Vol 2 Chapter 79. I’ll Handle You Two Personally (4)
"Hahaha. Sanghun."
"Yes, Sect Master."
"Have you perhaps seen Yul?"
"That fellow greeted me this morning and then disappeared."
"I have not seen him today either."
"Is that so?"
"Yes."
"If I see him, I will tell him you were looking for him."
"Yes."
"Please do."
Then, Go Seok-hyeon laughed cheerfully and left the area.
A short while later...
"Is he gone?"
Mun Yul stealthily appeared from the shadows.
Sanghun spoke with a calm expression.
"Senior Brother, the Sect Master is looking for you."
"I know, you brat!"
"I know!"
"If you know, you should go."
"I'm avoiding him on purpose."
"How long do you think you can avoid him?"
"Huna."
"Have you forgotten Bong-gong's teaching to avoid what can be avoided until the very end?"
"......"
This was the same person who had once said to let everything Bong-gong taught go in one ear and out the other, except for martial arts...
Seeing Sanghun's wry expression, Mun Yul, perhaps feeling a pang of conscience, averted his gaze and spoke.
"Anyway, you haven't seen me all day today."
Then he slipped away in the opposite direction from where Go Seok-hyeon had disappeared.
Thus, deceiving everyone's eyes, Mun Yul stealthily sought out a secluded spot, and the place he arrived at was...
"What?"
"You want a drink too?"
"No, what are you doing in such a secluded place in the middle of the day?"
"Drinking."
"......"
That was not what I was curious about.
Mun Yul let out a deep sigh.
As they say, great minds think alike, and in his search for a good place to hide, Mun Yul had arrived where Patrick was.
A sigh escaped him automatically as he saw Bong-gong chewing on beef jerky and chugging from a liquor bottle.
"What?"
"What's with that look?"
"What's wrong with my look?"
"It's a look that says, 'How did I end up in the same situation as this man?' isn't it?"
"Wow... You're good."
SMACK!
"Ouch..."
Clutching his head in pain, Mun Yul sent a rebellious glare that seemed to say, 'Did I say something wrong?'
At that sight, Patrick shook his head and said.
"The kid's developed a strange kind of tenacity."
"And whose fault is that?"
It was said that those who overcame the trial known as Patrick Schneider would acquire the special trait of back-talk.
Patrick spoke while chugging from the liquor bottle.
"Did you come here to avoid Sect Master Go?"
"Ugh."
"I didn't know Master would be this excited."
"Well, from a common-sense standpoint, it's a good thing."
"Marriage proposals are flooding in for his favorite disciple from the beautiful young ladies of prestigious orthodox sects."
"Sigh..."
That was right.
The reason Mun Yul was currently avoiding Go Seok-hyeon was precisely that.
After hearing the current situation from Patrick, Go Seok-hyeon would ask Mun Yul every time he saw him.
[So, who do you like?]
[Hahaha, I'm not really forcing you.]
[But there are four such lovely girls.]
[Like any ordinary commoner, you are of an age where it would not be lacking for you to start a family.]
[Hahaha. If I could see my disciple settle down and start a family before I die, I would have no regrets....]
That was what he was doing.
Even for Mun Yul, who deeply respected his master, it was enough to make him run for the hills.
"I don't even have any thoughts of marriage yet..."
To Mun Yul's sighing words, Patrick spoke with a serious face.
"Yul. Let me ask you one thing."
"What is it?"
"Are you, by any chance, impotent?"
"Why does the conversation have to go there?"
As Mun Yul shouted, Patrick cleaned his ear and said.
"Well, you're going to get married eventually anyway, and such good marriage prospects have come up, so isn't it about time you start thinking about it?"
"That's..."
"Why?"
"What's the reason you can't?"
"Our sect has not yet fully established its place."
"So how can I start a family first?"
"Whether the sect establishes its place in the martial world or not has nothing to do with your marriage."
"No, that's..."
"Rather, through your marriage, you could solidify our position with a strong alliance."
"Couldn't it also not work out that way?"
"How so?"
"Just... things can go wrong along the way."
"Something like that."
"......"
"What?"
"What?"
"Why are you looking at me like that?"
As Mun Yul strongly argued, Patrick let out a deep sigh.
It was impossible to get a proper answer out of this bastard first.
It would be easier for me to just hit the vital point.
Having made up his mind, Patrick opened his mouth.
"Mun Yul."
"Ugh, what is it?"
"Do you like Sona that much?"
"W-w-w-w-what... w-what are you t-t-talking about?"
"W-w-w-w-why Senior S-s-s-sister?"
"It's completely obvious."
At Patrick's single comment, Mun Yul's face turned as red as an apple.
Seeing this, Patrick sighed.
'Of all people...'
Patrick placed a hand on his forehead, shook his head, and said.
"Listen."
"Of course, making the impossible possible is a virtue that a disciple of our Twin Dragon Sect should possess."
[Since when?]
[Since when did our sect have such an ill-mannered virtue?]
'Oh, hold on.'
'I'm counseling the kid on his life right now.'
Lightly ignoring his Master's scolding, Patrick continued speaking.
"But, you know."
"This is really impossible."
"It's too much."
"It's out of the question."
"......"
"Just give up."
"The four girls who want to marry you right now are actually very, very pretty, aren't they?"
"Take your pick."
"Or just gobble up all four of them..."
"Are you even serious right now?"
Mun Yul shouted back, arguing.
"You brat."
"The difficulty of gobbling up those four simultaneously and adding three more to have three wives and four concubines is a thousand times lower than things working out with Sona."
But Patrick shouted back even louder.
Then, Mun Yul spoke with a sullen face.
"...Is it that bad?"
"I'm telling you, it won't work with a dog."
"It's really impossible."
"Why?"
"Why, you ask?"
"Why?"
"Good heavens..."
Patrick let out a sigh.
Sona was a dragon.
And from what Patrick had heard, dragons choose only one partner in their entire life and follow them blindly.
In other words, if Sona were to choose Mun Yul as her partner, Mun Yul might be fine, but Sona's life would be ruined.
The long, long lifespan of a dragon.
Moreover, Sona's life, as she was training to ascend to the status of a northern guardian deity, was even longer than that of a normal dragon.
In that long, long life, the lifespan of a human like Mun Yul was nothing more than a fleeting moment.
To devote all her love to that one moment and spend the remaining eternity in solitude and sorrow?
'No matter how hard I push my disciple, I can't make him do that.'
That was hell.
Patrick let out a deep sigh and said.
"I won't say much since you wouldn't understand even if I told you."
"Just give up."
At that, Mun Yul lowered his head and spoke gloomily.
"I thought I could give up too."
"......"
"But no matter how hard I try to make up my mind, what can I do when my feelings for Senior Sister just keep growing?"
"......"
"Bong-gong, you can speak so easily because you do not know this heart of mine."
Watching the forlorn Mun Yul, Patrick thought with a serious expression.
'Should I beat him until he gets amnesia?'
[Cheon, you baaaastard!]
'I get it.'
'I get it.'
'I won't do it.'
Patrick let out a heavy sigh.
Yes.
He had to admit it, honestly.
There was no solution when kids got like this.
Most of the world's problems could be solved by beating them down, but that damn lovesickness just couldn't be.
'I once beat a young monk at Shaolin for three days and three nights trying to fix him.'
He still failed.
When kids at that age were blinded by love, there was simply no answer.
'If I had to say, time is the only cure.'
With some distance and time, even the passionate fire in one's heart is bound to cool down a bit.
And if it doesn't cool down, well, there was nothing to be done...
'I don't know either.'
Even the great Patrick found it difficult to interfere in the course of this love.
* * *
A few days later.
Patrick gathered people in the training ground.
Along with the disciples of the Twin Dragon Sect were several rising stars who had come to join the Twin Dragon Squad this time.
"You've all worked hard coming this far."
"I haven't been able to pay attention to you all due to internal sect matters and recovering the damages in Tianshui County from the Unorthodox Alliance's attack."
Right.
Sure.
The justification was plausible.
However...
'Weren't you just drinking all the time?'
'Weren't you just drinking all the time?'
The ones running around busily were the other disciples of the Twin Dragon Sect; Patrick had been drinking day in and day out.
Looking at the utterly untrusting gazes, Patrick spoke.
"As you all know, I have been put in charge of one of the battalions of the Outer Division formally established by the Martial Alliance."
"Its name is the Twin Dragon Squad."
As the main topic came up, the eyes of the young rising stars changed.
And Patrick continued to speak...
"The Twin Dragon Squad, as part of the Martial Alliance's Outer Division, will basically operate with its own independent operational authority."
"In other words, we will decide our own course of action and move accordingly."
Patrick continued speaking.
"Basically, you just need to follow my orders."
"However, when I am absent, you will move with the vice-captains' orders as the priority."
"Understood?"
"Yes, sir!"
"Yes, sir!"
Watching the young people answer vigorously, Patrick said.
"Good."
"Then, I will first formally appoint the members."
"First, Mun Yul."
"Yes, Bong-gong."
"And, Sanghun, Yun-a, Yeo Bin, Muwon, Mi Ryeong..."
Patrick selected ten disciples from within the Twin Dragon Sect and incorporated them into the Twin Dragon Squad.
And...
"Namgung Jin."
"Namgung Bi, Namgung Min."
"Yes, sir!"
"Yes, sir!"
The three brothers of the Namgung Clan.
"Peng Mu-seong, Jaegal Mun."
Next, two from the same Five Great Families.
"Im Yeon-hwa, Moyong Hye."
"Dang Nanok. Woo Seo-ah."
Finally, the four daughter-in-law candidates.
Thus, he selected nineteen people and appointed them as members of the Twin Dragon Squad.
Including himself as the captain, it was exactly twenty people.
"I will appoint two vice-captains."
"Mun Yul, Namgung Jin."
"Yes, sir!"
"Yes, sir!"
At Patrick's call, the two stepped forward.
Since they were the winner and runner-up of the recent martial arts tournament, it was a plausible justification.
Of course, whether the others would accept it or not would have to be proven by the two of them with their skills from now on.
"When I am absent, you must move the battalion based on your judgment."
"Think carefully and decide."
"Yes, sir!"
"Yes, sir!"
Having roughly formed the structure, Patrick spoke to everyone.
"The situation in the martial world right now is not ordinary."
"Those bastards from the Unorthodox Alliance have gone crazy and simultaneously attacked all the orthodox sects in the world."
Everyone's faces hardened.
They too had heard that their homes and sects had been attacked.
Some places, like the Moyong Clan, had suffered quite severe damage.
Patrick spoke to them.
"I'll put it bluntly."
"An era of war is coming."
"......"
"Don't look for reasons when the righteous and the evil clash."
"It's a waste of time."
"The important thing is that you must win."
Patrick looked around at everyone and said.
"The Twin Dragon Squad is a martial force of the Outer Division, and it's highly likely we'll be tasked with dangerous missions."
"At such times, the only thing that can protect you is your own true skill."
As Patrick raised his hand, Sanson, Oliver, and Persona appeared from behind.
"The fortunate thing is that we have a little time right now."
Then, with a wicked smile on his face, Patrick said.
"These three will teach you."
"The overall instruction will basically be practical training, so be aware of that."
Instantly, the faces of the Twin Dragon Sect disciples hardened.
'He means he's going to beat us to within an inch of our lives.'
'Damn it...'
Leaving the ashen-faced disciples behind, Patrick singled out two among them and spoke.
"Mun Yul, Namgung Jin."
"Yes."
"...Speak."
A slight hint of defiance appeared from one of them.
But that was fine.
No, to be more precise, it would be fine soon.
Patrick said with a full smile on his face.
"I'll train you two, the vice-captains, myself."
Thus, the Twin Dragon Squad was formed.
And the two most pitiful sacrifices among them had also been decided.
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