Realizing that I had been momentarily lost, my master, who had come close, gently stroked my head with a smiling face. Then, he met my eyes and suddenly threw me a task.
“Then, as much as you remember, try to unfold it once by yourself.”
Yeah. I had a feeling this would happen.
“Um, yes.”
Whether it was because the swordplay was not complex, I did remember roughly how the swordplay started, how it moved the sword to the end, how far the steps had to be taken.
But having just witnessed a demonstration that could be called perfect, it was not easy to raise my sword confidently.
As I hesitated a little, my master, who had come close again, gently patted my shoulder as if to reassure me. An action filled with effort to handle his rough hand that had held the sword for a long time gently.
“You don’t have to do it perfectly. I need to know how much effort you put in to be able to teach you properly, I just want to see that.”
“……Understood!”
It made sense.
Taking a deep breath, I gripped the handle of my wooden sword properly. My master immediately stepped back a few paces to make space.
Slowly raising my sword, I pondered the posture that my master had shown, and took the same position.
The tip of the sword drew a straight line to reach my neck, my feet shoulderwidth apart….
When my posture was steady, I began to draw the sword slowly in the air.
‘……It’s not as hard as I thought.’
Though I had been momentarily tense before starting, I was surprisingly able to unfold the sword smoothly. I don’t know how it looked to a skilled person, but I think I imitated the movement.
The first movement, and the next.
It was unexpected that the next thing kept coming to mind just by seeing it once.
In fact, I thought I would stop in the middle because I wouldn’t remember, but when I reached a point that didn’t come to mind for a moment, my body unconsciously moved, and then I realized it was the right movement.
‘What’s this?’
It felt like I was trying something again after a long time, forgetting it over a long period.
Of course, I never held a sword before the possession, so it must be just a simple feeling…
‘Why is this working?’
Ridiculously, with that thought, I finished the last movement and lowered the sword.
While my master had unfolded it perfectly without even disturbing his collar, I was naturally out of breath. As I took a deep breath and turned to my master, our eyes met immediately. I saw my master approaching quickly.
He looked much happier than before.
“You looked unsure, but you’ve already memorized it all.”
“Didn’t I get it wrong?”
“If you can unfold it to this extent after seeing it once, it’s almost the same as not being wrong.”
Not being wrong, then.
“There were no major mistakes, just a few small things to polish. If you can do this from the start, you’ll be able to finish the SixUnion Sword soon and learn the Jade Maiden Sword or Seven Plum Sword.”
After saying that, he added after a moment’s thought.
“It was like you’ve been practicing for a long time. You seemed to naturally know where and how much power to use.”
I paused for a moment inside. His words coincided partly with a thought that had briefly crossed my mind.
“……Is that so?”
But, of course, that couldn’t be the case.
Honestly, I can’t think that this is because I’ve read the book at this point. When I first learned the sword art, I felt like I had, but sitting down and breathing is one thing, and this is a sword that needs to be swung around while moving.
It was an even more absurd statement than becoming an expert right after reading a martial arts book.
“So what is it?”
As for the ability of the “me” that uses my head, “I” wasn’t particularly good at using my body. But it was also ambiguous to say it was the ability of the body of “Ha Hyun,” whom I had possessed.
In the original, “Ha Hyun” had always been told he was lacking as a disciple of Hwasan’s First Sword throughout his growth. It might have been because the expectations were high, but it was clear that he couldn’t have been above average since he hadn’t heard a single compliment.
“He certainly couldn’t have immediately demonstrated the sword art when he first learned it.”
Even now, “Ha Hyun’s” body was merely 12 years old, and since I had possessed him just when he entered Hwasan, this really was his first time learning the sword.
But why can he wield the sword skillfully? There’s absolutely no reasonable explanation…
“Ha Hyun. It wasn’t a criticism, so you can smile at times like this.”
“Oh.”
A hand lightly landed on my head with a slight weight. The master lightly messed up my already disheveled hair and then let go.
Come to think of it, didn’t I react like a child who heard praise?
I belatedly grinned and nodded.
‘…Just think of it as a special privilege for a novel’s protagonist. I’ve read novels like that a few times. I am now a talented person. That’s just how it happened. It’s like the power of the universe.’
I didn’t want to have such an illogical and groundless thought, but there was no help for it if not.
No, if you wake up in someone else’s body without resentment, you should at least give a manual conscientiously. Since there isn’t one, I just have to think as I like.
Male lead is a Love-Obsessed Merman
When he discovers she has gone, he risks everything to pursue her on land, enduring agonizing pain to transform his tail into human legs…
One-line summary: Male lead chases female lead. The male lead’s love is a bit sick, an invincible love brain.
Synopsis
During a voyage at sea, Jiang Yang accidentally captures a merman.
Servant: I heard that mermen are fierce and brutal.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman obediently rubbing her palm like a puppy: “You call this fierce and brutal?”
Servant: I heard that mermen have no human nature.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman with wet puppy eyes, obsessively calling her ‘A Yang’ like a childish infant: “You call this having no human nature?”
With great difficulty, she releases the merman back into the sea and returns to shore.
Who would have thought that in less than half a month, the merman, who should have been freely wandering in the South China Sea, would shed his scales, endure the pain of losing his tail, transform into human legs, and come ashore to find her?
He kneels at her feet, rubbing her palm, with merman tears rolling down: “A Yang, don’t abandon me.”
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