Chapter 178 (1/2)

Chapter 178: Chapter 51

Just like Kanghyok, Yoni has never experienced a war.

But she felt that something was wrong when she discovered they put out the torch without any reason.

When she looked out, she couldn't see any sentry standing nearby.

“Master, master!”

She urgently shook and woke up Kanghyok.

“What's the matter?”

“Something went wrong here.”

Yoni gave him a sword with a hardened face.

“Do I need this right now?”

“Yes, let me go out first and check out what's happened.”

She cautiously opened the door not to make any noise.

Kanghyok was on his toes, with his heart pounding strongly.

‘d.a.m.n it! I should not have come here.'

When he looked around, he realized that Dolsok, Makbong and Yoju had not come back yet.

While he sat there with a blank look, Yoni went out and quickly looked around the yard.

The soldiers keeping watch in the yard were all asleep.

‘Did I overstep some place?' she thought.

After she looked around the room Kanghyok was in, she was about to climb a wall for further examination.

At that moment, she saw somebody in front of her.

“You!”

A j.a.panese raider was standing before her, holding a sword stained with blood.

The sword was a very short one, apparently a dagger, with which he must have beheaded the guard.

He darted toward her, wiedling the dagger.

Avoiding his attack swiftly, Yoni shouted loudly, “Enemy! Ambus.h.!.+”

The moment she shouted aloud, there were heard noisy sounds of them brandis.h.i.+ng swords as well as screaming here and there.

Obviously, the j.a.panese raiders had come to seize the village where General s.h.i.+n's soldiers and Kanghyok's entourage were camping out at.

After she avoided his stabbing for the second time, Yoni beheaded him quickly.

And then she shouted, “Master! Hurry up!”

Kanghyok quickly put on shoes and got close to her.

With his bag in one hand and a sword in the other, though, he found it hard to move swiftly.

Lowering her body, she looked out from the wall.

Though the sword fighting was done for now, several houses in the village were being burnt down with fire.

Kanghyok heard the sound of sword fighting nearby.

When he turned back instinctively, he saw Makbong fighting hard, with Dolsok and Yoju behind him.

“Hey, Makbong is here!”

“Where?”

“I see you, master!” shouted Makbong out of joy.

Makbong wanted to cut off the raiders before him quickly, but couldn't because they outnumbered the friendly soldiers on his side.

Yoni, along with Kanghyok, tried in vain to approach Makbong several times.

Though Kanghyok brandished the sword, he couldn't do so nimbly because of the bag he was holding.

“I think we are better off getting out of here, master!” Yoni shouted at Kanghyok after beheading another raider.

“What about Makbong, Dolsok and Yoju?”

“They'll be safe as long as Makbong protects them.”

“d.a.m.n it.”

Kanghyok regretted that his entourage had camped out in a house some distance away from General s.h.i.+n's main force.

Many of the soldiers sleeping in the yard were killed by the raiders.

Though other soldiers who survived were helping Yoni fight with the raiders, they would most likely be killed in the current situation.

Kanghyok made the quick decision.

“Sure, let's get out of here!”

“Let me clear the way. So, don't lose sight of me.”

“No problem!”

Raising her head, she turned to the direction where the j.a.panese raides first came. from

There were not as many there because most of them concentrated on attacking General s.h.i.+n's main force.

As she was a nimble gladiator, she could easily behead ordinary j.a.panese raiders.

“Son of a b.i.t.c.h!”

Some of the raides tried to push their spears from behind, but she was much nimbler and faster to kill them.

“Just get close to me, master!”

“Sure, sure.”

Nodding his head absentmindedly, Kanghyok hid behind her.

Though he practiced taekgyon martial arts with her, he could barely take a step in actual fighting like this.

He took out a sword, but didn't know how to brandish it properly.

‘I can't put it back. Dang it!'

Beheading another raider, she said, “We're almost out of this d.a.m.ned place.”

Red blood had splashed into the woods when she cut off the raider's head.

Once Kanghyok and Yoni escaped into the woods, it would be hard for the raiders to follow them.

“Stop there!”

Somebody charged toward them, shouting at Kangyok and Yoni.

At a glance, the man was wearing a black helmet, and looked like he was not an ordinary raider.

He quickly threw himself over, brandis.h.i.+ng a sword.