I Ended Up Becoming The Heavenly Demon’s True Best Friend, Even Though He’s Shy Around Others

Chapter 52

For generations, the Demonic Empress, the consort of the Heavenly Demon, had come from the Baek family, and among the direct descendants of the family head who were qualified to be the Demonic Empress, the one who was rumored to be the most outstanding in appearance was Baek Yuhwa.

However, what was more outstanding than her beauty, which was known to people, was her brilliant mind.

Baek Yuhwa had a ghostly ability to gain insight into a case by combining information on the spot.

When others said that they should attack the Cho family right away, Baek Yuhwa had a private audience with her father and advised him to exercise self-restraint.

"Please watch for at least a month, Father. Even if others blame the main family for this, the situation will change after a month. We just have to be blamed for a month. It won't be too late to attack the Cho family after that. Even if the Danmu family tries to attack the Cho family, it will not be easy. If they don't mobilize all their forces to attack the Cho family, it will be difficult to annihilate them, and will it be easy for the Danmu family to go all out, leaving the main family and the Danli family behind?"

Hearing that, it seemed plausible.

Still, the family head wanted to hear the reason why Baek Yuhwa was doing that.

"At a time like this, if the two families join forces, we can easily erase the Cho family. After erasing the Cho family, there is no other family among the other families that can replace the Cho family. It might be better if the three families divide and rule the Heavenly Demon Sect, Yuhwa."

"You are right, but something is strange. I have a feeling that this is a well-laid plan by someone. Don't you think that too much evidence is coming into our hands too easily for it to be a naturally occurring event? There is nothing that we have found out with our own efforts. Hasn't it been presented to us as if it were already prepared whenever we just tried to find out?"

The family head was a little fed up.

If things went smoothly, he could just be happy, but his daughter was too sensitive.

And yet, he couldn't just ignore those words, because there had been many disasters he had avoided by listening to his daughter's words.

"Then what do you think is the best way to handle this? If the children in our territory are captured by the Cho family while we are doing nothing, what will people think of the main family? Everything will be compared to the Danmu family."

Baek Yuhwa was at a loss.

Since it was not something she could pinpoint and say, at times like this, she had no choice but to plead as if she were being stubborn.

She had faith in her intuition.

Many things were strange about this, and it was making them have no choice but to move like this.

In cases like this, trouble arose.

"Father, please listen to me and wait for a while. Just for a while."

In the end, the family head listened to Baek Yuhwa's words.

The change occurred because of that.

However, Ya Socheong did not just stand by and do nothing about the change caused by Baek Yuhwa.

* * *

A commotion of chasing and being chased broke out in the streets.

The two children running ahead were shabby in appearance at a glance, and it seemed that they had not been able to get anything proper to eat for a long time.

Such children were running for their lives with scared faces, begging to be saved.

People looked at the children, wondering what was going on.

And yet, there was no one who readily stepped up to help the children.

"Please save us! They are people from the Cho family! Please help us!"

The children cried and shouted, and behind them, two men in black night clothes were following the children.

They had been trying not to reveal themselves if possible, but when the words 'Cho family' came out, they seemed to have thought that they had no choice and had revealed themselves.

Everyone who had watched that chase was thinking that.

They did not know that it was all intended.

No matter how fast the children ran, they would not be able to escape forever from adult men who had even learned martial arts.

Moreover, at the right time, one child even fell.

The people in night clothes ran over, snatched the child as if a hawk were snatching a chick, and then disappeared.

The people, while thinking that there was nothing they could have done anyway, could not help but feel uncomfortable.

Now, one thought was digging into their minds.

It was the thought that it was no longer safe to be in the territory of the Baek family.

The Cho family was openly capturing children, but the Baek family was not stepping up at all.

Such things happened in various places in the territory of the Baek family.

The children mobilized for that were the first and second generations of the Nether Shadow Faction.

The children of the second generation of the Nether Shadow Faction were excited by the fact that they could finally do something helpful for the Nether Shadow Faction.

It was not difficult because the work they had to do was almost no different from the way they had lived so far.

When they were planning that with Ya Socheong, a few children had been worried.

They had asked what they should do if someone really appeared to help them when they were shouting to be saved and running away.

But to their worry, no one held out a hand to the children.

The reason was that the first-generation children who were playing the role of the Cho family people chasing after them had done their role too well, but the bigger reason was that people did not want to take the risk.

Thanks to the children's activities, bad rumors were gradually spreading within the Baek family.

In fact, no children had disappeared from the Baek family.

Nevertheless, the people had seen with their own eyes the children being kidnapped, and they thought that such a thing could happen to them at any time.

Pae Maseong, watching from the side as Ya Socheong changed the public opinion of the Baek family, shook his head.

If it were him, he would not have thought of doing things in that way.

He would have thought that bloodshed was inevitable and would have advanced into the Cho family, but Ya Socheong was proceeding with the work in a strange way.

It seemed that he was trying to start a war and commit murder by borrowing another's sword.

As time went on, Pae Maseong realized that its effect was much greater than he had thought.

"Socheong, what should we do if someone tries to help the children?"

"Then we can just stop the pursuit and hide. The people who are trying to help the children will go back on their own if the people who were chasing the children go back anyway."

But as time went on, no one appeared to help the children.

* * *

Ya Socheong followed the children and waited for them to return safely.

He especially took good care of the second-generation children, put them in a carriage, and gave them food, saying that they had worked hard.

Although he didn't say it, Ya Socheong knew well how surprised and shocked the children would be.

The children also understood what meaning their work had.

They knew that because of what they had done, the children who would have been captured by the people of the Cho family could sleep safely.

"You've worked hard."

At Ya Socheong's words, the children had faces as if they had been compensated for everything.

The carriage ran for a long time and passed through several villages.

There, the children planned to run away across the market one more time.

Since they had to get off in a place where there were no people, they all paid attention.

And the operation was executed again.

The children pushed through the crowd, shouted to be saved, and ran away, and behind them, the first generation of the Nether Shadow Faction chased after them.

But there was a woman who blocked them.

Since such a thing had never happened before, the first generation who was chasing after them was surprised, and the second generation who was running away was also surprised.

"It's okay, kids. I'll take care of those guys, so you don't have to worry anymore."

The voice that was heard was that of a young woman.

The first generation hesitated for a moment and then turned around and ran away.

It had been decided to do that from the beginning, but since such a thing had not happened, for a moment, they couldn't think of anything.

Ya Socheong had thought that if the children just ran away like that, she wouldn't chase after them, but the woman chased after the children with great martial arts.

At that, the person who became desperate was Ya Socheong.

Ya Socheong, who had been watching that from a distance, eventually thought that it wouldn't do and stood between them.

Strangely, the woman was wearing a mask.

Taking advantage of that, the first and second generations all ran away and escaped in a carriage.

Ya Socheong aimed a few sword strikes and flew away.

And yet, the woman continued to chase after Ya Socheong.

Ya Socheong's mind became complicated.

The opponent was not a bad person.

Rather, she was the righteous person that Ya Socheong had been waiting for so eagerly.

So he didn't want to hurt her, but he was at a loss because she was following him so persistently.

In the end, Ya Socheong lured the woman into an alley.

There was no one following the two of them.

Even if they had wanted to follow, there would not have been many who could have followed the two people's lightness techniques.

Just by looking at that, the woman was strange.

Ya Socheong knew how high his lightness technique was, but she had followed him without losing him.

"Who are you? Who are you to stop me?"

The woman shouted as she aimed her sword.

"Are you also from the Cho family? No, are you someone who is imitating a person from the Cho family?"

Those words surprised Ya Socheong even more.

Until now, people had seen the crumbs he had dropped and had followed, believing that this was something that had been done by the Cho family.

But a person who had questioned that had appeared.

The woman asked, but there was no way that Ya Socheong could answer that.

Ya Socheong was only thinking of shaking this woman off and running away somehow.

And yet, the woman continued to block Ya Socheong's path.

Thinking that it would be difficult to get away quietly, in the end, Ya Socheong drew his sword.

He didn't want to hurt her, but it seemed that a battle was inevitable.

"I don't want to fight. I know about what the Cho family has done. I also have a feeling that you might have wanted to solve the problem by dragging the main family into a fight with the Cho family. I probably don't have a different opinion from you, young master. How about we talk together?"

The more he heard, the stranger the words were.

It was as if she knew all his plans, but wasn't that impossible?

Ya Socheong looked at the woman's face carefully.

The woman, who had been wearing a mask until then, took it off.

At the pale beauty that was revealed from under it, Ya Socheong was dazed for a moment.

"My name is Baek Yuhwa. I am a direct descendant of the family head of the Baek family."

Hearing those words, Ya Socheong became even more dazed.

It was because he thought that he had gotten into a huge mess.

"I am saying this only to take responsibility for what I have said, and I have no intention of putting you in a difficult position, young master. In my opinion, if I don't resolve things well with you, the main family will be in a difficult position. What do you think? Can't you give me some time?"

Ya Socheong hesitated for a moment, but for some reason, it seemed that he could communicate with Baek Yuhwa.

In the end, he nodded and used his lightness technique first.

(End of Chapter)