Episode 70
So you ended up leaving like that?
After all the interrogation was over, Gui Zhuge grumbled while wiping the blood on his hands with a handkerchief.
“What a bitch! She really tires people out, really!!”
Interrogating the school newspaper was quite a tedious task.
As with most spies and agents, it wasn’t easy to get her to open her mouth because she had been brainwashed.
But as you can see from the word ‘ghost’, Gui Zhuge was also a person who never gave up.
In the end, Kyo-il-ji confessed everything he knew.
The contacts and locations of the Namgung family scattered throughout the Sacheon region, including Guryong County.
Gui Zhuge gave orders while handing over the materials to the officer next to him.
“Take this to Punghwajeong and compare it with the data that Prince Yunhui gave you. Then, you will be able to grasp all of Namgung’s movements and the movements of the Demonic Cult.”
“Your name!”
“And tell Jeongpunggak to move quickly. We need to eliminate them all before they notice something strange and escape Sacheon. Oh, and tell them that if they make a mistake, their pay will be cut for three months. They’ll run around like wild boars who got paid in advance.”
“S, three months… Okay.”
Wisa disappeared, thinking that it was really a pity that Jeongpunggak was in such a state.
The ghost-shaped white feather fan shook gently to cool off the hot sweat.
But the sweat flowing under the thick mask pressed tightly against his face could not cool down.
* * *
“… So you ended up leaving like that.”
Dang Ho-san muttered quietly as he handed over the brief report that Gui Zhuge had brought.
It was a report on the treatment process and future plans for Namgung Sanyoung.
He took off the mask that had been hanging on the tip of his nose as if he was tired, and said, lightly rubbing his two eyeballs with his index finger and thumb.
“Let’s proceed like this.”
However, the monk could not leave the place hastily and wandered around for a while.
The snow on Danghosan Mountain rose slightly.
“Why are you standing there?”
“… That, that.”
“?”
“How many times did the Lord of Punghwa Jeongju ask me to make sure that the Lord of Bunga was okay?”
“I’m fine.”
“but-“
“At times like this, I get confused as to whether it’s me or Jegal who’s in charge.”
“No! I will correct it!!”
The officer gathered his documents and hurriedly left.
Danghosan quietly stared at the door where the guard had disappeared, then snorted.
“Anyway, whether it’s this guy or that guy, don’t be so sharp.”
At times like this, the comrades who fought together on the battlefield can be annoying.
Even though it had been a long time since the couple’s love had grown distant, they had still lived together as a couple for almost twenty years.
In the end, it was no different from Namgung Sanyoung killing himself with his own hands.
After all, it was he who decided to use her as bait for his plan from the beginning.
So I was prepared for this bitter aftertaste, but when I actually tasted it, it wasn’t that good.
“…no way.”
Then suddenly something flashed through Danghosan’s mind.
He opened the bottom drawer of the desk.
A place to keep only the most important confidential documents.
But on top of the documents, there was a strange bottle of something I had never seen before.
“under.”
Danghosan lifted the bottle, laughing in vain as if he found it ridiculous.
There was a rustling sound inside.
The alcohol I drank a lot during my time leading the Gwangpungdae was regular white liquor.
It was a time when we were always going through tiring daily lives, so in order to relieve some of the fatigue, we would often drink cheap soju that was easily available in the neighborhood.
So, when my colleagues died, I would pile up a stone tomb and pour an entire barrel of wine on top of it, telling them to drink as much as they wanted.
It’s been a long time since Gui Zhu had put in such a bottle of white wine.
“There is… no glass.”
Danghosan looked around to see if there was a glass to drink with the white wine, and soon realized that Gui Zhuge had thrown that away as well.
Are we just going to honor the departed like we used to?
Danghosan opened the lid of the bottle with a bitter smile.
It smelled musty.
It was a real village town with no proper purification.
Danghosan turned towards the window and looked at the sky.
I drank a lot of broad-leaved wine, taking in the sight of the waning moon through the wide-open window.
“… It doesn’t taste good.”
* * *
The room I came back to.
I opened the bottle and filled Dang Gyu-jin’s glass.
Ttorr!
A cloudy color hovered around.
It was broad daylight.
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“… … .”
Dang Gyu-jin drank it silently.
Perhaps because it was cheap alcohol, the aftertaste wasn’t clean.
Dang Gyu-jin’s face crumpled slightly.
But she held out the glass again.
As if asking for more.
I filled his glass again this time, and Dang Gyu-jin drank again.
The silent drinking party continued all night long.
* * *
Time passed quickly.
Gui Je-gal left for several days with his envoys, saying he would come back after pulling out Namgung’s roots, and I focused on my own work as a Sobun family head.
In particular, they focused on finding out the exact location of the advance party of the North Sea Dragon, who was already hiding in Guryong County.
As expected, there are some minor changes in location due to Baek-san’s death, but we were able to successfully trace most of their whereabouts through backtracking.
I ordered the ‘eyes’ that had been attached in advance not to act rashly.
We had to wait and wait until the water monster, the North Sea King, fully revealed himself.
Because once I found it, I had to start moving in earnest.
First, I planned to use the dark zone as bait to lure them as deep into the Nine Dragons’ Village as possible.
Then they will know.
The fact that the Kowloon branch they were after was actually an ant hell waiting with its mouth wide open to devour them.
“At first glance, it doesn’t seem like there’s much difference from the original plan.”
‘No. It’s different. Unlike Punghwajeong, I can see through their movements. I can see how to respond. There’s a big difference between knowing and not knowing the enemy’s habits.’
I smiled coldly.
Onma, who was connected to the mind, also exuded positive thoughts.
That means you trust me that much.
“We are constantly monitoring the Guryong County area with ghosts, so you will hear good news soon.”
‘Okay. Keep watching closely.’
As long as Onma guarded the sky, they could never escape my surveillance.
If I had my way, I would just continue to focus on surveillance.
The problem was that, in addition to this, there was a lot more work to be done by the small business owners than expected.
Fortunately, Dang Gyu-jin also calmed down his troubled mind and returned to work, starting to help out.
But still, there was too much work.
So much.
“… Sister.”
“what’s the matter?”
“I thought really deeply, really deeply, really deeply last night.”
“What are you trying to say that makes your speech so long?”
“It is a great sense of responsibility that I am sitting in.”
“… … .”
“I don’t think this is the right seat for a child like me. I think a sister who is more mature, more mature, more responsible, and most of all, more loved by her family members would be the perfect fit for this position.”
“What? I thought it was important. It was just useless talk.”
“Sister, you shouldn’t look at it like that! The position of Sobun Gaju is for the sake of the Nine Dragons branch that will continue for over a hundred years-”
“You must have had a lot of rest. Let’s get up now. Do you have any guests?”
“… … .”
We can’t communicate, we can’t communicate at all!
“It seems that even the Thousand-Yeop Seonja now knows exactly what the personality of the Sogyoju is like.”
“But still, she is the only one in the world who dares to ignore the words of the sect leader like that-“
Dang Gyu-jin grabbed my hand and forcibly dragged me to the main gate of the garden.
Why on earth are there so many visitors on this one day?
Traditionally, dealing with guests was a job that was handled by successors.
The problem was that when I was a leader of a new religion, I had already done all that to my subordinates… I thought it would be okay this time too, and that was my fatal mistake.
I had forgotten who was next to me.
It was Dang Gyu-jin, she was there!
As for Dang Gyu-jin, he is the best reviewer that the Sacheon Dang family can boast of, and he has been studying the art of kingship for a long time in order to become the successor to the Guryong branch family.
Moreover, he was a person who practiced Taoism with the Malko guys at Cheongseongsan Mountain and absorbed all of their meticulous habits.
Although she occasionally shows off her wild side by secretly drinking grain tea (called “gokcha” and written as “alcohol”), the words that make up her identity are all filled with not only “strict,” “dignified,” and “serious,” but also “stiff,” “incompetent,” and “conservative.”
So no matter how hard I try to get away, I can never escape her clutches.
No matter how much I tried to coax her with this or that, she would reject everything as if there was an iron wall around her. It was driving me crazy.
There is no bulletproof, there is no bulletproof!
Save me!
I really hate working so much I could die!
“… Hmm! It seems that the first worst enemy has appeared for the Young Leader.”
“But somehow it seems like he’s suing me-“
What the hell?
“Ouch! The young cult leader has opened his eyes!”
“Emergency! Emergency! Everyone, head first!”
“I’m sorry, Young Master!!”
“I will correct it!”
Even though the ghosts showed ridiculous behavior, there was no sign of my work being reduced.
There was a Danggon standing at the main gate.
The sight of him smiling broadly as he watched me being dragged away by Dang Gyu-jin, who was holding onto the back of his neck, was the brightest face I’ve ever seen.
“Pfft.”
“… Are you laughing?”
“Oh no! I made a mistake in front of the owner of Sobun-ga.”
“If you knew you did something wrong, wouldn’t you reflect on it properly?”
“Pheuheuheup!” I should have laughed. Pheuheuheupheup!”
“… … .”
Now even that Danggon gentleman, who used to be the world’s greatest fool, is making fun of me.
I couldn’t figure out how far my authority had fallen.
“It’s really nice to see you. While everyone else was busy, I used to think it was embarrassing to see you locked up in the white paper alone and wasting your time, but now I finally get to see you working hard. I’m so touched, I can’t help but feel overwhelmed!”
“It must be nice to see me suffer.”
“I won’t deny it.”
“Ah.”
Why is it that everyone around me is only thinking of picking on me?
Anyway, this is all because of the apostates including Bukhaejong.
If only those guys hadn’t come out of Sacheon, I wouldn’t have had to suffer like this.
I felt like I had to eradicate them all since they were useless in both the past and present life.
I need to get rid of it by the roots so I never have to do this kind of chore again.
And then, I’ll use every spare moment I have to hit this guy. Huh.
“What else did you ask for?”
“Everything is ready. Everyone was quite dissatisfied when they said they would be revising the existing defense system.”
In fact, the task of turning the Kowloon branch into an ant hell was not that easy.
Clearly, Gui Zhuge was an excellent strategist, as Dang Hosan cherished him.
There were certainly many aspects of the defense plan that I found admirable.
But the problem was that it was too old-fashioned.
It was a plan drawn up six years ago based on the power of the new religion, but if things continued this way, there was a high chance that there would be holes in it when something happened.
Since it was confirmed that the company was involved, the power had to be set to maximum and the plan had to be re-drawn.
Thanks to that, there were voices saying, “This much?” but I pushed ahead without even blinking.
The problem was that communication between the lower levels was not going well, and so dissatisfaction was gradually increasing.
“So what did you do?”
Compared to the Shingyo, the Kowloon branch had different culture, customs, and values in many ways.
Danggon has a long history of leading the Gwangpungdae together with Danghosan, so I was wondering if there was any good method I could refer to when I lead the branch in the future.
“Well, I did it the way Confucius did it. It was neat and comfortable.”
“My way?”
“yes.”
“??”
Somehow, an unexpected answer came back.
Do I have my own way?
“I provoked him by saying, ‘Is that all you can do?’”
“???”
“Isn’t it really certain that they would really tease you and beat up those who wouldn’t listen?”
“… … .”
A thought that suddenly occurred to me here.
How on earth do these people see me?
“Hmm, both the Thousand-Yeop Seonja and the Maengpung Knight seem to have a very good grasp of the Young Leader-“
“Shhh! Watch your mouth! What are you going to do if the cult leader hears you?!”
…these guys don’t say no even if they die now?
“Okay, well, do whatever you want… Just make sure there are no problems getting things done.”
“Don’t worry. We will make the small-scale method a part of our culture.”
I lost the strength to respond any longer.
So instead, I turned my gaze towards the main gate.
The attendants were running around very busily, preparing for the ceremony.
Although we have hosted many receptions in the past, this was the first time that this many people were prepared.
“Who the hell is coming and causing such a fuss?”
“Haven’t you heard?”
“I was forcibly dragged out by my older sister.”
“They are very important people. Confucius met them not long ago, so you must be familiar with them.”
Have I ever met you?
Who is it?
“This is the Jeongwolhyeonnyeo of Amipa and Baekgeommolan of Cheonghwasanjang.”
The reincarnation demon temple
