Chapter 48 (2/2)
Seomun-deok looked puzzled. It seemed that the request was related to the reason why their faces didn’t look good.
“Let’s hear it.”
He wasn’t going to accept the request for sure. No matter how much he was a child of the family, he had no intention of giving an unreasonable solicitation or put an end to something terrible.
Seomunjaehak knew to some extent the tendency of Seomundeok.
However, he believed that Seomun-deok would definitely move if he heard what he was talking about.
They haven’t done anything unusual yet.
He was just beaten while struggling with Byeoktaesan.
No, he was bullied.
After organizing the story Seomunjaehak would say in his head, he opened his mouth.
No, he was going to.
But since then, his mouth did not open. Cold sweat flowed down his whole body, and his tongue stiffened as if his pressure point was blocked.
“Why don’t you talk?”
In response to Seomun-deok’s question, Seomunjaehak looked at Gu Yang-su and Chu Young-hak with eyes asking for help.
But the two weren’t very different either.
Soon, disappointment in Seomun-deok’s eyes settled.
Seeing it, the heart of Seomunjaehak fell.
So he tried really hard to open his mouth somehow. But he couldn’t.
It was like his body, but it wasn’t listening to him.
After Seomun-deok raised his strength, he slowly exhaled. He spread calm energy around him.
“First, calm your mind and focus on your inner power.”
Seomundeok was able to guess why Seomunjaehak was doing that now. He had seen a case similar to him.
That’s what happened when they are heavily crushed by an aura.
That made it more disappointing.
If they were being overwhelmed by an aura now, he can understand, but it must have been a while ago that he was overwhelmed by an aura.
But it was a matter of willpower, not talent, that he couldn’t even overcome it.
A person with a hardened will can never be shaken by something like that.
The solution in this case was simple. You just need to release the pressured mind and body. And you just need to stabilize the inner power. It has the effect of forcibly building up the mind and body.
Seomunjaehak did as he directed.
But nonetheless, he couldn’t open his mouth.
“Sigh. When you’re ready later, let’s talk. If you can’t even do that, I don’t even have to listen to you. Do you know understand?”
Seomunjaeak replied, bowing his head.
“Yes.”
Seomundeok just got up and left.
The three remaining in the room bowed their heads with confused expressions.
Still, he thought he only needed time.
From here to Homu-ryun, if they took a boat and moved slowly, it would take about three days.
Shouldn’t something happen at that time?
“I’m sure that would be enough. Of course.”
Seomunjaehak muttered.
“What is enough?”
Suddenly, the three people raised their heads at the same time.
Byeoktaesan was standing in the corner of the room.
When the three found him, they trembled all over.
“You must believe that you can afford it seeing as you ignored me?”
The three shook their heads fiercely.
“No! That’s not it!”
Byeoktaesan smiled.
“Are you sure?”
“Really! Trust me! I wasn’t really going to talk about you, brother! I was just trying to say hello!”
Byeoktaesan looked around the three people.
“Keep in mind that I’m always watching.”
The three nodded without hesitation.
When the nod stopped, Byeoktaesan was not there already.
The tensions of the three were relieved at the same time.
And their sphincter also relaxed.
* * *
Soso stood in the middle of the backyard of Geumwol hostel’s annex building with a nervous expression.
She looked up at the sky. The bright moon was floating in the sky.
Her heart was beating like crazy.
Soso’s gaze came down again and moved slightly to the side.
There was a tall pavilion standing there. Soso’s gaze reached the top floor.
That was the room of Byeoktaesan.
Now she had to go over there.
“Sigh.”
Soso has been serving Byeoktaesan from a very young age. It didn’t make sense to have no interest in him at all being together for over a decade.
At one time, she even had a dream of being with Byeoktaesan.
Of course, the dream ended really shortly. Because Byeoktaesan started to get sick.
And because Yeon Ha-rin appeared.
Even if it wasn’t, she wouldn’t have kept that dream for long. She knew better than anyone that she and Byeoktaesan couldn’t be together.
Anyway, she hasn’t had any other thoughts since then. To her, Byeoktaesan was just her lord to serve.
But today that hardened heart shook violently.
Soso shook her head. It shouldn’t be like this. However, there was still no way to violate the order.
Soso slowly turned to the pavilion.
“Ahhh!”
Soso screamed in surprise. Someone stood a little further away.
After she screamed and checked, it was Yeon Ha-rin.
“Uh? What is your lady doing here?”
Soso’s heart beat harder than before. She didn’t know that she came here, right?
Yeon Ha-rin said with a pretty smile.
“I couldn’t sleep because of the noisy thing before, so I came out for a short walk.”
The noisy thing from before was the case that Seomunjaehak’s party had shit in their pants once again.
They made a rare feat of pooping in their pants twice in the same hostel.
There was a huge uproar, trying to remove the smell and cleaning their room.
Because of the uproar, Byeoktaesan and the group didn’t even dare to leave the annex building.
Maybe that’s why she couldn’t sleep because she didn’t get tired.
“I see.”
Yeon Ha-rin took a step to Soso. Soso was surprised but stood still without avoiding her.
“Perhaps… Can you stay with me right now?”
“Pardon?”
So-so’s eyes were round.
“I have something I want to hear.”
Soso pressed her chest tightly. If she didn’t do that, her heart seemed like it would pop out.
“What, what story?”
“A story about the lord.”
“A story about the L-L-Lord? Uh, what kind of… … ?”
“Just everything. I think I don’t know much about him. When I thought about the person who knows the best about him, you just came to mind.”
Yeon Ha-rin smiled while looking at Soso.
Soso thought that her smile was really pretty, but on the other hand, she was scared for some reason.
“Will you… tell me?”
Soso had no choice but to nod her head.