Translator: Wan ED/PR: Personal Ghost
40. Meaning of blessing (2)
There was nothing Bang Yunseop particularly wanted to do or become.
On a certain day, when he was living like whatever, he awakened his superpowers.
From that day on, the goal of Bang Yunseop’s life became being admitted to Korea’s most prestigious highschool educating on the supernatural.
— You will get along with the friends admitted to Eungwang School.
— You can play if you enter Eungwang School, right?
Bang Yunseop’s parents, who were enthusiastic about his education, spoke like this, while pestering him endlessly.
Backed with his parent’s full support, Bang Yunseop took lessons from first tier Korean highschool entrance exam private instructors and studied until his head was about to crack open, and thanks to all of that, he was narrowly admitted to Eungwang School.
The problem was what happened after his admission.
For Bang Yunseop, who reached his life goal, there was no ‘next thing’.
He just turned from the fool-like middle schooler, to fool-like prestigious highschool student.
It was so bad that on a day of middle school graduation ceremony, a certain Jin spoke to him as she saw Bang Yunseop almost get robbed of his belongings by middle schoolers, with whom far from having any good memories of when taking pictures with friends, he was actually a target they liked to bully.
— You really look like a fool, huh? But I think it’s a part of your charm.
— If you accept my blessing, I’ll beat up those brats one after another.
Looking at the Jin, who smiled like a snake, Bang Yunseop nodded his head several times.
According to the Sa tribe[1] member’s promise, an aggressive superpower flurried and beat up the middle school brats that bullied him.
The bastard that got sassy and said ‘You have peepers like a snake fucker!’ to the Sa, even got a special curse.
Bang Yunseop, who was saved like this, received the Sa’s blessing.
— I wanted to bestow a blessing to an Eungwang School’s student, so it turned out well! Can I watch sometimes?
— Uh… Your vessel is smaller than I thought, so I can’t bestow a powerful blessing. It seems that mind sharing won’t do. Ah, I wanted to watch, but that’s ruined.
— Um… What to do? When you really make up your mind to do something to not become a fool, I’ll help you settle your mind once. If you have a powerful desire, it will connect with me.
The Jin spoke like this and swiftly left.
After that, Bang Yunseop tried to call the Sa a few times.
But as if he didn’t desire it enough, no matter how much he asked for help, the Sa didn’t respond.
The blessing of the Sa, which he thought was his lucky chance, was truly something as there was no way to use it.
“Yunseop, I peeled a melon[2] for you! Come here and eat!”
Bang Yunseop, who was curled up and spacing out in his room, wobbly stood up.
As he entered the living room, he saw white peeled melon and a small fork.
On the wall hologram, the youth training camp incident was playing out.
“It’s the only thing that’s in TV these days. Even our neighbors only talk about Eungwang School! How surprised they would be if I told them that our son also participated in the otherworld conquest with everyone?!”
Bang Yunseop’s mother handed him a piece of melon as she spoke.
On the screen, the performance of Ju Su-hyeok and An Dain was reported.
‘What was I doing at that time?’
Bang Yunseop knew that best.
He wasn’t able to do anything.
Because he destroyed the formations, his class almost faced a crisis, and after Ju Su-hyeok went in as an attack team, he caused an incident by himself and got scratches.
He thought that he would become something more if he was admitted to the Korea’s most prestigious highschool, but Bang Yunseop was the same fool as before.
He even tried to imitate the bastards, who ignored Bang Yunseop throughout his middle school, but there was no change.
When he carelessly acted sassy against the Eungwang School’s geniuses, all he obtained was a curse that he didn’t know when it may pull his nails out, nickname of Bread Shuttle and list of great bakeries in the capital.
When he was suffocating inside, he suddenly recalled a certain voice.
— You really have no talent, tsk.
Tak Geosan clicked his tongue and spoke like this.
— But even with rotten tenacity, if you train that tenacity well, you will be able to live up to the name.
Tak Gaeson, who smiled when saying that, gave him one victory against Maeng Hyodon.
As he recalled Tak Geosan, who patted his shoulders when he stepped out of the ring, tears suddenly welled up in his eyes and he had a feeling as if he was about to burst into tears.
“Why am I, shoot….”
“Yunseop?”
When Tak Geosan said he would accept him as a disciple as if showing mercy, he got hotheaded and slapped that hand away, saying to get out.
Even if he went now, saying he wants to become stronger, could he show up with that kind of face?
When his thoughts got to this point, he recalled the words of Jo Uisin, who was a ringleader behind his Bread Shuttle’s title.
— When your head cools down, try to think about it again. When you change your mind later, don’t think it’s too late and go to see Him straight away.
Bang Yunseop jumped up from his seat.
“I’ll be back.”
“Where are you going in the middle of the day like this! If you’re going out, put on sunscreen and then go!”
“Ah, got it, got it!”
Bang Yunseop half-heartedly replied to his mother’s nagging and ran outside.
‘Shoot, I don’t know where he would be right now.’
Even while thinking like this, Bang Yunseop came all the way to Eungwang School.
When he came to the 1st year zone, dripping with sweat.
He saw someone at the 1st year zone’s sport field.
“Again! Faster!”
It was Tak Geosan’s voice.
In front of Tak Geosan, sweating even more than him, he saw Maeng Hyodon putting his everything into the training.
Seeing Maeng Hyodon swiftly blow his fist and manipulating the superpower wave accordingly to Tak Geosan’s commands, Bang Yunseop clicked his tongue.
‘Ah, I guess that stone brat fucker decided to become a disciple!’
Should he go back?
He worried like this for a moment, but the words of suspicious vice president of class 0 lingered in his head.
— When some opportunity or a chance comes, don’t you have to grab it?
Tak Geosan wasn’t a commonplace Player.
And even if he was, there was no way he would accept Bang Yunseop as a disciple.
This was an opportunity for Bang Yunseop which doesn’t happen twice in a lifetime.
‘That grandpa said he would accept me as a disciple, so he shouldn’t refuse because the number of disciple increased a bit, right?!’
Bang Yunseop tightly clenched his fist and took a step forward to the genius master and disciple duo.
***
‘Is that Person’s name Hyejeong?’
When thinking about Hyejeong, there was a person, who came to mind.
The Eungwang School’s 3rd year Guideline Club’s president and a Playable Character, Oh Hyeji’s cousin unnie, Oh Hyejeong.
Both sisters were Players, but unlike Oh Hyeji, who often took part in outside activities, Oh Hyejeong was almost unknown to the public.
Currently, she was missing, and Ju-Oh Group was quietly searching for her.
Was it because after she ended up being engaged to Ju Su-gyeom as part of settling ‘Ju-Oh Split’, she chopped the waiting room of engagement ceremony hall with cutlery to leave the message ‘Fuck yourself’ and disappeared?
Oh Hyejeong, who possessed such a background, was a person who didn’t appear even once in the game.
‘As ‘Hyejeong’ is a common name in Korea, it’s difficult to confirm. ‘
As the surname of the woman standing before Sawol Seemin was still unknown, I couldn’t draw a hasty conclusion.
“Hyejeong-ssi… It’s difficult to send You away if You speak like this.”
“Then don’t send me away.”
“Are You thinking of staying in such a stuffy place?”
“That stuffy place is where Semin-ssi is, You know?”
Upon hearing her voice, I was instantly reminded of someone.
It was the voice of the bodyguard, who was held at the Yeoui Island’s convention center where Fantasy Auction was held.
‘No matter how you look, they seem to like each other.’
Though, just from the conversation’s content I heard, he seemed to be keeping his distance by calling her ‘Hyejeong-ssi’, if one just looked at the desperate look Sawol Semin was making, it was not the case.
Sawol Semin spoke to Oh Hyejeong[3] with the voice dripping with affection.
“I learned about Hyejeong-ssi’s background.”
“As my stay at the Sawol family’s mansion prolonged, it’s only natural to learn it, isn’t it? What about it?”
“Many names of Hyejeong-ssi’s family are presidents and chairmans of Ju-Oh Finance affiliated companies of the Ju-Oh Group.”
“So?”
“Hyejeong-ssi is a daughter of a precious house. So, if compared to the Person Hyejeong-ssi was previously engaged with, the executive director Ju Su-gyeom, I…”
When the name of Ju Su-gyeom came out in addition to Ju-Oh Group, it was certain.
That person was certainly Oh Hyejeong.
The previous time, her face was so injured I couldn’t take a good look at it, but looking now, her face resembled Oh Hyeji a lot.
“You know even this, huh? Then what about it?”
“You should live with a person who suits You.”
“Who suits me?”
Oh Hyejeong took a step closer towards Sawol Semin.
Sawol Semin flinched, but didn’t take a step back and just looked at Oh Hyejeong, who got closer, with sorrowful eyes.
“Do You truly want to send me to that workaholic smoker without blood or tears, Ju Su-gyeom? The only moment when that maniac smoker looked like a human being was when he helped me to fuck up the engagement ceremony and flee.”
“There may be a Person who suits Hyejeong-ssi besides Him…”
“If not him, then To family assholes of the dysfunctional house of TC? Among unmarried fuckers from that house, the only sane ones are teenage brats. Ah, are You talking about Hwang family bastards of the Hwang Myeong Group, which one doesn’t even know if they’re humans or not? If not even them, then perhaps I should dig out the family register of the son, who had sanity hammered straight into his head and got married into the mess which is Namkung Group?”
The moment Oh Hyejeong dissed on all Korean Peninsula’s four chaebeols, she took another step closer.
The distance between the two people decreased even more, and Oh Hyejeong quietly leaned her head against Sawol Semin’s shoulder.
“Hyejeong-ssi….”
Sawol Semin flinched, and raised his hands.
As if he didn’t know if he should push Oh Hyejeong away or hug her, I saw him just wave his hands in the air.
He couldn’t push Oh Hyejeong away, nor could he pull her in, and just fumbled with his words.
“… That, there would be a better Person, even if it isn’t any of chaebeols’ families’ children. Hyejeong-ssi should meet a Person cooler than me, and live freely with them.”
“A Person cooler than Semin-ssi? Where is such a person? In my entire life, I have never seen a person more cool, kind, righteous and lovely than Semin-ssi.”
“That is, so, that…”
A sharp-tongued Oh Hyejeong was only warm towards Sawol Semin.
Hearing Oh Hyejeong’s words, Sawol Semin didn’t know how to respond and was embarrassed.
Even the face of Sawol Seeum, who heard those sugar words, followed suit and turned red, though he didn’t understand the meaning, and because he started to float in the air, I had to drag him down behind the mud wall.
“I already received a permission from Sawol family’s elders. There is no need to receive permission from my side. I didn’t ask, but if they objected, I would screw them all up. Even those codgers who went senile can use a calculator, so they should shut up. Because even though they are digging when digging me out, they would know that everything I know will explode and be thoroughly dug out if they do this[4]. If it’s all exposed, those fucking codgers’ retirement plans will be all ruined, and they will be fucked up by next ten years.”
“Won’t You die…?”
Sawol Semin, who was acutely aware of the bloody remarks behind ‘digging’, was solely worried about Oh Hyejeong.
As if Oh Hyejeong was also aware of that fact, she continued her words with a shy expression.
“It’s fine if there is only one dongsaeng among the guests from my side. So we can do this if Semin-ssi just nods His head.”
“What are You talking about?”
“I’m talking about marriage.”
The instant Sawol Semin heard the word ‘marriage’, he almost fell.
If he didn’t lean his back against a great pine, he might have uglily tumbled to the ground.
“Ma-marriage?”
“This house is all good, but Confucianism thinking is too deeply rooted here. When I went to ask elders for Semin-ssi’s hand, They said not to do any courtship and get married straight away. But when I thought about it deeply, I’m also fine with that. I looked up traditional wedding uniforms a few times, and the colors are bright and quite pretty. Even so, I want to see Semin-ssi wearing a tuxedo and throw a bouquet, so on our one-year anniversary let’s do a wedding ceremony one more time in the western wedding style.”
“Hyejeong-ssi! That joke is too extreme!”
“Do I look like a person who would joke about getting married? That should be a joke worth using when almost getting engaged with the unresponsive smoker fucker.”
Oh Hyejeong put the hand on Sawol Semin’s cheek and drew him a bit closer to her.
Sawol Semin was pulled in without particular resistance.
“I know You’re worried and anxious. But even so, please trust me.”
“Hyejeong-ssi…”
I saw Oh Hyejeong put strength into the hand pulling Sawol Semin.
Even now we were being rude, but if we continued watching it, it seemed that we would become much ruder.
I tried to grab Sawol Seeum and step back, but…
Bang!
“Ack!”
Sawol Seeum, who lost his soul, slammed his head against the mud wall.
I caught him and prevented him from hitting the ground, but the two people ended up noticing us.
“Our young master-nim came? Is that the friend you spoke about at your side?”
“Au-aunt-nim, hello!”
“Hello.”
Oh Hyejeong spoke calmly as she crossed arms with Sawol Semin and stood side by side with him.
The complexion of Sawol Semin, as if he realized the fact that we watched that scene, turned pale, and then burned red.
“What young master-nim, what aunt…!”
“Seeum is Semin-ssi’s nephew, so it would be correct to call him by name or use a title of son-in-law, but isn’t Seeum treating Semin-ssi like his hyung? So when choosing a title, I decided to call him young master-nim.”
“The family hierarchy or titles aren’t the problem…”
“Then what is the problem?”
Sawol Semin couldn’t say anything more.
Sawol Seeum, who read the situation, showed off the shopping bag to change the atmosphere as he spoke:
“Ah, uncle! I bought the gift. I went to the store we spoke about previously and chose the cosmetic set to give to aunt-nim…”
“Seeum! Why are you saying it here!?”
“Semin-ssi, did You ask young master-nim to buy a gift for me?”
It backfired.
The atmosphere was ruined, and Sawol Semin grabbed Sawol Seeum and started some kind of lecture about this and that.
The content was roughly ‘Don’t call Hyejeong-ssi aunt!’
“You’re that kid, who impersonated Yeom Junyeol at that time, right? I have something to talk about with you.”
With a bit of distance from Sawol Seeum and Sawol Semin, Oh Hyejeong grabbed me and spoke.
“It’s about a blessing Seeum received.”
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[1] Sa tribe — ‘Sa’ for snake.
[2] melon — Oriental Melon, Cucumis melo ssp. agrestis var. makuwa
[3] Oh Hyejeong — …. I’m just going to assume Jo Uisin awakened his prophecy powers.
[4] Because even though they are digging when digging me out, they would know that everything I know will explode and be thoroughly dug out if they do this. — Translation (?): Because even though they are digging when searching for me, they would know that everything I know will explode and be thoroughly examined if they do this — Completely not sure about this sentence because ‘digging’, ‘searching’ and ‘thoroughly examined’ are all the same word.
Translator’s note: Author-nim can make me root for a couple with one chapter of their interactions…. And Bang Yunseop? Don’t cry? It’s okay? You’re okay, you little idiot.
Did you see a mistake? 🐞
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