Chapter 16. Cho Ryu Hyang’s Hide-and-Seek (2/2)

Um Seung Do ground his teeth.

He then growled like a ferocious beast.

“You think I can’t kill you all?”

Neng Ha Young smiled in front of Um Seung Do’s murderous gaze.

It was a smile that she tried to make as relaxed as possible.

“Can you?”

Um Seung Do smiled.

It was a very unsettling smile, which almost started to show his gums.

Neng Ha Young thought that this was extremely frightening, but she didn’t try to look it.

If she got pushed back here, something bad would happen.

That was the Martial World that Neng Ha Young knew about.

“Of course.”

He’ll kill them.

He was going to kill them all.

His murderous intent reached the peak, after all.

His injured pride made him forget everything else, and made him go berserk.

Neng Ha Young saw this, and just shrugged.

“You’re actually going to kill us.”

“Yeah.”

“You’ll feed our bodies to the fish, I assume?”

“The fishes are going to have a rare feast.”

This was the middle of the river. There was nowhere to run, and even if they could, Um Seung Do was confident that he could kill them all. Plus, it was easy to get rid of the corpses.

When Um Seung Do thought all this, Neng Ha Young spoke up.

“You’re assuming that I boarded the boat of the Heavenly Demon Church without any preparation, aren’t you? Do you really look like an idiot to you? You think I didn’t contact the guild when I boarded?”

“…….”

Um Seung Do’s face went stiff.

He forgot about something because of his emotions going out of control.

The girl wasn’t just famous in the Martial World for being the grandchild of one of the three sovereigns.

‘Damn it.’

Her cleverness was already quite famous.

The information that the church’s spies in the guild brought in about the girl was quite amazing.

When he thought about all this, the murderous aura around him weakened considerably.

it was easy to kill the girl now.

But having to deal with the guild after that was troublesome.

There would be an interrogation from the church to find out why Um Seung Do caused this, and he didn’t want that to happen.

“You thought well.”

Neng Ha Young sighed in relief in her mind.

It seemed her threats worked, thankfully.

She glanced at Cho Ryu Hyang, who had fainted not long ago, and spoke.

“You should let go. He doesn’t look like he can talk, anyways.”

Um Seung Do stared at the boy in his hands.

His eyes started to get complicated.

* * *

Cho Ryu Hyang woke up after a quarter of the day passed.

When he opened his eyes, he could see his teacher, who seemed full of worry, with Um Seung Do at the side, who had a stiff face on him.

“Are you awake?”

“…….Yes.”

“You’re not hurt anywhere?”

“Yes, I’m alright.”

Cho Ryu Hyang looked at Um Seung Do as he said this.

The terrifying aura he felt from the man right before he fainted.

‘Martial artist…….’

He forgot that the man was a martial artist.

When he thought back on what had happened, what he did just then was quite foolish.

Just because he got a little annoyed back then, he taunted a martial artist from the Heavenly Demon Church. This did indeed seem quite foolish.

When he thought that much, Cho Ryu Hyang shook his head.

‘No. I became like that only because I was weak.’

It wasn’t that this was all his fault. He was only like this because he was young and weak.

There was nothing wrong about what he did to the other side.

Didn’t the man actually provoke him first?

Not only did he listen in on the conversation between Cho Ryu Hyang and Neng Ha young, he even dared to provoke them by staying in the dark indefinitely.

This was something he wouldn’t have had to gone through, especially if he had strength that equalled the other side’s.

‘I need strength.’

This was the first event in his life that made Cho Ryu Hyang crave power.

“We’ll be at Castle Gansu soon. We’re almost there.”

It seemed that the teacher didn’t know about this yet.

That was good. He didn’t want to make his teacher worry.

Cho Ryu Hyang looked at Um Seung Do.

Um Seung Do, too, was looking at the boy at this time. The man had a complicated face.

Cho Ryu Hyang looked away soon after.

He, too, felt a bit complicated at the moment. He didn’t know how to greet the other side.

It was same for Um Seung Do, too.

‘Damn.’

It was better not to kill, when you couldn’t take care of it cleanly.

Um Seung Do knew this well, but he still tried to kill the boy right then.

His emotions were out of control there.

‘But how’d he find out?’

Um Seung Do’s skills were one of the finest in the church.

When the boy found him just like that back there, Um Seung Do went out of control for a moment.

‘This is suspicious. That boy is suspicious.’

Wrinkling the paper in his pocket, he started to think carefully.

The paper in his pocket contained the data on the boy’s physical stats.

He already read it countless times.

But no matter how many times he read it, he couldn’t get the information he wanted.

‘The boy never learned martial arts? That’s a lie.’

He couldn’t believe it.

Even if the boy learned martial arts from a peak expert from the time he was in his mother’s womb, he wouldn’t be able to see through Um Seung Do’s stealth technique.

And then it says that the boy never learned martial arts?

No, there was something in the records.

‘The Six Blade Technique and the Heavenly Power Technique…….’

This was the most basic technique a swordsman or a fighter would learn.

But with just that much skill, the boy managed to detect him.

‘There’s something else other than the data we have on him.’

The boy was definitely hiding something.

But Um Seung Do didn’t know what that was. That’s what bothered him.

It wasn’t the right time to ask, either. He was wondering if the boy would tell him anything, especially with what happened before.

‘He’s really getting on my nerves.’

While Um Seung Do was thinking about all this, Cho Ryu Hyang, too, was thinking about what was to happen in the future.

Then.

They could feel the ship slowing down. Um Seung Do stood up, and spoke.

“We’re here. We’ve arrived at Castle Gansu.”

“Really?”

Cho Ryu Hyang stood up.

He learned that he would need strength to protect himself, for the first time in his life.

‘I’m not going to go through anything like that ever again.’

He’d need strength for that.

Then, what was strength?

How would be get it?

This event caused Cho Ryu Hyang to think carefully about strength.

These things that he would constantly think about would eventually set the base for his title in the future, King Shura.