Overgeared

At close range, the physique of the blue tiger was much bigger than the toothless tiger. Grid, who was 183 centimeters tall, had to tilt his head back completely to get a glimpse of the ‘king’ character on the blue tiger’s forehead. Nevertheless, Grid wasn’t overwhelmed by the blue tiger and was fascinated.

The blue tiger was beautiful. The blue fur that shone with a white light seemed to make the jewels embedded in Grid’s crown seem frivolous. The iconic black tiger stripes, which gave off a complex sense of aesthetics that couldn’t be reproduced with Grid’s hand technique, blended with the blue fur.

“Pagma!”

The blue tiger suddenly arrived in front of Grid and stretched out his arms. All the twitching majestic muscles and the blue fur was menacing. However, Grid didn’t swing his sword. The blue petals of sword energy fluttering with the falling leaves lost their purpose and dispersed.

Against the beautiful backdrop, Grid stared into the blue tiger’s eyes. They were familiar eyes. Khan had always greeted him with such eyes when he reunited with Khan after a few months. There was longing and joy in the blue tiger’s eyes, who had watched the mountain and rivers change dozens, hundreds, of times.

“Pagma!” The distance narrowed as the blue tiger jumped and hugged Grid. Grid almost collapsed from the weight of the blue tiger but he used all his strength to keep standing. He waited until the blue tiger finishing rubbing against his cheeks.

“Pagma! You’re alive!!” The blue tiger cried. The black eyes, which usually held the depths of time, were teary and the pink nose was runny. The shoulders that were three times wider than Grid’s shoulders were trembling.

Then after a moment...

“Sniff sniff! Sniff sniff? Hyaaack!”

The blue tiger that was crying, biting, breathing in, and rubbing against Grid suddenly became frightened. He had belatedly noticed...

“Y-You! You aren’t Pagma! Aheung!”

“...I’m afraid you can’t threaten me with those eyes now.”

Grid hurriedly stood back on his feet and stared at the now roaring blue tiger. Scars that couldn’t be seen from up close covered the blue tiger’s body. They were one-sided scars—deep wounds that wouldn’t be erased for the rest of the blue tiger’s life. The blue tiger’s shoulders slumped.

“Really... you really aren’t Pagma.”

It was natural to think this person was Pagma. Unlike the other yangbans who acted harshly and in a vulgar manner, Pagma showed a quiet dancing posture. This temporarily overlapped with the person in front of the blue tiger. However, this human in front of him wasn’t Pagma. The blue tiger couldn’t distinguish between human appearances but he quickly noticed it. He remembered it vividly—Pagma’s sweet voice and the warm sunshine-like smell as Pagma reached out to him, who was crying in a cage. The blue tiger had been longing for it for hundreds of years.

“Human, why do you have Pagma’s dances?” the snarling blue tiger finally asked a question.

“I inherited the skills that Pagma left behind after his death,” Grid answered honestly. Lies were a deception rather than a consolation.

“Aheung... I see. Pagma is dead.”

Surprisingly, the blue tiger didn’t seem shocked. He reacted calmly like he heard news he already expected. Nevertheless, he couldn’t conceal his rising sorrow. His round face that was unlike his burly physique trembled.

“S-Shall we return to our cave?”

“Y-Yes, aheung. We should go and eat garlic.”

The atmosphere turned strange and the toothless tigers started to retreat. They were afraid of the blue tiger because of their experience of having their teeth removed.

The blue tiger’s ears pricked and he called out to them, “Aheung! Garlic? How can you chew on garlic when you’re missing teeth?”

The blue tiger’s eyes widened and the cuteness immediately disappeared from his face. The majesty of a king that he showed when he first appeared returned and even Grid was on edge. The tigers were deadly pale. “H-Hiccup! D-Dentures! We chew with dentures!”

The blue tiger was distracted by Grid and only belatedly discovered the tigers’ teeth. “Aheung! Where did

gave it

“...!”

visitors. He had no idea someone had

the human perhaps in a

large bundle but there was

“That idiot Hwang Gildong...”

‘Hwang Gildong!’

revealed the identity of the big hero who saved Pangea from a

“Take them out. Aheung.”

“What do you mean?”

“Dentures, confiscate. Aheung.”

“......”

became toothless tigers and scattered in a depressed manner. Grid watched this scene and asked, “Why is removing

blue tiger willingly answered Grid’s question, “To be exact, it is mugwort and garlic. Around 10 years ago, a wicked daoist sprinkled mugwort and garlic around Bukdu Mountain and ran away.

garlic?” Grid asked as he recalled

humans if they eat it for 100

If they eat it for

immortals? What? Daoist immortals are artificially

to spiritual beings. For humans to become

into ferocious monsters. Then why is he trying to make daoist immortals? Aren’t daoist

Hwang Gildong. He was the one who turned

hid in Pangea Castle’s underground dungeon. Arube was an evil daoist who had the desire to take

case. The unidentified daoist was aiming

are good beings. However, daoist immortals will become dependent on the society of gods, regardless of whether they are human or spiritual creatures.

a daoist immortal being good is meaningless unless the god who

Aheung. Incidentally, it so happens that the

gods of the East Continent were yangbans who treated humans as dogs. At least, from a human point of view, they

the evil daoist must be a minion of the Hwan Kingdom. There must’ve been a plan to turn wild animals into monsters to block people from accessing this area, allowing the

on the gods of the West Continent and had to grow their army. It seemed clear

daoist steal the

Continent, including the Red Phoenix Bow, were a type of barrier that blocked the emergence of great demons. One of the reasons why the yangbans were revered as gods was due to this barrier. The loss of the Red Phoenix Bow was a severe blow to the deification of the yangbans. They should be obsessed with the weapons of the sacred creatures. Then why did the servant of the Hwan Kingdom steal the Red Phoenix Bow? It was

head. “Aheung? I stole

“...!”

suddenly disappeared, the panicked people thought an

bow that was like blazing fire.

“T-The Red Phoenix Bow!”

peeked at the bow’s information using Pagma’s Eyes.

and abused by the yangban. Then he crossed the Red Sea. Aheung. Honestly, I thought Pagma would’ve died in the Red Sea. Yet Pagma crossed the Red

“Yes.”

people for

a traitor to someone and a villain to someone else. However, he was also a hero. “Pagma was revered

so sad and adorable that Grid hurriedly