When the Black Moon Rises - Chapter 229
Chapter 229
“Young Lady said that?”
“Yes.”
Choi Jangmyung came to meet his father for a bit after delivering the bride’s gifts to the White Stone Pavilion.
Most of the exiles, including Choi Deokmun, were people who lived in the Ju family’s territory, and even now, more than half of them expressed their intention of wanting to resettle in their homeland no matter what happened.
But the Ju family territory right now was more than chaotic due to chasing the remnants of the Mystic Ruler.
Since the criminals were being brought to the judgment stand day after day, Baek Manyong first gave them the annex building of the White Stone Pavilion.
So they could stay for a while until the commotion in the Ju family territory calmed down.
So, even after coming back to the Mystic Realm after a long time, they were dazed for a while. Because too many things had changed.
The only place such people could rely on was Choi Deokmun.
Didn’t he divide the resettlement funds and help their livelihood even in the Human Realm?
I heard that his son was now a close aide of the young lady marrying the leader of the Six Clans.
‘Isn’t that young lady the Divine Beast who healed our bodies and made the Spiritual Energy in the atmosphere get thicker?’
Then wouldn't we be able to ask Merchant Choi’s son to ask her to take us in? Couldn't Merchant Choi's son become the backing for us, who have no foundation?
But Choi Deokmun also had difficult worries and unrest.
It was only natural; when Elder Myoungyoon first said that he would take his son to the Mystic Realm, he was so excited he didn’t know what to do.
Taking on an animal’s appearance is something that only a Divine Beast can do.
‘Even though he isn't a Divine Beast, since my son can freely go between a person’s appearance and an animal's. Just with this, everyone will get to know how huge the Spiritual Power contained inside Jangmyung’s body is!’
When his confidence and expectation were swelling plentifully like bubbles, he came over to the Mystic Realm following Madam Cheon Sua.
“…….”
And he couldn’t help but be dumbfounded.
Because there, even though they couldn’t change into animals, warriors who had amazing Spiritual Power, more than his son, were tightly packed.
Status, family, and Spiritual Power. His son had to create his own place inside these people to whom his son couldn’t compare to.
‘Even though he isn’t saying it to me, there must be some hazing.’
Since the Ju family's situation had become like that, relying on Elder Myoungyoon also seemed to not be easy.
His son who had grown up only as a merchant had no place to lean on in the Mystic Realm besides his master.
So he had thought that he couldn't unnecessarily burden his son, who would have to make an effort a few times more than others.
‘I was boiling with such worry. However, Young Lady was even thinking about such a thing.’
The old merchant’s eyes slightly shook at that meticulous consideration. How could he not know how fortunate it was to have such a person as a master?
Moreover, isn't being the deliverer of the betrothal gifts a role that usually the most trusted aide takes on and proceeds?
Choi Deokmun naturally thought that Sa Danyoon, who was a long-time aide of Elder Myoungyoon, would take on that role.
But Young Lady had broken his anticipation and entrusted it to his son, who didn’t properly know the Mystic Realm’s events.
She had tried to create a position that no one could ignore for his son.
“She’s an amazing person. Really. An amazing person.”
While he was an exile in the Mystic Realm, he was the master of a huge trading company with countless servants and employees in the Human Realm.
Even though his circumstances had changed in an instant as he experienced a rock-bottom life, he had never once tried to consider anything from the servants’ gazes or thought about changing their lives.
That was not because he didn't have compassion or his personality was cold, but simply because it was comfortable that way.
Who would go around the easy road in a hard way on purpose?
The Mystic Ruler would have been like that, and the Ju family members who came to the judgment stand would also have been like that.
While it was natural common sense that it would be good to have the vertical structure of the class intertwined even more strongly to easily proceed with many things after becoming the leader.
Sehwa had told him that she would change all of this class horizontally.
“The position that had been empty will find its master soon.”
While he knew it was a sensitive matter to mention in his own humble circumstances, there was something that he could know more certainly because of that.
Who the ‘Mystic Ruler’ is who would reach their hand even to people like himself, who would prevent injustice and apply the world’s order even to them.
Whose that seat truly belongs to.
While he did hear the talk from his son that she didn’t want to get on that seat,
‘It’s not like I am the only one waiting for that day.’
So, the satisfying happiness that the seat would find its master in the end, expecting that time, permeated Choi Deokmun's face.
“Oh, Father. And Young Lady sent these clothes saying to wear them at the wedding.”
Behind Choi Jangmyung were the clothes Sehwa was sending them, divided inside a few large chests.
“Everyone? By any chance, is she telling all the exiles to attend the wedding?”
Since it was no ordinary celebration, it would not be easy to make room as many people would be attending.
‘She’s going to make even the exiles who she doesn’t have any special connection with sit on purpose in between that?’
Choi Deokmun, who was curious about Sehwa’s intention, looked inside the chest.
And then he looked back at his son in surprise.
As he saw his son nod his head, he took out a voice sinking from admiration and deep emotion.
“Yes. We have to wear them. Right, of course we have to wear them. Of course we have to wear them since Young Lady thinks of us so highly!”
The moment when Choi Deokmun was nodding his head continuously like that,
One servant of the Baek family knocked quietly.
“Excuse me. Warrior Jangmyung, Merchant Choi. The Clan Head is urgently looking for you.”
Choi Jangmyung opened his eyes wide.
The Baek Clan Head had never called him even once until now.
“Me? Clan Head Baek did?”
“Yes. He told you to come to the Clan Head's office with Merchant Choi right away.”
This time, it was Choi Deokmun who opened his eyes wide.
“Me too?”
“Yes.”
“He didn’t say what it was about?”
“He didn't say anything specifically, but…… It seemed like he was trying to entrust the confirmation of a criminal.”
“Confirmation of a criminal, you say? Is he trying to have you give a testimony about the matter that happened at the Mystic Ruler's mansion?”
“That’s not it.”
The servant, who tilted his head for a moment, watched Choi Jangmyung once.
Perhaps thinking that it was alright to tell this much since he was a close aide of the Lady of the House, he continued his words right away.
“The criminal that the warrior unit was chasing until now arrived here on her own feet, and she’s insisting on seeing someone named Choi Deokmun among those banished to the Human Realm and returned. She’s saying that she will tell everything she knows only if we do so…….”
At those words, Choi Jangmyung's complexion changed as if realizing something.
Choi Jangmyung ran outside hurriedly.
Choi Deokmun, who didn’t know the situation, also chased after him quickly.
After arriving at Clan Head Baek’s office, Choi Jangmyung waited for his father, unable to go inside first.
Soon after, as his father arrived, he quietly said with a hesitant face.
“Go inside first, Father.”
“What about you? He also called you along.”
“I……”
Choi Deokmun strangely watched his son hesitating, which was unlike him.
Choi Jangmyung, who was trying to explain something, eventually shook his head without adding anything.
“……I will go inside after you go in first, Father.”
Why is he making such a laborious face.
While that was curious, Choi Deokmun stepped his foot inside Clan Head Baek's office like his son said.
“…….”
And he stopped as if he had seen a ghost.
There, there was some woman wearing Soul Restraints that sealed Spiritual Power.
As his gaze that was hardened like a stone statue shook wildly, that woman also discovered him and trembled her jaw and lips.
The woman called him, squeezing her throat.
“Honey……”
Baek Giha held and stopped Choi Deokmun’s shoulder that had started to walk towards the woman while staggering.
“She’s the Mystic Ruler’s Seventh Consort. And I’m sorry to have to say this……but none of those who had their bodies snatched have returned.”
Those words meant that this woman was no longer his wife anymore.
It was also a warning that the title she was calling Choi Deokmun with would also just be a trick to avoid the judgment stand.
Choi Deokmun also nodded with effort.
He also knew. How wicked the personalities of those who had done body snatching were.
They even chattered, making the faces of their loved ones, saying that they were the real ones even after being brought to the judgment stand.
So, that woman who had his wife's face would definitely be the same.
Even so, there was no way for Choi Deokmun to not approach.
Wasn't she the one he yearned for to the extent that it pierced him for his entire life? He had thought that he would have no more wishes if he could see her again just once.
“Honey, it’s me.”
The woman called him once again.
Something transparent flowed down her reddened eyes.
“Honey.”
That gaze looking at me. Her expression is also the same, but how……
Choi Deokmun clenched his hands as if they would burst.
Wasn’t it the same story, the words that those who had their bodies snatched said countless times?
I’ve never done such a thing. I am the right one. I had my memories manipulated. I’m just me.
Making the truth come out of such people’s mouths was a sight that he wouldn't see twice.
‘But I have to watch that being done to my wife’s body now?’
He, who bit his lips until they bled, laboriously turned his body.
He barely spoke to Baek Giha.
“Clan Head Baek. I, it would be good if I don’t see more. I. ……Anymore. My son too.”
“Alright.”
As Baek Giha nodded his head, the warriors who had been guarding one side of the office approached the woman.
It was that moment.
“It’s alright even if I die!”
The woman shouted in a hasty voice.
“It’s alright even if you kill me now. Even if you cut my neck, feed me poison, it’s alright even if you kill me in whatever way.”
The tears that the woman spilled on the floor spread widely.
“But please, just once before I die. Our, our Jangmyung’s face just once……”
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