Chapter 536: Side Story 36

Chapter 36

“Mister! I bought this!”

Early in the morning, the whole group gathered at the carriage to resume their journey. While they were one by one loading their luggage onto the carriage and preparing to leave.

Dan So-mi ran towards Jang Sam-tae holding a large basket.

“As expected! So-mi is the only one who thinks of me, hahaha!”

“You’re welcome! You need to have the ingredients to show off your skills… so we can eat delicious food.”

Dan So-mi made a hollow expression as she recalled each of the things she had eaten while sleeping outdoors in the past. Perhaps it was a nightmare that cast a shadow under her eyes, her expression made it seem like her soul had momentarily left her body.

Jang Sam-tae patted Dan So-mi on the shoulder.

“Don’t worry! I’ll let you eat delicious things from now on! Even if it’s just for you.”

“Hehe, thank you. As expected, you’re the best, Mister.”

“Uha… Uhahaha! Of course!”

Jang Sam-tae, who was smiling broadly, was looking at Dan So-mi as if looking at his own child. However, the expressions of those watching the scene nearby were not very good.

Especially Namgung So-hye.

‘He should do that to his own kid…’

Namgung So-hye shook her head.

Jang Sam-tae liked Dan So-mi very much.

It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that she was an irreplaceable existence in the world. The problem was that despite having a wife and two children, he liked Dan So-mi more.

How could a person be like that?

“He’s truly a villain, a villain. He deserves to be punished by heaven.”

“Shut up, you wench! What did I do to make you go crazy, going crazy?”

“G-Going crazy?!”

“Then are you balls?”

“W-What did you say?!”

Namgung So-hye trembled as her face turned bright red. How could he say such a thing in front of an unmarried virgin?

This was beyond ignoring Namgung So-hye.

Thus, at the moment she was about to quickly draw her sword.

Dan Woo-hyun’s voice was heard.

“Don’t do anything useless, and load the luggage. We’ll be leaving soon.”

“Ugh…!”

“Hehehe, I’ll put this here!”

Even though Namgung So-hye, whose heat had not yet cooled down, was glaring at Jang Sam-tae with a sharp gaze, Jang Sam-tae casually brushed off such a glare as if it were nothing.

Because no matter how sharp her gaze was, it was a drop in the bucket compared to the two old men or Dan Woo-hyun.

So, Namgung So-hye had to swallow her anger alone.

“By the way, what did you do yesterday? What about the place you were first at, and why are you in a place like this?”

At that time, Sa Do-hak asked with a somewhat uncomprehending expression. Clearly, the place they parted ways was completely different from here.

However, when morning came and it was time to leave the inn, Dan Woo-hyun led the group here. As if he already knew they had changed locations.

Thus, he was curious about the reason.

“Some weird guy attacked us. We moved in case he brought his comrades.”

Jang Sam-tae made an indifferent expression.

Because of that guy, their dinner was interrupted and they couldn’t even eat potatoes. Of course, thanks to that, they were able to eat their fill of delicious things in Dan Woo-hyun’s room, so it could be considered fortunate, but the fact that the dinner was ruined remained unchanged.

Therefore, he couldn’t be in a good mood.

“So, who is that guy?”

“How would I know.”

“Heoheo- You were attacked but you didn’t even ask who it was?”

“No, well… We’d have to be targeted by a few to bother asking.”

Jang Sam-tae turned his gaze away with hollow eyes as if he had given up on the world. Letting out a short laugh saying haha-, he looked like a person who had let go of everything.

It was said that a wanted poster and a bounty had already been placed.

In such a situation, it would be funny if they weren’t attacked.

Thus, he didn’t think otherwise.

“Still… you should have asked a bit. Who knows? It might be someone from that Heaven and Earth Cult or whatever… Or maybe the Demonic Star whose name was sold because of you…?”

“Demonic Star? Don’t make me laugh. They said that guy is the Four Heavenly Kings of the Heaven and Earth Cult?”

“T-That’s right.”

Jang Sam-tae smiled faintly.

He didn’t know how great of an organization the Heaven and Earth Cult was. But if they were at the level of bothering the Murim Alliance and the Heavenly Dao Society, they would definitely be amazing guys.

If he was the Four Heavenly Kings of such a place, wouldn’t he be terrifyingly strong? Perhaps he would be similar to the Five Emperors or second to the Ten Supremes.

So it wasn’t that guy.

“He got knocked out by just a kick to the face, so how could such a guy be…”

“Ah… is it to that extent?”

“Yeah, I’m telling you. It must have been some mere ronin who came blinded by the bounty.”

Namgung So-hye nodded in understanding.

A person on the level of the Four Heavenly Kings wouldn’t just be beaten up by Jang Sam-tae. With that level of skill, let alone the Four Heavenly Kings, it would be normal to not even dare to casually mention their name anywhere.

Wasn’t it none other than Jang Sam-tae?

Namgung So-hye had completely erased the very fact of losing to him from her memory a long time ago.

“Well, if he got beaten by you, that says it all. Right, is your body intact?”

“What do you see me as, old man? Even so, this Jang Sam-tae-“

Jang Sam-tae slightly clenched his fist and swung it towards the empty air. Unfolding the fist arts he had learned so far, he soon smiled widely.

“There are more than one or two things I learned while getting beaten up by you, old man, and the manor lord.”

“Uhahaha! Right, of course! Even if you are a servant, you’re a servant of the Hunan Dan Family, so you shouldn’t go around getting beaten up! Right, you did well, you did well!”

Sa Do-hak smiled pleasantly and patted Jang Sam-tae’s shoulder. Even if he was an ugly guy, he was protecting the name of the Hunan Dan Family just by not going around getting beaten up.

He was very proud of that.

“Stop chattering and move the luggage. It’ll be dawn soon.”

At that time, Dan Woo-hyun clicked his tongue while looking at them with a displeased gaze. Because they were only talking and their hands were stopped even though they hadn’t even loaded half the luggage.

Sa Do-hak and Jang Sam-tae, who were happily smiling together after hitting it off for the first time in a while, glared at Dan Woo-hyun for a moment. However, the moment they saw his calm face, the two turned their gazes away and opened their mouths awkwardly.

“R-Right, we should move quickly. What are you doing? Not moving?”

“I… I’m going, I’m going!”

No matter how capable they were, the two couldn’t get used to Dan Woo-hyun’s gaze at all.

* * *

“Keok!”

“A-Are you okay?”

Chu Jak-han slowly opened his eyes and looked around. A familiar scenery was entering his eyes through his blurry vision for some reason.

At first, perhaps not knowing where this place was, he stared blankly at his surroundings for a while, and then realized that it was the cult’s safehouse.

Also, he saw the familiar faces of his subordinates next to him.

Why were they standing so absentmindedly?

Didn’t it seem like they were looking at a patient?

Thinking up to there, Chu Jak-han pulled out a few memories that suddenly flashed through his mind.

In an instant, he subconsciously ground his teeth.

The face he had tried to catch, and the process of being messed up terribly by him came to mind. Then, when another memory flashed through his mind, he hurriedly raised his upper body.

“Y-Young Master!? Now…”

“Shut up!”

He raised his hand while shouting roughly.

Could it be? It shouldn’t be.

With such a thought, he stroked his right cheek.

In an instant, he flinched and trembled; the skin that should have been smooth was rough, and a burning heat rushed in as if he had suffered a severe burn.

“B-Bronze mirror! Bring a bronze mirror!”

At his intense shout, one of the subordinates hurriedly brought him a bronze mirror. Even while handing it over, he trembled, and seeing that, Chu Jak-han felt even more ominous.

Soon, the moment he slowly saw his own face.

“…!?”

He lost his words for a while.

Starting from his right cheek to near the eyes, all the skin that the potato had touched was discolored red. It was a moment when he clearly felt that his skin was burned, not just to a level that would heal after a little while.

Tremble tremble-

His whole body trembled without realizing it.

The perfect appearance, which women admired and there was no woman he couldn’t seduce, was miserably shattered.

“This damn bastard-!”

Kwadadang!

Bursting with resentment, he smashed the bronze mirror and threw everything he could grab. As if that wasn’t enough to relieve his anger, he looked back at the subordinates beside him and threw a punch.

Pow pow pow-!

“You bastards! What the hell were you guys doing while I was like that?!”

“Keuk!”

In fact, they were innocent.

There was something they were told to look into, and they were looking into it at the moment. But the master’s fists poured down regardless of such things.

He was swinging to shake off his anger, so how strong would the power contained in it be?

In an instant, blood burst and faces were crushed.

“Heok… heok… heok…!”

Chu Jak-han stopped punching when those who had been beaten up could no longer stand. As they were all groveling with blood pouring out, at a glance, one would think that their breathing had already been cut off.

But Chu Jak-han didn’t care in the slightest.

He, who was catching his breath holding onto a chair, ground his teeth.

“I won’t leave him alone… That bastard…! I will never forgive him!”

The nickname Demonic Star wasn’t given for nothing.

It was the result of a combination of a perfect appearance that any woman couldn’t help but fall for and the charming arts he had learned.

However, one of them was crushed.

And that too with just a single hot potato.

Could there be anything more disgraceful than this?

“Keueuk…!”

However, Chu Jak-han suppressed his anger and frowned.

Strong.

He wanted to tear him apart and kill him, but he was so strong that he couldn’t do anything. The reason he didn’t think his movements were a simple coincidence was that he had never perfectly seen them even once.

This clearly meant that there was a gap.

What should he do to kill such a guy?

“…Find out. What that guy does, who he is with. Everything without leaving anything out!”

“A… U… Understood.”

He couldn’t touch him because he was strong?

No.

There were plenty of ways to break even strong guys. The guy’s family, lover, something he valued. How many people had he broken that way so far?

If he grabbed and poked at one to shake him, then collapsing him and making him sit down would be a piece of cake.

Chu Jak-han twisted his expression and smiled.

“I’ll absolutely… not forgive you…”

A desire for revenge burned in his eyes.

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