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Taejonbirok Volume 2 Episode 15
Chapter 13 – The First Realization (2)
When Yi Wang-ya screamed loudly, Wi Yeon-ho clicked his tongue.
“Oh, you keep losing your temper over trivial things. If you’re old enough to have such mood swings… Oh, menopause?”
“Eww!”
Moon Yu-hwan stood up from his seat and desperately held back Lee Wang-ya, who was trying to rush towards Wi Yeon-ho.
“Your Majesty, calm down!”
“Do I look real now!”
“Your Majesty, show your respect!”
“Ugh… I want to see the face of that guy’s teacher and father!”
At this moment, Wei Zhenghan, who had been up all night worrying about his son in faraway Guangdong, had to tremble with inexplicable goosebumps.
But Wei Yanho remained calm.
“I’m glad you said that. It could have been a hassle.”
“Is it a hassle?”
Wi Yeon-ho smiled brightly.
“Well, it’s not like it’s a new or different thing that powerful people break their promises and embezzle promissory notes, so I need to come up with some kind of plan to make a living.”
"how?"
“Well, that’s… nothing much.”
However, Moon Yu-hwan could tell what Wi Yeon-ho meant. The words Wi Yeon-ho had said just a moment ago still lingered in his ears.
“It looks expensive.”
'He was planning to sell it.'
If Lee Wang-ya had said even a little bit of the wrong thing here, a catastrophe would have occurred where the sacred artifact of the Office of the Inspector General, the Inspector General's Sword, would have been displayed in a pawn shop on the street.
“Anyway, so…… that…….”
Lee Wang-ya couldn't control his anger and stuttered several times before finally turning around and sitting down.
“Do whatever you want with it, you bastard!”
“Really?”
“But if I hear rumors that you’ve been ripping off good officials with that, I’ll definitely catch you and beat you to death.”
“Tch.”
Wi Yeon-ho clicked his tongue as if he felt regret.
If you think about it realistically, it was no ordinary thing to be holding the sacred relic of Lee Wang-ya, the second most powerful person in the palace and the head of the Censorate. Since the government would not even be able to interfere with most things, it was like receiving a kind of immunity.
Moreover, it was certain that in times of emergency, the Imperial Army could be mobilized to a certain extent.
But to Wi Yeon-ho, it was just a shiny apricot.
If Wei Yanho causes an accident, what kind of accident will happen and what will be done with it?
To Wei Yanhu, a golden sword that couldn't even be sold was worth less than a cool bamboo woman.
“Well, anyway, is that all there is to it?”
“…….”
Lee Wang-ya shook his head with a displeased expression, then quietly opened his mouth.
“Where is your family from?”
“…….”
“What about the teacher?”
“…….”
“Are you saying you can’t tell me either?”
Wi Yeon-ho smiled quietly.
“Do you not trust me?”
Wi Yeon-ho nodded quietly. Yi Wang-ya’s eyes sank low as he saw Wi Yeon-ho’s reaction.
An unimaginable majesty seemed to flow from him, unlike the old man who had been bickering with Wi Yeon-ho just a moment ago.
“Who do you think I am? Do you not trust me, knowing my identity, and yet you hide your identity from me?”
Wi Yeon-ho shrugged his shoulders.
“Well, status isn’t the issue.”
"then?"
“The problem is that I can never trust anyone who acts so obviously.”
"performance?"
Wi Yeon-ho smiled.
“How many seconds do you need to subdue the green wind? Five seconds, or three?”
“…….”
At that moment, Lee Wang-ya's eyes shone brightly.
“What are you talking about?”
“No one enjoys being a clown, especially if I unintentionally become one.”
A smile appeared on Lee Wang-ya's lips.
“I made you a clown?”
“I did as I was told because I was grateful for the food and shelter I received, but I didn’t feel very good about it. It felt like I was trying to save a three-year-old child who was threatening an adult.”
Lee Wang-ya picked up the tea on the table and slowly sipped it.
Then he slowly put down the teacup.
“Since when did you know?”
“I thought it was strange. No matter how crazy people are about baduk, it doesn’t make sense that they would travel a thousand miles to play a game of baduk. But an excessive number of people came here to play baduk.”
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“…….”
“Maybe there was already a plan, but I showed up. And I suddenly became a long-term piece. No, in this case, a baduk stone? Anyway, in that situation, Nokmokpung showed up, and the situation was resolved. At that time, I had to decide which side to follow.”
“Why?”
“Rather, the probability that Nokmokpung’s words were true was higher. Even if the Yeonpanjang is fake, it is difficult to think of the situation as a pure attempt to promote friendship when someone with the status of Lee Wang-ya is secretly gathering the world’s powerful people behind the scenes after spreading smokescreens of various kinds.”
Lee Wang-ya nodded.
“No matter what anyone says, the most likely outcome is treason.”
“But why did you help us?”
“Because that girl called me.”
“…….”
“If I hadn’t been caught, I would have really just run away. But that kid really seemed to know nothing. So I couldn’t ignore him. I didn’t want him to feel betrayed by someone I trusted. My master said, “Don’t make the mistake of looking up and not looking down. The meaning is important, and the world is important, but if you can’t see people, it’s all in vain.”
“So that’s why you did that weird thing in the middle to see how I would react?”
“Because I felt dirty.”
“Hahahahaha!”
Lee Wang-ya smiled as if he was happy.
“Then I will ask you one last question.”
"yes."
“Why are you telling me this story?”
“…….”
“If what you said were true, and you had pretended not to know anything and left here, you would have received a great reward and gained enormous power. However, if you knew everything, things would be different. In the worst case scenario, you might not be able to return from here alive. So why are you telling me that here?”
Wi Yeon-ho sighed and opened his mouth.
“Because I want to sleep with my legs stretched out.”
“What are you talking about?”
“I hate being sloppy. I can’t sleep well if I do that. If you gloss over complicated things, it will bother you several times more later. So it’s better to be clear. Let me get straight to the point. Are you plotting treason?”
Yi Wang-ya looked at Wi Yeon-ho quietly with cold eyes.
“What if I say yes?”
“Then I guess I can stretch out my legs and sleep now.”
“Even though I am plotting treason?”
“I wish you success.”
“Hoo hoo hoo hoo.”
Lee Wang-ya laughed as if he found it ridiculous.
“Have you no loyalty to the royal family?”
“I didn’t receive anything from His Majesty the Emperor, so there’s no way I could have received something like that. If anything, Wang Ye gave me gold, so I’d like to support him.”
“Do you know that what you just said constitutes treason?”
“Then Wang Ya will also be charged with treason.”
“I can get away with the power of authority.”
“That’s right. However, it would be impossible to avoid giving one’s sacred possessions to a criminal who committed treason. Isn’t that right?”
Wi Yeon-ho took out the golden sword in his bosom and showed it to me.
Lee Wang-ya stared at the golden sword quietly and then burst into laughter.
“Hahahahaha! I knew this guy was suspicious, but now I see that he exceeds my expectations.”
Wi Yeon-ho clicked his tongue.
“It won’t work if you try to act all dignified now.”
“……I wonder?”
"yes."
Lee Wang-ya took a deep breath.
“You’re going in the wrong direction. You should have been a little more dignified from the start.”
“Your true nature will be revealed.”
Lee Wang-ya nodded.
“Yes, you are right. But I will say this on the line of my neck, we did not plot treason. We were just… gathering forces to oppose that guy, Nokki.”
"okay."
"It's true."
“Who else?”
Lee Wang-ya sighed.
“You showed up while I was observing the situation as you said. Your extraordinary Go skills were a good opportunity to speed up our plan, and I used that as an excuse to gather them. The problem is that Nokki also noticed it.”
"yes."
Lee Wang-ya smiled brightly.
“Do you know why Nokki sent Nokmokpung?”
"well?"
“To make you die by my hand.”
Lee Wang-ya took a sip of his tea and continued speaking.
“It wasn’t that he wanted to catch me, but that he wanted me to kill Nokmokpung. At the very least, he wanted to subdue him and send him away. If that’s the case, Nokki can use that as an excuse to accuse me of treason.”
"hmm?"
“It will be revealed somehow that I have been hiding my martial arts skills and that I have gathered all these people. No, it would have been revealed somehow. Nokki is a guy with that level of ability. That is why I could not step forward in that situation. Nokki pointed that out sharply.”
“…….”
“That’s why I couldn’t stop the green wind until the very end. If I had moved in any way, the green wind would have used that as an opportunity to drive me into treason. Now that I’ve gathered all these people to Jangwon, no matter what excuse I make, it won’t work. That’s when you stepped forward.”
Lee Wang-ya slowly lowered his head.
“If you feel bad, I apologize. I may have used you a little, but I didn’t mean it badly. And the clowning you mentioned was never intentional. At least I and Yu-hwan here were desperate at that moment.”
"all right."
“Trust me.”
“I said I understand.”
Wi Yeon-ho nodded.
Although I couldn't quite understand it, I knew that in that situation, Iwangya shouldn't have moved.
“But what would you have done if I hadn’t come forward until the end?”
“……He must have killed Nokmokpung.”
Wi Yeon-ho sighed.
“And then?”
“I have no choice but to blame myself for the treason and die. Otherwise, everyone here would have died.”
“Just because you were hiding your martial arts skills?”
“Yes.”
“And the author of Nokki sent his own son to kill him to create that situation?”
“Yes.”
“Are all royal families like that?”
“At least it’s not a beautiful place.”
Wi Yeon-ho looked up at the ceiling quietly.
And then he nodded.
“I know what you mean.”
“Will you take on the role of secret inspector?”
“I’m telling you in advance that I will never take the initiative to look for work myself.”
“It doesn’t matter. The world will never leave you alone, even if you don’t want it to.”
“Is that a bad word?”
“That is the way of the hero.”
“I want to decline.”
“Fate is something that cannot be declined.”
“It’s the first time I’ve heard someone call me a hero. I’ve mostly heard things like rice cake, bear, snail, and turtle.”
Lee Wang-ya nodded without realizing it.
Although he said it himself, adjectives like turtle or snail definitely suited Wi Yeon-ho better.
“Anyway, I guess I’ll take care of it.”
“It’s annoying, but… you’re going to force me to do it anyway, right?”
“You don’t want to be forced to do it, do you?”
“Ugh.”
Wi Yeon-ho got up from his seat.
“Then I’ll go out.”
“Okay. I’m leaving today.”
“I sincerely hope we never have to see each other again.”
“I have a feeling I’ll be seeing you again soon.”
Wi Yeon-ho shivered as if he was shivering and went outside.
widely.
After the door closed and a moment of silence passed, Moon Yu-hwan opened his mouth.
“How is it?”
“……It’s better than I expected.”
In fact, Lee Wang-ya was in a state of shock.
I had expected that Wei Yanhu would reach a higher level than I felt, but I never thought he would be so skilled that he would be able to recognize my hidden martial arts skills.
'Has there ever been anyone with such skill at that age?'
As far as Iwangya knew, there was none.
Even the head of the Grand General Department, who was considered the greatest warrior in the history of the imperial family, would not have been able to reach Wei Yanhu's toes at that age.
“I thought I picked up a dragon, but it seems like I’ve attracted a monster. If I’m not careful, I might get eaten.”
“It’s worth the risk.”
“If it were just inaction, then yes. However, his mentality is beyond the ordinary. He observed the situation and understood everything, but he did not move until the very end. He is not simply strong. Who on earth raised such a monster?”
Lee Wang-ya smiled strangely.
“Anyway, thanks to that, we were able to escape the trap set by that green guy, so I’m thankful for that. Even if we weren’t accused of treason, the shrinking of the royal inspectorate would have been an unavoidable result.”
“It’s fate.”
“That’s right. Heaven help us.”
But contrary to what he said, Yi Wang-ya's eyes were lowered and he was staring at the door through which Wi Yeon-ho had exited.
'However, depending on how that guy moves, not only the royal family but the entire Central Plains could be shaken. I wonder if he tried to avoid the snake called Nokgi and ended up calling in a wolf… . . . '
For now, Lee Wang-ya decided to trust his instincts.
His intuition told him that at least Wei Yanhui was not a bad person.
“If by any chance he has evil intentions…….”
"it's okay."
"hmm?"
“Even if you have bad intentions, you won’t have the will to carry them out. Only diligent people can do bad things.”
“Oh, I see.”
Lee Wang-ya cleared his throat.
It was definitely a blessing.
“Anyway, I’ll investigate everything about that guy. Even if I can’t find his dead master, I absolutely have to find out his family! Do you understand?”
"yes."
“And while I’m at it, I really want to see that guy’s father.”
And at this moment, Wi Yeon-ho's father, Wi Jeong-han, decided to go to the doctor because of the chills that kept coming to him for an unknown reason.