“What did you say?”
The old man frowned as he spoke. I clapped a hand over my mouth. Mistake. I should’ve kept it in my head, but it slipped out before I knew it.
In that instant—
“Hoh.”
Rumble—!!!
A tingling pressure blasted out of the old man’s body. The table rattled, and the whole building began to shake.
My eyes trembled.
Even though I couldn’t feel qi, the sheer magnitude was like this.
What is with this old man?
“Gr… Great Hero, wait a moment…!”
Dang Cheongi collapsed, trembling.
Despite that desperate plea, the old man’s eyes were fixed only on me.
“Will you look at this brat.”
The corner of his mouth curled.
“You’re withstanding it.”
“…”
It wasn’t that I was trying to endure it; without qi, the effect was simply slower.
The pressure was pouring down, sure, but my body was tough enough that this much was tolerable.
“Urgh!!”
Of course, for Dang Cheongi—who seemed to be at the very cusp of his peak—it…