The World's Greatest Troublemaker

Chapter 39

"What's the matter? Captain Dan. You've been avoiding me like a rat all this time."

The man approached, sneering. Mok Wigun wondered who it was, but Magistrate Chu whispered.

"It's Hwang Balgeuk, the leader of the Iron Sword Unit."

If the Mok family had the Wood Wind Unit, the Baek family had the Iron Sword Unit. Of course, the Wood Wind Unit was ahead in terms of fame, but the Iron Sword Unit was also a place that had been gaining momentum recently.

"Did you think you could avoid me even after coming to Chang'an?"

Hwang Balgeuk approached Dan Bulseok with a sneer. Dan Bulseok stood up, but he just looked at him and said nothing.

"What? Did you become a mute in the meantime?"

Hwang Balgeuk pushed Dan Bulseok's chest with his finger. An act of ridicule that anyone could see. But Dan Bulseok just endured it.

But suddenly, Mok Wigun opened his mouth.

"If you've come to an inn, just eat your food. Don't do anything stupid."

"Who is this now?"

Hwang Balgeuk, who looked at him as if he were insignificant. But Baek Samun, who had approached nearby, blocked him with his hand and said politely.

"I am Baek Samun of the Baek family. Excuse me, but who are you..."

"This is Young Master Mok Wigun of the Mok family."

Magistrate Chu introduced him with a smiling face. Hearing that, Baek Samun tilted his head, and someone next to him whispered in his ear. It seemed he was telling him who Mok Wigun was. After listening for a moment, Baek Samun nodded his head and said in a loud voice.

"Ah. Ah. Mok Wigun. That troublemaker of the Mok family?"

Baek Samun's face was full of a sneer.

"It's just like the rumors. They say you run wild without distinguishing heaven and earth. This is Chang'an. Not the place you were."

Mok Wigun stared at Baek Samun for a moment and then snickered.

"Are you telling me because you think I don't know this is Chang'an? Wow! You're kinder than I heard."

Mok Wigun clapped his hands very slowly but strongly.

Clap! Clap! Clap!

A loud sound echoed, loud enough for everyone on the second floor to hear. Seeing that, Baek Samun's expression hardened. And Hwang Balgeuk's face crumpled like a piece of paper, as if he were angry.

"This bastard is really not in his right mind. In front of whom do you dare!"

Hwang Balgeuk, who was panting and approaching. Dan Bulseok blocked his path. At that, Hwang Balgeuk shouted as if it were absurd.

"Move! Before you get hurt!"

"I won't endure it anymore either!"

"Don't endure it. Anyone who sees would think I was begging you to endure."

As he said that, Hwang Balgeuk took a step closer to Mok Wigun. Dan Bulseok, who stretched out his hand to stop him. At the same time, Hwang Balgeuk suddenly threw a punch at Dan Bulseok. It seemed that going for Mok Wigun was a feint, and he had intended to aim for Captain Dan from the beginning.

A fast and fierce attack. It was a very sudden attack, and at a very close distance. So everyone imagined the scene of the Iron Sword Unit leader's fist hitting Dan Bulseok's face. But Dan Bulseok's body leaned back slightly.

Dan Bulseok, who had narrowly dodged the fist. His hand lightly pushed Hwang Balgeuk's elbow, and he kicked his knee with his leg. At that, Hwang Balgeuk's body spun around, and he floated in the air, lying horizontally.

"Ugh!"

Thump!

Hwang Balgeuk tumbled to the inn floor. He got up quickly, but the sight of him getting up in a hurry in his fluster was even more ridiculous.

Seeing that, Mok Wigun muttered with a pleased smile.

"The training is effective."

The gazes of the people on the second floor were all focused on this side. Everyone was surprised at the unexpected result and murmured. At that, Hwang Balgeuk's face turned as red as a raw liver. He panted and shouted.

"What kind of sorcery did this bastard use?"

But the murmuring of the people did not stop. At that, he drew his sword. With a clear 'chaeng' sound, a cool energy was scattered in all directions. Suddenly, the surroundings were covered in silence.

Dan Bulseok also lowered his body slightly and put his hand on the hilt of his sword. A posture ready to draw his sword at any moment.

"Put your sword away. Before you regret it."

Mok Wigun's voice, which cut through the silence. But Baek Samun's roar immediately followed.

"To use sorcery. Unforgivable. Iron Sword Unit leader!"

"Yes!"

"Let those who have done such a hideous thing know what the martial world is like!"

At Baek Samun's command, the Iron Sword Unit leader readjusted his grip on his sword. And Dan Bulseok also drew his sword. With a 'sreureung' sound, the tension deepened. An atmosphere where blood would splatter at any moment.

It was then. Cutting through the tense, anxious feeling that was suffocating the second floor, Mok Wigun's voice was heard.

"Ah. These guys are really annoying!"

Mok Wigun's figure was not in its original place. He was already in front of Baek Samun. The startled Baek Samun took a step back and said.

"What?"

"There's nothing like this for nonsense."

Mok Wigun stretched out his hand. Baek Samun tried to dodge, but strangely, he couldn't dodge Mok Wigun's hand.

"Aah!"

Mok Wigun, who had grabbed Baek Samun's ear, said while pulling it this way and that.

"What sorcery? You're the one who tumbled because you have no skill! Huh?"

"Ughhh!"

Everyone was shocked by the sudden situation. In particular, Hwang Balgeuk was so flustered that he didn't know what to do. He turned his sword towards Mok Wigun and shouted.

"Let go right now!"

"I don't want to."

Mok Wigun retorted, pulling Baek Samun's ear even harder.

"Ughhhh!!"

Baek Samun, who was screaming. The strange thing was that Baek Samun couldn't shake off Mok Wigun. Baek Samun was also skilled in martial arts, so everyone thought it was strange.

But what the situation was didn't matter. For now, he had to save Baek Samun. Hwang Balgeuk approached Mok Wigun and swung his sword. But he had to stop his attack.

"Uh, uh. Sword! Sword!"

Baek Samun shouted urgently. It was because Mok Wigun had grabbed his ear and moved his body, so Hwang Balgeuk's sword had come close to his own eyes.

Hwang Balgeuk moved here and there, looking for a chance to attack, trying to break the situation somehow. But every time, Mok Wigun moved Baek Samun. Hwang Balgeuk was going crazy. Because Baek Samun was always in the path he was trying to attack.

"Drop the sword. If you don't want to see this bastard's ear get cut off."

Dropping the sword means admitting defeat to the opponent. A disgraceful thing for a martial artist. But Hwang Balgeuk had no choice. It would be a bigger problem if Baek Samun's ear was really cut off. He dropped the sword. A 'jjaenggeurang' sound echoed on the second floor.

"Aak!"

And next to him, Baek Samun tumbled.

"You guys are lucky. Know that I'm letting it go because the food I ordered has come out."

When people looked, a waiter was standing on the stairs leading to the second floor, holding food and not knowing what to do.

"Bring it here."

The waiter glanced at the Baek family people, and when there was no particular restraint, he moved stealthily. Mok Wigun returned to his seat and sat down, and Dan Bulseok was still standing, wary of the Baek family people.

"To use a cowardly trick. I, Baek Samun, will not forget today's events!"

"Cowardly? Then shall we do it one more time?"

Mok Wigun stood up from his seat. At that, Baek Samun covered his ears and said.

"I will come find you when my internal injuries heal. Know that you will not be safe then!"

As he said that, he went downstairs. After they had disappeared in a hurry, a sense of peace came to the second floor.

"They have no skill, but they're so noisy."

Mok Wigun clicked his tongue and gestured for the waiter to quickly put down the food. Soon, a sumptuous meal was laid out, but no one touched it. But Pyeon Jeoksu was an exception. He said as he put food on his plate.

"Wow. This looks delicious."

Seeing that, Magistrate Chu said to Mok Wigun.

"It's good. It's really good that there are no ordinary people around you, Young Master."

"Is that so? Let's eat. The food will get cold."

It didn't seem like an atmosphere for a meal at all, but as Pyeon Jeoksu ate the food deliciously, everyone started to eat.

The food was delicious. There was a reason why there were so many people. But as he was eating, Dan Bulseok, who was sitting next to him, asked.

"Young Master. Didn't I say earlier that I had killed the Iron Sword Unit leader's younger brother?"

"You did."

Mok Wigun answered as he put the three-skin salad, made of three kinds of peel, on his plate.

"But why did you step up? The Baek family will make a big issue out of it."

Of course, they will. The problem could become serious. But so what?

"Of course, it will be a problem. But I trust Captain Dan. And there is no master who would stand by while his person is being beaten."

He would accept the friction with the Baek family. Meaning his person was more important. At those words, Dan Bulseok thought for a moment and then asked again.

"Do you trust me that much? Why?"

What Mok Wigun knew was the fact that Dan Bulseok had killed the Iron Sword Unit leader's younger brother. But he had still blocked him when he had picked a fight. When the opponent drew his sword, he had not endured it and had stepped up.

Dan Bulseok thought. If it had been the same situation, how would he have acted? He would have tried to solve it through dialogue somehow. Rather, he would have taken a slightly low posture. To somehow avoid creating a dispute with a strong place like the Baek family.

So he couldn't understand. Why Mok Wigun had stepped up like this, knowing that the problem would get bigger.

"If there's a reason, is that trust? Real trust has no reason. Because the heart and the heart know each other."

Mok Wigun said as if it were nothing. A smile formed on Dan Bulseok's lips. Dan Bulseok was about to say something, but Mok Wigun, who had noticed it, called the waiter.

"Waiter!"

Mok Wigun pointed outside. There, people dressed as physicians were passing by in a line.

"What is that?"

The waiter glanced outside and then answered.

"Aren't they the physicians of the Medical Saint Valley?"

"Medical Saint Valley?"

Physicians also had something like a martial arts sect. Representative places were the Medical Saint Valley or the Divine Medicine Gate.

"Why have so many physicians from the Medical Saint Valley come?"

"The governor probably called them."

The waiter said that much and then smiled and rubbed his hands. At that, Dan Bulseok gave him a little money, and the waiter's mouth opened again.

"Didn't the governor's mother suddenly collapse? They say it's a stroke, and they say it's a strange disease. Anyway, so all the famous physicians in Chang'an were urgently called."

But there was no improvement. So they had urgently contacted the Medical Saint Valley. Hearing that, Magistrate Chu asked.

"Do you know when she collapsed?"

"I heard she collapsed yesterday at dawn."

The waiter said that much and then returned, and at that, Magistrate Chu said.

"If it was yesterday, I was on my way here, so it's natural that I'm hearing it for the first time."

"It's a matter of Chang'an, but you seem to be very interested."

But what Magistrate Chu had asked was not just because it was a matter of Chang'an.

"Because it's news I haven't heard. If such important information was not properly delivered, I was going to establish discipline."

But yesterday, the party was on its way to Chang'an. So there was no problem with the information delivery system.

"And you never know how information will be connected, do you?"

So he said that he had to keep an eye on such a special event.

"But if it's the governor's mother, it must be a position to be envied. Well, does sickness distinguish between the noble and the humble?"

Anyone can get sick and die. That is the way of the world. But at the story of the old lady being sick, Mok Wigun suddenly thought of his grandmother.

* * *

"Is this the place?"

Mok Wigun, who had unpacked his things at the manor, headed to the appointment place in the evening. The splendid place right in front was the appointed brothel. Yesowon.

Inside here, the great merchant of Anhui, Yi Jeonggi, was waiting. Mok Wigun said to Dan Bulseok, who was guarding him from the side.

"Let's go in."

Mok Wigun took a step. Into the splendid place he was experiencing for the first time since coming here. And for a new meeting.

(End of Chapter)