Chapter 551: Side Story 51

Chapter side_51

“…What on earth are these?”

Dan Wu-hyun wore a dumbfounded expression as he looked at the situation unfolding before his eyes. Over two hundred people were kneeling before him with their heads bowed.

It seemed they were all martial artists, but the strange thing was that there was no hint of fighting spirit or will to fight.

It was as if they were people who had lost the will to fight.

Furthermore, behind them stood men who appeared to be ronin of the Orthodox faction, trembling uncontrollably. They had all put down the swords in their hands onto the ground, and respectfully bowed their heads with their two hands neatly gathered.

Their faces were pale with fear, as if they had encountered an untouchable existence. It felt like they would faint if someone were to shout even once.

“What do you mean, what? We caught the guys who attacked and made them kneel.”

“…So why?”

“Then should we make them corpses?”

At Sa Do-hak’s words, everyone flinched and trembled.

He said it lightly, but it was a remark implying that he had intentionally kept them alive. Once again, they realized that if he had made up his mind to kill them, none of them would have survived.

“Phew… I barely survived, really. Why did you arrive so late?”

At that moment, Jang Sam-tae let out a long sigh and looked at Dan Wu-hyun. If he had appeared just a little earlier, things would have been a little easier.

In the end, Sa Do-hak and Namgung Cheon stepped forward and easily sorted things out, but if Dan Wu-hyun had been there from the beginning, there would have been no need to exert their strength.

Of course, none of them would have been able to live, though.

“…….”

However, Dan Wu-hyun did not answer Jang Sam-tae’s words.

He slowly moved his steps and stood in front of Chu Jak-han, who was kneeling in a miserable state.

“Your heavenly luck has run out.”

“Keuk?!”

At that moment, Chu Jak-han was unable to continue speaking at the words he heard.

He saw his plan thoroughly shattered before his eyes. Two hundred cultists were helplessly toyed with and trampled on.

He had the confidence to hold the entire situation in his grasp and shake it, so his current defeat could not be described as just a painful blow.

“What… What kind of bastards are you…. I-I’ve never heard of people like you in the Murim!”

“That’s what I want to ask. What kind of things are you?”

He replied to the question he heard with a question and let out a smirk. Seeing him spout such words fearlessly even in this situation, it seemed his mental education was still lacking.

He slyly reached out his hand and placed it on his shoulder.

Crack!

“Kuaaack!?”

Soon, Chu Jak-han’s bizarre scream echoed.

The sound was so loud that everyone looked on in fright. Was this the sound of bones breaking? They could clearly feel it.

“Kueuk….”

Chu Jak-han swallowed a groan as he grabbed one shoulder.

It hurt.

It was the first time he had felt the pain of his bones breaking. However, rather than the pain he felt, the momentum of the person in front of him seemed to be pressing down on his entire body more fearfully.

What is this human?

He felt a greater fear towards the person in front of him than the two masked old men who had beaten down all these people in an instant.

Unconsciously, his whole body trembled.

“Last time… I unintentionally turned a blind eye once.”

“…?!”

At the words he heard, a scene flashed across Chu Jak-han’s mind. The day he first saw Baek-ho and Sak-wol-myo, he recalled running into a man on his way back.

Was it this man?

“Y-You are… from that time…?”

“What kind of bastards are you?”

Dan Wu-hyun didn’t take Chu Jak-han’s question.

He slowly raised his hand again and this time grabbed his other shoulder. He hadn’t applied any strength yet, but it was obvious that if he set his mind to it, this too would be shattered to pieces.

“W-We are p-people of the Heaven and Earth Cult!”

“T-This bastard!?”

At that moment, a subordinate who had been watching all this from the side opened his mouth. In an instant, the strength of the grip holding his shoulder loosened slightly. If he hadn’t opened his mouth, Chu Jak-han’s shoulder would have been turned to bone dust.

“H-Heaven and Earth Cult?! These guys are the Heaven and Earth Cult?”

At that moment, Jang Sam-tae opened his eyes wide.

He couldn’t help but be surprised to hear words he hadn’t expected. Even the ronin who were watching the situation with bated breath opened their mouths wide, doubting their own ears.

If the words coming out of his mouth were true, it was as if they had been toyed with by the Heaven and Earth Cult.

“You son of a bitch! Tell me straight! Are you really the Heaven and Earth Cult? You bastards!?”

“Keuk… C-can’t you let go!”

And at that moment, Jang Sam-tae hurriedly ran over, grabbed Chu Jak-han by the collar, and shouted. He thought they were simply ronin who had gathered to catch someone with a bounty, but hearing a completely different story, it was natural.

“Is it true, you bastard!?”

“Kueuk!”

He then grabbed him by the collar and shook him wildly, but Chu Jak-han kept his mouth tightly shut and didn’t speak. He just glared at the subordinate who had opened his mouth as if he wanted to beat him to death.

“Ah, just stay still for a bit! You’re distracting!”

At that moment, Namgung So-hye stopped it and pulled the two apart. Instantly, Chu Jak-han, who finally faced her face up close, opened his eyes wide.

He had met countless beauties, too many to count, but he had never seen such a perfect woman. The modifier of the world’s greatest beauty naturally came to mind, and her beauty could only be described as truly crazy.

Unconsciously, he smiled faintly and released his energy.

“In my entire life, to see such a beautiful woman… Keok?!”

Smack!

Instantly, Namgung So-hye’s scabbard struck his face. Crack! His nasal bone shattered, and two of his teeth shot up high into the sky.

Soon, seeing him lose his balance backward as a nosebleed burst, Namgung So-hye forcefully kicked his leg with an expression of disgust.

Soon, having lost his balance, his face plummeted to the ground.

Smack!

“Kkeo… eok…!”

“L-Lord?!”

“Heok…!”

Shocked at the sight, the subordinates stepped closer with loud voices. No one paid attention to their movements because they knew that whatever they did, they couldn’t change this situation.

“Ah… disgusting…. This is truly the worst….”

At that moment, Namgung So-hye trembled uncontrollably and stroked both her arms. Because of the energy flowing from Chu Jak-han’s body momentarily, her hand had unconsciously shot out.

For a moment, to think that such a guy was cool?

Am I crazy?

Namgung So-hye squeezed her head and ground her teeth.

She realized anew that charm arts were a very frightening thing.

She unconsciously sneaked closer, grabbed the fallen Chu Jak-han by the collar, and pulled him up.

“You! What did you do to me?!”

“Kkeueu…!”

However, Chu Jak-han couldn’t answer.

His mouth was completely busted and bleeding profusely, and his face had swollen up because it had become a mess. He too wanted to say something while looking at Namgung So-hye, but his mouth wouldn’t open.

Instead, he carved her beauty into his eyes once more and smiled.

Smack-!

“Keok?!”

However, what flew in was a fierce fist.

It went in so cleanly that it hit exactly on his face. The already broken nasal bone was completely shattered, and the teeth that were still left soared up into the empty air again.

Everyone who watched the sight couldn’t help but be shocked.

The sight of the fist of a woman who was like a fairy being dyed bright red was enough to make them think it was a fear they wouldn’t forget even after death.

“A charm art… you learned something interesting.”

“Heoheo- Perhaps this guy is the guy called Demonic Star or something.”

“I-Is that true?!”

At that moment, at the words of the two people, Jang Sam-tae opened his eyes wide. He had heard people say that Demonic Star seduced people with charm arts or something.

Also, wasn’t it said that he was called the public enemy of men because he won the favor of beautiful women?

Therefore, the men called him a villain.

While Jang Sam-tae was making a dumbfounded expression, Sa Do-hak, with an absurd expression as if he found the situation extremely funny, opened his mouth.

“He’s a guy who uses a charm art, and he’s a person of the Heaven and Earth Cult, so this guy must be Demonic Star. Am I right?”

Glance, he looked at the subordinates near Chu Jak-han.

No one could easily answer, but seeing them sweat cold bullets, he felt like he knew even without hearing an answer. Even the ronin nearby seemed to have gained certainty in the situation.

“T-Then what? Have we been toyed with by the Demonic Star bastard…?”

“This fucking! I thought something was strange from the beginning!”

“There’s no shame like this. If it weren’t for those people, we would have caught an innocent person.”

“Then… is that person not Demonic Star?”

“Can’t you tell from looking at this situation? We’ve been toyed with.”

Burn.

Anger flared up in the chests of the ronin.

They had stepped forward to catch a bastard from the Heaven and Earth Cult, but they were deceived by the bastards from the Heaven and Earth Cult and ended up in this state. If it hadn’t been for the old men wearing masks, they would have caught an innocent person and an unfair incident would have been created.

And by the hands of the Heaven and Earth Cult, at that.

Their anger was directed at the Heaven and Earth cultists.

“This is, nonsense…. Then what on earth have I been doing?”

However, unlike the other people who were pouring out their anger, Jang Sam-tae looked at the sprawled Chu Jak-han with an absentminded expression.

This guy was Demonic Star, and he himself had been misunderstood as that guy.

However, the guy had attacked, and he had been beaten twice, yet he hadn’t realized that the guy was Demonic Star at all.

What if he had known that fact?

The things he had suffered through passed through Jang Sam-tae’s mind. Starting from the Fresh Immortal Guest House, he was chased by countless people and even wanted posters circulated.

While the other party members slept at the guest house, he had to guard the carriage and sleep rough, and while the other party members ate delicious food, he had to chew on roasted potatoes.

He unconsciously ground his teeth in unfairness.

He glared at Chu Jak-han with fierce eyes, but realizing he was no longer in a state to lay hands on him, he grabbed his hair with both hands and sat down.

“What… have I been doing?”

“Wasting time.”

“No! Doesn’t it hurt my feelings if you say it like that!”

Jang Sam-tae shouted as he looked at Dan Wu-hyun.

At that moment, Namgung So-hye’s face unconsciously came into his sight. He saw her making an expression full of a sneering smirk.

He recalled her saying shouldn’t he have asked who it was.

“That’s why you have to live while thinking. The thing hanging on your torso isn’t a decoration, right?”

Namgung So-hye lightly tapped her own head and smiled.

It was a tone of voice perfectly teasing Jang Sam-tae.

“D-Damn it-!”

Soon, with a face turned bright red, he started to run wildly. At the thought that things wouldn’t have come to this if he had listened to Namgung So-hye’s words, he was so ashamed of himself for ignoring her.

“It’s a lie! This is! A dream-!”

His voice echoed endlessly.

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