CLS-Chapter 225

Chapter 225

Master always said:

“If you’re going to cause trouble, cause it big.”

“What?”

“Trouble should always be caused on a grand scale.”

Wei Yan-ho sighed as he listened to his master’s ramb… no, his master’s extremely personal and subtle philosophy that could be said to differ somewhat from ordinary people’s way of thinking.

“You didn’t deliberately cause big trouble – it’s just that every piece of trouble you caused happened to be big, wasn’t it?”

Asking questions meant getting beaten.

This petty violation of human rights that would be impossible under normal circumstances was brazenly carried out in this cave.

Naturally, he had said it expecting to get beaten. But Baek Mu-han’s reaction, who would usually pummel Wei Yan-ho for being insolent whenever he asked questions, was a bit strange.

Baek Mu-han, who had been pondering deeply, nodded his head.

“That might be the case.”

“……”

This person is ‘real.’

Wei Yan-ho trembled as he newly realized just what kind of outrageous human being he had as a master.

‘Will I… be able to get out of here alive?’

He had endured the training with the thought that ‘he accepted me as a disciple to teach me, so he won’t kill me,’ but watching his master’s words and actions lately, he couldn’t help but think, ‘I might get beaten to death by accident someday.’

And he was the type of person who would brush off regret and lingering feelings with an “Oops, my hand slipped.”

“Whether you did it on purpose or it happened by accident doesn’t matter. In any case, if you’re going to cause trouble, you should cause it big.”

“Usually people try to reduce trouble.”

So master, please have a normal way of thinking.

“You don’t know what you’re talking about.”

But today too, Baek Mu-han thoroughly ignored Wei Yan-ho’s wishes.

“Small-minded people tremble even at tiny troubles. But great people are different.”

“Isn’t that distinction between small-minded and great people also extremely personal?”

Thud!

“Ughhhh.”

With the intensity of the fist that landed on his head, Wei Yan-ho was able to have the rare experience of seeing stars even inside the bright… no, dark cave.

“Every time you say something!”

“You’re talking again?”

Logic can never beat fists.

When the dejected Wei Yan-ho shut his mouth, Baek Mu-han clicked his tongue.

“That’s why you won’t do.”

“Why not?”

“You can never enter the unorthodox path with conventional thinking.”

“Shouldn’t people walk the righteous path?”

“If you want to live as ordinarily as everyone else, then yes. But the great figures who changed history always walked unorthodox paths different from others. Did the First Emperor of Qin, who had the preposterous idea of unifying the world, really walk the righteous path?”

“…I want to live an ordinary life.”

“What?”

This time Baek Mu-han looked at Wei Yan-ho with a dumbfounded expression. Hadn’t Wei Yan-ho been someone who was already as far from ordinary as the distance across the Central Plains from their very first meeting?

“Stop talking nonsense and listen well.”

“Yes.”

“If you’re going to cause trouble, cause it big. If you burn down a house, your parents will try to kill you.”

“Being killed would be fortunate.”

“But if you burn down a village?”

“…The authorities would chase me like mad.”

“But if you burn down a country?”

“Gulp…”

Wei Yan-ho trembled at Baek Mu-han’s endlessly escalating words. He wanted to tell him to stop such preposterous talk, but Baek Mu-han was more than capable of such things.

“If you burn down a country, all the people will worry about the nation and look for solutions together. Even if you don’t solve it yourself, everyone will step forward to worry and solve it for you.”

“That’s truly terrifying talk.”

“It might sound strange, but those who changed the world were all people who escalated incidents to outrageous proportions like this. So when things get tangled up, just go ahead and make the situation even bigger.”

“…Then what happens?”

“One of two things. Either you succeed…”

“And the other?”

“What else but death?”

Wei Yan-ho nodded with a pleased expression. As expected, his master gave him much teaching.

‘I must never become like that.’

If a negative role model could also be called a teacher, then his master could be said to be the greatest teacher for him.

***

“Gwaaaahhh!”

It was strange.

All humans are different.

Some people have good personalities and some have bad ones, some are handsome and some are ugly. There are truly all kinds of people in the world, so it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say there isn’t a single identical person in the world.

But why is it that.

People who get hit on the head with a sword sheath all make the same sound?

Wei Yan-ho remembered that he had screamed similarly when he got beaten by Baek Mu-han.

Watching Ak Seo-hui flying away after getting hit on the head by his sword, Wei Yan-ho shook his head.

Master said to escalate incidents, so no matter what, he must not escalate incidents. Wei Yan-ho knew for certain that if he just lived opposite to his master, his life wouldn’t be ruined.

‘But that’s life – it doesn’t go as you want it to.’

Wei Yan-ho, still young and green, was gaining enlightenment about life.

Mountains are mountains, water is water.

“A head is a head.”

Crash!

Wei Yan-ho’s sword didn’t discriminate by gender or age. Of course, there were few women here and most were close in age.

Anyway, as he indiscriminately struck down anyone he could see, the world was becoming cleaner.

“Gyaaaaahhh!”

“Kyaaaaahhh!”

Ho Cheol-san opened his mouth agape like someone who had lost his mind.

He couldn’t understand what on earth was happening. Even though he was watching with his eyes, his brain couldn’t accept the current situation.

‘How can something like this be happening?’

It started when Wei Yan-ho swung his sword.

Wei Yan-ho, who had destroyed the entire pavilion with one strike, looked at the blown-open ceiling and giggled, then rushed at them who had frozen, sword in hand. Then he sent each person flying here and there like balls kicked by playing children.

“Kyaaaaahhh!”

Even now, someone was becoming a star in the sky.

‘No! Common sense wise!’

If someone received enough impact to fly that far, they should die instantly on the spot! Does it make sense for someone flying like that to be screaming?

Well, speaking of common sense, it made even less sense that this guy named Wei Yan-ho was beating all these many late-stage masters like he was kicking neighborhood dogs.

“Heh heh heh heh.”

Ho Cheol-san laughed.

“Well then.”

Ho Cheol-san trembled as he watched Wei Yan-ho approaching him, dusting off his hands.

“Are you ready?”

“Re-ready for what?”

“People should have loyalty. All the other friends flew away, but you’re not thinking of not getting hit alone, right?”

“No, no, actually!”

Ho Cheol-san was desperate.

Whether this was reality or not, it was clear that the guy in front of him had insane martial arts and a truly insane head.

The moment he said the wrong thing, he too would have to look down at this manor from high in the distant sky like the other friends.

“We didn’t do wrong enough to deserve this treatment.”

“…What?”

“My, my words aren’t wrong, are they? It’s true that we picked a fight with you, but isn’t the price too excessive?”

It was reasonable and rational. Just because someone picked a fight didn’t mean you should send people flying like paper – that shouldn’t happen in a society where common sense prevailed. If Ak Seo-hui or he had at least launched a preemptive attack on Wei Yan-ho, it would be less unfair, but they had only made provocative remarks and hadn’t even tried to attack.

“Wrong?”

Wei Yan-ho tilted his head as if he didn’t understand.

“That’s right! Wrong! Did we do something so terribly wrong!”

“Not really.”

“…Then why are you doing this?”

Wei Yan-ho scratched his head.

The face scratching his head and smiling brightly couldn’t look more innocent.

“I’m just in a bad mood and there’s a suitable distance, so I’m acting up. I don’t particularly think you guys did anything wrong.”

“……”

“They say if you’re next to a troublemaker, you get hit for no reason. Just think you got unlucky. What’s there to life? This whole business is like that.”

“What kind of bullshit is that!”

The words ‘you crazy bastard’ couldn’t come out.

Thud!

Because no one in the world can speak while a sword sheath is hammered into their head.

“Ughhhhh.”

Watching Ho Cheol-san rolling his eyes and trembling, Wei Yan-ho shook his head.

“What’s with all the scheming?”

Wei Yan-ho dusted off his hands.

If you get obsessed with justification, you can’t do what needs to be done properly. Rather than spending time building up justifications here and there, it’s more convenient to just become the bad guy…

“Huh? I learned this from my master?”

Terrifying human.

He must have been gnawing away at his way of thinking without him knowing. No matter how much he tried to shake it off, the effects of five years of brainwashing education would never disappear.

Wei Yan-ho trembled as he felt Baek Mu-han’s shadow strongly dominating him. But the real problem was just beginning.

“What on earth is going on here!”

A sharp voice was heard.

The main gate of the pavilion. Through what was now half-destroyed and too embarrassing to call a gate, a Taoist with a refined appearance was entering with a stern face.

“Oh? We meet again?”

Wei Yan-ho cheerfully waved at the man.

“You!”

Cheong Geom-ja, who had been in charge of Wei Yan-ho’s examination, grabbed the back of his neck as he saw Wei Yan-ho waving inside the collapsed building.

‘My, my blood pressure…’

Why is that human here?

No, that human should be here! If that human wasn’t in a place where such an absurd incident occurred, that would be stranger!

“Was it you?”

“What?”

“Did you cause all this, I’m asking!”

Cheong Geom-ja pointed at the blown-open roof of the pavilion.

“Uh…”

Wei Yan-ho scratched his head vigorously.

“Come to think of it, my room flew away too.”

Perhaps because of Wei Yan-ho casually making irrelevant remarks, Cheong Geom-ja’s beard was trembling, not knowing where to go.

Let’s say the blown-away ceiling is understandable.

But what about those who flew into each pavilion and smashed through walls? How could such a thing happen on sacred Mount Hua!

“I’ll ask one last time. Are you the one who caused all this?”

Wei Yan-ho shrugged his shoulders.

“So what if I did?”

Cheong Geom-ja’s eyes grew coldly hard.

“I don’t know what circumstances there were, but this is Mount Hua. And right now it’s also the host of the Martial Arts Tournament. According to tournament regulations, when unauthorized duels or fights are conducted that injure opponents or cause property damage, we can investigate according to proper procedures! Strip participation qualifications and hold you accountable for those crimes. You know that, right?”

“Hehe, of course I didn’t know.”

“No further questions!”

As soon as Cheong Geom-ja’s words fell, people wearing martial uniforms with plum blossom embroidery on their chests came rushing through the entrance.

They were the Plum Blossom Swordsmen that Mount Hua proudly boasted to the world.

“As an elder of Mount Hua and a tournament organizing committee member, I will arrest the criminal. Will you come quietly?”

Wei Yan-ho asked with wide eyes.

“Huh? I’m not just getting my participation qualification stripped?”

“What nonsense!”

“Then that won’t do.”

Wei Yan-ho fidgeted and then spoke as if he had made up his mind.

“Then can I run away starting now?”

“You crazy bastard!”

As Cheong Geom-ja breathed fire from his mouth, the Plum Blossom Swordsmen all rushed at Wei Yan-ho simultaneously.