The Ruler Of Darkness - Chapter 600
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Episode 600
Part 25: The Secret Revealed
General Administrative Office.
The executive liaison office of the Supreme Council.
“…What, you say?”
like.
As if time had stopped.
The blank faces of the twin sisters, Yeon Da-eun and Yeon Da-hye, were frozen in shock.
“That’s, that’s why… .”
The messenger swallowed dry saliva at the two sisters’ reactions and relayed the news once more.
“The director of the Martial Arts Academy, Elder Sword Master, claimed that he was the chairman of the highest management council of his family.”
“-Other than that, next time.”
The messenger looked back and forth between the two sisters’ faces and answered with a sense of pressure.
“… At that time, it is said that the thirteen members of the emergency response meeting threatened the Archduke.”
“duress…?”
Woodduck.
The brush in Yeon Da-hye’s hand crumbled, splattering ink all over the place.
“…yes.”
Raw killing intent.
Compared to Yeon Da-eun, Yeon Da-hye’s eyes, which usually had less expression, had an eerie murderous look in them.
“How did they threaten you?”
“that is….”
The messenger answered, feeling his skin tingle.
“In this situation where the head of the household has collapsed and the family is in turmoil, don’t make any rash moves. If the Grand Duke moves, a civil war could break out, he threatened-.”
“I, I… .”
Beatle.
Yeon Da-eun stumbled, unable to hide her confusion, then grabbed the desk and spoke.
“I, I. Always. Until now, long before my father collapsed, he ordered my eldest brother to stay in seclusion… .”
“…so we.”
Yeon Da-hye nodded, her face turning pale, and accepted the words.
“Even in that situation, I knew that my eldest brother would not step forward in the end. Because the last order he received from his father was to ‘stay put’.”
“however….”
Yeon Da-eun raised her head and looked at the messenger.
“That wasn’t it…?”
“Yes, but…!”
The messenger, sweating profusely, spread out both palms as if to block the two sisters.
“As of yet, this is. Elder Sword Master’s one-sided claim. Up until now, there has been no confirmation of the situation-!”
“no.”
Yeon Da-hye cut him off cleanly.
“No, Rani. What do you mean-?”
“If there is evidence, it was there from the beginning.”
“…yes?”
* * *
“Stop talking nonsense, Your Majesty…!”
When the road to the War Department, which was conducting security operations, was blocked, one of the elders of the Oewonju faction shouted to everyone with his voice full of inner strength.
“Members of the Sword Family…! Do not listen to those words…! There is not a single bit of evidence behind those words that they tout as truth…!”
Okay then.
The elders who had learned martial arts came to their senses and began shouting one after another.
“Don’t be fooled everyone…!”
“Your Majesty, that old man is talking nonsense because he’s lost his mind…! Don’t be fooled by his nonsense…!”
“Everyone knows that the relationship between the Sword Master and the Grand Duke has been particularly close since the past…!”
“If you have evidence, present it!”
Groan, groan.
Sure enough, confusion began to break out among the otherwise quiet crowd.
“No, how dare those elders attack the Sword Master right now…!”
“But isn’t it also true that there is no evidence…?!”
“But still…!”
As if a fire had been set on a dry autumn field, the commotion grew louder in an instant.
‘Hope… .’
Elder Pyo, who had been watching the scene with a face covered in cold sweat, brightened up.
‘…maybe!’
All information regarding the top members of the Executive Council is classified as top secret.
Although Geomjon Gwan-gu Seon-wi said that he was the chairman, that was only the end of it.
All he is putting forward now is a claim that he is revealing the truth about the past.
“Elder Hojung…!”
Elder Pyo turned around and spoke to Elder Ho-jung, a senior elder, with a smile.
“There is no way that any evidence remains to this day that the Emergency Response Meeting threatened the Archduke to achieve his current position…!”
Evidence that would be difficult if leaked.
There was no way I could have left it in the first place.
“If there was evidence such as records, the Inspector General would have made it public first…!”
He shouted in a huff, unable to hide his excitement.
“Besides, even if someone else has such evidence, simply disclosing it could be considered a breach of confidentiality…!”
His voice became more heated.
“If we reveal these facts and drag this issue to the end by clinging to the sword and dragging it into a public opinion war, the result will be even greater chaos in our homeland, which is what we wanted!”
“Okay.”
“Elder Hojung…?”
Elder Ho-jung did not even look at Elder Pyo, but clicked his tongue and muttered to himself.
“… I missed the facts that have already been revealed. I need to meet ‘them’ and come up with proper follow-up measures.”
And then.
He and a few other senior elders got on a carriage and left the central square in an instant.
“The facts have already been revealed, you say…?”
Elder Pyo, who was left behind with the other elders, muttered blankly as he watched the carriage moving away.
“And ‘they’…?”
Elder Ho-jung is one of the most prominent and senior elders in this sect and family.
And just before, Elder Pyo met the highest powers of the sect, who were of the same level as Elder Hojung, at the banquet hall.
If it is the singular ‘him’, it would refer to the head of the external hospital, Hakunhyung.
But, them.
‘What do you mean, like…?’
It seems like someone is further behind-.
“I’ll answer you.”
at that time.
Through the loud commotion of the elders and the confused mind of Elder Pyo, the voice of the Chief of the Sword Commandery was heard.
“… It’s not direct, but there is evidence.”
‘What…?!’
The moment Elder Pyo, whose concentration had been disrupted by a series of questionable events, turned around quickly and looked back at the stage.
“The family seal that symbolizes our swordsman’s family, the swordsman’s gold seal.”
Like driving a wedge into something.
The voice of the Chief of the Inspectorate was heard.
“The fact that the Supreme Master fell and the seal of the Supreme Master was immediately delivered to the Grand Duke is the proof of this.”
“… … ?!”
“… … ?!”
It was as if lightning had struck the heads of all the elders of the Oewonju faction.
* * *
Click.
The messenger closed the door and went out.
“…the head of the household.”
What opened your mouth.
It was Yeon Yu-hwa, the first princess of the Luoyang Sword Family.
She had come to the General Administration Building to see her twin sisters with a bloodless face to figure out the situation.
“… That’s right.”
A space where only sisters remain.
She sat on the chair and muttered as if she had lost her mind.
“I’ve heard that Sohyun has a family seal. The family seal of the Geomga…”
“… Yes, big sister.”
The princess, Yeon Da-hye, nodded, holding onto the hem of her clothes.
“Although, since my older brother had been using it very limitedly and only for small things, not many people knew about it… .”
“That day.”
The third princess, Yeon Da-eun, accepted her words.
“The day that my eldest brother returned the family seal to the highest management council. Everyone in the family knew for sure that the family seal belonged to my eldest brother.”
“But before that… .”
The two fists of the young woman Yeon Da-hye were trembling, having turned white from gripping the hem of her clothes so tightly.
“Even those who knew that the eldest brother had a family seal forgot the question itself at some point.”
“no.”
The third princess, Yeon Da-eun, shook her head.
“… It’s not that I forgot the question, it’s that I tried to forget it.”
“ah.”
The clever princess Yeon Da-hye immediately understood what her twin sisters were saying.
“The Second Prince and the Third Prince… .”
“yes.”
Samgongnyeo Yeon Da-eun said, covering her face.
“For them, and those who supported them, the fact that their eldest brother had the head of the household was a problem in itself.”
Rather than thinking about why Yeon So-hyeon possessed the family register.
They simply came to their own conclusions, such as that Yeon So-hyeon happened to get hold of the head of the household in the midst of the chaos.
In the end, I chose not to question it at all.
“Because it’s to their advantage….”
for a moment.
“… … .”
“… … .”
Silence fell.
“Then, Sohyun… .”
A little later.
The voice of Princess Yeon Yu-hwa flowing out from between her parched lips was deeply buried.
“From that day on, alone. Alone, you endured it…? Even though you knew all of this…?”
In her head.
The conversation he had with the emergency response committee before he left his family due to marriage came to mind.
“stop…!”
That day.
How cold and indifferent were the voices of those who were members of the thirteen committees of the emergency response meeting at that time.
“Don’t you know that if you, Princess Il-gong, move now and the axis of power begins to shake, things will get worse here?!”
“You shouldn’t act rashly during this sensitive time, and just quietly marry into the Hwangbo family as promised…!”
“… It happened to me too.”
“yes?”
Princess Yeon Yu-hwa answered blankly, staring up at the ceiling.
“They told me to get married and not bring chaos to the family. Just like they did to Sohyun. Same thing.”
“To my older sister too… ?!”
The pieces of that day’s memories began to fit together in Yeon Yu-hwa’s head.
“Then, what about Sohyun?! What happened to Sohyun?!”
“He has abandoned his role as Archduke.”
“Huh?! There’s no way that kid would do that?!”
“If you continue to interfere with our work like this, I will detain you, you workaholic…!”
Yeon Yu-hwa’s eyes twitched as if she was having a spasm.
“They told me that Sohyun had abandoned her role as the Grand Duchess….”
Her whole body began to tremble.
“They said that So-Hyeon chose to live in seclusion…! Shamelessly…! Those authors, those thieves…! Those traitors…!”
that.
It was anger that began to seep out from the deepest part of my heart.
she is.
Before she got married.
She clearly remembered the words she had hurled at Yeon So-hyeon.
“How come you have such abilities and yet you do nothing when it’s really needed…?!”
That’s right.
Those were some extremely harsh words.
“… Please take care of yourself, Sister.”
Nevertheless, Yeon So-hyeon wished for her well-being until the end.
Those infinitely deep and sad eyes.
On the day he left his family, he ignored Yeon So-hyeon, who was watching him from afar.
“How dare you…!”
Later.
She realized that Yeon So-hyeon had been protecting her and her mothers from behind all this time, and she felt deeply grateful.
But because of that, even more so.
I couldn’t help but be angry.
“How dare you take the family away from the eldest son and the successor designated by his father…?!”
Everyone.
I thought that Princess Yeon Yu-hwa had a gentle personality and Princess Cheon Ui-mubong had a strong personality, but I was wrong.
Contrary to her outward appearance, deep inside her was a boiling lava-like quality that she inherited from her father, the best swordsman in the world, Yeongeomun.
“under…!”
The third princess, Yeon Da-eun, and the fourth princess, Yeon Da-hye, also expressed their anger.
“And then…! And then everyone mocked my older brother by calling him the Swordless One…?!”
“Rather, they spread it further and even encouraged it…!”
“Even the mere servant maids laugh at and ignore my eldest brother…!”
Although.
Nowadays, the nickname ‘Mugeomja’ is used and accepted with a completely different meaning.
In this family, the sisters’ anger at having to hear that nickname as a derogatory term for the past ten years is also there.
It was no less than that of the Japanese princess Yeon Yu-hwa.
“…entire.”
A sharp murderous intent flashed like lightning in the eyes of the princess Yeon Yu-hwa.
“I’ll tear you to pieces and kill you.”
And she was more than capable of doing so.
like that.
Just before they kicked the door open and ran out.
“for a moment…!”
Bam…!
Instead, the door opened and Han In-yeong ran inside to stop them.
“Calm down, ladies…!”
It was Yeonbi of the Four Princes.
“Get out of the way, Yeonbi…!”
“We’re going to kill all those fucking Supreme Council members right now…!”
“You knew about this, and yet you kept your mouth shut until now…?!”
If it were normal.
The weak Yeonbi would have been pushed out by her older sisters without even the slightest resistance.
But not now.
“No.”
He is now.
Not the cute younger sister of the older sisters, but the person in charge of the general administration.
Because it was Yeon Bi, the closest confidant of Yeon So-hyeon.
“Don’t you know? Anyway, the remaining Supreme Council members have nothing to do with the thirteen members from back then.”
He spoke firmly to his sisters without taking an inch of step back.
“Except for the elders of the Geomjon Gwan-gu Seon-wi, who were the chairman until recently, all the people at that time had to step down from their positions.”
“They… .”
“You had to step down from your seat…?”
“yes.”
Yeonbi answered without a moment’s hesitation, and they soon intuitively understood what had happened.
“no way…?”
“Your eldest brother…?”
A little while ago.
It was a possible guess, knowing that the ‘oath of silence’ would be broken and three top members, including the chairman, would lose their positions.
“Yes.”
When the girls began to calm down a little, Sakongja Yeonbi continued speaking more calmly.
“Not long after that happened, all of them except for the elder swordsman. My older brother found out who they were and kicked them out. And-.”
The princess Yeon Yu-hwa noticed what the princess Yeon-bi was trying to say and accepted the words.
“So, are you saying that the people who are left now are the ones that Sohyun filtered and filtered?”
“yes.”
Sigh… and so on.
Princess Yeon Yu-hwa sat back down on her chair and let out a long sigh.
“… Really, Sohyun.”
Truly, he was a great kid.
Even after losing everything.
That child, from then until now.
My father’s family line.
His own family.
And the family crests.
Even in places where no one knows, it has been protected.
“…then.”
Princess Yeon Yu-hwa asked, tilting her head.
“What are Sohyun’s plans?”
After checking the security of the room once more, Sakongja Yeonbi gathered her sisters and changed the conversation to close-range communication.
[My older brother…]
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