Silver Dragon Chronicles Episode 51
“Hmmm….”
At that moment, with a serious expression and arms crossed, Je Hwa had fallen into deep thought.
“What’s wrong?”
Seeing his appearance, Sawollin asked with a puzzled expression, and Je Hwa spoke.
“This is Shanxi, right?”
“Yeah, but why do you ask?”
Je Hwa, who until now had never paid much attention to regions, was asking about a region for the first time. Perhaps finding it strange, Sawollin asked back with a curious face. And to her question, Je Hwa answered.
“I heard there’s a place called Taiyuan in Shanxi?”
“That’s right.”
At Je Hwa’s words, Sawollin snickered and nodded her head.
But in an instant, her face contorted mercilessly.
“Taiyuan?”
“Yeah, let’s go there once.”
“No.”
“….”
At the words of Je Hwa, who spoke with a bright smile, Sawollin snorted and said.
And at those words, Je Hwa scrunched up his face.
“Why not?”
“No, absolutely not! Let’s just go!”
Looking at Je Hwa, who was voicing his dissatisfaction, Sawollin shouted with a frightening face.
“The kid says he wants to go, so why can’t he?”
When even Hong Yuhwa spoke with a frown, Sawollin shouted.
“If you don’t know, keep your mouth shut.”
“Je Hwa, why do you want to go to Taiyuan?”
Completely ignoring Sawollin, who was shouting, Hong Yuhwa smiled and asked Je Hwa, and he answered.
“Yeah, Seonu Ran is there.”
“Seon…u…Ran?”
But soon Hong Yuhwa’s face stiffened while still smiling. Then she turned her gaze to Sawollin and asked.
“Is it what I’m thinking?”
“That’s right.”
“Hmm….”
Looking at Sawollin nodding her head, Hong Yuhwa, who had been pondering briefly, spoke with an expressionless face.
“Let’s just pass by. Why would we go to such a place!”
“That’s what I’m saying, let’s just pass by.”
Hong Yuhwa and Sawollin, having gathered their opinions, decided to just pass by Taiyuan.
“What, Lady Uih! Why are you like this! That woman said she’d buy me something delicious and told me to come by once!”
Pop!
At Je Hwa’s words, veins popped out one by one on Sawollin’s and Hong Yuhwa’s foreheads.
“That’s the problem!”
“Right! The fact that a woman called you is the problem!”
“Wh-what?”
Seeing the two women suddenly shouting, Je Hwa put on a bewildered expression.
“Um… Je Hwa wants to go that much, so can’t we just go once?”
When I Seolhye took Je Hwa’s side with an awkward smile, Sawollin and Hong Yuhwa looked at her with flashing eyes.
When I Seolhye slightly wilted under that gaze, the two women opened their mouths simultaneously.
“No! Way!”
“Yes… It seems impossible.”
Overwhelmed by the two’s momentum, I Seolhye spoke in a shrinking voice.
“Anyway, Je Hwa, let’s just pass over it this time, okay?”
“Yeah, we’ll buy you something delicious.”
As Hong Yuhwa and Sawollin spoke smiling toward Je Hwa, Je Hwa crossed his arms.
“Hmm?”
And with a blank expression, he looked at the two women.
At that appearance, the two women somehow began to feel uneasy.
“Hey, you guys.”
“Y-yeah?”
When Je Hwa called them with an expressionless face, the two put on slightly bewildered expressions.
“Who do you think you are to tell me this and that? Do you want to die? These brats these days, since I haven’t hit them….”
Seeing Je Hwa speaking nervously, the two people thought inwardly.
‘We touched the wrong nerve!’
“Come here. After getting hit a little, let’s go to that place called Taiyuan.”
“Hey! W-wait… Argh!”
“Kyieeeek!”
The desperate screams of the two women began to echo far, far away.
***
“Hooo….”
In a house’s garden, a woman was letting out a deep sigh.
“It’s suffocating.”
Looking at the woman lying flat on her back in the garden, gazing at the sky and mumbling blankly, an old man clicked his tongue.
“Who would try to take that one away….”
“Ah, seriously, Grandfather! I told you I have no interest in getting married!”
At the old man’s words, the woman jumped up from her seat and argued with a frown.
“You rascal, if you’re a woman, you have to get married someday! How long are you going to live so recklessly!”
“Tch! Still, now is not the time.”
At the words of the old man, Seonu Gwang, his granddaughter Seonu Ran replied grumpily.
“Haah….”
Watching that, Seonu Gwang let out a deep sigh.
Seonu Gwang. He was a master of the sword to the extent of being called the Sword King.
But these days, he paid no attention whatsoever to the affairs of the martial world.
Ever since Seonu Ran was young, after Seonu Gwang’s son and daughter-in-law, who had been working in the martial world, were murdered by martial artists, he didn’t have even the slightest interest in the affairs of the martial world.
He had devoted himself to raising his granddaughter, but even that granddaughter had jumped into the martial world, so sighs naturally came out.
His granddaughter definitely showed tremendous talent for martial arts.
But Seonu Gwang was not pleased at all. He had hoped that at least his granddaughter would not get involved with the martial world.
“It was for self-defense that I taught her martial arts… She followed along so well that I recklessly taught her all of my martial arts, and then she quickly went out and got some strange nickname.”
“What’s strange about Mubong? Grandfather, are you already senile?”
“Tsk! What kind of way of talking is that to your grandfather!”
“Tch! But what Grandfather is saying….”
Moreover, she had even become rebellious.
“Don’t even dream of going out to the martial world for the time being.”
“Ah, why!”
At Seonu Gwang’s words, Seonu Ran vented her frustration.
Inside the house was too suffocating, but her grandfather wasn’t letting her go outside.
That was how unfair and suffocating it was for Seonu Ran.
“I heard from the Alliance Leader. You also moved around recklessly before and nearly caused a big incident, didn’t you?”
“Urk… Th-that was…”
At Seonu Gwang’s words, Seonu Ran put on a bewildered expression.
“Moreover, the matter with the Chugajang, or the matter with the Liaoning Gaeju… These days, not only the Blood Cult but countless places are experiencing terrible incidents. Don’t think of moving around recklessly until things quiet down a bit.”
“Urk!”
At those words, Seonu Ran’s face contorted.
“Grandfather, I hate you!”
Having shouted loudly like that, Seonu Ran escaped from inside the house, and behind her, the bodyguards raised personally by Seonu Gwang followed.
“Ran, you rascal… If I lose you too, how am I supposed to live….”
Looking at her heading toward the village, Seonu Gwang muttered to himself after letting out a deep sigh.
***
Stomping along, Seonu Ran walked through the downtown streets of Taiyuan, with five bodyguards following behind her.
There, Seonu Ran shouted.
“Aaaah! Seriously! I can go around by myself, so please go back home!”
Perhaps finding it extremely uncomfortable that they were following her, Seonu Ran screamed and yelled, and one bodyguard spoke.
“That is impossible.”
“Why?”
“You said the same thing last time, and the moment we went somewhere else for a brief moment, didn’t you promptly run away?”
“…."
At the bodyguard’s words, Seonu Ran lost her words.
“Th-that was then… This is now.”
“Still, it cannot be allowed.”
“Eek!”
Seonu Ran’s face contorted mercilessly.
Seonu Ran started walking down the road again, and the bodyguards following behind her….
Suddenly, Seonu Ran felt this situation was very suffocating.
‘Haah….’
Then, suddenly, a certain boy came to mind.
A boy who was so pure but just as cruel.
A pitiful boy who knew nothing.
But a boy who was so free that she envied him greatly.
“Tch!”
Suddenly, Seonu Ran grumbled. Thinking of Je Hwa made her miss him.
It was a connection that could be called the worst, but still, Seonu Ran was somehow drawn to Je Hwa.
When she missed him, she felt so wretched that she always wanted to be by his side.
‘Right about now… where would he be?’
Seonu Ran looked up at the sky and smiled bitterly.
At that appearance, the bodyguards’ eyes went wide.
That mischievous tomboyish young lady could make such an expression… For those who had watched Seonu Ran since she was young, her current expression was a shock in itself.
Just as the bodyguards of the Seonu Clan were receiving that shock….
“Wow, found him!”
Suddenly, a bright voice was heard from somewhere.
“Huh?”
And at that voice, Seonu Ran put on a puzzled expression.
Swish!
“Huh?”
In that instant, something clung to Seonu Ran’s back.
“Found him!”
It was none other than a boy.
A boy with beautiful black hair tinged with silver. And Seonu Ran knew of one boy with such hair.
“Huh?”
Seeing the silver-tinged black hair fluttering before her eyes, when Seonu Ran let out a blank exclamation….
“Aaaah! Get off! I said get off!”
A voice filled with shock was heard.
At the voice of a woman filled with irritation, Seonu Ran’s gaze turned in that direction.
Although someone was clinging to her back, he was much lighter than she thought.
Seonu Ran, who looked at the woman shrieking nervously, became certain of who the boy clinging to her back was.
Then the boy, Je Hwa, got down from behind Seonu Ran’s back.
Seonu Ran turned her head and looked at the boy again, and the boy smiled brightly and greeted her.
“Hello.”
Hearing those words, Seonu Ran smiled brightly and said.
“Hello, long time no see.”
Seonu Ran looked at Je Hwa with a delighted expression.
“When did you arrive in Taiyuan?”
“Just a little while ago.”
At Seonu Ran’s question, Je Hwa spoke smiling.
“It’s been a while for you too.”
“Aack! So annoying!”
When Seonu Ran spoke smiling, Sawollin put on an annoyed expression.
“Noisy.”
Seeing that, Je Hwa scrunched his face and spoke, and Sawollin fell silent.
“You’re the same as ever.”
At such a sight of Je Hwa, Seonu Ran burst into laughter without realizing it.
“Now, calm down, calm down! Jealousy is bad for your health.”
Hong Yuhwa looked at the fuming Sawollin and snickered.
“Noisy.”
When Sawollin frowned and spat out a word, Hong Yuhwa laughed deeply.
“Why are you getting so heated over something so trivial?”
“Hah?”
“Something like that can be done anywhere, anytime.”
Having said so, Hong Yuhwa promptly approached Je Hwa and clung to him.
“Right, Je Hwa?”
“Heavy, let go.”
“You’re lying.”
Seeing Hong Yuhwa clinging to him, Je Hwa spoke with a bothered face, and she grinned and clung to him even more.
Seeing that, Seonu Ran and Sawollin’s faces subtly stiffened.
No matter how bold they were, they couldn’t cling so openly to a grown man like that.
Because Je Hwa had clung to her earlier, Seonu Ran’s face was also slightly red.
“What are you doing gathering people’s gazes on the main street!”
When Sawollin spoke with a frown, Hong Yuhwa shrugged her shoulders.
“We’re already drawing plenty of gazes because of Je Hwa, so what’s a few more?”
Since Je Hwa possessed quite unusual hair and eyes, he inevitably drew people’s attention wherever he went.
“Let’s head to a nearby inn for now.”
Hong Yuhwa detached herself from Je Hwa and spoke with a relaxed face, and the group nodded their heads.