Subdued Soul Chronicle

Hwa Un threw a gaze at Seol Young as if saying,

‘Why are you like that?’

Zaha said,

“Seol Young-rang, as Jeok Ryun-rang’s soul escaped from your body, didn’t other things also happen? We will have to take you to the Hwarang’s office and check.”

Only then did Seol Young come out of his thoughts.

“No. Wait one moment.”

Even though he just found out Hwa Un’s past, he was still shocked.

After throwing a gaze at Zaha, he looked at the waterwheel in his hand.

“With this, we can put out the fire right away.”

“Which is why I brought it on purpose. Push fast.”

The three of them pulled the waterwheel and went back to the tower.

“The Great Bird has arrived.”

The Vermillion Bird Hwarangs and trainees who brought the jugs filled with water stopped moving.

When the rotating wheel attached to the side of the water pump was turned, a strong stream of water burst out of it.

Then Baek Eon, Song Ok, and Hyo Wol quickly moved to the side. The flames that they couldn’t extinguish with spiritual power earlier were put out right away. Smoke began to rise.

They could now see the remains of the tower and the charred stones.

“Let’s see.”

Then Zaha dug the ground.

The ashes that had been underneath the tower were revealed, and judging by their quantity, it seemed like they were possible remnants of things.

Zaha looked at it.

“Is this sealed too?”

“Seal?”

“The seal of the Hwarangs.”

He brought the cloth that Seol Young found in the tower.

Indeed, it was the same seal of the Hwarangs…. And it was a seal with letters on it.

“We cannot open this without permission, so we need to take this back to the Hwarang’s office.”

“Yes.”

They got what they wanted anyway.

They had finally gotten it, and the parts burned by the flames began to sizzle. Then Seol Young looked at his hand and suddenly remembered.

“Senior Oni!”

He had the ring all this time, but he didn’t realize it, so he took it out right away. And Oni’s figure, with white hair and red eyes, was revealed.

His heart pounded.

“Senior!”

Seol Young hurriedly tapped Oni on the back. When Jeok Ryun’s soul was summoned into his body, Oni was also there. He must have changed like this because he drank Jeok Ryun’s energy.

“Spit it out quickly!”

He gave it a strong pat on the back, and it drained the energy out, and then Oni’s form was back to normal.

Everyone looked at this scene with shocked faces.

Song Ok asked,

“What is that lump…?”

“He is a senior who is taking care of me…”

Seol Young hesitated while answering.

Seeing Oni change and seeing the faces of his three hyungs, he realized something.

‘Are they saying that my appearance is that bad?’

Their youngest, who had been fine, suddenly had gray hair and red eyes and then wielded the sword in an insane manner when he was possessed. If they didn’t know that it was Jeok Ryun’s appearance, wouldn’t it be enough for people to believe that an evil spirit awoke within him?

Despite experiencing it, his Hyungs must have been surprised, considering how shocked they were when they saw Oni.

He didn’t expect them to be this upset, and he wasn’t even possessed. So after sending Oni back, Seol Young bowed to the three of them.

“I just realized it now because I was too preoccupied with other things. I am sorry for startling you. Jeok Ryun-rang went a bit insane and was pushing things, so I tried to help her, but that happened. I tried to shout and speak, but I couldn’t because she was a very strong spirit right from the start…”

And then Zaha intervened,

“Seol Young-rang, you should be apologizing to me first and not the three of them. I want you to apologize to me for having to handle it.”

Seol Young almost raised his head.

“I am serious right now…”

“Enough. Enough.”

Baek Eon laughed and said,

“You have nothing to apologize for. Because we weren’t that shocked.”

“Right. At least we weren’t as shocked as we are now.”

“I meant to say that too.”

All three of them said.

“I was nervous since Jeok Ryun-rang was powerful, but it wasn’t something to be so surprised about. Because we have seen normal people turn menacing.”

“What was so odd about it? Once you’re stabbed, both you and the evil spirit will have come to your senses. Wasn’t it something that could be resolved easily?”

“It is fine. As long as you didn’t turn into a Disfigured Spirit.”

Man, for real.

From their point of view, having experienced such tragedies already, they could handle things very calmly.

Seol Young felt it again.

‘I am still a long way off.’

He had mixed feelings when he witnessed the Wonhwa Tower torn down. Looking back on the incident from the start, were all his thoughts wrong?

“The reason I let her into the barrier was to make her scar me. She threatened to cut my throat because she was afraid that I would give up on her. She killed him because she loved him. And she cursed him because she wanted to be with him forever…”

Seol Young shook his head.

“Everything that had happened was against what I thought. I couldn’t even correctly guess any of her intentions.”

“It’s because she is insane.”

All three of them said the same thing.

Right, if he hadn’t been able to communicate with her, everyone would have thought of her as a crazy ghost.

And if he had dealt with her alone, would he have been able to soothe her soul? Seol Young sighed.

“Dealing with an insane soul is difficult.”

“Actually, she wasn’t insane.”

Zaha said.

She wasn’t insane? Was he actually going to show off by saying that?

Seol Young tried to counter his words, but Zaha continued.

“Jeok Ryun-rang was human. She didn’t know her own pain, but she knew the pain of the one she loved. With that, she found her sanity.”

“Right.”

Baek Eon agreed.

“As the High Governor said, Jeok Ryun-rang had fear in her heart. It was only at the end that she could actually look clearly at how things turned out and let go of them. It seemed like Mok Yun was determined to accept her for who she was, but…”

Until the very end, the two of them were different. It was just like how they were in the same place but never met.

“Anyway, I can understand why you said that Jeok Ryun-rang was human at the end, given that she realized something. She couldn’t give up all of her humanity.”

At Baek Eon’s words, Zaha raised another question.

“But what about this? What if we really meet a crazy ghost who doesn’t even know love?”

“…”

Silence passed.

The only reason he was able to talk to Jeok Ryun-rang was because she was still in love. Then what if those feelings didn’t exist?

Everyone had solemn expressions on their faces.

“We came here to see Seol Young-rang’s condition and to help him a little…”

Baek Eon opened his mouth.

“Unexpectedly, it turned out to be a good study for us. We will think about this. Thank you, High Governor. In the end, there was only one person who could subdue Jeok Ryun-rang.”

“Thank you for freeing Seol Young from the clutches of the ghost.”

Hyo Wol also smiled.

“But there is one thing I want to know. You saved him a few times, so do you think it is fine to kill him? What kind of thinking is that? You can save someone many times, so killing them once is fine?”

Everyone smiled at that, but Zaha didn’t.

“Hyo Wol-rang, why are you bringing that up now? Don’t you know Seol Young-rang? Look there. He has suddenly gone silent and is beginning to plot his own revenge.”

“No. I am…”

Seol Young opened his mouth.

“I thought that the High Governor was surprisingly humane. If it were me, I would have said I would have stabbed him ten times instead of hitting him that didn’t hurt. And I might even intentionally miss the spot two or three times.”

“…”

Seol Young smiled on the inside.

In the past, no matter what he said, they would believe him right away, and it was the same about the stabbing this time. Then he remembered something as he was thinking about his revenge.

So he opened his mouth and said,

“Well, if you have some time, I think it would be better for you to drink a lot beforehand.”

“Why?”

“If I surprise you, you said you wouldn’t drink alcohol for one hundred days. Thanks to my hard work against Jeok Ryun-rang, I found out one thing.”

“What?”

“I cannot say it out loud.”

‘I think I found out why the sealing technique didn’t work for the High Hovernor in the past.’

Could he say that out loud?

Baek Eon smiled.

“The High Governor made a bet with Seol Young-rang?”

“No. He is doing it on his own.”

“Even if you say that, he is doing it to be praised.”

“No, Baek Eon-rang.”

“We are heading back to Mount Toham to pick up the kids now. Will the High Governor come? We thought it would be fun to see the White Tiger and Blue Dragon Troops trainees train together.”

“It would be nice, but I need to go to the Governor first. Jin Rim likes relics, right? And the Great Heavenly Pavilion must not hear about Seol Young-rang changing into a white-haired ghost and going into a rampage.”

Zaha took the wrapped cloth.

“Hwa Un-rang, the High Governor is leaving.”

Baek Eon looked around and called for Hwa Un.

But he couldn’t be found anywhere.

“Where is your leader?”

“I don’t know.”

All the trainees there looked around and shook their heads.

Since Zaha was the type to go around without saying where he was going, he was already leaving.

“When you find Hwa Un-rang, tell him that we are sorry for turning this place upside down.”

“Yes.”

Everyone wished Zaha goodbye.

Seeing that, Seol Young went to find Hwa Un because it was rare for Hwa Un, who valued morals, to be away at such a time.

‘Where is he?’

He went around. He was neither in the main hall nor the study hall. Then did he go to wash his hair because it smelled like smoke?

But then he found Hwa Un sitting at the pond, all alone. With the birds around him, he threw food toward them and did it again each time more birds came.

Just like that…

‘To feel empty not knowing why…’

Seol Young looked at him for a moment. At that time, Hwa Un looked back.

Seeing Seol Young behind the pillar, he frowned.

“You hadn’t left yet?”

Seol Young came out from behind the pillar.

“We are leaving now.”contemporary romance

“…”

Hwa Un got up, brushed his robes, and stood facing him.

“There were a couple of twists and turns, but we were able to solve the problem that we found too difficult, and Seol Young-rang got what he needed. In the end, it can be said that this is a good thing.”

Inside, he was cursing, ‘This Ghost Demon King came and turned my place upside down again!’

How could he pretend to be so elegant on the outside?

If it was the past, he thought that those eyes were different.

But…

He thought to himself,

‘Isn’t it because he resembles his mother and father equally?’

When an insect flew by, Hwa Un hit it with the fan in his hand and made a disgusted expression as he looked at it falling, and this made Seol Young think,

‘When the notorious Jeok Ryun-rang was captured by the enemies, it was only natural that she didn’t have a graceful death…’

Even if it was just a child in her womb, the child must have felt all of the emotions that she had felt on the battlefield.

And Hwa Un-rang was known to hate bloodshed and dirty things. Even though it wasn’t that he lacked strength or something, so why did he have to live so neatly?

Wasn’t it actually because of the bad memories engraved within his soul?

As he was staring at him and thinking that, Hwa Un frowned.

“Seol Young-rang, why did you do that earlier? The High Governor and your hyungs aren’t here, so if you want to say something, say it without being too conscious.”

And then he opened the fan.

How arrogantly would the Ghost Demon King act now? He was being defensive.

“….”

Seol Young stared at Hwa Un. The human heart is such a strange thing.

‘The things we did at that time were something we had no choice but to do in order to survive.’

He thought so at first, but then he had a different thought. So he opened his mouth.

“Yes. I have something to say.”

“About?”

“In the past, when I caused a commotion here….”

“…!”

“I am really sorry.”

Seol Young lowered his head.

“I did follow Teacher and apologize. But honestly, at that time, I did it because he asked me to, and I had no idea what wrong I had done. But I realize it now. What I did was terribly wrong.”

After saying that, he raised his head.

“…”

Hwa Un was staring at him with a shocked face.

And the fan in his hand fell.

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