The Owner Of The Thousand Gold Coins Is A Military Official - Chapter 101

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Chapter 101

Should I say their judgment is quite quick?

The man in black robes immediately began searching through the carriage to obtain what he was looking for, while the others started moving to silence everyone first.

Among them, the one who appeared to be their captain was approaching Cheongun.

Since he would fetch the highest price, it seemed he planned to handle him personally.

“Make sure to finish him off. That bastard, I’ll…”

However, when the captain turned his gaze back, an unbelievable scene was unfolding before his eyes.

The man who had clearly collapsed on the ground coughing up blood was now standing perfectly fine, looking at him.

“…”

The footsteps that had been approaching came to a halt.

A premonition that something would go wrong if he got any closer.

This wasn’t a warrior’s intuition.

It was the instinct of a living being as a human.

The captain who had hesitated for a moment decided to ignore that feeling this time.

The reason he had survived in this perilous Gangho at a peak level until now was because he had followed those instincts well.

Even if he sometimes ignored good intuition, he had never ignored ominous premonitions.

He had always followed that principle, but this time he couldn’t.

The gold and silver treasures packed full in that carriage behind.

With just that, he could spend the rest of his life in high-class giru without any problems.

Even all of his subordinates present here could do the same.

“Hmm…”

A gaze that looked around at himself and his group behind him.

That gaze seemed to be looking at something quite unpleasant.

Disgusting, filthy insects.

It was a gaze that saw nothing more, nothing less.

“If, if you want to save your life, kneel down.”

That was all he could manage to say.

If he didn’t say at least this much, it felt like he wouldn’t be able to do anything at all.

“…”

But there was no response.

Even though he had heard the voice, he might have at least given him a glance, but he didn’t even look his way.

“That’s enough.”

Then came the first words he heard.

What was enough?

“Kneel down!!”

At that voice, the gazes of the subordinates who had been about to silence the others turned back.

“…Captain?”

“What, what’s this? I clearly saw him drink it…”

“He even coughed up blood! But how?”

These were clearly panicked voices.

“This should be about right.”

A gaze that seemed to be measuring something moved up and down.

The captain finished preparing to draw his sword at any moment, responding to the ominous feeling his instincts were telling him.

The hand gripping his sword was slippery.

Why was he sweating so much?

The young man’s hand before his eyes moved toward his sword.

‘…A sword? Was there a sword?’

Why hadn’t he noticed it?

The moment he fell into that bewilderment.

A light breeze brushed past his quiet cheek.

For what should have been just an ordinary breeze, this wind was far too sharp.

Hoping with all his heart that this wind was just an ordinary breeze.

The captain’s gaze slowly turned backward.

“…”

No words came out at all.

Just what had happened, what kind of situation had occurred.

While the somewhat shocking scene was one reason words wouldn’t come, there was a bigger reason.

No one to ask.

No one to answer this question.

“You seem quick on the uptake.”

“…Y-yes, but…”

At that response, Cheongun burst into a snicker.

“Now that I look at it, I guess not.”

“N-no…”

In a situation where crawling on the ground wouldn’t be enough, how dare he not speak respectfully.

Was it petty pride?

Rather than that, it was surely something else.

A brief conversation.

The price for not speaking respectfully was one arm.

“Kugh…!!!”

The captain barely managed to suppress the agonizing groan that was about to burst out.

And Cheongun looked at such a captain quite satisfactorily and said.

“This time you’re quick on the uptake.”

“Th-thank… you.”

The person still inside the carriage didn’t know yet.

Therefore, he intended to prevent them from noticing that something had happened outside.

As for Cheongun, well, whether they noticed or not.

It made no difference to him.

However, from this captain’s reaction, he could tell one thing.

That he was the type of person who would spill everything he knew.

“Since you told me to kneel…”

“Yes, yes!”

The difference in level was so vast it wouldn’t be visible even looking up at the sky.

How many times had there been moments when the title of ‘peak level’ became so meaningless.

The captain tried to quickly kneel, but Cheongun had somehow approached and blocked him.

“…?”

Pain, anxiety, and fear.

And eyes filled with bewilderment looked at Cheongun.

What those eyes wanted.

What they were saying was just one thing.

Please spare my life.

“You seem frightened.”

The fact that his arm had been cut.

The fact that all his subordinates had been dealt with in that instant moment he felt no sign of it.

All of this had become part of his fear, but above all, those eyes were the greatest source of fear for the captain.

Empty and void.

If not for the slight vitality remaining in those pupils, he would surely think they were the eyes of the dead.

“Do you want to live?”

“Yes, yes…”

“Kneel down.”

“….”

At those words, just as the Captain’s knees were about to bend again.

Crack.

The sound of bones twisting and breaking echoed one after another.

“Kugh…!!”

What he had to do faster than understanding what had happened was enduring the groan of pain.

The man who collapsed with his knees bent backward began trembling all over from the terrible pain that seemed like it would make him lose consciousness.

“Since you knelt, I’ll spare your life.”

“Th, thank you… thank you…”

“Wait here. I need to catch that bastard too and have you confront each other.”

Though he didn’t say it outright, he knew.

That the one who knows more can survive.

How foolish.

The very thought that he could survive already showed his lack of awareness.

Cheongun leisurely headed toward the vicinity of the carriage.

Passing by the unconscious people around, he reached the carriage that the man in black robes had entered.

“…Found it…!!!”

Though it was a small voice, he could see joy and ecstasy being suppressed.

To the extent that he couldn’t sense Cheongun’s presence even when he was this close.

When he checked what was found, a small wooden box seemed to be the target.

“With just this…”

“What will change?”

“Wh, what!!”

Cheongun’s eyes met with the one who turned around in surprise.

Being close, he could see part of that covered face.

‘A face severely burned.’

If it was a face he’d seen before, it would be hard to forget such a face.

Since he couldn’t quite recall it, this must be someone he’s meeting for the first time.

“H, how…”

“Come out first.”

Cheongun turned his body first to create space for him to come out.

He had given him a choice.

Whether to obediently come out following Cheongun’s words.

Or challenge this defenselessness of showing his back.

“….”

Turning his body was but an instant.

Following that, the man’s choice was one that could settle this entire situation at once.

‘I must finish this in one strike.’

Seeing how leisurely he is, it must mean he dealt with everyone outside.

However, they were all just peak-level and first-rate at best anyway.

To himself who had stepped into the transcendent realm, they were nothing.

Though he had many things to ask that arrogant young man who showed his back, that curiosity wasn’t more important than his life.

He had to sever the neck in one strike.

Even if he failed, he had to at least inflict an injury that would greatly hinder combat.

First, he set down the wooden box he was holding.

And simultaneously, he drew the sword from his chest and swung it along the fastest possible path.

The wooden box he had released from his hand hadn’t even touched the ground.

When it had fallen to around knee level.

The sword tip was already just before touching Cheongun’s neck.

‘Hmm…?’

But then, the outside of the carriage that had been hidden until now came into view.

He could see someone collapsed ahead, kneeling.

‘The knees are reversed…’

Though the bizarre sight was momentarily chilling, the sword was already just before touching the neck.

Though he couldn’t turn back, he thought he had cut sufficiently.

Clang.

‘The sword…’

Won’t go any deeper.

As if completely blocked by something invisible, it only made a hollow sound without reaching.

“Pr, protective… aura…”

Clang.

A similar sound was heard again.

Though it was also a sound from the sword he had swung, the result was quite different.

He dropped the sword.

No, more precisely, it was more accurate to say he let go of the sword.

To be at a level where he could use protective aura.

And at that age too.

Grip.

The sound of something being strongly grasped was heard.

“Kehek…!”

The sound of being forcibly choked and trying to breathe was also heard together.

“I have many questions.”

Cheongun, who had grabbed his neck and dragged him, brought him next to the Captain who was on the verge of losing consciousness.

Since he had pressed the blood points to stop the bleeding, he wouldn’t die for a while.

“It would be better to be fair, wouldn’t it?”

“Wh, what are you talking about…”

It was instantaneous.

The man’s knees were also bent backward like the Captain’s, and the hand that had gripped and swung the sword was already long since severed.

“Kraaaak!!!!”

“Now that it’s fair, I’ll ask questions.”

Cheongun stood before them with his hands behind his back.

“From now on. Answer all questions in connection with attacking this merchant group. Where did you come from?”

“….”

“….”

Both men hesitated to answer.

However, Cheongun did nothing.

He didn’t intimidate them, nor did he torture them.

He simply looked at them.

In fact, looking at their current state, it wasn’t much different from being tortured.

“Bl, Black Society’s…”

“You crazy bastard!!”

The name Black Society came out of the Captain’s mouth first, and the moment he heard that answer, Cheongun cut off the remaining arm of the Black Robe Man.

“Kraaaak!!”

“Purpose?”

“Th, that is…”

“Kugh… for, for Black Society’s… cause, we needed what’s inside that wooden box…!”

The man with both arms severed answered while breathing heavily, and upon hearing that answer, Cheongun immediately cut off the Captain’s remaining arm.

By now, they would both have caught on.

That whoever answers first suffers relatively less pain.

After that, Cheongun asked many things.

Each time, someone’s body gets cut and torn repeatedly.

What mattered to Cheongun wasn’t time.

What was important was hearing what he wanted to hear.

“Please… please kill… me…”

“I will.”

This was the first and last time.

That Cheongun would grant their wish.

Having heard everything he needed to hear, Cheongun cut their throats without hesitation.

What remained was left for the animals living in this place.

What could have been inside that wooden box?

The man seemed to answer other questions, but remained silent about that wooden box until the very end.

It looked like an ordinary wooden box on the outside, but if it were truly ordinary, he would have spoken under such painful circumstances.

Cheongun picked up the wooden box first.

They had hastily prepared for this Sanghaeng journey and swept up everything nearby, and it seemed to have gotten mixed in during that process.

“Whatever it is… I should detoxify these people first and then check.”

Still, their lives took priority over curiosity.

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