I Decided to Give the Contract to the Male Vassal - Chapter 30

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Chapter 30

 

“So you really did run off with my belongings, just like Riri said?”

 

Yeonhopyeong’s face, tainted with madness, glinted eerily in the moonlight. The hand gripping his sword trembled with rage.

 

“How did you find this place, brother…?”

 

Yeonhoryeong’s face turned deathly pale as if he had encountered a ghost.

 

In contrast, Yeonhopyeong grinned widely as if amused.

 

“Kekeke…! How dare you lay your hands on my belongings?”

 

Though Yeonhopyeong was laughing, the red killing intent emanating from him pressed down on Yeonhoryeong suffocatingly.

 

Since he had believed he’d succeeded in snatching away Chung-rin, his despair was all the deeper.

 

‘I’ll die at this rate.’

 

Yeonhoryeong frantically rolled his eyes, desperately trying to find a way out of this situation.

 

He bowed his head before his brother and knelt as if apologizing.

 

“Brother. I was merely trying to help Miss Chung confirm someone’s identity.”

 

“Hey! Do you think my ears are blocked? Didn’t you just say Chung-rin was your wife now?”

 

His brother was the legitimate heir born to receive the family’s elixirs and expectations.

 

Such a brother would never even consider giving up anything to his insignificant younger brother, who was weaker in martial arts.

 

Yeonhoryeong kept his head bowed, but his eyes gleamed with murderous intent.

 

‘Rather than be captured like this…’

 

He steadied his breathing, thinking of the deadly poison coating his sword tip.

 

He had already considered the possibility of someone pursuing him. Though he hadn’t expected it to be so soon, or for his brother to come personally, the deadly poison was the contingency plan he had prepared early on.

 

As his brother’s killing intent drew closer, it felt like his last chance.

 

He had to kill his brother and escape with Chung-rin.

 

“Hmph. A wretch like you coveting my belongings.”

 

However, Yeonhopyeong was fast.

 

Yeonhoryeong’s sword tip barely grazed past his collar.

 

Sword energy gathered in Yeonhopyeong’s blade as flames of the Fire Demon Art blazed forth.

 

‘Just a little, just a little graze is enough.’

 

Since Yeonhoryeong had also learned ascending martial arts, he could block his brother’s attacks for a moment.

 

“I’d like to cut off your head, but that would cause a commotion at the wedding ceremony.”

 

The surging flames of the Fire Demon Art burned away all of Yeonhoryeong’s hair, but he gritted his teeth and endured.

 

‘Now!’

 

It was a technique of ascending martial arts close to orthodox methods.

 

Just as the blade was about to pierce his brother’s shoulder.

 

He should have struck his brother’s left shoulder, but there was no sensation of the blade piercing flesh.

 

The sword that should have extended toward Yeonhopyeong was rolling on the ground along with his own right arm.

 

“Kraaaah!”

 

Yeonhoryeong’s scream tore through the air and echoed across the mountainside.

 

Clutching his wounded arm, he glared at his brother with bloodshot eyes full of hatred.

 

His vision was blurry, but he couldn’t stop here.

 

Yeonhoryeong contorted his face and leaped toward Chung-rin, scattering blood.

 

‘I’d rather kill her than hand her over to my brother!’

 

He didn’t want his brother, who was born with everything, to have Chung-rin too.

 

So he reached out toward her.

 

If he could grab that slender neck and inject his killing intent, everything would be over.

 

Chung-rin bit her lips tightly as she watched Yeonhoryeong rushing toward her.

 

In that instant.

 

She stepped back one pace, and Yeonhopyeong, who had belatedly deployed his lightness skill, intervened between them.

 

“A fool who doesn’t know his place.”

 

Killing intent flashed in Yeonhopyeong’s eyes.

 

“I’ll make sure you never even think of coveting what’s mine again.”

 

The tip of Yeonhopyeong’s sword was aimed at a fatal spot that would end his life as a man.

 

Soon, a heart-rending scream shook the surroundings.

 

❖ ❖ ❖

 

Yeonhoryeong’s body convulsed violently, and blood pooled around his clothes.

 

In that state, he might die from excessive blood loss.

 

Though I had predicted that Yeonhopyeong might kill his brother over this incident, I hadn’t expected it to end in such a manner.

 

Yeonhopyeong had no intention of forgiving his brother who had touched his belongings, inflicting a terrible punishment.

 

Only then could I collapse to the ground, my body trembling finely.

 

The moment Yeonhoryeong tried to strike me down in the carriage, I used my time-stopping ability.

 

Knowing that Yeonhopyeong was pursuing me, I judged that would be better than using martial arts.

 

As a result, my heart raced rapidly, and I had really endured quite a lot.

 

While I sat collapsed, Yeonhopyeong approached his injured brother and pressed his blood meridians. He stopped the bleeding to prevent death from excessive blood loss. Then he spoke to the coachman who had arrived belatedly.

 

“Hey, we need to take this bastard with us, so load him in the carriage. If this bastard dies, you die too, got it?”

 

“Yes? Yes!”

 

The coachman tore his own clothes to bind Yeonhoryeong’s wounds.

 

Meanwhile, Yeonhopyeong turned to look at me.

 

“You. Why did you follow this bastard out in the middle of the night?”

 

The sword Yeonhopyeong held was imbued with killing intent infused with the Fire Demon Art.

 

He seemed ready to cut me down as well if necessary.

 

“Young Master Ryeong said he would let me meet Yuhwa.”

 

“Yuhwa?”

 

“My maid who came with me from Seolsan. He said he had secretly taken her from the mine and was keeping her.”

 

Yeonhopyeong twisted his lips and looked at me as if I were pathetic.

 

“You believed that? He probably just said it to lure you out.”

 

Yeonhopyeong was looking down at me as if pressing me down.

 

When I only glared at him without answering, Yeonhopyeong bared his teeth and grinned wickedly.

 

“Did you think I’d just let you escape? Even if you had run away, I would have hunted you down and torn you apart.”

 

As Yeonhopyeong strode toward me, the sound of hoofbeats that had been heard from afar gradually drew closer.

 

“Brother Pyeong!”

 

Yeonriri had ridden after Yeonhopyeong on horseback.

 

“You found Miss Chung!”

 

She stopped her horse and stood beside me. As if trying to secure my safety.

 

“Hmph. Where could a little thing like her go anyway?”

 

“But Brother Ryeong is… Gasp!”

 

Yeonriri, who was dismounting, gasped when she discovered the collapsed second son, Yeonhoryeong.

 

“Good heavens. What happened here?”

 

“Riri, you just keep Chung-rin in line. If word gets out that there was an unseemly incident before the wedding ceremony, it will damage the family’s reputation.”

 

“Yes, brother.”

 

Riri bit her lips tightly as if she had seen something terrible.

 

She removed her outer garment and draped it over my shoulders.

 

“Miss Chung. I’ll support you, so let’s return together.”

 

When I nodded, Riri helped me up and put me on her horse.

 

“Riri, you did well anyway. If you hadn’t used the tracking incense on Chung-rin, it would have been troublesome to find her.”

 

“I’m glad I could be of help to you, brother.”

 

Riri answered him while glancing at me sideways.

 

The carriage I had ridden in rushed away carrying the injured Yeonhoryeong. He would desperately need a physician’s help right now.

 

As I rode with Riri, I secretly dropped a very small crystal of Bloodstone Flower that I had kept in my bosom onto the ground.

 

Since Wicheonso’s subordinates would be searching for Bloodstone Flower in this area, if they discovered this, they would have no choice but to follow the hoofprint tracks leading to the Yeomhwa Family.

 

My third plan.

 

Now it was time for the third young master to make his move.

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