Chapter 84 (1/2)
Chapter 84
Slowly, I lifted ht adjusted to ht
Beneath the cloudless sky, white flowers bloo with the wind
Peach blossoh, the flowers’ sweet fragrance reached the tip of my nose
It was an unfamiliar yet familiar scent
And only then did I realize what I was lying on
‘A boulder’
I was lying on a broad flat boulder that looked as though it was carved
I blinkedboth hands oversleeves over my arms, which made a sound as I moved
Maybe
No, I’m sure of it
This was a drearation
‘How long has it been since I had a vivid dream, I wonder’
It was the first time after I had dreaeon last tiwash dreams before this that I’d become sick and tired of them, but this was so unusually vivid
‘Why the hell does this keep happening’
It was only the second ti a vivid dream But if you put it another way, it repeated a second tirations, but it’s the first ti it in this round
I closed ht
It’s been a while, but I was so vividly experiencing this body’s strong condition again
This body felt so light that it couldn’t be cohter
That’s right I used to travel across the world with this body
But how long had I been lying just like that?
Shortly, a sharp sound co the sound that was purposely not concealed, my eyes quickly turned to see who it was
And there, the person who made that sound looked back ath his eyes were covered with a white cloth, his lips were s as they slowly opened to speak
“Seola¹”
The voice that spoke was deep, gentle
I thought that this voice would sound alien totime since I last heard it, but it didn’t feel unfamiliar at all Perhaps because this was a drea blankly at hii Oraboni²…”
In the second transhtThat’s his name
His eyes were always covered by a white cloth His eyes were injured many years prior before the birth of the person I was possessing
So, I never got to see those eyes of his as they were covered hite cloth
I didn’t know the color of his eyes, the shape of his eyes, the length of his lashes
Immediately after I possessed the body of Baek Seol, I becauise myself was this outer shell And for soh me
I was afraid that he, whose eyes were closed beneath that white cloth, would be able to capture my very essence
I was so incredibly afraid of that
But for some reason or another, I became close to him
Because he was the only one who took pity on s who held no affection for each other
His syht-stricken land as I tried to navigate this difficult world
I had no idea why he sympathized with me
Perhaps he felt sorry for this body, which eak cos
Perhaps it’s because I vo hile day
He was called the ‘Austere Crane’ by others, and yet he was especially kind toht, which proman-made elixirs
Many people wanted to becoht how to make the elixirs
However, the only one he took in under his wing as a student and taught how toit I’m certain that it’ll one day be of help to you’
Through the coldblooded and eternally frosty gaze, there was a gap in his countenance as he regarded me warmly as family rather than as the ‘Austere Crane’ And at the same time, he was also round and ration, the only face that cai Oraboni’s
Sometimes he said this
That, ht, he looked at things differently co so, it was only sometimes that the white cloth over his eyes would become soaked
Those eyes beneath the cloth, which I had never seen before, beca…’
Tears that were both cold and warm flowed down his eyes as he repeated these words over and over
All the while, he also stroked my hair
His voice, as he recited the same words to me, was so terribly sorrowful that, after this, I cried secretly toit
Here in i Oraboni’s broad back
The white flowers, which had grown tall, tickled my ankles
“Seola”
“Yes, Oraboni”
Every ti, dark hair fluttered along
The last ti that tearful scene, and so I couldn’t help but bitetime
“I wish for you to master your techniques slowly, very slowly”
After saying this, he stopped walking
The sai Oraboni’s strides ca stopped as well
When the wind stopped, the petals that were dancing along with the breeze seely halted mid-air
And here, the petals fell round, as if it was a rain of petals
It was truly a scene that was suitable for the celestial realm
With a somewhat restrained voice, I replied to hier?”
He slowly turned around
The eyes hidden by that white cloth remained to be unknown
His fine lips drew a beautiful srettable about how you left I guess you could say that I’ve grown attached to you”
“Huh?”
Not knohat he was talking about, I asked back But at this, he smiled silently and stroked , until the time that I learned martial arts and went back and forth between the mortal realm and the celestial realm
He stroked my hair just as he usually did
“Seola”
“Yes, Oraboni”
“Perhaps all of Mount Baek’s disciples, along with the disciple brothers and disciple sisters from the sameyou need to do is prepare yourself with all that’s needed to be prepared”
At one point, I also descended
It was only aa cloud
Oraboni continued speaking quietly, and his voice was like the breeze of a fine spring day
“I suppose that’s how it is”