Episode 35: Don’t Forget It.
“It’s unfair. It wasn’t my doing!”
The person who was complaining about the injustice in the Hwangcheon-gak interrogation room was Bae Jong-tak, a warrior of the Bukcheon Swordsmanship led by Ilhwa Swordsman.
He was arrested and charged with raping a young concubine of the swordsman. In the past, this would not have been reported, but this time, Bae Jong-tak was arrested the day after the accusation was filed.
“That bastard is framing me! Let me confront that kid! I have been wronged.”
“Why would the sages frame you?”
“I don’t know. I may have been incited by someone, or I may have done something wrong to the child. But at least I didn’t r**e the child.”
He looked really wronged.
“Okay, I’ll let you have a go.”
“Please bring him here right now.”
As I gave the signal, Seo Dae-ryong, who had been waiting outside, came in with a girl who looked to be about thirteen or fourteen years old. The child was terrified.
“Hey! Why are you doing this to me!”
Bae Jong-tak suddenly yelled at the child.
I raised my hand to calm his excitement.
“Quiet! If you yell one more time, there will be no confrontation.”
“Yes. I feel that way because it’s unfair.”
I asked the girl.
“Is the author the one who r**ed you?”
The girl nodded slowly.
“Look at me! He nodded without even looking at my face properly.”
“I know him, so is there a need to look at his face in detail?”
“I can’t even look at you because I feel guilty.”
“Isn’t that really you?”
“No, I swear to heaven that I will not. If you punish me like this based on the words of a child, I feel so wronged. Think about it. If you missed a woman, you could have gone to Kiru. Why would you touch a child like that?”
“I don’t know. You tell me. Do you get excited when you see a child?”
“Didn’t I say it wasn’t me?”
Bae Jong-tak glared at the child with a fierce look.
“Don’t you know how scary false accusation is? I’ll forgive you, so tell me honestly. Tell me no!”
The child flinched as if he were scared.
“Look at me! I’m shivering!”
“That’s because I’m scared. Didn’t he say that if I told anyone about the r**e, he’d go find his family back home and kill them?”
This incident was not reported by the girl. The child told another swindler, and that swindler went to the Hwangcheon-gak branch across from the Pungryu tavern on behalf of his friend and reported it.
“Why do you only believe that kid?”
“Because I trust that kid.”
“Isn’t that too biased?”
“Because I’m sure you r**ed me.”
“So, give me some concrete evidence! Don’t just believe that kid’s words.”
As I looked at Seo Dae-ryong, he went out. Then he came back in with two children. They were girls who were a little bigger than the one who had come in before.
The moment he saw those children, Bae Jong-tak was startled.
“Do you remember? They are the kids who worked as your servants before.”
“I know. You’ve grown so much!”
Bae Jong-tak greeted them warmly, but the children bowed their heads and did not respond.
“I suddenly became curious while listening to the child’s testimony. He did it this time, but didn’t he do it before?”
After investigating the previous incident, they found out that they too had been r**ed.
“I’ve already finished all the testimony. The way they r**ed the children was the same. The threats were the same. They toyed with them for two or three years and then replaced them with other children.”
When he realized that he could no longer avoid the situation, Bae Jong-tak’s expression changed. The person who had been complaining about the injustice disappeared, revealing his true nature.
“I made a mistake while drinking. Please forgive me just this once.”
The sudden calmness of the man was so different from the way he had been complaining of injustice just a moment ago that it felt like watching a performance by a gang of street performers.
He spoke calmly to the children.
“Honestly, you guys had a good time too, right? You even gave me money at the end, right?”
Then the youngest maid took out a coin from her bosom and threw it on the floor. The coins poured out. She didn’t spend a single penny and kept it until today.
Bae Jong-tak turned his head away, pretending not to see me, and pleaded with me.
“I have heard that in the history of Hwangcheon-gak, there has never been an instance of someone being sent to the brain prison for disturbing the order of things.”
“You studied in advance. That’s right.”
“I will never let something like this happen again. I swear to heaven. If you tell me to write a pledge, I will. No, I will not bother with women at all.”
“You won’t go to the brain prison.”
The children raised their heads at my words. They all looked terrified.
“Thank you. Thank you so much.”
The bastard smirked and looked at the children, and the children all avoided his gaze and lowered their heads.
“Instead, you have to go somewhere else.”
“Where are you?”
“here.”
Shhh! Phew!
My sword cut off the bastard’s neck with a single stroke. He fell backwards along with the chair without even a single scream.
The children were startled by the sudden situation and screamed. The bastard’s blood flowed out onto the coins that fell to the floor.
I turned straight back to the children.
“The one who tormented you is now dead. Your family will not die. So from now on, live without worry.”
The children looked at me with surprised faces.
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“What you have suffered, you will never forget until the day you die. If you cannot forget anyway, then do not forget what happened today. Let this moment, when this bastard pays the price, be the end of what you have suffered. Remember only this last moment of the author’s appearance.”
This was the best I could do for my children.
The children looked at the body and then at each other.
After a while, the oldest among them came forward and bowed his head respectfully.
“Thank you so much for your revenge.”
The other children also bowed their heads.
“Thank you, sir. Ugh.”
The youngest child burst into tears, and another child hugged her. Tears also flowed from the eyes of the child hugging her.
No one cares how the Sibbis are treated and how they live. I was like that in the past too.
“You don’t need to thank me. It was thanks to your brave testimony that I was able to punish that bastard. It was the punishment you achieved. So continue to live bravely.”
“yes.”
“And by the way, you will never be subjected to retaliation by Iza’s friends or family. From now on, Hwangcheon-gak will protect you.”
Now even the oldest girl was in tears.
“thank you.”
Father, if we fail to protect these children under the pretext of being strong and proud, we will be beheaded by the political bastards you hate so much. No, we must be beheaded. Even if our throats are beheaded, we have nothing to say.
The investigators came in and took the children away. They told us to pay special attention to these children in the future, so the children didn’t have to worry.
This will also spread rumors within the school, so there will be fewer people who will try to cause trouble. We need to correct the wrong idea that this kind of thing is normal for a Mines person.
Ian, who had been watching the investigation, shook his head.
“When I saw that guy being held back earlier, I thought he had been treated unfairly. It was really scary.”
“Humans are scarier than ghosts.”
“But the author is a member of the Bukcheon Sword Master. Will Ilhwa Sword Master just stay there?”
“Your subordinate repeatedly r**ed young maids. You think it’s a problem to kill him? Wouldn’t it be better not to?”
“Aren’t you scared, Young Master?”
“I’m scared. I’m afraid I’ll die without being able to clean up all this trash.”
“Since the master became the head of the Hwangcheon Pavilion, our school has become more and more good. What if it ends up being filled with people who are better than the Murim Alliance?”
I immediately corrected her joke.
“Not raping a woman, isn’t that a good thing? It’s a given.”
“Oh, right.”
“We haven’t been able to do the obvious things until now.”
At that time, Seo Dae-ryong returned again.
“Your Majesty, why are you doing that?”
“what?”
“You killed him intentionally, didn’t you? Isn’t it your belief that people like that should be locked up in a brain prison and made to suffer?”
Because the brain prison of our school was a place more painful than death.
“yes.”
“But why did you kill him?”
As expected, Seo Dae-ryong is a smart guy. I deliberately dealt with the incident related to Ilhwageomjeon myself, and as he said, I intentionally killed the guy.
“If I kill him like this, I will have an official excuse to go see Ilhwageomjon.”
Seo Dae-ryong was surprised.
“The Bloodthirsty Sword issue is a headache, so why do you want to meet Ilhwa Sword Master?”
“Because I need a second tiger.”
“yes?”
He gave an order while looking at Seo Dae-ryong who said he didn’t know English.
“Tell the Inspector General right now. If something goes wrong during the interrogation, I will meet him in person to explain the situation.”
* * *
An hour later, I took Seodaeryong and headed to Bukcheon Sword House.
“Do you really have to take me with you?”
“It’s an official visit, but can you go alone? Your right-hand man has to go with you.”
“When did I become your right-hand man?”
“A ruthless man who is power-oriented, but loves only one woman, a rebel who raises his hand when everyone else is silent, he is enough as my right-hand man.”
“oh my god!”
“Which expression do you like?”
“I don’t like it at all!”
Eventually we arrived at the entrance to Bukcheon Swordsmanship.
While the Namdojong of the Blood Heavenly Sword Sect occupied the south of the main sect, the Bukcheon Sword Sect of the Ilhwa Sword Sect controlled the north.
“This is my first time with the Bukcheon Sword Family. Up until now, none of the cases I’ve handled have anything to do with the Bukcheon Sword Family. Unlike the Bloody Heavenly Sword Family, Ilhwa Sword Family has been managing their subordinates well. The swordsmen of the Sword Family also value honor.”
“is it?”
When I reacted indifferently, Seo Dae-ryong asked.
“Don’t you think so?”
“When I look at it, it seems like the devil’s sword and the devil’s dagger are the same. How can those who value honor have such eyes?”
The eyes of the demons guarding the entrance were not kind.
It seemed that Bae Jong-tak’s death was already known, but rather than reacting by saying that he should die because he committed a crime, the feeling was closer to, ‘You killed a member of our Bukcheon Swordsman just because he provoked a little trouble?’ Of course, since no one dared to provoke me at a time like this, everyone soon bowed their heads respectfully.
Seo Dae-ryong spoke to me softly.
“As a pacifist, I’ve been seeing this look a lot lately. I keep seeing it when I’m with someone.”
“I’ll add pacifist to your adjectives too.”
“ah…….”
There was a drone waiting to guide us.
“The Amazon is waiting. I am Sha You Zhong.”
Saujong was the man known as the right-hand man of Ilhwageomjeon. He was one of the top three swordsmen in the Bukcheon Swordsmanship, and his momentum was as sharp as a blade.
I know this man well, not because of any personal connection or friendship, but because his end was quite impressive.
“Nice to meet you.”
“Follow me.”
Saujong took us further inside, past the buildings where the demons resided and into the deepest part.
There was a small thatched cottage there.
This place, which is neatly decorated, is the residence of Ilhwageomjeon.
“The Lord of the Underworld has arrived.”
At Saujong’s message, the door to the mausoleum opened and a woman dressed in white walked out.
“Welcome, Sword Footnote.”
The woman with the gentle voice was none other than the Ilhwageomjeon Soyeonrang.
