The Granddaughter of Manhyang Escort Bureau Hides Her Magic - Chapter 102

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Chapter 102

“Oh. My. Goodness. Isn’t that Uncle Oh Bangja?”

Rather than being surprised, Shin Ah spoke with a calm expression, cutting her words short.

As if she had known about Oh Bangja’s surveillance from the beginning.

Oh Bangja’s eyebrows shot up.

“You… what? You knew I was following you?”

Did she only know about the following? She also knew you’d cause trouble!

“What does that matter? What’s important is that this place will become your grave.”

Shin Ah snorted in response, struck away the wrist Oh Bangja had grabbed, then used her footwork technique to quickly create distance.

Magic was specialized for long-range attacks, and she was outmatched by Oh Bangja in terms of strength.

And right now, Shin Ah didn’t know what level of skill Oh Bangja possessed.

‘I should ask Father to teach me how to assess an opponent’s level soon.’

Hoping for So Cheonrim’s quick return, Shin Ah asked.

“Why did you follow me? Don’t tell me it’s for revenge? That’s… no, never mind. What would I gain from knowing that?”

Conversation between the two was unnecessary.

‘I need to create such terrible memories that just hearing the word Seomsu will make him convulse. Should I burn him with fire, or roast him with electricity?’

As Shin Ah was having pleasant thoughts and whispered ‘Fireball’ softly, flames bloomed at her fingertips.

That was the moment.

“You’re also a fellow cult member like me!”

Oh Bangja rushed toward Shin Ah with delight, like a dog welcoming its master’s return home.

‘Why is he acting like that?’

Flustered by his unexpected attitude, Shin Ah’s concentration wavered and the flames died out.

“Which faction do you belong to? Ah! Don’t tell me. If you speak carelessly, you might die from the prohibition! You must have received demonic acupuncture too, right? Or did you take a demonic pill?”

Demonic acupuncture and demonic pills—these were types of prohibitions placed on Demon Cult members active in the Central Plains.

They were restrictions meant to maintain secrecy if captured by enemies or if their identity was discovered.

The severity varied depending on the type of prohibition, but it was known that revealing secrets would twist one’s qi channels, causing blood to pour from every orifice in the body before death.

“Wait.”

Shin Ah backed away as much as Oh Bangja approached, maintaining distance while pondering his words.

‘Demonic acupuncture and demonic pills—those are used by the Demon Cult. Oh Bangja was a Demon Cult member?’

No wonder his actions were so base and wicked.

‘But this is quite surprising.’

Demon Cult members were unfamiliar beings to Shin Ah.

In her previous life, Mugyeol was both the first and last Demon Cult member she had encountered, and she had poured everything into regaining her magic, dying not long after changing her mind, so she hadn’t had time to be interested.

Therefore, Shin Ah’s knowledge was lacking beyond the perception that the Demon Cult was cruel and evil.

Perhaps that was why.

She kept getting entangled with the Demon Cult in this life.

‘If Demon Cult members have infiltrated Chang’an, there’s a high possibility they’re in Manhyang Express too. I was curious about how Mugyeol joined the Demon Cult—maybe someone from our escort agency lured him in.’

Her suspicions grew stronger.

‘Father is investigating the escort agency side, so should I ask this guy some questions?’

Shin Ah had many things she wanted to ask Oh Bangja.

Why a Demon Cult member was working as a general manager of Geumwa Trading Company, and why his attitude suddenly changed when he had been glaring at her as if to kill her.

But she only made her mind work quickly while keeping her mouth firmly shut.

From her life experience, when wanting to extract secrets from an impatient opponent, silence was the answer.

The anxious one would open their mouth first.

“Judging by the martial arts you use, you’re definitely connected to someone above me. Who is it? Whose orders are you following? Was driving me out of Geumwa Trading Company that person’s will?”

“……”

“Don’t tell me that person eliminated the one I serve? Ha! So that was it. I almost made a huge mistake without knowing!”

As expected!

When Shin Ah said nothing special, Oh Bangja alone beat the drum, played the flute, danced, and sang.

“Tell your master that I’ll live as quietly as a dead mouse from now on. But please grant me just one favor. Get me some medicine. No, you must have some with you. Give me even that.”

Shin Ah’s eyes gleamed sharply.

She didn’t know what Oh Bangja was talking about, but she had a premonition that she shouldn’t miss this clue.

“I take so many different medicines. I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

Shin Ah’s tone was subtle. She had spoken ambiguously because she truly didn’t know, but Oh Bangja interpreted it completely differently.

‘Is she pretending not to know because she doesn’t want to give it to me? Well, if someone asked me for something that precious, I’d pretend not to know too.’

His pride was greatly hurt by having to bow and scrape to a child barely knee-high, but like a thirsty person digging a well, Oh Bangja clasped his hands together and pleaded.

“Why are you pretending not to know? The medicine people like us seek is obvious. Medicine that makes you stronger, medicine that makes your internal energy soar when you take it—that medicine.”

“But there are plenty of such medicines in the Central Plains. They’re just hard to obtain. Are you talking about Mount Hua’s Plum Blossom Pills? Or Shaolin’s Small Return Pills?”

As Shin Ah continued to speak in circles, Oh Bangja’s thread-thin patience snapped.

“You’re going to pretend not to know until the end? If that’s how you’re going to be, I’ll take it by force!”

Even after seeing flames bloom from Shin Ah’s hands, Oh Bangja, blinded by greed, charged at her.

Oh Bangja’s momentum as he attacked in earnest was fierce enough to make Shin Ah tense.

Shin Ah surrounded herself with a shield and rained ten ice spears around Oh Bangja.

The ice spears that fell from the sky imprisoned Oh Bangja. Trapped in an ice prison in an instant, Oh Bangja’s cheek muscles convulsed.

He trembled as if he had witnessed a miracle.

Shin Ah stepped back several paces to regain her balance. Her head spun from using explosive magic so suddenly.

“Nameless Blood Powder! Th-this is the power of Nameless Blood Powder! Amazing! The medicinal effect must be stronger than a year ago, right? Well, what I took was just test powder… Finally, the Poison Blood Demon has completed the Nameless Blood Powder!”

“……”

“The person you serve must be able to communicate directly with Elder Poison Blood Demon, right? That must be it! That’s why I received the completed Nameless Blood Powder without even knowing it was finished! Uhahahaha! I’m finally getting connected with key figures in the main cult! Kuhahahaha!”

Oh Bangja laughed loudly, grabbed the ice spears, and stomped his feet. With eyes shining with madness, he looked like a crazy person as he shouted.

Shin Ah frowned.

Nameless Blood Powder.

Literally translated, it would be nameless blood powder.

What could it be that would drive someone to madness like this?

She definitely needed to investigate this properly.

It was the moment Shin Ah made up her mind.

“Kuhek.”

Blood burst out like fountains from Oh Bangja’s eyes, nose, and ears. The smell of blood spread in all directions.

Oh Bangja fell to his knees with a thud and reached his hand through the ice bars.

“Give me some too… just a little… just a little…”

Even while vomiting blood, he obsessed over the Nameless Blood Powder.

At the bizarre and horrific sight, Shin Ah covered her mouth.

‘The prohibition has been activated.’

Oh Bangja had leaked secrets of the Demon Cult. The name Nameless Blood Powder was probably a forbidden word.

A medicine that required even prohibitions couldn’t be anything proper.

She could gradually find out who made it, but there was one immediate concern.

‘If the existence of that medicine spreads widely throughout Murim?’

Quite a few people would end up like Oh Bangja.

They would do bad things without hesitation to obtain the medicine.

‘A bloody storm will blow.’

“Kkeuk, kkeoeoeouk.”

At the sound of blood boiling in his throat, Shin Ah emerged from her thoughts and looked at Oh Bangja.

Making gurgling sounds, he shed tears of blood but wouldn’t close his eyes.

He looked so miserable that Shin Ah frowned.

‘If the prohibition I’ve only heard about has been activated, he’s going to die anyway…’

Shin Ah, feeling soft-hearted, asked.

“If you tell me just one thing, I’ll reduce your pain. Your immediate superior—who is it?”

If you tell me this, I’ll kill you without pain.

Whether he understood her promise to ease his pain as an offer of medicine, Oh Bangja looked at Shin Ah desperately and opened his mouth.

“All?”

“All… anga.”

That was as far as it went.

Oh Bangja convulsed violently, then went limp like a doll.

“Is he dead? Hey! What if he dies like this! What was that last thing he said? All? Dang? Daanga? Does it mean everything?”

Shin Ah poured out questions, but the one who could answer had already departed from this world.

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