My Younger Siblings Are the Greatest Masters in the World - Chapter 39
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39.
The Triplets took turns attacking him verbally, but Seol Mujin’s resolve didn’t waver.
“You all, I told you why I left the Performance Troupe, right? To avoid doing bad things. To never deceive others again, to never steal from others again. That’s why I left the troupe prepared to die. But you want me to steal someone’s internal energy? If I do that, I’d be denying the life I’ve lived. Do you really want me to do that?”
The Triplets’ heads gradually dropped lower.
If Seol Mujin had been someone who stole from others, he wouldn’t have saved them in the first place.
“That’s why I was trying to keep it secret. Tch!”
Seol Mujin said to the grumbling Seol Ryeoseon.
“I can become strong enough without stealing others’ internal energy. You said I was a genius, didn’t you?”
“Right. Big brother is the greatest genius in the world.”
Hwa Yeonshim asked Seol Mujin.
“Then I can take back my internal energy, right?”
“No.”
“Huh? Why not?”
“That internal energy can’t be said to be entirely yours either, Miss Hwa. You stole it from innocent people.”
“Among those I killed, not a single one was innocent! They were all villains of the world!”
“Really?”
“Especially those who did terrible things to women! Why do you think I established the Bliss Gate Sect! It was to safely protect pitiful women with nowhere to go!”
Seol Mujin asked the Triplets.
“Is that true?”
Seol Changho said.
“I did hear such stories. Whether it’s true or not, it has nothing to do with us.”
Seol Mujin said to Hwa Yeonshim.
“You should choose your sect name better. Bliss Gate makes it sound a bit…”
Hwa Yeonshim’s voice also softened.
“For women who lived hard lives, I named it that way so they could live joyfully in our sect.”
“Stealing others’ internal energy is questionable, but since you said your targets were villains, I suppose you could be considered a righteous bandit.”
Seol Ryeoseon asked.
“Big brother, you’re going to give the internal energy to the Illusion Enchantress?”
“It was originally Miss Hwa’s.”
“Still, it’s such a waste…”
“Let’s not covet what isn’t ours. Otherwise, we’d have no right to be angry if others steal from us.”
Seol Mujin asked Hwa Yeonshim.
“What do we need to do for you?”
“Just make sure no one intrudes while I recover my internal energy.”
“We’ll do that.”
Seol Ryeoseon muttered, “To think we have to serve as the Illusion Enchantress’s guardians.”
When Hwa Yeonshim was about to help Bae Hyeonjin sit up, Seol Mujin remembered something and said.
“Wait a moment.”
“Why? Have you changed your mind?”
“If we recover the family head’s wife’s internal energy now, she’ll find out when she wakes up, won’t she?”
“She’ll feel as weak as if she hadn’t eaten for three days.”
“Then she might immediately harm Miss Hwa.”
“Ah! I was so focused on the internal energy that I didn’t think of that. We need to steal the detoxification medicine from Hwang Soyeon first.”
Seol Mantong spoke to Hwa Yeonshim as if it wasn’t his concern.
“You go and steal it.”
“By myself?”
“The detoxification medicine isn’t what’s going to save us.”
Seol Mujin stepped forward.
“I’ll go with you.”
Hwa Yeonshim was truly moved.
Most of the men she had met in her life were either enemies or beasts.
In her long life, there had never been a single man who truly helped her like Seol Mujin did.
‘Big brother is just too kind,’ Seol Ryeoseon said as she followed along.
‘The more people, the better,’ Seol Changho also joined in.
“Then I’ll go too.”
But Seol Mantong was stopped by Seol Changho.
“You need to stay here and guard.”
“You want me to stay here alone and be bored?”
“That’s why we need to decide quickly. Play with Yeon Gok.”
“Damn it!”
As Seol Mujin left the room, he asked Hwa Yeonshim.
“Is Hwang Soyeon strong in martial arts?”
“I don’t know. Until now, I thought she was just a maid who had Bae Hyeonjin’s trust.”
Hwa Yeonshim put on her human skin mask as she spoke.
“If you wait in this room here, I’ll go find out where Hwang Soyeon is.”
She pointed to a door about halfway down the corridor.
“It’s a reception room, so no one should come in.”
As the three people entered the room, Hwa Yeonshim hurried around the corridor and disappeared.
“The Illusion Enchantress isn’t up to some trick, is she?”
To Seol Ryeoseon’s worry, Seol Mujin said.
“She seemed to be telling the truth.”
“If big brother says so, then it must be true.”
It was nearly two hours before Hwa Yeonshim returned.
“She’s in her room with three maids.”
Seol Ryeoseon said.
“Lead the way.”
“Is there a way to handle this quietly?”
“At times like this, looking like a child is really convenient.”
Almost no one was wary of a seven-year-old child.
In Murim, one must take to heart the maxim to be careful of children and the elderly.
Since it was time to finish dinner, most of the maids were in their own rooms, so no one could be seen walking around.
Hwa Yeonshim stopped at a corner of the corridor and pointed beyond the wall.
“The second room over there is Hwang Soyeon’s room.”
Seol Ryeoseon walked quickly and stood in front of the door.
“Damn it! Where the hell is this place!”
It was a sound made for the person in the room to hear.
After a moment, Hwang Soyeon’s door opened and a maid in her early twenties poked her face out.
“Oh my! What a pretty little one? Who are you?”
“Me? Someone you don’t need to know.”
As soon as she finished speaking, Seol Ryeoseon moved.
The moment she pressed the pressure point of the maid who opened the door, she disappeared into the room, followed by consecutive thudding sounds.
Flick! Flick!
A hand extended outside the door gestured for them to come.
Inside the room where embroidery was scattered messily, four maids lay collapsed.
“Which one of these is Hwang Soyeon?”
Hwa Yeonshim lifted up a woman who appeared to be in her mid-twenties and seated her on a chair.
With her protruding mouth and flat nose, she was definitely not a beauty.
Seol Ryeoseon fed Hwang Soyeon the truth serum and said,
“This one seems to have fairly strong martial arts, so I’m not sure if the amount of truth serum will be enough.”
Seol Changho pointed at Hwa Yeonshim.
“When Yeon Gok tried to feed the truth serum to the Illusion Enchantress, he didn’t say anything because it works. So Hwang Soyeon will spill everything too.”
She didn’t spill everything smoothly.
She spent a long time gritting her teeth and only moving her lips slightly.
But eventually, she confessed where she had hidden the antidote.
Seol Changho, who found the antidote deep inside the wardrobe, wore a troubled expression.
“Should we kill Hwang Soyeon?”
If it were the Triplets, they wouldn’t have hesitated to take action, but the person in charge of this matter was Seol Mujin.
“Let’s take her with us. Revenge should be carried out by the person who holds the grudge.”
They returned to Bae Hyeonjin’s room, bringing Hwang Soyeon with them.
Yeon Gok, who had been with Seol Mantong, welcomed them.
“You’ve captured her. What about the antidote?”
Seol Changho showed the antidote contained in the leather pouch.
After smelling it, Yeon Gok smoothly listed several medicinal ingredient names.
“Nine Root Red Leaf Grass, Snow Lotus Flower, White Frost Horn, Delusion Grass…”
“The medicine analysis is done, but you said the antidote must be taken by all three people simultaneously, right?”
“That’s right. If they take it separately from Bae Hyeonjin, they’ll probably die.”
At Yeon Gok’s words, Hwa Yeonshim nodded.
“That’s correct.”
Seol Mujin said.
“Then the family head will have to eat it together too.”
One last big mountain remained.
Since he hadn’t known such events would unfold today, he couldn’t make a meticulous plan.
“How will the family head accept this situation?”
Seol Ryeoseon’s question was directed at Hwa Yeonshim.
Hwa Yeonshim looked at Bae Hyeonjin and said.
“The family head is practically under this woman’s restraint technique right now. I can somehow remove the demonic energy cast on the family head, but the poison’s effects can only disappear by taking an antidote, so I don’t know how the family head will react.”
Seol Mantong asked.
“You mean he might try to fight us?”
“That’s right.”
“Is there really a need to take such a risk? Whether the family head lives or dies has nothing to do with us.”
The triplets thought that way, but Seol Mujin was different.
“Since Hyeonguk accepted me as his older brother, he’s a friend’s father. I can’t let such a person die without knowing why.”
“What are you planning to do?”
“First, I need to tell Hyeonguk and Hwangbo Ryeoseon the truth. Then I’ll bring the family head.”
Seol Changho said.
“If things go wrong, we might have to fight the entire Hwangbo Family. That means the Hwangbo Family could disappear from the murim today.”
Though the triplets hadn’t recovered all their former martial arts, they possessed enough martial prowess to determine the Hwangbo Family’s survival.
“The choice belongs to the family head. Even though he’s under evil arts.”
Hwa Yeonshim said as she left the room.
“I’ll prepare to break the illusion arts cast on the family head.”
Seol Mujin went to find Hwangbo Hyeonguk and had him call Hwangbo Ryeoseon.
Sang Chiyeon also came along like a shadow.
“To think the place you called me to in the middle of the night is my younger brother’s room. I’m a bit disappointed.”
Hwangbo Ryeoseon’s serious expression made it impossible to tell if she was joking or being serious.
“I have something important to discuss. It’s a matter that will determine the Hwangbo Family’s fate.”
The story that began this way plunged the room into shock and terror.
“You’re saying the second wife poisoned Father?”
“The family head probably doesn’t even know he’s been poisoned.”
“You’re saying Father, the second mother, and this person called the Illusion Enchantress must all take the medicine at the same time?”
“If the timing differs from when she takes it, the love bug sleeping in his heart will burst and kill him.”
“How on earth did you find out about this, older brother?”
Hwangbo Ryeoseon shot up to her feet.
“Is that what’s important right now? We need to cut off this wicked woman’s head immediately!”
“Shouldn’t saving the family head come first?”
“I’ll go to Father and tell him!”
Hwangbo Hyeonguk stopped Hwangbo Ryeoseon as she tried to leave.
“Sister. You know how Father thinks of the second mother, don’t you? Will he believe our words?”
“I’ll make him believe! I’ll bring Father, so you go ahead first!”
Seol Mujin thought ‘Can I trust that reckless girl?’ but Hwangbo Hyeonguk didn’t stop his sister.
“Will it be alright?”
“Sister may seem scatterbrained, but she always keeps her word. We’ll go ahead first.”
When Seol Mujin returned to Bae Hyeonjin’s room, the first thing he noticed was a clear fragrance.
Without asking, he could tell it was incense to neutralize Bae Hyeonjin’s demonic energy.
Seol Changho asked Seol Mujin, ‘What about the family head?’
“Lady Hwangbo will bring him.”
Despite hearing the story from Seol Mujin, Hwangbo Hyeonguk was confused.
Bae Hyeonjin and Hwang Soyeon were unconscious, and the Illusion Enchantress was leaning against the wall with her arms crossed.
The Triplets were whispering among themselves about something, but he couldn’t hear what they were saying.
Though there were many children in the Hwangbo Family Estate and he occasionally saw clever ones, there were none like the Triplets who ‘could match adults.’
Fortunately, the waiting time wasn’t long.
Hwangbo Ryeoseon appeared with Hwangbo Hunyong, followed by Hwangbo Seonyong.
Family Head Hwangbo Hunyong immediately rushed over upon seeing Bae Hyeonjin collapsed.
“My wife!”
His usual affection for Bae Hyeonjin, cherishing her like his own organs, was clearly evident.
Hwangbo Hyeonguk said to Hwangbo Ryeoseon.
“You managed to bring Father.”
Hwangbo Seonyong answered instead of Hwangbo Ryeoseon.
“She held a sword to her own throat and threatened to kill herself if he didn’t come with her immediately.”
“So Father knows nothing about this situation?”
“I’m dying of curiosity too.”
No wonder she came so quickly – she had dragged him here forcibly without any explanation.
Yeon Gok said to Hwangbo Hunyong.
“Don’t make a fuss. She’s only unconscious.”
Hwangbo Hunyong’s gaze toward Yeon Gok revealed a fierce intensity.
Startled, Yeon Gok quietly turned his head toward the Triplets.
“Please wake her up quickly.”
Hwangbo Hyeonguk said.
“Father. Let’s hear the whole story first.”
Since Hwangbo Hunyong hadn’t completely lost his mind, he was curious about the situation in this room.
“Who will explain?”
Seol Mujin stepped forward.
“I’ll tell you.”
Seol Mujin recounted everything that had happened in a calm voice.
Of course, he didn’t reveal the Triplets’ true identity.
The recognition of the Illusion Enchantress was attributed to Yeon Gok, who had past connections with her.
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