Chapter 69. The Man from The Palace (2/2)
“I had told him multiple times to not get involved with those barbaric scum, yet he…….”
He lost the person he respected most to barbarians. That was what the young man thought.
After crying for quite some time, the young man stood back up with his face covered in snot and tears and grabbed onto Jo Min Gyu’s hand.
“Don’t worry! I’ll take care of everything.”
“Ah…… sure.”
The man, as if he just remembered something, clumsily took out something from his robe and handed it to Jo Min Gyu.
“This is a gift from me. Please, cheer up!”
When Jo Min Gyu took the gift from the young man, the man walked to everyone in the funeral grounds and personally told them to cheer up, then cried again and left.
After looking at the young man leave dumbly, the family remembered the gift in their hand, and opened it.
Their eyes widened once more. The gift contained a check inside it, and it was a check of a hundred gold coins.
“Mother……. Just what did father do?”
“I don’t know…….”
Even the family did not know. Just what did Jo Gi Chun do?
The only thing they knew about Jo Gi Chun was the fact that the man loved mathematics and devoted his entire life to it.
* * *
“Are you done?”
“Yes. I’ve finished.”
The bodyguard who had been waiting outside led the young man into the carriage and stepped in the carriage with the man. The carriage began to move.
They were moving to the palace.
“I must see the Great General when we get back.”
When the young man opened his mouth with a voice of determination like this, the bodyguard’s eyes brightened.
“You’ve made your mind?”
The young man avoided the bodyguard’s eyes as he nodded.
“Yes. I’m just ashamed that I made everyone wait so long.”
“No. The general will be very happy. Everything is complete now that you are joining.”
The bodyguard was unable to suppress his joy.
He quickly directed the driver to head to the Great General’s headquarters. As he did this, he thought this in his head.
‘Be elated, Great General! Everything you have wanted for this mission is now within your hands!’
The young man, who wasn’t known too well in the world, was actually an extremely powerful existence.
* * *
“So you have made up your mind?”
The Great General, Chuk Gye Guang (戚繼光), ran outside with bare feet to greet the young man.
The young man turned his head in embarrassment when he saw the General to this and spoke.
“Forgive me for making you wait this long.”
“It’s nothing. I’m just thankful that you are on board with my plan.”
The Great General laughed loudly. It was finally time for him to proceed with his plans.
The man in front of the General was his trump card.
This man’s talent wasn’t known to the world, but his intelligence rivaled even that of the prime minister himself.
‘No, it’s even greater.’
The man just wasn’t known to the world, as he devoted all his time into an useless thing such as formations.
The General liked the man even more because of that.
He liked how the young man was able to focus on his work without minding what the rest of the world thought about him.
And the young man even had talent. Just how amazing was this man?
It was very hard for someone to not become arrogant of his intelligence and use it for evil ways in this age.
‘Ju Ho Yu’ was this young man’s name.
“The greatest mathematician in the world” was the young man’s title.
“We must use this chance to sweep away all those damned martial artists in one go.”
At first, Ju Ho Yu hesitated a little when he heard of the Great General’s plan. The plan just seemed too dangerous and violent.
But even Ju Ho Yu knew how dangerous these martial artists were to the imperial palace. They needed a method to control these people.
“I’ll do my best.”
The Great General smiled.
He thought that him attaining this young man was akin to Liu Bei attaining Zhuge Liang in the past.
“I’ll go get the king’s permission to strike the martial artists so just wait.”
“Yes sir.”
When the Great General went back inside to dress up in order to meet the king, Ju Ho Yu rubbed his swollen eyes and sighed.
‘Many people will die from now.’
Ju Ho Yu’s face darkened. He didn’t want people to die or get hurt, but he soon shook his head.
“Martial artists must disappear.”
Right. Martial artists were barbarians who did whatever they wanted just because they had strength.
They were people who didn’t even follow the laws of the nation, and engaged in murder and violence as much as they pleased. They needed to disappear for the people of this nation.
‘Please give me strength, teacher.’
Ju Ho Yu thought of Jo Gi Chun, who would be observing his movements from somewhere in the heavens and steeled his thought.
Jo Gi Chun was the first one to teach him what the word ‘surprise’ was.
Ju Ho Yu had never suspected there would be someone who had studied mathematics to that degree in the entire world.
It was a new experience for him, and it gave him the most joy he had experienced in his entire life.
But that person died a meaningless death. He had wanted to talk to his teacher some time in the future…….
Ju Ho Yu’s eyes got filled with sadness once more.
The fact that he would never be able to meet a man who loved mathematics that much brought him great pain.
‘I wanted to show him what I had discovered recently…….’
Ju Ho Yu thought of Jo Gi Chun’s face in his mind and rubbed his fingers together.
Thinking of all the conversation they had in the past made him sad again.
‘I’ll take revenge in your stead.’
He would be going up against the martial world itself…….
Like this, the imperial palace began to move into the world of martial arts.