Little Demon Reversion to Youth

Chapter 64

The Yonghua Hundred Delights was served over two hours.

Nangong Zhao and the Tang siblings were so full that there were many dishes they couldn't even touch.

Although Baekji had eaten a little of everything, most of the food was still left.

Baekji called the waiter.

"Are there always this many beggars in Chengdu?"

"Since it's such a big city, there are quite a few. Why do you ask?"

"I saw a group of beggars when I came in earlier."

"Those brats? Even after being warned so many times, they still haven't come to their senses... I will give them a good scolding."

"No, call the beggars and share the leftover food with them."

"What?"

Baekji's bamboo staff lightly tapped the waiter's head.

"Do you want me to say it twice?"

"I understand."

"When the beggars come, tell their leader to see me early tomorrow morning."

"What?"

"Since I gave them good food, I should receive a thank you. How much is this worth?"

The waiter thought that there were all sorts of strange customers. To think he had to receive a thank you from a beggar.

"You must have had a hard time being chased around in the cold. Go to bed early."

Baekji, who had sent the Tang siblings to their bedchambers, called Nangong Zhao, who was about to go to his room.

"Wait, we have something to finish."

"?"

Baekji approached Go Hyeonggi, who was lying behind the screen in the living room, and hit his head with the bamboo staff.

"Umm."

Go Hyeonggi woke up.

"How are you? Are you alright?"

Baekji helped Go Hyeonggi up and sat him at the tea table.

Go Hyeonggi didn't even know how he had been defeated.

His mind was blank.

"Where am I? What happened to me?"

"Don't you remember? Lord Go's hand techniques were very sharp. If it weren't for Chief Investigator Nangong, I would have been in trouble."

"...?"

Nangong Zhao was dumbfounded that Baekji was speaking so calmly.

He was cunningly making it sound as if Nangong Zhao had made a move.

"You don't have to be ashamed of being defeated. This Chief Investigator Nangong is a direct descendant of the Nangong family. He's the second son of the family head. You know the Nangong family head, right? His name is..."

Baekji looked at Nangong Zhao.

It was clear that he didn't know who the Nangong family head was.

When Nangong Zhao looked away, Go Hyeonggi answered instead.

"Are you talking about the 'Azure Sky Divine Dragon', Great Hero Nangong Wu?"

"Yes. He's a divine dragon that flies in the sky. Chief Investigator Nangong is a young dragon that follows him. Later, you'll have to call them the 'Azure Sky Twin Dragons'."

Nangong Zhao's face flushed.

Go Hyeonggi automatically imagined a scene where a huge dragon was flying in the blue sky, and a baby dragon was flying behind it.

"He's no match for the likes of the Nine Dragons. Since he has to hide himself because he is in charge of a special mission as the chief investigator of the Martial Alliance's military affairs department, he is just not known. So, it's absolutely not shameful that Lord Go couldn't handle him. Frankly, there was also the advantage of a surprise attack, right?"

Go Hyeonggi also thought so.

If he had inherited Nangong Wu's true teachings as a direct descendant of the Nangong family, it was understandable that he had been defeated.

It was just fortunate that he hadn't used his poison techniques.

When he quietly circulated his ki, there was nothing wrong.

Go Hyeonggi stood up and cupped his fists to Nangong Zhao.

"I greet Young Master Yi of the Nangong family."

"Ah, yes... I am Nangong Zhao."

Nangong Zhao stood up in a daze and returned the greeting.

'How long do I have to play along with this charade?'

He couldn't understand why Baekji was doing this.

Baekji asked Go Hyeonggi with a serious expression, "Now, let's resolve the crisis of the Tang family. What happened? Confess to the chief investigator."

"But..."

He was about to ask who he was, but stopped.

He felt that his self-esteem would be hurt if he heard again that he couldn't tell his name to a stray dog of the martial world.

Go Hyeonggi sighed and said, "This matter must never be known to the outside. But since Chief Investigator Nangong is here, I must ask for help, even if it means disobeying the family head's order, out of loyalty to the Tang family."

What Go Hyeonggi confessed was surprising.

It was that Tang Yunseol had used poison to kill her own older brother, Tang Yunlong.

"Is that true?"

"She was caught at the scene."

"At the scene? There's no way to deny it."

"The family head was furious, locked the young miss in the prison, and strictly silenced everyone. But the young master broke the young miss out of prison and fled."

"So you were chasing them secretly."

"Wouldn't it be a disgrace to the Tang family if it were known that a sibling had used poison on another?"

"What's the big deal? Originally, poison is used most often between family members. It's there for a wife to poison her husband, and for a younger brother to kill his older brother."

"..."

"Haven't you read old stories? The most common is a wife poisoning her husband. The next is a son killing his father, and then it's used between siblings. The imperial family, well, they use poison on each other, so there's no need to even mention it. The mother-in-law poisons the daughter-in-law, the concubine kills the empress, and the empress poisons the emperor... poison flies around in the imperial palace. You have to be careful even when you breathe. So, for Tang Yunseol to try to kill her older brother is just one of those things that always happens."

Hearing that, it seemed to be so.

Although Nangong Zhao and Go Hyeonggi inwardly denied Baekji's brilliant words, they nodded.

"But why did Tang Yunseol do it? Was there something like a struggle for the position of the young family head?"

"I don't know the reason."

"What did Tang Yunseol say?"

"The family head personally interrogated her, but she kept her mouth shut and didn't say anything."

Nangong Zhao interjected.

"If Miss Yunseol did that, there must have been a reason."

"I am also curious. The three siblings of the Tang family were usually very close. A struggle for the position of the young family head? There was no such thing. Above all, in the Tang family, a man inherits the position of the family head. Even if the young family head dies, Miss Yunseol cannot inherit it."

"If she thought Yunqing was better than her older brother, couldn't that be the case?"

"..."

The human heart is unknowable.

"Is the older brother a dissolute person? Does he like women, or is he cruel?"

"Absolutely not. The young family head, Tang Yunlong, has a serious personality and is highly trusted within the family. Since the family head educated them strictly, all three siblings have upright characters."

"An upright character uses poison on her older brother? If the father is strict, the child will go astray. There are also brats who pretend not to be on the outside. That's worse. Chief Investigator Nangong, right?"

"That may be so, but..."

"See? Chief Investigator Nangong is a living witness. So, you have to suspect that side too."

"Wait, who is a living witness?"

Nangong Zhao, thinking that there was something about him in Baekji's words that were flowing by like a clear stream, became serious and cut him off.

"It's fine. Everyone rebels when they're young. That's how kids are."

"..."

At this point, Go Hyeonggi thought that Baekji was not normal. And it was also strange that Nangong Zhao was just standing there, listening to him.

'Is he being blackmailed?'

Go Hyeonggi had completely come to his senses.

He had to resolve the situation.

"Where is this?"

"The Yonghua Inn."

"Where are the young miss and the young master?"

"They went to sleep."

Go Hyeonggi was curious about his subordinates. Not a single one was seen.

"They are guarding the surroundings. But what are the brats with the character '익' (Wing) embroidered on their martial robes?"

"They are the 'Twin Wing Brigade', the young family head's personal guards."

"Why are the young family head's personal guards following Lord Go?"

"The young family head seemed to think that the warriors would feel burdened to use force on the young miss and might let her go. The young family head's personal guards have stepped up a lot."

The Tang family's warriors had scattered in various directions to chase Tang Yunseol, and the Twin Wing Brigade warriors had mixed in with each group.

The Twin Wing Brigade that had followed Go Hyeonggi was, in a sense, playing the role of a monitor.

Baekji said, "The reason I came here is all for Lord Go's sake."

"..."

"You saw the Tang siblings' state earlier, right? Imagine if the Tang family head had seen that."

"..."

"Even if he had given the order, would a brat who had brought his children in that state look good?"

"The family head is not that kind of person. He is clear about public and private matters."

"Lord Go, you don't have children, do you? So how would you know? Think about it, what would Lord Go's father have thought?"

"My father was a man who was addicted to alcohol and was violent."

"Ugh. Yes. You grew up unhappily. So you can't understand. As expected, the environment in one's childhood is important."

He couldn't win a war of words with Baekji.

Go Hyeonggi, barely holding back his crumbling impression, said, "So what are you going to do? Just tell me the conclusion."

"Tomorrow morning, Chief Investigator Nangong will take the Tang siblings to the Tang family. Lord Go, go and tell the Tang family head this."

"..."

"While chasing the Tang siblings, they were with a young hero of the martial world. He was the 'Azure Sky Young Dragon', a direct descendant of the Nangong family and a hidden dragon of the martial world, and it turned out that he was a chief investigator who belonged to the leadership of the military affairs department, the core of the core of the Martial Alliance. The young hero treated the injuries of the Tang siblings who had been in a predicament and personally brought them to the Tang family, and he promised, staking the Martial Alliance Leader's neck..."

"That's going too far!"

Nangong Zhao shouted and interjected.

"What?"

"How dare you, the Martial Alliance Leader..."

"Ah, I see. You can't stake your superior's neck. It would be better to say that he promised, staking his own neck. Is the neck of a chief investigator enough?"

"Keung."

"You have to risk your life to get a pretty woman. That is the eternal truth."

Nangong Zhao's face flushed.

It sounded as if he had intervened because he had been captivated by Tang Yunseol's beauty.

That brat's mouth, he didn't know where it would fly. It was even more terrible that he had no power to stop it.

Go Hyeonggi thought, but there was no other way.

He suppressed his anger and said, "I accepted the proposal, but the Tang family will not forget today's events."

"If only Lord Go forgets, the Tang family won't know. Umm..."

Baekji said to Nangong Zhao, "Why don't we just kill Lord Go? Wouldn't it be better than incurring the Tang family's resentment? I'll go and tell the Tang family head."

Go Hyeonggi's spine chilled, and he glanced at Nangong Zhao and said, "No, I mean that the Tang family will not forget Chief Investigator Nangong's help."

"Really? I understand that there are many murders that happen due to misunderstandings. Chief Investigator Nangong? You heard him. He said it was a misunderstanding."

Baekji beat the drum and the gong and then said to Go Hyeonggi, "You have to go and report at once. It's late at night. The Tang family head must be waiting, unable to sleep."

"What about my subordinates?"

Go Hyeonggi was worried that Baekji might have killed his subordinates.

"Your head is not working at all. How did you become the head of the law enforcement hall? You have to say that your subordinates are watching the Tang siblings to avoid responsibility. Do you think your neck will still be attached if you say you came empty-handed because a young hero told you to go?"

"Ah!"

"There, there, there. They are protecting us. Don't worry and go at once."

When Go Hyeonggi looked, he saw his subordinate hiding behind a bush on the wall.

'So they were really guarding.'

Go Hyeonggi left the Yonghua Inn.

Nangong Zhao asked, "What on earth is your scheme?"

Baekji grinned. It was an innocent smile.

That made it even more detestable.

"It's as you heard. It's the story of a young hero who saves a beautiful woman who has been framed and driven out of her family and has fallen into the abyss."

Nangong Zhao shouted, "What on earth are you talking about! Say something serious for once."

"Why are you shouting? Chief Investigator Nangong, just go to the Tang family head and clear Tang Yunseol's name. Then how happy would the Tang family head be? He'd probably ask you to be his son-in-law right away."

"Are you going to keep talking nonsense? Is there any evidence that Miss Yunseol was framed?"

He had been with Baekji the whole time and had heard about Tang Yunseol's charges right here.

Although he didn't believe that Tang Yunseol had done it, the Tang family head would not have pushed his daughter without any evidence.

Moreover, hadn't he said that she had been caught at the scene?

But Baekji was asserting that Tang Yunseol had been framed. Had Baekji seen something that he hadn't?

There was no time or clue for that.

He felt like he was being played by a ridiculous farce.

"We have to find evidence."

"How do you plan to find it? It could be true."

"Show me the ability of a chief investigator."

"...?"

"Shouldn't you be able to do that much? You're the chief investigator of the Martial Alliance's military affairs department, aren't you?"

Nangong Zhao slumped into a chair.

'Ah... I'm doomed.'

To have taken a criminal of the Tang family without any evidence.

"Let's interrogate those brats."

Baekji looked towards the rock in the courtyard.

It was the place where the Twin Wing Brigade, the young family head's personal guards, were hiding.

"First, let's sleep well today."

He could not give up the sweet sleep he would enjoy in a comfortable bed.

(End of Chapter)