Chapter 11: The Place My Sword Points To (2) (1/2)
Book 1 Chapter 11: The Place my Sword Points to (2)
Translator: Hwarang
Editor: Jay
It had been three days, but there was still no sign of Kw.a.n.g Du. He could have been captured, tortured or killed, but I wasn’t worried in the slightest. All I did these past days were eat, sleep, and practice the Brightmoon Sword Art, not caring about anything regarding rumors.
The result of these past three days was visible. I was able to perfectly master the Brightmoon Sword Art, and I looked like someone who had practiced it for a long time.
Mastering a new technique that was not mine gave me some new insights. The biggest insight I gained was that I had become too stagnant. Since I stood at the peak of the martial world for so long, there was bound to be complacency, but I didn’t expect that I’d become complacent to this degree. In my previous life there was no one who could stop my sword, so I stopped practicing.
However, after mastering this sword art, I realized that something greater. I realized that in my generation, I may have been the strongest; but in the next generation, or future generations, there might be someone who was able to contend against me.
After reaching the apex, I became so blinded in fighting those is in front of me that I couldn’t think about the big picture. I should have looked into the future, but I was stuck in the present. Maybe that was the reason why I couldn’t achieve the Spirit Sword State.
Maybe this was why I never realized that the Spirit Sword State was a state that traverses through Time and Era.
Kw.a.n.g Du didn’t fail me. On the morning of the fourth day, he entered the inn and came to my side with a big grin. However, I never expected him to come back looking like like someone from Kang Ho. He had on martial artist robes, a sword on his side, a straw hat and straw coat.
He sat across from me naturally, as if he had some business with me.
“Sae Hae Dong Do they say. Why don’t we share a drink, since this is a fated meeting? Didn’t you say that Sae Hae Dong Do was dog s.h.i.+t?”
“Is it really that fun?”
As I teased him he let out a deep breath while taking off his straw hat and coat.
“Is it fun? I was so scared I neared died.”
“So how did it go?”
Kw.a.n.g Du said in a low voice, “Have you heard of Hyul Gun?”
“Hyul Gun?”
This was a name that I had never heard of before, so I shook my head and asked him, “What kind of person is he?”
“I don’t know the full details, but it’s the name of a person who is gathering mercenaries for Yang Gi Chul.”
“Mercenaries?”
“Yes it seems as if they have already gathered few dozen people. I’m certain they are planning to attack us.”
“How are you so certain?”
“Because, while gathering information about these mercenaries, I heard some spreading rumors about you and Yang Gi Kang. They talked about how Yang Gi Kang got hurt after trying to prevent you from raping a girl.”
“I’m sure everyone will believe that, since that was my usual behavior.”
“But how do you know everyone will believe this ridiculous rumor? You never stooped down to that level of raping girls.”
“There are bound to be ridiculous rumors.”
“Why are you so relaxed? Aren’t you mad?”
“I am very angry, but getting angry over this won’t solve anything. Ala.s.so, if it gets found out that those ridiculous rumors were false, then won’t my image vastly imrpove?”
“But that’s later.”
“Don’t worry, time will fly.”
“You sound really old when you say these kinds of things.”
I gave him a smile.
“So how did you get this information? Did you infiltrate their headquarter dressed as a mercenary? Shouldn’t that have been very dangerous?”
“No.”
“No?”
“The part about the gathering of mercenaries I discovered later.”
“Then how did you do it?”
“I learned about it through the one of the Yang Clan’s servants. One of their maids came to me and told me. As you know, I am very popular amongst the maids, and I understand how they feel.”
“HAHA.”
I laughed at him. He solved this problem in his own unique way.
“I was lucky, because there is a rumor going around amongst the maids and servants about the Yang clan. The story is Yang Gi Kang killed one of the maids. This made a lot of the servants be distrustful of the Yang Clan.”
Luck was a very important factor in a person’s life. Without luck, even if you have everything planned, you won’t get the result that you want.
“I was able get the information through them. Then I bought these clothes to infiltrate through their ranks. But I am sorry young master, I couldn’t do it in the end because I got scared.”
It goes without saying that my intuition was correct. Kw.a.n.g Du knows how to deal with these situations, and has natural instinct for dangerous situations. It would have been a waste to let him rot in our house just tending the yard.
“At first I was scared and nervous, but as I got more into it I felt excited. I think this was the first time in my life that I felt this excited. But, did I do well young master?”
“You did better than I expected.”
I could see his proud expression, “I also think I realized something.”
“What?”
“That girls fall for this beautiful face.”
This was unexpected, but Kw.a.n.g Du did have a pretty good outward appearance; on top of that he had an innocent heart.
“There are bound to be women who like your type.”
“HOHO, I think someone is jealous.”
“If you think about who I am giving up, I don’t think you can say that.”
“No, you can’t let her go. You won’t meet another girl as beautiful her. Even though her personality is terrible, just bear with it.”
I am sorry to say, but I had no interest in Song Hwa Rin, nor did I have time to date her.
“But shouldn’t we go back right now and tell the Gaju-nim everything?”
“Nope, we’re not going back.”
“Not going back?”
“We have to wrap up this business.”
Kw.a.n.g Du looked at me with a frozen expression. I think what I told him gave him quite a shock, but this is the best part about teasing him.
“Did you just say ‘we’? ‘We’ as in, the trash young master of the Byuk Clan and his manservant who just sweeps the yard?”
“Yes, ‘we’ as in the the Young Master who has finally grown up, and his faithful servant who just came back from accomplis.h.i.+ng his mission.”
He said after sighing, “Let’s buy an expensive wine, since it might be our last.”