Monochrome Sovereign (Novel) - Chapter 6 - The Prodigal Son Returns (5)
Chapter 6 – The Prodigal Son Returns (5)
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Translated by Heavenly Cat
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Clatter!
The person who stood up abruptly from their seat was unexpectedly Yeon Ji-pyeong.
“Listen, listen, don’t you think this is too much?”
“What?!”
“Even if you are a daughter of the Namgung Clan, there are things to say and things not to say!”
Yeon Ji-pyeong shouted out as if scolding.
“Apologize to Yang Woo!”
Namgung Sang-hwa, who was about to spit out a bowl of curses, suddenly tilted her head.
She thought he was telling her to apologize to him. But he told her to apologize to the fallen vermin.
What does this mean?
“Slapping the cheek of an innocent person, is that the etiquette of a prestigious family? Was the etiquette of the Namgung Clan members that rude?”
“…What?”
“Words that go against etiquette and even baseless violence! It is clearly your fault, Young Lady! Apologize to Yang Woo right now!”
He was dignified.
The appearance of Yeon Ji-pyeong shouting with his back straight reminded one of a single bamboo tree, albeit a bit unpolished.
Yang Woo looked at Yeon Ji-pyeong with trembling eyes. Yi Jeong-hak’s gaze toward Yeon Ji-pyeong also became strange.
Namgung Sang-hwa muttered as if it were absurd.
“What is this idiot talking about.”
To her, Yang Woo was no different from a commoner who was everywhere in the Jianghu.
Even a pet dog would at least wag its tail. But this fellow, instead of waging his tail, was barking presumptuously, wasn’t he?
Not breaking his legs was enough of an act of generosity.
“If you do not apologize, you will be disgraced. I will say it for the last time. Apologize.”
“Disgraced?”
Namgung Sang-hwa burst into laughter.
A look of being ridiculous was cast in her high and sharp laughter. Of course, laughing did not mean her anger was cleared.
“Since people praise you as one of the Seven Great Clans, has your liver popped out of your stomach?”
“Even a child of a martial arts hall that is falling apart would have acted like me if their learning was certain. Because that is what I learned is right.”
Yeon Ji-pyeong’s eyes did not shake.
“It seems you have not learned correctly.”
Namgung Sang-hwa’s laughter stopped.
Wooooong!
“Fellow who does not know your place!”
Killing intent wavered around her eyes.
The atmosphere of the fourth floor of the liquor house became twice as cold as before.
Intense verbal arguments can be overlooked somehow, but if killing intent is emitted, the story is different.
Yeon Ji-pyeong’s face also hardened.
“What a pathetic person.”
“Shut up!”
Nothing but anger would accumulate even if she mixed more words.
Namgung Sang-hwa, who was breathing heavily, shouted to Yi Jeong-hak.
“Make that fellow kneel before me right now!”
“M-Me?”
Yi Jeong-hak’s eyes bulged.
Namgung Sang-hwa’s cheek twitched.
“Do you want me to make it so your family cannot even set foot in the Anhui land?”
Yi Jeong-hak became truly flustered.
He was the one who had transferred the anger toward the Yeon Clan side because he did not want to receive it. However, he never imagined the situation would flow in this way.
“What are you doing? Move right now!”
“Y-Young Lady! No matter what, fighting with a descendant of the Yeon Clan is a problem…!”
Slap!
Drip.
Blood flowed from the corner of Yi Jeong-hak’s mouth. It was a slap much fiercer than when she struck Yang Woo.
“If you get on my nerves once more, you and your entire family will taste hell.”
“…”
“Make him kneel.”
Yang Woo’s face was stained with shock.
Even if it was a somewhat low posture, he did not know Yi Jeong-hak would suffer such a sight from Namgung Sang-hwa. Wasn’t the Anhui Yi Clan a prestigious family of Anhui, albeit not as good as the Namgung Clan?
To the point of being unable to say anything even after being slapped.
Yi Jeong-hak turned around.
The eyes of Yi Jeong-hak looking at Yeon Ji-pyeong were distorted with shame and anger.
Tramp, tramp.
Yi Jeong-hak slowly walked toward Yeon Ji-pyeong.
Yeon Ji-pyeong let out a sigh.
He had much to say, but he also kept his mouth shut.
Namgung Sang-hwa shouted once again.
“Don’t waddle and bring that fellow before me quickly!”
It was then.
“The taste of liquor is falling.”
Yeon Ho-jeong stood up from his seat.
Namgung Sang-hwa growled.
“Fine, not that you too…!”
Thud!
Instantly, everyone’s eyes bulged.
“Ku-huack!”
Yi Jeong-hak staggered and stepped back.
He was hit in the abdomen with a fist without any defense. His insides turned over, and the strength in his legs drained out.
Yeon Ho-jeong’s left hand headed for Yi Jeong-hak’s head.
Crackle!
“Kugh!”
His hair was grabbed.
It was an action that scoundrels who brawled in back alleys would do. It was not an appearance that a martial artist who had learned the martial arts of the Orthodox Path would show.
The flustered Yi Jeong-hak grabbed Yeon Ho-jeong’s wrist.
“L-Let go of this!”
At that moment, Yeon Ho-jeong turned his wrist.
Yi Jeong-hak’s body, which spun in the air once, was slammed onto the floor from the back.
Whoosh! Thud!
“Ack!”
Yeon Ho-jeong coldly lifted his foot.
A look of ‘surely not’ was cast on Yi Jeong-hak’s face, which had been distorted with pain.
Crunch!
“Aaaaah!”
Yi Jeong-hak rolled on the floor while screaming. His nose bone was broken, and his front teeth were knocked out.
Yeon Ho-jeong spoke while shaking off the blood splattered on his trouser hem.
“You shouldn’t try to transfer the task you have to handle over to this side.”
“Cough! Ku-huack!”
“I’ll consider your sin fully questioned with this.”
Astonishment appeared on everyone’s faces.
It was the same for Yeon Ji-pyeong. Even though he was looking clearly from behind, he could not know what kind of technique Yeon Ho-jeong had used.
It was the first time he did not understand the principle of a martial art he had looked at clearly. So he was flustered and surprised by his brother’s harsh attack.
“E-Elder brother!”
“Pyeong-ah.”
“Yes?”
“In the future, when there’s such a thing, unless it’s a situation where you absolutely must, do not waste time with useless conversation.”
“…?”
“Do you think fellows who would listen to reason would commit such words and actions in front of people? These fellows are already wrong.”
Yeon Ho-jeong’s eyes flashed.
“If you truly want to correct them or give them a lecture, it won’t be late even if you do it after striking them down first.”
It was words that were nothing but rough.
Yeon Ho-jeong walked toward Namgung Sang-hwa. He met Yang Woo’s eyes in the middle, but his indifferent gaze proved that he had not a shred of interest in Yang Woo.
Namgung Sang-hwa’s face was distorted.
“What on earth have you done just now?”
Yeon Ho-jeong was still silent. He was just heading toward Namgung Sang-hwa with the same speed and same stride as if he had come out for a stroll.
It was thorough disregard. Namgung Sang-hwa’s eyes flipped.
“Damnable fellow! You dare to ignore me?!”
Chiiiik!
An unusual energy seeped out from Namgung Sang-hwa’s body.
It was an energy qualitatively different from the power Yi Jeong-hak possessed. Yeon Ho-jeong’s eyes flashed.
‘It’s the Azure Sky Qi.’
It was the energy of the Azure Sky Cultivation Method, one of the internal energy methods the Namgung Clan boasted of. The level of the cultivation method itself is high, and it was a first-rate cultivation method that could encompass all the martial arts of the Namgung Clan.
‘She definitely has talent.’
Is she about eighteen now?
It was an excellent true qi that was hard to emit at that age. She was fully qualified to be called first-rate.
However, there was a serious problem with Namgung Sang-hwa.
“Kneel right now! Then, even if only out of sincerity, I’ll let you avoid total disgrace…”
Hook!
“Ack!”
Namgung Sang-hwa was startled.
Yeon Ho-jeong, who was walking at a constant speed, had instantaneously increased his speed. To a person who is not prepared in advance, such a movement is bound to present embarrassment.
Namgung Sang-hwa’s right hand was instinctively swung.
Parararak!
The hand movement that tore the air was extremely fierce. Although her disposition was arrogant, she had learned martial arts properly.
Yeon Ho-jeong’s hand moved to meet it.
A triumphant light dwelt on Namgung Sang-hwa’s face.
‘Idiot!’
She thought it was foolish to dare to meet the Heavenly Wind Palm. Because she could now break even a log with a single strike of the Heavenly Wind Palm.
To dare to strike back at such a Heavenly Wind Palm with a bare hand? From the hand to the shoulder, it would be smashed.
Namgung Sang-hwa loaded the Azure Sky Qi more strongly into her hand.
It was then.
Whirrr!
‘Eh?!’
Yeon Ho-jeong’s hand bent flexibly like a snake and climbed up Namgung Sang-hwa’s wrist.
It was as if he had no joints. The speed was slower than the Heavenly Wind Palm, but it was so timely that she could not pull her arm away.
Yeon Ho-jeong’s finger strongly pressed Namgung Sang-hwa’s elbow, the Pool at the Bend Acupoint.
Crunch!
“Aaaaah!”
Namgung Sang-hwa, who screamed, stepped back.
The Azure Sky Qi that had continued to her hand was cut off abruptly. There was no sensation in her entire right arm that had extended the Heavenly Wind Palm.
“W-What kind of sorcery is this…!”
Crack!
“…Huh?”
Namgung Sang-hwa blankly looked down at her own leg.
Her left leg was bent sharply inward. It was a position where it could not possibly be bent due to the structure of human joints.
Only then did she realize that her leg was broken.
“Aaaaah!”
Thud!
Namgung Sang-hwa lost her balance and slumped down.
This was not carelessness or anything. Even though she could have sufficiently avoided it, Namgung Sang-hwa could not avoid Yeon Ho-jeong’s attack.
Because she thought that if she stepped back, the opponent would also wait for her. The sparring she had learned until now was exactly like that.
However, Yeon Ho-jeong’s fight was not that soft.
Once you clash, pushing until one side admits defeat or dies. That was precisely the fight of the Black Path.
“Kugh! Bastard! You break my leg?! Now you and your family are all dead!”
Crack!
“Aaaack!”
Namgung Sang-hwa screamed again. Her left arm was also broken.
Namgung Sang-hwa, who was about to spit out curses once again, felt her body suddenly stiffen.
Cold eyes in which no emotion could be glimpsed were looking down at her. It was a gaze in which not a single emotion that a human should naturally have was mixed.
As if looking at an object. Yeon Ho-jeong’s gaze looking at Namgung Sang-hwa, his heart, was as such.
“What will you do?”
“Ugh! W-What?”
“How do you plan to kill me and my family?”
Yeon Ho-jeong wore a smile.
Namgung Sang-hwa and Yang Woo felt their skin crawl upon seeing that smile.
“A funny child. Are you saying you’ll come looking even if you become a ghost?”
It was a word more chilling than the smile.
Become a ghost? Those words were no different from saying he would kill Namgung Sang-hwa.
Only then did Namgung Sang-hwa realize. That she had touched a fellow she could hardly handle.
She said while stammering.
“If it becomes known that you made me like this, my main house will not forgive you!”
“Is that so?”
“Yes! So right now, me…!”
Thud!
Yeon Ho-jeong, who broke a chair with a kick, picked up one of the broken chair legs.
“Then I should even more so kill you and bury you. That way the Namgung won’t know either, right?”
Namgung Sang-hwa’s complexion turned pale.
“You basta…!”
Thud!
This time there was no scream either. Namgung Sang-hwa, who was hit on the head, fell sideways.
It was a situation where it would not be enough to faint, but strangely, her mind became even clearer. So the pain was even more extreme.
Fear dwelt on Namgung Sang-hwa’s face.
She realized that this crazy fellow truly could kill her.
Tsch-tsch-tsch.
Behind that face that generated fear, the killing intent of the Grandmaster who created the legend of the Dark Emperor was crawling and rising.
If you smile first, this side smiles once more.
But if you touch first, I’ll smash you so you can never touch again.
Whether you pushed with a hand or stabbed with a knife, I don’t care about the degree. Once I’ve been harmed, I’ll rush in until the end and bite and tear to pieces.
That was the Dark Emperor, the Master of the Dark Emperor Castle, and the reason all Unorthodox people bowed their heads to the Grandmaster of the Unorthodox Path.
“Now, instead of what you want to say, say what I want to hear.”
Yeon Ho-jeong lifted the club with a smile.
And swung it without mercy.
Thud-thud-thud!