My Younger Siblings Are the Greatest Masters in the World - Chapter 103

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103.

Seol Ryeoseon took Seol Mujin’s motionless right hand and handed him the Bright White Pure Sword.

“Brother will definitely become the greatest in the world.”

As those words were spoken and the Bright White Pure Sword was placed in his grip, Seol Ryeoseon’s prophecy seemed to shift into reality.

The triplets moved toward the bookshelf, saying “Let’s see what martial arts are here.”

Seol Mujin couldn’t take his eyes off the Bright White Pure Sword in his hand for a long while.

It’s not just people who feel fateful encounters with one another.

The moment the Bright White Pure Sword touched his hand, Seol Mujin felt as if he had met ‘something’ he was destined to encounter.

“Do you know who made the Bright White Pure Sword?”

At Seol Mujin’s question, the triplets who were looking at books turned their heads.

“Sword Emperor Yeonhakgun.”

“Sword Emperor?”

Seol Ryeoseon spoke.

“He was the greatest in the world three hundred years ago. Even throughout all of murim history, he’s among the top three swordsmen, and he personally made the Bright White Pure Sword.”

Seol Changho provided additional explanation.

“Because it was made by refining ten-thousand-year cold iron with profound internal energy, no one has been able to make a sword like the Bright White Pure Sword since then.”

There was a reason the Bright White Pure Sword became an incomparable famous sword.

“But why are you here?”

Seol Mantong, who received Seol Ryeoseon’s question, said “That’s right” and quietly moved toward where the gold and silver treasures were piled.

There were golden Buddha statues, golden chests, ceramics, paintings, and such things in abundance.

“The Invisible Great Thief really was a thief. To steal so many treasures.”

Seol Mujin asked.

“Shouldn’t we return them to their original owners?”

“What are you talking about? Finders keepers.”

“Right. Those who forgot probably can’t even remember by now.”

“If by chance they do remember, we’ll have to hit their heads to make them forget.”

With the triplets’ will being so strong, the treasures returning to their original owners was hopeless.

“The martial arts aren’t anything special.”

Ordinary martial artists would have been astounded, but to the triplets, they were only martial arts that beginners would learn.

Seol Ryeoseon, who lost interest in the martial arts manuals, looked around elsewhere.

“These look like Heat-Repelling Pearls and Cold-Repelling Pearls?”

Seol Mujin asked.

“What are those?”

“They’re orbs that prevent heat and cold from invading if you carry them. We don’t really need them.”

Of course they didn’t need them, but if taken outside, they were treasures worth hundreds of millions.

“Those would make great wedding gifts for Mother! Beijing is hot in summer and extremely cold in winter.”

“Beijing? Not Jinan?”

“Magistrate Go will get a higher position and go to Beijing.”

The triplets were shocked.

“The magistrate is getting promoted and leaving Jinan?”

“Yes.”

Seol Ryeoseon said with a worried expression.

“The Forbidden City is like a den of demons, will it be okay?”

“It’ll be safer to rise to a high position in Beijing than here.”

In Jinan, Seol Mujin would protect them, but he couldn’t always be by their side.

But in Beijing, the shield of official position would be able to protect Go Bongsu and Hwa Seonhwa.

And Hwa Seonhwa could only shed the label of courtesan by leaving Jinan.

“Magistrate Go got promoted thanks to brother. What position is he getting?”

“Well. His Highness the Third Prince said he’d use his utmost influence, so we’ll have to trust him.”

They looked around Cheonbo Milsil once more.

Though there were many precious things, since they had obtained the most important Bright White Pure Sword, they didn’t pay much attention to the rest.

The last thing Seol Mujin picked up was a martial arts secret manual called Flying Swallow Grasping Water.

Seol Ryeoseon examined Flying Swallow Grasping Water and asked.

“Brother, why are you taking this martial art? It doesn’t suit you at all. It’s based on softness, swift strikes, and variations. It seems like a martial art suitable for women to learn.”

“I thought it might help Namgung Sojo.”

Seol Mantong cast suspicious eyes toward Seol Mujin.

“Brother, don’t you like that Namgung girl?”

Seol Ryeoseon hit Seol Mantong’s back.

“If brother likes her, you shouldn’t call her a girl!”

“Oh right! That’s true!”

Seol Mujin waved his hands frantically.

“No. She lost her most precious thing. So I thought this might help her a little.”

“Brother is really too kind.”

Of course, the triplets didn’t dislike such a Seol Mujin.

Seol Mujin’s goodness had sustained their lives.

Seol Changho said.

“Still, you shouldn’t give away too much.”

“I know. This isn’t an important martial art to me anyway.”

“Right, show off with things like that and desperately secure what’s important for brother.”

Seol Mujin looked around the stone chamber and said.

“But when we leave here, which way should we go?”

In Cheonbo Milsil that they had looked around, no separate exit door was visible.

The four people’s gazes turned toward the hole they had fallen through.

“Surely we’re not supposed to go out through there?”

After half an hour of searching, their conclusion was one.

“That Invisible Great Thief is an idiot! Not even making a separate exit door!”

Going up through the hole wasn’t too difficult.

Just inconvenient because it was narrow.

After climbing the diagonal slope for a while, they reached the vertical hole they had first fallen through.

They hadn’t noticed when falling, but grooves were carved in the hole’s walls to serve as a ladder.

The certainty that this was the exit was revealed at the end of the hole.

There was a groove carved there where the Cheonbo Key could be inserted.

When they inserted the Cheonbo Key into the groove and turned it, with a clunking sound, the floor sank down just like when they entered.

Seol Mantong grumbled.

“That Invisible Great Thief bastard definitely didn’t make an exit to save on construction costs.”

Anyway, they safely escaped from Cheonbo Milsil.

Seol Mujin brushed the dust off his clothes and said.

“The hard work was worth it.”

Even excluding the four small bottles whose contents were unknown, there was the Bright White Pure Sword, Heat-Repelling and Cold-Repelling Pearls, one secret manual, and the golden chest that Seol Mantong had desperately secured.

“Whenever we have time, we should come get more things from inside.”

Seol Mantong was fired up with enthusiasm because of the gold and silver treasures.

Seol Changho asked.

“You don’t even have anywhere to spend money, so why are you obsessed with treasure?”

“There might be another courtesan like Hyeonwol.”

“Hyeonwol? Ah! The big-chested one!”

“You need money to rescue girls like that.”

Seol Ryeoseon patted Seol Mantong’s head.

“I have enough money for that, so tell me anytime you need it.”

“It’s different between begging brother for money and having plenty of money in my own hands.”

Seol Ryeoseon asked with eyes full of suspicion.

“Is that really the reason?”

“Wh-what else could there be?”

“It’s not that you want to spend lavishly at the pleasure house?”

“Look at this body! Who would accept me as a customer? It’s not like I’m trying to rub salt in wounds.”

“You can’t now, but we won’t always have these bodies. Someday we’ll grow big enough to go as customers, so isn’t this groundwork for that time?”

Seol Changho shook his head.

“Mantong-i planning that far ahead? No way.”

“Right. There’s no way Mantong-i would be that strategic.”

“That’s right! Hup!”

Seol Mantong, who had unconsciously spoken the truth, glanced at Seol Mujin nervously.

“Brother, you’re not going to ask for the gold chest, are you?”

Seol Mujin, holding back laughter, said.

“Of course. I hope our Mantong grows big enough to go to pleasure houses soon.”

As soon as they left the cave, Seol Mantong quickly climbed onto Seol Mujin’s shoulders.

“If I get any bigger, I won’t be able to ride piggyback on brother, so I need to enjoy it now!”

“Me too!”

“Me too!”

“Y-you guys! If you wanted to ride, you should have gotten on first!”

“Hahaha! Now I’m running!”

***

Go Bongsu, who was politely receiving the alcohol Yeon Daebang was pouring, was startled.

“What? Gaksa Namjung?”

“That’s right. The rank is fifth grade, so you can’t call it a high-ranking position, but it’s a position where you can enjoy power beyond the rank.”

Go Bongsu knew well what kind of position Gaksa Namjung was.

“It seems like too prestigious a position for me.”

“Do you really think so?”

“The first job I did as an official was managing warehouses as a ninth-grade clerk. I was eighteen years old then. Thanks to living as an official for over twenty years, moving from place to place, I was able to be appointed as Jenam Magistrate. Actually, even Jenam Magistrate was like a dream position for me. A poor farmer’s son with no proper connections became magistrate of Jenam, which isn’t a small city. I was anxious about whether I could do well as Jenam Magistrate, so I gave it my all. I still do now. If people around me hadn’t helped, I might have become a terrible magistrate, but thanks to everyone’s help, I think I’ve managed to fulfill my role as magistrate adequately.”

“It seems better than adequate? I’ve been hearing the public opinion too.”

“It’s not my ability, but thanks to the help I received from the officials.”

“Placing officials who can help in the right positions is the magistrate’s job. The saying that wise kings are made by their subjects isn’t there for nothing.”

“I’m grateful that you say so. But I don’t know if I can handle Gaksa Namjung.”

“When you first came as Jenam Magistrate, didn’t you say you weren’t confident you could do well?”

Go Bongsu smiled.

“I actually didn’t do well. As you know, the existing officials and local power groups’ territorial behavior was quite severe. If I hadn’t met Seol Podoo then, I would have become the worst puppet magistrate.”

“Come to think of it, I haven’t heard how you formed a connection with Seol Podoo. Could you tell me that story?”

Recalling past memories somehow made him excited.

“I was excited about becoming Jenam Magistrate. So I arrived in Jenam a few days early and looked around here and there. Then one day…”

Go Bongsu told the story of when he first met Seol Mujin.

“Even though I met Seol Podoo in prison, I was incredibly happy. I also felt sorry that such a righteous young man was locked up. Thanks to that, I was able to meet Hwa Seonhwa.”

He also told the story of Hwa Seonhwa’s request.

Looking back, so many things had happened over the past seven years.

As he talked, Go Bongsu thought that coming to Jenam might have been his greatest fortune.

Yeon Daebang, who had been listening to Go Bongsu’s story with a smile, said.

“The more I hear, the more Gaksa Namjung seems wasted on you.”

“That’s right. Gaksa Namjung is wasted on me.”

“No, Gaksa Namjung is wasted on a talent like you.”

“What?”

“You met a criminal named Seol Mujin and released him without hesitation. And you made him a squad leader. It’s a decision an ordinary magistrate wouldn’t have made.”

“You know Seol Podoo, don’t you? Such extraordinariness absolutely cannot be overlooked.”

“The world is full of blind fools who can’t recognize that extraordinariness. Do you think officials who can recognize talent and use them in the right places are common?”

“Thank you for saying so.”

“In that sense, you should rightfully rise to a position higher than Gaksa Namjung, but that’s the only position I can offer right now. It’s fortunate that there’s an opening in the Hyeongbu I’m in charge of.”

“Will I really be of help in Hyeongbu?”

“What do you mean by that?”

“Of course, assisting the Minister is no small matter, but is that all I’m useful for?”

Yeon Daebang could immediately understand what Go Bongsu was saying.

“Anywhere else would have a lower rank than Gaksa Namjung and the work would be harder too.”

“The high or low rank or the intensity of work doesn’t matter. Rather, there needs to be a clear reason why I should become an official in Beijing.”

“There’s the most common reason for officials – advancement.”

“The advancement I desire ends with Jenam Magistrate. For me to go to a higher position than this, there needs to be something more than simple advancement.”

“I understand your heart. You want to help with the great cause, don’t you?”

“For that, wouldn’t somewhere other than Hyeongbu be better?”

“That has meaning beyond simply you working elsewhere. Depending on the situation, you might have to become a spy.”

“I know.”

Yeon Daebang made a troubled expression.

“If you’re put in danger, Seol Podoo will be angry.”

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