The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 246

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Chapter 246. Using?

 

 

“….”

“….”

Namgung Ji-yu, Namgung Ji-hu.

The two siblings looked at Namgung Hwi with bewildered faces.

And they said nothing at all.

They couldn’t accept what the words they had just heard meant.

Silence.

Quiet.

No one opened their mouth.

Ha Mu-baek was quietly watching.

Wondering what kind of reaction the two would show.

The first to come to her senses was Namgung Ji-yu.

“Uh, well, so… that is…”

Words that wouldn’t come out properly, as if rambling.

“What you just said… about us…”

Tears were welling up in her eyes.

Her voice trembled severely.

Receiving that gaze, Namgung Hwi quietly nodded his head.

“F-F-F-Father… Father…?”

A single word that barely flowed from Namgung Ji-yu’s mouth.

Father.

To that question, Namgung Hwi spoke once more.

“Yes. I am your father. Your father…”

Namgung Hwi’s voice was still trembling.

“H-how could that be…”

Namgung Ji-hu muttered with a dazed face.

A face that couldn’t believe this situation at all.

No, wasn’t he an existence they thought would no longer be in this world?

The day they concluded that Namgung Hwa-hyeon, the Namgung Family Head, was probably not their biological father.

They had also speculated that the escort warrior who had gone on a journey with Namgung Hwa-hyeon might be their biological father.

And as soon as they made that speculation, they thought he would already be a dead existence.

Because the Namgung Family Head they knew would have done so.

But now the man before their eyes.

Was saying he was their father.

A man named Namgung Hwi, whose name wasn’t in the family records.

Was sitting before them saying he was their father.

‘So that was why…’

Namgung Ji-hu was recalling what he had experienced from the first time he met Namgung Hwi, while training with him.

His violently beating heart.

Hadn’t it beaten as if it would burst?

He thought it was just because of martial arts.

To complete the Emperor Sword Form.

He thought it was because he could learn that beautiful Great Flame Sword Technique that transcended realms.

‘So that’s why Elder Sister too…’

Hadn’t Namgung Ji-yu also said her heart was beating?

It wasn’t because of martial arts.

Blood ties.

Natural bonds.

That was what made their hearts beat violently.

“F-Fa… Father…?”

Finally, a single word flowed from Namgung Ji-hu’s mouth as well.

It was a word he had spoken countless times until now.

Toward Namgung Hwa-hyeon.

However, this word now was completely different from that word then.

The emotion contained within.

The depth of that emotion.

It was a completely different single word.

Namgung Hwi could fully feel the emotion contained in that one word.

Tears flowed down from his two eyes.

From Namgung Ji-hu’s two eyes as well.

From Namgung Ji-yu’s two eyes as well.

Tears flowed down.

Ha Mu-baek rose from his seat.

A reunion between father and son, father and daughter.

This was not a place for him to be.

At Ha Mu-baek’s eye signal, Namgung Hwa-u also rose from his seat.

The two men left the tavern.

An energy barrier was still surrounding their seats.

It was Ha Mu-baek’s consideration.

The energy barrier cast from outside.

Even Ha Mu-baek could no longer hear their conversation.

He deliberately did so.

Now it was a matter for their family.

Namgung Hwa-u, who had come outside the tavern, concentrated his internal energy on his ears.

However, he couldn’t hear any sound.

He glanced at Ha Mu-baek beside him and let out a low sigh.

“Would you like a drink?”

“Why would I?”

Ha Mu-baek immediately rejected Namgung Hwa-u’s suggestion.

At his sharp rejection, Namgung Hwa-u took a step as if he had no choice.

“Please tell them I’ll come back tomorrow.”

 

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The three people had no words.

They just shed tears while looking at each other.

Whether he was truly the father, whether they were truly the son and daughter.

No confirmation was needed.

Their hearts, still pounding and beating violently, were telling them they were family.

That was blood ties, natural bonds.

How much time passed like that?

Gradually, the tears stopped.

All three people’s eyes were swollen.

A faint smile graced Namgung Ji-yu’s lips.

“Really, really thank goodness. That you’re alive. I naturally thought our parents weren’t in this world anymore…”

Namgung Ji-yu choked up again while speaking.

“Did you know from the beginning that we were your children?”

Namgung Ji-hu asked with a voice full of moisture.

“The moment I heard in Hefei that the Family Head’s children were you two, I knew. Even if not for that, I would have known the moment I first met you.”

That was right.

Even if he hadn’t heard it in Hefei.

Even if he had met the two children knowing nothing, he would have recognized them immediately.

Because those two people’s faces remained exactly the same.

“But why did you hide it?”

Namgung Ji-hu asked again, his voice tinged with resentment.

It was only natural.

Hadn’t he been the one who kept calling his father ‘senior’ even with him right before his eyes?

“I’m sorry. But I had no choice. It was for your sake.”

“How is it for the children’s sake when they can’t recognize their father even with him right in front of them?”

Namgung Ji-yu also asked with a voice filled with resentment.

Namgung Hwi slowly began his story.

Starting from the story of that day when misfortune began.

The story of coming to Gyoryong Hall.

And even the story of his resolve from last night.

Namgung Ji-yu and Namgung Ji-hu only listened quietly.

However, their hearts were not quiet.

Rage like wildfire blazed fiercely.

The target was naturally.

Directed toward Namgung Hwa-hyeon, the Family Head they had been calling father all this time.

“If I reveal that you are my children, everything you’ve enjoyed until now will disappear. The things you enjoyed as the Family Head’s children.”

“Such things…”

Namgung Ji-hu was about to immediately rebel against Namgung Hwi’s words, but Namgung Hwi’s following words were quick.

“That includes your dantian and martial arts.”

A grave statement.

At those words, Namgung Ji-hu flinched.

“I am a low-ranking warrior of a branch family. The martial arts permitted to me are only the Great Flame Sword Technique and Daeyeon Mind Method. If it’s acknowledged that you are my children, you too would only be permitted up to that point. However, you have already learned the Changkong Wuai Sword Technique and Changung Daeyeon Mind Technique, and Ji-hu, you have even been taught the Emperor Sword Form.”

Namgung Hwi pointed out the realistic problem.

“What use are such martial arts? The Daeyeon Mind Technique and Great Flame Sword Technique are sufficient.”

Namgung Ji-hu spoke as if the Emperor Sword Form was completely unimportant.

“What about the Family Head position?”

“I don’t need it.”

To Namgung Hwi’s following question, Namgung Ji-hu answered firmly.

“The most important thing to us is Father.”

Namgung Ji-yu added.

The reason the two siblings had strived for the Young Family Head position, for the Family Head position, was only one thing.

Revenge against Namgung Hwa-hyeon.

Additionally, they had only thought that if they became the Family Head of the Namgung Family Estate, they might be able to learn about the truth of that day.

But now their father had appeared.

If so, they didn’t care who became that Family Head.

At the two people’s resolute faces.

Tears welled up again in Namgung Hwi’s eyes.

“You, you two…”

Tears flowed down.

“I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I am the sinner…”

Without knowing the children’s feelings at all, he had only thought from his own perspective that it was for the children’s happiness.

So he had decided to keep it secret until the end and die alone by drawing his sword against Namgung Hwa-hyeon.

What a great mistake this was.

To think he hadn’t considered at all what his children were actually thinking.

“No. It’s okay. Because we know now. Because we can sit face to face and talk like this, it’s okay. Because that incident hasn’t happened yet.”

Namgung Ji-yu reached out and grasped Namgung Hwi’s left hand as she spoke.

It was rough.

However, to Namgung Ji-yu, it was the gentlest hand in the world.

It was the warmest hand in the world.

So this was Father’s hand.

That’s what Namgung Ji-yu thought.

Watching this scene, Namgung Ji-hu also quietly reached out his hand.

Thus, the three people’s hands were stacked together.

The three people spent time feeling each other’s warmth like this.

“Then what do you think about this?”

Namgung Hwi spoke about Namgung Hwa-u’s proposal.

The two people listened quietly.

Soon, Namgung Ji-yu shook her head.

Youngest Son Uncle, no, Namgung Hwa-u’s proposal has no benefit for Father.”

She spoke definitively.

“What do you mean by that?”

Namgung Hwi’s question.

“As we mentioned earlier, we have no greed for such things at all.”

Namgung Ji-hu nodded.

“Still, we should be grateful to Namgung Hwa-u for one thing. If he hadn’t persuaded Father like that, you wouldn’t have revealed the truth to us today.”

At those words, Namgung Hwi had no choice but to nod.

If not for his proposal, he would have just left for the Namgung Family Estate with Ha Mu-baek alone.

“And you said Instructor Ha would help?”

Namgung Ji-yu’s question.

“Then there’s even less need to join hands with Namgung Hwa-u. With that person’s help, there would be no problem at all in facing Namgung Hwa-hyeon.”

Hadn’t Namgung Hwa-u said that Ha Mu-baek alone had blown away half of the Peng Family?

If it was such a person, he would surely be able to confront the Namgung Family Estate as well.

Namgung Ji-yu’s eyes sparkled as she continued speaking.

“Now we’re the ones making the proposal. Namgung Hwa-u will be the one who’s desperate.”

Ha Mu-baek’s words that they should hear the parties’ opinions.

Those words were right.

They shouldn’t proceed without knowing what the two children thought.

Not knowing that the two children had such thoughts, hadn’t he almost been led around by Namgung Hwa-u?

The sorrow of the branch family.

The thirst for martial arts.

That was Namgung Hwi’s own.

It was not these two children’s.

If it had been the two people from a year ago, perhaps they might have thought the same as Namgung Hwi.

However, the year at Gyoryong Hall.

Had changed that thinking.

The Changkong Wuai Sword that had clashed with the Three Talents Sword Technique and been defeated.

No matter how much it was against multiple sword formations, the fact that it was the Three Talents Sword Technique didn’t disappear.

And the joint combat system.

That experience had taught Namgung Ji-hu.

Rather than the power of the martial arts itself.

The person who uses those martial arts is what matters.

While re-cultivating the Great Flame Sword Technique for the Emperor Sword Form, he realized this fact once again.

How shocked he had been to hear that the Three Talents Sword Technique was a sword art that even that monster-like Ha Mu-baek couldn’t complete.

Moreover.

The very person who had reached the realm of Emperor Sword Form through the Great Flame Sword Technique was right before their eyes.

Their own father, Namgung Hwi.

So there was no reason to covet martial arts like the Azure Sky Unhindered Sword or Emperor Sword Form.

Maengryong Corps 7th Unit.

In the end, it was the meeting with them.

Ha Mu-baek.

It was the meeting with him.

That had changed Namgung Ji-yu and Namgung Ji-hu like this.

They had left Hefei for Muchang’s Gyoryong Hall while resenting Namgung Hwa-hyeon.

But Gyoryong Hall had been a fateful encounter for these siblings.

“Even so, receiving such great help from Instructor Ha…”

Namgung Hwi seemed cautious about it.

“He’s someone with clear principles. Whatever debt it may be, if he said it’s to repay a debt, there should be no problem.”

Namgung Ji-hu spoke with a voice full of conviction.

Because that was the person Ha Mu-baek had shown himself to be through all their experiences.

“Then what should we do going forward?”

Namgung Hwi asked, turning toward Namgung Ji-yu.

Looking at those two eyes sparkling with wisdom.

He had heard rumors in Hefei that Namgung Ji-yu’s wisdom might well reach the heavens.

Experiencing it directly, it was indeed true.

‘That person was also this wise.’

Namgung Hwa-hyeon’s legitimate wife, whom he had encountered during his travels.

Lady Baek naturally came to mind.

She too had been wise.

She seemed to have already sensed her fate when the travels began.

Thinking back to that time again, from the very day they left the Namgung Family Estate, she had always looked at him with sad eyes.

“Father?”

At Namgung Ji-yu’s call, Namgung Hwi was able to escape from his reverie.

“As I just said, no matter what, we still can’t lose our dantians. The Azure Sky Unhindered Sword or Emperor Sword Form don’t matter though.”

Namgung Hwi nodded at Namgung Ji-yu’s words.

“However, we can’t forget martial arts we’ve already learned. So the old monsters of the family will surely try to destroy our dantians and restrict our actions. To prevent the martial arts from leaving the family.”

Namgung Hwi nodded.

Weren’t these the very issues Namgung Hwa-u had already pointed out?

“So we need to use Namgung Hwa-u.”

“Use?”

“Because he’s not the only one qualified to become Family Head.”

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