Disciple of the Celestial Demon - Chapter 198



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Episode 198. Flashback (3)

So Wol-hyeon was heading somewhere with an expressionless face.

His expression looked as calm as usual, but his footsteps suggested that he was not in a very good mood at the moment.

How long did it take for Sowolhyeon to walk like that? He arrived in front of a large barracks.

Swish-.

As he was about to pass through the entrance and go inside, the guard guarding the entrance blocked Sowol-hyeon’s way.

“There is an important meeting going on inside right now.”

“…I am also one of the executives. I should have the authority to attend the meeting, right?”

“It’s too late. Even if you are the Great Lord, it is impossible for you to enter here now.”

At those words, So Wol-hyeon looked at the guard without saying anything.

He looked at me with quite a threatening look, but the guard didn’t look away as if he wasn’t going to back down, and the tense atmosphere continued as if something was going to explode at any moment.

“…i get it.”

“…….”

“It can’t be helped since it’s late.”

Fortunately, So Wol-hyeon seemed to back down obediently.

At that sight, the guard felt a sense of relief and withdrew his arm that was blocking the entrance, and So Wol-hyeon took advantage of the gap to pass the guard and enter the barracks in an instant.

“……?”

So Wol-hyeon and the guards rushed into the barracks with a commotion.

The security guard tried to chase So Wol-hyeon out later, but all eyes around him were already focused on the two of them.

A number of people sitting in a row around a table.

They were all executives of the Cheonmasin Church, and So Il-Hyeon was at the center of them.

“What’s all this noise!”

Then a man jumped up from his seat and shouted.

Judging from the fact that he was sitting right next to So Il-hyun, he seemed to have a fairly high position among the executives.

He was the most powerful person in the current Cheonmasin Church, aside from So Il-hyeon, and was the vice-religious leader, Cheon Gu-yong.

“I told you I was having an important meeting right now… Can’t you even guard the entrance properly?”

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry!”

When Cheon Gu-yong shouted, the guard immediately lowered his head with a pale face.

And the gaze directed right to the side.

In contrast to the trembling guards, So Wol-hyeon was looking at Cheon Gu-yong with an indifferent expression.

“…Your Majesty, what on earth are you doing?”

“I just attended because they said there was a meeting.”

“Even if you’re a small business owner, aren’t there rules you have to follow? If you’re late for a meeting for personal reasons, you should wait quietly outside…….”

“Someone told me the meeting time before the meeting.”

“…….”

“I was treating the injured at the time. I couldn’t take my hands off the patient because he could have died if I didn’t help him.”

Although she was late for the meeting, So Wol-hyeon acted confidently as if she had done nothing wrong.

Cheon Gu-yong frowned and tried to open his mouth again, as if he didn’t like the way she was talking to him so bluntly.

“No matter what, I have to prioritize the meeting…….”

“Sit down.”

At that moment, someone interrupted Cheon Gu-yong’s words.

There is only one person who can so calmly interrupt the words of Vice-Chairman Cheon Gu-yong. Cheon Gu-yong looked in that direction when he heard a voice from beside him.

“After hearing the story, it seems that it wasn’t personal reasons but rather that he was late because he was working for the church.”

“Ha, but, Master. Even so, that is not an excuse to be late for the meeting. Don’t you know how important today’s meeting is?”

“It doesn’t matter.”

“then…….”

“I wonder who the hell relayed the time of that important meeting to the Lord.”

“……!”

“That was before the announcement. As far as I know, the others were notified at least half a day in advance.”

To that question, Cheon Gu-yong swallowed his words as if he had become mute.

After a while, So Il-hyun spoke with a meaningful look in her eyes and voice.

“Should we investigate who relayed the meeting time to the small business owner?”

“That, that is…….”

“There are many other things going on, so I’d like to just skip over that part. What do you think, Vice-Chairman?”

In other words, he was saying that if you continue to bring up So Wol-hyeon’s perception as an issue, he won’t just let it go.

As if something had pricked him, Cheon Gu-yong nodded his head in a low voice and answered.

“…All right.”

Cheon Gu-yong sits back down with an answer.

After confirming the appearance, So Il-hyeon moved his head and looked at So Wol-hyeon.

“Sit down.”

So Il-hyun spoke briefly once again.

So Wol-hyeon nodded her head slightly without saying a word, then went to an empty seat and sat down.

“Then let’s resume the meeting.”

There was a brief commotion and the meeting was suspended, but So Il-hyun resumed the meeting as if nothing had happened.

The meeting proceeds with opinions being exchanged.

The main topic of discussion was how to establish the system of the Cheonmasin Church in the future, and as time passed, the meeting soon reached its end.

“Then this is the last agenda item.”

“…….”

“The enthronement ceremony for the cult leader will be held in ten days… Do you have any opinions about this?”

As soon as those words came out, Cheon Gu-yong opened his mouth as if he had been waiting for it.

“The coronation ceremony is an opportunity to solidify the power of the Cheonmasingyo.”

“…….”

“You should establish a banquet hall that can accommodate tens of thousands of people and decorate it as splendidly as possible to show the dignity of the leader. Also, if you hold a banquet for several days and give it to the followers, you will be able to widely spread the mercy of our sect.”

Almost everyone nodded silently, seeming to agree with Cheon Gu-yong’s opinion.

Although So Il-hyun had not yet answered, Cheon Gu-yong looked almost certain that his opinion would be accepted unconditionally.

“Our school does not currently have the conditions to do so.”

When he was confident that there would be no objections, an unpleasant voice was heard in Cheon Gu-yong’s ear.

The owner of that voice is So Wol-hyeon.

Cheon Gu-yong looked at So Wol-hyeon with an expression that suddenly lost its smile.

“It would take a lot of labor and capital to set up a restaurant like that in ten days.”

“…….”

“Our church has just come to the end of a long war. What our church members need now is not a fancy restaurant, nor food and drink. They need rest.”

Numerous wars were fought in the process of unifying Xinjiang’s power.

In the end, they succeeded in winning the long war and establishing a huge organization called the Cheonmasingyo, but they were not able to completely recover from the damage caused by the war.

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In such a situation, it would be difficult to build a banquet hall that could accommodate tens of thousands of people and prepare enough food and drinks for all the congregation to feast for several days.

So Wol-hyeon was looking at the current Cheonmasin Church realistically.

“Even now, hundreds of casualties are occurring every day.”

“…….”

“If we support the personnel mobilized to the hospital to treat the injured, we can reduce the number of casualties by half… no, by one-third.”

“…Does that mean we shouldn’t hold the coronation ceremony now?”

“Now is not the time. Even if we do hold a coronation ceremony, we should minimize its scale and focus our efforts elsewhere.”

At that moment, Cheon Gu-yong suddenly got up from his seat again.

“Don’t you know that the coronation ceremony is a place where you can show the status of our religion? But if you minimize the coronation ceremony… Then what will other people think of our religion?”

“Foreign currency guest.”

“……?”

“Even if the outside is flashy, if the inside is poor, the organization will eventually collapse. If you strengthen the inside, the surrounding forces will naturally look up to your school without having to make a big fuss about it.”

“Hey, are you hungry?”

“Be honest. What you want, Vice-Chairman, is to strengthen our church? Or is it to solidify your position?”

Although positions were established when the Cheonmasingyo was established, they were never officially announced.

In other words, the current position can only be said to be a temporary position.

The current position was only determined by officially announcing the position through a coronation ceremony.

When So Wol-hyeon mentioned that part, Cheon Gu-yong’s face turned bright red to the point that it was impossible to describe it.

“this……!”

“stop.”

When the atmosphere suddenly became tense, a voice flowed out with a powerful energy inside.

The owner of that powerful energy is So Il-Hyeon.

Cheon Gu-yong, whose anger had reached the tip of his head, could not help but naturally calm down when he received a strong energy that sent shivers down his spine.

“What is this commotion in front of me?”

“……!”

“I told you to have a meeting. Are those who sit in the middle of this church arguing in front of me like little kids?”

The momentum was overwhelming.

Even the people sitting here were those who would be considered experts in other places, but they had no choice but to bow down before the powerful aura that So Il-Hyeon was radiating.

So Wol-hyeon immediately got up from her seat and bowed her head toward So Il-hyeon.

“sorry.”

So Wol-hyeon immediately admits her mistake. As soon as her eyes met, Cheon Gu-yong immediately lowered his head.

After a while, So Il-hyun gathered his energy and opened his mouth quietly.

“The coronation ceremony is a place where we can show the dignity of our religion. However, given our current situation, there are limits to how we can prepare it on a grand scale.”

“…….”

“Prepare for the coronation ceremony by adjusting the points of agreement. Prepare it splendidly, but if there is something that needs to be resolved first, allocate manpower and capital to that.”

“Jeonmyeong!”

This time there was no disagreement.

He was able to control the opinions of two people to some extent while also dominating the crowd. It was an appearance that proved why he became the strongest in Xinjiang.

“Then let’s disband.”

This concludes the meeting.

When So Il-hyeon ordered them to disperse, everyone stood up from their seats, and Cheon Gu-yong also stood up from his seat and tried to leave the barracks.

“…….”

At that moment, Cheon Gu-yong passed by the seat where So Wol-hyeon was sitting.

Since So Wol-hyeon was still sitting in his seat, Cheon Gu-yong watched him closely.

Anger boiled inside him again as he remembered the remarks directed at him earlier.

But I couldn’t make a fuss in front of So Il-hyun.

In the end, Cheon Gu-yong held back his anger and quietly passed by, and So Wol-hyeon also tried to get up from her seat as soon as Cheon Gu-yong completely left.

“Cow lord.”

At that moment, he heard a voice calling him from the front.

“Let’s talk for a moment.”

“…….”

The owner of the voice was So Il-hyun.

Because he could not refuse the leader’s will, So Wol-hyeon tried to get up from his seat but instead sat down again.

Soon, everyone in the barracks left. As a result, only So Il-hyeon and So Wol-hyeon were left sitting in the barracks, facing each other.

“It’s been a long time since we’ve talked like this.”

“…….”

“Right. Wolhyeon?”

When only the two of them were left, So Il-hyeon called So Wol-hyeon by a different title.

Although they usually had a relationship as a leader and a subordinate, in a place like this where the two of them were alone, they returned to a relationship as brothers.

“I’ve been so out of it lately.”

“…….”

“Me too, and my brother too.”

So Wol-hyeon’s speech has also become considerably more friendly and lighter than before.

As So Wol-hyeon answered with a slight smile, a faint smile appeared on So Il-hyeon’s lips as well.

“I am always grateful to you. Not only me, but the church members as well. If it weren’t for your medical skills, more lives would have died than now.”

“…….”

“Were you in a bad mood earlier?”

“…Is that why you told me to stay?”

It seemed like So Il-Hyeon was concerned about what happened at the meeting.

“I’m okay.”

“…….”

“At that time, I was the leader, not my older brother. I just gave my opinion as the leader, and my older brother probably just made the best choice as the leader.”

So Wol-hyeon really had no regrets about that part.

Rather, I would have hated it even more if he had defended me just because I was his younger brother.

Still, So Wol-hyeon felt quite good about the fact that So Il-hyeon cared about her when they were alone like this.

“…I see.”

“…….”

“Then let me ask you one more question. Since you are a busy person too.”

The hospital was still overflowing with injured people.

Since he knew that the treatment wouldn’t be carried out properly without So Wol-hyeon, So Il-hyeon didn’t intend to keep him here for too long.

“What is this all of a sudden?”

“…….”

There was a brief silence. Soon, So Il-hyun opened her mouth with a meaningful expression.

“Wolhyeon, you become the leader.”

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