My Wife Waited in the Wheat Fields

#14 Crossroads (6)

The impression of the banquet was, in a word, boring.

Aside from the fact that laughing and hahahaha with people he hadn’t met with didn’t match Elric’s temperament, the biggest reason was that he was immediately distracted.

If you go up from the Yubin family’s mansion, you’ll see a mountain range.

And in the hut on the second peak of that mountain range, there will be a teacher.

Just thinking about it made her breathless.

A bit of reason to keep his face as a lord caught his footsteps, but those moments came to an end sooner or later.

The banquet is over.

“Ma’am, I’m going to go outside for a while.”

“… Would you like to?”

“Go back to the mansion first. I was run over by people all day, and I feel stuffy inside.”

I didn’t see Elric making excuses in a hurry.

That Tyria’s expression was getting harder than usual.

“Come.”

Elric turned around and walked out.

*

Bass Rock –

In the spring mountains, vegetation was in full swing.

Even though it was late at night, the swaying bush under the moonlight was clearly visible.

Every moment Elric walked up that road, he thought.

What was the reason the teacher came here, was he still interested in his future?

Then why didn’t you come to see me even once?

Even though it was a question that would soon be solved, the reason for asking the question was no different.

It was a bit of excitement.

Just in case, just in case, I was wondering if the teacher would give me the answer to my frustrated heart.

He wondered if he had come because he was worried because he expected that he would be so upset.

You could say it was just a positive guess.

However, Elric still wanted to believe in his memories with his teacher.

During the days when I was so sad because of the disagreement with my father, it was definitely the teacher who took over part of that role.

He was a person who was reticent and seldom told others about his opinions, but in other words, he was a teacher who did better than anyone else when it came to listening.

I wonder if I can at least complain.

A young heart began to fill up inside Elric.

That was the moment I arrived at the cabin.

“Have you come?”

There was a tall old man turning over a bonfire in front of the low cabin.

His copper-colored skin glistens in the light. The shape of the bulging tendon or engraved wrinkles, the bald white hair and beard, and even the empty eyes that completely capture the bonfire while it is submerged.

He was as in Elric’s memory.

Did the years pass him by?

Or is he blocking the approaching years with his power?

No matter what, it was the same, and a small smile appeared on Elric’s lips.

“Master, are you really here?”

I’m glad I didn’t see it wrong.

Feeling very welcome, Elric took a step closer to him.

I didn’t add anything else.

I just sat across from him and waited for the master to rhyme.

The master was silent for a long time before suddenly speaking.

“You’re back.”

“Are you talking about Yubin? Yes, I’ve been away for about 10 years. But how… .”

“Are you not going back?”

“yes… ?”

“I mean, I’m not going back to the battlefield.”

“… !”

Elric swallowed in vain.

The smile creaked.

His eyes trembled.

‘how?’

That question comes first.

Heading to the battlefield was something no one knew.

As much as that, the processing of identity in the West was certain, and personal information protection was thoroughly maintained to the extent that background investigations were impossible.

Anyway, didn’t even the 7 rivers and Elbus of that continent know their identity until they returned to Wibin?

But how does the Master know that?

The only way he knows this is to see himself on the battlefields of the West… .

‘… Wouldn’t it be?’

The moment I reached the conclusion, the head of the teacher sitting across from me was lifted.

That was the moment when he and I looked at each other.

“Your eyes are dead.”

Master said in a low voice.

Slowly getting up, he threw one of the two iron swords he had leaned beside Elric.

As soon as I accepted him,

“Pull out your sword.”

Fire!

A red stream of air began to emanate from the master’s body.

What followed was far beyond Elric’s expectations.

Chaeeng!

Elric’s body reacted to the attack ahead of the accident.

*

It was an open space that had to be told in an instant.

And the result was Elric’s clear defeat.

Puffed up, Elric’s knees fell.

Each one was fatally shot, so I bit my teeth and received the attack, but even so, I couldn’t completely block the damage.

Not to mention a counterattack, he couldn’t even deal damage properly, so his entire body was hacked to pieces.

“Hey… !”

His breath sank and his chin trembled.

The difference in skills was also a problem, but there was a bigger cause than that.

‘To live.’

More than anything else, it was about living.

The master who taught him the sword world had already reached a farther place than Elric had come from.

The difference was what led to this result.

“You have regressed. More than in childhood.”

He said with a sullen expression.

Elric had to look up at him blankly as he knelt on the floor.

“why?”

Are you attacking so suddenly?

What is the meaning of the words you just said?

What do you know and why are you doing this?

He implied such a question, but the desired answer did not come back.

The master just started saying something incomprehensible.

“I reached the sword realm early. Only I could reach that level.”

His sword caught on the tip of Elric’s chin.

“There are very few people on this continent who have the talent to reach the sword world. There were two more before you, but they were too old to advance further. Rather, it was a matter of being drunk with fame. He stopped training.”

His eyes sank deeper.

“It was lamentable. It was such a thing that there is no one who has reached this level and seen the same scenery. So I lived every moment in terrible solitude. There was also something else that was more frightening than that. That I have no opponent to prove that my sword can grow beyond this.”

“What is that… .”

“It means that we have reached the end of the stage where we can climb alone. Even though I know there is another landscape beyond this, I can no longer reach out my hand.”

Saaa-

The wind blew.

At that moment, the shape of the wrinkles on his face changed completely.

Also, the focus was on his words.

“It caused a war. If it does not sprout, the soil must be compacted.”

“… !”

“I built up a huge poison and opened a field where they clashed fiercely in it. I gave them nourishment for three years, but no one was able to grow satisfactorily.”

Stuttering, Elric’s lips moved.

What he admitted was coming along quite clearly.

That was the moment.

“I wandered the continent in grief. Then I found you.”

For some reason, in a choking voice.

“You had the talent to reach the sword world. If you push your back a little, you had the talent to reach that level alone.”

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“That’s why I would have passed on all of me to you.”

He said.

“Why do you backtrack?”

“Heuk!”

Elric’s body was pressed down by the master’s death.

Even so, he began to press Elric down with a thicker murder.

“I lived every moment waiting. If you reach the sword realm, we will surely be able to reach a higher level. By transcending the limits imposed on humans, becoming a superior species, throwing off the limitations imposed by life and making an immortal will. I mean, I could live like that.”

Cool! Elric coughed up blood.

“You are the last. The time when the era allows the sword is coming to an end. But why!”

For the first time, he put his anger into his voice.

“Are you saying you’re so conceited!”

“Ouch… !”

The master’s foot pressed against Elric’s left shoulder.

Elric could not resist.

There was such a huge disparity.

“I thought about it many times. Should I get rid of you and find another seed? If not, do you have to find a way to transcend yourself?”

The master took a deep breath and in an instant erased the emotion.

However, it was just a precursor to Elric’s bad results.

“I came to this conclusion because nothing was uncertain.”

Whoops!

There was a roar.

Quite far away, and in a place where you shouldn’t be heard.

Elric’s head flashed.

The direction the sound came from was none other than the land where everything about him was located.

‘Weebin!’

It was a shocking moment.

Fu-wook!

A sword lodged in Elric’s stomach.

Elric’s breath stopped for an instant at the sharp pain that ran up his spine.

Her gaze creaked and turned to her master.

he said in a calm tone.

As if all this was nothing.

“Once you get rid of the things that make you lazy, that’s it.”

The sword slips out.

Elric felt a sense of losing control of his body.

In the midst of that, I felt a fire burning inside me.

Emotions started to fluctuate like crazy.

“Leave everything you carry on your back. Forge only the intent to kill. Come, I will wait on the throne.”

Took, the teacher who pushed Elric away turned around and disappeared.

Elric sighed and looked behind him.

Information rushes into your mind.

What the master’s identity was, what process he went through to find himself, why he was so strong and why he was able to become strong on the battlefield.

Those things flashed in my head for a while, and then I fell asleep.

This is because there was a fact that was engraved bigger than that.

Elric turned over, clutching his stomach.

I heard my head.

His gaze turned to the direction of Weibin.

My thoughts narrowed down to one point, and only one thought came to my mind.

‘ma’am… !’

Tyria is dangerous.

We have to go to Weibin.

Elric shuddered and began to stand up.