Switch Mode
🏖️🌴🎉 Purchasing Coins is Back Online Were Sorry for the Delay! 🎉🌴🏖️
To Buy Coins please Register and Login before purchasing! if there are any issues or if u want to view Illustrations or recieve release notifications please join us on our Discord.

Surviving as a Cripple in Murim – Chapter 108

.。.:✧ Emperor's Sword Stance (2) ✧:.。.

—————————————————————–
Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Teottry
—————————————————————–

◇◇◇◆◇◇◇

 
On the way back to the Nangong family mansion from the blacksmith’s shop, Xiaoshao’s eyes swirled as she walked alongside Mancheon, matching his pace.

‘I… I said we should go together…’

As time passed and she calmed down, she realized how impulsive she had been.

‘S-still…! The fact that he accepted means he doesn’t mind being with me…!’

Despite this excitement, she also worried that he might think she was a troublesome woman.

She cautiously observed Mancheon’s expression, trying not to be noticed.

Every person is different, his sharp features could make him look cunning, but…

‘Waah~ Sister Nangong! Feed me!!’

The face of a child, clinging to her.

‘Wait for me. I’ll show you how insignificant your so-called fate is.’

The serious face of a man who had made up his mind, his playfulness gone.

Xiaoshao knew Mancheon’s different faces. And no matter what face he showed, he always approached her with sincerity.

The anxiety that had been flickering in her heart subsided.

It was a shamefully girlish expression, but… a blush spread across Xiaoshao’s cheeks.

‘Even if it’s forced… I like being with Young Master Sima.’

Just looking at Mancheon made her feel at ease.

She wanted him to always be within her sight.

“Brother… Brother Nangong…”

Always… and always… together…

“Brother Nangong, are you alright?”

At Mancheon’s call, Xiaoshao’s eyes, which had been lost in thought, regained their light.

“Ah… yes! I’m sorry. I was just thinking about something else.”

She hid her inner thoughts, which she was still too shy to express, and…

“What is it?”

She smiled awkwardly.

“It’s nothing, but since we’re here, would you like to look around the market?”

Mancheon’s gaze shifted to the street vendors.

The sudden appearance of his father, the engagement with Gwahae, and various other things had piled up after the Dragon-Phoenix Gathering, so he hadn’t been able to talk to Xiaoshao properly.

It felt strange to just buy a sword and start training right away.

And most importantly…

‘Wah! Baby Mancheon wants to play with Sister Nangong!!’

He wanted to spend some time with Xiaoshao.

◇◇◇◆◇◇◇

 
“Oh~ so Mudan came to apologize in person.”

“Yes, he came with Yuehua. He said he wouldn’t make any excuses for what he did.”

Xue Mudan. Yuehua’s older brother, the young master of the North Sea Ice Palace, Xiaoshao’s relative. And the foolish junior brother who had resorted to despicable tactics, who had put a yin energy enhancing drug called Hanbingyao in Xiaoshao’s tea, to win.

“For him to come and apologize… he must have some conscience left.”

“Heehee~ it’s all thanks to Young Master Sima.”

“I did beat some sense into him.”

He could still remember Xue Mudan, who had been completely overwhelmed by him, the genius who could deceive even the heavens, at the Dragon-Phoenix Gathering, his arm pinned, his shoulder pressed down…

‘Kraaaaaaah~! Yuehua! North Sea Ice Palace guards!!’

Wailing pathetically like a white wolf being mauled by a grown seal.

“He’s not weak, but compared to me… the difference is like that between Guan Yu and Yan Liang.”

Well, they both died by having their heads cut off.

Mancheon was just spouting his usual nonsense, praising himself, but… Xiaoshao muttered shyly beside him.

“You fought so hard you were covered in wounds…”

To Xiaoshao, who was already in love with Mancheon, it sounded like he was being considerate, saying he wasn’t seriously injured.

As they were happily chatting and looking around the market,

“Uh… Brother Nangong, wait a minute.”

Mancheon stopped in front of a street vendor and looked at the displayed goods.

It was a shop that sold women’s hair ornaments and combs.

“I gave my younger sister a comb a long time ago, and she’s still using it.”

He smiled naturally and carefully examined the goods.

“She’s a sharp kid, but she has a lot of cute sides to her.”

“Oh…”

But Xiaoshao couldn’t smile back…

She shouldn’t feel this way, but a sense of frustration welled up inside her, her heart in turmoil.

Gwahae and Yeonhwa.

The existence of other women, which she had tried not to think about, became clear.

They had done nothing wrong, but… she was jealous of them, who had met Mancheon earlier and had a deeper relationship with him, who might know a side of Mancheon she didn’t.

So, perhaps that was why, with her right beside him, she grumbled at Mancheon, who was choosing a gift for another woman.

“Young Master Sima, you are a gentleman… but you like women more than you should.”

Wang Meiyang, whose relationship with him was more than just that of a master and disciple.

And she recalled a conversation she had had with Yuehua a while ago.

“Um… Sister Xiaoshao… I think I should thank Sima Mancheon… so… um… what kind of food does he like?”

She recalled her cousin’s shy face as she fidgeted with her fingers.

But… Mancheon, unaware of Xiaoshao’s inner turmoil…

“Brother Nangong, a master who taught me martial arts when I was young once told me this. ‘That a gentleman should pursue martial arts and scholarship with the same passion he pursues women.’”

He laughed heartily at her cute criticism.

“In other words, it is not a flaw for a gentleman to like women! Hahahahaha-!!”

“Hng…”

“Haha.”

His laughter faded as Xiaoshao’s expression grew colder.

Or rather, he was at a loss for words at the sight of Xiaoshao’s face, which shown a mixture of coldness, embarrassment, and various other emotions, looking up at him.

Xiaoshao’s slender hand grabbed Mancheon again, and in her voice there was a desperate plea.

“Right now, I’m the one who’s with you.”

She might kick herself for this later, but right now, she wanted to have Mancheon all to herself.

“Just look at me for now.”

She hadn’t been like this before. She was changing because of Mancheon.

The face of a girl in love, not the young master of the Nangong family, was revealed.

◇◇◇◆◇◇◇

 
The Nangong family mansion’s bathhouse at the Martial Alliance headquarters.

-Bubble bubble~.

Xiaoshao, submerged in the huge, marble bathtub, her face half-drowned in the water, sighed and made bubbles, her face flushed from the heat.

‘Young Master Sima is my benefactor… and I’m just being selfish… jealous… and annoying… and saying bad things about him loving women… how pathetic…’

Mancheon had been the one to invite her to hang out.

He had approached her as usual…

But she had been so surprised by her own words that she had kept her distance afterwards, skipping both lunch and dinner.

-Splash~!

As she stood up from the bathtub, her naked body was reflected in the rippling water.

A slender, yet distinctly female body.

She recalled Gwahae and Yeonhwa, who had frankly expressed their feelings for Mancheon.

She had to continue her disguise as a boy for family reasons, but… she wasn’t as pretty or cute as them… but still…

“I have to make it clear.”

When she was alone with Mancheon, she wanted to be seen as a woman, not the young master of the Nangong family.

Having made up her mind, Xiaoshao got out of the bathtub and left the bathroom.

She wanted to see Mancheon as soon as possible. She wanted to apologize for what had happened today.

She wanted to convey her feelings.

◇◇◇◆◇◇◇

 
Mancheon was in the Nangong family’s training grounds, practicing the basic sword techniques Xiaoshao had taught him before dinner, wielding both a sword and a staff.

Dual Wielding.

He supported himself with the staff in his right hand and swung the sword with his left.

Sometimes, he would block with the sword and strike an imaginary opponent with the staff.

The difficulty of dual wielding was that the off-hand was usually not as skilled as the dominant hand, but

since he could use both hands freely with the Dual Wielding technique, it wasn’t a problem.

‘Senior Brother Zi Lu said that if I had focused on the Dog Beating Staff Technique instead of learning Dual Wielding, I would have become much stronger by now…’

A genius has his own path, his own way.

As expected, everything you learn comes in handy someday.

And as Xiaoshao had said, there were indeed similarities between staff and sword techniques.

If I get good at this, I might be able to use some of the Dog Beating Staff Technique’s moves with a sword.

Should I research it later?

As he was thinking this, he sensed a presence behind him and turned around.

“Young Master Sima, it’s good to be hard working, but don’t go overboard.”

Xiaoshao, who seemed to have just washed, stood there, exuding a moist, fresh scent.

“I was just having so much fun learning sword techniques.”

“I’m glad. Then I’ll teach you about the heavy sword tomorrow.”

A heavy sword? Since he was learning from someone from the Nangong family, he had expected it, but… to be honest, he didn’t really know what a heavy sword was.

He understood fast swords, which were fast, and phantom swords, which were unpredictable, and powerful swords, which were simple and powerful, but… he had no idea what a heavy sword was. He couldn’t picture it.

As if reading his thoughts, Xiaoshao picked up a nearby wooden training sword and said…

“Let’s have a light spar.”

As she raised the sword above her head, her aura changed.

When it came to love, she was a third-rate amateur who had just become aware of her feelings, but when it came to swords, she was a first-rate master among masters.

The Sword Dragon of the Nangong family, said to be the strongest among the aspiring martial artists.

“Woah…!!”

A sense of tension ran up his spine at the sight of her imperial demeanor.

Her cold expression was as flawless as an ice sculpture.

She had been showing her soft side to him lately, but this was her usual self.

A high stance, with no hesitation.

It was just a light, friendly spar, but her sword was held high, and he didn’t know when it would come down. His mouth went dry.

If he stayed like this, it would be a stalemate.

He would strike first. He would end it before the sword came down.

-Clack!

“Eh…?!”

But his staff was easily blocked by Xiaoshao’s sword.

The sword naturally pushed the staff away. It approached his neck, touched it lightly, and stopped.

He had attacked first… but Xiaoshao had blocked it even faster.

He was dumbfounded by what had just happened.

“Move the sword later and reach first. It’s called ‘late arrival, first strike.'”

Xiaoshao, now in teacher mode, lowered her sword and asked him gently.

“Young Master Sima, why did you attack first?”

“Because I thought it would be dangerous if I didn’t.”

Xiaoshao nodded.

“That’s right. I deliberately assumed an aggressive high stance to pressure you into attacking first.”

“Oh…!!”

“The reason I was able to easily block your attack, even though I swung my sword later, is because I predicted what kind of attack would come.”

To be more precise, she had pressured him with specific actions and guided his attack.

“The most important things in the heavy sword… the Boundless Azure Sky Sword Technique… are ‘prediction’ and ‘spatial control’.”

“Hmm…”

He realized that Xiaoshao was not just teaching him a simple heavy sword technique.

She was teaching him the Nangong sword itself.

It was good for him to learn it, but was it alright for Xiaoshao? Since she was the young master, it was probably fine.

As he was thinking this…

“Young Master Sima, do you know why there’s a rabbit on the moon?”

Xiaoshao suddenly put down her wooden sword, took a deep breath, and asked.

The sweet scent of her freshly washed hair tickled his nose.

“My mother read me a fairy tale about it when I was a child, so I know.”

He hadn’t known it back then, but this was also a Sakra legend.

The general story was this:

One day, Sakra, the king of the heavens, was bored and decided to play a prank.

“Bok-bok~ I’m bored. Should I play a prank on my cute animal friends?”

He descended to the animal forest, where the animals lived, and…

“Ugh- I’m so hungry I have no strength! If this goes on, I won’t be able to protect the world!!”

pretended to be hungry.

Surprised, a monkey, a fox, and a rabbit each went to get food, but… unlike the monkey, who brought fruit, and the fox, who brought fish, the rabbit couldn’t bring any food.

So, it built a bonfire and, without giving Sakra a chance to stop it, jumped into the fire and offered itself as a sacrifice.

Surprised by the rabbit’s incredible self-sacrifice, Sakra…

“Ah… rabbit… I’m happy! So happy! For me…!! But still… to go this far… isn’t that a bit much…?”

Was so touched by the rabbit’s heart that he revived it and sent it to the moon.

So… the rabbit is really grateful to Sakra, who has revived it. It says it will make rice cakes on the moon for him.

It wouldn’t have had to die in the first place if Sakra hadn’t played a prank.

At his words, Xiaoshao took another deep breath and looked up at him.

The bright full moon shone down on the two of them in the training grounds.

Her jade like eyes, reflecting the moonlight, showed him in it.

“If… I were the rabbit…”

She would give her Nangong sword, her life, for Mancheon, who had saved her.

She whispered words of love, as a rabbit would to Sakra.

“Young Master Sima is my Sakra.”

Xiaoshao’s face flushed.

She had mustered up her courage, but… she wanted to say more, but this was all she could manage for now.

◇◇◇◆◇◇◇

 
This is a separate story from the novel. A short, pointless illustration!

“Pyon… pyon… I’m Young Master Sima’s jade rabbit…”

“My king…”

Sima Mancheon’s jade rabbit! Nangong Xiaoshao, in a bunny girl outfit, enduring her embarrassment for Mancheon, and the ego sword girl, Zhanlu!

I drew this for this episode, but… I was too late… I’m sorry…

◇◇◇◆◇◇◇

 

[Translator Notes]

Ey I will provide the illustration when this paid chapter turned into free chapter, so please let me know if I forgot to upload it ‘kay? ✌️

For Illustrations and Release Notifications join our Discord

⚙ System Notification ⚙


Main Quest [God’s Apprentice] Unlocked!

You have been granted an opportunity by the Arcane God’s to become a Korean Translator for Arcane Translations.

Do you accept?

YES/ NO

Please Rate and Review us on NovelUpdates Release Schedule is 1 Chapter every 2 Days for each novel.
Disabled in the Martial World

Disabled in the Martial World

Score 9.5
Status: Ongoing Type: Artist: Released: 2022
I was born a cripple in a world that values martial arts. Now what? This is the murim life of a martial arts idiot cripple. Until the day I become a martial arts expert.

Comment

guest
2 Comments
Oldest
Newest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
miru
26 days ago

please update ? its been soo long…

miru
14 days ago

thx

error: Content is protected !!

Options

not work with dark mode
Reset