Chapter 13. Human Killing Medicine (2/2)
When Um Seung Do looked at Cho Ryu Hyang confidently,
Cho Ryu Hyang’s face contorted in pain.
Looking at that, Um Seung Do smirked.
“Ha, don’t joke around like that. I’m scary when I get angered, you know.”
Cho Ryu Hyang’s face didn’t change when Um Seung Do said that.
It contorted even more.
dokun–
(TL: Didn’t want to come up with the romaji for korean onomatopoeia for heartbeat. Just used this.)
‘Huh?’
Cho Ryu Hyang put his hand over the place where his heart was, and made a pained expression. His heart started to beat faster, and his breath grew short.
‘What’s this……’
His whole body started trembling. Cho Ryu Hyang eventually fell down, while sweating profusely. His eyes were twitching, even.
Um Seung Do’s face turned pale.
“A side effect? It can’t be…..”
After thinking a bit, Um Seung Do’s eyes shook.
The Heavenly Demon Pill wasn’t the best pill to ever be created, but the church paid attention to the pills a lot because it didn’t have any side effects.
However.
‘The medicine guy did say there was an exception.’
Um Seung Do looked back at his memories.
This pill was something that took years of research to be made. There was no side effect from this pill. Except one.
‘The reversed intestines! (內臟逆位)’
This was when the position of the intestines had its locations flipped, as compared to the normal man. It was a condition that was only found 1 in 10,000, so Um Seung Do didn’t realize a side effect would occur.
Um Seung Do pushed away Jo Gi Chun, who was holding on to Cho Ryu Hyang, and took hold of the boy. He then searched the insides of the boy with his inner power. Um Seung Do’s face then twisted.
As he thought, Cho Ryu Hyang had reversed intestines.
All of his intestines were completely reversed.
‘Damn it.’
Um Seung Do swore in his mind. He knew the cause of this, but couldn’t treat it. Um Seung Do’s mind began to get chaotic.
“hnn….”
When a painful moan rose out of Cho Ryu Hyang’s unconscious body, Um Seung Do came back to his senses.
‘Damn, he doesn’t look like he practices martial arts……’
Um Seung Do’s face twisted.
Cho Ryu Hyang’s condition was all too clear to him.
‘Zuo Huo Ru Mo (走火入魔)’
This happens when a martial artist takes too much damage while training, and his insides become chaotic. But this wasn’t caused by something like a physical injury, so it was even more dangerous.
‘What do I do?’
It wasn’t like there was no way to fix it. There was a certain solution to this.
The problem was, it was extremely dangerous.
“Stop!”
When Um Seung Do shouted this, the carriage slowly came to a halt.
Before the carriage fully came to a stop, Um Seung Do said,
“Stay away from me for a moment.”
Um Seung Do left Jo Gi Chun inside the carriage, and carried Cho Ryu Hyang outside. Jo Gi Chun grabbed onto Um Seung Do’s clothes, and asked a question.
“C, can you save him?”
“…….I’ll try.”
Um Seung Do grit his teeth.
He couldn’t tell the man that this was going to be an easy procedure.
He opened the carriage door.
The wind from outside came into the carriage.
Was it because of that?
Cho Ryu Hyang’s body trembled, and a painful moan came out.
“hn….nnn…..”
“A, are you alright!? Wake up!”
Jo Gi Chun shook Cho Ryu Hyang with an urgent face, but the boy wouldn’t wake up.
Um Seung Do shook his head, and said this.
“It’s the Zuo Huo Ru Mo. I’ll try to fix the boy, so hold on.”
Jo Gi Chun looked at Um Seung Do with a furious expression.
“Was this caused by that medicine?”
“……Yes, but I didn’t expect this either. To think that the boy had reversed intestines…….”
Um Seung Do couldn’t say anything else.
That was because Jo Gi Chun’s face was turning red in anger.
Um Seung Do really couldn’t say anything at this situation.
But he did feel a little wronged. He didn’t realize anything like this, either.
“…….I’ll take the insults after this.”
“…….”
Jo Gi Chun was looking at Um Seung Do with a furious face.
Um Seung Do went outside, ignoring Jo Gi Chun’s gaze.
He put down a carpet from the carriage, and lay down Cho Ryu Hyang on it.
‘Damn……’
He didn’t expect anything like this to happen.
Um Seung Do didn’t say this to Jo Gi Chun, but Um Seung Do was also putting his life at stake here. He sat Cho Ryu hyang down, and bit his lips.
‘Alright. Let’s see who dies first here.’
Um Seung Do began to take out his inner power.
Right then, Cho Ryu Hyang was still conscious.
No, he was actually observing the area with a clearer mind than usual. He could obviously make out the conversation between the two men, thanks to that.
‘Reversed intestines? Me?’
Cho Ryu Hyang was surprised. He didn’t know about it either. So he half believed what Um Seung Do said a little while ago. He thought the man just said it for the show.
Then.
[That guy’s right, you idiot.]
Cho Ryu Hyang’s eyes widened when he heard this voice.
No, his eyes would’ve widened if he could move his body.
[Remember how you opened the Mystical Door (奇門) a while back?]
Open the Mystical Door?
Cho Ryu Hyang remembered what happened during activating the formation, and nodded. Yes, he did feel something strange inside him when he completed the formation.
[Usually, you’d have to go through one more thing before you open the Mystical Door. I thought it was strange for you to open the door without going through that. To think your body was like this……]
Were his intestines really reversed, like Um Seung Do said? When Cho Ryu Hyang was trying to take this in, he heard the voice again.
[You earned too much, too suddenly. Because of that, the balance of your body has crumbled. There was a need for the intestines to reverse, because of that. Well, it happened at a strange time, it seems.]
He could feel a tinge of playfulness in the old man’s voice. This was a bad omen. He felt that the treatment would not be simple. His expectations were correct.
[Your instincts have gotten better. You’re right. The treatment you’re about to go through will be quite painful. You’d usually die in a fit of pain when going through it.]
Cho Ryu Hyang’s face twisted.
Come to think of it, the old man had the tendency to speak as if he didn’t really care about other people’s well being.
[Try to endure it. If you survive….]
……If he survives?
The old man hesitated for a while, and spoke again.
[…….You’ll earn quite a lot in return.]
What would that be?
before he could even ask that, a hot energy transferred to him from his back. Cho Ryu Hyang was surprised by this extreme heat. At the same time, he could hear Um Seung Do speaking in his head.
[I know you’re still conscious.]
What was he about to say?
When Cho Ryu Hyang tried to listen, Um Seung Do spoke again.
[I’ll use all my energy for this treatment. Usually, this treatment ends up in the patient’s body expanding and exploding from excess energy.]
Cho Ryu Hyang carefully listened under the heat. There wasn’t much choice for him, other than to listen to the man who was treating him.
[I’ll try to control my output, but I’m not very confident I’ll do well.]
‘This irresponsible……’
Cho Ryu Hyang felt like spitting out insults.
[Please try to endure this as much as possible. Don’t get unconscious. That would mean certain death.]
The moment the sentence finished, an astronomical amount of energy came into Cho Ryu Hyang.
At the same time, his body expanded twice in size.
[TL: Instant diabetes♫]