The Ruler Of Darkness - Chapter 623
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Episode 623
Part 23 Father and Son (2)
childhood.
“Sohyun…!”
My father often.
Surrounded by towers of paperwork stacked almost to the ceiling, he called out to himself.
“Please, save this father…!”
then.
The young me, who was reading a medical book outside my father’s office, sighed deeply and stood up from my seat as if I had no choice.
Squeak-.
“You were there?”
The first person to find me as soon as I opened the door was my first older sister.
It was Princess Yeon Yu-hwa.
She was extremely intelligent and often assisted her father from a young age.
“I was going to come find you anyway, you’re lucky…!”
My older sister welcomed me, took my hand, and pulled me inside.
“It’s not luck.”
I spoke calmly as I was being dragged away.
“This month, my father has been on a lot of business trips. Now that the end of the month is approaching and I have to settle accounts, I thought he was starting to go crazy.”
“Anyway, it went well…!”
My sister just pushed me into the office.
“Please save my father before he becomes the most dishonorable swordsman in history, crushed to death by paperwork!”
I shrugged.
“I, too, do not want to be remembered as the son of the most dishonorable swordsman in history.”
and.
As I was pushed into the office, the first thing that caught my eye was a small, skinny old man.
How serious is the impression you make on yourself even on a regular basis?
The old man’s forehead, which was nothing but wrinkles and skin, had red veins scattered here and there.
He maybe.
He is probably the person most feared by everyone in the family.
“… “Naewon General (內院總管).”
When I bowed my head slightly in greeting, he smiled without any hostility.
“Your Highness, indeed….”
If other people saw it, they would doubt their eyes.
“Did you already know this would happen and wait for it to happen?”
“yes.”
at that time.
I could hear my father screaming from inside.
“Kuaaaah…! The running fire demon is coming…!”
“ha….”
The Chief of Staff sighed and said.
“Please come inside.”
He extended his hand in welcome and led me further into the office where his father was.
* * *
“… Your Highness.”
The setting sun lay long.
The setting sun was dyeing the wide space red, which used to be the office of Yeongeomun (淵劍?), the head of the Luoyang Sword Family.
“Director General of the Household.”
and.
A voice as dry as the empty, desolate space and eyes filled with caution were directed at Yeon Soo-hyeon.
“What business do you have?”
Yeon So-hyeon looked into the eyes of the Chief of Staff, who was looking at her with complicated emotions, and said.
“…I want to see my father.”
“… … .”
His eyes grew deeper and more complex.
“… As for treatment, the Medicine King just finished today’s treatment and left. He said he will continue the next treatment at dawn.”
“It’s not because of the treatment.”
Yeon So-hyeon shook her head.
Then, once.
The General’s eyes grew deeper.
“then…?”
He came to know Yeon So-hyeon’s circumstances to some extent, and he was worried about Yeon So-hyeon separately.
He is the last gatekeeper protecting the family.
Yeon So-hyeon answered him calmly.
“I want to see my father.”
It was exactly the same answer as before.
“… … .”
but.
It seems that the Chief of Staff of Naewon has fully noticed the emotions contained in Yeon So-hyeon’s words this time.
With a small sigh, I uncrossed my legs and got up from the floor.
“…I will leave the door open, Your Highness.”
that.
It was the same as saying that he would watch Yeon So-hyeon from outside the door, but Yeon So-hyeon didn’t care.
“…Thank you.”
“… … .”
Squeak, squeak.
The only sound that could be heard was the sound of two people stepping on the floor bathed in the sunset.
* * *
“You came, my eldest son…!”
My father ran to me with his arms wide open and tried to hug me.
“… Oh, shit!”
He gave up when he realized that his entire body was virtually bound to towers of paperwork.
My father sighed deeply, as if he was sighing.
“If I don’t do something about these documents, I won’t be able to hug my beloved eldest son…!”
Instead, my father poked his face out from between the stacks of papers.
“I have to work to protect my beloved family, but I have so much work to do that I can’t even hug them.”
He shrugged from behind his tower of documents.
“Isn’t this the very So-Hyeon, the paradox or contradiction or whatever it is that you like?”
“ha….”
I took a deep breath and answered.
“… I don’t know where to start, but for now, I think this is a result of ‘laziness.’”
“Lazy…?!”
My father jumped, but I didn’t even blink.
“You should have taken care of the paperwork while you were fighting with the warriors of your family.”
“That’s exactly what I told my father.”
My older sister shrugged her shoulders at me as she struggled to put down another huge stack of documents.
“Even before those battles were fought.”
“but…!”
My father raised his voice as if he was being treated unfairly.
“Isn’t that a secret?! If you can’t even do a single secret, then why are you the head of a swordsmanship family?!”
“Once?”
The eldest sister put her hand on her hip and looked at her father with pitiful eyes.
“Since when did a hundred consecutive battles become a single battle?”
“Uh, that’s….”
As my father stuttered, she turned to me and said.
“Sohyun, I need to take care of your father first.”
“Why?! Why?!”
At her father’s words, his older sister shrugged her shoulders at him.
“Since you keep confusing the words ‘once’ and ‘a hundred times’, you must have hit your head during the fight.”
“Huh…?!”
At that point, I calmly intervened between the two.
“First, let’s take care of the work.”
“Okay! Work first! Work is important!”
I asked my father, who was smiling brightly after getting out of a difficult situation.
“What is your most pressing issue?”
My father answered immediately.
“Namgung Se-ga! Namgung Se-ga, they’re the problem!”
My father screamed, clutching his head.
“If you lost, you should have just admitted it and hung your head! You’ve been picking a fight over every little thing up until now!”
I shrugged.
“Because they are Namgung Se-ga?”
Father shouted at the ceiling.
“The Sword King or something, Namgungje? That damn crazy old man…! I should have dragged him out then and beaten him up!”
* * *
“… You don’t have to worry about the Namgung Se family’s sword king anymore.”
Yeon So-hyeon stroked her father Yeon Geum-un’s hair and whispered to him in a quiet voice.
“He entrusted my son’s future to me.”
Father Yeongeomun’s hair turning white was a side effect of the high-intensity treatment.
“There is no longer any possibility of him interfering with your work. You can rest assured.”
“… … .”
of course.
There was no reply from Father Yeongeomun.
instead.
“… … .”
The only thing that could be heard was the sigh of the Chief Inspector General standing at the door.
Pretend not to notice the moisture in his sigh.
Yeon So-hyeon continued to speak calmly to her unconscious father.
“Are you saying that the actions of the leaders of the Hwasan faction and the Wudang faction are suspicious?”
He asked himself questions and answered them while picking the boogers from his father’s eyes.
“It’s suspicious. They must have received huge bribes from the heads of the sixteen clans. Ah… .”
Yeon So-hyeon corrected her words as if she had just remembered something.
“To be exact, I should say that there are now fourteen heads of the sixteen clans. I got rid of two of them.”
He shrugged his shoulders as if he had heard something from his unconscious father.
“The rest? Of course, I will clean up the rest as well.”
Just like he used to be.
Just like any other day in the distant past.
I explained to my father in a quiet voice.
“The core of the imperial capital is always balance. It is important that His Majesty the Emperor and His Excellency the Prime Minister only carry out work to the extent that they can handle.”
Like a parent telling a story to a child at his bedside, Yeon So-hyeon continued speaking in a soft tone.
“The zodiac is the root of this country. If we rush things, the Central Kingdom may shake or even collapse. We must be especially careful. However… .”
Yeon So-hyeon, who had been talking up to that point, stopped.
“…but.”
He spoke to his father, Yeongeomun, in a bitter tone.
“I guess Father doesn’t know much about the current heads of the sixteen families. They are the ones who became heads of the families after Father collapsed…”
Yeon So-hyeon held her father’s hand.
The withered hand felt like a skewer, and a deep pain arose in my chest.
“There are so many other things I want to tell you. There are so, so many new things for you to learn….”
“… … .”
The sigh of the chief of staff heard from outside was deeper this time.
“under…!”
Yeon So-hyeon chuckled with a trembling voice.
“You don’t know anything about the current situation, so you’re completely disqualified. Are you dreaming about a million or ten million years of fighting?”
Yeon So-hyeon giggled for no reason.
“All the walls in the world are collapsing right now, so there’s no need for a new play.”
He is slow.
He rubbed his father’s arms and legs as if to help with blood circulation and spoke mischievously.
“If you don’t get up quickly, I will become the head of the household instead of your incompetent and lazy father.”
“… … .”
Yeon So-hyeon shrugged her shoulders as she listened to her father Yeon Geum-un’s soft breathing while rubbing his arms and legs.
“Oh, you want me to be a housewife? Every day, my father falls into a state of deep meditation without any desires?”
Yeon So-hyeon shook her head as if it was impossible.
“That can’t be happening. If I become the head of the household, I’ll immediately send my father to the front lines.”
Yeon So-hyeon, who had been talking up to that point, let out a snicker.
“Well, my father liked actual combat more than military service. Am I giving him a better job?”
He spoke without stopping, waving his hands.
“It’s good for Father because he can fight with his head clear, and I can think of it as fulfilling my filial piety. Is it beneficial for both of us?”
“… … .”
Father Yeongeomun didn’t answer, and Yeonseonhyeon, who had rubbed his limbs as much as he needed, sighed.
“…actually.”
Stay still.
Yeon So-hyeon said, looking down at her father who had his eyes closed.
“Now I have the means to wake my father up right away.”
A bitter smile appeared on his lips.
“This is a method where I can enter my father’s mental world and awaken his consciousness.”
“Archangel…!”
The chief of staff came in hurriedly and shouted.
But it is.
It wasn’t because he didn’t know Yeon So-hyeon had such a means.
“I heard from the Medicine King…!”
He spoke to Yeon So-hyeon as if warning her.
“Your Highness, if you use the power of the ‘Je-am-jin-cheon-gyeong (制暗震天經)’, you must be prepared to die this time…!”
Yeon So-hyeon is currently.
The Je-Am-Jin-Cheon-Gyeong was arbitrarily sealed.
Next time use is a must.
It would have led to another fatal rampage.
“Je-am-jin-cheon-gyeong, the evil spirit has always been like that. Nae-won-chong-gwan.”
Yeon So-hyeon continued speaking without even looking back at the chief of staff.
“I have always fought against them with the determination to die, and I have won and overcome to get here.”
“Archangel…!”
The chief of staff spoke in a stern voice.
“Even if you awaken with that method, even if you win the Je-am-jin-cheon-gyeong once again, the process will not be short.”
He asked.
“Isn’t that right?”
“… … .”
Yeon So-hyeon, who was looking up at the ceiling, closed her eyes.
“…exactly.”
“then.”
The chief of staff asked again.
“Instead of you, Archduke, we will have to fight the enemies together with the lord who just woke up from his sickbed and has no idea about the current situation?”
“… … .”
When Yeon So-hyeon did not answer, the chief of the royal family asked again.
“Are you sure that your Majesty will not suffer any aftereffects?”
“… … .”
When Yeon So-hyeon still had her eyes closed and didn’t answer, this time, the chief of the royal family also kept his mouth shut.
“… … .”
“… … .”
In the silence, only the breathing of three people echoed throughout the room.
and.
In the end, the chief of staff spoke first.
“…we, no.”
He hesitated for a moment and then changed his words.
“I need you, Grand Duke.”
“… … .”
And at those words, Yeon So-hyeon opened her eyes.
“That old monster of the world, the commander-in-chief of Naewon, is talking weakly.”
“… … .”
When the chief of staff did not respond, Yeon So-hyeon lightly shook off his seat and stood up.
“Ha, don’t worry. I’m not the young Yeon So-hyeon you remember.”
“yes.”
Surprisingly.
This time, the head of the department answered.
“Your Highness, aren’t you the Swordless Emperor?”
“Phuhat…!”
A burst of laughter came out of Yeon So-hyeon’s mouth.
For the first time in a long while, a refreshing burst of laughter echoed through Gaju’s bedroom.
“Director General Naewon…”
Yeon So-hyeon, who had been laughing for a long time, shook her head and said.
“I thought you’d be the last person to mention that name.”
The chief of staff shrugged his shoulders and asked, expressionless as usual.
“So? What are you going to do now, Lord Mugeomje? When do you think the enemies will make their move?”
Yeon So-hyeon answered.
“The more capable you are, the faster you will move.”
“then-.”
And then,
“-Your Majesty, Director General!”
The Secretary General’s urgent voice was heard from outside.
“hmm.”
Then Yeon So-hyeon shrugged her shoulders.
“These enemies seem quite capable.”
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