“You have more than enough qualification. You can do it—so try.”
I couldn’t respond easily to those words.
‘…What does that mean?’
That I’ve achieved the qualification?
“Does that mean I’ve reached great perfection?”
Perhaps the great perfection of the Gu Flame Wheel Art—so I asked if that’s what he meant.
“That’s only the starting point. You shouldn’t be unaware, should you?”
Gu Seongyeol reacted as if to say, what are you even talking about.
“…I don’t know.”
What is it I’m supposedly not ignorant of?
I had no idea. I couldn’t grasp the meaning.
‘That I’ve attained the qualification?’
Saying my rank is sufficient, so try it? That I can do it? That firm attitude of his felt strange instead.
“I don’t know how to do that.”
If I did, I’d have done it already.
Especially during those fights where I felt like I was going to die—I would’ve done it first, then.
‘Just from a glance, it was no ordinary thing.’
It was a form that…