The Youngest Daughter of the Hebei Peng Clan Is a Truly a Very Famous Little Heavenly Demon - Chapter 56

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56.

Anyway, Namgung Rin doesn’t seem to have much interest in the secret vault.

As expected, she opened her mouth without any particular sign of discomfort.

“Of course I know! Now I see you came here looking for an opportunity?”

“Ahaha. Something like that.”

“Follow me this way!”

Namgung Rin spun around and walked toward the corridor.

That’s when it happened.

=Lady Peng.

Dangsoso, who had been frozen by the intimidating aura Namgung Rin was emitting, urgently called out to me.

I moved my lips slightly.

=Stay quiet.

Sound transmission isn’t omnipotent telepathy.

In the case of Dangsoso and me, because we’re bound to each other, we can transmit much farther than ordinary sound transmission, but even so, there’s still the medium of qi between us.

For someone at Hyeongyeong level, eavesdropping on ordinary sound transmission would be child’s play.

Of course, the connection between Dangsoso and me is special, but—if Namgung Rin is at the Life-Death or Heaven-Entering level, she would find out somehow. Each step beyond Hyeongyeong is truly vast.

“….”

Following silently for quite a while.

Namgung Rin navigated the maze-like tangled paths without hesitation. The guard gangsi and blood demons lined up along the way didn’t move a single step upon seeing Namgung Rin.

After about an hour.

“Ta-da! This is something Cheonryun Sinmago taught me before, and even after she died, it’s quite a useful base, right? Awesome, isn’t it?”

Making a mockery of my past experience of wandering in the maze for over an hour, we quickly reached Cheonryun Sinmago’s secret vault.

Opening the iron door made with mechanical formations and entering inside, it was paradise.

Whether Namgung Rin had remodeled it to her taste, I could see a rocking chair, a campfire, various books, and a puppy.

“Woof woof!”

A white puppy about the size of my forearm crawled over, wriggling and barking.

Its mouth was red.

“The puppy is cute.”

“Right? It’s Whitey.”

“Ah.”

Every time it barked, there was a smell of blood, so it must be a man-eating dog.

A thick bloody scent wafted from the entire room. Namgung Rin approached the long row of display cases with bouncing steps, humming a tune.

“What do you need? Jade Clear Stone Oil? Ten Thousand Year Snow Ginseng? Or maybe demonic cultivation techniques? I’ll tell you in advance, there’s no Cheonryun Sinma Technique. It’s disappointing since you came all this way looking for it!”

“I see.”

The Cheonryun Sinma Technique is in the Bloodline Mausoleum though.

I swallowed the words that had risen to my throat and answered calmly.

Fortunately, Namgung Rin wasn’t particularly perceptive. She kept humming while walking along the long row of display cases, running her index finger over them.

“Hmm hmm~”

The song she’s humming is familiar.

It’s the chorus of a nationwide mega-hit song that any Korean living in my era would recognize.

Even knowing she’s a crazy psycho, it was enough to make me a little emotional.

If it weren’t for Dangsoso, who picks up modern language from me and uses it, I might have stuck close to Namgung Rin regardless of whether she was evil or not.

“How about this one?”

Swoosh.

Namgung Rin, who had been rummaging through objects of unknown purpose, suddenly reached out and picked up a sword.

“A sword?”

“I saw earlier that you seemed to have broken all your swords~ Or do you happen to have any spares?”

“No!”

It was exactly what I needed most.

Jade Clear Stone Oil and Ten Thousand Year Snow Ginseng were also precious items that would make any martial artist’s eyes widen, but they weren’t particularly attractive elixirs to me, who already had mountains of internal energy from the dual tracks of Northern Enlightenment Skill and demonic arts.

“I wonder if this was something Cheonryun Sinmago used?”

“Probably not? Cheonryun Sinmago preferred bare-handed combat. Her nails were thiiiis long.”

Click.

Namgung Rin, who had been manipulating her hand, extended sharp nails to show me.

I jumped in surprise.

“What is that?!”

How can human hands be like a cat’s.

Namgung Rin, who had retracted her claws, shrugged and answered.

“A miscellaneous technique I developed? It’s a demonic art, but the learning method is simple. Should I teach you too?”

“Yes.”

That’s really amazing.

When I nodded, Namgung Rin gestured.

“Sit here!”

“Yes!”

I sat down obediently.

Then Namgung Rin suddenly pulled out my left pinky nail.

“-Huh? …Huh?”

The nail had disappeared.

While I stared stupidly, my ring finger and middle finger nails also vanished. I bit down hard on my teeth at the intense pain that came rushing in belatedly.

“Wh-what are you doing?”

“Ah~ To do this, you need to pull out the nails and insert iron cores inside. Usually it takes about a month, but at your level, Dori, maybe a week? Once the iron cores settle inside, gradually new nails will grow and push up!”

I momentarily failed to manage my expression.

I quickly said.

“I’ll just not do it.”

“Huh? I already pulled them out though? It won’t look cool if only three nails grow back!”

“That’s.”

Hearing it, she had a point.

Since three had already been pulled out, not learning it would just mean pain for nothing, which would be unfair, but doing only three would definitely make the finished picture look pathetic.

After thinking for a moment, I said.

“Then I’ll just do the left hand.”

“Really? Well, you can do the right hand later anyway!”

I’m not going to do it later though?

I swallowed those words and bit my sleeve. Namgung Rin was so skilled that she pulled out all five nails in an instant and inserted metal pieces she got from who knows where into those spots.

“! -!! -!!!”

Without a doubt, it was the most hellish minute of my life.

It hurt even more than when my arm was dangling. No wonder there used to be torture involving stabbing nails with thorns.

As I kept hitting the floor with my intact right hand, Namgung Rin gently stroked my head.

“It hurts, doesn’t it? I was in pain at first too! Aw, good girl~”

Thus ended the tearfully painful finger modification time.

Namgung Rin even gave me detailed instructions on how to properly extend the nails after a week.

“You might get an infection, so would you like to stay here for a week before leaving? Ah! You said you’re going to the Dang Family. I’ll tell you exactly where to go. Since Cheonryun Sinmago was active near the Jinling Mountain Range, the maps here are well-detailed too.”

Thanks to that, I rested well.

Namgung Rin gave me a room and sat inside every hour under the pretense of checking on my nail condition.

I declined her offer to help me bathe.

“Ah! Good, good! You’re doing well.”

A week later.

It wasn’t that she was trying to kill me—as Namgung Rin had said, I ended up with cool nails (claws?).

Click. Swoosh.

Click. Swoosh.

As I repeatedly retracted and extended my nails, Namgung Rin clapped and rejoiced as if it were her own achievement.

“Wow! She really is pretty!”

“Indeed she is.”

Truly amazing.

‘Should I have done my right hand too?’

I felt a bit regretful, but I didn’t have the confidence to go through that ordeal again.

When fingernails are pulled out, it doesn’t just hurt during the extraction. For the entire week with the metal pins inserted, I could barely sleep due to the foreign sensation and pain.

“Lin Sojeo- is Lina planning to stay here continuously?”

The day of departure.

At my question, Namgung Rin answered with a grin.

“Who knows. I’ll stay as long as it’s interesting, and when I get bored, I’ll go do something else.”

“I see.”

If possible, I’d prefer not to run into her again.

‘Or would I?’

Come to think of it, the modified fingernails and the mysterious famous sword were quite sweet rewards.

If she’s someone who gives things like this every time we meet, even though she’s a bit crazy, wouldn’t she be a top-tier opportunity?

“Take care! See you again!”

“Yes. Stay well.”

I left Cheonryun Sinmago’s secret archive together with Dangsoso, who had become noticeably quieter during our entire stay.

As soon as we returned to the Jinling Mountain Range, the ominously thick fog greeted us.

However, thanks to the map and compass Namgung Rin had given me, it was much better than before. At least I could tell whether we were heading in the right direction or not.

“Lady Peng.”

When we were more than two hundred li away from Cheonryun Sinmago’s secret archive.

Dangsoso, who had been walking in frightening silence, called out to me for the first time.

“I…”

I stopped walking with Dangsoso and looked at her. The girl who met my gaze moved her lips slightly.

She seemed to be hesitating about something.

Reading Dangsoso’s thoughts forcibly would be simple. However, from a certain point on, I had stopped interfering with her thoughts when she didn’t want it.

“You can speak comfortably.”

If it were truly an important matter for me, she would have told me already.

If the reason for her hesitation was personal circumstances, I intended to wait until she was ready to speak.

As I watched her quietly with a gentle expression, Dangsoso opened her mouth again.

“About that person named Namgung Rin.”

“…”

“I’ve met her before.”

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