My Younger Siblings Are the Greatest Masters in the World - Chapter 32

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32.

 

Since she had said “Should I go look for the culprit?” they couldn’t very well stop her from going anywhere.

 

But when it came time to actually search, she felt lost.

 

So wandering around the Hwangbo Family Estate aimlessly was the only method.

 

“If I catch them, great. If not, whatever.”

 

Thinking with a carefree attitude, Seol Ryeoseon peeked around here and there at the Hwangbo Family Estate.

 

The passing warriors didn’t even pay attention to Seol Ryeoseon, who was just a seven-year-old child.

 

Over three thousand people lived at the Hwangbo Family Estate, and the retainers who had formed families naturally had children too.

 

In fact, quite a few children around Seol Ryeoseon’s age were visible.

 

Passing through Woldong Gate between the gardens and crossing the Back Garden with its pond, she came to a courtyard of about fifty pyeong.

 

In that courtyard paved with flat stones, four boys between eight and twelve years old were practicing martial arts.

 

Watching the fist techniques and sword techniques the children were displaying, Seol Ryeoseon clicked her tongue.

 

Even considering their young age, they were far too clumsy.

 

‘Not one of you four is worth anything.’

 

As she was thinking this and turning to leave, the child practicing fist techniques spotted Seol Ryeoseon.

 

“Who are you!”

 

This little brat was speaking informally right off the bat.

 

Well, was that reasonable?

 

“Just someone passing by.”

 

She tried to pass by like that, but the kids wouldn’t let her.

 

“You’re a girl we’ve never seen before, so who are you!”

 

Girl?

 

That little brat!

 

She wanted to thoroughly correct their manners, but Seol Ryeoseon forcibly suppressed her anger.

 

She had a history of causing trouble once before and making things difficult for Seol Mujin.

 

Though the result had been good.

 

“Mind your own business and finish what you were doing.”

 

“Don’t you know that stealing others’ internal energy cultivation is taboo in Murim?”

 

“Pfft!”

 

She couldn’t help but laugh at the ridiculous words the child spouted.

 

“You… laughed?”

 

“Who would steal such pathetic stuff? A courtesan’s dance would be much more worth learning.”

 

The children’s faces all turned red at the same time.

 

Even doing that must be difficult for them.

 

“Are you insulting our family martial arts!”

 

Seol Ryeoseon found it too bothersome to respond and retraced her steps.

 

But she heard the sound of them chasing after her, and two children blocked her path.

 

“First reveal who you are!”

 

“Seol Ryeoseon.”

 

“Seol Ryeoseon? There’s no one with the surname Seol among the Hwangbo Family’s Twelve Guards, is there?”

 

“She’s a kid I’ve never seen before.”

 

Seol Ryeoseon waved her hand dismissively.

 

“I came as a guest, so don’t bother me and get out of the way.”

 

“Whose guest are you?”

 

“Kids don’t need to know.”

 

As Seol Ryeoseon tried to pass by, one of the kids grabbed her wrist.

 

“We can’t just let a thief go.”

 

The chubby hand was sweaty and felt unpleasant to the touch.

 

“Let go of this.”

 

“What are you going to do if I don’t?”

 

“Haa—! Why are there so many brats in Murim, both kids and adults, who need a beating?”

 

When Seol Ryeoseon lightly shook her arm, the kid who was grabbing her wrist went flying and crashed into the grass.

 

Since she had controlled the force and direction, he fell on his back and probably wasn’t seriously injured.

 

The three startled children rushed to the one who was crying in pain.

 

“Youngest!”

 

“Ugh… It hurts…”

 

He whined and squirmed as he got up.

 

After confirming that the Youngest was safe, the Eldest Brother shouted angrily at Seol Ryeoseon.

 

“How dare you come to our house and hurt the Youngest?”

 

They say even a mutt acts tough in its own yard.

 

“That’s why you should know your place before picking a fight. Let’s stop this.”

 

The Eldest Brother lunged at Seol Ryeoseon as she tried to turn away.

 

“You think we’ll just let you go!”

 

The wooden sword striking down at Seol Ryeoseon carried considerable force.

 

It could crack her head if it hit, but there was no hesitation in his attack.

 

“You brought this trouble upon yourselves.”

 

Finally found it.

 

There was no way this vast Hwangbo Family Estate wouldn’t have a bathhouse, and among all these people, there had to be someone bathing at this time.

 

The bathhouse with windows about seven feet high was a brick building, unlike Yeonji-ru.

 

“Rich people even build their bathhouses fancy.”

 

Seol Mantong looked left and right in the garden, confirmed no one was around, and slipped out from between the trees.

 

He hadn’t seen a woman’s body for so long that he was practically suffering from withdrawal symptoms.

 

It didn’t seem to be this bad before.

 

Seol Mantong leaned his back against the wall with the windows, checked for safety once more, then jumped up to grab the window bars.

 

As he pulled himself up, thick steam rushed toward him.

 

‘Damn it!’

 

The steam was so thick that he could only hear the sound of splashing water but couldn’t see anything.

 

She’s a woman who likes hot water.

 

He waved his hands left and right to dispel the steam, then gave up and came down from the window.

 

It wasn’t complete surrender.

 

This was a chance to see a woman from the Hwangbo Family, so he couldn’t let it slip away so futilely.

 

A man should use the direct approach!

 

Seol Mantong went around the corner and moved toward the bathhouse door.

 

Judging by the slight gap in the door, it didn’t seem to be locked from inside.

 

What a careless but grateful woman.

 

Seol Mantong gently pushed the door.

 

The hinges must have been well-oiled, as the door opened silently.

 

He carefully poked his face into the bathhouse, but the steam was too thick to see anything.

 

Are they boiling a pig? Why is the water so hot?

 

Lowering his posture, Seol Mantong took one step, then another toward the splashing water sounds.

 

Even Seol Mantong’s light breathing caused the thick steam to scatter startlingly.

 

The bathhouse was quite large, so there was some distance from the bathtub where the water sounds came from.

 

He moved forward with his waist bent, his body becoming damp from the steam.

 

The bathtub came into view.

 

He could faintly make out the back of a woman’s head inside the bathtub.

 

Gulp!

 

Should he consider it fortunate that this thick steam was concealing Seol Mantong?

 

It was when he stepped to the left to avoid a gourd dipper on the floor.

 

Clang! Clang! Clang!

 

A loud bell rang from the distance.

 

‘What, what’s that?’

 

Just as the startled Seol Mantong stopped in his tracks, the woman who had been bathing also jumped out.

 

The woman’s movement from inside the bathtub was too fast for Seol Mantong to react.

 

So they came face to face at just two feet apart.

 

But…

 

“Aaahhh—!”

 

A deep scream burst out.

 

It wasn’t a woman.

 

It was a bearded man with thick fat wrapped around his belly.

 

He could see something dangling before his eyes too.

 

“Aaahhh—!”

 

Seol Mantong screamed as well.

 

Seol Mujin had his back turned to Yeon Gok, who was performing acupuncture treatment, while concentrating his attention in all directions.

 

Though Yeon Gok was excessively frightened, his reasons for fear were valid.

 

Guard Sang stood motionless beside Seol Mujin, gripping her sword in her right hand, ready to draw at any moment.

 

She must be left-handed.

 

Seol Mujin’s voice was thrown into the suffocating silence.

 

“Do you think treatment is possible?”

 

If someone else had spoken to him during acupuncture treatment, he would have been angry, but Yeon Gok was always kind to Seol Mujin.

 

“Fortunately, it doesn’t seem too late. Though it’s more severe than the second son’s condition, I think she can be completely cured in about two weeks.”

 

“That’s fortunate. But does Physician Yeon have to stay here for the entire two weeks?”

 

Staying at the Hwangbo Family Estate for two weeks doing nothing would be torture.

 

“The acupuncture treatment will be finished tomorrow, so I can just write a prescription and leave. Are you bored?”

 

“How could guarding Physician Yeon be boring?”

 

“I feel reassured having Captain Seol protecting me.”

 

Guard Sang Chiyeon tilted his head while listening to their conversation.

 

He couldn’t understand why that rude physician was so polite only to Seol Mujin.

 

Because he was a government official?

 

That couldn’t be it.

 

From any perspective, the Hwangbo Family’s influence was far greater than that of a mere government official.

 

Even though the government and Murim were different worlds, they were places where relationships were entangled for various reasons.

 

The Hwangbo Family was a place that could blow away a single government official with a puff.

 

As Sang Chiyeon was gathering his wandering thoughts, urgent bell sounds rang from the distance.

 

Twice, twice, once, twice…

 

It was the signal that came when there were intruders.

 

Tense, Seol Mujin asked.

 

“What is this sound?”

 

“It seems there are intruders.”

 

Startled, Yeon Gok said.

 

“Shouldn’t we evacuate?”

 

“Physician Yeon, please focus on the treatment.”

 

“But…”

 

“Trust me.”

 

At those words, Yeon Gok busily moved his hands holding the acupuncture needles.

 

As Sang Chiyeon moved to a position near Hwangbo Ryeoseon’s head, Seol Mujin took position toward her feet.

 

Sunlight coming through the windows touched Seol Mujin’s feet.

 

What Seol Mujin was worried about wasn’t external enemies, but the Triplets.

 

‘These guys didn’t cause trouble, did they?’

 

He suspected that these bell sounds might be ringing because of the Triplets.

 

He wanted to go out and check, but Yeon Gok would surely be terrified, so he just glanced around cautiously.

 

Then some feeling struck the top of his head.

 

That needle-like sensation was an unfamiliar feeling he had never experienced before, but his instincts told him it was danger.

 

As soon as he raised his head, with a ‘crash!’ sound, the ceiling collapsed.

 

He saw the sword before the person.

 

Seol Mujin drew his sword and launched his body.

 

A masked assassin fell toward Hwangbo Ryeoseon, who was full of acupuncture needles.

 

The sword Seol Mujin swung clashed with the assassin’s sword.

 

Clang!

 

The assassin blocked by Seol Mujin spun in the air and was pushed back.

 

Sang Chiyeon’s attack followed against that assassin.

 

“Huk!”

 

Yeon Gok, startled belatedly, collapsed with a thud.

 

Seol Mujin, who was about to step over Yeon Gok and attack the assassin together with Sang Chiyeon, stopped abruptly.

 

The faint light coming through the window had been blocked.

 

As he turned his body, the window shattered and another assassin appeared.

 

The slender assassin immediately rushed toward Hwangbo Ryeoseon.

 

Like a dog that had no interest in anything but the bone placed before its eyes.

 

Seol Mujin struck the assassin’s extended sword upward from below.

 

Fortunately, he was able to block the attack before the assassin’s sword could cut Hwangbo Ryeoseon’s leg.

 

The assassin’s sword, its attack blocked, spun once and slashed toward Seol Mujin’s neck.

 

He had realized that killing Hwangbo Ryeoseon would be impossible without eliminating Seol Mujin first.

 

Clang!

 

Seol Mujin was startled as the sword pushed in right next to his ear.

 

He needed to stay calm.

 

He had sparred with the triplets many times, but this was his first real combat with his life on the line.

 

There had been two clashes, but he hadn’t been able to properly infuse martial power into his sword even once.

 

“Huu—!”

 

Sang Chiyeon was also fighting fiercely with the assassin who had fallen from the ceiling.

 

Seol Mujin blocked the assassin’s sword while shouting to Yeon Gok.

 

“Go and call for people!”

 

Seol Mujin, inexperienced as he was, had no confidence that he could stop the assassin.

 

Yeon Gok rushed out of the room in panic.

 

The assassin who had pushed back Seol Mujin’s sword reached for his waist and threw a dagger toward Hwangbo Ryeoseon.

 

If Seol Mujin’s sword had been even slightly late, the dagger would have pierced through Hwangbo Ryeoseon.

 

The deflected sword embedded deeply into the ceiling.

 

Seol Mujin deflected the sword stabbing at his neck over his head while aiming for the assassin’s lower abdomen.

 

“Hup!”

 

When the startled assassin quickly retreated, Seol Mujin closed the distance in an instant as if he had anticipated it.

 

During the few exchanges, his sparring experience with the triplets quickly came alive.

 

Crash!

 

Part of the ceiling collapsed with a thunderous sound.

 

Thinking it was another assassin, he turned his head and saw the legs of an assassin escaping through the broken ceiling.

 

The assassin who had been fighting Seol Mujin also escaped through the window he had entered from.

 

Seol Mujin did not pursue the assassin.

 

He still wasn’t confident that Hwangbo Ryeoseon was safe.

 

The indoor space that had been filled with murderous intent instantly fell into silence.

 

Seol Mujin, holding his sword upright at the center of his body, did not let his guard down.

 

The first person to speak was Sang Chiyeon.

 

“I think they’re gone.”

 

Seol Mujin’s ears also could not detect any trace of the assassin.

 

As he let out a long breath, the dust in front of his mouth shuddered and scattered.

 

The sound of multiple footsteps could be heard from the corridor.

 

“Sister!”

 

The first person to enter the room was Hwangbo Hyeonguk.

 

Following him, the head of the family, Hwangbo Hunyong, appeared.

 

Lastly, Yeon Gok cautiously poked his head out.

 

“The assassin?”

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