Surviving as the Villainess’s Servant in a Martial Arts Novel - Chapter 97

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Episode 97

At my acknowledgment, both men’s faces stiffened slightly.

Especially Peng-ga, who had disliked me from the beginning, looked quite a sight. He ground his teeth as he spoke.

“Right, it was strange from the start. If you were an ordinary passerby, you would have run away the moment you saw a sword fight, but you were watching from behind a tree as if it was entertaining.”

“It wasn’t particularly entertaining though.”

“You insisting on following us, not being particularly scared even when we fought bandits several times, and finally charging in at the end… wait, was that on purpose too?”

I nodded cheerfully.

“Thanks to that, we could safely enter the mountain hideout, right? You don’t need to thank me that much.”

Finally, Peng-ga exploded.

“What’s there to be thankful for! You crazy Evil Sect bastard, if you hadn’t interfered, we wouldn’t have been shamefully caught in nets and dragged here!”

“My goodness, how were you planning to enter Yongcheok Fortress if you weren’t caught by bandits? And I freed you, didn’t I? The rookie couldn’t do anything, could he? You ended up receiving help from a crazy Evil Sect bastard, didn’t you?”

“This is really…!”

“Ah! Then perhaps…”

Jegal-ye, who had remained silent until then, spoke up.

“Perhaps the times you helped us were also Jin-hyeong… no, Dan-hyeong, was that you? Even when we were first surrounded by bandits…?”

“That’s right, it was me.”

Jegal-ye exclaimed in amazement.

“I knew it! I thought something was strange from the beginning. We were clearly at a disadvantage at first. But at some point, the bandits started making mistakes or bumping into each other, didn’t they?”

“Oh ho, you have good eyes?”

“At first I thought it was simply luck, but similar situations kept repeating after that, so I was puzzled… it was because Dan-hyeong was helping us!”

“Good intuition too. Haha, Young Master Jegal, if you get a little older, you’ll make a name for yourself in Jianghu, won’t you?”

“Hehe, you flatter me. That level of skill…”

“Jegal-ye!”

A menacing voice poured cold water on the warm atmosphere of mutual praise. Peng-ga twisted his face and pointed at me.

“What are you doing? Haven’t you heard about Greedy Flower Bird? That bastard is a lecher who defiles the chastity of innocent women!”

“Huh? Peng-hyeong, even though Greedy Flower Bird likes women, he wasn’t quite a lecher…”

“Look at this time too! His eyes went crazy when he heard the master’s wife was a beauty, so he followed us all the way here. If a shameless bastard who covets another man’s wife isn’t a lecher, then what is!”

“Hey.”

Looking at Peng-ga whose words were getting worse, I lowered my voice.

“She’s not a wife yet! They haven’t even held the wedding ceremony.”

“…What?”

“No, and you think I came here to commit some great evil deed. I didn’t come with that kind of intention. I just came to check out a beauty’s face. The greatest beauty of all time, aren’t you curious?”

“…”

“Anyway, I have no other ulterior motives. Got it? Sigh, having to listen to the whining of some dark-faced man instead of a cute beauty…”

“How can I believe that?”

I stopped my playful grumbling and turned my head to look at Peng-ga. Peng-ga was glaring at me with fierce eyes.

“How can I believe that, Greedy Flower Bird. You haven’t forgotten what you’ve done so far, have you?”

“…”

“A bastard whose eyes go crazy whenever he sees a woman, what? You just want to see her face? You have no ulterior motives? Do you think I’ll just stand by after believing your words, not knowing what might happen to the lady…!”

“What if you don’t stand by?”

I hardened my face coldly.

“What will you do?”

“…”

When I quietly glared and scattered killing intent, Peng-ga’s body flinched and stiffened.

Peng-ga hurriedly reached out to fumble around his waist. But that place was completely empty. His weapons had already been taken when he was caught by the bandits. Peng-ga’s face was colored with dismay.

A precarious silence flowed for a while.

Eyes gauging each other’s distance, a hair-trigger situation where a fight seemed ready to break out the moment anyone moved even slightly.

“Well, I have no intention of fighting though.”

In the end, it was me who defused the situation.

“Don’t glare at me like that. Honestly, our goals are the same, aren’t they? You want to see the master, and I want to see the beauty. Since our goals are the same, wouldn’t it be good to cooperate for a while?”

“…”

“Well… if you don’t want to, there’s nothing I can do. I’ll have no choice but to break both your legs and lock you up with those bandits over there.”

“Huh? Why me too…?”

“Choose.”

I held up two fingers as I spoke.

“One, you interfere with my path and end up with broken legs, thrown into prison.”

“…”

“Two, you obediently cooperate with me.”

Then I bared my teeth in a fierce grin.

“What will you do?”

* * *

The answer was obvious.

The two eventually decided to cooperate with me.

Jegal-ye’s help was entirely significant in this. He said he would cooperate without even thinking about it, then persuaded Peng-ga.

“Peng-hyeong, if you’re so worried about what Dan-hyeong might do… wouldn’t it be better to stick by his side and monitor him? How widespread are the rumors about Greedy Flower Bird’s mysterious appearances and disappearances? It would be better to watch him than to let him suddenly disappear and cause trouble.”

“…”

‘I’m not going to cause trouble.’

I secretly clicked my tongue, but I knew that Peng-ga would only listen if his ally spoke like that.

Still, since his ally was persuading him, he seemed inclined to listen. After remaining silent a bit longer, Peng-ga finally nodded. Then he looked at me with displeasure and threatened.

“…If you do anything foolish, I won’t let it slide.”

“Do as you please.”

I nodded, thinking that he had a big chest but was quite timid inside.

After that, we got to work.

The first thing we did was deal with the gatekeeper outside.

It had already been quite a while since that bandit went in. Although it was still quiet for now, the gatekeeper outside was probably wondering why he wasn’t coming out.

So we had to go attack now.

Tap tap.

I quickly ran toward the outer door. Then I grabbed the door handle and opened it forward.

Creak-.

The bandit who happened to be standing in front of the door spoke to me.

“What? Why did you come out so late… ugh!”

Smack!

He bit his tongue hard and fainted. Because I had punched him in the jaw.

“What the…!”

At the same time, I grabbed the collar of the bandit next to him and threw him into the stone prison. There was a thud, and commotion could be heard from behind.

However, I had no time to pay attention.

There was one more bandit next to the one I had thrown.

‘Tch, when I looked earlier there were only two.’

That bandit saw his colleagues get taken down in an instant and tried to run away rather than fight. But I wasn’t one to let him escape quietly.

I immediately stretched out my leg and tripped his leg. As the bandit staggered, I stepped forward with one foot and swung my other foot around to powerfully strike his head.

“…!”

The bandit couldn’t even scream and collapsed, bleeding from his head.

I grabbed the limp bandit and threw him back into the stone prison while quickly looking around. Fortunately, there were no others after this bandit.

Thud.

I closed the iron gate again.

Having already dealt with the bandit I threw in, the two were waiting for me. I grinned and said.

“I’m not late, am I?”

“Are you alright, Dan-hyeong?”

Not knowing there would be one more bandit, they seemed quite surprised. I nodded and grabbed the collar of one bandit.

“Let’s change clothes first. You remember what I said about disguising ourselves as bandits, right?”

The two nodded their heads. Then they began stripping the bandits’ clothes in the darkness and changing into them.

The change of clothes was completed in an instant.

If there was a slight problem, it was that even after the two had changed clothes, they didn’t really look like bandits.

As the bandit had said before, those ‘polished faces’ were the issue. No matter how shabby bandit clothes they wore, their noble bearing flowed from their very faces.

“Did you catch some disease where you die if you don’t act like a Young Master?”

“Pardon?”

Without saying much, I demanded that the two dishevel their hair to cover their faces as much as possible.

Then, while looking for something to smear on their faces, I remembered there were traces of a fire right in front of the stone prison, so I quickly went outside, scooped up a handful of ash, and gave it to them.

Jegal-ye laughed as if smearing soot on his face was amusing, while Peng-ga busily smeared it on his face with an expression full of irritation.

When the preparations were roughly finished.

“If other bandits talk to you, try not to speak if possible. Peng-ga, I’m talking about you. Hey, why are you glaring like that? If you want to get caught, go ahead and flap your mouth. Young Master Jegal, keep being tactful like now. Got it?”

“Haah…”

“Of course.”

I opened the stone gate and stepped forward.

“Alright, let’s go!”

To see the beauty!

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