The Youngest Son of the Eunhae Merchant Group - Chapter 751

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The Youngest Son of the Eun Hae Trading Company Chapter 751

Chapter 751. The Story Behind It (1)

The one who threw himself forward was none other than the Jegal Family’s Grand Patriarch.
He kicked the Jade-Faced Libertine’s jaw and sent him sprawling, then pressed his foot firmly against the man’s heaving chest.
Wow!
Grand Patriarch, that was magnificent!
“You hid your filthy nature so well while applying to be my granddaughter’s husband?”
“Ugh… What on earth is this about?”
“You bastard!”
Watching him protest as if wronged, the Grand Patriarch couldn’t contain his fury and swung his hand.
With that immense inner force behind the gesture, the Jade-Faced Libertine’s disguise technique was torn away in an instant.
I never knew you could strip away a disguise technique like that.
As the disguise vanished and his true face was revealed, the people around us gasped and began murmuring.
“Wait, that face!”
“Isn’t that the Jade-Faced Libertine?”
“That scoundrel who preys on women?”
“How could someone like that be here!”
The Jade-Faced Libertine’s expression showed clear panic at the crowd’s condemnation.
The Grand Patriarch raised his foot and brought it down hard on the Jade-Faced Libertine’s dantian.
Crack!
“Cough!”
Blood poured from his mouth at the same moment.
Crunch!
Crack!
He was destroying the dantian without mercy.
Breaking a martial artist’s dantian is, in a sense, a harsher punishment than execution.
A lifetime of accumulated effort becomes worthless in a single moment.
Moreover, losing one’s inner force leaves them weaker than an ordinary person.
Yet no one tried to stop him.
The Jade-Faced Libertine’s past deeds were simply too vile.
Crunch!
Just now, I thought I heard a different sound?
“Ahhhhh!”
The Jade-Faced Libertine’s anguished scream.
“Ah… I made a mistake.”
As if the Grand Patriarch would ever make a mistake….
That bastard won’t be able to use that anymore.
It was only natural that the Grand Patriarch was furious from head to toe. After all, that scoundrel had been targeting his granddaughter.
If I hadn’t revealed the Merchant’s true identity, that scoundrel might have become the husband of Jegal Yu-ah Minor Clan Master.
I clicked my tongue softly and looked at Jegal Yu-ah Minor Clan Master.
Though it didn’t show on her face, her hands were trembling with rage as well.
The Jegal Family Head asked me.
“How did you know that bastard was the Jade-Faced Libertine?”
“Ah, well….”
I couldn’t say it was because the Lady saw the Merchant’s real face.
I was about to offer a prepared excuse.
“Heh heh, why ask such a thing? Isn’t it natural for any martial artist worth their salt to have hidden techniques?”
At the Jin Jeong Elder’s words, the House Master nodded.
“Well, that’s true enough.”
I bowed slightly to the Jin Jeong Elder.
In the meantime, the Jade-Faced Libertine was bound by the Jegal Family Warriors.
His once-neat clothes were soaked with blood, and his face was swollen grotesquely, as if his jaw had been shattered.
“Throw him in the Prison!”
“Yes!”
It was as the warriors were dragging him away.
Whoosh—!
A hidden blade flew from somewhere and embedded itself in the Jade-Faced Libertine’s neck.
Gack!
Blood streamed from his eyes, nose, mouth, and ears as his body convulsed, foam flecking his lips.
A poisoning reaction.
The Jade-Faced Libertine’s movements ceased. The Jegal Family Warrior beside him spoke.
“He’s dead.”
Meanwhile, I turned my head and traced the aura of the Jin Yu Warrior.
The moment the hidden blade embedded itself in the Jade-Faced Libertine’s neck, the Jin Yu Warrior had moved to track its trajectory.
I spoke to Geumryeong.
– Let’s go.
– Squeak!

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Whoosh! Thwack!
The masked man was sprinting at maximum speed, employing his lightness technique to its fullest.
The surrounding landscape blurred and receded in an instant.
After running for quite some time, he finally stopped when he was certain no one was pursuing him.
“Haah, haah, haah.”
He caught his breath, gazing down at his trembling hands.
Hands that quivered ever so slightly.
The Jade-Faced Libertine was one of the instructors who trained the Alliance Leader’s Personal Guard, including myself.
His capture would be extremely dangerous.
There was a significant possibility that the existence of Samnamu Village would be revealed through his mouth.
If that happened, the comrades there could potentially be disposed of by the Alliance Leader’s orders.
They were those with whom I had crossed the threshold between life and death together, and my feelings toward them were special.
But before my own feelings, there was a common order given to the Alliance Leader’s Personal Guard.
If there was any possibility of the headquarters being exposed, silence the one responsible by any means necessary.
Thus, I used that order as justification to kill the Jade-Faced Libertine.
Now, I felt exhilaration coursing through me.
The cruel, demon-like face that had tormented the children during training surfaced in my mind.

“Bring that bastard here. And from now on, you all beat this bastard to death! Refuse and you die.”
In that situation, all I could do was end his life as quickly as possible.

“N-no! Please don’t do this!”
“Hehehehe, this is education too. Where do you think we’ll use you girls?”
The young girls brought here for training all had to endure terrible things from him without exception.
All I could do was keep watch so they could cry freely.
Naturally, I too received education and was beaten countless times by the Jade-Faced Libertine, subjected to humiliation.
Even being bitten by Chilbo Saoong was because of the Jade-Faced Libertine.
And finally, today, I was able to do what I had longed for again and again.
To kill the Jade-Faced Libertine.
“I… I killed the instructor. I… I killed that bastard instructor. Hehehehe.”
I laughed like a madman, and the laughter did not stop easily.
“Hahaha! Hahaha!”
I looked up at the sky and asked.
“Did you see? I finally killed that bastard!”
“Yeah, I saw.”
“…!”
A voice that shouldn’t have been audible.
At this, I flinched. Then I closed my eyes and laughed.
“Hearing hallucinations… it seems I’ve truly reached my limit now.”
“Does it feel good? You bastard?”
“Huh?”
It wasn’t a hallucination.
He spun around in shock and discovered an unfamiliar figure standing before him.
He immediately leveled his blade and spoke.
“Who are you!”
“….”
But the other man merely sighed without drawing a weapon.
He recalled that the man had acted as though he knew him.
“Do you know me?”
To his sharp question, the other man answered.
“Yu Chul.”
“…!”
The Masked Intruder was startled by that name.
The man had called his name with perfect accuracy.
Only those from Samnamu Village would know his name—or so he had believed.
Remembering this fact, he bit his lip, lowered his blade, and clasped his fist in salute before asking.
“Have you come from Samnamu Village?”
“….”
“Killing the Jade-Faced Libertine Instructor was not my intention. It would have exposed Samnamu Village’s existence. Therefore….”
“Samnamu Village? As I thought… you’ve relocated. So that’s why there was no one there.”
At those words, Yu Chul immediately drew his blade again and aimed it at him.
“You! What is your identity?”
At this, he—Jin Yu—could only sigh.
Revealing his identity could endanger everyone.
These were the people who had changed his life.
The old friend ahead was precious, but so were they.
After deliberation, he drew his blade.
The best course of action now was to subdue this man.
“You must exert your full strength.”
With that warning, Jin Yu rushed toward Yu Chul.
Whoosh!
Clang!
The sound of blade meeting blade rang out sharply.
“Ugh!”
Yu Chul bit his lip, realizing his opponent’s strength exceeded his expectations.
That warning to exert full strength had not been mere words.
Each strike was heavy and precise.
As they exchanged blows in rapid succession, he suddenly felt something familiar about his opponent’s swordplay.
Clang!
Clang-clang!
Swordplay that changes direction by attacking the side of a weapon—it required exceptionally keen instincts to execute.
Because of this, among those who trained alongside him, only a single person could perform such swordplay.
‘Yeon Gye-seung?’
No. That couldn’t be.
That man had died long ago on a mission.
‘There’s no chance of victory like this!’
He deliberately allowed his hand to be slightly cut by the opponent’s blade.
Crimson blood flowed from the back of his hand.
After confirming the blood had flowed sufficiently, he clashed blades with his opponent and sprayed the blood toward him.
If even a single drop of his blood entered the opponent’s body, he could escape this place.
It was a method he avoided using because he disliked his blood harming others, but he had to think of his comrades remaining in Samnamu Village.
Normally, one would coat hidden blades with his blood to use them, but such a method would never work against the master before him.
However, since the opponent wouldn’t know his blood was poison, he employed this tactic.
Splatter.
Blood flew across the opponent’s face, and he could see some of it entering his mouth.
Now, if he just waited a moment longer….
But as time passed, he sensed no poisoning reaction whatsoever from his opponent.
‘Why…?’
At those wavering eyes, Jin Yu exhaled a deep sigh.
“Your poison doesn’t work on me.”
“…!”
In that instant, Jin Yu pressed forward without slowing his momentum and charged straight at him.
And then.
Thud—!
Jin Yu’s fist buried itself in his abdomen.
“…Damn.”
With those words, Yu Chul collapsed forward.
Jin Yu caught him, and his gaze fell upon the back of his hand, still bleeding.
Countless scars marked that hand, as if it had been cut tens of thousands of times—he bit his lip at the sight.
His memories stretched back to long ago.

A child leaning against the Guest Quarters, staring blankly up at the sky.
Jin Yu approached the child.
“Yu Chul. Are you alright?”
“Don’t come near me!”
“Huh?”
“I have poison in me! If my blood enters your body, you’ll die too!”
“What?”
One of the Instructors, intrigued by him who had been on the brink of death from the Chilbo Saoong’s bite, had taken him away.
And when Yu Chul returned after three months, he began to avoid contact with others at all costs.
So Jin Yu, concerned about him, approached Yu Chul, and that’s when Yu Chul warned him.
“I see….”
“My blood has become a poison that kills people!”
A hand reached out and touched his head as he cried out.
Pat.
“So are you alright?”
“….”
The moment he heard those words, Yu Chul couldn’t help but burst into tears.
How could he be alright?
After a long while, he stopped crying and spoke.
“Anyway, don’t come near me. I don’t want you to die because of me.”
“I don’t want to die from your poison either. Because then you’d be very upset.”
“….”
“But I don’t want to leave you alone either.”
“Why?”
“We’re Old Friends.”
Jin Yu was concerned about Yu Chul.
He was the type who looked after other children but failed to look after himself.
So Jin Yu wanted to be the one to care for Yu Chul.
Thus, Jin Yu sought out the Instructor who had taken Yu Chul away and asked how he could survive Yu Chul’s poison.
“Hehehehe, you just need to build immunity to that poison.”
“Immunity… you say?”
“Yes, if it were me, I could make you build immunity.”
“Please do.”
“It will be extremely painful. It will be a difficult and arduous process.”
“That’s fine. I don’t mind.”
“Good.”
From then on, he began to build immunity.
The method of building immunity was none other than diluting Yu Chul’s blood in water and drinking it.
Each time he drank that poison, he felt excruciating pain as if his organs were melting away.
And soon after, Yu Chul discovered that Jin Yu was building immunity to his poison.
“Why! Why are you doing this! Why!”
Jin Yu spoke calmly to him as he raged.
“Well… we’re old friends, aren’t we?”
“…”
“So you must live for me too. I will live for you as well.”

Jin Yu looked at Yu Chul, who lay unconscious.
Never had I been more grateful than today that I had built up a tolerance to Yu Chul’s poison in advance.
“Don’t worry too much. My lord will surely pull you out of that hell.”
That was when it happened.
“So this is the man that Jin Yu Warrior spoke of.”
“M-my lord.”
His lord approached him as if floating lightly through the air.
“You two seem to share quite a special bond.”
“Yes. That is correct. He is the only one I consider a true old friend.”
His lord spoke with narrowed eyes.
“How fortunate that you’ve come to meet such a person.”

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I looked at the unconscious man cradled in Jin Yu Warrior’s arms.
What I sensed from him was the aura of the Sura Blood Sect.
But what I felt even more strongly was the intense aura of poison.
Despite knowing he possessed such poison, Jin Yu Warrior held him without fear.
“First, let us move him.”
“I…”
“Do not worry. I have no intention of going to the Jegal Family Estate. I have prepared another location. Let us go there.”
“Thank you.”
We moved to the place the other Guard Warriors had prepared.
After laying him on a bed, I heard from Jin Yu Warrior the circumstances that bound him to this man.
“…So that’s why Jin Yu Warrior has a tolerance to this warrior’s poison.”
“Yes, that is correct.”
“Poison, I see…”
I could detoxify the poison in this Yu Chul’s body, but I could not do so rashly.
His condition clearly did not look good.
And this man is one of the important witnesses regarding the Sura Blood Sect.
I cannot let him die like this.
Fortunately, there is someone nearby who knows poison well.
“Palgap. Bring Baek Bal Hwa-ui here.”

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