Chapter 15

Secret

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“ . . . ?”

Did I hear wrong . Sungmin widened his eyes and looked back at Wijihoyun . Wijihoyun’s face was still as ever .

“ . . . what?”

“I’m a girl . ”

Wijihoyun pointed at herself . Sungmin’s mouth slowly opened . He didn’t hear wrong . Wijihoyun was just saying that she was a girl .

“No way!”

Sungmin yelled loudly . To that, Jack and Lula looked outside . I’m sorry . Wijihoyun said that to the kitchen and looked back with annoyance at Sungmin .

“You can’t yell like that . ”

“What! I yelled because I was surprised!”

“Hm, I get it . ”

Wijihoyun nodded her head . Sungmin had no other words to say . He looked back into his past life . Small Pegasus Wijihoyun . There was no rumor that Wijihoyun was a girl . No, looking outside of the past, he looked at the ‘now’ Wijihoyun that was in front of him .

A high nose . Narrow eyebrows . Large eyes . White skin . Stature was small, but he thought it was because of young age . But now, he thought differently .

“ . . . rea, really?”

“Really . Why would I lie about this . Or do I have to go to the room and take off my pants?”

Wijihoyun laughed and said . There were many things that he wondered before .

Wijihoyun looked pretty . He thought that she would be a handsome man, Yes . that’s what he thought . But now thinking that she was a girl… it was different .

‘We never even had a bath together . ’

Sungmin usually took a bath after he finished practicing and hunting, but Wijihoyun never tried to get in with Sungmin . He didn’t think that there was a reason for it . He just thought, Wijihoyun was dirtier than he expected .

“There’s no chest . . . . ”

“I covered with a bandage . ”

Wijihoyun slightly lifted her shirt and said . There was a white bandage .

“It didn’t come out as much . I don’t know how much it will get bigger by . . . hopefully not much . It’s uncomfortable living with skin on my chest . ”

“ . . . I can’t…”

Sungmin muttered . Wijihoyun was actually a girl . He never thought about that .

“Why did you dress up like a boy?”

“The head wanted me to . I was a genius and had the type of body to learn techniques, but I was a girl . The head thought it was wasteful for my talent to go to wait . So he wanted me to live as a boy from early on . ”

It was probably the first order from the head and my dad . Wijihoyun added and laughed .

“But there aren’t cults in this world . There aren’t heads here . There’s no reason to live as a boy . But… I lived 13 years as one . I can’t just abandon it in one morning . So I’m probably going to continue doing it . Unless my chest gets too big for this bandage . ”

That would be good . Wijihoyun muttered . Sungmin looked at Wijihoyun as if dazed, and Wijihoyun opened her mouth looking back at him .

“That’s my secret . What’s yours?”

“ . . . hmm…”

He didn’t think it was a lie . Girl . Girl… Small Pegasus is a girl . Sungmin kept hold of his mind .

“ . . . I’m…”

Listening to that, Sungmin couldn’t say that he couldn’t tell her . Sungmin sighed and said .

“I’m a rarity . ”

“What is that?”

Wijihoyun tilted her head and asked . His heart dropped a bit, but Sungmin continued .

He told him . The fact that he was reborn by getting a stone . He died and came back . As Sungmin said, Wijihoyun just listened quietly .

“I see . ”

As the story ended, Wijihoyun nodded her head .

“It’s hard to believe, but I guess I have to . This world . And magic . Those things . I just have to believe it . I wouldn’t believe it in my world, but this is different .

Wijihoyun muttered . He, no, she looked at the air .

“How was I?”

“ . . . what?”

“There should be me before . How was I?”

“Well…”

He told Wijihoyun about her in the past life . He never saw her before, so he could only tell her rumors .

“So, I was living well . At least for 13 years . ”

“I … think so . ”

“And still as a boy . ”

Wijihoyun laughed .

“Probably, my chest wasn’t that big even after 13 years . That’s good . ”

He didn’t know if that was a joke or truth . ”

“I am curious . Why did you want me to promise to not kill you?”

“ . . . It wasn’t a coincidence that we met . I… wanted to see Wijihoyun for the first time . So I was there at the point where you were summoned . I was looking at you . ”

“Ah, so since that meeting was false, you thought I would kill you because I would angry that I was being used?”

That was true . Sungmin stayed silent .

“That’s strange . ”

Wijihoyun laughed .

“Think about it . When you and I met, you were just looking at me . I was the one that went up to you . I was the one who asked to be friends . The person who gave you advice on martial arts? Haha! That’s me as well . You didn’t ask me to do anything . I said everything to you . ”

There was nothing that he said . What she said was true .

“You have way too many worries . Is it because you faced death before? Or just that personality . ”

“Both . ”

“Hmm, well anyway . I have no intention of killing you . Now, I have an interest in you . You came back after dying . That’s interesting . I understand the flaws in yourself . 13 years, no 10 years, is it? After 10 years, you get used to it . It’s a shame that your only that good after 10 years thought . ”

“F*ck . ”

Sungmin cursed at Wijihoyun’s muttering . The facts hurt him way too much .

“From what you said, I left this city after one month and was away for 3 years . ”

“Yeah . ”

“What did I do for 3 years?”

“How would I know?”

“That Wijihoyun and this Wijihoyun are two different people . But the way that they think or the things that they want… are probably the same . I was probably not doing anything for 3 years . I might have traveled the world . ”

“Travel?”

“Wijihoyun was a human that wanted freedom . The control of the head, that freedom . I’m happy that I was summoned here . I earned that freedom . ”

That was Wijihoyun’s sincere thoughts .

“I think that, too . I want to leave now . I wandered the city for a week . BUt this city is small as well . I want to see other things and feel other things as well . ”

“ . . . You’re going to leave?”

“I was going to . But… what do you want to do?”

Wijihoyun asked to Sungmin .

“You already lived in this world . You lived for 13 years and died . You got an opportunity and came back . But what do you want to do in this world?”

Sungmin couldn’t say anything to Wijihoyun . That was something that Sungmin never thought of .

“You have memories of your past life . What do you want to do with it”

“ . . . A better life than before . ”

“I saw many people after wandering for one week . No classes . Not all of them go to the forest to hunt . They all live doing other labor . Do you not want to live like that?”

“ . . . that’s a waste . ”

Sungmin muttered .

“I have everything that is useful from my past life . I have information that I written down . ”

“Greedy . Well, I have no intention of blaming you . . . but what do you want to do . A better life than me? Isn’t that a bit vague? Any other goal?”

“I have… no idea . ”

Sungmin wondered for a second and sighed .

“I only thought about surviving every day in my past life . Like you said all the time, I don’t have talent . Still, I tried to survive . I died stupidly… even though I came back . I don’t have a goal . Just, I’ll probably live like before . ”

“I see . ”

Wijihoyun nodded . She didn’t have any advice for Sungmin . Well to be fair, Wijihoyun was 13, and Sungmin was 27 . It would be stupid to get life advice from a 13 year old .

“But, you . You want to stay being friends?”

“Is there any other reason?”

“I’m older than you? The mental age…”

“That’s not a problem . ”

It basically meant she was going to continue not being polite towards him .

“Let’s go up . ”

Wijihoyun stood up . Sungmin followed Wijihoyun and went into Wijihoyun’s room . Thinking about it, it was the first time that he went in Wijihoyun’s room .

“I will give you the High Heaven spear technique . ”

Wijihoyun said with a solemn face . Wijihoyun sat on the bed and looked at Sungmin .

“ . . . do I have to kneel?”

“Just get a chair . Friends don’t kneel . ”

Wijihoyun muttered, and Sungmin pulled a chair and sat next to Wijihoyun .

“This is the best spear technique that I remember . A hundred years ago, a man called the Spear King who ruled the world with a spear, used it . The name just looks majestic, doesn’t it . The best spear technique from the high heavens . It’s that good of a technique . ”

“I can’t memorize hard things . ”

“I know . Your talent is trash . Like the Amethyst Cloud, the High Heaven is also a grace technique . You won’t do anything with your talent even if you spent your life practicing it . ”

“Do you keep having to say that?”

“It’s true . ”

There was nothing he could say back . ”

“So I will change it to your talent . It might take a while, but it’s going to better to learn the revised version than the original . ”

“ . . . Can you do that?”

“I’m a genius . ”

Wijihoyun said solemnly .

“The head realized this as well . I'm not completely changing . It’s only lowering the entrance limit… it’s also mixing other techniques as well . I can’t change the origin . The Spear King who made it was a genius as well . ”

That was a great thing already . Changing an original technique . Wijihoyun was just a different person from Sungmin .

“I’ll change it to High Heaven Sungmin technique . ”

“What?”

“It’s for you so it should have your name . High Heaven Sungmin . Isn’t it great?”

“That’s great?”

“If you don’t like the name, you make it . I like that name . ”

Wijihoyun said . Sungmin was about to disagree but closed his mouth . She was going to fix a technique it for him, so he felt kind of sorry to say something about the name .