The Ruler Of Darkness - Chapter 549



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Episode 549

Part 23 Rights

“father…!”

He gave the conference room to Yeon So-hyeon and the young emperor as if he was being kicked out.

But the situation was so serious that such a thing wasn’t even on the list of issues.

In the room next door, all the key figures within the Min family were gathered together and having a heated debate.

however….

“Father, please say something…!”

at the outside.

The daughter who had even been made an empress sat on the floor and cried loudly, as if she was so upset.

“… … .”

“father…!”

No matter how much she cried, her father, Min In-ik, did not budge, so this time she suddenly got up and shouted.

“look!”

She turned over her burst lip, showing her broken teeth with a venomous expression.

“These bruises! These bloodstains! Even my teeth were broken like this!”

She was the one who lowered her head and couldn’t say anything in front of Yeon So-hyeon and the emperor.

But as soon as they were out of sight, she returned to her original personality as if nothing had happened.

“Can’t you see the blood on my clothes?! Are you going to ignore the fact that your child was beaten like this?!”

“… … .”

Slurp-.

He just sits in his chair, looking out the window, tilting the bottle of alcohol into his glass.

Gaju Min In-ik still had no answer.

“There must be a way, Father! There must be a way, right?!”

She came up to her father’s chair, who was ignoring her urgently, stamped her feet and shouted.

“I can’t lose the position of empress like this…! I can’t lose it…!”

“… … .”

She shouted at the face of the head of the household, Min In-ik, who was silently sipping his drink.

“How did I get to this position?! Don’t you know how much I struggled and how hard it was to get to this position?!”

“… … .”

Still there was no response, so she reached out and pointed outside, shouting.

“father…!”

In the direction of the head office, that is.

It was in the direction where Yeon So-hyeon and the young emperor were.

“Are you going to do everything according to their will…?! Are you going to just let them do whatever they want…!”

“… … .”

When there was still no answer, she crossed the line.

“Are you going to become a servant of the Yeon clan…?! Father, are you going to become a servant of Yeon So-hyeon-?!”

slam-!

“… … !”

She sat down, blinking.

Gulp, the nosebleed that had barely stopped started flowing again.

“… Otherwise.”

Gaju Min In-ik opened his mouth as he put away his arm that had been holding the sword.

But his voice was locked, as if he had lost his voice.

“If not, what are you going to do?”

“…father.”

She held her flushed cheeks and looked at her father with resentful eyes.

“Don’t you have any pride? Don’t our Min family have any pride? Even if we lose, shouldn’t we fight properly and lose?”

“pride…?”

Hehe.

Min In-ik, the head of the Min clan, laughed in vain.

“Pride….”

He slowly got up from his seat and approached her, saying:

“Do you know where your big-headed pride comes from?”

“… … ?”

She was impressed by the sudden remark.

Min In-ik crouched down in front of her and met her gaze as he spoke.

“It’s business. It’s business.”

He spoke in a low voice.

“Your pitiful pride. Your position as empress. Your power that rivals that of the sixteen families…!”

His voice grew louder and louder.

“This power that others envy! This position in the palace! Even those who line up with their fortunes to get a seat outside…!”

Although spittle was flying from his mouth, Empress Min, who was overwhelmed by her father’s authority, was unable to say anything.

“Even….”

He said, pointing to himself.

“Even this Min In-ik. Without business, he is nothing. Without business.”

“… … .”

As far as Empress Min knows.

In this world, I have never known anyone with stronger pride than my father, Min In-ik.

But, he says that even he himself is nothing without business.

What would she have to say?

“…and.”

Min In-ik pointed to his daughter’s chest, who was looking at him speechless.

“you also.”

Min In-ik said.

“It’s nothing.”

“… … .”

Finally, Min In-ik, who had been looking at his daughter who had her mouth completely shut, stood up from his seat.

“And you tried?”

“… … .”

That moment.

Min In-ik’s gaze as he looks down at his daughter is not that of a family looking at their own blood relatives.

It was below that of a merchant who inspects the quality of goods and the like.

“If you were going to say that you were trying to maintain your position as empress, you should have made the emperor love you.”

“… That, that!”

Min In-ik spoke to her, who was speechless.

“Even if the Min family was destroyed, the Emperor should have loved you so much that he kept you as his empress. Even if the whole world was his enemy, you alone were on his side. You should have made the Emperor think that way.”

Min In-ik asked her with a blank expression.

“Did you do that? No.”

He shook his head.

“No, no, no.”

The sound of Min In-ik clicking his tongue echoed throughout the room.

“Instead. You went around the palace like you were the emperor. You were so angry that I had to create a position for you and appoint an official to handle the petitions against you.”

“Ha, but. Father-.”

“But if you want to shout like that, you must have tried at least the bare minimum.”

He drove a wedge into Empress Min.

“At least, you should say something like that after producing at least one prince.”

“… … !”

There was still no news between Empress Min and the Emperor, and that was to her.

It was the biggest blemish.

“Did you try hard until the end?”

“… … .”

Fresh, crimson blood flowed from her cracked lips.

Even as he looked at Empress Min’s venomous gaze glaring at him, Min In-ik opened his mouth without blinking even once.

“If you had produced a prince to succeed to the throne, your position as empress would not have been in such danger even in these circumstances.”

Whether or not there is a precedent in history.

There are probably few emperors who would want to depose an empress who has given birth to an heir.

“and.”

Gaju Min In-ik spoke to her mockingly.

“You tried to become empress? Not at all.”

He flatly denied it.

“It was our family that made you empress. You didn’t work hard to become empress, it was our family that did.”

He asserted.

“It was not you who became the empress, but our family that became the empress’s family.”

at that time.

Knock, knock.

“Your Majesty.”

With a knock on the door, Gaju Min In-ik’s closest aide poked his head out.

“Are you done?”

“… Yes, the meeting results were somehow distilled.”

Gaju Min In-ik nodded.

“let’s go.”

Empress Min shouted as if she was about to leave the room as Min In-ik strode out the door.

“father…!”

“It’s noisy.”

He said this as he walked away without looking back.

“You have temporarily assumed the position of empress due to the needs of the family. Now, if the family needs it, you must step down.”

With his last words, the door slammed shut.

“There was nothing that was yours to begin with.”

* * *

Step by step, step by step.

I knew what had happened in the room I had briefly seen.

“… … .”

As he walked down the hallway, his closest aide checked the mood of Gaju Min In-ik.

But Min In-ik paid no attention and asked him.

“So what’s the result?”

“yes.”

The closest aide answered without stopping his steps, but with his head slightly bowed.

that.

Rather than being polite, it was an action to avoid eye contact with the owner.

“… In the direction that His Majesty the Emperor and Grand Duke Yeonsohyun wish as much as possible-.”

“Tae-sa.”

“yes?”

Towering.

Gaju Min In-ik, who had stopped walking, spoke to his closest aide.

“You should call me Grand Master Yeon.”

“…ah.”

Whether you kill or save, they say.

What kind of honorific title are you suddenly using for someone you once considered your enemy?

Despite the lukewarm reaction of his closest aides, Min In-ik spoke without changing his expression.

“Tell everyone in the Min family to never make the same mistake again.”

His measured voice echoed through the hallway.

“If you have decided to bow your head and go in, you must bow your head more firmly than anyone else.”

He looked straight into the eyes of his closest aide and said:

“개가 되기로 했으면, 확실하게 개새끼가 되어야 한다는 말이다.”

“… I will keep that in mind.”

Brrrr.

Min In-ik could see the shoulders of his closest aide, who was bowing deeply, trembling.

It will be divided.

“Tsk… .”

Min In-ik searched through his belongings in front of the door of the conference room where the key figures of the family were gathered.

“ah.”

And then, that’s it.

I remembered Yeon So-hyeon taking her favorite pipe with her.

“…Here, this.”

He bit the pipe offered by his closest aide, lit it, and inhaled the smoke deeply.

He let out a long sigh.

Hooooo-.

The smoke felt particularly bitter.

“… … .”

Upon opening this door and entering, it was necessary to officially announce to the key members of the clan that the Min clan had become loyal to the emperor.

Even though the meeting has already concluded that way.

It is another thing to announce it from the owner’s own mouth.

“… It should be considered a genuine product.”

directly.

As Gaju Min In-ik muttered to himself as he approached to open the door, his closest aide asked.

“What are you talking about…?”

“ah.”

Min In-ik chuckled.

“A pipe, a pipe.”

Squeak-!

He said, slamming the conference room door open.

“Let’s say that this is the first tribute offered after becoming a loyalist.”

* * *

Clang, clang, clang!

Gasp, gasp…!

Empress Min grumbled, not even bothering to hide her heavy breathing.

“Fuck…!”

She reached out, looking for something to throw and smash next, but there was nothing.

“Fuck, fuck!”

already.

After destroying everything he could get his hands on, his room was left in ruins.

“It’s mine! Everything!”

She screamed, vomiting blood as she cursed.

“The palace! The successor! Originally, it was all supposed to be mine!”

Become an empress.

Producing successors.

Get rid of the emperor.

Become the empress of your own Central Plains country.

That grand dream.

target.

That’s all for now.

Like a mere daydream, it was all about to turn into a bubble.

“Ahhhhhhh!”

She screamed and kicked the remains of expensive luxuries with her feet.

Wow, things that were already shattered were flying everywhere.

at that time.

Squeak-.

“Who are you?!”

As she shouted venomously toward the open door, it was her relative who revealed himself.

“… I expected this, but it’s not like it’s chaos.”

The sound of him clicking his tongue was particularly annoying.

“Get out of this room right now! I am still the empress of this Central Kingdom!”

“But that won’t be the case soon.”

“profit…?!”

Just as her face was about to turn even redder with rage.

“Wait, wait.”

He said, raising his hands to indicate that he had no intention of fighting.

“Right now, those who wish to meet Her Highness the Empress are waiting.”

“Who do you think I’m supposed to meet right now-?!”

“The sixteen families of the imperial capital.”

In that regard.

“… … .”

Her screams suddenly stopped.

Towards such Empress Min, he said:

“Right now. The people sent by the heads of the Bokyang family and the Yue family of the sixteen Hwangdo families are waiting for Your Highness the Empress.”

The current Empress Min.

There was no need to think twice.

“Please guide me.”

I won’t die alone like this.

If my family were to abandon me, I would be the first to abandon them.

“Right now, right now.”

Her eyes were full of madness.

* * *

“Your Majesty the Emperor.”

Yeon So-hyeon took off his coat and put it on the emperor, saying:

“Please wear this.”

“Master Yeon, what is this…?”

The emperor was puzzled by his actions and asked the reason, but Yeon So-hyeon answered calmly.

“This is a coat made of black silk that my father left me. It will surely block things like blind blades and arrows.”

“… … !”

Blades and arrows.

It was a description of the black silk coat, but at the same time it was also a description of the situation.

“… Do you think the Min family would choose such an extreme method? No way… .”

“Well, even if they aren’t.”

Yeon So-hyeon said with a calm smile.

“Your Majesty, don’t you know very well how many people out there are who don’t want this to end like this?”

“… … .”

Instead of answering, the young emperor said.

Yeon So-hyeon tightly buttoned up the hem of the black silk overcoat that she had put on him.