◈ Episode 79: Only I can recognize (4)
“Why?”
‘… … I thought it was getting better, but why does it seem to be worse than before?’
Kim Joo-hyuk, who saw his student muttering and looking at him like a machine, recalled the first time he met her 300 years ago.
Rain was pouring down from the purple sky, which seemed to confirm that the world was close to destruction.
At that time, Kim Joo-hyuk was able to meet her when he was slaughtering the slave trader who had challenged him first.
She seemed to be detached from everything in the world, and was locked in a cage with empty, empty eyes.
To be more precise, Kim Joo-hyuk saved her from being sold to a slave trader because she was of no use to her colleagues.
No, beyond saving her, Kim Joo-hyuk accepted her as his student.
Besides saving her, why did he accept her as his disciple?
The reason was because she was completely different from other slaves.
As Kim Joo-hyuk dealt with all the slave traders, the slaves locked in the iron cage showed different reactions.
Someone was screaming for help.
Some even shed tears, speculating that they could now escape from this place.
There were also people who kicked the iron gate hard on their own, as if they wanted to escape at any moment.
However, unlike other slaves, she was different.
Because she didn’t take any action.
She didn’t even scream for help.
I didn’t even cry because I could finally get out of here.
He didn’t even kick the iron bars hard to escape.
Instead, she was just looking at Kim Joo-hyuk with empty eyes.
With empty eyes that don’t contain any emotions and can give you goosebumps in some ways.
And, that was something that Kim Joo-hyuk really liked at the time.
That’s because at that time, Kim Joo-hyuk was thinking about raising his own students.
… … To be more precise, Kim Joo-hyuk was looking for a cash cow who could faithfully take care of his old age rather than raising his own students.
‘I said it would be better to take on a disciple who has nothing left to lose.’
And Kim Joo-hyuk, who remembered hearing from his former colleague how to select good students (cash cows), quite liked her.
As she was locked in a cage looking at Kim Joo-hyuk, she was the ideal cash cow that her former colleague had told her about… … No, it was because he could see his disciple.
That’s why Kim Joo-hyuk decided to take her as his disciple and raise her.
Soon he regretted his decision, less than a month later.
‘It was completely delicious.’
At that time, Balgwang was with Mattaeng.
If you ask how much it is, Balgwang at that time could understand what was being said, but it was so bad that he couldn’t even answer properly due to aphasia.
Can we really raise him as a disciple? So much so that I wonder.
Therefore, Kim Joo-hyuk regretted it and cursed at his former colleague who said, ‘It is better to take on someone who has nothing to lose as a disciple,’ but he had no intention of throwing her out again.
Kim Joo-hyuk had already chosen her, no matter who he had listened to, and she had already become his disciple.
Of course, she couldn’t teach anything yet because her mind was gone, but even so, she was Kim Joo-hyuk’s student.
Because Kim Joo-hyuk was not the type to change his mind.
Of course, someone could have said something like this to Kim Joo-hyuk’s thoughts.
What kind of sophistry are you coming up with when you only think of your students as cash cows?
However, Kim Joo-hyuk did not just view the existence of his students as cash cows.
To be more precise, Kim Joo-hyuk’s relationship with his student was closer to a win-win type rather than the student becoming his one-sided cash cow.
He gives his disciples the most important element in this world: military force.
A win-win relationship in which the disciples pay a certain price to themselves for their power.
In short, Kim Joo-hyuk had no intention of benefiting only for himself, so he had no intention of letting her go just because she was losing her mind.
No, rather, at some point, Kim Joo-hyuk even thought that raising her to be okay was a battle of pride.
Are you giving up because it seems difficult and impossible to raise just one disciple?
For Kim Joo-hyuk, who was able to come this far because he didn’t know about giving up in the first place, it was ridiculous.
Therefore, from then on, Kim Joo-hyuk worked hard and began to raise her as his disciple.
For a student who suffers from aphasia and cannot express himself properly, he creates and teaches letters that do not work.
He took care of the mental health of his student, who was suffering from anxiety and paranoia day after day, and raised him into a person who could do his part!
She suffered from aphasia and had given up on everything, but was raised to be able to act like a person!
Of course, even after that, her anxiety and paranoia were seen moment by moment, but they did not stand out that much.
I didn’t do it.
‘… … Actually, it seems like it’s gotten worse than before?’
Kim Joo-hyuk sighed as he watched Balgwang still open his mouth like a broken machine.
I’m sure this has happened a few times in the past, but it seemed to have gotten worse while we weren’t seeing each other, so he shook his head as if there was nothing he could do.
Sigh!
“Ugh!”
“Get your mind together.”
He then lightly hit her on the head and scolded her.
“… … sorry.”
Balgwang, who seemed to have come to his senses after Kim Joo-hyuk’s light blow, nodded with a gloomy expression, then looked at Kim Joo-hyuk and asked.
“By any chance, Master, you don’t like the gift I prepared for you?”
“no.”
Kim Joo-hyuk’s short answer.
“… … So do you like it?”
“Do I really have to say that in words?”
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Kim Joo-hyuk looked at her as if asking something new, but Balgwang asked as if he didn’t understand.
“Then why don’t you want to stay here? why?”
“Because I already have a place to live.”
Kim Joo-hyuk responded lightly.
“… … “You already have a place to live?”
“Yeah, it’s not necessarily inconvenient, so there’s no need to move here.”
Kim Joo-hyuk’s answer.
Balgwang looked at Kim Joo-hyuk as if he couldn’t understand.
“!”
She unconsciously placed an exclamation point above her head as if she was thinking of something.
“By any chance, where is Master living?”
Soon I was asked that.
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Black Cat actually didn’t really understand the current situation.
That was because the process he saw did not match no matter how he tried to connect it.
At least to explain the current situation as Black Cat sees it, the master behind the scenes, the actual king of the market, was looking for someone.
Who is currently a somewhat famous high school student?
The current situation was that the ruler behind the scenes was worshiping the slightly famous kid as if he were a god.
‘… … It is reasonable for no one to understand this.’
Black Cat remembered Kim Joo-hyuk, who earlier said with a relaxed expression that he would go back now that his business was done, and gave an expression that he could not understand.
It was astounding to see Kim Joo-hyuk looking so peaceful even when he saw the ruler behind the scenes that other people couldn’t meet even if they wanted to meet him at least once in their lives.
Likewise, he did not understand his own constellation, who treated Kim Joo-hyuk as if he were his lord and gave him the ring of the grand owner of ‘Market’.
Grand Owner’s Ring.
That ring is literally the dream of every contractor who can use all the power of the market at will.
No, it was something I couldn’t even imagine in the first place and didn’t even come up in my dreams.
However, his constellation gave such an enormous item to me without any hesitation.
‘… … There must be some kind of relationship.’
Black Cat is not stupid.
Also, even though he did not know Kim Joo-hyuk in detail, he knew what style his constellation had.
And as a result, Black Cat was able to easily figure out that there was some kind of relationship between Kim Joo-hyuk and his constellation.
okay.
I was able to infer that there was a relationship.
However, the problem was that no more could be inferred.
‘What on earth does this guy who was born only 18 years ago have with the Constellation?’
Kim Joo-hyuk is 18 years old.
In short, he was now a student, and to Black Cat, Kim Joo-hyuk’s age was no different from that of a baby.
But is it possible to infer the relationship between Kim Joo-hyuk, who has a childlike age, and his constellation?
no,
There wasn’t.
To put it bluntly, the relationship between the two was so out of sync that even the basics of the relationship were abnormal to the extent that it could be said that it was abnormal to think that there was a relationship.
Therefore, Black Cat’s curiosity could not help but grow even more.
at last.
“Constellation… … ?”
[The ruler behind the scenes asks why.]
Black Cat decided to ask her constellation a question just this once to answer the questions that were plaguing her mind.
“Well, maybe… … Kim Joo-hyuk… … “What kind of relationship do you have with me?”
A polite, yet very straightforward question.
Normally, she would have naturally turned the topic around and asked, but the curiosity in Black Cat’s mind made her abandon that conversation method.
The ruler behind the scenes seemed to think for a moment about Black Cat’s question, then spoke.
[My sky.]
“… … yes?”
[He is my own sky.]
“… … Ah, yes.”
Even though he clearly heard the answer, Black Cat nodded with a very uncomfortable feeling.
Black Cat heard the answer, but instead of being satisfied, her curiosity grew, and she unconsciously made a painful gesture.
When he was so tormented by curiosity.
The ruler behind the scenes asked a question.
[The ruler behind the scenes asks if you know about Valhalla Academy.]
“Valhalla Academy, do you mean?”
[The ruler behind the scenes nods his head seriously.]
“I know.”
Valhalla Academy was such a famous school that it was strange to say that there were people among the contractors who didn’t know, so he answered like that.
[The master behind the scenes says he needs to buy the academy.]
“You’re buying it? Oh, you mean acquisition?”
Soon, Black Cat nodded leisurely at the words that appeared in front of her.
“… … Wait a minute, you want to buy it now… … ?”
He soon responded by tilting his head as if he had heard something wrong.
To Black Cat’s question.
[The ruler behind the scenes nods as if he agrees.]
Then, at the notification window of the master behind him agreeing, Black Cat felt almost completely dazed.
