Chapter 77: The Mountain Sword Sect’s Crisis – Part 2
But after glancing once at those fleeing, Seolpung turned his gaze back to the unmanned forces surging toward him like a tidal wave.
Escaping was the obvious choice, but he didn’t want to.
Suddenly, Je Won-young, who had been fleeing, called out to him with a panicked expression.
“Sellpung, Squad Leader?!”
Though he hadn’t told Je Won-young, the operation wasn’t actually a failure yet.
Among the advancing enemies, Sak Muhyun would surely be mixed in.
Hae Cheong-yeon had thought from the start that it would be impossible for them alone to cleanly take out three peak masters.
So, though he couldn’t tell Je Won-young, who didn’t know Sak Muhun’s true identity, the original plan had been for Sak Muhun, who was in hiding, to assassinate the rest.
But that wasn’t the only reason Seolpung didn’t flee.
Watching the tidal wave of warriors closing in, Seolpung recalled memories from the past.
Warriors closing in from all sides, his home engulfed in blood and flames, his mother fleeing while clutching his wounded body, his grandfather fighting desperately, covered in blood.
Memories he never wanted to recall.
Seolpung hadn’t come to the front lines for the first time out of a desire for revenge or a sense of justice like the other members of his unit.
‘It was just… because I wanted to run away.’
That was it.
Seolpung wanted to run away.
From her maternal grandfather’s dying wish for revenge, and from the bloodline he himself never knew existed.
