Dokmaeuiseon - Chapter 79

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Chapter 79

 

 

Ju In-hye.

The illness she suffered from was not narcolepsy.

Wouldn’t it only be narcolepsy if she fell asleep without knowing it herself?

She knew when she would fall asleep.

When and how it would come for her.

She simply couldn’t prevent it.

What came after her inability to prevent it was always predictable.

Her entire body couldn’t move an inch.

As if she were suffering from sleep paralysis.

Instead, her mind was clearer than ever.

She would tell them each time that it wasn’t narcolepsy.

But there was no point.

 

-It’s narcolepsy.

-How else would you describe these symptoms?

-Since you can’t control your sleep yourself, it’s narcolepsy.

 

All the physicians in the Jusan Archipelago would just shake their heads and call it narcolepsy.

They argued that since her eyes closed and she couldn’t open them, how could it not be narcolepsy?

She had no answer for that.

So she gave up.

And quietly abandoned the thought that her illness would be cured.

 

‘Having hope is an even more despairing thing.’

 

However, that paralysis quietly loosened.

Twitch-

Her own body, which felt like it belonged to someone else, could be felt clearly.

For some reason, though she shouldn’t be able to move anything, her fingers were free.

Was it an illusion? It wasn’t.

 

Twitch. Twitch.

It moved. According to her own will!

 

“Huh…! It’s moving! It’s moving!”

 

As she moved her fingertips, a voice suddenly reached her ears.

 

‘Grandfather!’

 

Grandfather. It was Ju Tae-gong’s voice.

To others, he was a master of the Evil Sects, someone more fearsome than anyone.

But to her, he was the most loving grandfather of all.

When she heard his voice, she realized where she was.

 

‘Grandfather brought a physician…! Those presences I felt earlier were the physician’s presence!’

 

She realized she was receiving treatment.

At the same time, despair washed over her.

 

‘He’s overexerting himself again this time. It’s not going to work, is it?’

 

It was good that she could move like this for a moment. But it would only be momentary.

Other physicians had achieved this much before.

After that, an even more frustrating paralysis would come.

So this was as far as it would go.

It would surely be like that.

 

‘Hmm…?’

 

Swish- Swish-

The energy inside her body was strange.

The energy that was tightly bound together, absolutely immovable.

The energies that protected her while forcibly binding her at the same time.

 

‘They’re moving?’

 

They were moving! As if they had a will of their own!

 

How?

 

When she concentrated, she understood the reason.

Someone unknown. Some person’s energy was moving her energy as if it were their own.

Releasing her energy while simultaneously embracing it.

 

“Uuugh…!”

 

As he did so, she felt her body heating up intensely.

It was an excited heat.

Excited heat in her body that had only been cold?

Where had the cold energy that tormented her entire body suddenly disappeared to?

 

‘This is impossible…!’

 

However, it was really disappearing.

The hot energy in her central core was heating up.

As the heated energy embraced her entire body, the cold energy disappeared.

When more than seventy percent of all that cold energy had been gathered.

 

“Ahhh…!”

 

She felt that she had awakened from her long paralysis.

 

 

* * *

 

 

Ju In-hye regained her senses and raised her body.

Jung Myeong’s voice reached her ears.

 

“Have you awakened?”

“…What happened to me?”

“Don’t you know? You collapsed. Though your mind must have been awake.”

“!!!!”

 

An accurate diagnosis returned without her even speaking.

Ju In-hye’s eyes filled with surprise at this.

Ju Tae-gong also joined in the surprise.

Only Yeo Eun-so, who didn’t understand what was happening, tilted her head in confusion.

 

“How did you know?”

“It’s simple. I can read the energy flow.”

“…I could read energy too, you know? But I had no idea whether she was awake or not.”

“That would normally be the case.”

 

A rebuttal came back.

This was also an instinctive rebuttal.

Ju Tae-gong’s martial power was not inferior to Jung Myeong’s.

There was no way he couldn’t read energy. Yet he hadn’t known she was awake.

He could only know when she told him.

Jung Myeong had immediately known and understood this.

And had even corrected the facts.

 

“Ah, I should correct this. You need to be able to read energy and make a diagnosis at the same time.”

“Huh…! Do you know what that means?”

“I do.”

“You’d have to have learned martial arts while also being a renowned physician, wouldn’t you?”

“I’m not sure about renowned, but… the conditions would be being a peak-level master and also a physician, right?”

“Heh heh heh.”

 

Ju Tae-gong let out a hollow laugh.

The more Jung Myeong spoke, the more he had no choice but to do so.

 

“Actually, this illness isn’t really what you’d call narcolepsy.”

“I know.”

“You knew?”

“The other physicians probably called it narcolepsy because they had no other way to express it.”

“No other way to express it. That’s right. The term ‘narcolepsy’ isn’t wrong. From the outside, that is.”

“But not on the inside?”

“Yes. You know, don’t you? Narcolepsy makes you lose consciousness entirely.”

“Hmm…”

“This seems more like a new illness rather than narcolepsy.”

“That’s not good news.”

“…Haha. Yes. That’s right. It’s not good.”

 

A new illness.

And of all things, it was the illness his granddaughter had contracted.

It couldn’t be good news.

Any illness, when first discovered, is treated as a rare disease.

 

“What do you think the name of this illness should be?”

“What blocks blood and energy is usually called blood blockage, and since her own energy is blocking it, Self-Blood Blockage would be fitting.”

“Self-Blood Blockage…”

“There’s no other way to name this illness.”

“Hmm… Then are you saying that the spirit medicine we gave this child to save her life was actually poison?”

 

Ju Tae-gong hung his head low.

No matter how much of an Evil Sects master he was, the thought that he had nearly harmed his own blood with his own hands.

It would be frightening to acknowledge.

The fact that he was questioning himself showed Ju Tae-gong’s integrity.

 

“Grandfather! That’s not it at all!”

 

As his granddaughter cried out in surprise.

Jung Myeong shook his head and answered.

 

“How could that be? Young Lady is right. It’s not.”

“Then it’s not?”

“Yes. Definitely not. Looking at her pulse, she was born with an unusually weak body. If you hadn’t given her spirit medicine… she would already be dead.”

“Then!?”

“However, while spirit medicine was sufficient to strengthen her pulse. The hidden symptom of self-blood blockage developed later and caused some adverse effects.”

“Heh heh… But didn’t I still nurture the root of trouble myself?”

“Root of trouble? Without that, she wouldn’t have made it this far.”

“If you’re trying to comfort me…”

“Would I go to the trouble of comforting you at this point?”

“Hmm…”

“I’m simply telling you the facts as they are. That’s my duty as a physician.”

 

Jung Myeong’s answer was resolute.

Showing not even a hint of wavering.

Ju Tae-gong realized there was no reason for the doubts he’d harbored to creep in.

 

“Heh heh. I’m beaten. Beaten. You truly are a physician.”

“You flatter me.”

“It’s not flattery at all. Hmm…”

 

Ju Tae-gong had no choice but to acknowledge it in the end.

The person before him was a real physician. A physician that couldn’t be described any other way.

 

‘Should I see him as a physician before a martial artist? For his treatment, even martial arts seem like just one tool… Hmm… He’s truly an incomprehensible person.’

 

According to what he’d heard from Blood Hand Dog, his poison techniques exceeded the ordinary.

Rarely would someone have “Poison” attached to their alias, indicating he used cruel methods.

There was no reason for him to lie.

 

‘But one thing is certain – regardless of his methods, he’s someone who moves according to his own beliefs.’

 

In truth, it didn’t matter either way.

It didn’t matter whether he was poisoned or possessed by demons outside.

Even so, wasn’t he someone who resided in the Jusan Archipelago and was revered as a master of the Evil Sects?

In the end, what mattered was the essence that person possessed.

To him, Jung Myeong’s essence was that of a compassionate physician.

 

“Even though I’ve dissolved the energy in your blood vessels, it’s not completely healed yet. So I’ll tell the Young Lady about the parts you need to be careful of.”

“…I’ll listen carefully.”

“Good. First, to prevent this self-bleeding, you must…”

 

Even now, wasn’t he sparing no time in that brief moment to convey precautions to his granddaughter?

Jung Myeong explaining. His granddaughter listening attentively.

Watching him, Ju Tae-gong had no choice but to acknowledge it.

 

‘Hmm… I tried to clear my debt. But at this rate, far from clearing the debt, I’ll be busy repaying it.’

 

That he had been completely moved by that physician.

 

 

* * *

 

 

Apart from being moved, what Jung Myeong gained was not insignificant.

 

[You have discovered a new disease.]

[The new disease has been named Self-Blood Knot.]

[Self-Blood Knot is being registered.]

[Title: Discoverer of New Disease acquired.]

[Great inspiration about treatment methods for new diseases emerges.]

[Level increases due to title effect.]

[Skill: Analysis level increases.]

[Skill: Pulse Reading level increases.]

[Skill: Ki Sensing level increases.]

[Understanding of blood vessels increases.]

[Due to increased understanding of blood vessels, understanding of martial arts also increases.]

 

His level rose instantly and he gained a title.

In addition to this, new inspirations about treatment methods for Self-Blood Knot, which he thought he fully understood, emerged.

All of these became flesh and blood for him.

 

‘Tremendous.’

 

Meanwhile, Jung Myeong had no intention of ending it here.

It was good that he gained much internally.

However, there was still something to gain externally.

 

“Thanks to you. Thanks to you! It’s all thanks to you!”

“It’s natural for a physician to treat patients.”

“Hmm…!”

“However, this time I must ask you one thing.”

“Why would it be just one thing? You can ask several. Yes, what you’re most curious about first is surely that, right?”

“Yes. How do you possess Jeon Jin martial arts?”

 

That was how Ju Tae-gong had inherited Jeon Jin martial arts.

While handling his treasured weapon, the whip, Jung Myeong could not forget the sword technique contained within it.

When he asked about this.

The answer that came back from him was beyond imagination.

 

“This place used to have a Jeonjin Branch, so how would inheriting that True Transmission be strange?”

“!!!!!”

“What!?”

 

That was an answer that surprised both Jung Myeong and Yeo Eun-so, who were listening together.

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