How to Survive as a Player Chapter 195

#195

[Would you please spare some time for me?]

This is what Euncheong once said. At that time, Sehyun answered that she would. It was a scene he clearly remembered, as Euncheong had never asked for anything.

“remember.”

“I would like to make that request now.”

“where… “Are you going?”

“It’ll just take a moment.”

I felt a dangerous atmosphere from Euncheong that I had never seen before. Her eyes looked sad even though there was nothing in them. It’s definitely got something to do with what happened yesterday. I wanted to ask many things, but Sehyun held back and nodded.

“Okay, let’s go.”

A faint smile appeared on Euncheong’s lips. Euncheong got up from where she was sitting and approached Sehyeon in one step. Her cold fingertips grabbed Sehyeon’s hand and lifted it.

“Thank you for Rod’s consideration.”

It was a small whisper. The back of the raised hand touched Euncheong’s dry lips. The light of dawn was slowly spreading over Euncheong’s shoulders.

It was still just before dawn. I thought about telling Ruhak, but he immediately shook his head. Ruhak would know. That’s probably why he avoided the place.

It was the same as the fact that other heroes did not appear. Pen and Muan’s sleeping bags, which were close together, were already empty.

Se-hyeon took a look at the campsite where people were gathered together, and then followed Eun-cheong.

The place where Euncheong took Sehyeon was an open space in the forest that they arrived at after walking for 20 minutes. There was a moss-covered hut left standing there like a ruin, as if someone had lived there long ago.

Euncheong left Sehyeon for a while and headed to the cabin alone. It was a house without even a roof and all the walls were collapsed. At first I felt nothing. However, when Euncheong took something out of the leather pouch on her waist, a shadow appeared between the buildings.

“die… !”

It was a child holding a rusty dagger. The child rushed toward Euncheong, holding his dagger. But before he could swing even once, he was kicked by Euncheong’s feet and pushed into the wall.

The child coughed and clutched his chest. Her body was shaking so hard that she couldn’t breathe. Sehyeon watched it from afar. The child contained everything about Euncheong.

Now I understand why I ran away like that last night.

Euncheong wanted to revive her childhood self.

After running and rolling so much, the child wasn’t even healthy. My bare feet were covered in dirt and covered in blood. His emaciated body, covered in rags with nothing but bones left, suggested a difficult life. Still, the child’s eyes were full of venom. He looked like he would get cut if he approached him.

The child that the young men who came to visit last night were looking for was none other than Euncheong from her childhood.

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Euncheong looked at the child in silence and threw the leather bag in front of the child. The child’s poisonous eyes followed her as she took her breath away.

“Based on one egg a day, it is about a month’s worth of food. Take it to the Harwin Mountains in the northeast. When you get to the top of the mountain, there will be a cabin. “He who is there will help you.”

The child showed a terrible obsession with the word food. He hurriedly picked up the pouch, opened the leather pouch, and checked its contents. But what was inside wasn’t food. It was a black pill.

The child looked at it blankly and stretched his shoulders with a dejected expression. But she didn’t throw the bag. Rather, I was afraid that it would be taken away again, so I held onto her pocket tightly and hid it in her arms.

“Euncheong.”

To him who resembled the sea and the moon.

“That’s your name.”

The new life that Sehyeon gave me.

“Nothing until I received that name… It won’t be your name. endure. And be strong enough not to doubt. “You must never doubt him at any moment.”

This was for the future. This would be extremely ambiguous to a child. Nevertheless, the child listened to Euncheong’s words without blinking.

The child’s grimy hair slowly became colored in the dawn. She didn’t look similar at all. Euncheong, who had grown up a lot, and Euncheong, who was infinitely younger, were very different. Nevertheless, Sehyeon saw traces of Euncheon in the child.

They both had a fleeting thirst and a desire to live.

“Work hard to become a knight. You may not have talent, but your efforts will not betray you. Enough to protect yourself, enough to protect someone… “Be strong.”

Be strong.

At those words, the child shed tears. The sight of her clenching her jaw and wiping away her tears with her arms seemed like she was trying not to cry. The crying sound never rang out. Only the child’s tattered clothes were soaked with her tears.

The child was probably around ten years old. There were also signs of his abuse. He didn’t know if it was the work of the merchant who was looking for the child. But he couldn’t help but feel suspicious.

It was a life too heavy for a child to bear.

Euncheong looked at the child endlessly and turned around just as the sun was shining in her eyes. Her heavy steps moved towards Sehyeon.

What Euncheong wanted to show was her own life. He wanted to show Sehyun the starting point of the story of the long journey back.

“… Come on.”

Sehyun had no choice but to hug him. Grinding his teeth, he hugged Euncheong’s strong neck tightly and stroked his head as if comforting him. His back was tightly hugged and his feet barely floated.

At that time, Se-hyeon made eye contact with the child over Euncheong’s shoulder. The blank, tear-filled eyes that looked at her looked exactly like Euncheong’s now.

There wasn’t even a flicker. The child looked at Sehyeon endlessly, and Sehyeon also stared at the child endlessly. Se-hyeon watched him in Euncheong’s arms until the desire appeared in the child’s eyes and it hardened.

“… “Would you like to stop?”

“no.”

As soon as Euncheong’s arms were released, Sehyeon searched through the inventory and took out things that could be useful to the child. He took out the potion and food to treat his wounds, a dagger, and a few pairs of shoes he had brought with him, and slowly headed towards the child. He said the same thing he said to Penn.

“Baby, how old are you?”

The child didn’t answer. I just stared at Sehyun endlessly. He tried to reach out to the child to touch his head, but he dodged it like a game and had to put his hand down right away.

Instead, Sehyun opened the potion and poured it on the child’s bloody feet. The wound soon healed completely with a crackling sound. After that, Sehyeon put down the shoes, food, and dagger in front of the child and looked at the child in silence for a long time.

“… “Let’s live together.”

Those were parting words. I wanted to say more, but for some reason, no words came out. The child did not take his eyes off Sehyun until the end.

Sehyeon stood up when the sun fully revealed itself. The forest was dense, but it was also desolate. There was nothing but long trees. It was a difficult place for a child to navigate.

From here, the child had to start the journey alone. Without a single horse, I had to search the mountains to the northeast alone, replacing food with the pills Euncheong gave me.

It was the same situation as the pen. It was a situation where nothing could be done because the child was on his own.

Still, the child will survive. Just like Euncheong did.

Ruhak said that the only thing that became real was ‘Renshis’, but Sehyun’s thoughts were a little different. When he first encountered Elix and met Euncheong, Euncheong did not have a name. ‘Euncheong’ was the name given by Sehyeon.

At first I just overlooked it, but later it became a question. Did Euncheong, who passed through many kings, really have no name? no. There was, but Euncheong himself may have abandoned that name.

Long before she met Se-hyeon, Euncheong had memories of this moment when she met Se-hyeon. How could she have memories that she never experienced?

Maybe, yes. Like Ruhak’s ‘Dream of the Grand Duke’, many vassals may have ‘precognitive dreams’ about their own lives. A dream that feels real and is therefore accepted as real.

Of course, this was just Sehyun’s idea. Everything is just an assumption and cannot be confirmed.

Se-hyeon turned his back and approached Euncheong. When I stretched out my hand, his large hand was held warmly. Se-hyeon did not look back at his child until he left the forest path. It was the same with Euncheong.

It was a farewell to my second vassal.

“I was ten years old, Rod.”

The answer to the question addressed to the child came back from Euncheong. Ten years old. He was too young. It was a moment when I vaguely understood the obsession with love that the heroes showed. Just like Se-hyeon, Pen and Euncheong were in an environment where they couldn’t receive love.

The retainers lack many things and Sehyeon lacks just as much. They resembled each other in many ways.

“Euncheong.”

“yes.”

“Thank you for being alive.”

Euncheong smiled instead of answering. This is something someone should have said. He must have walked that long path alone without being able to hear anything.

Sehyun looked up at the bright sky. By now he was getting everyone up and ready to leave. Sehyun’s path was in the opposite direction to where his child was heading. The moment the wind brushed her cheek, the image of the child in her mind also became blurred.

Sehyeon persistently drew that vague figure until they arrived at the campsite.

And only after much thought did I let the child go.