Chapter 13: The Place My Sword Points To (4) (1/2)

Book 1 Chapter 13: The Place my Sword Points to (4)

Translated By: Hwarang

Edited By: Jay

I wiped the blood off my blade and picked up the cudgel.

Although Yang Gi Chul received a critical injury, he was still able to talk. “&h.e.l.lip;So this is how you deal with Hyeol Gun and the Yang Clan.”

“Not the entire Yang Clan, but just you. I’m going to say Hyeol Gun ran off after killing you.”

Yang Gi Chul looked at me with a sorrowful look. “If you let me live&h.e.l.lip; I will do anything.”

I just kept walking as if I didn’t hear anything.

He barely clung onto a wall as he said, “Wait&h.e.l.lip; Please! Wait!” He quickly pressed some mechanism which opened his safe. “If you let me live, I will give everything to you.”

“Making conditions. Ha, it seems that you still think you are in the position to make conditions!”

I slowly approached him raised the cudgel.

It is said that the more one is pressured, the more one will open his safe. He didn’t even have the chance to make a deal with me, yet he ended up opening his safe for me. Someone like him, who only thought about himself, would do at anything to preserve his life. So even if he tried to make a deal with me I wouldn’t budge. His safe was fully stacked with banknotes and gold.

On the wall Yang Gi Chul said with all of his energy, “There are over thirty thousand Nyang here. So please&h.e.l.lip;!”

I stared at him with cold eyes. “Didn’t you say before that there are only two type of people in Kang Ho? The strong and the weak. It’s where the strong rule, while the weak die.”

“Today you are that weak one.”

Smack!

I brought down the cudgel to his head. With a loud smack, there was a sound of bones cracking. I am not a merciful person. I will not allow the person who threatened my family to live.

Smack!

This time I smacked towards his chest. His ribcage collapsed, showing the results of my attack. Then I went to deal with Hyeol Gun. Because I couldn’t leave any hint of my work, I had to properly take care of this.

As I expected, Jung Yeo was standing outside throughout the fight.

“Come in.” He carefully came in and looked around, half surprised. He was only half surprised because he had somewhat expected this to happen.

I put everything from the safe in a bag and slung it across my back. “Hyeol Gun left with all the money after killing your Bangju and his son.”

Jung Yeo looked at the corpse and swallowed his saliva. I was certain that he would take care of the corpses and the story, not because he was scared, but because of what I was about to say.

“Now, you are the Yang Clan’s Gaju.”

When I came back to the inn with my bag full of banknotes and gold, I saw Kw.a.n.g Du mindlessly sitting at one of the tables. After staring at me blankly for a second, he quickly got up and went towards the latrine. I was expecting him to rush towards me and greet me with a smile, but he left without saying anything.

Then one of the waiter said “Please wait. That’s his first meal after you left. He has been sitting at that table without sleeping, waiting for your return.”

When I looked back at the where Kw.a.n.g Du was sitting I saw that he ordered the cheapest food so that he could save money. So I decided to order some more food that Kw.a.n.g Du might like.

Soon after, Kw.a.n.g Du returned to the table with red eyes. It seemed that after seeing me return, he couldn’t hold back his tears and let his emotion overtake him.

“One more bowl of rice!” Even though I wasn’t hungry I stilled ordered it for Kw.a.n.g Du, since he wouldn’t be able to eat by himself.

“How can you swallow your food after sending your young master to the lion’s den?”

“If you don’t eat properly you can get heartburn. And young master, why are you joking with me, saying that I sent you to the lion’s den?”

“I’m hungry, so let’s just eat.”

We emptied our plates as the new dishes came out.

Kw.a.n.g Du said after rubbing his full stomach, “It’s good.”

“Is it?” What he said was true, there was nothing better than living like this. Being able to eat in comfort until you are full. When I saw someone take some Nyang out of their pouch I thought, ‘Being able to eat like this will satisfy most people, but for someone like Yang Gi Chul, his wild ambition made him lose everything.’

“It’s not true, right?”

“What’s not true?”

“There are some rumors going around that Hyeol Gun killed Lord Yang and took off with his money. Some of the other martial artists that came by said this, young master.”

“Oh, so something like that happened?”

“It’s something that you did, right young master?”

“Didn’t you say Hyeol Gun did it?”

“Yes? Of course, it couldn’t have been you. How can you, young master, have defeated Hyeol Gun, the mercenary who have even killed Yang GI Chul, his employer? The fate was on our side this time, right young master? But&h.e.l.lip; something seems.... This is something that couldn’t have happened by chance. What did you do?”

“I did say I was going to kill them.”

“Oh my G.o.d!” Kw.a.n.g Du covered his mouth looking flabbergasted. “You did it personally?!?”

“Yes, with my own hand.”

“Then all things that Hyeol Gun stole... You stole them, right?”

“Stole? It’s our compensation.”

“Compensation?”

“Compensation for threatening my father and mother, you and me, and all of our Clan members. After destroying our Clan, he planned on looting everything we had. He had a very sinister heart. So, I took all of his treasure from him.”

I truly wanted to rob him of everything down to his silver spoon and chopsticks, but that wasn’t physically possible. So, I just took everything that I could possibly carry. “How much did you take? No, don’t tell me. I don’t want to know.”

“Why? Aren’t you curious?”

“No! I don’t want to know! I’m scared. They say curiosity killed the cat.”

“Ho. Ho. Ho.”

“Please don’t laugh like that, it’s scaring me!”

If I were to exchange everything I took from him, it would come out to be about thirty thousand Nyang. Had I stayed longer and took more things from them, I could have made more; but I didn’t. The only thing that was in my mind was leaving the premise as cleanly as possible. If I was greedier and stayed longer, my ident.i.ty could have been exposed and there could have been repercussions.

Before I left, Jung Yeo most likely figured out that I was the Young Master of the Byuk Clan, but he couldn’t raise his hand against me because he was afraid of me. Of all the people that he knew, there wasn’t anyone who could deal with both Hyeol Gun and Yang Gi Chul at the same time.

He a.s.sumed that I was a sleeping dragon who was hiding his martial arts, so he swore his loyalty to me. But I wasn’t so stupid as to fully trust his loyalty. I was just going to use him while keeping him at an arm’s distance. Since he was involved with everything, he wouldn’t tell the truth regarding this matter.

Kw.a.n.g Du asked me with a shaking voice, “Did you really kill Yang Gi Kang as well?”

I nodded and Kw.a.n.g Du’s face darkened. “Why, do you feel pity for him?”

“But he was still so young.”

“He isn’t a child anymore; he was already twenty. But, what does that matter to me? Whether you are old or young, if you do something that deserves death then I will show no mercy.”

Not counting the time that he tried to kill me, he still did many things that were deserving of death.