The Heavenly Demon Cult’s Strongest Maid - Chapter 233

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Chapter 233

“Ah, no….”

Yang Ha-rin tossed and turned while moaning, as if having a nightmare. Cold sweat beaded on her furrowed brow.

If I had known this would happen, I should have told her earlier.

It was my mistake for trusting Yang Ha-rin’s spirited personality too much.

‘She’s still just a teenage girl after all.’

Feeling sorry, I couldn’t leave Yang Ha-rin’s side and diligently wiped away her sweat with a towel.

Yang Ha-rin, who had fainted, woke up only after the sun had completely set.

“Sister….”

Yang Ha-rin, whose eyes met mine, opened her mouth with difficulty.

“I had a scary dream.”

“A dream?”

“Yeah.”

Yang Ha-rin hugged the blanket tightly with a terrified expression.

“It was a dream where I was dragged to the Demonic Sect. You were there too, sister, and you suddenly told me you were Cheonma’s disciple….”

Yang Ha-rin, who had been rambling incoherently, suddenly stopped talking. Her hands gripping the blanket tensed up.

“Ha-rin?”

“….”

“Ha-rin….”

“Kyaaah!”

I had only lightly touched her since she wasn’t responding, but Yang Ha-rin screamed and curled up her body.

“Wh-what are you going to do to me?”

Yang Ha-rin asked while glaring at me with the blanket pulled up to her neck.

At least her eyes were alive, which was fortunate.

“I’m not going to do anything to you. So relax.”

“How can I not be tense? What’s the reason you brought me to the Demonic Sect!”

“Let’s get our facts straight. Did I drag you here?”

“…Huh?”

“You walked here on your own feet. You haven’t forgotten that, have you?”

“B-but back then I thought this was Cheon-sin-mun!”

Yang Ha-rin seemed to feel wronged as she lowered the blanket and shouted angrily.

I started with an apology first.

“I’m sorry for not telling you. It might sound like an excuse, but I didn’t have a chance to say it.”

“Whatever! Just tell me why you brought me here!”

Though her tone was sharp, Yang Ha-rin’s voice was trembling severely.

I could roughly guess what kind of imagination was going on in that small head of hers.

“…Are you going to sacrifice me as an offering?”

Hmm, I hadn’t even thought of sacrifice.

It does seem quite novel though.

“No, nothing like that.”

“Th-then… are you going to drain my life force?”

Someone from the Cheonhyeol Yeo Clan who learned the Life Absorption Technique might be able to do that.

“I’ve never done anything like that.”

“If not that either, then surely… you’ll turn me into a living corpse and… Mommy!”

I had heard that the Goru Wi Clan manufactured living corpses.

But I knew they didn’t just grab anyone to do it. At least officially, that was the case.

“Ha-rin, none of that is true. I just….”

“I know everything, so stop lying!”

Yang Ha-rin sobbed like someone who had lived through everything in this world.

“The Demonic Sect captures virgins to sacrifice them as human offerings, sucks the essence and life force of living people to increase their internal energy! I know all about it! Kidnapping young children to raise them as killing machines is also all the evil deeds the Demonic Sect does!”

These were indeed the deeds commonly depicted by the Demonic Sect as villains in martial arts novels.

But that’s not me.

How on earth do I make her believe me?

“Haah.”

A sigh escaped from my frustration.

“S-sister….”

Yang Ha-rin called me while tears streamed down her face.

“Even if I’m going to die, I have a request… Please let me go without pain. You can do at least that much, right?”

What is she saying?

“Waaaah! Grandfather! Dad! Mom! Ha-rin is coming to see you soon! Waaaah!”

Yang Ha-rin finally broke down and wailed loudly.

Yes, cry.

Let’s talk again when you’ve cried to your heart’s content and calmed down.

I silently patted Yang Ha-rin’s back and handed her a handkerchief.

“Sniff!”

Even in this situation, she’s blowing her nose refreshingly and doing everything she needs to do.

“Hic!”

From crying so much, her eyes had already swollen up.

Her nose tip was red and she was hiccupping, which was a bit cute.

“Are you done crying now?”

“…Yeah.”

“Then listen carefully. You seem to have some serious misunderstanding, but this is also a place where people live. The ideology is just a little different, and I hope you’ll understand that it’s not as strange a place as you think.”

“My grandfather was the leader of the Martial Arts Alliance! You think I don’t know because I’m young, but I’ve heard things too!”

“Are you certain that’s all true?”

“…Certain?”

“Right. How was I when you saw me?”

At my question, Yang Ha-rin seemed flustered and couldn’t say anything for a moment.

“From now on, use me as your standard. You’ll see how different the Demonic Sect you know really is.”

“…Can I really trust you, sister?”

“Do you have anyone else to trust besides me?”

Yang Ha-rin only had me right now.

Whether she liked it or not, believing would put her mind at ease.

“…Then let me ask just one last thing.”

“Go ahead.”

“By any chance.”

“Yeah.”

“Are you… trying to raise me as a spy for the Martial Arts Alliance?”

“What?”

“I mean, no matter how I look at it, I’m perfect for it! A direct descendant of the Shinchang Yang Family and granddaughter of the former Martial Arts Alliance leader! You’re going to educate me and send me as a spy to the Martial Arts Alliance, right? Right?”

You were thinking that far ahead?

Our Ha-rin has quite a rich imagination.

“Why can’t you answer? I’m right, aren’t I? My deduction was correct! Huuung!”

“No, you’re not!”

“Lies! Huuung!”

“We already have plenty of spies. When would we raise and send you? You’re a risk, no, you’re dangerous so it won’t work.”

“N-no way…!”

Yang Ha-rin suddenly scurried away to the corner of the bed, as if she had thought of something else.

“Did you already plant some poison in my body?”

“…Poison?”

“Waaah, bugs inside my body! How horrible!”

Yang Ha-rin was on the verge of wailing again.

I frantically waved my hands in denial.

“I know what kind of poison you’re talking about, but I’ve never even seen the real thing. There’s no way I would do something like that to you!”

“I don’t believe you!”

“Whether you believe me or not, I just couldn’t ignore you being left alone, so I brought you here. It was the best I could do to help!”

There was also some guilt involved.

After all, I was the one who drove a wedge between the Shinchang Yang Clan and the Moyong Family.

“You seem really agitated right now, but you know our grandfathers came together, right?”

When I brought up the grandfathers, Yang Ha-rin visibly began to calm down.

She seemed to finally realize that she wasn’t the only orthodox sect person in the Demonic Sect.

“…Then the place where your grandmother hid for 17 years was the Demonic Sect?”

“Yeah.”

“And you’re Cheonma’s disciple?”

“Yep.”

“Cr-crazy!”

As she suddenly became aware of the facts, Yang Ha-rin seemed to get goosebumps and kept rubbing her arms with both hands.

“Wh-what am I supposed to do now?”

“What do you mean what? Just live here with me and do what you want to do.”

“…What I want to do?”

“Didn’t you say you wanted to continue training in spearmanship?”

She might be a bit immature, but Yang Ha-rin was serious about martial arts training. She had talent too.

“I don’t have to learn demonic arts?”

“Do you want to learn them?”

“No!”

“Then why are you asking when you don’t even want to learn? Just focus on mastering the Yangga Spearmanship. You need to carry on the lineage, don’t you?”

“…Can you write me a pledge?”

What is this girl even saying!

When I looked at her incredulously, Yang Ha-rin protested.

“Put yourself in my position. Wouldn’t you say the same thing?”

“I’m really sorry I couldn’t tell you beforehand.”

“You were the first person I ever liked, and you offered to live together when I lost my family. Do you know how grateful I was? But the place you brought me to wasn’t Cheon-sin-mun, but the Demonic Sect. And you’re Cheonma’s disciple. I’m amazed I haven’t lost my mind right now.”

You already fainted once though?

But I didn’t bother bringing that up.

I fully understood Yang Ha-rin’s feelings.

And this wasn’t something that could be resolved immediately.

What Yang Ha-rin needed was time.

“Aren’t you hungry? Since we’re up, let’s go eat some noodles.”

“Noodles?”

After arguing so much with Yang Ha-rin, I was hungry.

When I gestured for her to get up, Yang Ha-rin looked up at me as if bewildered.

“It’s my grandmother’s shop. The grandfathers will all be there too, so don’t worry.”

“Really? Where is it?”

Look how happy she gets when I mention the grandfathers.

“Follow me. We need to go outside the castle.”

“…You’re not taking me somewhere weird, are you?”

“Then do you want to stay here alone?”

“No! I’ll go!”

“Then let’s go quietly. Please.”

When will Yang Ha-rin’s suspicions disappear?

I shook my head and hurriedly left Yeong-eun Hall to eat the noodles and dumplings I had promised with Grandmother.

“Grandmother!”

When I entered the shop, everyone who was supposed to gather was already there.

Not only the three grandfathers, but also Uncle Gong Pae-cheon, and even Eok I-geon, Cheon-gang, and Seo-ryeon were all absorbed in noodles and dumplings.

“Our granddaughter is finally here?”

“Come sit here quickly!”

“Maybe it’s because our daughter made these noodles, but this old man has finally learned what noodles really taste like!”

Grandfather Am-wang, who was tasting Grandmother’s noodles for the first time, had apparently eaten three bowls. Next to him, steamer plates of dumplings were stacked up like a tower.

“As expected, Lord Dang’s noodles and dumplings are the best!”

Cheon-gang and Seo-ryeon were also eating more than usual, perhaps because it had been a while.

Needless to say about Eok I-geon.

Even while busily stuffing food into his mouth, he had the presence of mind to give me the seat next to him, which was rather touching.

“Come on, eat up. You must be hungry.”

“Thank you for the meal!”

Just as I was swallowing my saliva while looking at the noodles placed in front of me.

“You didn’t put anything in the noodles, did you?”

Yang Ha-rin’s sharp voice poured cold water on the warm atmosphere.

“Seolha, what is she saying?”

“…Well, Ha-rini is still adjusting. Ahaha.”

I answered as if it was nothing and quickly switched my noodles with Yang Ha-rin’s.

“Is this okay?”

“You eat first, unnie.”

“Yes yes, I’ll taste-test it.”

I was so hungry I couldn’t see straight anyway.

I took a sip of the broth first, then slurped up the noodles voraciously.

“Ah, this is the taste!”

An exclamation of delight burst out naturally.

I truly felt like I had finally come home.

“…Whoa.”

One bite, two bites.

Yang Ha-rin’s chopsticks, which had been picking at the food, sped up as expected.

Her eyes grew rounder the more she ate, so apparently there was nothing wrong with her taste buds.

“Right, they say even a ghost that dies after eating looks better!”

Yang Ha-rin seemed determined as if she had resolved to die.

After that, watching Yang Ha-rin eat two more bowls of noodles and three more plates of dumplings before finally surrendering that she was full, I suppressed a chuckle.

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