episode_0273

“Hyeok Kirin Daehyeop….?”

“You have really improved your skills. In addition, Rongin’s unique Qigong operation changed… I was following him closely, but he suddenly ran away, which caught me off guard.”

There was no doubt that he was Hyuk Kirin, smiling brightly with a pure face.

“Oh, no…now…”

“Isn’t this supposed to be in Luoyang?”

I looked at Hyeok Kirin with surprised eyes.

It was surprising that Hyuk Kirin was here now, but the bigger problem was that he did not disguise himself as a man.

She didn’t wear the Taeyanggun, which changes her energy to masculine, and her clothes and hair looked like she had no intention of hiding the fact that she was a woman.

Does this mean that Yuya will roam the martial arts world as Princess Yuya? If the current situation were made public, wouldn’t it be a huge blow?

“Do you mind if I walk down the street like this?”

“Hehe, you seem very surprised. Since you know my situation well, I may be worried, but this time I will show up without any problems.”

“Is that so…?”

“Yes, I have already exchanged letters with Black Cat, so I know what Ronin is doing now. And…I heard everything that happened in Dangata.”

“Hmm…”

Hyeok Kirin looked at me with concerned eyes and then smiled.

“You really worked hard. Less than two seasons have passed since I last saw you in the fall, and I had no idea you had grown so much.”

Hyeok Kirin pours out praise.

“But you are still inexperienced, so you need help.”

Are you saying you want to join the Dark Dragon Gate with me?

I looked at Hyeok Kirin for a moment. Hyeok Kirin’s help is something to be welcomed with open arms. however…

“Are you sure it’s okay? Anyway…”

“Hehe, it’s okay. Since I have decided not to give up on either the martial arts or the imperial palace, I must overcome this level of hardship.”

Although he said it was a hardship, his voice sounded worldly relaxed. I don’t know what happened in the imperial palace for half a year, but it seems like things went well.

There were many things I wanted to ask. Is it really okay to wander around like this without any disguise as your original gender? Why don’t you go back to the Jeomchang Sect? How did you get in touch with Heukmyorang? How did they follow my whereabouts? etc.

However, when I felt the determination in Hyeok Kirin’s smiling eyes, I kept my mouth shut.

Because the situation surrounding Hyuk Kirin is so complicated, there are many worries, but Hyuk Kirin has no compromises when it comes to helping people. Since you decided to help me, you won’t back down.

Above all, it was really dangerous just now.

It’s a shame because the one who followed me just now was Hyeok Kirin. What if it was another expert from Sapa? Because I had no idea what would happen.

He may have truly become a gambling slave.

I am worried that Hyuk Kirin is overdoing it, but Hyuk Kirin, who revealed his true gender, was a person who was not in the martial arts world… so there will be no problem even if he disturbs the dependent faction and contacts the Dark Dragon Gate.

“Hmm. All right. For now, let’s move together.”

“Hehe, then please take care of me for a while!”

Super expert Hyeok Kirin joined the group.

*** ***

Things were going smoothly.

“The self-inflicted blackmail group and the Daeam Heuk faction, who are talking about the calligraphy and painting faction or something else, have caused an uproar again!”

“Dozens of stores were devastated just yesterday!”

“What on earth is the dependent faction doing after receiving all that expensive protection tax!”

“Shhh, shh…! Are you crazy! What are you going to do if people from the Sokryeong faction hear it?”

“If you hear it, listen! Heng! If only those guys who can’t even see their noses can hear!”

Hyeok Kirin, who used the name Geum Myeong-wol and disguised himself as my sister-in-law, spoke to me using informal language.

“Public sentiment is quickly becoming uneasy.”

I explained to the newbies that I had accidentally met a sister who trained with me in a small sect called Ilhwimun. The newcomers nodded and accepted the setting without much doubt.

“Well, the Sokryeong faction is a notorious faction.”

The Sokryeong faction is a faction with a lot of karma.

It’s easy to understand if you think about how Ak Gyeong-cheol, a member of the Guigok blood group, ended up like this in the first place.

As soon as Ak Gyeong-cheol, a member of the Googok blood clan, who was a small man and a wealthy man, heard that the Podalapgung masters were snooping around in the vicinity of Yunnan, he went there in person.

They saw it as an opportunity to shift the burden of the Sacheon invasion to another sect under the pretext of preventing the invasion of Podalap Palace.

Since the leader of the clan has always behaved so coyly and only cares about his own gain, is it any different from a clan?

It was obvious that the literary men would have extorted profits by asserting the absolute superiority of the literary faction to which the master of the modern world belongs, and wouldn’t the karma be a bit great?

Numerous warriors wandering around the Okgye.

Among them, there may be people like me and the newbies who came from other factions, but there are also quite a few who came with a grudge against the real secular faction.

“What a mess they make…! Mr. Jang, who was selling baskets after suffering damage the day before yesterday, is closing down his business and returning to his hometown!”

“Phew. All the while I was doing business, I would have had nothing left to pay the protection tax to the local bastards… Even the goods were destroyed, and I ended up becoming a poor man and leaving…”

Yes, that guy should close his business. As I was shaking my head like that, Hyeok Kirin said with a wry smile.

“It may seem new, but I’ve already directed it three times.”

After meeting Hyuk Kirin after the first production, I have already directed two more projects. Hyeok Kirin did not act as an actor, but he took on the role of delivering the compensation together with me without any mouse or bird knowing.

No matter how much the actors passed through the store, leaving the store in ruins, it was not easy to place the compensation in the appropriate place.

When I got attention when there was no time, Hyuk Kirin would sneak in and handle the work.

Nowadays, there is no one who runs a business in this prison who does not know about the calligraphy and painting group, the self-harm blackmail group, and the great darkness group.

During a total of three productions, more than 50 stores were closed, so the merchants of Okgye were anxiously awaiting when the calligraphy and painting factions and the Great Dark factions would appear.

To the merchants of Okgye, the calligraphy and painting factions and the great dark factions are like King Yeomna!

“What are the dependents doing? If we don’t even catch those bastards, why do we have to pay protection taxes!”

“That’s right!”

The merchants let out angry cries. Looking at that scene, Hyeok Kirin asked.

“With the merchants’ dissatisfaction soaring, won’t the dependent faction also have no choice but to step forward?”

It is true that Ak Gyeong-cheol of the Guigok blood clan ran the sect in a way that benefited small people and accumulated a lot of resentment, but that does not mean that if he had no insight as the head of the sect, he would not have been able to create the Sokryeong sect that it is today.

There will be no Safa people who want to go under the command of Ak Gyeong-cheol, who is currently in disgrace, so the dependent faction will not be able to recover if there is a loss of power.

What the current dependent faction fears most is a war of attrition.

If you manage the territory of Okgye, you have no choice but to send out low-ranking warriors, but if you send out low-ranking warriors, they will clash with external warriors and a war of attrition will inevitably occur.

Therefore, even if they give up their territory, they do not send out the warriors and crouch down to prevent the consumption of lower-ranked warriors.

Ultimately, the essence of Sapa is power.

Even if the territory is shaken, the judgment is that it can make a comeback if it maintains its strength.

Although the secular faction decided to hide in silence until the scandal of being defeated by the monks of Podalap Palace passed…

Even such a secular faction will come out to sort out the calligraphy and painting factions and the great dark factions that are currently causing turmoil in the prison world.

but.

“The warriors of the dependent faction will come out to catch us, but it will not be to appease the public sentiment of the merchants.”

“Um…?”

Hyuk Kirin looked at me and tilted his head as if he didn’t understand.

“Then why do the warriors of the dependent faction come out?”

Because it’s “profit.”

As I said before, Ak Gyeong-cheol, a member of the Googok blood group, is a profiteer for small people. In the eyes of Ak Kyeong-cheol, how does it look to sort out the current turmoil caused by the calligraphy and painting school and the Great Dark School?

It would seem like a huge benefit.

They are not even a threat, and they are beggars whose clans you have never heard of. But if you deal with those guys, you can immediately regain the support of the merchants, so how great of a benefit is this?

This is Ak Kyeong-cheol, who went to kick out the monks of Podalap Palace despite his reputation for gain. How can someone like that keep his habits?

Of course, they will try to take advantage by sending out a warrior.

At best, the rewards that came with clearing away trash were great, so the writers were moved, not for the sake of the merchants.

Hearing what I said, Hyeok Kirin tilted his head.

“…Hmm. In the end, I guess that’s what it means.”

I smiled at Hyukkirin’s words. Well, if you look at this incident alone, it’s actually no different.

However, if you think about what will happen from now on, this difference in thinking will become the foundation for something quite interesting to happen.

“Okay, well, I know the priest’s skills, so if everything goes according to plan, there shouldn’t be any problem. But we also have to take shelter, so when do we plan to retreat?”

“I think it’s time for them to appear, and as soon as I check on them, I plan to run away without looking back.”

“Guys?”

When another question mark appeared on Hyuk Kirin’s face.

The street began to become noisy.

Hyukkirin and I made eye contact, nodded, and then moved to where the commotion was coming from.

Five warriors with their sleeves torn off to make the most of their badass outfits and five warriors with willow leaves in their mouths were confronting each other on the main street.

The sleeve-ripping warrior blushes and stutters, as if he has not been able to completely shake off his shame.

“ dares to block the path ahead of the White Tiger Association. It looks like he wants to die!”

Then, the warrior biting the willow leaf could not shout loudly for fear that the willow leaf would fall, but instead muttered with incorrect pronunciation.

“Wow, I can’t believe this guy is the one who can’t help but listen to Cheongryongdaeung’s voice!”

These are the guys I was waiting for.

It was the emergence of plagiarists.