Chapter 14. My Name is Neng Ha Young! (2/2)

[They’re not easy. We didn’t think we could decide the outcome of the fight, so we were waiting for you to come.]

Um Seung Do’s face twisted at the message. This plan to deliver an old man was getting harder than expected. The people he posted at each checkpoint all held considerable power. But for them to not be able to fight, the people who came here probably weren’t normal. Um Seung Do glared at the five newcomers that came here.

“What do you want here?”

“Are you the owner of this boat?”

A young man with cold eyes stepped up.

He seemed like he just entered his thirties.

Um Seung Do sized up his opponent.

‘This guy….’

He was an expert.

A peak expert, at that.

Um Seung Do was a bit shocked at this.

‘This is a face I haven’t seen before.’

The problem was, he didn’t know this expert.

There were only about 500 experts who reached the peak so far. Their information were all stored away in Um Seung Do’s brain. This just went to show how much power the church had when it came to information gathering.

Then, a person he saw for the first time in his life, emerged as a peak expert.

A big hole appeared in his information archives for the first time.

“I own this ship, yes. Who are you?”

The man shook his head.

“I cannot tell you who I am. Please understand. I’ll say what I came here for. We need that ship. We tried to negotiate with the people for half a day now, which was frustrating us at this point.”

Um Seung Do tilted his head.

“You need this ship?”

“Yes. Please let us borrow it. No, we’ll just buy it. With the crew.”

When the man took out money, Um Seung Do quickly refused it.

“It’s fine. I’m not planning on selling the ship.”

The man spoke.

“I’ll pay 3 times the original price.”

The man had a voice that implied, “are you still not going to sell it?” At that, Um Seung Do just smirked.

“I’m not planning on selling it, even with 10 times the original price.”

The man’s face stiffened.

He thought Um Seung Do was mocking him.

After reading his face, Um Seung Do quickly denied it.

“I’m not mocking you, please don’t misunderstand.”

Um Seung Do backed down here, since he didn’t really want to fight.

At that, the man’s face softened a bit.

“We have an urgent matter to attend to. We need that ship.”

“We also need the ship because of an urgent matter. I’m sorry, but you’ll have to find a different ship.”

Um Seung Do kindly declined again.

He was actually being really polite right now, unlike his usual self.

The man in front kept pushing Um Seung Do, as if he didn’t know any of that.

“I already tried searching everywhere. This is the only ship nearby. So please, let us use this ship.”

“Sorry, but we do need this ship quite badly.”

The faces of the people on the other side started to turn bad.

It seemed like they, too, were being quite patient.

‘So what?’

Um Seung Do suppressed his anger, and put on a calm face. He couldn’t hand over the ship, no matter how desperate these people were. He had a mission he had to carry out, after all.

The man realized that Um Seung Do wasn’t a normal person, seeing that he was able to take on the murderous aura that came from his side.

‘He’s an expert.’

This seemingly normal man here was an expert in disguise.

An expert the young man couldn’t possibly estimate the power of.

The man here was probably quite stronger than the young man.

The young man’s face turned serious.

Right then, a young girl came out from the group of men. The young man’s face turned pale.

“Ma’am.”

“It’s ok. I’ll take it from here.”

The girl here was wearing a bamboo hat (竹笠) that covered the whole of her face. Um Seung Do’s face turned to that of surprise when he saw her.

‘It’s a girl?’

She was a young one, at that.

A company of martial artists accompanying a young girl…… Um Seung Do was trying to find out who this girl was, by flipping through his mental archives. The girl spoke.

“We’ve been rude to a great expert like you. We apologize.”

“……There’s nothing to be sorry about, is there?”

When Um Seung Do pretended that there was nothing to worry about, the girl adjusted her bamboo hat and spoke teasingly.

“Are you from the Heavenly Demon Church, by any chance?”

Um Seung Do’s face, which seemed emotionless just a moment ago, went through a big change.

He was surprised by the girl saying the name of the church.

“The Heavenly Demon Church!”

The people who guarded the young girl were also surprised.

They quickly formed a wall around the girl, and looked at Um Seung Do with hostile eyes.

The men looked like they would move in to kill Um Seung Do if he even twitched.

“…….I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

Um Seung Do tried to shake it off by putting on a poker face.

But he was a little late. His timing was slightly off, it seemed.

The girl wasn’t falling for it.

“As I thought.”

“…….”

Um Seung Do started thinking quietly.

Should he just kill everyone and leave?

He could do it. But there was something that bothered him a little.

[Should we take care of them?]

It seemed that his underlings were thinking the same thing, but when Um Seung Do heard it, he immediately shook his head. This wasn’t the place to do such things. They were out in the open, and someone could easily see them when they fought.

If this was the property of the Heavenly Demon Church, Um Seung Do would’ve taken care of them without second thought. But this wasn’t the property of the Heavenly Demon Church. Things would get annoying if he got into an accident. While he was thinking about such things, the girl spoke again.

“You’re going to the Qilian mountains, right? We can go there together.”

Um Seung Do stared at the girl with narrow eyes.

He didn’t know who this girl was, but he didn’t even care anymore. The smile on his face slowly disappeared.

“I guess I have no choice, after all.”

After sorting out his thoughts, he started exuding a fierce aura with a cold face.

He didn’t know who this person was, but she said things that shouldn’t have been said.

She knew what was going on with the church in the mountains, but still talked about it in front of him? He had to kill her now.

“You said something you shouldn’t have said. If you have any last words, say them here.”

When he made up his mind to kill someone, a fierce aura started coming out of Um Seung Do. He didn’t want to kill anyone for the sake of the guest inside the carriage. But he had no choice this time. When Um Seung Do fingered his sword hilt, the girl removed her bamboo hat.

Her face was exposed to him.

‘Hak……’

She seemed to be near 16.

She was a girl that was sure to be a beautiful lady in the future. And her face was one that was inside Um Seung Do’s mental archives.

“My name is Neng Ha Young. Pleased you meet you.”

Um Seung Do’s face twisted badly.

He took his hands off the sword hilt.

He knew that this was a person that would be troublesome to kill.