Chronicles of the Mad Demon - Chapter 11

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Chapter 11. Something More Important Than Money (1)

As they came out of the Family Head’s Office, Moyong Su Hyang bowed toward Seok Woong.

“I apologize, Chief Manager. That fool keeps causing trouble. I’ll apologize on his behalf.”

Seok Woong was flustered.

“Why are you doing this? I’m fine, so please don’t do this.”

“Even so, wrong is wrong.”

“Young Miss, you are the second daughter of the Main Family House. This makes me even more uncomfortable.”

Moyong Su Hyang’s face was filled with bitterness as she straightened up.

“Chief Manager, you’re too good for the children of this insignificant family.”

It pained Seok Woong’s heart to hear such words from the mouth of a sixteen-year-old Young Girl. At her age, she should be giggling just at the sight of fallen leaves rolling around.

That’s why he needed to speak more clearly to her.

“May I say a few words?”

“Oh, of course.”

“Young Miss, there are things you’re mistaken about and things you’re doing wrong.”

“Pardon?”

“First of all, the Main Family House, the Moyong Noble Family, is absolutely not an insignificant family.”

A shadow fell across Moyong Su Hyang’s face.

“I know too. That it was a great martial family in the past.”

“You don’t know.”

Seok Woong’s words were definitive.

“Young Miss, you’ve grown up only hearing about how great the Moyong Noble Family was in the past, in the age of glory. So you don’t know how amazing the surname Moyong is, or the potential and greatness that flows in that bloodline.”

Moyong Su Hyang’s eyes wavered. This was the first time she had heard Seok Woong say such things.

“Especially the great-great-grandfather Family Head, who would be your grandfather, Family Head Moyong Heon, organized the chaotic family and brought about a golden age throughout all of Yolyeong. Even now, if you go to Yolyeong, elderly people call the great-great-grandfather Family Head the ‘Former King’ and revere him.”

Former King.

It was a term meaning a virtuous ruler of the past. It was an incredibly grand title to use for someone who had been the head of a mere martial family.

“Furthermore, the great-great-grandfather Family Head’s Younger Brother, who is your Great Grand Uncle, was one of the absolute masters of that era and served as Alliance Leader, an unparalleled genius warrior.”

“I know. He was called the Radiant Martial Lord.”

A subtle fervor crept into Moyong Su Hyang’s voice.

The fact that the first Alliance Leader in the family’s history had been born was a source of great pride for her too. Though now it had become a name that couldn’t be spoken aloud publicly.

“That’s right. The Radiant Martial Lord Moyong Cheon is that person. He was even selected as the youngest Alliance Leader in history and led the war against the Evil Cult forces to victory, making him the greatest hero of a hundred years.”

An undeniable fervor also rose on Seok Woong’s previously impassive face.

Moyong Su Hyang could tell. That Seok Woong really liked her Great Grand Uncle. In a way, it could even be called admiration.

“During the time when the great-great-grandfather Family Head and Elder Moyong Cheon were present, the Moyong Noble Family was called the strongest in the Orthodox Faction, surpassing even the head position of the Seven Great Families. Even the great Nine Sects and One Alliance couldn’t raise their heads before the Main Family House. The Moyong Noble Family is such a great family.”

“But…”

Bitterness formed on Moyong Su Hyang’s face.

“It’s just past glory.”

That’s right.

She knew that their ancestors were great people. She had pride, and she thought they shouldn’t tarnish those people’s reputation.

But what about reality? The Moyong Noble Family, with its great ancestors, was walking the path to ruin. Without the roughly ten members of the Flower Sword Group, they wouldn’t even be worthy of being called a martial family.

Seok Woong nodded his head.

“That’s right. It’s just a past that has already gone by. However, abandoning one’s pride just because reality is harsh is not a proper course of action.”

“If you cling to past glory, you’ll end up becoming a fool.”

“A warrior who has lost his pride is like a sword without a sheath. A sword has two edges. Without a sheath, it will inevitably harm its owner.”

Don’t cling to the past, but don’t be consumed by defeatism either.

Moyong Su Hyang understood Seok Woong’s words. Of course, she only understood them; she couldn’t accept them deep in her heart.

Seok Woong, who had been quietly observing her complexion, opened his mouth again.

“If what I’ve said so far is something you’ve misunderstood, Miss, then now I’ll tell you about what you’re doing wrong.”

“Ah, yes.”

“You hate the Young Master, don’t you?”

Moyong Su Hyang reflexively frowned. Just from that, one could see that deep-rooted distrust and hatred filled her.

“In the old days, the Young Master cherished and cared for you greatly. Do you remember?”

“…I remember.”

Back then, their relationship was truly good. Though there was a three-year age gap, to her, Moyong Bi was both an older brother and a father, and Seok Woong was both a steward and a grandfather.

There certainly was such a time.

“But what does that matter? Because of that idiot, my sister got sick. Moreover, we even fell into financial difficulties trying to clean up the messes caused by that drunkard.”

Her face flushed red as she bit her lips in frustration.

“I can never forgive that bastard.”

“I won’t try to change your feelings, Miss, but I must correct what you’ve misunderstood.”

“…?”

“The eldest Miss getting sick was not because of the Young Master.”

“What did you say?!”

“The eldest Miss’s illness is the severed meridian condition that the previous family head before last—that is, your grandfather—and the previous family head, your father, suffered from. Simply put, it’s a hereditary disease.”

Moyong Su Hyang’s eyes widened.

Until now, she had thought her sister’s illness was an incurable disease caused by extreme heartbreak. But it was a congenital condition?

“Being able to send such an eldest Miss to Myeongjin Hall, a Taoist temple under the Wudang Sect, was thanks to the Young Master.”

“What do you mean…?!”

“The Young Master relieved the eldest Miss of the burden in her heart. It was the Young Master who pushed her away, telling her to go cure her illness and live regardless of the Family Clan, as he would somehow take responsibility for the household.”

“…!”

“The Young Master was fourteen years old at that time.”

Moyong Su Hyang couldn’t believe it.

“That’s impossible.”

“In your eyes, Miss, was I the kind of person who would lie about such sensitive matters?”

Confusion settled on Moyong Su Hyang’s face.

“But…”

“Is it that you can’t believe it? Or is it that you don’t want to believe it?”

Moyong Su Hyang bit her lips and spoke in a somewhat agitated voice.

“Even so, the fact that bastard became trash hasn’t changed! My sister’s illness must have gotten worse because of that bastard!”

“You’re right. Certainly, the eldest Miss’s condition must have worsened because of the Young Master.”

“I can never forgive that bastard.”

“But the eldest young lady and Young Master understood each other.”

Moyong Su Hyang’s eyes widened as if asking what that could possibly mean.

“Young Master let the eldest young lady go at that young age. He understood the eldest young lady. At that time, the eldest young lady… hated the Main Family House.”

“That’s a lie!”

Moyong Su Hyang shouted without realizing it. She could believe anything else, but not that.

Seok Woong continued speaking calmly.

“When the eldest young lady returned to the Family Clan, she blamed herself for Young Master’s condition becoming strange. She also considered herself responsible for Young Master starting to go astray.”

“…”

“And she waited. For Young Master to return to his former self.”

Seok Woong looked toward the Family Head’s Office.

“Young Master’s atmosphere is strangely different from before. I don’t know if that’s the starting point of change, but… at least I believe. That neither the youngest young lady, nor Young Master, nor the eldest young lady are people who would collapse like this.”

“…”

“Remember this. All three of you carry the blood of the great Moyong. Even if you live in different places and circumstances than the past, all three of you are members of the Moyong Clan.”

Perhaps it was because she had heard such unexpected truths.

Moyong Su Hyang’s shoulders sagged and she looked strangely exhausted.

“Even I don’t believe in my own bloodline, so why do you believe in us so much, Chief Steward?”

Seok Woong smiled.

“People say that Moyong is dead. But am I not a living witness who has seen how great the Moyong Clan members are? Even a ruined rich man lasts three years, and even a bare giant tree sprouts leaves when spring comes.”

“…”

“Moyong will not collapse easily. What’s not true is simply not true.”

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‘Damn it!’

He had hoped against hope.

He had really hoped against hope, but it was as he feared.

‘It’s Nine Yin Severed Meridians.’

It was exactly the same illness as Elder Brother Moyong Heon’s.

He didn’t know since when, but the severed meridian type illness had been passed down through generations of the Moyong Family.

His father had it, and Elder Brother had it. Fortunately it wasn’t inherited by Dae Ho, but skipping one generation, it had manifested in Su Jeong.

‘No wonder.’

Even though the weather was chilly, she had been wearing particularly thick clothes.

Her complexion was pale white, and if you looked closely, the area under her eyes was also darkened. Those were symptoms commonly found in people with poor health, but…

‘It’s turned quite blue.’

To his eyes, trained in the Brain Gate Heart Technique, it was visible. The bluish spots hovering around Su Jeong’s brow.

It meant the cold poison was just before invading her brain.

‘At least it’s fortunate that she’s learned Internal Energy.’

But even that Internal Energy was strange.

‘No matter how I look at it, this is similar to the Single Yang Heart Method.’

The Single Yang Heart Method was one of the heart methods that had been stored in the Moyong Noble Family in the past – it wasn’t third-rate, but it wasn’t a heart method that could be called first-rate either.

It was a type of Life Cultivation Art that enhanced yang energy to boost vitality, but it could be called a martial technique in a very ambiguous position—not focusing seriously on Energy Accumulation nor emphasizing the recovery of vital energy.

Of course, it was good enough for ordinary people to learn, but what Moyong Su Jeong had learned didn’t even seem to be the complete Single Yang Heart Method.

‘Yet she has a large amount of Internal Energy. She must have converted a great quantity of medicine into internal power.’

Additionally, the talent of the Nine Yin Severed Meridians must have played a part.

Those born with Nine Yin Severed Meridians had exceptional comprehension, martial talent, or artistic abilities—showing uniquely outstanding aspects compared to others.

That’s why the modifier attached to Nine Yin Severed Meridians was “the illness of beautiful but short-lived.”

For Moyong Su Jeong, that heavenly talent seemed to have manifested in martial arts.

‘Thank goodness. It’s worse than I thought, but it’s not too late either.’

It was he who had completed the Brain Gate Heart Technique and restored the Family Clan’s lost martial arts. And with one of the restored martial arts, he had easily cured Moyong Heon’s illness.

“Are you done?”

“Hm? Ah, yes.”

Moyong Bi, who had withdrawn his hand, unconsciously let out a sigh.

“It’s quite bad.”

Surprise appeared on Moyong Su Jeong’s face.

“Did you learn Medical Arts separately?”

“…Well, a little.”

“How surprising. I didn’t know you had learned Medical Arts.”

A bitter smile played around Moyong Bi’s face.

“There’s a lot we don’t know about each other.”

Those words carried much meaning.

Moyong Su Jeong shook her head.

“There may be much we don’t know, but I know what’s more important than that.”

“Hm?”

“Just as you cared for me, I will only care for you and Su Hyang. Until I die.”

“…”

“That’s the most important thing, isn’t it?”

Did this foolish Moyong Bi bastard really die for you?

‘Oh my, so kind-hearted.’

Though he muttered that inwardly, Moyong Bi found Moyong Su Jeong’s heart endearing.

Even if the world went crazy, one should know how to cherish their own blood. When one thing looks good, everything looks good—in Moyong Bi’s eyes, Moyong Su Jeong was a lovely child no matter what she did.

“I understand. Since it’s late at night…”

“Now that the Pulse Diagnosis is finished, may I ask questions?”

Moyong Su Jeong’s face became serious.

“If it’s alright, please tell at least Elder Sister what the situation is.”

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