Chapter 19 – 19. Different Dreams
The work proceeded in an instant. Originally, the swordsman and the branch manager, who would show resistance to this work, were persuaded by Baek-wun, so Baek-jin took the initiative and proceeded without any obstruction.
Baek-woon, who had been negotiating with him, was rather grateful to Baek-jin for taking care of his troublesome work.
“I would like to express my gratitude to the swordsman for his consideration.”
“As a person who walks the same level, I just did the obvious.”
At the negotiating table, the two men shook hands in front of everyone after negotiating with the branch manager as a notary public. Although it was a foolish negotiation to pass over the most important parts of the toenail and the inner hem, Maeng’s warriors applauded with admiration at the appearance of Swordsman and Baekun, who were willing to give it up for Baekdo Jinin.
Of course, the swordsman and the branch manager looked like they didn’t understand at all, but Baekwoon strongly insisted and asked them to wait, so I did my job in silence.
Baek Jin smiles broadly at the thought that the negotiations were completed before Do Jin Baek came to his senses from his injury. If he succeeds in this task, it is certain that his position within the Qingsheng faction will rise even higher, so how can he not be happy?
Although it hurts to have to hand over the inner altar to Baekwoon, who pretends to have been caught in the coin infestation due to internal injury, it is not a bad decision to save the swordsmith’s disciple and put silver on the volcano faction in that situation.
“We will continue to maintain such a good relationship in the future… Huck?!”
After shaking hands and chatting, Baek Jin burst into shock and widened his eyes. At his sudden change, the student of the Cheongseongpa tilted his head and approached him, unable to grasp the situation.
“Elder. Where are you sick?”
“Cuck!”
“-Are you scared, huh?!”
But it’s already too late. It was because, before Baek Jin could even say anything to the attendant, he was coughing up blood in front of everyone.
“A disciple!?”
As if his disciple was right, Geomhu runs first and snatches Baek-un, who is about to hit his head on the floor. No matter how advanced a military man may be, he could break if he fell headfirst to the floor with internal injuries to the point of vomiting blood. Like a mother who takes care of her calf by catching her disciple, she holds it in her arms.
In this chaotic situation, it was difficult for the branch manager to make a judgment as he had been looking at the situation coolly by himself.
‘From Baek Jin-jang to Cheongseong-pa dojos, everyone has trembling eyes. He’s genuinely perplexed. Does that mean the culprit is inside the blind? Or Baek So-hyeop’s own play?’
There was too little information available to him to draw conclusions in this short amount of time. In this case, the branch manager, who decided that it was best to act according to the general procedure and buy time, shouted to the warriors of the army.
“The warriors of Maeng, arrest the Cheongseong faction right now! It’s an attempted murder!”
“Oh, no… Look at me, branch manager! All of this is misunderstood!”
“Whether it is a misunderstanding or not, the investigation department will investigate and make a judgment. So, I hope the elder will remain calm as a defendant. If you resist here, everyone here will have no choice but to testify against Elder Baek Jin as witnesses Keep in mind that no.”
At his words, Baek Jin looked around. Certainly, as the branch manager said, all of them, from the plain warriors working at the Meng to the military men from other regions who visited the Meng as guests, were all looking this way with interest.
In this situation, Baek-jin, who had calculated that there would be no benefit to claiming that he was not alone, immediately lowered his head.
“…I understand. I will be quietly investigated. So, make sure to make a judgment from a neutral position.”
“I swear that I will conduct a fair and fair investigation as the head of the Sacheon branch of the Moorim League.”
Baek Jin was taken by the arms of Maeng’s warriors and led somewhere and disappeared. On the contrary, Baekwoon was taken directly to Uigak with his teacher Geomhu on his back.
Quaang!
The swordsman opened the door with the force of breaking down and shouted.
“Patient!”
Uigakju, who was in charge of treatment for Baek Do-jin, was on duty and tried to express his displeasure at the rude entrance, but when he recognized that the people who entered were the branch manager and swordsman, his facial expressions were reversed. Without expressing himself, he came over and took the patient down, then asked calmly.
“Please be quiet. I’m going to see you right away.”
[Hurry up and check it out. I’m a disciple of Swordsman, but while shaking hands with Elder Baek Jin, he coughed up blood and collapsed.]
When everyone became Hapjuki, he listened to the branch manager’s transmission with a satisfied face and understood that ‘Choi’ was an important patient. Even though they have learned martial arts, those who work as a clinic doctor make bets with a method that harmonizes well with any internal energy to examine the inside of the patient, so the uijaju did not hesitate to grab Baekwoon’s wrist and pour the bet.
And even though the uijakju was only examining it, it started to break out in a cold sweat.
‘Unbelievable. Such pure and deep Yanggi. He’s truly a living magician.’
It seemed that if he relaxed even a little, the bet he had injected would be heated and disappear by Baekwoon’s hot zeal. Still, as if his reputation as the head of the Sichuan branch was not in vain, he made his bet as close to yang as possible and endured the examination.
While circulating inside him like that, the footnote was able to discover a heterogeneous bet.
A turbid aura penetrated the inside of this clean and pure body, as if something like this had protruded from somewhere. No, in fact, it was average compared to other warriors, but the energy in Baekwoon’s body was so pure that it came to be seen as filth.
Just as an ordinary person turns into a squid when next to a being of transcendent beauty.
Uigakju risked his pseudonym and focused more on figuring out what this foreign substance was. He sharpened his nerves and so far he reviewed the energy of the patients he had treated, looking for something similar or matching the foreign body.
I felt a sense of incongruity the moment I narrowed down his candidates and gave a different footnote to almost the correct answer.
‘No, why do I feel pottery here?’
It was an energy that shouldn’t be felt here. Even if it is the Jeongjongsimbeop, if you randomly put energy into the body of another person with a different temperament, you will inevitably suffer internal injuries. Even though it is strange that the boy in front of him possesses a tremendous amount of energy, his level itself is not high. It was only natural that he would not be able to resist if Gosu was determined and energized to induce internal injuries.
As Uijakju, who could not see through the real state of Baekwoon, he had no choice but to think so.
‘It’s a big deal.’
A soldier of the rightist faction made a bet with the intention of killing the swordsman’s disciple in front of him? The moment that is known, it is a catastrophe.
“Look. Why didn’t you say anything? My student is fine, right?”
“…”
Cold sweat began to flow from the back of the senator.
Certainly enough time had passed for the examination, so it wasn’t strange for the swordsman, who was anxious about his pupil’s safety, to ask. However, what would happen if we told such a swordsman that a swordsman who had built up his inner workings through the Jeongjongsimbeop made it like this?
‘Come to think of it, I heard that a Qingsheng faction elder came to negotiate about the distribution of Suzaku’s corpse today.’
Uigakju first sounded a telephony to the branch manager before speaking to the swordsman.
[Look here, branch manager.]
[Why are you doing that, footnote.]
[In the small negotiations, a bet that is presumed to be pottery is wandering around and causing internal injuries. Is there any reason you can guess?]
[What I saw was that after negotiating alone with Elder Baek Jin of the Cheongseongpa, he shook hands in front of everyone and collapsed from blood loss…]
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[…]
Silence fell over the conversation between the branch manager and Uigakju.
***
On the other hand, all the students of the Cheongseong faction gathered in a room in the investigation department were anxious. It was because they saw Baek-wun coughing up blood while shaking hands with Baek-jin, the owner of the group. Since it was a situation where anyone could see it, there was no choice but to be suspicious, so they were afraid that they might be framed.
Seeing the disciples like that, Baek Jin clicked his tongue.
“Tsk. Everyone is so cowardly, how can they say that they are proud students of the Qingsheng faction? Don’t worry. Bondo has done nothing wrong.”
“It’s obvious. But Elder, you were surprised during the handshake. What did Baekwoon do?”
“Huh? Ahh. That wasn’t a big deal. I was surprised to think I was crazy for suddenly gripping my hand with such force that it would crush my hand in the middle of a handshake.”
Baekjin showed Baekwoon’s palm print on his palm.
“Look at this. Tsk. He almost broke the old man’s hand from holding it so hard.”
The first disciple who saw this nodded in agreement. I don’t know how strong the grip is, but I would have been surprised if he had held such a strong grip during a handshake that it left marks like that. But at the same time, the accident leans toward Baek Jin not being the culprit.
For whatever reason, Baek-woon, who suddenly felt threatened, must have firmly grasped Baek-jin’s hand as he struggled to survive as he failed to control himself.
“Then, we will be proven innocent. Baek So-hyeop feels the crisis and struggles, but it will come to the conclusion that he got caught up in it.”
“That’s right. But there are things Bondo cares about more than that.”
“What is it?”
Baek Jin’s blue eyes flashed in his eyes.
“I’m curious about who dared to lay such false charges on Bondo and the Cheongseong faction. If they get caught, they won’t let them go.”
“At that time, the disciple who saw it will also add strength!”
Looking at the determined face of one of the great disciples, Baek Jin nodded his head and decided that he would make sure to pay for the sin of the black man who did this.
In the meantime, his head was spinning rapidly in real time, searching for the culprit.
‘The most suspicious is the swordsman’s disciple… As long as the contract is in my arms, he won’t be the culprit as the damage will be great if he gets caught.’
Fortunately, the contract he had written while living alone was that he was keeping it in his arms, not in the room he was staying in. It was a wise choice to keep this contract tightly in your pocket and not put it anywhere else, as they will be looking for something hidden in the room to investigate yourself.
Baek Jin, who was congratulating himself on his wise choice, decided to check the contract one more time with the intention of crossing the stone bridge. The moment he carefully reached into his arms so that the disciples would not feel strange, took out the contract, opened it quietly in the corner, and checked the contents-
‘What kind of ghost song is this?!’
He burst into astonishment and opened his eyes wider than when Baekwoon collapsed.
Because the contents of the contract were reversed. It was clearly a contract between himself and Baekwoon. Even though I didn’t write it myself, the contents I checked meticulously several times were completely different.
[Kill the swordsman’s disciple, Elder Baek Jin. Take advantage of the confusion and take care of the beak of the master. It is a natural procedure for it to belong to our Qingsheng faction. I, Elder Baeksu, will be responsible for all the aftercare. And burn this letter immediately after reading it so that there is no evidence left. Then good luck.]
The moment I read the text, Baek Jin’s complexion turned white.
The blood plasma disappeared, and the contract was changed to the content that Elder Baeksu ordered him to assassinate Baekwoon.
I don’t know how the hell he turned the contract, which had never fallen into his arms, into a letter like this, but the moment he revealed this paper to an outsider, he was doomed. So, in order to hurry up and deal with it before the Meng investigation team came back, I tried to swallow the paper.
Drooling.
“I’m out of the investigation department. From now on, I’ll inspect my belongings one by one… Huh? Stop the motion! Give me what you’re trying to swallow now!”
It was too late and it was Baekjin.
