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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Vine
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Fate doesn’t require prayer.
Even if I didn’t do anything, the leader, who did not sense any foreboding threat, was leaving the sect well-dressed. I was sitting with Sanyeo at the inn’s table, eating skewers. Sanyeo had her hands hidden in her sleeve and only had her head poking out.
I pushed a skewer into her mouth so that she could eat easily and said in a low voice,
“He left today, so I’ll start tonight.”
Sanyeo tore off the meat from the skewer. The sight of her munching on the meat with her small lips was like seeing a wild leopard cat.
“I’ll cheer you on.”
She said that while swallowing the meat. Was she thinking of sleeping lazily in the accommodation? I nodded to her and then casually threw the skewer onto the plate. Since I had nothing to do before nightfall, I thought I would do some simple training and then sleep.
“Watch my training.”
Sanyeo nodded at my request and followed me closely. She made noise on purpose with her steps, and the inn employee gave me an envious look before turning his gaze away.
I had to loosen up my body in case something happened.
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“You said you’d cheer me on, right?”
They say that you should listen until the end when a person is talking. It was a dark night where the moon and stars were creating an ominous mood. Sanyeo and I were facing each other on the street. Sanyeo was blinking her eyes as if she didn’t understand what I was saying, so I repeated my words to her.
“Weren’t you supposed to rest inside and cheer me on?”
Sanyeo shook her head. Her red eyes seemed strangely shameless today.
“We’re on the same boat, right? We have to be together.”
“You’re going to interfere with me while I’m winning over the daughter?”
If things didn’t go well, I might have to try to win her over and rape her on the spot. Sanyeo would be watching me raping a woman and cheering me on?
“…Not bad. Let’s go.”
I didn’t feel as bad about it as I thought I would. If it was some guy watching me, I would not like it, but Sanyeo was a beauty who was not lacking in any area. Sanyeo looked puzzled after I suddenly changed my stance. She had her hands together and was tilting her head, looking as cute as a doll.
“What are you doing?”
“Ah, yeah.”
Sanyeo, who had lost her control, took a step behind me one beat later after I rushed her.
Men wearing the Hongryun Sect’s uniform were walking around with torches on the streets at night. They were sighing or singing old songs to alleviate the boredom of their night shifts. We moved by avoiding the noise they were making and moved towards the wall of the mansion.
“The security is not that strict.”
As Sanyeo had said, the security inside the Hongryun Sect was lax. They could have been doing their best, but there were only two guards standing at the main buildings, and those guards didn’t have much inner energy, and their basics weren’t solid, so they were not able to detect me or Sanyeo.
For me, it was no different from having straw dummies guarding, and Sanyeo also looked over the guards with a deflated expression and said,
“That large man was still around the third-rate level, where is he? It would be easy to infiltrate if we know his location.”
I shook my head at Sanyeo’s words and said,
“We have to find where the daughter is first. Judging from their security, someone like him is probably sleeping soundly somewhere.”
“That makes sense.”
There was no point in finding the location of the large man since no one was in sight.
After easily scaling the wall and entering the mansion, Sanyeo sniffed the air. Like a drug-sniffing dog, she bent her waist and tilted her head before grabbing my hand, which was about to start searching around, and pointed to one side of the building.
Because of her shackles, she grabbed my hand with both hands, looking as if she was pleading with me.
“I smell alcohol.”
The building that she was pointing towards had lamps lit up, so shadows were swaying, and it seemed like they were already having a drinking party starting from the first day that the leader had left. Sanyeo focused her eyes on the shadows and then said to me,
“I can feel their energy, it seems like that large man is probably also drinking there.”
“It seems that way.”
There was a distance between the wall where we had climbed down and the building where they were having a drinking party, but the rowdy sounds were clearly reaching us.
“Now, let’s cheer for our leader’s eternal health!”
“Hooray!”
“For the day that the Hongryun Sect joins the, whatever! The top nine sects! The top nine sects!”
“Hooray!”
The cheers that had been shouted were letting us know that the atmosphere was just starting to get heated. They wouldn’t be leaving that place for a while. Sanyeo let go of my hand and said,
“It would be troublesome if the daughter was there, right?”
She had a smile lingering on her lips. I shook my head and said,
“They say that the leader is keeping his daughter locked up, there’s no way the subordinates, no matter how reckless they are, would put his daughter at their drinking party.”
“Then, there are so many rooms, how are you going to find her?”
The Hongryun Sect’s building was quite large. Even if I were to look at the buildings that were connected to each other, there were at least seven, and each of the seven buildings also had three rooms attached to them. If we were to search all of them individually, then we would likely be found out no matter how lax the security was.
I narrowed my eyes and looked around. I saw a few people coming out of the building where the drinking party was taking place and moving around. They were taking turns going into the rooms with platters of food and alcohol, and some of the servants were eating the food in the corners and giggling with each other.
Dark smoke was rising from the kitchen.
I gestured Sanyeo to come closer and leaned against the wall, focusing my gaze on the people who were coming out of the kitchen.
“Wait a bit.”
Sanyeo followed my words and focused her gaze on the servants while tightly closing her mouth. The directions that the people who were bringing the food were going were fixed. The direction where the servants were eating, and the direction where the disciples were eating.
And then there was one servant who was carrying a lot of food and walking toward a different direction. He was walking toward a quiet building where a feast wasn’t taking place.
“That’s him. Even if it’s a beast’s den, there’s no way that only true beasts live there.”
There was no way that it was going to be a true beast den where only people who ate their fill and lived carelessly lived.
According to the rumors, the leader was obsessed with his daughter to the point that he cut the tendons in her feet, so there was no way that he would bring her to the drinking party. But, there was also no way that he wouldn’t have her eat when everyone else was eating.
It was natural for someone to go bring her food.
Using gaps like the shadows of the roofs, trees, and buildings, we moved quickly and followed the guy from behind. He turned around a few times as if he was feeling something tickle the back of his head, but he didn’t notice us.
“Miss. Miss.”
“…What’s wrong?”
The man stopped at a blind spot after going around half of the building. A small shadow appeared in the room where the light could be seen through the door that was behind the man. She was sitting at a desk with a brush in her hand, and a piece of paper that she had only partly turned over had appeared in a diamond-shaped shadow.
We were not far away, so we could hear the voices clearly.
“Please eat something and keep working.”
“…Did you bring it because of me on purpose?”
“Y, yeah…”
The man who seemed to be a servant scratched his head and let out a silly smile. Because he was twisting and contorting his body out of shyness, the cheap fabric he was wearing made a loud rustling sound.
Clunk.
The door opened. We lowered our bodies even more to prevent our figures from being revealed in the reflected light.
The daughter of the Hongryun Sect appeared, bathed in the light.
The male servant was looking at her with an enamored face, and she was smiling while gently sweeping a finger over the food that the servant had brought for her. The servant looked satisfied with the expression that was full of small joys.
“Thank you. For paying attention to me like this.”
“I-It’s, it’s nothing…”
“Have you eaten?”
She asked the man. I could faintly hear laughter and noisy shouts echoing through the place. The man was shaking uncontrollably, with his face as red as a beet. Even if one didn’t have sharp hearing, it was easy to tell that his heart was beating like crazy.
The woman had her black hair neatly braided, and she was a simple but beautiful woman. Her black pupils sparkled like beads from the light, and her simple appearance made her charm stand out even more.
Although she was bundled up in her clothes, the outline of her chest was prominent, and there were clear scars on her ankles that were visible under her skirt. The story about him cutting her tendons seemed to be true. Every time she moved her hips, her legs would drag along powerlessly as if they were tails.
The man looked quickly at her clothes and ankles and then shook his head in an even more flustered manner.
And then he shouted,
“I, I, I have eaten! Th, th, it’s time for me to work, so I’ll get going!”
She looked a little surprised at his reaction, but then smiled again and said,
“Yes. Be careful.”
Her voice was truly beautiful. The man ran away as if he was fleeing, and the leader’s daughter looked at the man’s retreating figure for a moment before giggling and covering her mouth with her hand.
Sanyeo looked at me and winked as she asked,
“She’s quite beautiful, isn’t she?”
“Yeah.”
The sight of her picking up the meat with her chopsticks and munching with her small mouth was indeed captivating. I agreed with Sanyeo’s words and rose from the ground.
I purposefully made noise by rustling through the bushes, and the leader’s daughter, who was munching on food, flinched like a squirrel, raised her head, and looked around with her chopsticks in hand.
Seeing her blinking and being wary, I said in a low voice,
“Calm down. Don’t shout.”
Even if she took a few steps out of the shadows, she would immediately see my figure because of the light shining from the room. I spread my hands, showing that I had no hostility, and said with a smile,
“It’s okay. It’s okay. I’m here to give you a good offer.”
The girl made an uneasy expression and stepped back a little, but she didn’t shout.
We made eye contact.
Her black pupils were quite alluring.
