Chapter 60. Cho Ryu Hyang’s Hibernation(?) (2/2)
“…….I don’t know.”
“Mm? What do you mean by that?”
“I didn’t manage to find the cause of the heir’s current condition.”
When Sunwu Jo Duk said this with a pained face, Gongson Chun Gi’s eyes began to turn a little more serious.
“You examined him, and didn’t find the cause? You?”
“…….Yes.”
“You’re losing your touch.”
“…….”
“Move.”
Normally, Sunwu Jo Duk would never let someone else examine his patient, but this was an exception.
When Sunwu Jo Duk moved away, Gongson Chun Gi stretched out his hand and grabbed Cho Ryu Hyang’s artery. He soon began frowning.
“What the heck? What’s wrong with him?”
The boy’s breathing was extremely shallow. His heartbeat was equally faint.
If that were the case, then there definitely had to be a problem within the body somewhere. But the boy didn’t have any problems. This was almost like…….
“It’s like he’s hibernating, isn’t it?”
When Gongson Chun Gi blurted this out, Sunwu Jo Duk nodded. He had been thinking the same thing.
“But as you know, humans don’t hibernate.”
“Right.”
Then what was this? When Gongson Chun Gi began to think, Sunwu Jo Duk sighed deeply.
“I really might have to retire at this rate. It seems my old hands are losing its touch.”
When Sunwu Jo Duk looked down on his hands and said this in a depressed voice, Gongson Chun Gi smirked.
“If you lost your touch, doesn’t that mean I lost mine, too? Don’t get depressed over nothing, and go over there for a bit.”
“What are you trying to do?”
“I’m actually beginning to think that this kid might actually be hibernating.”
“What?”
Are you serious? Sunwu Jo Duk barely suppressed himself from saying that. Seeing how Gongson Chun Gi was joking in a situation like this, he felt that the man really was on a different class than others.
While Sunwu Jo Duk looked at Gongson Chun Gi with complex emotions, Gongson Chun Gi sat down comfortably, and put his hand on Cho Ryu Hyang’s head.
“If medicinal techniques don’t work, you gotta resort to magic. I’m pretty confident about magic, you know. So just stay over there for a second.”
Sunwu Jo Duk wanted to say something, but gave up on it. As a person who couldn’t even figure out the cause of the heir’s current condition, he felt that he had no right to say anything.
‘But there is no way for a human to be hibernating, is there?’
Should he try to stop the Pope here? Gongson Chun Gi grinned while staring at the conflicted medicine man, then began to focus on Cho Ryu Hyang. He then tilted his head in wonder.
‘His consciousness is locked away deep inside.’
If one was simply sleeping, the defenses of the mind wouldn’t be this strong. It was almost as if Cho Ryu Hyang was trying to prevent anyone from getting to him. When Gongson Chun Gi thought this, he smiled.
‘Do you really want to hibernate or something, disciple?’
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Gongson Chun Gi began to think a bit here. It wasn’t that hard for him to forcefully wake Cho Ryu Hyang here.
But he didn’t really want to resort to that. After all, he didn’t even know why his disciple got to this state in the first place.
After thinking a bit, he glanced at Sunwu Jo Duk and steeled his resolve.
‘This isn’t a good time for this to happen.’
Come to think of it, the boy’s coronation should be happening soon. Preparations for that were being made, and there really wasn’t any time for the main character of the event to be sleeping like that.
‘I’m sorry, but I’ll have to wake you up, disciple.’
Gongson Chun Gi decided to take his consciousness and use it to forcefully wake Cho Ryu Hyang.
Gognson Chun Gi’s eyes began to be filled with red energy. He was activating a sort of a mind’s eye technique (心眼術).
‘Come to think of it, something like this happened in the past, huh.’
Didn’t he wake his unconscious disciple like this in the past? He could still see his disciple’s shocked face when he showed himself in the boy’s dream.
‘Shall I go surprise him this time, too?’
Gongson Chun Gi smiled playfully, and focused. Normally, getting into another person’s brain wasn’t an easy task.
But Gongson Chun Gi just happened to be extremely talented at these kind of techniques. That was why he just jumped into Cho Ryu Hyang’ mind without much worries. But……
‘Eh?’
The first thing Gongson Chun Gi saw was darkness. He frowned and waved his hand. He didn’t like seeing something so dark in his disciple’s dream.
The darkness faded away with the wave of his hand. This time, an empty white space appeared in front of Gongson Chun Gi. His eyebrows twitched a bit as he looked at this scenery.
“What the hell are you trying to pull? Come out.”
There was someone in this place. Gongson Chun Gi could clearly feel it.
But it seemed that the opposing party had no intention of revealing himself. The man simply hid in the white shadow, observing Gongson Chun Gi.
“Che, you seem to be an annoying one. You think I can’t find you if you hide?”
Gongson Chun Gi clicked his tongue, then he clapped his hands together then opened his arms out widely. When he did so, countless butterflies with blood red wings flew out.
“Find him.”
When Gongson Chun Gi said this, all the butterflies began to gather towards a single place. They eventually gathered to a single spot and formed into a vague shape of a human.
[You really are quite talented.]
Paan–
With a sound of something breaking, the butterflies all flew away. What appeared was an old man holding a white feather fan on one hand.
Zhuge Liang.
He had finally revealed himself.