Chapter 43: Heartless(2) (1/2)

Chapter 43: Heartless (2)

Translator: Hwarang

Editor: coyo

Song Hwa Rin was sitting next to a mirror. Compared to the first day her swelling reduced a lot but her face was still swollen. This was a new experience for her. How can someone look so different when they are swollen?

From behind her Soo Ran said, “How can you smile right now?”

“Huh?”

It seemed like she was smiling without noticing.

“We are not kids anymore, I can’t cry just because I was beaten up.”

“I can’t forgive young master Byuk.”

“Really now?”

“Milady! Don’t say it as if it doesn’t concern you. This was a major event.”

“I don’t plan to bear a grudge against him because of this.”

Ever since that day Song Hwa Rin replayed that fight multiple times every day.

“Ever since I was little I learned martial arts and there were many times when I had an exchange of pointers. But this exchange of pointers was something else. This was, how should I say…”

Felt real. This felt like real fighting, no, it felt more real than actual fights.

“He is stronger than me. And by a lot.”

“He was just lucky.”

She just said that because she was sad, but she knew as well since she saw the fight that Byuk Lee Dan’s martial art was much stronger. He was stronger than her, and he was stronger than Song Hwa Rin.

“Do you know what I was thinking when I was lying on the floor?”

“What thoughts did you have?”

“Relief.”

Soo Ran said in a surprised tone, “What? You felt relieved? But why?”

“It felt as if the congestion in my chest was released. Do you understand how that feels? Imagine you have to do something but it doesn’t go so well. So you don’t want to do it anymore since it is a bother. But time keeps on ticking while you procrastinate. Then that day it felt like all those feelings were released and I felt refreshed. Like the feeling when you come out of a bath after you haven’t taken a bath in a month.”

“Oh my G.o.d! After being beaten up like that… I really don’t understand you.”

Then Song Hwa Rin made a smile. ‘Yes, I didn’t understand either…’

First she thought that the refres.h.i.+ng feeling was due to figuring out the flaw in her sword art. But then as the time went on she could tell that wasn’t the reason.

She remembered the words Byuk Lee Dan said before.

“There are times when you just have to accept it so that you can move on.”

That day she replied she couldn’t do it. She believed she could never change.

She looked at the mirror.

Her face was all swollen.

Maybe she was seeing a change through the mirror. If it was just like any other day she would have gotten mad like Soo Ran, but today she might be happy due to the change in her heart. The ‘change’ that she had been hoping for a long time.

Song Hwa Rin slowly walked to the window and almost stumbled. Soo Ran rushed to support her but Song Hwa Rin waved her off. With her own strength, she got to the window and opened it wide.

The hot summer weather was now gone and autumn winds were slowly blowing.

“The wind feels really nice.”

Kw.a.n.g Du finally returned.

Rather than his normal expression he had a heavy and serious expression. I could tell that the reason for this was because of his rage.

“Just as you told me Ma Jung s...o...b..ught a plot of land in Jae Nam for his Martial Arts School.

Since the contracts are already signed they will start construction soon.”

Kw.a.n.g Du was able to find out everything starting from the exact location, size, number of equipment needed for the construction, all the way to the number of workers that will be working on this.

But the reason why Kw.a.n.g Du was angry was because of this.

“But Ma Jung s...o...b..ught that land dirt cheap.”

“For how much?”

“He bought it for almost nothing.”

“The owner would have resisted in selling it.”

“Yes. Originally the owner didn’t want to sell it. But…”

Kw.a.n.g Du made an angry face and said, “A couple of days after the contract there was an accident and the owner’s youngest daughter died.”

“An accident?”

“The house caught on fire…”

Just thinking about it made Kw.a.n.g Du pause for a moment. With a stern face I waited for Kw.a.n.g Du’s next words.

“Not only that. The next day the eldest son was heavily injured due to a horse riding incident. And the owner’s old mother dropped dead because she ate something. It seemed the financial manager who declined the deal was stabbed to death. The Murim Alliance was contacted but it seemed as though they couldn’t find any evidence of a conspiracy. So in the end the owner sold the land, and left Jae Nam with his family.”

Kw.a.n.g Du had had tightened his fist and his hand was shaking, “How could they do this?”

All the accidents that Kw.a.n.g Du told me must have been intended. He was right. How can this have happened by fate?

Although my heart was already cold, but I didn’t show that anger.

“Did Ma Jung Soo sign the contract himself?”

“No. The person who signed the contract was someone called Old Man Flower Fan.

You heartless old man! I had a feeling about what took place here. He was an outsider. To receive the trust of Ma Jung Soo he must render some merit. To retain his trust and power, Old Man Flower Fan did something this inhumane.

“I was boiling all the way to my head but on the other hand I am really afraid. How can someone do something like this?”

“Because he is not a human being. How can someone like him be considered a human being.”

“Young master! Please punish him. Punish him. Since I am too weak I am asking you.”

There was truth in his eyes. After meeting Kw.a.n.g Du there were many instances like this but this time he was really angry. He was more angry than when he was humiliated.

“I will.”

These short words. They were more effective than a hundred words.

And he understood the meaning behind my sentence and said, “Thank you, young master.”

He was growing, he was becoming more and more like a real Kang Ho-In.

Yes, rage at them. You must realize why we strengthen ourselves. So that we can bring justice upon these evil people.

“I realized it this time. If you are weak you can’t do anything. I hate the fact that I can’t do anything.”

“Then I will help you ease some of that helplessness away.”

“What?”

I took out a wooden box.

“Open it”

“What is it?”

Kw.a.n.g Du opened the box. The content inside the box were three roots of thorowax.

“What are these roots?”

“In Kang Ho it is called cultivating medicine?”

“Eh?! This is cultivating medicine? Kw.a.n.g Du was surprised and his hands were trembling.

“Their quality isn’t the best. It a lower tier profound medicine.”

“But it still expensive, right?”

“Of course they are expensive.”

“How much?”

I truthfully reported their price to Kw.a.n.g Du. After hearing that each root costed nine thousand nyang...

“Oh my! They are very expensive! Where did you find these? I will enter a mountain and look for more. It guess it’s now time to show off my horse-riding skills”

I laughed. I remembered him coming back home riding a horse casually.

“It is not something that anyone can find just because they enter a mountain. If not then the price wouldn’t be as expensive.”

“I guess. But then these?”

“Yes, I bought them for you. Eat them.”

“Really?”

“Then do you think I showed them to you to show off or something?”

Kw.a.n.g Du flinched.

“No you can’t! You can’t do that! You must eat them young master. You can’t give them to me”