Why Did I Have to Enroll

formality….”

Dok Go-yeon raised her index finger and poked toward Ban Yu-won.

“First of all, this one.”

Slowly, softly.
However, as her powerful fingers cut through the air and reached his eyes, Ban Yu-won dared not move and just watched.

[Sewing]

A movement focused on passing through a single point.
He could be sure his head would be pierced if they continued forward.

Ban Yu-won was so immersed in the depth of the concept derived from human motion that he couldn’t come to his senses.

“Liar.”

She pulled back and smiled.

“Are you going to underestimate yourself when you have the talent to understand the Martial Arts Control that I’ve only shown you once?”

“…All right, I’ll start bragging from now on.”

Ban Yu-won, who had barely come to his senses thanks to her talking, retorted with a joke.
Dok Go-yeon chuckled and continued to explain.

“Stabbing.
It doesn’t matter if you do it with a sword, a dagger, or a spear, but what I just showed you is the most basic and ultimate ‘meaning’ of stabbing.
There may be countless applications, such as how many times to stab, where to start, and what kind of energy to use, but this is the ultimate in basics.
Do not forget it.”

“Ultimate in basics….”

Maybe that was a concept? The concepts Ban Yu-won dealt with also started with one central meaning, but mixing or adding other things to it could create many others.
However, ironically, in Dok Go-yeon’s movements, the ultimate in basics, that is, only one concept trained to the extreme, he felt a much deeper power rather than a concept created by mixing many things.

‘It means I can’t just focus on mixing concepts too much.’

Of course, what shouldn’t be misunderstood was that the move that Dok Go-yeon just showed wasn’t a general technique but one specialized to her.
There were many Chinese characters with the meaning of stab, but why did Ban Yu-won capture the term Sewing in her movements? That must be because, for her, stabbing was a fatal move that pierced through her target.

‘This is better for me.
Being strong is the best.’

Ban Yu-won pulled out his sword and took a stance.
Dok Go-yeon nodded her head and stepped aside, beckoning at him and again showing the movement of Sewing.
It gave him another flash of realization to see the attack approach.

“You can do it now, right?”

“I don’t think I can do it completely.”

“If you could follow me completely, the years I had accumulated would be meaningless.”

Dok Go-yeon smiled as if she was making a funny joke.
When she smiled quietly, she looked so beautiful that he didn’t even care that her pupils were crosses.

“Whew.”

Next to her, Ban Yu-won raised his sword, took a deep breath, and thrust it at a point in the air.
Once again, and again and again.
At first, it was at such a disastrous level that he couldn’t even feel the fragments of the true meaning, but the second time he suddenly felt the force of stabbing, and by the third, he could clearly feel the concept of Sewing.

―Whoosh!

And on the fourth, the air ripped open.
However, compared to what Dok Go-yeon showed him, Ban Yu-won thought it was just a drop in the ocean.
He frantically drew his sword again…!

“Stop.
You can’t control the strength yet, so you will hurt the room like this.”

Before he could, Dok Go-yeon grabbed his arm.
Seeing the cross in her eyes grow and shrink repeatedly was very strange.

Dok Go-yeon asked Ban Yu-won as she took his sword away.

“You remember what I showed you? Try the rest later in a wider area or against enemies you can kill.”

“Okay.”

Ban Yu-won frantically nodded.
Then, before his eyes, several notifications from the Babylonian Code appeared.

[You have succeeded in observing and understanding the concept of movement and are getting used to it.
The depth of the Complete Sight has become 110.]

[You recognized and acquired the concept of Martial Arts.
Swordsmanship was absorbed as a sub-concept of Martial Arts.]

[You recognized and acquired the concept of Sewing.
The depth of Sewing has been increased to 16.]

‘16?’

Ban Yu-won hurriedly perused his body code.

Martial Arts: 36 [Swordsmanship: 20, Sewing: 16]]

He groaned.
Sewing became a separate concept from Swordsmanship, and the two combined to form a martial art.
It was surprising that Swordsmanship had grown close to six more, but…to put it bluntly, his combat skills had more than doubled at this moment.

However, unlike Ban Yu-won, who was very happy, Dok Go-yeon seemed to have mixed feelings.

“I never imagined that you would show from the beginning the True Meaning of not being swayed by the shape of a weapon.”

“Ah, so that’s why.”

Ban Yu-won, who realized the reason why Swordsmanship and Sewing were separated by the words of Dok Go-yeon, nodded with admiration.
But she was still puzzled.

“Hmm?”

“No, nothing.
I think I could accept it as it is because you showed a movement independent of weapons.”

“You didn’t only fully understand that just because I showed it, you’re even starting to use it yourself.
You took my soul out of me two days after we met.”

“It was a really good lesson.
Leave the elixir to me.”

“It was an unexpected loss.”

She groaned and backed away.
Then.

“So, I will make up for that loss in the future.
Be prepared.”

“Eh.”

She left those fearsome words and vanished.

Ban Yu-won realized their lunch break was ending and hurriedly left the classroom with his student ID.

‘We’re going to the same classroom anyway, so she could’ve waited for me…hmm, the afternoon lectures seem to be focused on writing.
I’ll be just sitting and listening to the Professor’s lectures, so there won’t be any quarrels like in the morning.’

Of course, Ban Yu-won knew well that things would happen only when he thought they wouldn’t, so he decided to make some minimal preparations for now.

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