TL Notes: Just a reminder. Jin Im-seok is a fictitious name for Seong Yul under which he is registered in the tournament.

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Drip—

Blood spilled across the cracked floor.

The amount was far too much to be just from his mouth. His trembling body showed clear signs that it had reached its limit.

Seong Yul turned his gaze.

His sword lay beside the pool of blood.

A swordsman who had dropped his weapon and was trembling—that scene spoke volumes.

‘Hmm.’

Peng Woojin observed the kneeling youth against the gray backdrop of a dulled, suffocating world.

‘How …