Chapter 82
“Junior.”
“Yes.”
Gwang-shin, who was gazing at the night sky with Dan-woo-seong, posed a question.
“Why were we born to live such lives?”
Danwooseong sighed. Come to think of it, we don’t even know why we were born. Moreover, Danwooseong had more to his story. Hadn’t he been reincarnated?
Danwooseong replied.
“Can we find the answer while we’re alive? I suppose we’ll only know after we die.”
“Is that so.”
Kwangshin’s constant refrain was always this.
Danwooseong said.
“Just as we cannot take our own lives simply because we are curious about it, we can only live on with resilience.”
Kwang-shin retorted.
“You old fool.”
“Senior.”
“Hm?”
Danwooseong also asked a question.
“What must I do to become stronger?”
Danwooseong’s question was always this. It was something he had always wanted to ask Samshin.
“You are already strong enough. How much stronger do you expect to become at your age? Would you be satisfied if you became as powerful as the Heavenly Demon our Three Gods fought? Or do you mean to become as powerful as Lord Mujin or Lord Sohan? To grow stronger, you need a reason.”
“A reason?”
You’ve grown as strong as your story. And so have I. Was it simply my talent for martial arts that made me one of the Three Gods? That can’t be. What propelled me to the Three Gods was my story. It was because of my twin children, who became stars before they could even be born, and because of my wife. What meaning could life hold, even if I grew stronger through such a story? I died long ago. Now I’m merely living out the remainder of my life. How could I have grown strong through training alone? I’m stubborn. I lived to keep my vow, and this is how I ended up. You ask me how to grow strong? It’s absurd. It depends on your story. No one else will know the answer.”
