Hwang 3
The shade of a tree in the jungle.
It was when the group heading to the rendezvous point sat down on a mossy rock spread out under a large tree to take a short rest.
My older sister, who was looking up at the sky, asked Geombong.
The leader of this party, consisting of Doryeong, Geombong, and Changryong, is Geombong, after all.
Since Do-ryong-in Gyu-seong-hyeong was from ‘that’ Pengga clan, he didn’t like to use his head much, and Chang-ryong felt like he couldn’t do anything to Geom-bong, so even though the party leader hadn’t been decided, everyone thought Geom-bong was the leader of this group.
“Geombong, can you make some animal sounds?”
“Is that, the sound of an animal?”
When his older sister suddenly said that she wanted to make animal sounds, Geombong blinked, and the others also looked at his older sister, wondering what on earth she was talking about.
And the gaze of the swordsman directed at me.
Yunnan is treated by the people here as a foreign country, almost like a remote area, not even a border area, so I felt like they wanted to explain to me why there was such a culture in the Beast Palace, which felt like a foreign country.
I had nothing to say either.
‘I’ve only been a Beast Palace person for a short time.’
Then my older sister answered with a smiling face.
“I’m going to call out to see if there are any beasts from the Beast Palace nearby. There are some scattered all over Yunnan. They’re like hawks, cat-headed owls, monkeys, and wolves.”
“But isn’t this Yunnan?”
Geombong suggested that it might be a meaningless action since this place is far from Yunnan, but his older sister shook her head and answered.
“The borders of the country are drawn by people, not by beasts. If there are any children who have crossed over, I will send word to the Beast Palace.”
As Sister Seol said, the borders of a country are drawn by people, not by beasts.
The older sister’s explanation that she wanted to check if any beasts from the Beast Palace had crossed over to the Great Viet Nation was met with Geom Bong’s permission.
There may be a blood cult, so we are moving cautiously, but the sounds of animals will not attract attention.
“Ah. I see. If it’s the sound of an animal, then it’s okay, right? I still hear it sometimes in the jungle.”
-Beep.
At the swordsman’s permission, a sharp whistle spread from the older sister’s mouth into the jungle.
It felt exactly like the sound of falcons, but my sister, who had been looking up at the sky for a while, soon shook her head.
“I guess there isn’t one nearby.”
I think it’s probably because it’s still far from Yunnan.
At the sight of his sister’s disappointed expression, Changryong’s refreshing voice, who now almost respected his sister, or maybe even loved her, was heard.
“It’s still a bit far from Yunnan, so let’s go a bit further and check. Miss Seol. By the way, it’s amazing that you can call a beast with such a sound. As expected! Beast Palace.”
“I guess so. Haha. Thanks for the compliment.”
Changryong laughs like an idiot at his older sister’s answer.
Then, Geombong looked at Changryong with a pitiful look and started talking about his dark past.
“Is it because you use a spear like a reed as your weapon? What kind of man’s heart is like that of a reed? Until recently, you were fighting for the honor of the poisonous flower. What should I do…?”
“Oh! Geumbong, well, that’s as a friend. That’s what it is···.”
Changryong quickly covered Geombong’s mouth and made excuses to us with an awkward smile, but Hwaeun’s emotionless voice shot out at him like a secret weapon.
“Not a friend. Changryong.”
“Huh? Uh… That, that’s why….”
Changryong tried to avoid the crisis by blocking Geombong’s venomous words with his hand, but was cowered when Hwaeun told him that he was not his friend.
Without being able to answer, Changryong looked down at the useless rock and began to tear off the moss.
‘Oh my. The child is going to cry if he keeps doing that.’
I thought the child would cry, so I intervened in the conversation and asked Geombong.
We need to change the topic of conversation, because if we keep doing this, Changryong’s mental state will go downhill.
“By the way, how much longer is it until the Geombong intersection?”
Geombong glared at Changryong, who was picking at moss at the words that he was not Hwaeun’s friend, with a look of contempt.
She answered with a different smile than when she was glaring at Changryong.
“If nothing comes up, I’ll arrive in the evening. Soryong Sohyeop.”
“Then, since you seem to have rested enough, let’s hurry. It will be difficult once the sun sets.”
“Oh, is that so? Then?”
The group all got up from their resting places and started to walk towards the rendezvous point, but Changryong, who had not heard the instructions to start, was left crouching alone and was just picking moss off the tough rocks. Geombong continued to reprimand him.
“Aren’t you going to follow me quickly!? I have to guide you!”
“Huh? Oh, I see!”
Changryong was surprised and got up from his seat, following Geombong closely. Seeing him like that, I had a slight thought.
‘Does Geombong like Changryong?’
But honestly, who would want to know who other people like, or who they like and then who they like again?
I’m not very good at this kind of thing, but it feels strange.
As I followed behind, clutching my chin and thinking something was a bit strange, Seol Nui approached me and asked in a quiet voice.
I guess he’s curious as to why I’m lost in thought.
[Why, Ryong-ah? What are you thinking?]
[Oh, no. Now that I think about it, I think it might be that Geombong likes Changryong.]
[Do you understand now?]
[yes?]
My older sister’s answer was, “Of course.”
Hwa-eun’s voice could also be heard from the side.
[The reason I keep my distance from Changryong is because Geombong likes him. It’s been several years already, but I stupidly didn’t notice.]
[That’s right, I’ve never seen such an idiot. When he eats meat, he secretly pushes the soft parts, and when he sleeps, he covers himself with grass. Yesterday, he didn’t even eat half of the rabbit and gave it to Changryong, saying he was full.]
From saying we’re not friends to saying we’re stupid.
It was a bit pitiful.
However, if a man doesn’t even notice that a woman he likes has been taking care of him for years and only follows other women around, it is natural for other women to criticize him.
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‘I wondered why Hwa-eun was so cold to me, but it turns out she reaped what she sowed.’
I also looked at him with a slightly pitiful gaze, then with a pitiful gaze, and looked at Geombong and said in a pitiful voice.
[By the way, I think that guy has a crush on Seol. I feel bad for Geombong.]
I think I’ve sorted out my feelings for Hwa-eun to some extent, but then I get to see Seol.
My sister Seol said as she looked at Changryong.
[I really hate that kind of guy.]
I thought that if my sister liked him, the connection wouldn’t be bad, but if he already had a partner and was that kind of guy, then of course my sister wouldn’t like him.
I decided to take this opportunity to find out about my sister’s ideal type.
If a guy I like appears later, I’ll introduce him to my sister Seol.
Because my older sister is a healthy beauty with a wild side.
[Then what kind of man do you like, sister?]
When I asked my sister a question to find out her ideal type, she answered by hugging my arm.
[I am a man like our little dragon.]
‘Huh! Sister, if you do that, we’ll be in big trouble!’
Sister Seol was startled, wondering if it was her taste that liked, or rather loved, her younger brother, but she looked at Changryong and Gyuseong, who were walking in front of her, and spoke with a bright smile.
[Well, if I had to choose, I’d say a flower bear over a rat. Isn’t it cute?]
[Hwa Woong?]
[There is a little dragon, a white and black bear, and it is a very cute bear.]
‘If it’s a white and black bear, is it a panda?’
It was clear that Hwaung was referring to the panda, but when I looked at Changryong and Gyuseong, I could see what Sister Seol was talking about.
The rat is Changryong and the panda probably means Gyu-seong hyung.
I don’t know if it was a characteristic of Pengga, but Brother Gyuseong was as big as a bear.
‘My stepfather is no joke in terms of size, so maybe that’s why my sister-in-law likes beastly men···.’
I felt like I had caught a glimpse of the secret of how the seemingly low-IQ Pangga was able to continue the family line.
***
As the sky turned yellow with the setting sun, Changryong, who was walking in the lead, spoke.
“There’s not much left now. That abandoned wolf den down the hill is our rendezvous point.”
As I looked at the place Changryong was pointing, I saw a small hill made of rocks and tall grass about the height of a person below a large mountain.
The remaining distance is about two or three kilometers.
“Okay, the sun will set soon, so let’s hurry.”
“Yes, Miss Seol.”
My older sister nodded at Changryong’s words, then came over to me and whispered quietly in my ear.
[Dragon, we have arrived near the contact point. Tell the dragon in the sky not to come down until I call. No matter what happens, never.]
A voice that is somehow very resolute.
He tilted his head and asked again.
[Are you talking about the first? Why?]
[Just in case. We’re going there thinking the contact point is safe, but what if someone gets caught and the contact point is known to the Blood Cult?]
Seol’s sister’s words made me come to my senses as if I had been hit in the back of the head.
It’s true that, as Sister Seol said, if someone gets caught, they’ll end up in a tiger’s mouth.
[Then wouldn’t it be better to tell the hermit to come down and go with him? If there’s a hermit, the other guys will get scared.]
But I have a slightly different opinion from Seol.
My opinion was that we should just show them the grass and make them back off, but Sister Seol shook her head and said,
[There’s no need to show all of this. If someone is really caught and the contact point is exposed, we might have to run all the way to Yunnan, but if we show all of our power from the beginning, they might be able to deal with it.
[Ryong-i, keep in mind. In the martial arts world, you must absolutely hide at least three-tenths of your skills.]
[Okay, Sister Seol.]
Of course, as Sister Seol said, we might have to continue the long escape, but if they figure out our strength and prepare something else for us, our escape could be blocked in the middle.
In his head, he asked the sergeant not to come down until he was called, except to rest in a safe place, no matter what happened down there.
〈Choya, don’t come down from above until Daddy calls you. Got it? Except when you’re resting in a safe place, don’t come here until Daddy calls you. Got it?〉
At first, Cho showed that he didn’t understand, but after repeated requests, he reluctantly showed that he understood, and since Cho was under control, he approached Yohwa next and told her that if a dangerous situation arose, she should not come forward until he told her to.
[Yo-hwa, if a dangerous situation arises, take good care of Seol-nu and Hwa-eun, okay? Don’t step forward first.]
-Kishi?
[I have a cat, so you take care of the two of them, okay?]
-Kissit!
So, after making thorough preparations as my older sister warned, I headed back to the contact point.
The sun had already set and the surroundings were getting dark, but Changryong raised his hand and stopped us about two or three hundred meters ahead of us near the abandoned wolf den called Tangseonji.
And then, looking around, he seemed to be doing something for a moment, and after a while, a man holding a judge’s pen in both hands walked out of the nearby grass.
“It’s been a while, Changryong. I was surprised to hear that four new members of the group had been added.”
“It’s been a long time, Master Xunxingzi. We were surprised too, so it’s only natural.”
The one who appeared was the person in charge of information activities that had already been secretly ordered by the Murim Alliance, who had been promised to Changryong, and was nicknamed Bangsun Shinhaengja, the Vice-Chief of the Murim Alliance’s Flying Dragon Pavilion.
They say that Kyung-gong was so agile that he earned the nickname of Shin-haeng-ja. He looked around at us and said:
“In a place like this, there are the children of the Beast Palace and the Tang family. Let’s go in and say hello and have a chat.”
“Okay, sir.”
That was when, following his words, we arrived in front of a fairly large cave called the Abandoned Wolf’s Den.
As the novice entered the cave with his head bowed, a loud noise was heard from above.
-Beep!
“Hyo-shi (嚆矢)!?”
The ascetic, startled by the sound, opened his eyes wide.
Soon the surrounding area began to be covered in torchlight.
“S, it’s an attack! Kkwah!”
And then a painful scream echoed through the night sky, accompanied by someone’s warning.
