Chronicles of the Silver Dragon
Chapter 36
Sa Wollin and I Seolhye’s laughter was becoming hysterical.
“Don’t laugh!”
Diadelin, her face flushed red, shouted sharply.
But because she was watching Jehwa’s mood, she couldn’t put any real force behind it. Perhaps because of that, it lacked impact, so she couldn’t stop Sa Wollin and I Seolhye’s laughter.
“If you’re a princess, then I’m a queen.”
“Kikikik!”
“Eeeek! You’re all dead by my hands today!”
Swish!
“Huh?”
“Uwaaah!”
Crash! Bang! Crack-crack-craaash!
Though she couldn’t muster any bluster, she possessed physical abilities far surpassing Jehwa’s.
The room was soon turned into a complete mess.
Watching this, Jehwa merely put on a nonchalant face, as if it had nothing to do with him.
That is, until something flew through the air and struck his head.
Thwack!
“…….”
Twitch!
Struck squarely in the face by a wood chip, a vein throbbed and bulged on Jehwa’s forehead.
Groooooowl!
A terrifying chill exploded from Jehwa’s body, and the eyes of the three women—who had been fighting while pulling each other’s hair—simultaneously turned toward him.
“You all……. You’re dead.”
Looking at the three women staring blankly at him, Jehwa muttered grimly and immediately lunged at them, and with that, their desperate screams began to echo.
“Huff……. Huff……. Huff…….”
Panting heavily, Jehwa glared at Diadelin, who was looking at him with a broad grin.
“Waaah! Why did only we get hit!”
Sa Wollin protested with an aggrieved face, but it didn’t work on Jehwa.
Both Sa Wollin and I Seolhye had dark bruises around their eyes.
“You, if I catch you, you’re dead.”
In terms of physical ability, Diadelin the demon far surpassed Jehwa, an ordinary human.
Unable to catch Diadelin as she scrambled this way and that, Jehwa’s fury was fully stoked.
“Hehehe! Catch me if you can~”
Diadelin laughed, provoking him.
Jehwa glared at her for a moment, then tuned her out and flopped down on the bed.
“Huh?”
At that sight, Diadelin’s eyes went wide.
Flustered, Diadelin tilted her head and watched him warily, but Jehwa showed no reaction.
Baffled by this, Diadelin picked up a wood chip from when she had fought Sa Wollin and I Seolhye earlier and threw it at him.
Tok!
Watching Jehwa get hit by the wood chip, Diadelin tensed up, expecting him to pounce.
But he still didn’t react.
Losing interest in the lack of response, Diadelin puffed out her cheeks and withdrew her attention from him.
However, what she didn’t know was that Jehwa was growing more cunning by the day.
The moment a gap appeared, Diadelin looked behind her.
But seeing him still showing no reaction, she thought he had completely given up and let her guard down for an instant.
Grab!
“Huh?”
Then, feeling something embrace her from behind, she put on a bewildered expression.
“You……. You’re dead.”
“Kehk!”
Seeing Jehwa muttering grimly, Diadelin panicked and tried to slip from his grasp.
“Die!”
Thwack thwack thwack!
“Aack!”
But Jehwa, having no intention of letting his caught prey go, began to strike her wildly.
“Ow! Stop! I was wrong! You pervert! Where are you touching! Aack! W-wait!”
And so, her desperate screams began to resound far and wide.
“Heeeeeeng!”
Having been mercilessly trampled by Jehwa, Diadelin was curled up and crying.
Jehwa, who had beaten Diadelin until his mood was cleared, was panting but wearing a satisfied expression.
But a moment later, his face twisted viciously.
“Upcha!”
Diadelin, who had been crying pitifully, sprang to her feet and then asked him with a sly smile.
“Is your anger cleared?”
At her completely unscathed appearance, a vein bulged on Jehwa’s forehead.
“Why are you completely fine?”
“Didn’t I tell you before? Physically, I’m far superior to you.”
Watching Diadelin speak with an infuriatingly bright smile, Jehwa gathered immense strength into his hand.
“To be honest, I hurt so much I could die.”
At that sight, Diadelin said with a very serious face.
Jehwa, who had been gathering energy, looked at her for a moment and then withdrew it. He had instinctively realized that Diadelin’s power was by no means beneath his own.
His stamina and internal energy far outclassed hers, but his physical abilities lagged far behind.
If Diadelin put her mind to defending, even he wouldn’t be able to hit her.
Jehwa glared at Diadelin with an annoyed expression and snorted.
“Ahem! Let me reintroduce myself.”
Diadelin cleared her throat and gathered everyone’s attention.
“My name is Hong Yuhua.”
Of Delian de Diablo, “de Diablo” was a surname passed down through generations of Flame Demon Kings.
“De” meant “red” in the divine language, and “Diablo” meant Flame Demon King in the divine language.
And Diadelin meant “beautiful flame” in the divine language.
In other words, Hong Yuhua meant “a beautiful flame of red color.”
“Hong Yuhua?”
Jehwa tilted his head and looked at Hong Yuhua.
“It suits you……. It’s pretty too…….”
I Seolhye also muttered blankly.
A girl who spewed terrifying flames yet was ever so beautiful. Her name suited the figure she had shown while fighting Jehwa all too well.
“Hmph!”
At I Seolhye’s words, Hong Yuhua put on a smug expression.
“So what if her name is pretty? Her personality is a mess!”
At Sa Wollin’s words, Hong Yuhua’s expression turned fierce.
“Whether the name suits me or not, I’m going to sleep.”
Looking at Jehwa muttering with a slightly sleepy face, Sa Wollin spoke.
“Come to think of it, it’s already night.”
It was quite late, so it was time to sleep.
“Where should I sleep?”
“Sleep outside. Anyway, there’s probably no empty room here because of the Sichuan Tang Family’s event, right?”
“I can just sleep in your room.”
“Eww! Go away! Shoo!”
At Hong Yuhua’s words, Sa Wollin scrunched up her face and waved her hands wildly.
Watching Sa Wollin, Hong Yuhua puffed out her cheeks; a moment later, she put on a cat-like smile, wrapped her arms around the sleepy-faced Jehwa’s neck, and said,
“Then I’ll sleep in this room tonight.”
“What did you say?”
Sa Wollin glared daggers at Hong Yuhua, but she paid her no heed and simply clung to Jehwa with a sly smile.
“Jehwa, let’s sleep! In! The! Same! Bed!”
“Go away! The bed is narrow.”
“Eh! It’s this big, so what.”
Jehwa’s group had taken two rooms, a single and a double.
Both were very large, and especially the bed in Jehwa’s room was quite big—big enough for two people to sleep in.
At Hong Yuhua’s words, Sa Wollin’s eyes went wide with fury.
“Krah! What nonsense! Sleeping together! Shut up and just sleep outside!”
At Sa Wollin’s words, Hong Yuhua stuck out her tongue and said,
“Don’t get between us! This guy is mine!”
“Who gave you the right! You’ve been spouting nonsense that doesn’t even work since before; who said Jehwa is yours!”
“Hmph, it’s my heart’s desire! I have a personality where I must absolutely obtain anything I’ve decided to get.”
“Gah! This is really…!”
Sa Wollin and Hong Yuhua growled at each other.
Unable to stand it any longer, Jehwa scrunched his face.
At that sight, I Seolhye, startled, slipped out of the room in an instant, but unfortunately, the two of them didn’t see it.
Crack-crack! Crack-crack!
Hong Yuhua and Sa Wollin, who had been exchanging heated words, flinched and froze at the crisp knuckle-cracking sounds.
With pale faces, the two turned their heads simultaneously.
And they saw it. Eun Jehwa, radiating densely packed silvery energy from his entire body!
“You guys……. You’re dead.”
With those words, this time Hong Yuhua, too, let out a genuine scream. Of course, together with Sa Wollin.
***
The next morning, Jehwa came down to the first floor of the inn and ate with a pleasant expression.
Beside him, I Seolhye was also eating with a refreshed expression.
But there were those who were not so refreshed……. Namely, Hong Yuhua and Sa Wollin.
Their appearance, having been beaten by Jehwa last night, was utterly miserable.
However, Jehwa didn’t seem to feel the slightest bit sorry for hitting them.
“Demon!”
Hong Yuhua looked at Jehwa and muttered.
Come to think of it, aren’t you the demon? Don’t go calling other people demons.
But at that moment, for once, Sa Wollin agreed with Hong Yuhua’s words.
“You scoundrel!”
Watching the two women condemning him, Jehwa tilted his head and slowly raised his pretty fist.
Seeing this, Hong Yuhua and Sa Wollin feigned ignorance.
At that, Jehwa snorted and began eating again.
“But what are you going to do from now on?”
Jehwa had clearly said he would take revenge on the Blood Cult.
In her eyes, with Jehwa’s power, sweeping away the Blood Cult would be no trouble at all. Since he could just wipe out any place suspected of harboring the Blood Cult.
Hong Yuhua, too, had yet to uncover the Blood Cult’s headquarters, so she was thinking that he could just wipe them out wherever they appeared.
Truly a demonic way of thinking.
“We’ll have to find and crush the Blood Cult.”
The one who answered Hong Yuhua’s question was Sa Wollin, who had been wearing a listless expression.
“Heh…….”
At those words, Hong Yuhua’s eyes sparkled.
“It seems the Sichuan Tang Family here in the capital also has Blood Cult spies. Just like with the Kunlun Sect back then…….”
“Hoo……. So you mean killing everyone related to the Sichuan Tang Family?”
In that instant, Sa Wollin and I Seolhye felt chills run down their entire bodies. Because in the sight of Hong Yuhua muttering with a delighted expression, they saw someone.
She resembled Jehwa far too much.
Of course, her appearance, personality (perhaps even her personality was similar), and aura were nothing alike, but she was similar in possessing monstrous strength surpassing human limits and in thinking of human lives as nothing.
Naturally, Jehwa was still ignorant of sin like a child, but the Hong Yuhua before them was different.
She was not a child.
Because she was not pure like Jehwa, perhaps she was an even more dangerous being than him.
“We won’t kill them all. We just need to root out the Blood Cult.”
“What?”
At Jehwa’s words, Hong Yuhua’s face twisted fiercely and she began to grumble.
“Why bother with such troublesome work? With your strength, sweeping away this place called the Central Plains would be no trouble at all.”