Chapter 5: Illusions and a Brother
-I told you to enjoy the fruits of training, but you waited ten years to even touch the gift the True One gave you. Were you the incorrect choice, or is the True One's foresight greater than I had imagined?
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I can feel it… My blood seeping down my neck…
What happened… I was learning the family cultivation technique, then I woke up on the ground…
-You already know what happened you psychotic bastard, get up before you get punched again.
"What?"
I didn't mean to speak, but the shock of hearing a voice I hadn't heard in years made me lose control.
-You can't be serious, you dumb shit, the sight of your brother after ten years is enough to flabbergast you? You spout about being crazy, but you're just acting.
As if my head wound wasn't there, I stood up.
"H-hyung-nim! Is it really you?!"
I can't believe my eyes, the Hyung-nim I left behind in my old life is now standing in the underground garden with me…
-I'm not your damn Hyung-nim, your Hyung-nim is long dead moron. Not even the divine doctor was able to heal what you did to him, you selfish bastard.
Without a second thought my fist swung through the air and connected with my Hyung-nim's face. I never could stand him, even in my previous life.
What I thought was a solid face to punch was far from reality, as my hand phased straight through Hyung-nim's face as if punching through a cloud. My momentum carried me forward, passing straight through Hyung-nim as I fell to the floor.
-Wimp, how does it feel to go from weak in your past life, to weak in your current life? It must feel so great, I'm surprised someone as weak as you was given another chance.
I rolled over on the ground ready to retort. But before I could speak, the cloud of smoke Hyung-nim was made of lost all form and color as it drifted down over my left leg.
It was just Hyung-nim though, I don't think there's any harm in letting it pass over me.
I waited on the ground as the cloud of smoke drifted slowly over my body. With every part of my body the cloud touched, the more I began to vanish from reality, as if the cloud was severing my connection with whatever it touched.
As the cloud covered my head and submerged my body completely, Hyung-nim's voice whispered in my ear once more.
-Listen Hoobae, do not kill your new brothers like you did me. Try to be better, or you will find yourself broken once more.
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"Haneul you little shit! Wake up!"
This damn oaf, he must think I'm on the verge of death. A beast when scared is louder than the heavens after all.
Despite the throbbing pain in the back of my head, I stood up and dusted myself off.
"I wouldn't be unconscious if you hadn't punched me!"
Oops, I let my thoughts slip on accident. This oaf in front of me is just so ugly I can't stand it.
"Tch, If you weren't so greedy I wouldn't have punched you. Damn brat, you were supposed to establish your dantian over the course of the week, not on the first day!"
Wait, why do I have a dantian? I'm not supposed to have anything related to martial arts, otherwise I can't talk shit on them!
This is partially why I ran away from my family in my previous life. Having to apologize to someone just because they're older than you; or because you did something without trying to do it, is plain dumb.
That's right, everything I do is right. So long as I do it I can deal with any trouble that follows. Since trouble seems to follow even when you do good or bad.
I snapped back, not caring if I got punched again,
"I wasn't trying to, I was just following the flow."
"Right, you were just 'going with the flow.' As if, you're just a greedy little shit who didn't want to work for a week straight! I ought to break your dantian right here and force you to make a new one with purer qi!"
Suddenly I began to levitate into the air, unable to move as my limbs were restrained by an extreme amount of qi.
Another reason to hate martial artists, they just grab people with their qi whenever they want! Have you no respect for another person's body?
Lee Seok's hand firmly set itself above my stomach, where my danitan was located, with powerful qi leaking from each of his fingers.
Before his fingers reached my stomach, Lee Seok paused, staring intently at my stomach as if something were wrong with it.
This fuck, he's just staring at stomach. If he didn't have a wife and three kids, I'd think he was secretly into men.
I managed to squeeze out some words, despite the energy squeezing my body,
"Is there something wrong?"
Lee Seok pulled his hand back and released the energy that constricted me. I can't tell what he's thinking, I've never been able to tell what sane people are thinking.
Crazy people, those are the ones who I can tell what they're thinking.
"You brat, I guess you were being greedy, but also being picky. There's no need to break your dantian to reforge it."
Before I could speak again, I suddenly dropped to the ground. My guess, Lee Seok released the rest of the energy holding me in the air.
I wasn't ready to fall, so I didn't stick the landing as well as I wanted to.
The back of my head struck the ground, and the bruise from Lee Seok's previous punch throbbed with pain.
-You little shit! Did you think you could get away from us?!
'No, it can't be,' I thought, sitting up while rubbing the bruise to ease the pain.
-Yes, it can be! We're back to make your life miserable!
Nobody but me and Lee Seok were in the underground field, yet I still heard the voices I had thought were long gone.
-Quit your internal monologuing, you little shit! I ought to haunt your dreams for ignoring us!
The voices in my head, a sign of the craziness I experienced in my previous life, were back.
-Wait, who are you? You're not one of the people he's killed.
Another voice, one I was unfamiliar with, then spoke to the other voices.
-This mind is not yours to occupy, scram.
With those words, the internal energy in my dantian raced to my head. Ignoring all other parts of my body as it targeted my brain.
"Haneul, quit spacing out, you little shit. You said you remembered the flow I showed you earlier, show it to me."
Lee Seok distracted me from the mess that was going on in my head. He must have felt the qi in my body start to move, thinking I was doing it of my own accord.
I meagerly replied back, not wanting to waste time and get punched again,
"Yes sir."
One headache in front of me, another headache inside me, and three more waiting down the road, why wouldn't I just die in peace…
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