novelraw Chapter 65 : Chapter 65
Chapter 65 : Chapter 65
Chapter 65 - The Next Time We Meet
“You know, what friends are!”
“Yeees……”
“They are beings who should willingly give their backs to each other! You know that, right?”
As the man with the handsome face proclaimed with great ambition, the beautiful lady sitting opposite him replied in a barely audible voice.
“That’s right……”
“But instead of offering their backs, they try to stab me with a knife, how can I not lament this?!”
“Young Master. If you could lower your voice a little……”
“Ahem! Have I said anything wrong! And you said this room is soundproof! Unlike the place where Han Ryeong overheard!”
“That’s true, but……”
My heart is in pain.
My heart……!
I’m pissed off!
But without even a glance at the tearful Lady Mihwa, Biyoung babbled on once more.
“Back in my day, a friend was a friend forever, but these days, I guess you become an enemy the moment you step out the door?”
“How many times have I told you. The misguided loyalty of my subordinates……”
“Hah! Good grief! If they were loyal twice more, there’d be a funeral procession!”
Crack.
“Huh? Did you just break the cup? Are you getting angry right now?”
“How could that be? It seems to have broken when it bumped into something a moment ago. Hohoho.”
“Then bring another one right away! With a few more bottles of liquor!”
“Yeees……”
Lady Mihwa, who was dignified wherever she went in the world, was now unable to stand tall, like a cat caught in a trap.
Hadn’t her weaknesses only increased because her subordinates had acted out on their own?
Lady Mihwa was grinding her teeth inwardly as she attended to Biyoung.
“There’s no one on guard today?”
“Jin Seung and all the others involved in yesterday’s incident have had their martial arts crippled and have been kicked out.”
“Oh? To that extent?”
“I have been too soft until now. I intend to make a clear example so that something like this never happens again.”
“Quite a few swordsmen were wrecked yesterday, will your forces be maintained?”
At that, Lady Mihwa made a determined expression for the first time in a while.
“I can’t say there’s no impact. But we are not so small as to be checked by external forces to this extent.”
“Hmm.”
Biyoung nodded his head as he looked at the luxuriously decorated guest room.
The Syndicate of Ten Thousand Eyes would earn money on its own, but it also had the enormous source of income called the Loyal Heart Pavilion on its back.
Unless it was a prestigious orthodox sect, the power of a group comes from money.
Lady Mihwa’s words that she could quickly reorganize her forces were by no means an empty boast.
“Come to think of it, you must be tired too, my lady.”
“Pardon?”
“You kept him by your side to be a guard, but instead of doing what he was told, he was harboring feelings of love.”
“……That’s true.”
“On the other hand, I wonder if you really didn’t know how he felt.”
“……!!!”
He was a man like a ghost.
Lady Mihwa, looking at the brightly smiling Biyoung, raised her guard once again.
As Biyoung said, Lady Mihwa had seen through Jin Seung’s heart from the beginning.
But it was not necessarily a bad thing.
The greater his feelings for her, the more his loyalty would be amplified.
Lady Mihwa nodded her head and obediently admitted.
“My thoughts were short. I should have been wary that things could turn out this way.”
“Well. It’s fortunate that no one died as a result. But……”
Gulp, gulp, Biyoung swallowed the liquor and let out a rough sigh.
“The wound of a friend stabbing me in the back! This wound in my heart just won’t heal! A wound from a knife will disappear over time, but I don’t know what to do about this wound, you see?”
Stop it already, you son of a bitch.
Lady Mihwa forcefully swallowed the curses that rose to her throat.
Lady Mihwa was not a person of gentle disposition.
She was not humoring him simply because she felt sorry.
There was only one reason she was gently coaxing Biyoung.
It was because of Biyoung’s martial arts, which could easily blow away the likes of the Syndicate of Ten Thousand Eyes.
‘If this man decides to, both the Syndicate of Ten Thousand Eyes and the Loyal Heart Pavilion will be finished that day.’
She didn't know where such a monstrous fellow had come from, but the skills he possessed were the real deal.
According to what Jin Seung had said before he was kicked out, he had subdued all the Second Line Leaders with a single sword strike.
Moreover, the swordsmanship he had shown at that time was none other than…….
‘The Sun-Shooting Sword Art. To think there was someone left who could use that swordsmanship…….’
An ultimate technique that only geniuses within the Diancang Sect, which operated with a small elite force, could learn.
The Sun-Shooting Sword Art was a martial art that could stir up the Murim with its mere existence.
A supreme master who had once been the object of admiration of the Murim martial artists.
Hadn’t the swordsman of the Diancang Sect, who was called the World’s Fastest Sword, also made his name with the Sun-Shooting Sword Art and the Vacuum Sword?
“Then perhaps……”
“Yes?”
“Can you also use…… the Vacuum Sword?”
Hoo.
She knows about the Vacuum Sword?
Biyoung’s mouth formed a circle.
Well.
It wouldn’t be strange for the head of the Syndicate of Ten Thousand Eyes to remember a lost martial art.
Biyoung smiled brightly and answered her.
“I don’t think you’re in a position to ask me questions right now……”
“Ah…… you’re right.”
Lady Mihwa was thus forced to suppress her curiosity.
“I won’t take questions. Just tell me how you will heal the wound in my heart.”
“Actually, that’s why……”
After sobering up and receiving the report, Lady Mihwa felt like she would rather pass out again.
To think they would do something she hadn’t ordered and stir up trouble.
After a time of punishment filled with anger, she had to spend the whole night pondering ways to soothe Biyoung’s heart.
The result of that deliberation was now, resting on the palm of her hand.
“What’s this?”
Biyoung asked with an indifferent face.
“As you know, this Loyal Heart Pavilion is the finest gisaeng house in Yiliang County. Even if you want to meet a popular gisaeng right away, you have to wait for more than a month if you have no connections.”
“More than a month to meet a gisaeng?”
Heh.
No different from the emperor.
Just as Biyoung was thinking that, a scene flashed through his mind.
Huh?
I’ve heard this story somewhere before?
“So some people send gifts to make special connections. That way, you can move up the time.”
“Then perhaps……”
Biyoung opened the small fortune pouch placed in her hand.
Sure enough.
It contained the very thing Biyoung had expected!
“The Six-Flower Pill?!”
“Oh my? You know it well?”
Lady Mihwa’s eyes widened slightly, as if she was a little surprised.
“Of course I know it. It’s a spirit pill that martial artists can’t get their hands on even if they want to. Besides……”
“?”
As if he found it extremely amusing, Biyoung’s lips curled up.
“I know a gisaeng who received this gift recently.”
“Oh my?”
Lady Mihwa’s reaction was one of disbelief.
And for good reason, because this Six-Flower Pill was a precious and rare spirit pill that even the Loyal Heart Pavilion had only received a few times.
“It’s true. I don’t know who gave it, but they probably gave it to her saying it’s good for skin beauty and restoring youth, right?”
“That’s right. What a surprising story.”
Among the effects of the Six-Flower Pill, there was certainly such a thing.
But the true value of the spirit medicine lay solely in its immense internal energy.
To talk about skin and such with it was putting the cart before the horse.
Lady Mihwa, who had been blinking her eyes in surprise, soon narrowed her eyes beautifully.
“So to put it another way, you are personally acquainted with a gisaeng who is attractive enough to receive the Six-Flower Pill as a gift?”
“Hmm?”
At that blatant reaction, Biyoung was momentarily at a loss for words.
Is that how it turns out?
“It’s not exactly wrong…… but it doesn’t seem entirely right either……”
“Hohoho. No need to be shy. They say a hero is never without beautiful women.”
“No, I mean……”
“Hohoho.”
Lady Mihwa waved her fine hand as if she knew everything.
Biyoung felt somewhat wronged but decided to let it go.
There was no need to explain that the gisaeng was actually a rising star of the Diancang Sect.
The important thing was that the Six-Flower Pill on her hand was now his.
“Will this be enough to heal the wound carved in the Young Master’s heart?”
“Hmm. I think so.”
Biyoung quickly took the fortune pouch and put it inside his clothes, lest her mind change.
Not one, but five.
Biyoung had to make a great effort to close his gaping mouth.
In fact, this Six-Flower Pill was not of great help to Biyoung.
He had already absorbed the precious spirit medicine that was said to be passed down only to the sect leader in the Diancang Sect.
But for the few in the Diancang Sect who lacked internal energy, this Six-Flower Pill would be a godsend.
The rising stars who diligently trained in martial arts and had talent, but whose wings had not yet spread due to weak internal energy.
The faces of a few people came to Biyoung’s mind.
“Then now, shall we hear the rest of the story from yesterday?”
Biyoung still had a gallant smile, but for some reason, Lady Mihwa had to gulp.
Whenever Biyoung asked this question, she felt as if the air somehow changed.
“First of all, about the confrontation with the Heavenly Demon…… I don’t know much about it either. It was a long time ago, and there weren’t many survivors.”
“Who were the ones who survived from there?”
“Great Zen Master Jeongjin of Shaolin, Great Master Wi of the Mount Heng Sect, and Great Master Mae of the Mount Hua Sect.”
“So only three out of ten survived.”
Biyoung sighed softly.
Not even killing him, but just making him retreat required the sacrifice of seven people.
And not just any seven people, but the top masters representing each of their sects.
“It’s more surprising that the Young Master doesn’t know this. Well, a lot of time has passed since then. It’s a story that’s not often heard on the streets.”
“Is that all the information from that day?”
“Of course not. If that were the case, I couldn’t have risen to the position of First Line Leader of the Syndicate of Ten Thousand Eyes.”
Lady Mihwa gave a coquettish laugh once and then gave new information.
Content that could never be heard on the streets.
“I don’t know much, but I heard that the martial arts the Heavenly Demon learned are of a very different nature from those of the orthodox sects.”
“That would be so.”
“They say that the more he masters the martial arts he learned, the more his body changes. Not only his external appearance, but his internal organs also become grotesquely twisted.”
“!”
As if struck by lightning, Biyoung’s face stiffened.
The change in the internal organs.
That was a crucial matter that had determined the life and death of the World’s Fastest Sword.
‘So……!’
Biyoung’s gaze turned to the past.
He had definitely pierced through the Heavenly Demon’s Body Protecting Aura and plunged his blade into his heart.
However, looking back now, the heart was not in that place to begin with.
Perhaps thinking that Biyoung’s condition was unusual, Lady Mihwa continued in a cautious tone.
“After the strike from Great Master Yeongbi of the Diancang Sect, the Heavenly Demon’s body exploded like gunpowder. The great masters, including Great Zen Master Jeongjin, thought the Heavenly Demon was self-destructing, but that wasn’t the case. It was just one of the Heavenly Demon’s martial arts techniques.”
“……!”
“More than half of the Ten Great Masters of Jianghu were hit by that explosion, and it’s said that the Heavenly Demon disappeared after leaving behind the Twenty-Year Pact.”
The information the Syndicate of Ten Thousand Eyes had found out was indeed detailed and could not be heard on the streets.
Especially the fact that the location of his internal organs had changed was a variable that Biyoung had not imagined.
‘If…… the next time we meet…….’
I will sever his neck, not his heart.
Biyoung swallowed a vow hotter than a flame in his heart.
“There’s one last question left, right? I think I can tell you about this one in a bit more detail.”
“Oho.”
For some reason, Lady Mihwa showed confidence.
At her appearance, Biyoung pricked up his ears in anticipation.
If the reunion with the Heavenly Demon was a matter of a few years later, the story she was about to tell was something that could determine Biyoung’s immediate course of action.
Who on earth were the unorthodox factions that had attacked the Diancang Sect?
Lady Mihwa opened her mouth with a coquettish smile.
“They are an assassin group.”