Light Novel: Volume 10 Episode 22
Bo-kyeong looked at Seongam who still held his collar.
“Senior… brother!”
“Tell me! Who is it?!”
“I don’t… know yet.”
“You don’t know? No idea at all?!”
Seongam pressed Bo-kyeong like an angry lion.
Bo-kyeong teared up while hanging from Seongam’s large forearm.
But his appearance only made Seongam even more angry.
“How dare you cry when you did such a poor job?!”
“Keuheuk! I’m sorry!”
“Stop it, Seongam! That child is upset about this either.”
Only when Un-hae intervened did Seongam release Bo-kyeong.
“Heuk!”
Bo-kyeong fell to the floor and wailed loudly.
For the past few days, his heart rotted as he guarded Seong-un’s corpse alone.
He suffered from the thought that if he hadn’t been away, Seong-un wouldn’t have died.
His heart demon tormented him every day, and the anger inside of his heart continued to grow.
When his agony reached its peak, Un-hae and Seongam came.
“You did a good job.”
Un-hae gently patted Bo-kyeong on the shoulder. But that only made Bo-kyeong cry even more.
The rest of the Shaolin Temple disciples who just arrived became solemn at the sight of Bo-kyeong crying.
Un-hae opened the Ice Jade Coffin. Then he saw Seong-un laid down.
“Amitabha!”
Tears welled up in Un-hae’s eyes the moment he saw Seong-un’s body. He tried to hold back his tears as he touched Seong-un’s body.
“Why are you lying here, you punk? How dare you go before me? You bastard!”
Un-hae scolded Seong-un as if he were still alive.
He tried to regain his composure and didn’t speak for a while.
When he calmed down to some extent, he carefully examined the wound on the back of Seong-un’s neck. He took out a silver acupuncture needle from his bosom and stabbed it all over Seong-un’s body.
Only the silver needle stabbed on the nose and neck area of Seong-un’s body had turned black. The rest of the needles remained unchanged.
Seongam stood by and watched Un-hae conduct an autopsy.
After examining the body carefully, Un-hae carefully laid Seong-un’s body back down.
“How is it, Senior Brother?”
Seongam could not stand it any longer and asked.
“It’s true that he was killed by an assassin. Judging by the concentration of poison in his nose and mouth, the poison must have gone through his respiratory system.”
“Poison?”
“Yes. The poison is not actually strong enough to take his life. It’s just enough to distract him for a moment.”
“Then the assassin must have attacked Senior Brothen when he was disoriented.”
“That’s right. The wound looks light, but all the arteries are cut off. It’s a technique that pursues extreme efficiency. Assassins mostly use this type of techniques.”
“Assassin!”
Seongam bit his teeth.
Killing intent flashed in his eyes.
Seongam’s gaze turned to Bo-kyeong.
“Who is it?”
“W-What?”
“I heard there’s an assassin in the Jin family? Who is it?”
“Pyo… It’s Pyo-wol.”
“Pyo-wol?”
Seongam gnashed his teeth.
“Don’t act rashly. We have no proof that he killed Seong-un.”
Un-hae tried to calm Seongam, but his voice didn’t reach Seongam.
* * *
Seuk! Seuk!
Pyo-wol painstakingly sharpened his phantom dagger on a whetstone.
The blade wasn’t cracked or broken, but it’s quite damaged. He had used it quite frequently after all. If Tang Sochu hadn’t made the daggers with special care, it would have been destroyed right away.
Each time Pyo-wol grinded the blade on the whetstone, the dull blade slowly sharpens. Since he had ten pieces of phantom daggers, it would take him quite a bit of time to clean them all.
When he finished perfectly sharpening the last blade, he wiped the daggers with a dry towel and then stored one dagger at a time in his leather belt.
Pyo-wol then checked all the various hidden weapons and equipment he had hidden inside his Black Dragon Robe.
He took out his hidden weapons, silver wire, and poison one by one. After scanning all of his other weapons, he put all them back in his robe.
When Pyo-wol had finished his inspections, all of a sudden,
“Brother!”
“Brother Pyo!”
Jin Siwoo and Namgung Wol suddenly entered his residence.
They both had stiff expressions on their faces which was unusual.
“What’s going on?”
“It’s a big deal. People of the Shaolin Temple have come!”
“So?”
“I think they’re suspecting you.”
Jin Siwoo’s face as he spoke was filled with an urgent light.
Namgung Wol continued,
“The atmosphere is quite serious. It would be better for Brother Pyo to avoid them in the meantime.”
“They think I’m the culprit, don’t they?”
“That’s right. No matter how much you say it’s a misunderstanding, they won’t listen. Nothing good would happen to Brother Pyo if you bump someone from the Shaolin Temple. It would be better for you to leave and avoid them for now. We’ll take care of this.”
Namgung Wol spoke out of genuine concern for Pyo-wol.
If he had come publicly, he would have intervened under the name of his sect, the Heavenly Guardian Association. But since he came to help on his own, he could not just throw around the weight of his sect carelessly. If he did, then the moment something goes wrong, his sect’s relationship with the Shaolin Temple could be ruined.
Namgung Wol had no choice but to have a narrow range of movement.
“There’s no need to face the rainstorm head-on. You can go and explain to them once they’ve calmed down. It still wouldn’t be too late then. So better avoid them for now.”
“That’s right, brother! They just can’t make a cool judgement right now since they’re furious, but as time goes by, I’m sure they’ll realize that you’re not the culprit. So, you should go ahead for now.”
Jin Siwoo also recommended for Pyo-wol to avoid the Shaolin Temple.
Having personally greeted the monks from the Shaolin Temple, he was well aware of how serious and solemn their atmosphere was.
Pyo-wol said,
“I think it’s already too late.”
“What?”
Bang!
At that moment, the door to Pyo-wol’s room bursted open.
Someone had blown it away with a punch.
When they turned their heads to look at the destroyed door, they all saw a huge monk with his fists outstretched in their direction.
It was Seongam.
He also came with other monks.
Un-hae, who hurriedly followed behind him, tried to dissuade him,
“Stop it, Seongam!”
“I’m fine with accepting punishment for violating Senior Brother’s order once we return to the Shaolin Temple. But please don’t tell me to be patient when the assassin is right in front of me.”
Seongam glared at Pyo-wol with ferocious eyes.
A terrifying and formidable energy rippled through his body.
Even Un-hae didn’t have the confidence to fully subdue Seongam. For Seongam to be subdued, one of the two of them would have to be seriously injured. So even though Seongam disobeyed his orders, he didn’t have it in him to subdue him.
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