Episode 106: When the sleeping Taoist God wakes up.
For the time being, Cheonhwaruju was kept hidden in a safe house used by the leaders of the Cheonmasingyo. Since it was a place that was run with such a secretive and ingenious system, there was no need to worry about her safety.
After saying goodbye to the evil Soma, she didn’t forget to ask for Ian’s help.
“Please take good care of your escort.”
Also, seeing this emphasis, it seems clear that what I said about Ian earlier wasn’t just something to make people want to hear.
“The escort must take care of me.”
Cheonhwaruju smiled at my joke. I feel that my relationship with her is just starting now.
After parting ways with her, the carriage we were in started to run off somewhere again.
“Soma-sama, they might attack again. So be careful.”
“Be careful, you guys.”
“Would I ever be attacked?”
“Now that there is no one left to kill to make me angry, I might kill Lee Gongja.”
“Would you be upset if I died?”
“I guess I should pretend to be angry just to see the leader. It’s actually a good thing. No matter what I do, the leader will forgive me.”
He’s joking, but he’s like lava that could explode at any moment. They’re trying to make that lava explode.
I leaned out of the window of the moving carriage. Beyond the trees passing by quickly, I could see a steep cliff in the distance. That cliff was also a place I had climbed. I had been to every corner of the Central Plains in search of Dafa materials.
At that time, when I thought about my life after returning, I thought I would mostly be practicing martial arts at the training ground, but here I am again, passing by like this. It seems like life after returning is busier.
As I was feeling the wind and thinking about my past life, I suddenly looked towards the horse statue.
“You two didn’t say a word? Why don’t you talk?”
Then her voice flies in.
-Please don’t do that. I’m already so uncomfortable.
– So? It’s going to continue to be uncomfortable?
-It’s easier to just go without saying anything.
It was then that Cheongmyeon suddenly asked Ian.
“How is the escort work?”
I was surprised by his question, and so was Ian. Of course, Ian asked the question out of courtesy rather than curiosity.
“As you can see, he is not an easy person.”
Cheongmyeon nodded slightly as if he sympathized.
This time, Ian asked.
“How are you, Mr. Cheongmyeon?”
“I am fine.”
If we had been just a little closer, Ian would have said, ‘If you answer like that, what will that make me?’
But the awkward conversation ended there.
Okay. That’s how it should have started. Now that you’ve opened the floodgates, maybe one day you’ll see the two of you chatting away.
I put my body that had been leaning out the window back into the carriage.
“Would you use a man who is so generous?”
He kept talking like a great man, knowing how I would respond if he said something like that.
“It’s not because of my appearance, it’s a personality problem. I can’t stand seeing myself feeling frustrated again.”
“Is it because of that frustration that you want to take off my mask?”
“Maybe there is something like that.”
“Lee Gongja. That’s all nonsense.”
After speaking harshly, the evil Soma turned his head out the window. Soma, no matter how much I nag you, you are an impregnable person.
I chuckled and looked out the window on the other side. The cliff I had climbed before returning was receding.
After running and running like that, the carriage finally arrived at a market street crowded with people.
People doing business nearby were startled when three masked men got out of a carriage.
Cheongmyeon walked in front and we followed behind him.
“Lee Gong-ja, do you have a lot of money?”
“There are many. Why do you ask that?”
“If you have a lot of money, they want to make you lose it all at the casino.”
“If you disturb the sleeping god of gambling, the gambling house may go bankrupt.”
The evil Soma laughed as if he found it funny.
There was a new world inside the small door at the end of the alley.
The casino was large and splendid. It was ten times larger than I had expected, to put it bluntly. It was so large that it was even larger than the main school’s grand martial arts hall, and countless people were crammed into it.
Hundreds of tables were filled with gamblers, and slender beauties in revealing outfits milled around, carrying bottles of liquor.
No one noticed how absorbed they were in gambling, no one cared about us wearing masks. They didn’t care who came in and who left.
“It’s much bigger than I thought.”
“Shall I tell you something more surprising? The income here is greater than that of Cheonhwaru.”
They said that the income from Cheonhwaru was greater than that from the top, but they were saying that the income from this casino was greater than that from Cheonhwaru.
“The Sadomaeng wants to somehow set up a gambling house in this area and split the profits, while the Murim Alliance wants to completely destroy this place. The Jeongpa bastards curse that they are ruining people by making them addicted to gambling, but in reality, they don’t want money coming to us. So, what are your thoughts on coming to this gambling house?”
“Seeing you guys so obsessed with gambling in broad daylight, I want to beat you up and bring you to your senses.”
“Then, from now on, only grass will be served on the tables of science and engineering students.”
“Everyone has their own life, so I shouldn’t interfere, right?”
The bad thing about my life is that I don’t go down alone.
Borrowing money, stealing, cheating, and tormenting their families and those around them, they held out until the very end and eventually collapsed. That was their end.
When the evil Soma made an unexpected visit, the administrators came running out in a hurry. They were shaking like aspen leaves at the fact that the evil Soma had come in person.
As I was walking to their office, I came across a place where there were an unusually large number of people.
As soon as the evil Soma stopped walking, the manager quickly reported.
“The author is the son of a local resident and sometimes bets big money like that. I guess he got lucky today and we keep losing.”
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Indeed, the gambler who faced him could tell from his expression that he was completely overwhelmed by the momentum.
“I’ll bet everything on a big number.”
The man bet all the money he had in front of him.
The stakes were so high that the gambler’s expression became completely frozen.
“I guess I’ll give it a try.”
The manager quickly responded to the evil Soma’s words.
“I will replace the gambler.”
“for a moment.”
After stopping him, the evil Soma looked at me.
“Would you like to give it a try?”
“If I lose money, will you cut off my arm?”
“Where did the confidence go that you had in raking down the casinos?”
“Okay, but just one round.”
I went to that place instead of the gambler. Everyone was startled when I came out wearing a mask, but it was the casino’s authority to replace the gambler.
I quickly shook the container containing the seven dice.
The evil Soma glowed with interest at my skilled hand movements.
widely.
I put down the dice case. When the dice dancing inside stopped, I picked up the case.
The dice total was just a hair smaller.
A sigh escaped the man’s mouth. It was the moment when his continued luck was broken. The gambler who had been losing to him breathed a sigh of relief.
I left the place straight away and walked towards the evil Soma.
“Fortunately, I was lucky.”
“Are you lucky?”
“If not luck, then what?”
“It’s like the sleeping Taoist god has awakened.”
“No, please put the god back to sleep.”
But I made him even more curious with my inexplicable smile.
Again, we went out through a passage in the corner of the casino, guided by the manager.
There were several rooms in the hallway, which seemed to be where the guards of the casino waited and lived.
As we passed through there and opened the secret door, we found the manager’s office.
The manager brought the ledger and gave it to Cheongmyeon, and explained to the evil soma about the gambling house. He reported roughly how many people came in each day, how much they earned, and how they attracted new customers.
Of course, I report to the main school every month, but when such an evil soma comes, I explain and report directly.
I watched the scene silently, and the evil Soma observed my reaction while listening to the report.
Honestly, what excitement would this process have for me?
Still, I didn’t give a boring answer. I tried to understand his life. I showed that I tried. I found your world so interesting.
It took quite a while to review the reports and ledgers. I was going to cut off the arm, but the casino was running smoothly without any problems.
The evil Soma gave a few words of encouragement to the managers.
Of all the things that happened today, this was the key. Just like he did with the upper-ranking shareholders, the evil Soma himself encouraged the manager. He made him realize that the most fearsome person was watching him. This insignificant action was the key to keeping his business from being shaken.
He was an extremely evil soma who was better at at least one thing than anyone else. Do you think that Hyeolcheon Doma or Ilhwa Geomjon have this kind of meticulousness and diligence? I think they probably don’t.
We left there with the evil soma and walked across the gambling hall. Ian and Cheongmyeon followed us, and the managers followed them.
As I walked through the noise and heat filled place to the entrance.
Swish! Phew! Pfft!
The sound of a blade cutting through the wind was followed almost simultaneously by the sound of skin being torn and a heavy noise.
There were two people standing on either side of us.
The man on the right had his dagger pointed at the evil Soma’s neck. However, before the dagger could reach his neck, half of his face was blown off by the evil Soma’s blow.
My sword was embedded in the heart of a man running towards me from my left.
The collaboration between the two was truly exquisite.
The man on the left was the one who turned around and cheered, saying that he had won money, and the other man was the one who ran from the opposite direction and congratulated him. They were assassins who were targeting us. They took advantage of the moment when our paths overlapped and attacked us by surprise.
The eyes of the surrounding gamblers all turned to us.
But soon their gaze returned to the original. Two corpses were found right next to them, but no one left the casino. Instead, they urged the gambler to roll the dice. I am more afraid of them than the assassins.
“Are you okay, my lord?”
Ian complimented her on her concern.
“Your skills have really improved a lot.”
When Salsu attacked me earlier, her sword was almost completely pulled out. If it had been before, she wouldn’t have been able to react, but now she had almost pulled out her sword.
“If you had attacked me, I would have died.”
“That won’t be the case. The fact that you were behind and managed to draw your sword almost completely means that if you were in my position, you would have cut down your opponent. Your skill has improved to this level.”
Ian looked as if it still didn’t feel real.
The evil Soma, who had been chatting with Cheongmyeon for a while, walked towards me.
“I never thought you would even aim for a degree in engineering.”
“You wouldn’t have known it was me. I was wearing a mask. You would have thought I was one of your subordinates protecting Soma-sama.”
Even if he knew about me, he might have given the order. The people behind this incident were those who really wanted the main church and the Apostolic Alliance to go to war. Would the blood relatives of Cheonma be an exception to their last-ditch strategy?
“They changed their tactics.”
“how?”
“They’re going to kill Soma-sama and move the church. It doesn’t matter if they fail. Soma-sama will get angry and eventually start killing people. It seems like whoever’s behind it is trying to use Soma-sama’s excommunication to achieve their goals.”
I could feel the lava of the evil soma starting to boil even more.
The guys behind the scenes are smart. If they hadn’t come out with me, that lava would have erupted already, one way or another. What they didn’t take into account was my existence.
Then Ian asked cautiously.
“If war breaks out like this, won’t they not be safe either?”
I shook my head.
“If it becomes a war where we destroy each other, then yes, that would be the case. But realistically, such a war will not break out. Even if a war breaks out, it will end with some level of sacrifice. The losing side will make a ceasefire while paying huge compensation. To them, war is also a business.”
“They are crazy.”
“They are extremely selfish people. They don’t care about sacrificing thousands of people just to gain power.”
I spoke to the evil Soma again.
“The fact that they’re doing this means that they don’t have much time. It means that the situation within the Apostolic Alliance is urgent.”
At my words, the evil Soma spoke with a murderous venom in his voice.
“They certainly don’t have much time left.”
It was the will of the extremely evil Soma to kill everyone. He had originally said he would kill the mastermind, but this made it even more certain.
My job is to guide him to deal with those behind this incident while leaving the other members of the Apostolic Alliance alone.
If that happens, the successors, Visain and the Apostolic Alliance, will be grateful to us.
At that time, one of the evil Soma’s subordinates came and delivered an urgent message.
Cheongmyeon, who had confirmed it, quickly reported with a tense look in his eyes.
“This is urgent news from Tongcheon-gak. They say that Soma-nim’s name has been added to the death register.”
The Salsaengbu was a mysterious organization shrouded in secrecy, a sort of intermediary organization that connected assassins and contractors. In the process, they made money by collecting commissions, and there were rumors that the money they made was enormous because there was so much resentment in the world.
“The fee is one million nyang. Heuksal (黑殺) received this request. Those who attacked just now are probably assassins affiliated with Heuksal.”
“You accepted it knowing I would kill you, right? Even if you succeed in killing me, you will eventually be revealed and destroyed by our sect.”
I know why Heuksal took on this assignment.
Heuksalju joined hands with the mastermind behind this incident. He wanted to take this opportunity to end the assassination and reorganize the organization. He didn’t mind sacrificing all his subordinates.
Because he had promised to take up an important position in the Apostolic Alliance with a new identity and a huge sum of money, one million nyang.
“Judging by the assassination attempt, there must be a lot of black assassins in Guizhou.”
Even after hearing Cheongmyeon’s report, the evil Soma was still happy.
“What should I do? Our scholar said he hates the sea of blood?”
“You can swim with a smile in the sea made of the blood of the killers. Let’s go out.”
I didn’t necessarily have to take Ian out, but I told her.
“Are we going out together?”
“I was just going to wait here and do some gambling.”
“That won’t do, Your Majesty.”
“Then I can’t do it.”
A flash of joy flashed across her eyes. I knew how much she wanted to go out with me. I just couldn’t bring myself to say it first, for fear of being a burden.
I have no intention of raising her in a greenhouse. The greatest growth for a drone is through actual combat.
And it’s not just because I’m with her that I can confidently take her out.
It’s because of the hilt of her sword, polished to a shine by arduous training. It’s because of the calluses on her palms.
Ian said indifferently, in case I was worried.
“Don’t worry about it at all. The heart is supposed to beat on its own, right?”
