My Younger Siblings Are the Greatest Masters in the World - Chapter 34
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34.
Seol Mantong also joined in.
“How dare some second son of the Hwangbo Family try to harm our older brother? Maybe if it were the family head, but not you.”
“No, that’s… that’s…”
Seol Changho also nodded his head.
“Exactly. If you’re going to call each other brothers, your statuses should at least match somewhat. Some brat who doesn’t even know when he’ll die wants to be brothers with our older brother? Even a passing dog would laugh.”
Yeon Gok chuckled from the side.
A flustered Seol Mujin spoke up.
“My younger siblings are naturally quite mischievous. Please understand, Young Master Hwangbo.”
Yeon Gok said to Hwangbo Hyeonguk.
“If you want to serve our Captain Seol as your older brother, you should at least earn the title of Young Family Head of the Hwangbo Family. Only then could we give it the minimum consideration. Isn’t that right, Captain Seol?”
“Where is there high or low among people? Since Young Master Hwangbo says he acknowledges me as his older brother, let’s call each other brothers from now on.”
Seol Mujin felt good about allowing the brotherhood.
“Thank you, older brother.”
Anyone watching would find it absurd.
To think it would be this difficult for a scion of one of the Five Great Martial Families to become a captain’s younger brother.
“Tch! Our older brother is good in every way, but being too kind is his flaw.”
“Hey, Hwangbo brat. Our older brother acknowledged you as a younger brother, but we didn’t, so if you dare ask us to call you older brother or anything like that, I’ll cut off your underdeveloped thing, so keep that in mind.”
Seol Mujin covered Seol Mantong’s mouth and laughed awkwardly.
“My younger siblings are a bit unique, right? Please understand, Hyeonguk. Hahaha!”
“Of… of course. Don’t they say everyone is different? Hahaha!”
The lodging for Seol Mujin’s group was prepared in the deep Back Garden of the Hwangbo Family Estate.
It was a fairly spacious building, large enough that each of the triplets was assigned their own room.
After saying ‘Please rest comfortably,’ Hwangbo Hyeonguk was turning to leave when Seol Mujin called out to him.
“Hyeonguk.”
“Yes, older brother.”
“If things get really difficult, you can come find me.”
Hwangbo Hyeonguk, feeling emotional inside, nodded his head.
“Yes, older brother.”
After Hwangbo Hyeonguk left, Seol Ryeoseon plopped down on a chair and asked.
“You’re going to help the brat?”
“Looking at it, he seems to have enemies on all sides, so I feel a bit sorry for him.”
“The kid does seem kind.”
Just then, Seol Changho pulled out a book from his chest and threw it on the table.
“Older brother, learn this.”
Seol Mujin read the book’s title.
“Traceless Ten Thousand Li Wind?”
Seol Ryeoseon and Seol Mantong were startled.
“Traceless Ten Thousand Li Wind? That’s the most outstanding lightness skill in Murim history!”
“How do you have this when it was lost eighty years ago?”
To the repeated questions, Seol Changho answered nonchalantly.
“I went into the Hwangbo Family library and found it there. Those Hwangbo idiots didn’t even know what it was.”
Seol Ryeoseon said.
“Of course they wouldn’t know. They only thought of the Invisible Great Thief who mastered Traceless Ten Thousand Li Wind as just a thief. Even Mingjiao wouldn’t have known how amazing the Invisible Great Thief was if they hadn’t had the Bright White Pure Sword stolen.”
Seol Mantong asked.
“What’s the Bright White Pure Sword?”
“You don’t even know the greatest famous sword in Murim history?”
“Bah, a sword is just a piece of metal. A warrior’s strength comes from the body trained through repeated cultivation. How could a mere piece of metal affect a warrior’s strength? These novices really can’t be helped. Tsk tsk tsk…”
Since Seol Mantong had already reached the realm of Sword as Extension of Body, he was qualified to say such things.
“After saying that, quite a few Murim masters died to the Bright White Pure Sword. If the Cult Leader at the time was weak, would he have sent out as many as a thousand cultists to find the Bright White Pure Sword?”
“So did they find it?”
“Would they have found it? It disappeared along with the Invisible Great Thief. But how is the Invisible Great Thief’s secret manual at the Hwangbo Family?”
Seol Changho said.
“What does that matter? It’s in our hands now. You guys really aren’t helpful. Either you get beaten by kids, or you get caught peeping at the bathhouse and embarrass yourselves.”
“So you went there to steal?”
“I’ve told you many times that stealing books isn’t stealing.”
“That sophistry never gets old.”
“Did I only steal books?”
“Then what else did you steal?”
“I found out who’s trying to kill Hwangbo Ryeoseon and Hwangbo Hyeonguk.”
Seol Ryeoseon frowned.
“Why does that Hwangbo girl have the same name as me? It’s annoying.”
Seol Mantong scolded her.
“Is having the same name important right now?”
“It is important! It’s the name big brother gave me!”
Seol Mujin asked.
“So who’s the culprit?”
“The family head’s wife.”
Only Seol Mujin was surprised.
“She’s trying to kill her own children?”
Yeon Gok didn’t miss his chance to join in.
“They’re not children she gave birth to herself. The Hwangbo Family Head is a notorious womanizer with three wives. The eldest daughter is the child of the deceased First Wife, and the Second Wife, who is currently the main wife, is the eldest son’s mother. Hwangbo Hyeonguk is the child born to the Third Wife. Making each wife bear exactly one child is quite a skill, if you can call it that.”
“She wants to make her own child the family head?”
“That’s the only reason.”
“But he’s the eldest son anyway, so he’ll become the family head, right?”
“Usually, but that eldest son is completely worthless. His conduct and martial arts talent aren’t particularly excellent. On the other hand, Hwangbo Ryeoseon is known as the most outstanding martial arts prodigy in Hwangbo Family history. Despite being a woman, she’s even considered a candidate for family head. Hwangbo Hyeonguk’s qualities aren’t bad either. As you’ve experienced, Hwangbo Hyeonguk has a good personality and is popular among the family members. Given this situation, even being the eldest son doesn’t guarantee anything. There’s a reason he hasn’t been able to take the position of young family head despite being twenty years old.”
“In such a situation, the family head would have to know unless he’s quite incompetent.”
Yeon Gok tilted his head.
“That’s right. The Hwangbo Family Head doesn’t have a reputation for being foolish…”
Seol Changho spat out a name.
“Illusion Enchantress.”
“Huh? The sect leader of Bliss Gate Sect who was annihilated for trying to seduce the Previous Sect Leader? Come to think of it, Changho, you were in charge of that subjugation.”
“That’s why I annihilated the sect, but I couldn’t kill the Illusion Enchantress.”
“That Illusion Enchantress is at the Hwangbo Family Estate? How did you recognize her? The Illusion Enchantress wouldn’t be in her true form, right?”
The Illusion Enchantress was a master of Disguise Arts, said to have a thousand faces.
“While escaping from me…”
Seol Changho placed his hand on his shin.
“This got cut. Her face was that of a woman in her twenties, but with that aura emanating from her, there was no way I could mistake it.”
Seol Ryeoseon thought for a moment and said.
“If the Illusion Enchantress is in that state, she couldn’t have directly seduced the Family Head, so she must have latched onto his wife.”
“The Illusion Enchantress seduced the wife, and that wife then seduced the Family Head. It must be Soul Seduction Technique – the Family Head probably doesn’t even know he’s under the Soul Seduction Technique.”
Yeon Gok asked.
“The Second Wife is from a merchant family who hasn’t learned martial arts, right?”
“That’s why she used Soul Seduction Technique, which doesn’t require martial arts. She probably used a Love Bug.”
“That insect from the Southern Barbarian Lands that’s fed to prevent a lover’s betrayal?”
“That’s right. At least the Family Head’s martial arts are high enough that his mind hasn’t completely snapped.”
As befitting a renowned physician, Yeon Gok also had knowledge about Love Bugs.
“Simply getting rid of the wife won’t solve the problem. If we’re careless, the Family Head could die from the Love Bug.”
Seol Mujin asked.
“Is this place called Bliss Gate Sect perhaps a sect composed only of women?”
Seol Ryeoseon answered.
“Just hearing the name gives you a strong hint.”
“Then those assassins could have been women too. Their figures were too slender to be men.”
“Come to think of it, how was the fight? If you couldn’t catch them despite your skills, brother, the assassins’ martial arts must have been incredibly strong.”
Seol Mujin scratched the back of his head with an embarrassed expression.
“Since it was my first real combat, I don’t think I displayed my full abilities. Being able to fully utilize one’s martial arts is also part of one’s skill, so in the end, I was lacking.”
“You couldn’t catch Guard Sang either, right? For that level, you did well. You can’t get full on the first spoonful. Since the situation at the Hwangbo Family Estate is like this, it’s perfect for gaining real combat experience. We’re here with you too.”
Seol Mantong spoke to the pondering Seol Ryeoseon.
“How about we solve the Hwangbo Family Estate’s problem?”
“Us?”
“To solve it, big brother will have to fight, right? Like you said, it’s good to gain fighting experience when we can protect him.”
“How are we going to solve it?”
“That’s for you guys to figure out. I specialize in physical work.”
“You mean specializing in peeping at bathhouses.”
“If that were my specialty, would I have made a mistake?”
When the bathhouse topic came up, he remembered the middle-aged man’s dangling ‘thing’ he saw earlier and waved both hands frantically.
“Disappear! Disappear!”
“What’s this crazy guy doing? Changho, what do you think?”
“It’s not a bad idea. We could make the Hwangbo Family owe us an enormous debt. A family like the Hwangbo Family would have plenty to extract from them.”
Seol Mujin said.
“Can’t we just go with helping a friend?”
“Brother. If you have such soft thoughts in the Murim, you’re just asking to get stabbed in the back.”
In that regard, Seol Ryeoseon and Seol Changho’s thoughts were aligned.
“Ryeoseon is right. In the Murim, there are no eternal enemies or eternal allies. The saying ‘be most wary of friends in the Murim’ doesn’t exist for nothing.”
Seol Mujin received the Triplets’ Murim experience whenever he had the chance.
It wasn’t just martial arts that he learned from them.
“The problem is that it might not be as easy to solve as we think.”
Seol Mantong asked.
“Don’t we just need to deal with the wife’s side? Once we remove the Soul Seduction Technique, the family head will come to his senses too.”
“With the assassination plan progressing this far and the Hwangbo Family remaining quiet, it means the forces backing the wife are quite substantial. So we’ll have to deal with them too.”
“Kill them all? I like that idea. I’ll finally get to feel some proper action after so long. Hehehe…”
Seol Mujin said decisively.
“That won’t do. What would happen if the Hwangbo Family fell into chaos?”
“That’s the Hwangbo Family’s problem.”
“This is about helping a friend.”
For Seol Mujin, helping Hwangbo Hyeonguk was more important than improving his own martial arts.
When Seol Mujin’s opinion was this firm, the Triplets had no choice but to follow.
“Fine. Then let’s just cut out the infected part.”
“Tch! I said let’s build Brother’s real combat experience, but this is just going to be a hassle for nothing.”
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Hwangbo Ryeoseon regained consciousness.
Sang Chiyeon asked.
“Young Lady. How do you feel?”
Hwangbo Ryeoseon turned her head left and right, looking around the room.
She saw an unfamiliar physician and the back of a strange man.
Hwangbo Ryeoseon focused on Sang Chiyeon again and said.
“Since you’re here, this isn’t the afterlife.”
“Yes. This physician here treated you.”
“So I’m alive.”
As she sat up abruptly, the blanket covering her slid down.
Her bare skin was exposed, wearing only undergarments, but Hwangbo Ryeoseon didn’t care.
“Clothes.”
Yeon Gok said.
“The treatment isn’t finished yet.”
“Clothes.”
Sang Chiyeon brought Hwangbo Ryeoseon’s clothes that were hanging on the wall.
Hastily putting on her clothes, she grabbed the sword that stood beside the bed.
“Why the sword…?”
Yeon Gok was ignored.
Hwangbo Ryeoseon left the room and Sang Chiyeon followed behind her.
Puzzled, Seol Mujin and Yeon Gok hurriedly chased after the two.
“Listen here! Moving around in that condition is suicide!”
Yeon Gok shouted as he chased after her, but Hwangbo Ryeoseon didn’t even turn her head.
The place she headed to was where the mistresses of the Hwangbo Family stayed.
The two wives each occupied one hall, and Hwangbo Ryeoseon entered the building named Hwangju Pavilion.
It was where Bae Hyeonjin, the wife who had risen from second to first position, resided.
The two warriors guarding Hwangju Pavilion were startled when they saw Hwangbo Ryeoseon.
“Young Master!”
The aura she emanated was clearly murderous intent.
So they tried to block her way, but Hwangbo Ryeoseon’s quiet voice was heard.
“Block me and you die.”
Knowing Hwangbo Ryeoseon’s character too well—that she would do what she said—the two warriors hesitated, and she passed through.
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