Chapter 83: Chapter 83

Chapter 83: The Words She Most Wants to Hear

A crack had formed in Hahou Seojin’s perfect control.

“The child is at home?”

Kang Yoohun, Madam Hyeong’s son, was supposed to be away. All the wives of the Virtuous Mothers’ Association had believed so.

It was the same for the Association Leader, Hahou Seojin.

“When did he return? Why didn’t you say anything?”

Her voice, questioning Madam Hyeong, was mixed with bewilderment and reproach.

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“Does it matter when he returned?”

“You brought up the child’s story because you wanted him to meet Master Jin, didn’t you?”

Mr. and Mrs. Han had hit the nail on the head.

Why had Madam Hyeong observed the morning class?

Why hadn’t she left after the class ended and come to this place?

It was easy to guess.

“It seems Kang Yoohun didn’t adapt well while he was away. That’s why you’re trying to have him meet me.”

Madam Hyeong’s face darkened.

“Yes…. At first, it seemed like he was adapting well, but in the end, even there…”

Madam Hyeong had also seen Handangyudo’s transformation.

She must have felt she had no choice but to come and see me. It seemed she had made up her mind after seeing Handangyudo’s appearance in class just now.

“Shall we go right away? Please let me meet your son.”

The Association Leader interjected into the conversation.

“I have a mountain of questions, but I’ll hold them back. That’s not what’s important right now. Madam Hyeong’s child is important.”

At her last words, I also nodded.

Everyone in this room agreed with that fact.

“However, I would like to come along as well.”

“You, Association Leader?”

“Yes. I want to see Instructor Jin’s skills for myself, right beside him. That much should be fine, right?”

The Association Leader looked back and forth between me and Madam Hyeong.

“I will be treating the child alone in a heavily guarded place. You won’t be able to see anyway.”

“I’ll be able to see how the child changes, won’t I?”

If the Association Leader sees that scene for herself and gives me more authority to act, that wouldn’t be bad either.

But I’m worried about Madam Hyeong.

I observed her carefully.

If Madam Hyeong showed any reluctance, I was planning to stop the Association Leader from coming. After all, I could just say it would interfere with the treatment.

“Madam Hahou is coming…”

However, Madam Hyeong thought for a very brief moment and then nodded.

“Yes. It would be good if Madam Hahou sees it. No, please do come and see.”

She, surprisingly, wanted Madam Hahou to come.

“Then it’s decided that the Association Leader will come with us.”

This side is resolved.

The remaining people—first, Mr. and Mrs. Han.

“Would you two like to come along as well?”

“No. My wife and I have decided to go on an outing with our son. We would like to see our benefactor in action, but we cannot break our promise to our son.”

While saying that, Hansagwang sent a glance.

His eyes were asking if he should follow along to control the Association Leader.

In fact, if my prediction is correct, the fewer people there, the better.

“You should do that. You should have a good time with Dangyu.”

I gave Hansagwang a reassuring nod.

He smiled as if he understood.

“An outing? What about the classes after the training?”

The Association Leader’s question flew into the warm atmosphere.

The children here didn’t just have one or two classes.

They polished their studies every day. In addition, they took various other classes such as music, mathematics, and etiquette.

Madam Yang shook her head.

“No. We’ve decided to spend a lot of time with Dangyu. We won’t be sending him to all the classes.”

We will only send him to the classes he wants to attend.

The wife declared softly yet firmly.

It was another crack.

Following Madam Hyeong, who had hidden where her child was, there was now Madam Yang, who would let her child attend classes freely.

Even before the situation I had predicted came to pass, cracks were appearing in the control.

Even the Association Leader could not treat the power of the Han family lightly.

Moreover, with the family head, Hansagwang himself, present, could she reveal her anger?

She answered very briefly and said no more.

“We will discuss it later at the Virtuous Mothers’ meeting.”

While saying that, she used the meeting to imply that this conversation was not over.

“Yes. Let’s discuss it at the meeting.”

Madam Yang was confident.

Her attitude showed that she could express her opinion as much as she wanted at the meeting.

Isn’t the Han family’s power too strong to be kicked out of the academy?

I don’t think Madam Yang will lose.

Mr. and Mrs. Han left like that.

“Hey, Instructor Jin.”

Jang Gangcheon suddenly whispered from the side.

“Don’t leave me out this time.”

How could a man who was the top disciple of the Beggar’s Gang leader be satisfied with that role?

“That’s the plan. I think you should see this too.”

Leaving him to his confusion.

“Then shall we go now? I would like to meet that child.”

We arrived with confidence at Madam Hyeong’s residence.

“Sword Hero, is this atmosphere right?”

Jang Gangcheon said, looking around.

Because the place we were being guided to was somewhat strange.

“Madam Hyeong, was the atmosphere of the rear garden ?”

The Association Leader also raised her head and looked around at the trees that filled the rear garden.

Tall, thick trees, and moreover, the kind whose leaves were lush even in winter.

With these trees planted so densely, the rear garden barely got any sunlight.

I quickly deployed my Eight Sensations.

Beyond the five senses, the energies within the range were felt sensitively.

First, the conclusion is.

Jang Gangcheon followed behind, tilting his head, but he seemed to trust and follow me since I had found the Demonic Cult follower.

“That may be so, but looking at the atmosphere, doesn’t it seem like we shouldn’t go in?”

This couldn’t be called a rear garden, it was more like…

“A place to hide something.”

The Association Leader seemed to think it was just a little strange.

We are martial artists.

We know very well what such a place is needed for.

To hide something, as Jang Gangcheon said.

“To lure something in.”

Jang Gangcheon understood my words.

In the first place, why was a child, not even an adult, living alone in a detached building in the rear garden?

Being guided to this place instead of a room in the main building was strange in itself.

Under the trees where the light barely reached, Madam Hyeong’s face was also covered in shadow and not clearly visible.

Madam Hyeong stopped and pointed to a single-room detached building standing alone.

The Association Leader tilted her head.

“Your son is staying here?”

It was understandable to think so. The Association Leader pointed with her finger.

“But why is there a lock on the door?”

A thick iron chain, a large lock.

A sight that could only be seen as having something locked up inside.

A low growl was heard.

Yes, it was a place and atmosphere that would be perfect if you said a beast was locked up.

The Association Leader frowned.

“Madam Hyeong, what kind of joke is this? Didn’t you say you were guiding us to where your son is?”

A dignified voice, befitting the Association Leader.

Even among these trees, her appearance was splendid.

Madam Hyeong’s face is still looking at the ground.

Her hand took out a key that matched the lock.

“Instructor Jang. Stand in front of the Association Leader.”

Jang Gangcheon’s figure moved quietly.

As the iron chain was removed.

“Good heavens! Madam Hyeong! What on earth is this?”

“Sword Hero, couldn’t you sense it? That is.”

The owner of the growl appeared.

He was wearing a pure white robe and a hero’s headband on his head, but.

A mouth drooling saliva.

Bloodshot, crazed eyes.

He was at the age to be in the Jihak class, sixteen, was it?

Looking at his height, it seemed so. His attire was also so.

“Is that Kang Yoohun.”

I felt the energy emanating from the boy.

“It wasn’t turbid energy, but demonic energy.”

Kang Yoohun was engulfed in demonic energy.

“Sword Hero, it’s the Beast Meridian of the Demonic Cult!”

Anger was laced in Jang Gangcheon’s voice.

It was natural. Any martial artist who met a Demonic Cult follower would naturally be enraged.

“To think the son of a prestigious family has fallen into demonic arts!”

He stepped forward a little more in front of the Association Leader.

The Demonic Cult is also considered an enemy by the government.

It is an even bigger problem if a Demonic Cult follower comes from a prestigious family.

Regardless of the reality, if a Demonic Cult follower came from a prestigious family that should be an external model, it would become an even greater crime, and the entire family could be ruined.

Kang Yoohun looked left and right before fixing his gaze on Jang Gangcheon.

The two’s gazes crossed.

“Exterminate the Demonic Cult.”

Jang Gangcheon spat out coldly.

He was about to charge at Kang Yoohun, but.

Madam Hyeong, who had been standing still until now, blocked her son’s path.

Jang Gangcheon stopped in his tracks.

Her face, which had been hidden in the shadows all along.

As a branch moved in the wind, her face, briefly revealed in the light, was.

Jang Gangcheon could not go any further.

That’s how desperate Madam Hyeong’s face was.

At the same time, she made a desperate plea.

“Th-this is temporary.”

“Yes, treatment! He was in the middle of treatment! The medicine had a bad effect.”

He used the wrong medicine.

“Great Hero Jin Yeomyeong, can’t this child be treated?”

In fact, she knew too.

That her son’s appearance was different from before, and that his current state was by no means normal.

She knows that, but she can’t reveal it to the outside.

But she saw hope after seeing Handangyudo’s transformation.

After seeing me, who had treated Handangyudo in just one day, she revealed this state.

Is there really a way to treat it?

Jang Gangcheon answered for her in a pained voice.

“He is so tainted by demonic arts that he has lost his reason……. If so, there is no other way but to take his life.”

Madam Hyeong tried to argue against Jang Gangcheon’s explanation, but.

On the contrary, as if in response to that explanation, Kang Yoohun let out a bestial cry.

“Madam Hyeong, please step aside. This cannot be helped. Sword Hero, what are you doing.”

“No, no. My child has not lost his reason!”

“Madam, I know what you’re thinking, but—”

It was faint, but it was definitely heard.

From the mouth of Kang Yoohun, who had lost his reason, a single word calling for his mother was heard.

“You heard that, right? You definitely heard that, right?”

That single word must have held Madam Hyeong together.

It must have made her do anything to treat her son.

“Those crazy Demonic Cult bastards……”

A small sigh escaped Jang Gangcheon’s mouth.

Demonic Cult bastards.

Demonic Cult bastards who wouldn’t be satisfying even if you killed them again and again.

But, that’s right, but.

“Instructor Jang, step back.”

“What are you going to do? Even if it’s a prestigious family, a Demonic Cult follower cannot be helped. He must be exterminated.”

“The assistant instructor should stay back.”

He turned to look at me.

“It’s because your skills are at that level that you can’t be the main instructor.”

“What? You’re saying that at a time ?”

“I have been observing you all this time. It was difficult to distinguish, but I understand now.”

After making Jang Gangcheon step back, I also said a word to the Association Leader.

“Look. Perfect control, you say. Isn’t this a loophole of all loopholes?”

The bewildered her shouted.

“Is this the time to be saying that? There’s a Demonic Cult follower right in front of us.”

“Because it’s the truth.”

Finally, I looked into Madam Hyeong’s eyes.

Many questions had surfaced in her tear-soaked eyes.

“Stay right where you are.”

I deployed my movement arts and leaped over the wife.

Kang Yoohun, reacting to my movement, swung his hand, but.

I lightly slapped his hand away and continued to press his acupoints.

The boy’s body froze.

Madam Hyeong, greatly surprised, ran over.

“Don’t worry. I just quickly subdued him in case he might do something to harm himself.”

Reassured by my words, she sank to the ground.

It was because she had been tense, worried that her son might have lost his life.

I added one more word to her.

I’m so glad I can say this one word.

“This is better for the treatment anyway.”

A moment of silence flowed.

And the one word from just now seeped into Madam Hyeong.

“Now…. what did you…?”

She slowly raised her head.

The Association Leader and Jang Gangcheon also asked in surprised voices.

“Is treatment possible? In that state?”

“Sword Hero! He’s already been tainted by demonic arts to the point of losing his reason! Treatment is impossible!”

If one is tainted by demonic arts to the point of losing one’s reason, then that is the case.

There is no other way but to take their life.

In other words, that means.

If Kang Yoohun is not tainted by demonic arts right now, then treatment is possible.

“Please do not worry.”

I looked at Madam Hyeong and nodded with strength.

“It is not demonic arts.”

It’s something similar, but it’s definitely not demonic arts.

The Eight Trigram Unity Technique can feel this difference.

I should say the words she most wants to hear.

“Treatment is possible.”

Should I become a physician when all this is over?

That face, stained with tears, blooming into a smile, is not bad at all.