Chapter 90. The Entire World is My Home (11)

Chapter 90. The Entire World is My Home (11)

“Okay, okay. Then, let’s all be casual. But none of you can complain about this later, okay?” Woo-Moon said, laughing with the others.

“Understood!”

“Yes, sirrrrrr~~~”

Listening to their playful answers, Woo-Moon wholeheartedly smiled.

To be honest, when he had first come to the Baek Family, and even as time went by, Woo-Moon had considered himself an outsider.

Even though he was very much part of the Baek Family blood-wise, his feelings of being an outcast had never changed. However, now, it was starting to feel more like a family. It was an incredible change.

“Hmpf!”

However, there was still someone among the Distinguished Swords who wasn’t so relaxed.

The only fourteen-year-old Baek Ryeong puffed out her cheeks and pouted.

‘Hmpf! I don’t like him!’

“Ma-Ra, what do you think about taking a break now?”

At Woo-Moon’s words, Ma-Ra suddenly fell from the ceiling and stood behind him.

“Okay.”

The Distinguished Swords suddenly took a step back. Although they were the talents of the Baek Family, not a single one of them had sensed Ma-Ra’s presence.

“Wow! L-lady Ma-Ra was here, too!” Jeong-Woo looked at Ma-Ra with an infatuated smile.

“Lady Smileless Flower! I’m glad you’re coming with us.”

“Well, if Uncle is leaving, there’s no reason for Lady Ma-Ra not to follow along. They are lovers, after all.”

One of the girls made a timely remark for the other boys, politely hinting at them to nip any feelings for Ma-Ra in the but. However, another girl then spoke up.

“Wait, no. It’s not a relationship. It’s a love triangle. I heard that the new guild master of the Leebi Guild is Uncle’s junior sister. Their relationship isn’t simple, either.”

“Wow!! A love triangle! How fun.”

While Ma-Ra seemed unaffected by the conversation, Woo-Moon’s face turned red.

“What do you mean love triangle?! Don’t just sit here writing some nonsensical novels in your heads. Go to your rooms and rest! All of you were complaining about being tired just a moment ago.”

“Uncle, your face is red!”

“So cuuute.”

The girls giggled as the boys couldn’t help laughing.

“Ma-Ra, lets go.”

“Okay.”

“Woo-Moon went up to his room as if to run away.

Jin-Jin had personally gotten involved and explained the misunderstanding some time ago. Thus, the Distinguished Swords didn’t react in the same manner as before, knowing that they weren’t in an illicit relationship even if they were sleeping in the same room. Yôur favorite stories at novelhall.com

The young talents just looked at the backs of Woo-Moon and Ma-Ra with envious gazes.

Ma-Ra asked Woo-Moon a question as they entered the room.

“Woo-Moon. Smileless Flower, who?”

Woo-Moon couldn’t help but smile at her words.

“Who do you think would be called a flower that doesn’t smile?”

Ma-Ra frowned slightly.

“Don’t know.”

“It’s you, Ma-Ra.”

"Me?"

“Yes.”

“I see.”

Of course, while Woo-Moon didn’t expect any special reaction from her, he was still a little disappointed to see her nod so indifferently.

***

They set off the next day and continued to travel for a few days.

Arriving at Linying County within Luohe, the party was having dinner when Woo-Moon suddenly received a qi transmission from Jeong-Woo.

—Uncle!

Woo-Moon answered right away, thinking that there had to be a good reason Jeong-Woo felt the need to use qi transmission rather than just talking to him.

Clack!

“Enough. Let’s stop this here.”

The man looked over at Woo-Moon, whose well-timed rock had stopped the saber in its tracks.

“And who the hell are you now?”

“Uncle!”

The fallen Distinguished Swords looked at Woo-Moon before dropping their heads in shame.

“I’m sorry, but they are my nephews. I can’t let them get beaten up anymore.”

“Really? Well, I’m sorry, but I feel that I have to hit this brat a little more,” the man responded before swinging at Jeong-Woo again.

Just before the man’s blow landed, Woo-Moon grabbed the long curtain draped over the entrance of the brothel and tore it, flicking it like a whip in one smooth motion.

Woosh!

The man’s blow missed again as the cloth wrapped around Jeong-Woo and dragged him toward Woo-Moon.

Jeong-Woo bowed his head.

“I have no excuses, Uncle.”

With a stern expression on his face, Woo-Moon asked him what had happened.

However, Jeong-Woo found himself unable to answer, as he felt that he would be admitting he lacked the skill to solve the issue on his own and trying to get Woo-Moon to do it for him.

“It’s fine, just tell me what happened. Who's at fault?”

If Woo-Moon had been any other member of the Baek Family, he might well have just exploded in a fiery rage at the brothel, raging at the Distinguished Swords for getting beaten by some random person as the best talents of the family.

Then, rather than figuring out who was right or wrong, he most likely would have tried to intimidate his opponent to preserve the honor of the Baek Family.

However, Woo-Moon wasn’t interested in such things in the first place, and even now, he was just trying to find out who was in the right. If the Distinguished Swords had been the one to make a mistake, he planned to apologize and end things here.

“While we were drinking and enjoying our time with the courtesans, that man just suddenly barged in and drew his saber. He was screaming about how one of the courtesans, Hong Mae, was to be his wife. However, Hong Mae insisted that she didn’t even know the man.”

Woo-Moon turned to look at a courtesan standing in the corner, watching the entire situation go down. From the looks of it, she was Hong Mae.

If he was being honest, she didn’t have a pretty face for a courtesan—no, in truth, she was mediocre in terms of appearance, but that was besides the point.

“Is what my nephew just said true?”

As Woo-Moon expected, the girl was indeed Hong Mae.

“Yes, that’s right.”

“You really don’t know that man?”

“Not at all,” Hong Mae said coldly. However, Woo-Moon could see that there was a slight waver in her gaze and voice.

‘Is there some sort of story? Well, either way...’

The situation had been unfair from the beginning for his nephews.

A strange man suddenly broke in while they were enjoying themselves. Not only was their enjoyment interrupted, but that man even started a fight and beat them.

No matter what was going on between the man and Hong Mae, at the very least, it was unfair to his nephews.

The man seemed angered by Hong Mae's words. He pointed at Woo-Moon with the weirdly-shaped long saber in his hand.

“How noisy. You’re a man; why do you talk so much? If you came running all this way to save your worthless nephews who got beaten up while playing at a brothel, wouldn’t things just get solved if you just fought me like a man?”

Jeong-Woo and the other Distinguished Swords clenched their fists in shame, while Woo-Moon was even more enraged at the man disrespecting his nephews.

“You really talk disrespectfully, as expected of a bastard who chases around a girl who doesn’t like you back. Fine, if you want to fight, let’s fight.”

So Geom-Rak, the man with the abnormally long sword, also grew angry at Woo-Moon’s dismissive insults.

“I’ll make you regret saying something like that.”

“How noisy. You’re a man; why do you talk so much?”

So Geom-Rak exploded when Woo-Moon grinned and imitated his earlier words.

“I’ll kill you, you bastard!” he shouted as he punched Woo-Moon.

Swish!

Woo-Moon dodged his attack easily. At that moment, So Geom-Rak’s eyebrows twitched.

“Oh, it looks like you picked up a few moves somewhere!”

He attacked Woo-Moon using a completely different technique and footwork from before. His hand seemed to split into three, striking at Woo-Moon’s face and both shoulders at the same time.

Swoosh!

Woo-Moon’s figure blurred and dissipated as So Geom-Rak’s hand simply struck the air—it was the Divine Phantasm Steps.