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Chapter 39: Gallery of Idiots and Morons
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First, I need to make two things clear.
First, I am Judy's adoptive father.
This is a status I obtained through legal and social recognition, officially certified by the city, no less.
Judy considers me her adoptive father, and I do not see Judy as merely the protagonist of the original story. I see her as my daughter.
Second, fathers usually go wild when it comes to their daughters.
It is an instinct carved into the DNA of every intelligent species, across every world that has vanished or come into being since before prehistory.
If anyone wants to object, saying, "Not me," then I invite them to slap the daughter of a Transcendent-class swordsman capable of slicing planets like tofu.
Given those two facts.
"Anonymous female master of Hyeondeok City! I, Lee Hamyung, have come to discuss martial arts with you! Let us compare our arts and determine who stands above the other!"
What would be the proper reaction upon hearing that?
If that were an exam question, it would probably be worth no more than two points.
That voice suddenly rang out with tremendous force.
It likely echoed across all of Hyeondeok City, so I looked at Judy.
"......Is that about you?"
"Probably?"
Hmm.
Then that declaration could be interpreted as follows.
Anonymous female master of Hyeondeok City.
[ Your daughter. ]
I, Lee Hamyung!
[ Me. ]
Have come to discuss martial arts with you!
[ Came to beat her up. ]
Let us compare our arts and determine who stands above the other!
[ No complaints, right? ]
"That fucking bastard."
* * *
A sparring match was a type of entertainment.
Whenever someone gained a reputation in a region, someone else would seek them out and stake their own fame on a match.
People would learn who was stronger, and depending on the result, a person's status and reputation could rise or fall.
Naturally, there was nothing more entertaining than that.
One person's downfall and decline, another person's prosperity and honor.
The discussions that arose as their joys and sorrows crossed made for the finest amusement.
So the bold Martial Artist named Lee Hamyung, who had appeared out of nowhere.
His daring declaration and actions drew tremendous interest from Hyeondeok City's Ability Users.
"Th-that bastard..."
"Are we really supposed to tolerate such outrageous behavior?"
"Even if we are not the female knight-errant he seeks, should we not defeat him ourselves?"
Quite a few people expressed outrage at the provocation that had rung across the entire city.
His method was simply too lawless for them to see it as a mere request for a sparring match.
Ability Users walking their respective paths in hopes of breaking through to the Upper Realm were bundles of pride.
So surely punishing that uncouth upstart was a matter of righteousness and duty.
"But they say he's at the very peak of the Profound Realm."
"What? What do you mean?"
"Apparently, he's fairly well known. They say he's a Martial Artist on the verge of entering the Life-and-Death Realm."
"Hoho, is that so... I have urgent business, so I'll be going now."
"This lady also suddenly has urgent sect business!"
......The declarations full of chivalrous spirit vanished the instant they heard Lee Hamyung's realm.
After Hyeondeok City's Ability Users fled as quickly as crabs hiding their eyes.
Lee Hamyung continued provoking the entire city several times.
It sounded rather polite on the surface.
But once one looked beneath it, few would fail to understand the true message.
"Let's fight, you bitch! Why are you running away?"
Yet no response came.
So most Ability Users arrived at the same conclusion.
"Lee Hamyung, huh. Looks like he's stronger after all."
"Who spread that bullshit about the Life-and-Death Realm?"
"Then again, is there even a Martial Artist in Hyeondeok who can distinguish the Life-and-Death Realm from the Profound Realm?"
"No, I am telling you! It really was the Life-and-Death Realm! This is so frustrating!"
The brown-haired female Martial Artist who had achieved numerous great deeds in Hyeondeok City.
They concluded that she was too afraid of Lee Hamyung to appear.
Not long after, Lee Hamyung's repeated provocations disappearing also became part of that conclusion.
Lee Hamyung had sought out Hyeondeok City's mysterious female knight-errant, but eventually left because she never appeared.
If the rumors about the female knight-errant were true, she had fled in fear. If not, the rumors had been nonsense from the start.
It seemed as though the commotion would end there.
"......So who exactly are you?"
But there was a slight difference between the rumors and the truth.
There were, of course, parts that were roughly similar.
Lee Hamyung had been preparing to leave Hyeondeok City.
He thought the person in question did not seem to be there, meaning she had either fled or the rumors were false.
"I'm the father of the kid you've been looking for all day."
"......?"
Thus, Lee Hamyung had no choice but to face the man with a bewildered expression after being brought to some empty field without knowing why.
A gray-haired man glared at him with a murderous expression. His eyes seemed to burn red, making him quite intimidating.
'Is he someone worth testing myself against?'
Putting aside who he was, he looked like someone with real skill.
Lee Hamyung grinned and spoke.
"Well, fine! Whoever you are, it matters not as long as I achieve my goal. I, Lee Hamyung, challenge you to a sparring match..."
"Quiet."
"Mmph?!"
But just as he eagerly continued speaking.
Some unknown force sealed his mouth shut.
Lee Hamyung was startled by the sudden change.
Across from him, the man made a gesture with that same murderous expression.
Whoooom!
"Mmmphhh?!"
His body rose into the air beyond all control.
The man also soared into the sky, but unlike Lee Hamyung, he seemed to be moving by his own will.
'......Grasping Objects Through the Void?'
Lee Hamyung could only be stunned by those four characters.
Of course, one could freely use Grasping Objects Through the Void upon reaching the Creation Realm.
It was even possible to lift a person into the air. Lee Hamyung could do that as well.
So long as the target was an ordinary mortal or someone far lower in realm.
'Then is the gap between us really that great?'
It was an utterly shocking thought.
If his opponent had at least been the person from the rumors, it would not have been this bewildering.
But the one claiming to be her father was displaying such divine power, so how could he not be dumbfounded?
......Or was that wrong?
Was it only natural for her father to be stronger?
As thoughts ran wild in his confused head at this unexpected situation.
"Dad! You can do it!!!"
At the voice from below, he looked down and saw a lively brown-haired girl.
Lee Hamyung was not an idiot. She looked innocent enough, but that girl was probably the subject of the rumors.
"Yeah, yeah. Why are you cheering me on?"
The man waved back at her with a sappy grin, and Lee Hamyung finally understood the entire situation.
'I'm fucked.'
He could not tell what sort of being the man before him was.
He might have been some strange long-lived Mage, or perhaps a practitioner of the path of magic who had been born human exactly as he appeared and attained his realm.
But one thing was certain.
He had touched a dragon's reverse scale.
"First, let's start with you taking a beating. We can talk slowly afterward. We've got plenty of time."
"Mmph! Mmmphhh!"
Why start with beating me up?
Let's talk first!
The fact that those words could not leave his mouth was deeply lamentable.
'Please, just spare my life.'
A man capable of boldly reversing an order that any sensible person knew should be the other way around.
Lee Hamyung would have to pay the price for daring to provoke that remarkable doting father's daughter.
Rumble...!
The heavens roared.
At the same time.
A Martial Artist who had merely loved sparring matches also cried out.
* * *
- What? Oz is perfectly fine, fuck.
└ Typical Gallery users, lol. Should've known when you all started making such a huge fuss.
└ Seriously, who could even kidnap Oz? Does that make any sense? lol
- Everyone who talked shit, get down and assume the position. (Photo of a man lying facedown.)
└ Dumbass lololololololololol
└ At least you know your sins.
- Anyway, since it wasn't a disappearance, everything's okay, right?
- Seriously, change the community name to something like the Gallery of Idiots and Morons lol.
After Oz appeared perfectly fine, the Gallery's chaos and collective meltdowns subsided.
Once the atmosphere cooled down, it was hard to understand why such absurd rumors had spread in the first place.
Was it not perfectly normal for someone to disappear for around forty years and then casually show up again?
Even that prophecy about being restrained was vague if one thought about it.
Simple restraints were common even during training.
Thus, the Transcendents who had merely made a huge fuss could only look awkward.
Still, they had not lived all these years for nothing.
They knew exactly how to handle this sort of situation.
- So what's number one among the Seventh-Dimension Saga legends?
- The Seventh Dimension only fights wars every day. Is there even any point in ranking them?
- If you think Kaldrin should be barred from war legends, upvote lololololololol
The technique was called:
Changing the subject!
But those watching had not been using the Gallery for nothing, either.
They could not fail to see the ulterior motive behind trying to cover up their embarrassment with an urgent change of topic.
So the Gallery still did not stop making fun of the Transcendents who had merely made a huge fuss.
- How the fuck did Humans killing each other make the Top 3? lololololololol
- Say something that makes sense, you bastards. Why are creatures that suddenly sprang into existence in some corner of the Great Heavenly World acting up? A species with no roots, lololololol
└ Detained in the northwestern Lizardman territory.
└ Bullshit lol. I'm Drevan, though?
└ Yeah, I can smell the reptile stink just from your posts. Later.
......That did not mean the new topic failed to catch fire.
They simply did both at once.
Footnotes:
The source calls Lee Hamyung's method mudo (無道), meaning lawless or immoral, as a pun on mudo (武道), meaning martial arts.
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