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Cheon Il-hwa’s explanation was simple.

People have been disappearing from Yangwi Castle for a few days now. It is said that his subordinates investigated this matter, but found no significant clues.

So I did some research and it turned out that something similar had happened in another nearby castle.

“Have you investigated the back alleys?”

The greater the light, the greater the darkness. No matter how determined the Lord Yangwiseong was to maintain public order, the darkness was by no means small.

Of course, I won’t be able to do it openly.

“Hmm. First of all, I investigated the Jin Kwon Party that dominates the back alleys here… but they are also in a state of confusion.”

Jin Kwon Party. It is one of the four factions, and it is the faction that opposed Sayun. Afterwards, the head of the family took a liking to Sayun and later helped her in various ways.

“Even the daughter of the head of the Jin Kwon Party has disappeared. They really want to solve this disappearance case.”

“I guess so. Oh Chil, the head of the Jin Kwon Party, cares a lot about his daughter.”

“Hmm. As expected from Teacher Yu. That’s right. Ochil loved his dead wife with all his heart. The daughter he had with such a wife is a treasure that he cannot give up on anything else.”

It was the same in Heavenly Moon.

After clearing this event, the head of Jinkwondang comes to express his gratitude, and you can receive additional rewards from Jinkwondang.

Surely your daughter was close to death at that time?

It’s not like I didn’t understand his reaction because I saved it.

And we can do one more linked event, but that’s not important right now, so let’s skip it.

From then on, Cheon Il-hwa calmly continued to explain the missing people.

“Can you find it?”

“Well… if the empire decides to investigate, they will be able to find it faster than me.”

“Hahaha…”

Cheon Il-hwa laughed as if he was embarrassed.

If the Imperial Intelligence Department acted as I said, they would be able to find it quickly, but the relationship between the military and the Intelligence Department is not that good, so I guess I didn’t want to ask them for help.

“Still, if we can reduce unnecessary disturbances in the empire by adding to this small amount of help, then of course we should do it.”

“I’m sorry about this every time. Please take care of me.”

I looked at him worriedly, as if wondering if it would be possible to take a sample from the side, but there was no particular problem.

I don’t know who the culprit is or for what purpose he was kidnapped.

If we look at the conclusion, the culprit is an old woman named Yang Myeong, a married woman.

True to its name, the old man is a married person, a crazy person who freezes the soul, makes it lose its sense of reason, and turns it into a being that only follows the orders of the spellcaster.

First animals, then corpses, and now living people.

The goal is to bring them together and make them married.

There was nothing more to say, so I got up and left the room. When I came out, the train crew was smiling kindly.

“Mr. Yu. Have you met Lord Hoe?”

“Yes. It’s Ki Noya. I’m trying to add whatever strength I don’t have.”

“I see! haha. As expected, Teacher Yu. If you need strength, please let me know. Even though I am old, I will do my best for you.”

“Oh my. If Kinoya is with you, you have nothing to fear.”

“Hehehehehe! What a person!”

“Hahahahaha!”

The train crew laughed out loud, and I laughed too. Wi-Yeol next to him snorted as if the old man was being rude again, but the atmosphere wasn’t bad.

” Moonlight Island will be with you, so don’t worry too much. ”

“Mmmmm. I understand. Please take care of yourself.”

So I said goodbye to him and went out. In fact, I felt at ease if we were together, whether on the train or in the upper ranks.

Anyway, they are military experts.

The problem is that if I ask them to help me with this work, I cannot take full credit for this work.

You have to save it, save it, and use it later when you need it, so for now, all you can do is trust in Chaejin.

“Guest guest.”

“Why are you doing that?”

When I left Cheonghoeru, I bought two bottles of alcohol. As I was walking with it, Chaejin, who had been quiet for a while, opened her mouth.

I looked back and she was playing with her long hair and asked me carefully.

“Honestly, it would be better to have more people for this kind of job… It might be dangerous, so it’s better to bring more cilantro…”

It’s not wrong. Normally, the more heads there are in this type of investigation, the faster it can be found.

In addition, Yang Myung’s location was random during the event, so I have to find it separately.

But there are so many ways to find out where something is, so why bother calling that old man?

There is also someone next to him who can fight with Yang Myung.

I looked her up and down. He asked clearly, checking out her toned body exposed through the tight clothes that were Moonwoljeong’s attire.

“Are you not confident?”

“That’s not true.”

“If I don’t trust you, who will I trust? If I didn’t believe you, I wouldn’t have asked you to come with me.”

Chaejin didn’t say anything again. She just stared at me with slightly wider eyes and immediately burst into her characteristic arrogant laugh.

“Oh, ohhohohoho! If you trust me that much, it’s only natural that I repay that trust! great! Chaejin, the great disciple of this prestigious sect, Moonwoljeong, will help you, so don’t worry!”

“I wasn’t worried at all, so don’t worry.”

She became quiet and looked at me. Since I wasn’t lying at all, I faced her, and Chaejin, who seemed tired from her efforts, quietly averted my eyes.

“Now. Let’s go.”

“…But where are we going?”

“I have someone to meet.”

“Who is it?”

“Yang Wei-seong, Hao Wen-ui Branch Manager.”

I walked down a path in thick darkness. Normally, one would not enter such a dark alley at this time.

As if to prove it, as soon as you enter the back alley, you are met with stinging stares.

Still, the reason they can’t come forward is probably because of the life she started embracing as soon as they entered the back alley.

The burden of knowing that if you make a mistake, your head could be blown off, has reduced unnecessary recklessness, and thanks to this, we can easily go deep into the back alleys, a place where even Cheonshangmyeongwol is a combat zone and where even Yangwiseong does not send soldiers to maintain security.

I was able to enter the amniotic fluid.

Alcohol, violence, women. In the lower reaches of society’s darkness, there were quite a few people related to it. And, most of them were those who prided themselves on being close to death.

Since these are things you risk your life for, you may not be afraid to live.

of course.

-Whoops!!

“Kwaek!”

Until you get hit and realize that that killing can really cut your head off.

As soon as I entered Hatong, there was a hand reaching out towards me.

I wasn’t wearing particularly nice clothes, and when I looked in the mirror, I didn’t look good.

Maybe he was a person who got caught up in the magic of alcohol and gained the power of Manyong.

But even so, that wasn’t allowed. Even more so for Chaejin, who came with me as my escort.

Chaejin didn’t even look at the guy who fainted after being hit. He just glanced at the embarrassed people with extremely cold eyes.

“…Do you know where this is? ”

Is it because there might be a fight? A man sitting next to a store with red lights slowly stood up and approached me.

It was a grim impression.

Chae-jin didn’t even snort at him as he dragged himself along the even more treacherous road.

-Suddenly.

An unmanned person just speaks as nothing. The moment the silver sword, which he did not know when was drawn, flew through the air and entered her sword house, the man swallowed his saliva. The front of his clothes shatters and falls to the floor. Still, there wasn’t even a scratch on his skin.

“I didn’t come here to fight. I just came to see Hano.”

The lump was worried. But that only lasted a moment.

He walked quietly without telling me to follow him.

Deeper into the alley than we’ve been in so far.

How much did it cost?

Only after arriving at a musty-smelling place did he quietly retreat.

When I pushed open the old noren, I found an old man sitting inside with his eyes closed.

Laid out in front of him are tools used for fortune telling.

Was it because I heard the noren shaking? He turned his head toward us with his eyes closed and fumbled with his hand to grab the fortune teller.

“Eng. Why are you coming now?! Still, it came well. If you use just one talisman…”

“Let’s not cheat on people we already know. I don’t even know how to use a talisman.”

“Tsk. When I heard the sound of a woman’s footsteps, I thought that a nobleman had come to help a courtesan marry a courtesan. okay. Would you like me to buy it for you?”

On a topic I don’t even know how to look at.

“Buy it, buy it for me?”

“ing? is not it? He’s a small guy who doesn’t even turn his eyes even when a courtesan clings to him. I thought he was just like that when he brought a woman with him.”

Chaejin’s gaze makes the side of my head sting. I tried to ignore it, and he, who was pretending to be a crippled blind man, woke up when he heard the sound of the liquor bottle I brought crashing, stood up and took a drink.

“Oh my god. The miracle of opening a blind person’s eyes and raising a lame person is accomplished with just two bottles of alcohol.”

It’s not even a miracle at the end.

“Ah. I can’t hold back alcohol.”

Smirking, he took the bottle of alcohol I offered him. And take a sip. I guess the taste of the drink was really good because my eyes were wide open.

“Is this Cheonghoeju? iced coffee. It looks like a courtesan dancing at the opening of the imperial capital…”

That old man just lives with his mouth. Hano gulped down the entire bottle in an instant and smiled.

“I came because I wanted to ask you something. Do you know anything about the disappearance incident that occurred in Yangwiseong?”

“Of course there is. But is it up to the top of the hearing?”

“Similar.”

“Tsk.”

“There is a personal reason for this, so please consider it as my request and help me.”

After thinking for a while, he finally held out his hand. I placed the old pouch on his hand, which was covered in grime, and he took it lightly and unfolded the wide leather cover that covered the wall behind him. Then what was revealed were hundreds of holes.

I pulled the string connected to one of the holes, and after a while, a white piece of paper came out.

“to. Let’s see. Yangmyeong. It looks like they captured him to make him a real-life married person. ah. Do you know how to deal with someone who is divorced?”

“Is there anyone who doesn’t know that?”

“What is it?”

There’s someone here I don’t know.

Hano and I turned to Chaejin, and her face instantly turned red. And in an attempt to erase his embarrassment, he hurriedly turned the conversation to another topic.

“No, more than that. You can find it so easily?! No, sir. Isn’t this what the Cheonghoe Sangdan and Jin Kwon Party were looking for? But Haomun knows this?”

“Hao Wen’s information power is second to none on the continent!!”

While Hano showed his pride by lifting the bottle, I tapped the paper.

hmm. also. The location written on the paper was a hill not far from Yangwiseong Fortress.

“Anyway, thank you.”

“Come again. If you pay the money, I will give you as much information as you want.”

Hano, smiling and wrinkling a lot, waves his hand. I gave him a cursory greeting and went out. Chaejin followed me and asked me carefully.

“How did you get to know Hao Wen?”

“There is a story as deep as the sea, so I will tell you about it later. It’s hard to explain it now. Wouldn’t it be better to go back and have a drink and listen?”

He sometimes said he was bored and said various things whenever he was working on a masterpiece. Perhaps because she enjoyed hearing it every time, she accepted it with ease.

“Then what about this? Why couldn’t the Blue House and Jin Kwon Party buy information from Hao Wen?”

That’s easy to say.

“Haomun is the one that occupied the back alley of Yang Yucheng in the past. ”

In order to settle down in the back alleys, Jin Quandang took away a lot of Hao Wen’s territory. To this day, only a very small number of Haomun’s business locations remain. Of course, even if information investigation and organization were to be considered separately, it was an undeniable fact that Hao Wen had become difficult under Yang Wei-sheng.

“Of course, even if that were the case, Hao Moon would have given out the information in exchange for money. Of course, it will be a bit expensive. But can Jin Kwon Party trust them?”

“Well, that’s true too. Then what about the hearing committee?”

“Hao Wen does not accept requests from the government.”

“Why?”

“A few years ago, the government asked Hao Mun to investigate information about the Demonic Cult, and in the process, Hao Mun suffered considerable damage. but. Hao Wen received nothing in return.”

“Huh? why? Is that okay?”

“That’s not possible, so one of Hao Wen’s policies was created. That means don’t do business with the government.”

“Oh… if that were the case, the damage would be great.”

“Haomun is a place where those who have nothing gather. He probably thought that if he gave it away like that, everything could be taken away, so he risked death and left Kang-su. Even if it is an empire, it cannot break the contract with Hao Mun. Isn’t this what it means?”

“Wow… So what happened to the management?”

” Although he made a huge profit due to a transaction violation, his political opponents later discovered the corruption he had hidden and attacked him. I heard he was eventually executed. I think it was probably Hao Moon who leaked that information. No one knows the truth.”

“It’s scary.”

“It did ease up a bit after his death. Like I did earlier, if you make a request based on a certain degree of friendship and trust, you will receive it, but officially, you will refuse the official’s request. If the government had approached him, he would have immediately closed down the branch and run away.”

“Ah…”

“Ultimately, it’s a matter of trust. It’s natural that you can’t work with someone you can’t trust.”

There was no conversation after that. Just walk in silence.

After going to the place mentioned in the information given by Haomun and discovering a large cave, Caijin opened his mouth.

“…So this means that the guest trusts me? Seeing them working together like this.”

“I told you. I believe it.”

She stared at me for a moment, then laughed, then quickly turned her head to look somewhere else and said.

“Hehe. Well, since I’m learning from someone I trust, I’ll increase the training time in the future. And since I’m going to a more advanced level, the membership fee will also increase.”

No, drifting here?!

We were good until just now, right?!

Confidence in inspection decreased slightly.

“You don’t like it? If you don’t like it, don’t. But you know it’s helpful, right?”

It’s as they say. I definitely have a hard time while training, but as Geomseong said, it is true that by practicing Taijiquan and Oh Geum-hee, my health has improved and I can move more actively.

I can also protect my body.

“But is it okay for us to go here alone? Shouldn’t we at least get some support? Yang Myung is still quite an expert, right?”

Chaejin’s voice was light when mentioning support.

When I sensed the answer she wanted, I responded indifferently.

Because it doesn’t cost money to tell you.

“You can easily catch someone like Yang Myeong.”

I guess it was the right answer.

As if she liked it, Chaejin smiled her signature arrogant smile, leaving behind the brilliant moonlight.