Chapter 113. The Time To Choose (1/2)
Chapter 113. The Time To Choose
ED: Chrysanthemum
Un Hui’s back bent without resistance when Cho Ryu Hyang caught his fall.
Cho Ryu Hyang felt his heart drop when he saw how powerless Un Hui was.
“Un Hui…?”
Un Hui opened his eyes slowly when he heard Cho Ryu Hyang say his name.
“Are… you… hurt?”
“……..”
Cho Ryu Hyang couldn’t say anything.
He could only nod.
Un Hui smiled after seeing this.
“That’s… good.”
Un Hui closed his eyes again.
Cho Ryu Hyang tried shaking him a few times but it was all in vain.
The man was dying.
Cho Ryu Hyang trembled as he looked at this.
‘It’s my fault. I was too arrogant.’
Right now, Un Hui was spewing blood out of his nose and mouth continuously.
When Cho Ryu Hyang saw this, he was instantly reminded of Jo Gi Chun’s last moments.
The same thing that was happening with Un Hui occurred at the moment of his teacher’s death, which resulted in causing Cho Ryu Hyang’s heart to beat faster and faster.
Dokun- Dokun-
It was beginning to get hard to breathe.
It felt like he was falling to the deepest part of hell.
And when Cho Ryu Hyang was about to hit the bottom,
The word that his teacher said to him rang in his mind.
[Live!]
Cho Ryu Hyang responded sharply to this voice.
Even whilst trembling violently from shock, he tried his utmost to check Un Hui’s condition.
‘He’s sustained heavy internal injuries. But more than that……’
What truly made Un Hui this sick.
It was the injury in his waist.
Anyone could see that the wound was fatal.
Cho Ryu Hyang’s normally calm eyes began to redden.
He looked back up and glared.
In front of him was Gu Hui. Their eyes met once again in the air.
Surprisingly enough, the one to speak first was Gu Hui.
“……How is it, child? Does it feel good to have your pride shattered like so?”
“……”
Gu Hui’s entire body was filled with sweat, and this sweat all turned to steam as soon as it came out.
He, too, had expended an immense amount of energy from this.
But he was satisfied.
After all, he managed to shatter that little boy’s pride.
‘If they were just a bit further away…….’
If that were the case, then Gu Hui would’ve been the one to fall first.
Gu Hui pushed that thought aside for now and looked at Cho Ryu Hyang.
‘What will you do now, boy?’
Cho Ryu Hyang turned away from Gu Hui, then immediately looked to Un Hui.
He was trying to find something.
‘This is the Golden Prism pill……. this is…….’
He was able to find the pills he needed for emergency care immediately.
Un Hui had carried many pills with him at all times out of caution.
Cho Ryu Hyang remembered this, and he also remembered what types of pills Un Hui carried with him.
‘This is it.’
Cho Ryu Hyang opened the container Un Hui had treasured most and took out a small pill from it.
“The pill of the undying, was it?”
It was a pill that Un Hui had kept for Cho Ryu Hyang’s personal use.
Cho Ryu Hyang took it out immediately and put it into Un Hui’s mouth.
‘I won’t let you die.’
Cho Ryu Hyang bit his lower lip.
He kept his fingers in Un Hui’s mouth, holding the pill down in case Un Hui tried to cough it out.
After a moment, Cho Ryu Hyang took out his finger and ripped a bit of his cloth off.
Rip- Riip-!
Gu Hui was watching him from a distance, but that didn’t matter.
Right now, Un Hui’s life was what mattered most.
It didn’t even matter if Gu Hui were to use this time to destroy the formation.
‘Not twice. I won’t see anyone die under my watch twice.’
The first time.
The first time Cho Ryu Hyang saw someone die, he couldn’t do anything about it.
At the time, he was powerless and didn’t have the ability to do anything.
In fact, did he not almost go insane from his powerlessness?
‘Not anymore.’
Right now, he was different from his past.
Right now, he actually had the power to do something.
Because he knew this, Cho Ryu Hyang worked like a madman.
His body became dyed in Un Hui’s blood as he worked, but that did not matter.
‘I need to stop the bleeding.’
Cho Ryu Hyang applied the medicine on Un Hui’s injury and wrapped the wound with the fabric on his hand.
Then, he carefully observed Un Hui’s situation.
‘Please…’
He was desperate.
At the same time, he was afraid.
He had done everything that he could.
He could only wait now.
But if that didn’t work?
Cho Ryu Hyang’s eyes shook with fear.
‘This is all because of me…….’
If something happened to Un Hui as a result of his arrogance, Cho Ryu Hyang wouldn’t be able to bear his regret.
Cho Ryu Hyang’s face became painted with impatience.
How much time passed?
Cho Ryu Hyang carefully put his finger on Un Hui’s nose.
And after a moment.
Cho Ryu Hyang fell down on the floor.
“Ha… hahaha.”
Thankfully, the medicine did have an effect.
Un Hui’s breathing had gotten much smoother than before.
After checking on Un Hui several times, Cho Ryu Hyang put his hands down on the floor with an exhausted face.
He then turned to Gu Hui and flashed his eyes.
Gu Hui made a regretful face.
He had tried to break through the formation while the child was distracted, but he had failed.
Cho Ryu Hyang opened his mouth.
“I had almost lost a person precious to me due to my idiocy.”
“……It’s good that you have recognized your stupidity, boy.”
Cho Ryu Hyang fixed his glasses.
His fingers that were on his glasses were trembling slightly.
“Gu Hui, was it?”
“Yes.”
“I’ll remember you. Thanks to you, I won’t be able to do stupid things ever again.”
Cho Ryu Hyang’s words had a different meaning to what he had said just now.
Gu Hui became curious of what the boy meant.