My Younger Siblings Are the Greatest Masters in the World - Chapter 38
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38.
Seol Changho asked.
“You’re an expert in poisons like Love Bugs, aren’t you?”
“Because I’m an expert, I know well. If that bitch dies, the Family Head and I die. No, if that bitch just decides to, she can kill the Family Head and me.”
“Is there no way to detoxify it?”
“All three of us must take the antidote that bitch has simultaneously. But even if she dies, she won’t tell us where the antidote is. Because that’s her lifeline.”
“Is that so?”
Seol Changho gave Yeon Gok a look.
Yeon Gok took out a finger-sized porcelain bottle from his chest and opened the lid.
A smell like vinegar being sprinkled around the room spread.
Yeon Gok dipped the bottle’s liquid on his finger and applied it under Bae Hyeonjin’s nose.
“Mmm…”
With a groan, Bae Hyeonjin woke up.
When her eyelids were pushed up, her revealed eyes were hazy and unfocused.
Seol Changho first asked for her name.
“Bae… Hyeon… jin…”
It was about twice as slow as her usual speech, which was a bit frustrating, but the drug’s effect seemed certain.
Seol Changho glanced at the Illusion Enchantress and asked Bae Hyeonjin.
“Is the Illusion Enchantress your master?”
After a brief pause, an answer came.
“No.”
“Then is she your subordinate?”
“She is… my slave…”
The Illusion Enchantress bristled at the word ‘slave.’
“What? That bitch just…!”
Seol Changho’s cold voice was heard.
“You stay quiet. Unless you want your remaining leg cut off too.”
The startled Illusion Enchantress could only glare daggers at Bae Hyeonjin.
Seol Changho’s next question followed.
“Did you order the poisoning of Hwangbo Hyeonguk and Hwangbo Ryeoseon?”
“Yes…”
“To make your son Hwangbo Cheonak the young family head?”
“Yes…”
“Is the Family Head your puppet?”
“Not yet… perfect… But… soon he will only… listen to… me.”
It seems there’s some additional plan.
The Illusion Enchantress urgently said.
“The antidote! Ask about the antidote first!”
Seol Changho asked.
“Where is the detoxification medicine to cure the Illusion Enchantress and the Family Head?”
“That’s… that’s…”
“Speak quickly.”
“I… don’t have it…”
The startled Illusion Enchantress spoke like a scream.
“That’s a lie! If that bitch doesn’t have it, then who does!”
Seol Changho quieted the Illusion Enchantress and continued his questioning.
“Who has the detoxification medicine?”
Bae Hyeonjin’s mouth opened and closed several times like a fish.
Yeon Gok said.
“She’s extremely terrified of her opponent. It’s an instinctive fear, like a mouse fearing a snake.”
Seol Changho infused martial power into his voice and asked.
“Who has the detoxification medicine?”
It was a voice that seemed to reach directly to the heart rather than the ears.
“Hwang… So… yeon…”
Hwang Soyeon was Bae Hyeonjin’s maid whom Hwangbo Ryeoseon had tried to kill as soon as she regained consciousness.
“You mean your maid?”
“Disguise…”
“Is Hwang Soyeon the final mastermind trying to take control of the Hwangbo Family?”
“Hwang Soyeon is… that person’s… hands and feet…”
“That person? Who is that person?”
“That person… that per… son…!”
Hwang Soyeon’s pupils dilated and her jaw trembled violently.
The terror of someone facing death could be clearly felt.
Seol Changho infused even more martial power into his voice and asked again.
“Tell me who that person is.”
“Kkeueuk… Kkeuk!”
Instead of an answer, foam bubbled at the corners of her mouth.
Then her head snapped to the side.
Startled, Seol Mantong asked.
“What? Is she dead?”
Yeon Gok, who had placed his fingers on Bae Hyeonjin’s neck, said.
“She’s just unconscious.”
Surprisingly, it was the Illusion Enchantress who said, “That’s a relief.”
Seol Ryeoseon asked.
“Don’t you want Bae Hyeonjin to die?”
“She needs to spit out what she stole from me before she dies.”
“What she stole from you?”
The Illusion Enchantress brought her hand down below her neck and peeled off her skin.
Then a wrinkled old woman’s face appeared.
“I ended up like this because this bitch took my internal energy.”
Seol Mantong said.
“Hey, old hag. Everyone looks like that at your age anyway.”
“An Illusion Enchantress should die looking like she’s in her twenties!”
“Bullshit! Enchantress my ass. You’re a witch.”
Seol Changho asked.
“Is there a way to get back the stolen internal energy?”
“Of course. Do you think I would have given up my internal energy without thinking about that?”
The Illusion Enchantress crouched down beside Bae Hyeonjin.
“The internal energy this bitch has isn’t really hers even though she possesses it. It’s like duckweed that can’t take root. I deliberately made it that way. So it could be easily extracted.”
Seol Ryeoseon sat beside the Illusion Enchantress in the same position with an interested expression.
“Is that really possible? How fascinating.”
“I’m different from ignorant martial artists like you who only have brute strength.”
Seol Mantong sneered.
“Says the one who got her legs cut off while trying to seduce the Cult Leader.”
“He almost fell for it.”
Seol Ryeoseon asked.
“How do you extract the internal energy?”
“It’s called the Essence Absorption Technique…”
The Illusion Enchantress, who was about to explain, glared at Seol Ryeoseon with suspicious eyes.
“What are you going to do with that knowledge?”
“Just curious?”
The Illusion Enchantress shook her head.
“No, it can’t be that simple.”
She pointed at Samtaesang one by one.
“You vicious and cunning bastards. You want to take this bitch’s internal energy for yourselves, don’t you?”
Seol Ryeoseon’s cheerful expression turned cold.
“This thing thinks it’s actually human because we’re treating it like one. A leech-like creature that steals other people’s internal energy.”
“I’m much better than you murderers. At least I’ve never killed an innocent person.”
“Bullshit. Are you claiming to be a righteous hero or something?”
“If someone who kills evildoers is a righteous hero, then yes, I’m a righteous hero. You Demonic Cult murderer.”
Snap!
Seol Ryeoseon’s small hand grabbed the Illusion Enchantress by the throat.
“Urgh—!”
“Speak. How do you absorb internal energy?”
“Do you… think I’ll… tell you?”
Seol Changho patted Seol Ryeoseon’s shoulder.
“Why make it so difficult? We have good truth serum. Yeon Gok.”
Yeon Gok placed the truth serum in Seol Changho’s outstretched hand.
Seol Ryeoseon waved the truth serum she had received in front of the Illusion Enchantress.
“Should we see if you’ll confess obediently or foam at the mouth and faint like Bae Hyeonjin?”
Just as Seol Ryeoseon was about to force open the Illusion Enchantress’s mouth to make her take the truth serum.
“Mmm….”
Seol Mujin woke up with a groan.
“Oh? Big brother’s awake!”
“Already? You said it would take at least one hour.”
Seol Mantong glared at Yeon Gok and scolded him, calling him ‘that quack.’
Seol Changho asked Seol Mujin.
“Hyung, are you okay?”
Seol Mujin frowned and rubbed his temples.
“I think I’m fine except for a bit of a headache.”
Seol Mujin blinked to clear his vision and looked around.
Yeon Gok made excuses for himself, saying ‘It seems Captain Seol woke up quickly because of the ventilation.’
“What’s all this?”
Bae Hyeonjin was collapsed, and who was that old woman?
The atmosphere was so tense that even Seol Mujin could feel it.
Seol Changho roughly told him what they had heard from Bae Hyeonjin.
“So a woman named Hwang Soyeon has the antidote, and she doesn’t know who’s behind this.”
Seol Changho said.
“Since even the truth serum didn’t work, it won’t be easy to find out even when Bae Hyeonjin wakes up.”
“But….”
Seol Mujin’s gaze stopped on the Illusion Enchantress.
“Why is that grandmother acting like that?”
The Illusion Enchantress flared up.
“Who is this brat calling grandmother!”
Seol Ryeoseon mercilessly struck the back of the Illusion Enchantress’s head.
The string tying her hair broke, making it disheveled.
“How dare this bitch raise her voice at someone!”
Flustered, Seol Mujin stopped Seol Ryeoseon.
“Ryeoseon. You shouldn’t do that to a grandmother….”
“She’s not even eighty yet, this bitch. How dare some wet-behind-the-ears thing act arrogant toward big brother.”
The Illusion Enchantress was more shocked by Samtaesang’s attitude toward Seol Mujin than by the pain in the back of her head.
Who were the Samtaesang?
Though they weren’t well known due to their short time active in Murim, they could truly be called the greatest masters under heaven.
That’s why even the Demonic Cult Leader couldn’t treat them carelessly.
And such Samtaesang were calling that young brat ‘hyung’ and ‘big brother’ and cherishing him!
“By any chance, do you also practice the Rejuvenation Technique?”
Seol Mujin waved his hands dismissively.
“No.”
“Otherwise, why would Samtaesang be so respectful to you?”
Seol Ryeoseon grabbed the Illusion Enchantress’s cheek and pulled it.
“Won’t you act respectfully?”
“Dis is respectful enough!”
“Address him as Young Master. Speak politely. Got it?”
When the Illusion Enchantress nodded while reading the mood, Seol Ryeoseon released her hand.
Seol Mujin asked the Illusion Enchantress who was rubbing her stinging cheek.
“So you’re the one called the Illusion Enchantress, grandmother?”
“Grandmother…! I told you I’m not… that old.”
Seol Ryeoseon said, “Right. The ink on your family register hasn’t even dried yet.”
“Then what should I call you?”
There was no need to use a title the other person disliked.
“Call me Miss Hwa. My name is Hwa Yeonshim.”
“I see. Miss Hwa… Miss Hwa.”
He stumbled over it several times because her appearance and the title didn’t match at all.
Seol Ryeoseon clicked her tongue at Hwa Yeonshim.
“Really, you’re quite the handful too.”
Seol Mujin rolled ‘Miss Hwa’ around in his mouth a few times before calling to Hwa Yeonshim.
“Miss Hwa. From what I hear, you’re also a victim of this incident?”
“That’s right… yes.”
“Is the hostile atmosphere in this room due to past grudges?”
Since Seol Changho had cut off her leg, it was natural for there to be resentment.
But Hwa Yeonshim shook her head.
“I’ve forgotten all about that. When you meet as enemies on the battlefield, it’s natural to try to kill each other. I also tried to kill Cheong Taesang.”
“Then you’re not enemies now, right? My siblings have also left the Demonic Sect.”
“Did Samtaesang really leave the Demonic Sect?”
Seol Ryeoseon said.
“We told you we left.”
“I need to be able to trust your words.”
Seol Mujin said.
“We nearly died at the Cult Leader’s hands, and now we’ve completely broken ties. That’s the truth.”
“To abandon Samtaesang. The Cult Leader’s got some nerve.”
Seol Ryeoseon ground her teeth.
“Someday I’ll burst that swollen liver of the Cult Leader’s.”
“Do you need my internal energy to build that strength?”
The Triplets couldn’t answer, and Seol Mujin asked in confusion.
“You need Miss Hwa’s internal energy?”
Seol Mantong waved his hand.
“No. There’s no need to listen to such nonsense.”
But Seol Mujin’s suspicious gaze didn’t leave the Triplets.
“This is what you were hiding from me?”
Hwa Yeonshim nodded her head.
“Oho! So it was a secret from Young Master Seol that you were planning to divide my internal energy that’s in Bae Hyeonjin among yourselves?”
Seol Ryeoseon grabbed Hwa Yeonshim’s cheeks and pulled them to both sides.
“Ahhhh…!”
“Do you keep wanting to speak informally to us? You’re even younger…!”
Seol Ryeoseon’s intention to divert attention elsewhere failed.
“You weren’t planning to take it for yourselves, were you?”
The Triplets’ movements stopped abruptly.
Seol Mujin’s question continued.
“That internal energy, you were planning to give it to me?”
The Triplets glanced at each other nervously.
“Ple… please let go (han… hands please)…”
Seol Ryeoseon quietly released Hwa Yeonshim’s cheeks and said.
“It’s too precious to just let it dissipate. It should be worth at least one jiazi.”
“Four jiazi.”
The Triplets were shocked by Hwa Yeonshim’s words.
“That much?”
“Yes.”
Seol Changho said.
“But the jan that Bae Hyeonjin threw at me didn’t contain that much power?”
“That bitch would need to have learned projectile techniques first. And I told you. The internal energy that bitch stole is like duckweed. She can only use about two percent of the internal energy she possesses at most.”
“Four jiazi… Four jiazi…”
The corners of the Triplets’ mouths twitched.
With that internal energy, Seol Mujin could reach the pinnacle within two years.
But then Seol Mujin made a declaration like a bolt from the blue.
“I won’t take that internal energy.”
The Triplets were shocked.
“Brother! It’s four jiazi! Four jiazi!”
“With just that internal energy, you could instantly become one of the top thirty masters in the world! In two years, even the top ten would be possible!”
“If you miss such a good opportunity, you’re a fool, an idiot!”
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