Absolute Sword Sense Chapter 350

< Side story 2 Baek Hye-hyang's story (3) >

Baek Hye-hyang put on makeup for the first time in her life and looked feminine.

All the followers of her had a beautiful appearance they had never seen before, but now their hearts were seething with anger.

'Come on!'

I regretted following his words completely.

I used to feel uncomfortable about having to highlight my feminine side, but that ominousness has become reality.

[The leader must laugh.]

The sound of the Three Treasures of the Three Kingdoms came to her ears, filled with irritation.

Seogalma was located slightly away from the main hall.

There he said he would give her proper advice through telegrams, but this was just advice, not much different from telling her to do whatever he said like a puppet.

'Just try to make it wrong.'

I vowed to break all my limbs.

Seogalma, who was watching this, shivered as if she had read Baek Hye-hyang's mind.

But soon he focused on her.

[Reverend. Please do as I told you before.]

Baek Hye-hyang gritted her teeth at his words.

And after exhaling slowly, he approached the Musangseongju Jinseongbaek and his father-in-law, Ha Seongwoon.

“You two. Are you here?”

To those who didn't know her state of mind, Baek Hye-hyang seemed to be acting nervous.

'Hehehe. I had a prejudice against her because she was a blood cult leader, but she is actually a heavenly woman.'

Ha Sung-woon, who thought like this, said with a strange expression.

“Thank you for coming early and preparing for this. I never knew the Blood Lord was so beautiful.”

It was meant to relieve tension.

At his words, Baek Hye-hyang's face turned slightly red.

In my entire life, I have never heard anyone compliment my looks.

Who would dare to speak carelessly to her who will become the future leader of the cult?

[Reverend. I should express my gratitude.]

Baek Hye-hyang was momentarily moved by Seogalma's voice ringing in her ears, but soon controlled her expression as best she could and took the lottery ticket.

“Oh… no, thank you.”

“Hehehe. She’s really pretty. Isn’t that right, son-in-law?”

“…….It suits you well.”

When Ha Sung-woon gave a slight hint, Jin Sung-baek also nodded and said.

Seeing him like this, Baek Hye-hyang thought to herself, “Really?”

As rumored, his emotional changes were not great enough to warrant his being called a ruthless spirit.

It doesn't resemble Yun-Hwi, whose expression reveals a lot.

'Is the face the only thing that resembles it?'

Anyone who looked at his face could tell that he was Un-Hwi's father.

When Yun-Hwi gets older, he will probably have a middle-aged appearance like that.

'I like that.'

She was the one who thought that a man should age gracefully like that.

Anyway, this moment was incredibly embarrassing.

If you're going to give advice through voicemail, you should quickly send me some lines to tell me what to say.

At that very moment, the sound of Seogalma's telegram was heard.

[Are you not going to say anything, Pastor? You should at least make the greetings a little longer.]

'……..'

For a moment, a curse almost came out of my mouth.

If you could do it so smoothly, why did you use his mouth?

'He told me to do whatever he said!'

Seogalma, who was a little bit away, saw her eyebrows tremble and quickly sent a message as if he was shocked.

[First, let me show you to your seat.]

Baek Hye-hyang suppressed her anger and spoke at the voice that followed.

“First, let me show you to your seat.”

'!?'

Baek Hye-hyang quickly changed her words as she watched Ha Sung-woon frowning.

“Please follow me to your seat.”

Baek Hye-hyang's face came to mind.

I was so annoyed that I unknowingly copied the sound.

Fortunately, Jin Seong-baek and Ha Seong-un didn't seem to mind too much.

In fact, contrary to her concerns, the two people were accepting this appearance differently.

[I guess he really thinks of you as a father-in-law. Yes.]

[yes?]

[How could he look so nervous if he wasn't like that? I wondered how that kid, Un-Hwi, ended up in this kind of relationship with the Blood Cult Leader, but his nature doesn't seem so bad.]

[……I guess so.]

It didn't look particularly bad to Jinseongbaek's eyes either.

However, I couldn't help but feel a sense of caution.

Unlike Ha Sung-woon who retired, he was still active.

I had come across countless pieces of information about the Blood Witch Baek Hye-hyang, and I knew very well that every time she moved, a lot of blood accompanied her.

'Let's wait a little longer.'

We will see whether it will be beneficial or detrimental to Yun-Hui.

The three approached the pavilion.

Empty vessels and cups were placed on tables in the pavilion that stretched across the lake and the ground.

At the front of the hall, the waiters took turns bringing in the finished dishes and filling the empty plates.

The steam rising from the freshly made food made my mouth water.

Jin Seong-baek and Ha Seong-un were about to enter the pavilion and sit down, but Baek Hye-hyang did not come up to the pavilion.

“Why aren’t you sitting down?”

She said to them, taking the lottery ticket, as they looked puzzled.

“Before that, I took care of my husband, or rather, my husband’s father and maternal grandfather, but as a future daughter-in-law, I want to cook something myself.”

"cooking?"

The two were secretly surprised when he said he would cook for them.

I didn't know they would prepare to this extent.

However, Ha Sung-woon couldn't hide his satisfaction at the fact that he, as the leader of the Blood Cult, said he would cook the food himself.

“You knew how to cook? This is really treating you well.”

Baek Hye-hyang was secretly delighted by his reaction.

In fact, she wasn't very pleased with Seogalma's suggestion to try cooking.

I wondered if this was necessarily a matter of highlighting the feminine side.

'Huh. Not bad, I guess.'

It was a fortunate thing.

The problem now was cooking.

She had never cooked in her life.

Even when I was sleeping alone on the streets, I didn't have enough experience to prepare things like dried pollack or dried persimmons in advance.

“Phew.”

Baek Hye-hyang stood in front of the cooking utensils she had prepared in advance.

There was tofu, various vegetables, and a large piece of pork.

[There are about three hours until the Musangseong carriage arrives. Until then, let's learn just one dish using the attributes.]

[……Didn't you say you've never cooked before?]

[I know. But cooking is no different from martial arts. Just by learning the cooking process, like learning the techniques or cooking, you can achieve a certain level of flavor.]

[hmm.]

This gave her the opportunity to learn cooking at her own pace for about two decades.

The dish she made was Mapo Tofu.

While most decent dishes require some skill, Mapo Tofu is a relatively simple dish to make unless you prepare the ingredients from scratch.

-Wow!

She lifted the esophagus from the chopping board.

Although it is said to be a knife for cooking, I feel a little better just holding it since I am a craftsman by nature.

'Cut the tofu first.'

Most of the ingredients were prepared in advance by the chefs.

But if everyone does that, it doesn't feel like you've cooked it, so I made it so that you can only cut the tofu.

-Chatter chatter chatter chatter!

Baek Hye-hyang lightly swung her esophagus at Tofu.

For a swordsman of her caliber, it was no easy task to split a three-piece tofu into hundreds of pieces.

With just a few light swings, the tofu split into even pieces.

“Oh.”

Exclamations escaped the mouths of the attendants who saw this.

Even experienced chefs tend to make mistakes when cutting ingredients like tofu that are somewhat mushy and lack elasticity, but her tofu showed no signs of that.

Rather, the cross-section was very clean and the pieces were completely identical in size.

“Ugh.”

Ha Sung-woon was also surprised when he saw it.

She was also a swordsman, so just by watching her swing her sword, you could tell how amazing her swordsmanship skills were.

She cut the tofu and put it into the pot along with oil, chopped chili peppers, and garlic.

-Cheek!

A pleasant sound came from the heated pot.

After adding the spicy oil, I added the minced meat, chopped green onions, and tofu along with the soybean paste and simmered it as I had learned.

This is why mapo tofu is relatively simple.

To prevent the tofu from breaking up and retaining its original shape as much as possible, simmer it over high heat rather than stir-frying it.

'Huh. Not much.'

As I was learning, it gradually took the shape of mapo tofu.

The corners of her mouth went up as the spicy aroma of Mapo Tofu rose.

No matter what I did, one thing was certain: confidence.

She glanced at Jin Seong-baek and Ha Seong-un sitting in the pavilion.

'Not bad.'

I could tell that the way they looked at me was quite gentle.

She felt relieved now, as if she had finally found comfort in Seogalma's words that she should trust her completely.

'Okay. Let's keep believing.'

-Whoooosh!

She speeded up the process of completing the dish.

Without adding any more firewood, the fire was made even stronger by the energy of the sun, and it was quickly extinguished. The expressions of the attendants watching this became strange.

'I guess you're surprised.'

She snorted at their reaction.

In the eyes of the general public, it was obvious that the high-level techniques of my master were surprising.

Baek Hye-hyang, who was feeling much better, put the Mapo Tofu in a bowl after it was completely cooked and went up to the pavilion.

The sound of Seogalma's voice was heard in her ears.

[You should speak as humbly as possible.]

'Don't you even know that much?'

She felt proud inside because she had finished cooking so well, and she placed the bowl in front of them and said.

“I’m not very good at it, but I tried to make it for you two.”

“Hahaha. If this is a lack of skill, then all the masters will lose their jobs.”

Baek Hye-hyang smiled softly at Ha Sung-woon's compliment.

Although he still couldn't know what his father, Jin Seong-baek, was thinking, his maternal grandfather seemed to like him to some extent.

[Please answer while pretending to be embarrassed.]

'Pretending to be shy?'

[You can say that you are embarrassed and don't know what to do when he says that while covering your mouth with your hand.]

'…….'

Seogalma was a person who only gave difficult orders.

For most women, this wouldn't have been that difficult, but Baek Hye-hyang found this expression awkward.

Although her lips would not part, she forced them apart and spoke.

“When you say that… I’m so embarrassed I don’t know where to put myself.”

It was Baek Hye-hyang who spoke in a stiff voice, her cheeks trembling with disgust.

There was no way it would sound natural if I forced myself to speak.

'Ahhh.'

Seogalma, seeing this, was able to realize that she had made an unreasonable demand.

It's over.

[Please offer food quickly.]

It would have been better to change the subject.

As if she had been waiting, Baek Hye-hyang pointed to the mapo tofu and said.

“Try it before it gets cold.”

At her request, Jin Seong-baek and Ha Seong-un transferred the mapo tofu to their plates.

It looked like a spicy and delicious-looking Mapo Tofu.

'The blood cult leader made mapo tofu…..'

Ha Sung-woon thought that there are days like this in life.

Although awareness has improved to some extent now, there are still some who are afraid of blood cults.

It may be because of the doctrine that the world is washed away with blood.

It felt really strange when the head of a place with such doctrine dressed up like any other woman and even cooked food for me to eat.

It was truly a world that you knew but didn't know.

“Then I will eat well.”

“I will eat well.”

Ha Sung-woon and Jin Sung-baek simultaneously put the mapo tofu they scooped up with spoons into their mouths.

She stared at them intently, her anticipation welling up inside her even though she didn't show it.

I was curious to see what kind of reaction people would have to the first dish I made.

however,

'huh?'

The expressions of Jin Seong-baek and Ha Seong-un were seen shaking as they put mapo tofu into their mouths.

When I put food in my mouth, I have to chew it, but I couldn't do that.

But soon the two of them quickly swallowed the Mapo Tofu in their mouths.

Very urgently.

'what?'

I couldn't figure out what kind of taste it was that caused this reaction.

Then she scooped up some mapo tofu with a spoon and put it in her mouth.

'!?'

It didn't taste like the Mapo Tofu she usually thought it would.

It wasn't spicy, but rather burnt and bitter like soy sauce, so my tongue hurt for a moment.

“Tch!”

Baek Hye-hyang spat out the mapo tofu that was in her mouth, forgetting that she had made it.

And then, for a moment, he couldn't hide his embarrassment as if he had realized something.

“Ah…um…there’s a mistake…this…isn’t it.”

Baek Hye-hyang is so embarrassed that her face turns bright red and she doesn't know what to do.

She thought she was completely screwed.

I did exactly as I was told, but I couldn't figure out why this happened.

Could it be that the monks were surprised by the sight of the radiant energy radiating from the room?

'Fucking Lee-Jon.'

Trying to look good by learning through attributes ended up having the opposite effect.

It was a very difficult time.

“Foot.”

At that moment, laughter burst out of Jinseongbaek's mouth.

Baek Hye-hyang frowned and looked puzzled at that sight.

Jin Seong-baek said to her.

“……I think I had some unnecessary preconceptions.”

"preoccupation?"

“As they say, you can’t judge a person without seeing them for yourself. Contrary to the rumors you hear, the Blood Lord has a human touch.”

'!?'

She was trying to look feminine.

However, seeing her making mistakes and getting into trouble despite her intentions, Jin Seong-baek began to think that Baek Hye-hyang was no different from other people.

As a result, it actually had a positive impact.

Baek Hye-hyang let out a sigh of relief at Jin Seong-baek's reaction, a faint smile appearing on his previously expressionless face.

I almost felt like all my hard work was going to go down the drain.

“I think I know why that kid, Yun-Hwi, likes the cult leader.”

After hearing Jin Seong-baek's words, Baek Hye-hyang felt that she could not miss this opportunity.

He spoke, forgetting even Seogalma's advice to take it slow.

“Then will you give me your son?”

Jin Seong-baek frowned slightly at her words.

But this direct attitude showed how much she loved her son.

'If you like it this much, you should be nice to Un-Hwi.'

It wasn't really important to look good for myself.

A married couple is supposed to be there for each other.

“What else can I do but give? If two people want each other, then as a father….”

I was listening to him with anticipation.

-Ouch!

Before he could finish speaking, Baek Hye-hyang turned her head hurriedly somewhere.

It was the same for Jinseongbaek.

"deceit?"

It was a moment when Ha Sung-woon, the craftsman, was puzzled.

In the place where the two people were looking, a figure was flying towards them with long silver hair fluttering in the wind.

Baek Hye-hyang's face distorted terribly when she saw its existence.

'How's that girl?'

If I had a sword at my waist at that moment, I would have pulled it out and almost killed him.

The silver-haired woman was none other than the Ice Queen Seol Baek.

The moment to finally gain the upper hand had arrived, but her sudden appearance made me feel annoyed.

“Who is that woman, son-in-law?”

“…….It seems like the Ice Queen Seolbaek.”

Jin Seong-baek, who had seen her in the Inyo War, recognized her right away.

I wondered how she, the princess of the North Sea Ice Palace and the new member of the Eight Great Masters, had come to appear here.

Seol Baek, who had flown all the way to the palace, shook his head and spoke to Baek Hye-hyang, looking puzzled.

“I guess I can’t let my guard down.”

“Ice Woman. What are you doing here?”

From the hostile tone they spoke to each other, Jin Seong-baek guessed that they were enemies.

I don't know why that is, though.

However, Seol Baek, who had been growling at Baek Hye-hyang, suddenly started to bow slightly to Jin Seong-baek and Ha Seong-un and spoke.

“Father. Grandfather. My second daughter-in-law, Seolbaek, sends greetings.”

'!?'

Jin Seong-baek and Ha Seong-un, who were wondering what was going on, were dumbfounded again.

'Who the hell is this guy Yunhwi…..'

< Side story 2 Baek Hye-hyang's story (3) > End

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