Chapter 7: Why don’t you use the convenient setting called amnesia? (7)

A slash close to the speed of sound.

If one were to define that slash in a single phrase, that would probably be it.

However, speed wasn’t the problem.
Because Park Hyung-jun had accumulated real combat experience.

He could immediately grasp the terrifying aspect of Yu-shin’s recent slash.

‘A sword technique with no defense or evasion…!!’

Any sword technique, at the very least, has some slight defensive aspect.

For example, if an attack fails, one can pull back.

Or change directly into a defensive stance from that position.

Or block the enemy’s attack simultaneously with one’s own attack, and so on.

If even that doesn’t exist, at the very least, one wouldn’t delve in too deeply.

Why?
Because failure means a fatal wound.
If one makes a mistake, one could even die.

However, Yu-shin’s sword had none of that.
No defense or evasion existed.

A desperate sword technique to the extent that it could be mistaken for a mutual kill.
That was Yu-shin’s sword.

Park Hyung-jun, who had read the desperate emotions embedded in that sword technique, closed his eyes tightly.

‘I, no. We finally created a monster.’

A monster that doesn’t care for its own body.
One that doesn’t care about itself if it means killing the enemy.

Did they say a cornered rat will bite a cat?
Certainly, that saying was right.

Park Hyung-jun, who had read the desperate emotions embedded in Yu-shin’s sword technique, evaluated it that way.

And very naturally.

That was Park Hyung-jun’s misunderstanding.

Of course, it was indeed a very aggressive sword technique, to the extent that it could be mistaken for a mutual kill.

However, this was a sword technique that Yu-shin, the user, had accounted for everything from the start.

The principle of Unique Name Slash is simple.

Accurately analyzing the enemy’s full power, predicting their actions, and aiming for gaps to cut.

However, this is easier said than done.
In actual combat, it can be said to be a very difficult technique.

It cannot be done with simple prediction.
It requires the conviction to throw one’s life away.

If one makes a slight mistake, one could be counter-attacked and suffer a fatal wound.

So, accurately analyze the enemy’s movements.
And foresee the enemy’s next movement.

The ultimate sword swung with everything when one judges that they can definitely cut the enemy.

If I cannot surely cut down the enemy.

I swing, thinking that I will die.

That is the Unique Name Slash.

Thanks to that, it was also a technique with a ridiculous consumption of mental energy.
Yu-shin frowned.

‘In my current state, is two times at most the limit?’

But it couldn’t be called bad.
Rather, it was a much better situation than expected.

Just exercising for a few days, there was no way his physical abilities would suddenly improve dramatically.

Nevertheless, Baek Yu-shin’s body succeeded in handling the hero’s techniques.

Although the power was greatly reduced, the fact that it could endure was important.

In other words.

It means that Baek Yu-shin had consistently trained his body alone.

And Yu-shin’s conjecture was accurate.
Baek Yu-shin was originally a dullard with no talent.

Nevertheless, he didn’t give up and continued to work hard.
Believing that his efforts would be rewarded.

Although, he didn’t see the light then.
Those efforts did not become futile.

“Where did you sell your apology?”

Yu-shin kicked Park Hyung-jun, who had fallen to the ground, trying to get an apology.

However, there was no way the unconscious Park Hyung-jun could apologize to Yu-shin.

In the end, Yu-shin continued to kick Park Hyung-jun until his bones broke.

Hearing the sound of bones breaking, Yu-shin was silent for a moment.
Then he turned his head.

“That’s enough.”

He had only kicked him a few times playfully.
Yu-shin hadn’t expected them to actually break.

Well, I’ll count this as having received an apology.
Should I go back now?

However, the moment Yu-shin was about to turn back.
He met Yu-ri’s eyes.

“Brother, that was…”

Yu-ri, who had followed her brother all the way to the abandoned factory, watched everything.

The fact that Park Hyung-jun was a genius who had reached the realm of Bloom, which even she couldn’t use.

And the sight of him overwhelmingly defeating even such a genius like Park Hyung-jun.

‘Is he really the brother I know?’

The brother Yu-ri knew was always kind, and as upright as a bamboo stalk.

However, the current Yu-shin was somehow different.
His kindness had completely disappeared.

A violent man who broke the wrist of his fallen enemy was now before her eyes.

However, Yu-ri stopped her doubts.
Because the doctor’s words came to mind.

[As a side effect, your personality can change completely.]

[His personality can change completely?]

[Yes, especially in Baek Yu-shin’s case, as a defensive mechanism against his terrible trauma, his personality might completely reverse. Therefore, the guardian must pay special attention.]

‘Yes, after experiencing such a thing.
There’s no way there wouldn’t be any changes.’

If it had been an ordinary person, they would have long since taken their own life.

To that extent, such a cruel and terrible event that could shake a person’s values.

Her brother had endured it all alone until now.
Yes, it was natural for him to change.

Of course, it was still a question when her brother had gained such power.

Yu-ri decided not to doubt her brother anymore.
After all, he was still her brother.

“Brother, are you okay?”

“Yeah. I didn’t get hurt anywhere.”

“…I’m sorry, Brother.
Truly, I’m sorry.”

In the end, Yu-ri couldn’t hold back.
The tears she had suppressed began to flow.

She knew that she couldn’t just let it pass with a single phrase of “I didn’t know anything.”

The days when she had been nicely deceived by Park Se-jun, and had even annoyed her brother instead.

[Ah, I’ll handle it myself!!]

[What do you know to say such a thing, Brother?!]

[Please, stop meddling in my life!]

Nevertheless, her brother didn’t tell her the truth about Park Se-jun.
What could be the reason?

Yu-ri, who knew her brother inside and out, immediately realized the reason.

Yes, her brother, from the beginning.
Hadn’t wanted her to get hurt.

However.

Knowing nothing.

And seeing a blood relative fiercely rejecting him.

What on earth must her brother have thought?

She was foolish.
She was stupid.
There was no way her brother would have told her to keep away for no reason.

At the very least, she should have properly asked why.

She hadn’t been able to truly face her brother.
And the result was right before her eyes.

At one point, she had even thought.
Wouldn’t it be okay if she just kept silent like this?

After all, her brother knew nothing.
However, she absolutely couldn’t do that.

Guilt consumed her heart.
She was ultimately just an onlooker…

And because the result was right in front of her.
She simply couldn’t keep quiet.

“Brother, you might not know this now.
But actually, I was standing by while you were suffering.”

That was a general confession.
She knew the other person knew nothing.

But she couldn’t just remain silent like this.
So, she told him everything.

What Park Se-jun and the Sword Saint Squad had done to her brother until now.

And how she, having been swayed by them, had treated her brother.

Like a broken dam, the emotions Yu-ri had felt at that time poured out like a waterfall.

Sadness, anger, despair.

And what she reached at the end was a sense of loss and emptiness where nothing could be felt.

Yu-shin, who had unexpectedly received all of Yu-ri’s emotions head-on, opened his mouth.

“That’s not your fault.”

Of course, strictly speaking.
That would be the sentiment of a third party, not Baek Yu-shin.

In the first place, he didn’t know what Baek Yu-shin had thought, or what kind of life he had lived.

But, even so.
Not even speaking a word, and embracing everything alone…

‘In such cases, it’s easy to collapse alone.’

At the very least, he should have spoken to someone he could trust.
To his family, that is.

Being unable to handle it, embracing it alone and self-destructing, is not doing well.

However, even though it was merely someone else’s sentiment.
Yu-ri didn’t feel it that way.

Because, the person before her now was Yu-shin, not a stranger.

‘My brother truly is the brother I know after all.’

Even if his personality had completely changed, his kindness hadn’t disappeared yet.

She ended up misunderstanding.
And that misunderstanding would never be resolved.

Because when she was comforted by Yu-shin then, Yu-ri felt as if she was being saved.

The sadness, anger, and guilt that had filled her heart vanished as if washed away.

‘From now on, I will protect my brother.’

Yes.

Only I can protect my brother.

Instead, it was unexpected that a deep obsession would settle in the remaining void.

Ironically, just as Yu-ri couldn’t read Yu-shin’s mind.

Yu-shin also couldn’t read Yu-ri’s mind, and simply let it go.

Originally, Baek Yu-shin’s story was not like this.

While enduring no small amount of hardship, and being scorned and ridiculed by others.

It would have been a story of him not losing his purity.
And protecting his good feelings.

It is still so.

Originally, Baek Yu-ri should have been captured by Park Hyung-jun first.

And Baek Yu-shin, who arrived late, also on the verge of defeat and breaking down in despair.

It was a story of his hidden power awakening, with the sole conviction of protecting his family.

However.

With the hero, not Baek Yu-shin, intervening.
The story was greatly twisted.

And the twisted story would return as a massive butterfly effect.

Even if not right now.