Chapter 21: Day 21

“I greet the Sect Leader.”

Inside a luxuriously decorated room.

Black Bear bowed his head towards the middle-aged man sitting on a chair made of high-quality wood.

“Yes, did you take care of things well?”

“Well…”

The Sect Leader of the Black Mountain Sect.

At the question of the middle-aged man, known as Tyrant Blade among the martial artists of Zuhang, Black Bear couldn’t readily open his mouth.

Did he take care of things well?

Of course, Black Bear wanted to answer that he had taken care of things well.

But he couldn’t.

Not to mention taking care of things well…

‘I brought a monster into the Black Mountain Sect.’

Black Bear wanted to run away right now.

He wanted to leave Zuhang and run away to a far-off place.

He didn’t care if it was a small village of slash-and-burn farmers somewhere in that vast Central Mountain Range.

He wanted to run away to any place where that monster wasn’t. To any place where that monster’s eyes couldn’t reach.

But he couldn’t.

If that monster saw any sign of him trying to escape, it would pull out his heart without hesitation and devour it in one bite.

So, as Black Bear hesitated and couldn’t readily open his mouth. Tyrant Blade looked puzzled.

Then eventually.

“By the way, who is that girl?”

He asked, belatedly noticing the girl standing behind Black Bear.

With a shabby appearance and messy hair, the girl looked like a vagrant or a beggar.

But despite her unseemly appearance, her beauty was extraordinary.

It was a pity that she was a bit thin as if she hadn’t eaten well, but he could feed her well from now on.

If he fed her properly, washed her properly, dressed her properly, and after a few years, she would become a beauty that could make any man’s heart flutter.

At that thought, a lustful glint appeared in Tyrant Blade’s eyes.

He was greedy.

He was greedy for that girl who looked like a beggar.

Although Black Bear was one of his valued subordinates, he couldn’t give up that girl who would become a beauty in Zuhang in the future.

Just as Tyrant Blade was about to say something to Black Bear.

“Th, this is a child I found in the back alley this time.”

Black Bear spoke up first, urgently.

He was so urgent that his voice, speaking to Tyrant Blade, was sharp as if he was arguing, which made Tyrant Blade’s eyes narrow in puzzlement.

What on earth happened outside this time for that Black Bear to be so on edge?

Could it be that the opponent who was causing trouble in his territory this time was quite tough?

Come to think of it, he couldn’t see the subordinates he had sent with Black Bear.

At some point, thoughts about the girl were pushed aside for a moment in Tyrant Blade’s mind, and questions about this matter arose.

Just as Tyrant Blade was about to say something again, the girl, who had been standing silently behind Black Bear since she first appeared, walked forward.

“Ah, ah….”

At the girl’s unhesitating steps, a suppressed groan escaped Black Bear’s mouth.

That groan was filled with an unmistakable fear, and that fear was directed at none other than a mere girl who was so shabby and unseemly.

“Hmm, do you have something to say to this Seat…?”

“This Seat, my ass.”

“Hmm?”

At Tyrant Blade’s words of calling himself This Seat, the girl couldn’t hold back and let out a chuckle.

At the sound of the girl’s laughter and the words criticizing him, Tyrant Blade’s brow twitched.

It was a clear sign of displeasure.

The girl looked at Tyrant Blade, who was emitting a rough aura due to rising displeasure, and said.

“I won’t say much. Kneel.”

“You crazy b*tch.”

Tyrant Blade muttered.

That was Tyrant Blade’s assessment of the girl.

That was a crazy b*tch.

Did she know who she was laughing at and who she was telling to kneel?

Could it be that she was showing such an insolent attitude because she trusted Black Bear, who had brought her here? But then, why was Black Bear so terrified of that crazy b*tch?

Everything was full of things he couldn’t understand.

But even so, Tyrant Blade knew exactly what he had to do now.

If he left that crazy b*tch alone, his prestige as the head of a sect would be damaged.

So Tyrant Blade decided to kill that crazy b*tch right now and discipline Black Bear, who had brought her here.

By doing so, he would show everyone who the owner of this Black Mountain Sect was.

He would show them what would happen if they dared to offend Tyrant Blade himself…!

“Ah, you can’t kneel because you don’t have legs, huh?”

What nonsense is she spouting?

No, no.

There was no need to listen to that crazy b*tch’s words now.

He just had to cut off that crazy b*tch’s head right now.

With that thought, Tyrant Blade got up from his seat.

No, he tried to get up.

“What…?”

At some point, a bewildered voice escaped Tyrant Blade’s mouth as if he couldn’t understand.

He couldn’t feel anything below his waist.

No, he was clearly sitting in a chair, but his field of vision was too low.

Wasn’t this the same field of vision as if he was lying on the floor and looking up at someone?

The moment he noticed that sudden change.

“Aaaaaaaagh-!”

At the pain from his lower body, a terrible scream erupted from Tyrant Blade’s mouth.

His legs. His legs had changed strangely.

He couldn’t see skin, flesh, muscles, or nerves.

What Tyrant Blade saw when he belatedly checked was just white bones that had been weathered and completely shattered.

Tyrant Blade instinctively knew that those were his leg bones.

What the hell was going on!

Why! Why did his legs turn into such a terrible state! What was this pain that felt like his soul was being torn out!

Really!

“Wh, what did you do!”

Tyrant Blade, who had been constantly screaming, shouted at the girl.

This atrocity was clearly the work of that crazy b*tch.

Come to think of it, the crazy b*tch in front of him was holding a luxurious black steel fan that he didn’t know where she had taken out from.

And Black Bear had run away at some point and was just trembling in the corner of the room.

Everything was full of things he couldn’t understand.

As Tyrant Blade’s eyes were filled with pain and doubt, the girl looked down at him and grinned.

“I was trying to resolve this peacefully if possible. It’s better for you to serve me voluntarily than for me to take it by force, right?”

“Huh?”

What nonsense is she spouting!

Tyrant Blade clearly tried to shout that, but strangely, no voice came out.

As the doubt in his eyes deepened, the girl continued.

“But I couldn’t hold back no matter how hard I tried. A lowly ordinary person called me a crazy b*tch. And even dared to look at me with lustful eyes.”

Really! What the hell is she saying!

Why isn’t my voice coming out?

As the girl’s words continued, Tyrant Blade’s doubts deepened.

But Tyrant Blade couldn’t resolve those doubts.

After all…

“Well, what difference does it make to talk to a corpse?”

A corpse can’t speak, can it?

No, more than that, a corpse can’t ‘think’, can it?

Tyrant Blade, whose two legs had decayed and rotted away in the wind of the Black Wind Fan, had long since become a dead corpse.

He just realized that fact too late.

For a very short time, he acted as if he were still alive.

As if to prove that, the life in Tyrant Blade’s eyes, which were looking up at the girl with a face distorted by terrible pain, had long since faded away.

“Black Bear… was it?”

“Y, yes! Y, yes! S, speak!”

At the girl’s call, Black Bear, who was trembling in the corner, shouted urgently.

He had seen it.

How the Sect Leader of the Black Mountain Sect, Tyrant Blade, died.

The moment that monster swung the black fan that he didn’t know where she had taken out from, a black wind blew and brushed past Tyrant Blade’s legs.

Tyrant Blade’s two legs instantly rotted and crumbled.

The skin, flesh, and muscles instantly decayed and disappeared. The white leg bones that were revealed instantly weathered and crumbled. He saw that terrible sight.

What would happen if that fan was swung at him?

F*ck, what do you mean what would happen.

Of course.

‘I’ll die terribly like the Sect Leader.’

That’s why Black Bear’s attitude towards the girl became even more cautious.

Even when she brutally slaughtered his subordinates in the back alley and pulled out their hearts to eat.

Even now, having witnessed that unbelievable power, Black Bear no longer thought of the girl as a human like himself.

That was really a monster itself.

A monster in the guise of a human, in the guise of a girl.

Not just a metaphor, but literally a monster that was not human.

As if reading Black Bear’s thoughts, the girl chuckled once, sat down on the chair where Tyrant Blade had once sat, and said.

“Go and tell everyone in the Black Mountain Sect. I have become the new owner of the Black Mountain Sect.”

“Y, yes, I understand. But…”

How should I introduce you to them?

Black Bear asked.

At Black Bear’s question, the girl thought.

Come to think of it, she hadn’t even decided on her name until now.

When she first opened her eyes in solitude, she was busy surviving, so she didn’t have time to think about such things.

When she escaped from solitude and lived in the White Snake Gate, she was crazy about accumulating magic power, Demonic Qi, so she had no reason to care about her name.

But now it was different.

Now she had some leeway.

And she couldn’t live a life without a name forever.

So the girl.

“My name is…”

The girl’s mouth, which was speaking to Black Bear, closed for a moment.

Oh, come to think of it.

What was my name?

She couldn’t remember.

She couldn’t remember the name she used in modern times. On Earth. In Korea.

Even though she had spent three hellish years in solitude.

Even though she had spent four crazy years in the White Snake Gate.

Is it even possible to forget your own name that you’ve been using for nearly 20 years?

But that impossible thing happened now.

So, the girl, who had forgotten her own name, couldn’t readily say anything, and Black Bear looked at the girl with puzzled eyes.

‘How should I introduce you? Please tell me!’ Black Bear’s eyes seemed to ask.

After much thought, the girl finally spoke.

“Cheon… Seo Ah. Yes, introduce me as Cheon Seo Ah.”

Cheon Seo Ah.

The girl decided to call herself Cheon Seo Ah.

She didn’t know why she chose that name.

She just instinctively, or subconsciously, called that name.

But.

‘Cheon Seo Ah. Not bad.’

Surprisingly, the name Cheon Seo Ah wasn’t bad at all.

No, it even made her wonder why she hadn’t called herself Cheon Seo Ah until now.

“I understand, Cheon Seo Ah-nim.”

Meanwhile, Black Bear bowed his head towards the girl, Cheon Seo Ah, answered, and hurried out of the room.