My friend and I transmigrated as characters inside a martial arts novel.
The problem is,
“....What are the Ten Most Prestigious Sects? Is it like multiple tops?”
“….What is the North Sea Ice Palace? Is it like the Grand Duke of the North?”
My friend is a BL fan while I’m a RoFan fan. Umm, can’t we just go to another world? We’re fine with anything except martial arts! I cried out desperately, but nothing changed.
“…..I’d rather be a pitiful shou suffering from an obsessive gong.”
“…..And I’d rather be a tragic heroine.”
“But don’t men watch martial arts a lot? Why don’t you know anything about the martial arts genre?”
“I’ve liked love fights more than sword fights since I was young.”
Will we be able to survive here even though we don’t know anything about martial arts? We stared blankly at each other.
At first, I didn’t know that this place was a martial arts novel world. I thought it was just a normal oriental world. If it wasn’t for that voice.
“Yoo Seolhwa! Yoo Seolhwa! Where is that punk? Why doesn’t he come in right now!”
Yoo Seolhwa (劉屑話). He is the protagonist of “Murim Tale“, a famous martial arts novel that we have often heard of, even as fans of other genres. I closed the book after reading only a few pages because the martial arts genre is difficult to understand, but I remember the name of the main character because he was really handsome. I got up and looked out the window. The drunk neighbor was screaming, looking for the main character.
“He’s going crazy again today.”
My friend Kim Daeun, who became a child, turned her head and said, scratching her stomach.
“Did you sleep well, Han Eunwoo?”
“Are you up already? Sleep a little longer.”
“I can’t sleep because I’m hungry. Ah, I’m starving. Do we have anything to eat?”
As soon as I woke up, I looked at Kim Daeun who was searching the kitchen, and lowered my head.
“What’s wrong?”
“……My friend became my younger sister overnight.”
“I don’t want to acknowledge the fact that I’ve become siblings with you. Oh, there’s leftover porridge from yesterday. Although there’s only one serving.”
“…….”
“Hey, rock-paper-scissors? The winner gets to eat it.”
“……Now’s not the time.”
“Rock, paper, scissors!”
I instinctively played scissors. Daeun, who played paper, stared at me without saying a word and opened her mouth.
“Best of three.”
“……Just eat it all.”
“Nice!”
While Daeun was eating porridge, I went outside to get some water. I was about to fill the jar with water from a stream in the village, when I saw my face on the water surface. This body’s eyes and face are round, and he’s as cute as a hamster. Why is this face in a martial arts world? This face is supposed to be the heroine’s younger brother in a romance fantasy world. I automatically sighed in regret.
“…Why did it have to be a martial arts world?”
Everything is fine except for martial arts, I can do anything really well except for martial arts. Daeun was waiting for me as I struggled to carry the jar back home. I put the jar down and sat in front of Daeun. Then Daeun seriously opened her mouth.
“Ha Myoha.”
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“Qtja?”
‘Lj Zsbtj’ kjr atlr ybvs’r cjwf. P jrxfv mjgfoeiis.
“Qts vlv sbe mjii wf atja jii bo j revvfc?”
“Ds atf kjs, ifa’r cba erf beg bglulcji cjwfr lc atlr kbgiv.”
“…….”
Qfii, batfgr klii atlcx la’r rerqlmlber. P cbvvfv.
“Fcvfgrabbv.”
“Tbe rtbeiv jirb mjii wf Zsbgsfbcu… Yt, yea kjla.”
“What’s wrong again?”
“Isn’t Myoha is one year older than Myoryeong?”
“Yes, right.”
“Then shouldn’t I call you Oppa, not Myoha?”
“…….Oppa?!”
I got up immediately and moved away from Myoryeong. Myoryeong grumbled.
“Why do you hate it so much?”
“Can’t you just call me by name? I haven’t eaten much, but I’m already going to throw up. Please stop that.”
“You don’t like the word oppa? Then…”
Myoryeong looked up at me in a cute way.
“Oraboni?”
And I really threw up.
* * *
“Yoo Seolhwa! Yoo Seolhwa!”
Today too, the man next door was looking for Yoo Seolhwa. I stared blankly out the window.
“Where has this child been since this morning? Today is the day I’ll strangle his neck!”
The child, who sloppily hid himself next to the water jar, was dozing off while squatting down. I broke out in a cold sweat as soon as I saw the child’s white hair covered with dirt and dust. Thanks to a friend who passionately promoted “Murim Tale”, I knew several characteristics of Yoo Seolhwa, and one of them was that he was white from head to toe. Clearly, this was him.
Since he was a child, Yoo Seolhwa has had white hair and skin like silk, so he was ostracized by people for looking like a ghost. As there was only one child with white hair in this village, it was obvious to me that this was Yoo Seolhwa. First of all, I should let Myoryeong know about this. I ran to the room.
“Myoryeong!”
“Oh, just in time. Myoha.”
Myoryeong said with a worried look.
“Let’s find something to eat in the mountain behind the village today. We’re out of rice.”
“Myoryeong, it’s not the time to think about that. Do you know who is in front of our house?”
“Who is it?”
“Yoo Seolhwa!”
“What…?!”
We bent down and crept to the window, whispering with only our eyes visible.
“Is that him?”
“Yes.”
“Wow, his hair is really white.”
“It’s not the time to admire him. What should I do?”
“What should you do? Leave him alone. He’ll go somewhere else when he wakes up.”
I looked at Myoryeong with astonishment.
“……Should we just leave him alone?”
“Then what? Should we hide him?”
Myoryeong looked at me with a very unexpected look.
“We don’t even know how we are going to live right now. Why are you being nosy?”
“But…”
“And you know that if you get involved with the main character, you’re going to have to go through a lot of trouble. We have to stay away from the main character as much as possible.”
“But…”
As I continued to hesitate, a frustrated Myoryeong roared.
“Ah, what’s wrong with you? You know I don’t like being nosy!”
“No, I’m not trying to be nosy!”
I cried out, too.
“Remember what we’ve seen in transmigration novels so far! Most of the protagonists tried not to get involved with the original characters!”
“…… What?”
“But what happened? They ended up getting involved! You know, the more you try not to get involved with the main character, the more you get involved with the main character!”
“But it’s only in the novels…!”
“This is a novel.”
Myoryeong was speechless. I spoke seriously.
“Even if you avoid the main character of the fictional world, you will definitely get involved. So we will.”
I said after looking at the main character who was still dozing off.
“Let’s approach the main character more actively. The more you try to get involved with the main character, the less you will get involved with him.”
I actually came up with such a genius idea. After a while, I took a deep breath and went out right away. The child’s eyes slowly opened as he felt my presence. I approached him.
“Hey.”
The child’s body trembled. I asked.
“You can come inside—”
He ran away even before I was finished. I looked back at Myoryeong.
Look, wasn’t I right?
- First, let’s live and see
There is nothing to eat. Of course, there is also no money. I held up the rice bowl on the table with both my hands. The rice bowl had some indents here and there, and it even had dust sitting there. As I reckoned from the shabby house, Myoha’s and Myoryeong’s familial situation was not good. Their parents died of illness not long ago, and the few grains they had left were decreasing. We went to the mountain behind the village to look for something to eat, but couldn’t gather anything. I finally decided.
“I can’t do this anymore. We need to find a job. Let’s go somewhere crowded.”
Myoryeong questioned my decision.
“Myoha, how old are we?”
“Twenty-two years old.”
“I’m not talking about our old age, but our current age.”
I answered weakly.
“13 years old.”
“Even the healthy adults in this village are complaining that they can’t find jobs, so how can we children find work? Isn’t it better to beg?”
“No begging. Let’s have at least some pride, please.”
“But we don’t know what can happen. Wouldn’t it be better to understand what the world is like a little more before working?”
“I’m worried about that too, but we can’t starve to death. And you look really hungry.”
Myoryeong waved her hand.
“No, I’m really fine. I’m not hungry.”
“…….”
“By the way, this is surprisingly good. Do you want some?”
I shed tears as I watched Myoryeong munching on weeds she pulled from the street. I should definitely go looking for a job.
***
“It’s cheap, it’s cheap! Look at this thing!”
“That lady right there! Look at this pretty bracelet!”
I took the grass out of Myoryeong’s hand and threw it away, asked a person passing by and went to a crowded place. When I left the house, I decided to find a job by any means, but when I arrived on the street, I felt dizzy. There were so many people. I stared at the street, amazed.
People dressed like martial artists and mysterious smells. A different atmosphere.
I realized that this is really a different world. Myoryeong whispered next to me as I was breathless.
“Are you okay?”
“…….”
We clasped each other’s hands tightly. It was something we would never do normally, but we had no choice. We could only rely on each other in this world. We carefully went into the crowd, holding each other’s hands so tightly that our hands couldn’t get blood.
“Be careful not to get lost.”
“Yes.”
I looked around. There were a lot of people and there were a lot of stores. Originally, in the world, you could find a job by searching on the Internet a few times, but not here. I had no choice but to go into the store and ask them one by one. I went to the nearest store.
“Oh, they’re cute. Did you come to run errands for your mother?”
“Oh, it’s not an errand…”
All right, now is the time to use this cute hamster-like face. I said as cutely as I could.
“Are you hiring?”
“Get out!”
I didn’t know its already out
haha this is really cute already
omg poor mc 😅😂
AAAAAAAHHH SO CUTEE