of the Heavenly Yin Absolute Meridians truly incurable?’

Is this how she has to accept her fate?

No, in the first place, it was said that it would be difficult to live past twenty years old.

But she had already surpassed twenty.

This was probably thanks to the Forbidden Gate Secrets created by her master.

As the intervals of the rampages became shorter, Wi So-yeon, who sensed the end approaching quickly, grew colder and even lost her smile.

It would be more accurate to say that she had lost any special motivation for life.

Then, a sudden thought occurred to her.

If she were to die like this, what would she leave behind in this world?

‘…Will it be a meaningless death?’

She would be doing nothing more than prolonging her life and dying.

With this, she made a resolution.

If she only had a short time left to live anyway, she would do everything she could.

That one goal was to become the Society Leader, the pinnacle of the Heaven and Earth Society.

[Cough, cough. You want a chance too?]

[Yes.]

Wi So-yeon went to her bedridden master and made a request.

Whether it worked or not, she had decided to do everything she could, so it was a matter of no loss.

[You can’t even control your own body yet, and you want to become the Society Leader?]

[…Yes.]

Was it impossible after all?

However,

[Hahaha! Cough, cough… How interesting. The one who used to have dead eyes as if the world would end at any moment suddenly wants to be the Society Leader… As expected, you resemble… Cough, cough.]

[Pardon?]

[No. It’s fine. Do as you please. Anyone with the qualifications can become the Society Leader. Give it a try and challenge for the successor position.]

Thus, the Society Leader made a public announcement.

He said that all three disciples had the qualifications to be successors.

As a result, the competition between the three disciples officially began.

She was determined to stake everything and burn with passion in this competition as her last chance in life.

It was because she believed it was something she could leave behind in the world since her birth.

However,

-Thump! Thump! Thump!

A miracle occurred in the life she had given up on.

Thanks to this man in front of her eyes, the door of life, which she thought had little time left, had opened wide again.

‘Why is my heart acting like this?’

As she looked at Mok Gyeong-un, her heart pounded strangely, more than the feeling of embarrassment.

And her face felt so hot that it was burning.

What kind of emotion was this?

It was completely unfamiliar.

After staring at Mok Gyeong-un’s face for a long time, she unconsciously brought her hand to his cheek.

-Swish!

Thanks to that, Mok Gyeong-un, who had been looking around, turned his gaze to her.

‘Ah?’

What did I just do?

For a moment, the flustered Wi So-yeon couldn’t sit still.

Mok Gyeong-un stared intently at her.

When their eyes met, Wi So-yeon swallowed her dry saliva.

‘Why… Why is he staring at me like that? It’s too…’

Her heart beat even faster, either because she was embarrassed to be naked or because his gaze was overwhelming.

Unlike her, Mok Gyeong-un’s thoughts were going in a different direction.

‘What should I do?’

It had deviated from the original purpose.

I don’t know why Cheong-ryeong’s energy has dropped, but it’s clear that the possession didn’t occur.

Then, even if she returned, it would be difficult to know if it would succeed or not.

‘If the possession doesn’t work, it means I’ve done something unnecessary.’

It might have been better to just let her energy rampage and let her die.

Or perhaps he should have sought out the second disciple, Jang Neung-ak, first.

The plan to unify the two forces after possessing them both had gone awry from the very first move.

Mok Gyeong-un stared intently at Wi So-yeon.

‘I can’t kill her either.’

If he killed her right away, the problem would grow bigger.

He couldn’t make the Society Leader an enemy now because he needed to obtain clues from him.

He couldn’t even face him yet.

‘I need to change the plan.’

A different approach was necessary.

If possession doesn’t work, should he turn Wi So-yeon into a living corpse using the Six People Spirit Summoning Technique?

But he wasn’t confident if that would be possible.

After breaking through the blocked energy in her body, Wi So-yeon’s unstable energy had subsided, and her martial prowess had risen much higher than before.

The Six People Spirit Summoning Technique might not work.

He needed a way to control Wi So-yeon somehow, but what should he do…?

At that moment,

Wi So-yeon, who had placed her hand on Mok Gyeong-un’s cheek, gathered her courage and spoke.

“I, I can keep the promise.”

‘!?’

Promise?

Did they make any promises?

As he was pondering, Mok Gyeong-un traced back her words and finally recalled it.

[You want to have me? Then try to break this cursed power as well.]

‘Huh?’

Is that what she’s talking about now?

As he was puzzled, Wi So-yeon, with a bright red face, avoided eye contact, turned her head, and spoke shyly.

“You are my life’s savior.”

“Savior?”

“Y-Yes.”

“…”

Mok Gyeong-un stared intently at her.

As he stared too intently, Wi So-yeon, who couldn’t understand his feelings, became confused.

It was already too embarrassing to say these words, so why was he just staring at her without saying anything?

He had said with his own mouth that he wanted to have her and even risked his life to help her overcome the Heavenly Yin Absolute Meridians.

So she said she acknowledged it, but why was he hesitating?

Or could it be that he wanted her to say something else?

Feeling restless, Wi So-yeon cleared her throat and spoke.

“Ahem. I… I don’t… dislike you either.”

“…”

At her words, Mok Gyeong-un’s eyes became peculiar.

Mok Gyeong-un was not insensitive.

He could sense that the emotions emanating from her had clearly changed from before.

Perhaps this woman now saw him as a man.

‘Emotions…’

It was still an unfamiliar territory.

However, this emotion was worth exploring.

It was a slightly different concept from loyalty bound by mere words.

The corners of Mok Gyeong-un’s mouth twitched.

Then,

“If you don’t dislike me, it means you like me.”

“What? N-No. Rather than that…”

It was at that very moment.

Mok Gyeong-un wrapped his arm around her slender waist.

Then, he pulled her close to him.

As a result, the bare skin of the two, who were naked, completely touched.

“Eek!”

Wi So-yeon unknowingly let out a sound.

She was not only startled by Mok Gyeong-un’s sudden action but also didn’t know what to do.

Although she had heard about relationships between men and women in passing from those around her, including Gi Ok-ryeon, it was impossible for it to reach the ears of someone with a limited lifespan.

But those words she had brushed off suddenly came to mind.

‘…I can’t handle it.’

Wi So-yeon felt like her face was burning.

As she trembled like that, Mok Gyeong-un whispered in her ear.

“Then will you become my woman?”

“Your… Your woman?”

At those words, Wi So-yeon’s eyes trembled.

She had never even thought about becoming someone’s woman in the first place.

But not only was she feeling strange emotions towards Mok Gyeong-un, but hearing these words made her face feel so hot that it seemed like it would melt.

To her, Mok Gyeong-un spoke.

“Why aren’t you answering?”

“…”

“If you don’t answer, I’ll take it as you don’t want to…”

-Swish!

With those words, Mok Gyeong-un tried to loosen his arm that was wrapped around her waist.

Then, Wi So-yeon hurriedly wrapped her arms around Mok Gyeong-un’s neck and spoke, her shyness reaching its peak.

“W-Who said I don’t want to? It’s… It’s just too sudden. We don’t know each other yet…”

“We can get to know each other from now on.”

“What?”

It was at that very moment.

“Aaah!”

A sensation she had never experienced before, starting from below, caused a moan to escape Wi So-yeon’s lips.

Startled, she squirmed her waist, not knowing what to do.

‘It… It went in.’

It was too sudden.

For her, who had suffered from the pain of Meridian Blockage for a long time, this did not belong to the axis of pain at all.

However, it was extremely perplexing.

It was completely different from what she had heard.

She thought she would go through a gentler process, but he had entered so roughly.

“Haa… Haa… You… Too sudden…”

“I thought you said we should get to know each other.”

-Flushed!

At Mok Gyeong-un’s words, Wi So-yeon squirmed, not knowing what to do, and buried her face in his chest.

Why was this fellow so blunt and beastly, contrary to his appearance?

It was too embarrassing.

Although they were the only ones who were conscious around them, what kind of sudden act was this in the middle of the courtyard?

“Why are you doing this? Could it be that you’re embarrassed? It’s just the two of us anyway.”

-Swish!

With those words, Mok Gyeong-un moved his waist.

“Urgh.”

Caught off guard by Mok Gyeong-un’s movement, Wi So-yeon trembled and bit her lips tightly.

It was hard to hold back the sound that was about to burst out of her mouth involuntarily.

“You… You really…”

This bad guy.

She had given him permission, but why was he pushing her like this?

Wi So-yeon pleaded in a whisper.

“Please, let’s go inside…”

At her words, Mok Gyeong-un chuckled.

Then, he stood up from his spot, still holding Wi So-yeon in his arms, and entered the main hall.

Before long, intense cries of passion burst out from inside the main hall.