novelraw Chapter 125 : Chapter 125
Chapter 125 : Chapter 125
Chapter 125 - Do You Want to Get Beaten and Give It, or Just Give It?
“What in the world is going on?”
Dongma, a low-ranking member of the Jangil Escort Agency, sensed an unusual atmosphere.
The Jangil Escort Agency was a place that would skip breakfast but never the morning assembly.
Since he had joined as the youngest member, the morning assembly had not been skipped for a single day.
But, what on earth had happened?
There were only people bustling about inside the escort agency, but the deputy steward who managed the assembly was nowhere to be seen.
“Ugh……!”
Dongma, who was wandering aimlessly, quickly covered his nose.
A fishy stench had invaded his sense of smell.
‘This is……?’
Dongma remembered smelling such a scent in the past.
When a fight broke out with someone who had picked a fight with the escort agency.
When someone who had secretly stolen items from the escort agency was caught.
When something bad happened, the incident always ended with this kind of smell.
Blood.
And a corpse.
Dongma’s face turned pale as he recalled the source of the smell.
Just how big of an incident had occurred for such a strong smell of blood to permeate the escort agency?
Dongma hurriedly followed the direction of the smell.
And soon, his expression hardened once more.
‘It’s from the main hall……!’
Dongma had never met the Escort Leader of the Jangil Escort Agency.
But he knew that the head of the escort agency resided in the main hall.
When Dongma, with a face full of confusion, reached the front of the main hall, a large number of people had already gathered and were bustling about.
“Wh-what is this?”
“What in the world happened last night……”
“Where did all the guards go?”
Listening to the conversation, it seemed they knew no more than he did.
At that moment, two men appeared in front of the main hall.
“I told you. I don’t want to! You do it!”
“There’s a pecking order, Senior Brother. And this kind of job is perfect for the face of the group.”
“My face is swollen, what kind of damn face of the group am I? You, tell me honestly. You’re just being lazy, aren’t you?”
“Hey. No way.”
“It’s written all over your face that you’re lying!”
“Hey.”
The two men were casually exchanging banter as if performing a comedy act.
Dongma, who was watching with bewildered eyes, suddenly had his eyes light up.
“Ah! That person is?”
At Dongma’s reaction, the people next to him all turned their heads.
“It’s Dongma. Do you know who those men are?”
As the attention suddenly focused on him, Dongma scratched his head and answered in a low voice.
“Y-yes. I have seen the handsome man standing on the right.”
“Where did you see him?”
“He came to the Jangil Escort Agency a few days ago to make a request. With a pretty lady…… At that time, he definitely said he was looking for someone……”
While explaining, Dongma’s face stiffened.
A request to find someone.
Nine out of ten times, they would request it as mentioned at the main gate, but one out of ten would ask for a special request.
That was, a contract killing.
“C-come to think of it……”
Another memory surfaced in Dongma’s mind.
Weren’t all the escorts sent to tail that handsome man beaten half to death?
As things came to this, a feeling of fear began to creep up on Dongma.
“Then let’s split it! I really can’t say the latter part.”
“Aww!”
Thump!
The man with a strikingly handsome face, as if it were sculpted, kicked the butt of the man standing next to him.
“How dare you to your Senior Brotheeeeeeer!”
The man with the swollen face roared in anger even as he was sent flying.
The handsome man snorted and turned his head away.
“What do you mean, how dare I. He said he wanted to rest, so I just sent him off to rest comfortably.”
“…………?”
Dongma and the others at the scene felt as if they were possessed by a ghost.
Who were these two men who had suddenly appeared, and why was one kicking the other away if they were on the same side?
Moreover, wasn’t the one who was kicked called ‘Senior Brother’?
What kind of group in the world had someone who kicked their senior brother’s butt?
Hundreds of confused gazes flew towards the man in front of the main hall.
The handsome man also seemed to feel the people’s gazes and turned his head forward.
“Good morning, everyone.”
“……!”
The morning sun, which had brightened up by then, illuminated the man’s picturesque smile.
In a normal situation, exclamations of admiration would have erupted from here and there.
However, this place was not a normal place but the front of the Jangil Escort Agency’s main hall, and the mood of those gathered was not one for admiration.
“Who are you? Why are you occupying the front of the main hall?”
“What happened to all the guards, and why are you the only one here?”
“Reveal your identity!”
A few men who seemed to be of high rank questioned the handsome man.
The man, finding something amusing, continued to have an arc on his lips.
“What’s so important about my identity? What’s important is telling you what happened last night.”
“What happened…… last night?”
“What do you mean, what happened!”
The handsome man’s eyes sparkled brighter than the morning sun.
“The leader of the Ghost Face Gang, Dancheong, is dead.”
“!”
“?”
The reactions were starkly divided.
Those like Dongma who were bewildered, asking, ‘What’s the Ghost Face Gang?’.
And those whose eyes widened, unable to hide their agitation.
Even if they worked together at the Jangil Escort Agency, not everyone knew of the Ghost Face Gang’s existence.
Naturally, the higher the position in the Jangil Escort Agency, the overwhelmingly higher the latter reaction was.
Those with the character ‘Ghost’ tattooed on their bodies, that is.
“Stop spouting nonsense!”
“Guards! Where are the guards!”
“Someone, quickly chase that guy away!”
At the man’s bombshell announcement, the scene instantly became chaotic.
The Gang Leader was taken down in one night.
For the members of the Ghost Face Gang, who had been expanding their power for over ten years, it was something they couldn’t believe.
“I thought you’d react like that, so I brought a witness.”
“?”
As Biyoung gave a signal to one side, another person came out from inside the main hall.
“A beggar……?”
“It’s a beggar?”
“A beggar entering the Jangil Escort Agency……”
Naturally, entry into the escort agency was strictly controlled.
There were times when even those with money and requests were turned away at the gate, so a mere beggar entering the escort agency was an unimaginable thing.
Just how long had that beggar been inside the escort agency?
But the strange things didn’t end there.
“Kekeke. Hurry up and crawl out.”
“?”
Looking closely, the beggar was holding a thin string in his hand.
Soon, a person connected to the string crawled out to the front of the main hall on all fours.
“No!”
“That person is……?”
Startled reactions came from a few people.
“Do you know that person?”
“You, don’t you recognize him? That is the first of the Ghost Face Four Shadows, Yi Cheon-yu!”
“Wha-what?!”
“Yi Cheon-yu? Are you talking about Sword Shadow Soul Stealing Yi Cheon-yu?”
Most of them stretched their necks and stared at the front of the main hall, as if they couldn’t believe it.
“This can’t be……!”
It was true.
They hadn’t recognized him at first glance because of his terrible condition, but he was indeed Sword Shadow Soul Stealing.
“What in the world is going on……!!”
While they were full of disbelief at the news of Dancheong’s death, seeing Yi Cheon-yu in such a battered state made them feel the gravity of the situation on their skin.
“Wh-what happened to the other Ghost Face Four Shadows?!”
“I heard the Green Killer Squad gathered last night! Where did they all go?”
“You must tell the truth without a single lie!”
The people’s voices were filled with hostility.
These were the ones who mentioned Dancheong’s death and made Yi Cheon-yu crawl on all fours.
From the perspective of the Jangil Escort Agency and the Ghost Face Gang, they were like sworn enemies.
“The other three of the Ghost Face Four Shadows are dead. The Green Killer Squad too.”
“Don’t talk nonsense!”
“Still don’t get it?”
A sneer spread across Biyoung’s lips.
But for some reason.
Even though a much younger man was grinning mockingly, no one dared to make a move.
“You’re not in a position to be calling me this and that.”
“…………!”
The eyelids of the high-ranking members shot up to the sky.
How dare he be so arrogant inside the Jangil Escort Agency.
In over ten years, this was the first time they had seen such a rude person in front of the Jangil Escort Agency, and in the main hall at that.
‘But…….’
‘What if what that guy said is true?’
‘Yi Cheon-yu has already been beaten like that, so…….’
The leader was dead, and the Ghost Face Four Shadows and the Green Killer Squad were annihilated.
It was unbelievable and something they didn’t want to believe.
But the shadow of anxiety in the hearts of the people was gradually expanding its territory.
Wasn’t Yi Cheon-yu, held by a leash like a dog’s, right before their eyes?
“If you really want to confirm, you can go inside the main hall. But only those with strong stomachs.”
An angry voice returned to the handsome man’s words.
“Who the hell are you? Who on earth are you to cause such a ruckus at the Jangil Escort Agency?”
“Hah……”
The man muttered to himself with a complicated expression.
“Ruckus…… a ruckus.”
“……?”
“I didn’t expect to hear such words from your mouths.”
The man drew up a little bit of internal energy and put it into his voice.
I wanted to make Senior Brother Eung Gajin do this.
But in a way, he could be said to be the most suitable person for the current role.
“My name is Biyoung. A swordsman of the Diancang Sect.”
“!!!”
Diancang Sect.
At those three words, the hearts of the Ghost Face Gang members sank.
“Diancang Sect? I thought the Diancang Sect was annihilated?”
“I heard they wiped out the main mountain back then……”
“Diancang Sect…… Oh my god……”
When they first came here, the members of the Ghost Face Gang thought of the man as an ominous intruder.
But now, it would have been a relief if he were just an intruder.
If the ones who attacked the Jangil Escort Agency were really the Diancang Sect, not a single gang member would leave the escort agency alive today.
What Biyoung had said became a reality.
After the bombshell announcement, no one appeared who called Biyoung this and that anymore.
It was the disheveled madman who broke the momentary silence.
“Kehehe! What are you doing with your mouth shut tight? Why aren’t you announcing it to the whole world! Tell them your master is dead!”
The large beggar swung the rope he was holding here and there.
As if his energy was already depleted, Yi Cheon-yu’s head swayed miserably.
Yi Cheon-yu couldn’t bring himself to answer, but for the people gathered at the scene, that scene alone would have been a sufficient answer.
“It seems the situation has been explained, so could the managers here please come forward?”
“…………!”
“Was my explanation insufficient? I’m talking about the members of the Ghost Face Gang with tattoos on their bodies. It would be better to come out before I have to check each and every one of you. Because if I shake you down and you come out, it’ll be double.”
“!’
At this moment.
Even if you searched the entire Murim, there would be no people as conflicted as the members of the Ghost Face Gang.
Would the one who killed the leader, the Ghost Face Four Shadows, and the Green Killer Squad all let the members of the Ghost Face Gang live?
But seeing Yi Cheon-yu crawling on all fours, they didn’t even feel like daring to resist.
Usually in such cases.
There is one way.
Pababak!
One person with quite nimble movements attempted to escape outside the main hall.
Then,
Whoosh!
A figure from outside blocked his path with lightning speed.
Thwack.
Literally in the blink of an eye.
The man’s scabbard stopped in front of the fugitive’s neck.
“D-don’t even think about running away!”
“!”
The man with flaring nostrils and large, sparkling eyes.
Looking at Solbo, Biyoung gave a bitter smile.
‘If he says it like that, even people who were staying put would want to run away.’
But contrary to Biyoung’s thoughts, there were no additional movements.
Weren’t the people gathered here unrelated to martial arts in the first place?
Besides, seeing Solbo’s immense body method, the thought of running away was naturally given up.
“Do you understand the situation now? Our Diancang Sect has come to take revenge for the past. I’d like to smash this whole place and kill all of you, but……”
At Biyoung’s words, everyone swallowed hard.
“I found out there are many innocent people here too. So I’m thinking of screwing you guys over selectively. Now, all you Ghost Face Gang members, please come forward. Especially those in charge of financial matters, it would be good for you to come quickly. Because I’m starting to get pissed off.”
Although he attached the polite particle ‘yo’, his attitude was as if he had thrown all respect for elders to the neighbor’s dog.
But the members of the Ghost Face Gang couldn’t bring themselves to protest and slowly walked forward.
Something bad was bound to happen, but the words ‘if I shake you down and you come out, it’ll be double’ felt incredibly frightening.
“A-are you telling us to hand all of that over?”
“No! What are you saying right now!”
“If we do as you say, the Jangil Escort Agency will be left with nothing but a shell!”
“Have some conscience, how can you plunder us so much that we don’t even have our underwear left!”
The members of the Ghost Face Gang who had come forward voluntarily.
Especially those who managed the finances, jumped at Biyoung’s words.
But Biyoung still wore the same expression.
“Do you want to get beaten and give it, or just give it?”
“……!”
At the Daoist master’s atrocious words, all the managers became as silent as clams.
And soon.
The wealth that the Jangil Escort Agency had accumulated for over ten years began to be completely and thoroughly plundered.