The Youngest Member Chapter 27

Song Yiyeon, who had laid Jang Woopyeong and Do Seonghwi in a clean place where there was no blood, fell into deep thought.

Seeing this, Cheon Woojin asked.

"What's wrong?"

"No, I have to wake up my seniors..."

Song Yiyeon, who glanced around the room, frowned as if he was nauseous. It was truly a scene of carnage. The overturned table was on the cute side.

Blood and flesh were splattered here and there, and the bodies, split in half and with their foreheads pierced, were lying neatly. Even Senior Jang's clothes were soaked in blood.

"I think my seniors will faint again if I wake them up. Especially Senior Jang, for sure."

"Hmm..."

Cheon Woojin, who had been thinking for a mont, nodded his head.

It seed right to let the two seniors sleep for a while. Of course, it was not for the sa reason as young hero Song.

As Cheon Woojin waved his hand in the air, the firmly closed door opened. The seventeen martial artists who were waiting outside appeared, frozen.

Their pupils rolled busily. Soon, the martial artists who had confird the inside prepared to flee all at once.

At the sa ti, Cheon Woojin said in a low voice.

"You'll die if you go back."

The martial artists' movents stopped all at once.

Seeing this, Cheon Woojin continued in a calm voice.

"Do you think the Sex Demon will let you live?"

The martial artists exchanged glances. Co to think of it, he was right. That person was by no ans soone who would forgive a defeated soldier. How that Martial Alliance mber knew that was a matter to be set aside in the face of death.

Cheon Woojin nodded his head and said.

"I'll tell you a way to live. Of course, a master who can escape the Sex Demon's grasp on his own may leave this place."

Cheon Woojin's tone was plain. Because he was telling it as it was.

That caused even greater confusion among the martial artists. They couldn't think of a way to escape the Sex Demon's hands.

How many people had he toyed with to get the lowly nickna of Sex Demon? He did not discriminate between n and won, young and old. He had raped an old male master, and he had toyed with a female martial artist who was new to the martial world.

Of course, those who had been done in by the Sex Demon were all gone from the world.

The Sex Demon was very vicious.

After most of his work was done, he would kill them by striking their Baihui point with his palm, but he had a knack for recognizing those who would take their own lives out of sha and would deliberately let them live and send them ho.

And so, the Sex Demon's notoriety grew day by day.

Although it had been decades since the nickna Sex Demon had beco known in the martial world, the Sex Demon was still alive and well.

The martial artists, who had mulled over a series of thoughts, eventually entered the red room on their own.

* * *

The blood-stained room was painted even redder.

There was the body of the middle-aged man, the bodies of the courtesans, and the body of the tavern owner.

However, as Cheon Woojin had said, not a single one of the martial artists who had walked in on their own had died. They were just half-crippled to the point where they could never walk again.

They would be protected in a place where their lives would not be threatened. The deep, deep brain prison of the Martial Alliance.

When Cheon Woojin left the room again, there was no one to block his way.

Song Yiyeon's complexion was deathly pale.

The things that had happened inside felt like a dream.

People's skin was torn, and their bones were bent.

As each and every one beca like that, the martial artists begged and pleaded to tell more information. In the end, young hero Cheon was able to get all the information he wanted.

Song Yiyeon, recalling the warning Cheon Woojin had given him, looked at his back.

Suddenly, Cheon Woojin turned around.

The startled Song Yiyeon's eyes widened.

Cheon Woojin tilted his head as if it was strange and then said in a very casual tone.

"I can feel martial artists with similar auras in several places. It seems the Black Tortoise Unit and Heavenly Tiger Unit martial artists have co out to enjoy the night in various parts of the marketplace."

"...You an we weren't the only ones targeted?"

Cheon Woojin nodded his head.

"We were lucky."

"W-what do you an, lucky?"

Song Yiyeon was terrified. He had a look as if he was seeing a demon that had walked out of hell.

Cheon Woojin tilted his head again.

"I an it's a relief that the strongest of them ca to us. If he had gone elsewhere, there would have been deaths."

"Aha..."

Song Yiyeon let out a sigh of relief.

"Nangong Jin seems to be in a nearby tavern too."

"How far can your senses detect, young hero?"

Cheon Woojin shrugged his shoulders.

At that sight, Song Yiyeon tried hard to suppress his curiosity and roughly nodded his head. Because the more he knew about the friend he had made for the first ti after coming to the martial world, the more he felt that he was growing distant.

"Young hero Cheon, I think we have to save them."

"Why."

Cheon Woojin was genuinely puzzled. Nangong Jin was a person who had treated Song Yiyeon carelessly. He could not understand why Song Yiyeon would be the first to talk about saving such a person.

However, Song Yiyeon was originally that kind of man.

"Anyway, we're fellow Martial Alliance mbers. We're also peers, and at least I don't hate them as much as the guys who tried to kill us, so of course we should help. Of course, although I'm saying it confidently, strictly speaking, I'm asking you, young hero."

"Hmm..."

Cheon Woojin did not feel the need. He had already found out as much information as he could.

The Sex Demon had heard a rumor that there was a secret cave of the Giant Stone Monster and had attacked the Black Tortoise Unit and the Heavenly Tiger Unit to find its location.

The Giant Stone Monster was a rather special one among the disciples of the Dark Heavenly Son. He was a man who had trained his external skill to the extre, like a huge rock, and there was a story that the skin of a person who had mastered external skill was as thick and tough as the hide of a spiritual beast.

In other words, it ant that he was going to dig up his grave to get his skin. Of course, not only the Sex Demon, but also those who had obtained the information would appear in large numbers.

Among them, there could be a figure from the Demonic Cult, or a cadre of the Black Plaque Star, which was said to be the number one of the black path.

Also, other disciples of the Dark Heavenly Son, not the Sex Demon, could appear.

Presumably, the purpose of this mission was also related to the secret cave of the Giant Stone Monster. The reason the mission was suspended in the middle must have been because of the danger that bigger shots than expected could gather due to the information leaking here and there.

Now that he knew all the facts, what he had to do was simple.

After finding the secret cave, he just had to smash the heads of all the disciples of the Dark Heavenly Son.

Of course, if it weren't for Song Yiyeon's request.

"Young hero, I'm asking you like this. Huh? Please, I'm begging you. We're friends, aren't we? Anyway, if a commotion breaks out here and there, the seniors at the Nangong family and the Song family will appear. But we can't just stand by and watch when we know they're being attacked nearby."

Song Yiyeon had a pitiful expression. Of course, he was sure in his head that it was the right thing to do. Also, if he had the strength, he would have stepped forward himself.

However, Song Yiyeon was not a shaless man enough to force a good deed by borrowing soone else's strength. He was even less of a scoundrel who would build up his own achievents by borrowing Cheon Woojin's martial power.

'I will help you find the way.'

Song Yiyeon thought so. He mulled over Cheon Woojin's words that he had not yet found the path to take, several tis.

Judging from Cheon Woojin's actions, his two masters must have been a great villain and an unparalleled good man. Although he wondered if that was even possible, Cheon Woojin's values were exactly like that.

If he was unable to find his way in the middle of that, he was thinking of helping him as a friend.

He would not just stand by and watch him beco a villain. He did not wish for him to beco a great good man either. He just hoped that he would beco a person who knew the minimum of human decency.

Of course, if he asked 'who are you to say that', he had nothing to say.

However, Song Yiyeon wanted to do so. If Cheon Woojin refused, it couldn't be helped.

Cheon Woojin, who was staring blankly at Song Yiyeon, let out a sigh.

"Is that what young hero Song truly wants?"

Song Yiyeon nodded his head until it seed it would fall off.

At that sight, Cheon Woojin let out a smirk.

"I'll go right away."

Cheon Woojin, who said so, started walking. Song Yiyeon also followed him with a much lighter step.

The two forgotten seniors were only able to wake up after a long ti had passed.

* * *

The situation at the tavern where Nangong Jin and the Heavenly Tiger Unit martial artists were was not much different.

The n in black were asking sothing, and the Heavenly Tiger Unit mbers, including Nangong Jin, were spilling everything. Seeing a Heavenly Tiger Unit mber naked, it seed they were all subordinates of the Sex Demon.

They knew more information than the Black Tortoise Unit mbers.

After obtaining a rather satisfactory result, they were about to leave after entrusting the cleanup to the courtesans.

Thwack-!

A heavy sound of tearing flesh erupted.

The head of the man in black who was leaving the room first was completely smashed.

What happened after that was not much different from what was expected.

A ti that was no more than a mont passed.

The courtesans and the n in black were all lying comfortably on the floor, and Song Yiyeon, as if he was used to it, put the clothes back on the Heavenly Tiger Unit mber.

"I'll wake them up."

There was no one else to torture here. Because he had already obtained all the information he could get.

Song Yiyeon nodded his head.

"But how do you wake up those who are drunk on the beauty poison?"

At Song Yiyeon's question, Cheon Woojin thought for a mont and then answered.

"It's a similar principle to how young hero Song was not drunk on the beauty poison."

"...Uh, as expected, you know the martial art I've learned?"

"It just happened that way."

Song Yiyeon was not very surprised. There were two reasons why he had not revealed the fact that he had learned the Boy's Art.

First, it was to not let his weakness be known to the public, and second, it was because he didn't want to be teased.

However, young hero Cheon was so strong that he didn't even need to know his weakness, and he was not a person who would carelessly tease soone, so it didn't matter much if his martial art was revealed.

"Young hero Song's internal energy is very pure due to the nature of the martial art. In particular, just as the energy of Shaolin has the property of subduing demons, the energy of that martial art has the property of subduing yin."

"You an the young hero can operate such an energy? Huk! Don't tell

the young hero also...?"

Cheon Woojin shook his head. He had never learned the Boy's Art for a mont. In the first place, the Boy's Art was a unique martial art that could not be practiced in parallel with other martial arts.

However, he just understood the principle of the martial art and refined the nature of the ki to suit his needs.

There was not enough ti to explain this one by one.

"Young hero Song's energy will also be effective on them, so please inject it."

"Ah, alright."

While Cheon Woojin was detoxifying the two Heavenly Tiger Unit mbers by injecting his energy at the sa ti, Song Yiyeon grabbed Nangong Jin's wrist with a displeased face.

Although he had co to help to make his friend's beliefs right, he felt a certain resistance when he saw Nangong Jin's annoying face and tried to grab his wrist.

Song Yiyeon let out a sigh and injected his energy into Nangong Jin. Nangong Jin was looking at Song Yiyeon with unfocused eyes, affected by the beauty poison.

"Song Yiyeon. You son of a rchant."

"...Is he crazy?"

Song Yiyeon shook his head.

A person drunk on the beauty poison only tells the truth. Nangong Jin was looking down on him even in his heart. He had thought of hitting him on the head while he was drunk, but that was not the way of the martial world.

Soon, Nangong Jin mumbled like a drunk person.

"The Anhui Song family is a great family. Although it may not be a martial family, it has achieved such great wealth and power starting from a corner store. Family Head Song is really amazing. Because it's rare for my father to acknowledge soone so much."

Song Yiyeon flinched. He had never expected such words to co out of his mouth.

Song Yiyeon, who was looking at Nangong Jin for a mont, asked cautiously.

"But why did you treat

like that?"

"Because it was annoying that a son of a rchant family dared to stand shoulder to shoulder with . I, the eldest son of the Nangong family, should not be like that."

Nangong Jin frowned as if he was in great pain. It was unknown whether his body was under strain in the process of detoxification, or simply because he was recalling a painful mory.

Song Yiyeon's expression also beca serious.

Because he had never thought that Nangong Jin would be acknowledging him as an equal, not below him, in his heart.

How much ti had passed like that?

"What?"

Nangong Jin's eyes widened. Although he had been keeping his eyes open, he looked as if he had just woken up from sleep.

Nangong Jin surveyed his surroundings with a serious expression and then found Song Yiyeon who was holding his wrist.

"W-what are you doing?"

Nangong Jin, who had roughly pushed Song Yiyeon's hand away, quickly grasped the situation and shot up from his seat.

Then he bowed his head deeply to the Heavenly Tiger Unit seniors who had already woken up.

"I-I'm sorry. I should have been on my guard, but I foolishly fell for such a shallow trick. I owe my seniors my life."

The Heavenly Tiger Unit mbers, who had suddenly received an apology and thanks, scratched their heads with very awkward expressions.

Because they were no different from Nangong Jin.

A Heavenly Tiger Unit mber pointed at Cheon Woojin and Song Yiyeon.

"Actually, we were also done in. If it weren't for these two juniors, we would all be dead."

Nangong Jin looked at Song Yiyeon and Cheon Woojin with eyes that said he couldn't believe it.

The Heavenly Tiger Unit. The Heavenly Tiger Unit, which was called the most elite among the ard forces of the Martial Alliance. The two of them had dealt with those who used such a vicious and ruthless thod that even they had been done in?

However, all the circumstances were saying that it was true.

Nangong Jin bowed his head to Cheon Woojin.

"I will definitely repay this debt."

Although it was a blunt tone, it had the form of gratitude. Soon, Nangong Jin, who had lifted his head, glanced at Song Yiyeon and then turned his gaze away.

It was an act of openly ignoring Song Yiyeon. Even the fellow Heavenly Tiger Unit mbers inwardly shook their heads at that sight.

However, Song Yiyeon was not in the least bit offended.

"Hehe..."

"...?"

At the sudden sinister laugh, Nangong Jin looked at Song Yiyeon with a serious face. However, Song Yiyeon still just let out a laugh without a word.

Because he had found out that the guy considered him an equal, his ruffian-like behavior sohow felt ridiculous.

* * *

The Heavenly Tiger Unit Commander and the Black Tortoise Unit Commander, Cheol Jiak, ran with all their might. They were truly using their movent skills at full power.

Nevertheless, contrary to the Heavenly Tiger Unit Commander's expectation, the distance with Cheol Jiak was not widening.

It was truly unexpected. The man who was rated as one of the lower-ranking among the unit commanders of the ard forces was Cheol Jiak.

Of course, the Heavenly Tiger Unit Commander had never looked down on Cheol Jiak personally. However, seeing him run at a similar speed as him was just dumbfounding.

'Why is a man like this...'

However, that was not important now.

In the dead of night, a ssenger hawk from the Martial Alliance had arrived at the Nangong family.

The contents of the ssage were truly shocking.

It was that due to the information that the Martial Alliance was chasing the secret cave of the Giant Stone Monster leaking out, in the worst case, other disciples of the Dark Heavenly Son could step forward.

The Heavenly Tiger Unit Commander, who had received this, imdiately ran towards the tavern that Nangong Jin was said to have gone to, and Cheol Jiak, who had belatedly received the news from a Heavenly Tiger Unit mber, also ran towards Cheonghwaru.

However, the sight Cheol Jiak saw at Cheonghwaru was shocking.

Do Seonghwi and Jang Woopyeong were lying neatly. The surroundings were covered in blood and flesh, and it was extrely grueso.

Moreover, seeing a familiar face among the corpses, he compared it with the public enemy list, and the middle-aged man was the third-class public enemy of the martial world, the Black Wolf Hand.

A third-class public enemy of the martial world was a master on the level of a decent ard force. But more important than that was that the Black Wolf Hand was a subordinate of the Sex Demon, a disciple of the Dark Heavenly Son.

The pale-faced Cheol Jiak hurriedly looked around.

However, the two newcors were nowhere to be seen.

The worst-case scenario kept coming to Cheol Jiak's mind.

'Cheol Jiak. You foolish bastard, run faster. They're the first guys to choose the Black Tortoise Unit...'

Cheol Jiak ran with all his might.

In the anti, he had t the Heavenly Tiger Unit Commander, and they were on their way to the tavern that Nangong Jin and the Heavenly Tiger Unit mbers were said to have gone to.

The two moved as if flying over the roofs at a trendous speed and arrived at their destination in an instant.

"This...!"

The sll of blood already vibrated in the surroundings.

Cheol Jiak and the Heavenly Tiger Unit Commander simultaneously spread their senses and entered the tavern.

The large and luxurious tavern was empty, even on the first floor where there should have been the most people.

They imdiately ran up the stairs and headed to the room on the top floor.

The doors were all open, as if the precious guests had fled in a hurry, but there was one door that was firmly closed.

Blood was leaking from the crack in the door, and the senses of martial artists were felt from inside.

Screech-!

Cheol Jiak and the Heavenly Tiger Unit Commander drew their swords at the sa ti.

Soon, when they opened the door with tense faces.

"Huh?"

Cheol Jiak surveyed the inside with a serious face.

All the guys he was looking for were here.

And in a state that was too contrary to the grueso scene.

If the newcors had been hard, he was planning to protest directly to the Martial Alliance's military affairs departnt, which had not managed the information properly. Even if it ant being fired from his position as unit commander.

However, if it weren't for the corpses inside, they were so fine that he would have thought they had just been drinking peacefully here without experiencing anything.

"What the hell?"

Cheol Jiak scratched his head. He couldn't guess at all how the situation had turned out.

The Heavenly Tiger Unit Commander was the sa. No matter how elite the Heavenly Tiger Unit was, if the Black Wolf Hand had stepped forward, they could not have faced him with just three unit mbers and one newcor.

However, his body was found. In other words, it ant that another master had intervened in this matter.

This was important information. If his purpose was at odds with the Martial Alliance, he could beco a great danger.

The Heavenly Tiger Unit Commander asked with a serious expression.

"Did you see the one who killed the Black Wolf Hand? No, looking at the situation, it seems you fought together. Did the Nangong family perhaps step in?"

It was a rational inference. The Sword Dragon, the eldest son of the family, was here. Although the Black Wolf Hand was a great master, the Nangong family had several masters who could kill him, including the Sword King.

If so, the situation was understandable.

However, the reaction of the Heavenly Tiger Unit mbers was a little strange.

"That is..."

A Heavenly Tiger Unit mber scratched his head. At that sight, the Heavenly Tiger Unit Commander's eyes narrowed.

"What is it?"

"...Actually, we didn't do anything."

The Heavenly Tiger Unit mber explained what he had seen and experienced.

The appearance of the courtesans, being affected by the beauty poison, and being on the verge of death but being saved by the appearance of Cheon Woojin and Song Yiyeon.

Although there were many embarrassing contents, he had no choice but to state only the objective facts in his mission report.

Throughout the report, Cheol Jiak's and the Heavenly Tiger Unit Commander's expressions changed from mont to mont.

Soon, after the report was over, the Heavenly Tiger Unit Commander let out a long sigh.

"So, to summarize..."

The Heavenly Tiger Unit Commander's head turned to Cheon Woojin and Song Yiyeon. And yet, a gaze filled with disbelief lingered on the two for a long ti.

"The two of you cleaned up Cheonghwaru and ca here? You killed the third-class public enemy of the martial world, the Black Wolf Hand, without anyone's help?"

At the words 'third-class public enemy of the martial world', the eyes of the Heavenly Tiger Unit mbers, including Nangong Jin, widened. They also knew that those on the public enemy list were all unimaginably vicious and powerful masters.

Suddenly, Song Yiyeon shook his head.

"There is a part that needs to be corrected."

The Heavenly Tiger Unit Commander nodded his head with an expression that said 'of course'.

"So another master intervened?"

"No, the one I killed was one courtesan. The rest are all the work of young hero Cheon."

(End of Chapter)