The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 293

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Chapter 293. It’s Yours

 

 

Thud. Thud.

Ha Mu-baek’s footsteps echoed on the inn’s wooden stairs.

Woomun Ga-yul walked lightly behind him.

People in the places she passed by glanced at her repeatedly.

Her beauty couldn’t be completely hidden even with a face veil.

They arrived at a door on the fifth floor.

It was the topmost floor of the inn.

Knock knock.

Ha Mu-baek lightly tapped on the door.

He was letting them know of their arrival.

If he just opened the door, Gongya Hwi-yeon might think it was an enemy attack and jump out the window.

“Wh, who is it?”

A rough voice could be heard.

“It’s Instructor Ha.”

Ha Mu-baek answered calmly.

“….”

There was no response to that voice.

He could only sense Gongya Hwi-yeon’s presence hesitating in front of the door.

“Is, is it really Instructor Ha?”

A cautious voice came again.

It was still cracked and rough.

Moreover, it was an uncharacteristic reaction from her. She seemed to have been greatly shocked by this incident.

It would be her first time experiencing helplessness before overwhelming power.

She had completely shrunk back and was frightened.

At her daughter’s voice, a look of pity crossed Woomun Ga-yul’s face.

A voice wasn’t something that could be changed so easily.

There were martial arts that could change one’s voice by injecting internal energy into the vocal cords, but her daughter’s level hadn’t reached that point yet.

That meant she had used medicine.

Woomun Ga-yul knew well about that too.

‘She really was desperate.’

Her heart ached at that fact.

“Yes. It’s me.”

Ha Mu-baek’s brief answer.

There was no reaction.

Ha Mu-baek didn’t rush and waited until there was a response.

“H, how will you prove that you’re Instructor Ha?”

Even after hearing the voice, she didn’t easily believe it.

The rough, cracked voice was in a completely frightened state.

“You heard my voice, didn’t you?”

“It can be changed.”

An immediate response came back.

“You. Do you know how absurd what you’ve done is? Go back. I clearly told you. Go back quickly.”

Ha Mu-baek spoke calmly.

During the height of Hatuje.

It was a conversation that Ha Mu-baek and Gongya Hwi-yeon had shared alone on Moklan Mountain.

Only two people knew this content: Ha Mu-baek and Gongya Hwi-yeon.

If she remembered the conversation from that time, she would believe that it was indeed Ha Mu-baek.

Click.

The sound of carefully undoing the door’s latch could be heard.

Creak.

And the door opened slightly.

Through the gap, the face of a man with ordinary features could be seen.

It was Gongya Hwi-yeon with her face changed.

Only after confirming Ha Mu-baek’s appearance did she immediately open the door wide.

“In, Instructor! Wh, where is Mother…?”

A voice filled with emotion. However, it was still cracked and rough, like scraping metal.

“Y, Yeon-ah…”

At the choked words that flowed from behind Ha Mu-baek.

Gongya Hwi-yeon’s gaze turned to behind Ha Mu-baek.

A small figure hidden behind Ha Mu-baek’s broad back.

Woomun Ga-yul.

Gongya Hwi-yeon finally confirmed her appearance.

“M, Mom!”

She cried out and embraced her tightly.

Woomun Ga-yul embraced her daughter who had the appearance of a man.

“Yeon-ah. Yeon-ah. Yeon-ah.”

Tears flowed from both their eyes.

“How about we go inside for now? My benefactor.”

Although he was blocking sound with internal energy.

It was a place where people could pass by at any time.

At Ha Mu-baek’s words, Woomun Ga-yul nodded and entered the room, tightly holding Gongya Hwi-yeon’s hand.

Ha Mu-baek also followed, closing the door behind him.

“Come here, my daughter. Let me see your face.”

After entering the room, Woomun Ga-yul stroked Gongya Hwi-yeon’s face.

Woomun Ga-yul looked at and stroked the ordinary man’s face, complete with dark stubble, with loving eyes.

It was a sufficiently strange sight to behold.

Nevertheless, the atmosphere they showed was overflowing with affection and love for each other.

Ha Mu-baek said nothing now.

He had no intention of disturbing the moment of mother and daughter’s reunion.

He quietly sat at the tea table by the window and looked outside.

The tea kettle was filled with tea that had already gone cold.

He poured the already cold tea into a tea cup and brought it to his mouth.

Just an ordinary fragrance, just an ordinary taste.

It was common, ordinary tea.

But what did that matter?

Ha Mu-baek looked at the scenery outside with a smiling face.

At least for this moment.

For Woomun Ga-yul and Gongya Hwi-yeon.

It would be one of their happiest times.

After a brief moment passed.

The two people who had been tightly embracing each other separated slightly. Their arms were still around each other.

“Mom! No, Mother… You’re alright, right? That bastard monk didn’t do anything terrible to you or anything like that, right?”

Gongya Hwi-yeon’s gaze turned toward the roughly mended clothing around the right shoulder area.

“You sent Hero Ha in time, so nothing happened.”

Woomun Ga-yul answered with a warm face.

“But. How long are you going to stay like that? This mother wants to see our daughter’s real face?”

“Ah!”

At Woomun Ga-yul’s words, Gongya Hwi-yeon became aware of her own state.

“Just a moment.”

Only then did Gongya Hwi-yeon release her arms and step back about two steps.

At that moment.

Changes began to occur on her face.

First was the neck.

The Adam’s apple gradually became smaller until it disappeared, then the skin slowly rolled upward.

Even Ha Mu-baek watched this scene with curious eyes.

His posture, which had been facing toward the window, was now turned toward Gongya Hwi-yeon.

The rolled-up skin passed the tip of her chin.

Her lips, cheeks, ears, nose, and eyes seemed to roll upward.

Finally, even her forehead rolled up, and something like a rolled flesh-colored scroll dropped onto Gongya Hwi-yeon’s palm with a thud.

That scroll was the Ten Thousand Illusion Divine Face.

Gongya Hwi-yeon’s beauty thus revealed.

It was dazzling.

Indeed, it was beauty worthy of occupying the position of Purple Flower among the Five Flowers of Murim.

The discrepancy between her white hands and yellow face had disappeared.

A face as white as white jade.

And the beauty of her distinct features.

Was exactly like a copy of the beauty of Woomun Ga-yul facing her.

If Woomun Ga-yul had reached the peak of mature beauty, Gongya Hwi-yeon had reached the peak of young, fresh beauty.

Anyone who didn’t know them could immediately recognize they were mother and daughter.

‘If I had seen Gongya Hwi-yeon’s true appearance earlier, I might have obtained a clue about my benefactor.’

Ha Mu-baek had such thoughts while watching the two people facing each other.

He felt regret that he should have confirmed Gongya Hwi-yeon’s face earlier.

But now it didn’t matter at all.

Since they had met like this.

As the reunion of the two seemed to be over, Ha Mu-baek rose from his chair.

“Here. Take this.”

The first thing he did was return the Purple Thunder Sun-Shooting Bow to its owner.

“Ah…?”

It was the bow she had seen even in the urgent moment of meeting Ha Mu-baek.

She had been secretly amazed by its beautiful and elegant form.

And from the aura it emanated, she knew it was her beloved weapon.

“Purple Thunder Sun-Shooting Bow. It’s yours.”

At Ha Mu-baek’s words, she reached out her hand.

The moment Gongya Hwi-yeon grasped the bow stave of the Purple Thunder Sun-Shooting Bow.

Both Ha Mu-baek and Gongya Hwi-yeon were holding the Purple Thunder Sun-Shooting Bow together.

Then.

As if knowing it was being transferred from Ha Mu-baek to Gongya Hwi-yeon.

The Purple Thunder Sun-Shooting Bow trembled faintly.

As if it would refuse to leave Ha Mu-baek’s hand.

Gongya Hwi-yeon was startled.

Even though it was clearly hers, she felt as if it was pushing her away.

The flustered Gongya Hwi-yeon didn’t know what to do.

Because the trembling of the Purple Thunder Sun-Shooting Bow became rougher.

Gongya Hwi-yeon looked back and forth between Woomun Ga-yul and Ha Mu-baek.

Woomun Ga-yul said nothing and just watched with a smiling face.

Ha Mu-baek.

“It’s yours. It’s something you must handle yourself.”

Meanwhile, the Purple Thunder Sun-Shooting Bow trembled even more roughly.

Gongya Hwi-yeon gripped it tightly with force.

“M, Mother…”

Gongya Hwi-yeon looked at Woomun Ga-yul in confusion.

“It’s yours. You need to either push your internal energy into it or just leave it alone for a few days. Right now it’s resisting because it got a taste of Hero Ha’s martial arts. Time will solve it.”

At her mother’s words, Gongya Hwi-yeon pushed her internal energy into the bow that was struggling in her hands.

The Purple Thunder Sun-Shooting Bow, which had been writhing as if it would spit out internal energy at any moment.

As Gongya Hwi-yeon’s internal energy continued to flow in, it seemed to give up, and the trembling gradually subsided before stopping completely.

Instead.

Its appearance had also changed.

To the form of that ordinary iron bow Ha Mu-baek had first seen.

The aura flowing from the bow had also clearly diminished.

It was truly an artifact, a mystical weapon.

“Whew…”

Gongya Hwi-yeon looked at the Purple Thunder Sun-Shooting Bow with eyes full of disappointment and regret.

How much she had cherished it all this time.

Of course, she had temporarily separated from it for escape.

But still.

As if understanding Gongya Hwi-yeon’s feelings, Woomun Ga-yul’s smile deepened.

“Ah, but Mother. Earlier Instructor Ha called you benefactor, what exactly is that about…?”

Gongya Hwi-yeon remembered a word she had briefly heard and asked with a face full of questions.

“It was a small connection from long ago.”

Woomun Ga-yul answered as if it was nothing significant.

However.

“My younger sibling and I received a life-saving debt.”

Ha Mu-baek answered in a serious voice.

At that answer, Gongya Hwi-yeon’s eyes widened.

A life-saving debt.

The Number One Under Heaven received a life-saving debt?

It was truly surprising.

No, more than that, Mother had been confined in the Punishment Hall all this time, so how…

“It happened when I was twelve years old.”

“Ah…”

Only then did Gongya Hwi-yeon’s face show understanding.

If it was then, it would have been possible.

Ha Mu-baek at twelve years old.

For Gongya Hwi-yeon, it was a figure quite difficult to imagine.

“Mother. What was Instructor Ha like at twelve years old…?”

Gongya Hwi-yeon’s words suddenly cut off.

She was in the middle of calculating when Ha Mu-baek was twelve years old, thinking about his current age.

Nineteen years ago from now.

It was around the time when she was toddling around taking her first steps. She would have had no memories of that time at all.

And.

The time when Mother was confined to the Punishment Hall was also around that period.

No one had told her why Mother was imprisoned in the Punishment Hall.

She only knew roughly from what she had figured out herself.

But isn’t the timing too exquisite?

“Uh, so… that is, uh…”

As if fallen into confusion.

Gongya Hwi-yeon couldn’t find words to say.

Woomun Ga-yul smiled gently.

“Fate is originally like that.”

And Woomun Ga-yul carefully explained the events of that day.

Regarding the situation at that time, Ha Mu-baek also occasionally added his words.

And.

What happened after that.

Woomun Ga-yul’s affairs that Ha Mu-baek didn’t know.

The Ha Mu-baek siblings’ affairs that Woomun Ga-yul didn’t know.

When all those stories came to an end.

The three people each fell into their own thoughts.

‘Sahae Alliance…’

Ha Mu-baek thought of Alliance Leader Gong Ya-jang-cheon.

It was ambiguous and complicated.

He didn’t know if he should pour out anger at how his benefactor was treated.

But since it was her own choice.

What kind of person was Gongya Hwi-yeon’s father to act like such a petty person.

Regarding this part, Ha Mu-baek couldn’t rashly step forward.

After all, it was between Gongya Jeong-mun and Woomun Ga-yul.

It was a matter between the married couple.

There was no room for Ha Mu-baek, an outsider, to interfere.

Gongya Hwi-yeon looked back and forth between Ha Mu-baek and Woomun Ga-yul with a complicated expression.

The Number One Under Heaven, who was her idol.

Who would have thought his childhood became the catalyst for Mother’s confinement.

Of course, Ha Mu-baek did nothing wrong.

It was just how things flowed, no one’s fault.

That was Gongya Hwi-yeon’s thought, but.

Her feelings inside were complicated.

Unlike the two with stern expressions, Woomun Ga-yul looked at Ha Mu-baek with a proud face.

She had heard roughly while coming here, but.

Hearing it in detail once more.

It was amazing and admirable.

Moreover, that girl who was so sickly that she seemed like she would fly away with a single blow had also cured her chronic illness and become healthy.

That child’s appearance had held Woomun Ga-yul’s feet until the very end.

Similar age to her own daughter.

Even with a dirty and haggard appearance, her pretty looks couldn’t be hidden.

Even after entering the Punishment Hall, she sometimes wondered how that child was doing.

Now she had become very healthy.

As a second-year member of Maengryong Corps, she was Gongya Hwi-yeon’s senior.

She couldn’t be happier or more proud.

The reunion of the three people concluded like this.

Ha Mu-baek looked at Gongya Hwi-yeon.

“Why are you doing that?”

“There’s something I need to check. That monk bastard Hyeon-hwang seems to have pulled some trick.”

At Ha Mu-baek’s answer.

For a moment.

A heavy energy flowed.

Gongya Hwi-yeon and Woomun Ga-yul had experienced that evil monk’s martial prowess.

That such a guy had pulled some trick.

It meant everything wasn’t over yet.

“Excuse me for a moment.”

Ha Mu-baek operated his Infinite Bright Wheel Eye while grasping Gongya Hwi-yeon’s pulse point.

Carefully flowing his internal energy along the pulse points.

With his Infinite Bright Wheel Eye, he searched for the foreign qi energy that had settled small within Gongya Hwi-yeon.

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