Chapter 94: Chapter 94

“Hing….”

That afternoon.

Dan So-mi sat on the veranda and made a whimpering face.

To think he vomited up all the porridge she had worked so hard to make.

The one who ate it had even fainted.

His eyes had rolled back so much that the whites were showing, so she received looks questioning if she had put poison in the food.

Young Dan So-mi felt as if her heart was being torn to pieces.

“But So-mi is perfectly fine….”

Yes, she was fine.

She was really fine.

Then why did he vomit?

Because it tasted that bad.

But should she really give up at this level?

If she could not make food, she could help with something else.

Looking after a patient by their side was something she could easily do.

Dan So-mi did not give up and stood up from her seat.

Instantly, she saw figures flinching here and there.

Over on one side, Jang Sam-tae turned his head away, Gwon Mu-jin hurriedly ran toward the training ground, and Dan Woo-hyun was leisurely drinking alcohol while looking up at the sky.

Then what about Namgung Cheon?

He was nowhere to be seen.

Dan So-mi, who stealthily stood up, patted the dust off her clothes and headed back to the annex. She opened the large door and went inside toward the quarters where Sa Do-hak was.

‘It is wide!’

She had felt it since a long time ago, but this manor was truly wide.

The adults might not know, but it was wide enough to be tiring for Dan So-mi.

Even without that, she was shorter and smaller in body than other children. No matter where she went, she did not look eight years old, and most people saw her as around five.

So this manor was too wide for this tiny child to live in.

Still, she walked vigorously.

Before she knew it, she arrived in front of Sa Do-hak’s room.

Inside, there was still no sound. To faint after eating just a single bowl of food? It seemed he had aged in a strange way.

Dan So-mi carefully opened the door.

With a squeak, the interior view was slightly revealed.

On the bed, Sa Do-hak was seen lying down neatly. He seemed to be breathing, but he still showed no signs of waking up.

‘Good!’

Dan So-mi carefully went inside. In order to look after a patient, one had to be by the patient’s side. Moreover, having experience looking after Gwon Mu-jin and Namgung Cheon, she felt she could do this easily.

Tiptoeing like a cat, she approached, pulled a chair in front of the bed, and sat down. Watching the person breathing quietly, she felt a scary feeling for some reason.

‘He has a lot of beard.’

Yes, it was because of the beard.

The beard covering his entire face shaggily was quite disheveled, as if it had not been trimmed. If only he did not have that, he would look quite decent, so she wondered why he did not shave it.

Of course, Namgung Cheon also had a beard.

But because it was well-trimmed and did not grow like a bandit’s, Namgung Cheon’s beard rather made him feel like a Taoist immortal.

“Mmh-.”

Swallowing a small groan, Dan So-mi looked around.

Was there nothing that could trim this beard? If she trimmed it cleanly, he would probably be very grateful when he woke up.

With such thoughts, she looked around.

Right then, something caught her eye.

It was a small dagger.

Since she had never seen such an object at home, she thought it probably belonged to this middle-aged man. Dan So-mi reached out and grabbed it.

It was her first time holding a real sword, so the texture felt very unfamiliar.

Although it was small, she felt its weight.

Carefully drawing it, she began to shave the beard.

“Ah…?”

However, the blade was surprisingly sharp.

She had merely brought it close, but the beard was cut off in clumps rather than being trimmed.

Eventually, the ratio of the left and right sides did not match. Breaking out in a cold sweat, Dan So-mi cut the left side this time.

She felt she had to make it look somewhat similar.

“…….”

Dan So-mi, who was carefully moving the dagger, stopped her breath for a moment. It was because another clump was cut off as she tried to cut it a bit closer.

“……What should I do?”

This was troublesome.

Extremely troublesome.

Even when she tried to cut here and there again, the ratio strangely did not match, and instead, the situation was only getting more and more troublesome.

Swallowing a small groan with a sigh, Dan So-mi thought. Most of the beard was already cut off, and trimming it seemed to be impossible from the start.

If she messed around trying to trim the beard further here, she felt she would fall into an irreversible situation.

Dan So-mi carefully put down the dagger and stood up from her seat.

Then she clapped her hands together and smiled brightly.

“Come to think of it, I was supposed to go to the market with Dad today.”

Dan So-mi stood up as if nothing had happened and slowly left the room.

“Has that man still not woken up?”

“He did wake up… but Lord Dan knocked him out again.”

Ugh-

Namgung Cheon broke out in a cold sweat.

Although he looked like a person who fainted after eating Dan So-mi’s porridge, Dan Woo-hyun had clearly taken action.

The moment he ate the porridge, he struck his abdomen to make him vomit, and from the shock of throwing everything up, he fainted.

‘Against the Sa Do-hak of the world, no less.’

Namgung Cheon let out a hollow, absurd laugh.

He was strong.

He was truly strong.

If he had not lost his internal energy, Dan Woo-hyun was strong enough to make him really want to fight him once.

It was not a competitive spirit to defeat him, but rather a desire to verify how much of his own strength would work against him.

Then, recalling Dan Woo-hyun’s behavior again, Namgung Cheon smirked.

He must have wanted to humiliate him.

Eating porridge given by a child, in front of a friend who was no different from a rival and someone who was no different from a stranger, a guy called one of the Five Emperors of the world vomited and fainted, so what could be more humiliating than that?

‘And as a retaliation for the attack as well.’

Namgung Cheon shook his head.

In a way, he thought Dan Woo-hyun might be the most wicked person in this manor.

“Aaaaack!”

Just then, a loud shout was heard.

Startled by that voice which resounded enough to shake the manor, Namgung Cheon hurriedly ran toward the source of the sound.

Did an enemy launch a surprise attack?

If not, did something else happen?

However, no matter how much he looked around, there was no sign of an enemy intrusion.

The area around the annex was quite quiet.

Furthermore, who was the one remaining inside?

He was a person called the peak of the Demonic Cult.

If an enemy attacked, he would naturally repel them, and he was an existence who could break through in an instant no matter what happened.

With a puzzled expression, Namgung Cheon opened the door of the annex and entered. Groans were heard continuously from inside, and the place was none other than where Sa Do-hak was staying.

Namgung Cheon let out a small sigh and stepped into the room.

“What on earth….”

“Groan….”

Entering the room, Namgung Cheon lost his words.

Sa Do-hak was definitely there. However, that beard he had been proud of and had kept since decades ago was seen cut in a bizarre way here and there.

It was a sight that made it impossible to even think of him as Sa Do-hak.

Namgung Cheon looked at it and then turned his gaze.

“Pfft!”

Laughter burst out.

Looking at the clumsily cut beard, he could not hold back his laughter. The appearance of his old rival trembling was also quite unfamiliar.

“Pff-hah! What… what happened to your… face…?”

“Aaaaack! That is what I want to ask!”

Sa Do-hak rampaged greatly.

It was a beard he had cultivated since decades ago. He had put quite an effort into trimming it, and how hard had he worked to make it such a cool beard?

What on earth had happened while he was lying down for his beard to disappear!

Could it be that the porridge that child gave him contained some unknown poison, and because of that, the beard was cut off in clumps?

“Cut… cut off?”

Thinking up to that point, Sa Do-hak looked at the mirror again. Looking closely at the surface of the vanished beard, it looked as if it had been cut with something sharp.

Frowning, he turned his gaze.

There, a dagger was visible.

Holding it in his hand and drawing the blade, there were indeed hairs presumed to be beard hairs, although only a few strands remained.

If so, it ultimately meant someone had cut his beard.

Grit-!

“Which bastard! How dare they lay a hand on my body!”

Namgung Cheon looked at that and turned his head.

There was one person he could roughly guess.

It was the figure who came out of the annex right before going to the market with Dan Woo-hyun, and seeing how she moved quite hurriedly, it seemed she had caused a major accident.

To think it was indeed the correct answer.

“Calm down. It was a beard that did not look good anyway, so can you not just shave it all off now?”

“Is this bastard joking? How much effort and care did I put into growing this beard, and you speak such nonsense?”

“Haha- even so, it is just a beard, so why get so angry?”

“Then let us cut your beard right now.”

His quick temper had not changed.

Sa Do-hak, whose anger had reached the top of his head, quickly grabbed his sword and swung it. A sharp strike that seemed like it would cut Namgung Cheon’s beard in half stretched out.

However, Namgung Cheon blocked it with a clashing sound.

Before he knew it, Namgung Cheon was also holding his sword, and while blocking the flying sword, he stumbled backward. Since his internal energy had not completely returned yet, there was a difference in their strength.

“Oh, you blocked it?”

“Haha- look here. What are you trying to do with a powerless old man?”

“I am going to shave your beard clean!”

Namgung Cheon took another step back and laughed absurdly.

But that guy was serious right now.

‘This is… troublesome.’

The absence of Dan Woo-hyun was a highly regrettable situation.

For now, he had no choice but to do his best to run away.

“…….”

“Uh…….”

Dan So-mi quietly stared straight ahead, lost for words. No, she had no idea what word to say first.

The moment she arrived at the manor, she could not believe the sight before her eyes.

“Why did it become like that?”

The manor was devastated as if it had been hit by a cannonball. It was broken and ruined here and there, and even the wall had collapsed.

It was hard to believe it was done by human strength, but looking at the situation happening before her eyes even now, this was definitely human strength.

A great rumbling that shook the earth continued, and it showed no signs of stopping.

Inside the manor, the pitiful figures of Jang Sam-tae and Gwon Mu-jin running away were visible, and the annex that was on one side had already collapsed, leaving only its remains.

Even the main building was in a terrible state. It was to the point of wondering how it could be smashed like that.

“You bastard! Get over here!”

“St… Stop! I said it was not this old man’s doing!”

The commotion still did not disappear.

Sa Do-hak, who chased and ruthlessly unleashed sword qi, could be said to be amazing, but Namgung Cheon, whose internal energy had not even returned properly yet, was managing to escape that situation.

Since he was a rival he had dealt with for a long time, did it mean he had grasped the opponent’s techniques?

Of course, despite that, his appearance was in a terrible state.

While Dan So-mi stood watching with a blank expression, Dan Woo-hyun, who let out a small sigh, walked into the manor.

Stepping over the broken wall to go inside, he stared at Sa Do-hak’s face.

At that moment.

Shiver-!

It was as if everything in the manor had subsided. Not to mention the wind, but even the air.

Even the two who were fleeing and pursuing noticed it and stopped all actions.

Their gazes turned toward Dan Woo-hyun all at once.

“L… Lord-! Hehe… s… spare me.”

Jang Sam-tae ran over fearlessly and clung to Dan Woo-hyun. It was because the situation happening in this manor was that critical.

He had almost lost his life by getting caught up in it.

“What is the meaning of this?”

Leaving the crying and clinging Jang Sam-tae aside, Dan Woo-hyun’s voice spread heavily.

It dug into everyone’s ears, like the words of an evil spirit that would devour even a person’s soul.

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