Chapter 542: Side Story 42

Chapter side_42

Gu Nok-jin was the branch chief in charge of the Yichang branch.

Boasting a size two to three times that of an average adult male to the point where the word ‘giant’ wasn’t awkward, the muscles all over his body bulged out as if his entire body was made only of muscles.

On top of that, with a bushy beard and untidy hair, he looked like a bandit at first glance.

He munched on the food placed on the dining table, picking it up with his hands, and then lifted the whole liquor jar next to him and gulped it down.

No matter how you looked at him from any angle, he was a barbarian.

He was a person who made those who saw him think that way.

Chu Jak-han frowned while watching that.

“So what Brother Chu is saying is, there’s a girl with a divine beast… something like that?”

“I’ve already sent a letter to the Cult and informed them. They will let us know the plan soon.”

Chu Jak-han, having lost his appetite, put down his chopsticks and sighed. Eating with such a guy didn’t feel like eating at all.

Rather, his stomach churned as if he was going to vomit.

However, Gu Nok-jin didn’t care at all.

After wiping his greasy mouth, he sucked the grease remaining on his fingers and grinned.

“Don’t say such foolish things! Uhaha! It will take more than half a month, our necks will fall off from waiting.”

Chu Jak-han frowned at that dirty sight.

Couldn’t he wipe it off a little with the cloth next to him?

Since he was acting like a wild monkey, no words could easily enter his ears. It was just that all his actions were dirty, so he didn’t even want to converse with him.

This was why he didn’t want to run into this guy.

“Didn’t you say there were only six of them?”

“That’s what I heard.”

“Then what is there to think about. We just go and crush them.”

“Crush them…? Didn’t you hear there’s the White Tiger?”

Gu Nok-jin burst into loud laughter, puhaha. To think a guy called the Four Heavenly Kings of the Heaven and Earth Religion had lost his guts, wondering what he had been through.

But he didn’t utter any more words.

Because the guy with a pea-sized liver right in front of him was strictly speaking his superior, and he was nothing but a mere branch chief under him.

“Track them down for the time being. Make sure you don’t get caught.”

“Yes, yes, I got it, so don’t worry.”

Chu Jak-han stood up from his seat, glaring at Gu Nok-jin with a reluctant expression. He always answered well, but how many times was it actually kept?

Due to that anxiety, his crumpled impression hardly straightened out.

“I’ll say it one more time… Until there’s an order from the Cult Leader… Just watch them.”

“Hahaha, aren’t you trusting me too little? That makes me sad…”

Gu Nok-jin waved his hand and smiled.

However, that light appearance made him even less trustworthy. Yet, he couldn’t corner him further, so Chu Jak-han didn’t say any more and turned his steps towards his residence.

“Sigh… Not trusting someone this much, really…”

In truth, it was true that the words that the divine beast White Tiger appeared were hard to believe.

However, the fact that Chu Jak-han, of all people, couldn’t get his hands on the woman in front of him, added a little credibility to the story about the White Tiger.

“What are you planning to do?”

At that time, the subordinate who was standing behind sneakily approached and asked. If the story was true, it was something big enough to overturn the Heaven and Earth Religion, and even if it was a lie, it would give them an opportunity to corner Chu Jak-han.

It was also funny to just wait absentmindedly in this situation where they had nothing to lose as a result. Thus, Gu Nok-jin smiled slightly, let out a long yawn, and stretched.

“What else? We have to go see. Aren’t you curious about what kind of guys they are? I also want to know if the White Tiger is real.”

“…”

“I’ll follow right after, so keep an eye on them for a bit. Still, they are spiritual creatures in name, so we must treat them accordingly.”

“Understood.”

* * *

“What did you say?”

Jang Sam-tae dug his ear violently with his pinky finger, wondering if something was wrong with his ears. However, the words he already heard still lingered in his mind, and the expression of the person in front of him was also as serious as before.

“I’m talking about those guys from the Heaven and Earth Religion or whatever. Patriarch Dan let them go.”

“No, what on earth are you talking about?! Who among the guys who fell out of favor with our Manor Lord is still alive!”

“There is. You.”

Sa Do-hak looked at Jang Sam-tae with an annoyed expression.

In truth, if one were to pick a guy who was living well despite offending Dan Woo-hyun’s mood, Jang Sam-tae would be the only one. Both Namgung Cheon and Sa Do-hak were good at talking to Dan Woo-hyun, but it wasn’t like they didn’t have a cautious side to them.

However, Jang Sam-tae was different.

Even though that guy had fear for Dan Woo-hyun in his head, it had always been a problem because he couldn’t stop his snout. If it were someone else, their head would have already flown off, but it ended with him just getting beaten up, so there were times when they wondered if his heavenly luck was even better than Dan So-mi’s heavenly luck.

“Manor Lord! It’s a lie, right? Right? There’s no way you’d leave them alive?!”

Jang Sam-tae looked at Dan Woo-hyun with an aggrieved expression.

He thought that if he only caught those guys, it would definitely be a golden opportunity to clear his false charge, and there was no way the great Dan Woo-hyun would let them go.

Clearly, the senile old men had a vain imagination.

“They were lucky.”

“…? L… Luck?”

“Yes, luck.”

Jang Sam-tae tilted his head at the somewhat incomprehensible words. Was Dan Woo-hyun a human who needed a person’s luck to catch and kill them?

From the moment they first met until now, countless things had happened, and Jang Sam-tae had watched them from a closer place than anyone else.

But no.

Opponent’s luck or whatever, heaven’s will or earth’s call, none of that was needed. If he didn’t like it, he would swing his sword, and since there was no one to stop that sword, they were sliced up with swishing sounds.

That was exactly Dan Woo-hyun.

Damn it.

But he was suddenly weighing luck.?

Jang Sam-tae was dumbfounded and shuddered.

“What kind of bullshit is that, kuwek!”

“Your mouth is rough.”

Feeling a sudden tingling sensation in the back of his head, Jang Sam-tae flopped down on the spot. The shock was so great that he thought his eyeballs would pop out.

However, perhaps having already developed a tolerance to this situation, Jang Sam-tae, who sat down for a moment grabbing his head, slowly stood up and frowned.

“I thought… I was going to die.”

“Consider yourself fortunate to be alive.”

Dan Woo-hyun smiled faintly and shook his head. Now, even if he hit him with this much force, he didn’t seem to care much.

It seemed that being hit for over ten years had raised his endurance to an unbelievable level. It was to the point of wondering if he would become an indestructible diamond body at this rate.

“Heoheo, Patriarch Dan must have a reason for doing that.”

“No, even so… Does it make sense to let go of the guys we have to catch anyway?”

He spoke with a hearty laugh, trying hard to calm Jang Sam-tae down, but perhaps his emotions hadn’t subsided even after getting hit, as his complaints hardly stopped.

It seemed he was really not keen on this unfair situation he was in.

“Damn it! I’ll catch them myself. I’ll catch them myself and smash them to pieces!”

Soon, he huffed and puffed, moving his feet roughly.

As his will to clear his false charge blazed fiercely this time, no one tried to stop Jang Sam-tae.

Jang Sam-tae, who was standing in front of the room door, slightly turned his head and looked at Dan Woo-hyun.

“…Aren’t you going to stop me?”

“You said you’d catch them, so I will trust you.”

“…”

Jang Sam-tae broke into a cold sweat at Dan Woo-hyun’s expression, smiling faintly.

The Demonic Star was a figure from the Heaven and Earth Religion, and even one of the Four Heavenly Kings.

How strong would he be?

He wouldn’t even be the only guy there, so it was a situation where he might have to face dozens by himself.

And yet, he wasn’t going to stop him?

“Ey! I’m really going? I’ll go and catch them all?”

“Heoheoheo, cheer up. This old man is so old now that his knees hurt even when walking.”

Namgung Cheon tapped his knees and smiled. It was certainly a bizarre thing as it felt like just yesterday that he was walking and running around completely fine.

On the other hand, Sa Do-hak was the same.

He tapped his own waist and opened his mouth.

“Is it going to rain? Why does my waist hurt so much? If you aren’t going to go out, come and pound my waist a bit.”

“Damn it, really! I’m going, I’m going! Watch me do it without any help!”

Jang Sam-tae, throwing open the door, glanced at Dan Woo-hyun as if he still had some lingering attachment left. In fact, his eyes were full of lingering attachment, as if he had greater expectations for him than the two old men.

“What are you doing not going?”

“Damn it!”

However, Dan Woo-hyun was resolute.

It seemed he didn’t even intend to fathom Jang Sam-tae’s earnest gaze looking at him or his heart, and instead, he looked at Jang Sam-tae, who was not leaving, with a bizarre expression.

Soon after, Jang Sam-tae roughly left the room.

Slam! The door closing forcefully meant he seemed quite angry.

“That guy really, with that temper… Tsk tsk.”

Sa Do-hak clicked his tongue and shook his head.

Everything would be solved naturally if they just waited quietly, so what was so urgent that made him so impatient.

However, what was understandable was that even though it had been two days since they entered Yichang, he hadn’t been able to wander outside at all, so his anger was bound to pile up.

“He must have come out thinking it was his world without Mae-hyang, but being locked up like this must be frustrating too. Heoheoheo.”

“Anyway, we have a long way to go from now on, are we going to continue going around like this?”

Sa Do-hak glanced at Dan Woo-hyun and asked.

The Heaven and Earth Religion, which began to get involved at some point, now reached out to Dan So-mi, the one they absolutely shouldn’t touch. Since he let those guys go alive, their tails continued to stick to them and not fall off.

As if proving that, weren’t there eyes everywhere even now?

It wasn’t just one or two.

Even with a conservative estimate, there were twenty people, all of them watching and observing this place, and it seemed like they were waiting for someone to reveal their figure.

It was guessed to be Dan So-mi without even needing to think about it.

To think they would get attention from someone in this way.

Dan Woo-hyun unknowingly let out a faint smile.

“Well… she is remarkably exceptional.”

“Heoheo, what are you suddenly saying, you?”

Namgung Cheon gave a strange look at the words that popped out of nowhere. Since the person who was calmly looking outside suddenly said strange things and smiled, it was enough to feel weird.

Did he finally lose his mind after living for over a thousand years?

He felt the urge to ask for no reason, but he kept his mouth tightly shut at Dan Woo-hyun’s changing expression.

“Let’s… slowly start cleaning up.”

At his single word, the two old men smiled and stood up from their seats. It seemed like a new wind was blowing into the somewhat boring journey.

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