Possessing Nothing Novel (쥐뿔도 없는 회귀)

Chapter 23 - Goal

How would he take that? Sungmin stayed quiet and only stared at Wijihoyun. She looked with confidence and continued.

"I lived for 13 years and became famous. Isn't that good enough. I'm not dying for another 13 years."

"We don't know."

"No, I won't. I can't. I'm not going to live my earned freedom for only 13 years. I'm going to live a long, long time.

Wijihoyun said with a huge energy. Then she looked back at Sungmin.

"You are like a boat with no destination travelling the big ocean. You move with no destination, following the wind. Is that traveling? That's called drifting."

It was hard to disagree. Sungmin knew that he didn't have a goal. No, if he was truthful, he was scared of making a goal. The 13 years had given him experience, but it had also given him limits.

Knowing the present and knowing the future limited him. He had no talent. He knew that. He was going to stay a second rate for 10 years.

"You can't go anywhere because you are drifting aimlessly. So you need a goal. 'Me'"

It made sense. Wijihoyun... was one of the strongest otherworlders. To the point where even if he practiced fr lifetime, he might not get anywhere.

That made Sungmin negative.

"Even if I made you my goal, it doesn't make me you..."

"Did you try?"

Wijihoyun spit out.

"Please don't say anything that you haven't tried"

"No, you don't say anything irresponsible. I can't do it. No. I have no talent. We have different starting lines. You have gotten so much aid because of your amazing genius talent. You were fed so many potions and you lived in a place where grace techniques were lain over the place. Isn't that why you're here, Small Pegasus Wijihoyun."

Sungmin's words had malice in them. No matter how much he tried to forget or not remember or not care, Wijihoyun was that person.

"But I'm not."

It was also self knowing information.

"I didn't have anything. It was the same before. I was summoned with nothing, with no talent. That was how I was summoned, completely barehanded. You left this city in one month. I lived here for three years. I attacked rabbits and boars, risked my life for goblins, and moved in fear away from orcs. That was how I lived for three years. In the new city, I survived by hard labor in mercenary guilds."

Wijihoyun didn't say anything. She listened to Sungmin's story.

"That is me. I lived 13 years to be a second rate martial artist. A C rank mercenary. Then... I died. I'm back. That me..."

"You are a second rate martial artist."

Wijihoyun opened her open.

"It took you 3 months to be a second rate martial artist. You are true. I started as a genius and got a lot of aid. But what about you. You learned the Amethyst Cloud. You got 20 percent of me inner strength. You will learn spear techniques as well."

Wijihoyun shook her hand.

"Is that not good enough? Then I'll give you more. What do you want. Outside strenght? Or fist techniques? Anything else. If you want something, I'll teach you."

"...I don't want anything."

Sungmin answered. A spear technique and Amethyst Cloud. That was enough. He didn't have confidence to learn any more.