Possessing Nothing Chapter 31
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Chapter 31
Genius
Plam came closer . He looked to be of the same age as Sungmin and looked similar to Sungmin in stature . His eyes looked just like the stars on the sky .
“Lee Sungmin . ”
Plam muttered . He was bare handed . He didn’t have any smell like Scarlet, or wasn’t blind like Bejun . He could use his left hand and talk unlike Sogo .
“How long has it been?”
Plam asked . Sungmin was curious what penalties Plam got, but he didn’t ask that right away . Sungmin answered as he looked at Plam’s face .
“About… 3 months?”
He wrote down how long it was since he came here every night . It was perfectly 90 days since he had arrived .
“3 months!”
Plam acted frivolously .
“You stayed here for 3 months . You’re amazing1”
“ . . . You stayed for a year?”
Sungmin asked dumbfoundedly . Plam widened his eyes .
“You know me?”
Plam asked .
“I heard it from Sogo . ”
‘Ahah, that mute girl . Then you must know my name?”
There was no reason to introduce myself . Plam laughed . He came closer to Sungmin .
“You should have come and talked to me . There’s only people older than me here . I needed a friend . ”
Friend . He thought of Wijihoyun and erased the image that came up .
“But you use martial arts?”
Plam asked . Sungmin nodded with a surprised face . To be honest, he didn’t really like the meeting with Plam . Plam… could copy techniques or magic just by looking at them .
Everyone would feel the same way . Techniques were martial artists fortune, and it was same for magicians . But Plam took all of that away just by looking once .
“ . . . Yes . ”
“I can tell . ”
Plam laughed . He twirled his hair with his fingers .
“Sogo must have told you . That I can copy a technique just by looking . ”
Sungmin didn’t answer . But his face was filled with caution . He had met Wijihoyun, and he knew very well by living with her for a while . What kind of people geniuses were .
They were different . Their thoughts exceeded their age . They were proud and self righteous .
“Let’s see… hmm…”
Plam lifted his hands . He didn’t have a spear, but his figure looked like he was holding a spear . Plam looked at Sungmin’s face and laughed .
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He moved . He performed the ran, na, zhe, and then performed the High Heavens . Not the whole thing, of course . Sungmin could only do up to the 3rd step .
Still, Sungmin was horrified at Plam . He could do anything that he saw . It was like Sogo said .
“It’s a good technique . ”
Plam put his hands down and muttered . Like he was rating the technique .
“How is it?”
Plam turned towards Sungmin . HIs eyes were shining . What was he asking for . Sungmin knew what Plam wanted .
Plam wanted Sungmin to be horrified and surprised .
“ . . . It’s great . ”
Sungmin hesitate and muttered . Plam smiled widely at that .
“I do it better than you, right?”
To that, Sungmin’s chest turned cold . Evil intentions… he didn’t know . It could be his personality . But it was always like that . A frog would die because of a kid’s innocent rock throwing . Sungmin was the frog . .
“Everyone is like that . It’s strange . Sogo and Bejun, they probably practiced it more than me, but if I do it, I do it better . ”
Plam laughed and said . He knew now . Why Sogo didn’t want Sungmin to meet Plam . Why Bejun said it wasn’t good for him .
To a normal person, Sogo and Bejun would be considered geniuses . Sungmin thought they were geniuses as well .
But how would a true genius see them .
And what about a normal person seeing a true genius .
‘It’s this feeling . ’
It was a different feeling than with Wijihoyun . She said that she was a genius, but she never tired to brag about her geniusness . Sungmin never tried to compare him to Wijihoyun . The High Heavens that he was using was made by Wijihoyun, and the basics that he had learned was all from her .
Instead of being a comparison, Wijihoyun was more of a teacher to him and a goal .
But not Plam . This cruel young kid knew of his talent . He knew how other people felt about his talents .
Sungmin understood very well . Why Sogo said not to fall into despair .
A true genius makes people fall into despair just by meeting them .
“What penalties did you get?”
Plam asked . He probably felt that Sungmin’s silence wasn’t very fun .
“I have 4 penalties . You're curious, right?”
“No, I’m not . ”
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Sungmin said coldly . He was curious to be truthful . What did Plam have to suffer . Sogo had 3 penalties, while Scarlet had 2 . Bejun probably had 2 as well .
Sogo started off with 2 . Was it the same with Plam . a new penalty came every half a year, then it makes sense that Plam would have 4 penalties .
“Lies . You’re curious . ”
Plam laughed .
“I’ll tell you . This mountain . A stronger penalty makes Mush more happy . Therefore, suffering makes your reward better . ”
I don’t need it . Plam muttered and added .
“Your spear technique is a great one . But the one who has to wield it, you, isn’t very great .
He knew . He had heard it before . You don’t have any talent . To a real genius . . . . Sungmin was probably nothing .
“So . how’s this . You should just give up and leave the mountain . Well, with your talent, you could go to a city and live easily . Don’t try to use something that doesn't even fit you…”
“Leave . ”
Sungmin’s hands that was holding the spear tightened . Plam widened his eyes .
“I’m not done yet . ”
“Leave . ”
“Why are you saying that? It’s for your own good . Why . I’m trying to help you . Your wasting time . ”
“It’s my time . ”
Sungmin spit out .
I wanted to kill him . It was a long time since he had felt this violent . But he couldn’t actually kill him . Mush would block him, and even without Mush, there was no way that he would win against Plam .
He was a genius .
“Come on . ”
Plam muttered . In his face, there was no smile anymore . Plam stepped back a few times and looked at Sungmin’s face .
“It’s for you . Why do you hate me?”
“I never said I wanted you to say stuff like that to me . ”
“So I can’t say something without your permissions?”
“Like you said to me, I have permission to say stuff to you”
Plam couldn’t anything to that . Plam’s shoulder shook . As he was about to say something .
Phee .
It was as if there was a wind . Sogo arrived in between Plam and Sungmin . Her cold face was looking at Plam . Sungmin was surprised at her arrival, but Plam didn’t seem like it . Plam felt her coming unlike Sungmin .
“I thought you would have kept listening while hiding . ”
Plam mocked . Sogo shook her head . To that, Plam opened her mouth . But he didn’t say anything . Sogo put her hand and blocked his face .
“You take care of him too well . I’m jealous . ”
Plam muttered and turned around . In a few steps, he turned back around towards Sungmin .
“I’ll see you later . ”
Sungmin didn’t say anything . Plam walked away quickly . Seeing that Plam left, Sogo turned around . She pulled out her branch and wrote down .
[You held it in . ]
“I had to . I’m not leaving this mountain just yet . ”
Sungmin turned around . HIs steps felt a bit heavier than usual . It wasn’t just the weight, but Sungmin’s mind felt heavy .
“ . . . Thank you for coming . ”
He didn’t hear a reply . She couldn’t say anything . Sungmin lifted his spear . He swung with just his outside strenght .
His chest was stuffy . There was something stuck in his mind . Don’t despair . That’s what she said . 10 years later . He thought of the promise . The 13 years he lived and died in his previous life . The shameful death . And now .
When he looked up, the sun was already going down . Sogo wasn’t there, but there was a deer that was in her place . His energy supply was depleted . HIs body was filled with sweat and his muscles were dying .
‘It’s not enough . ’
Talent .
How much work would a regular person have to put in to follow a genius . 10 times, 100 times to follow that . That much might not even be enough .
Talent . Talent .
He didn’t have talent . Wijihoyun said that, and Plam confirmed it . He didn’t need anything . Sungmin knew that . He was going to rely on something else because he didn’t have talent . He got the martial skeleton and the Genuine Heavens and the potion and everything other to make up for his lack of talent .
Talent .
That was heavy . That made him despair . No, the real horror was this . When he would meet Wijihoyun in 10 years .
That I wouldn’t be strong enough .
That she would be disappointed .
He was afraid of that .
“Mush . ”
Sungmin opened his mouth . He held his shivering hands . His despair turned into fear . This life that he had gotten again… would end uselessly .
“Mush…!”
The call turned into a cry . He was crying . After he came back, it was the first time that he was crying .
[Human . ]
A voice came .
[Why have you called a God . ]
A haze appeared in front of him .
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