When the Black Moon Rises - Chapter 232
Chapter 232
It was that moment.
“Can you not take that hand off? Who are you to dare to try and hold our Cheon-Ju-Baek-Jang-Gang-Jin Young Lord’s hand?”
“What?!”
“While the Young Lord’s father is perfectly alive with his eyes wide open, and her uncle who’s as close as a blood relative is standing here with his eyeballs wide open, who are you to dare to try and act as a father instead?”
The Cheon Clan Head, popping out like lightning, took Ju Sanghyun's hand off.
He held his hand out to Sehwa with sparkling eyes.
“If you’re going to hold a hand, grab this hand. You have to hold my hand rather than the hand of a shameless thing who’s trying to butt in on this important place just because they have the same last name.”
“Y, yo……! I am an elder of the Ju Clan. How dare you spew such rude words!”
“A thing that is all lacking below our Cheon-Ju-Baek-Jang-Gang-Jin Young Lord is acting like a snob, saying that we should discuss status. If we were to discuss position, I’m the Clan Head of the Cheon Clan. How dare an elder butt in on the Clan Heads, barge in on the wedding, stop the ceremony, and still run his mouth and bring out such words with only his mouth alive?”
“……Snob.”
Ju Sanghyun, dumbfounded, only opened and closed his mouth.
As he discovered that everyone around him was watching him being like that, he headed his gaze that had reddened to Myoungyoon and Sehwa.
They were only watching him quietly.
‘It was planned. They really called us here on purpose to insult us!’
“To still have that kind of attitude even when an elder of the family is getting this kind of treatment. You must have really made up your mind! If you’re thinking of acting as if it's something that has nothing to do with you like that, then I, along with the Ju family elders, will not attend this wedding ceremony!”
The Ju family elders also strongly nodded their heads as if agreeing.
At that time, the sleeve of a black ceremonial robe with the Sacred Water embroidered on it intervened between the two.
“Elder, it’s a good day. Don't ruin the ceremony like this and-.”
Ruin the ceremony? Me?
“Shut up! You trashy bastard!! How dare a criminal with lowly blood block my way!”
Spiritual Power of the Ju family like flames soared from Ju Sanghyun’s entire body as if exploding.
The paving stones on the floor burst with a cracking sound.
He shouted not even caring that everyone was paying attention to him.
“Things that wandered around the bottom of the Mystic Realm since the beginning, just lowly and dirty things! Do you think you’ve become something just by getting to attend this ceremony! Where do you get off butting in on the conversation between the Clan Head and elders!”
His reddened eyes now headed towards the Cheon Clan Head.
Uninhibited red Spiritual Power flew toward the Cheon Clan Head.
“You said uncle? However much you want to insist that she’s of Cheon family blood, that child is a Ju!”
The Cheon Clan Head who was surprised also raised his Spiritual Power, but the Ju family elder’s Spiritual Power was much larger and fiercer than that of the Cheon Clan Head.
“Until now, any bloodline discarded everything of theirs and was integrated into our family when getting married with the Ju family’s blood relatives. Do you know why?!”
The Cheon Clan Head, who couldn’t fully block the Spiritual Power like flames that surged toward him, stepped back one step, two steps while dripping sweat.
“It’s because the Ju family is the greatest! In this Mystic Realm! It’s because only the Ju Clan is the bloodline allowed to do that!”
Ju Sanghyun shouted as if telling everyone around him to listen.
He felt as if his anger would not be relieved even if he killed all these people here.
Yes. It’s good this way.
In this place where everyone had gathered, I will fix the face of the Ju Clan.
If they were trying to become enemies anyway, he had to show that they couldn’t suppress them easily.
Even if he used up all the power he had!
“I acknowledge that the Mystic Ruler and Young Lord did many things that shouldn't be done to fill their greed. However, does the Ju Clan’s entire history have to be denied by the mistake of just one person because of that?!”
The hands of the musicians also slowly stopped.
The surroundings became as quiet as if they had been washed.
“In the 31st year of Somyeong, who was the one who protected the Mystic Realm by releasing all of the origin’s Spiritual Power while returning to nature themselves when the entire Mystic Realm was dangerous, surrounded by evil energy? In the ninth year of Baekjin, when the atmosphere was distorted and everyone was trapped in the barrier? Instead of the Six Clans that weren't of help, the Ju Clan’s Young Lord and a thousand Ju Clan warriors sacrificed their lives and fixed the situation. What about the eleventh year of Yeongsa? Do you remember the records of the horrific situation at that time!”
Ju Sanghyun watched the faces of those looking at him, and raised his voice as if revealing his teeth.
“Until now, the Ju family didn't spare their lives for the Mystic Realm, for you guys, and poured everything they had. Are you thinking of acting as if you don't know about all those sacrifices by exaggerating the mistake of just one or two generations? Is there no one who thinks that those shameless acts will diminish your dignity?”
His spirit rose as if the appearance of some among the crowd listening to this, nodding their heads, was pushing his back.
“Custom and order have been protected because it’s the principle that makes the world turn properly! No matter how much you want to diminish the status of the Ju Clan, how can you make these lowly criminals of dirty blood stand aligned with the Seven Clans that have continued throughout the Mystic Realm?! I don't know from whose head this idea came out, but they should be ashamed!”
Following, Ju Sanghyun glared at Ju Myoungyoon.
“Seeing the daughter, I know the parents. Elder Myoungyoon, you’re also obvious! If you’re thinking of getting controlled by the Six Clans like a puppet and abandoning the blood relatives, then put down the seat of the Ju family Clan Head right away! We can no longer entrust the role of representing the Ju family to you any longer!”
Then Ju Sanghyun discovered Choi Jangmyung, who was still standing near him.
“This trashy bastard still doesn’t know his place and is here…….”
Red Spiritual Power burst out from his entire body as he ground his teeth.
However, the power that flew as if surging towards Choi Jangmyung and the Cheon Clan Head at the same time was blocked by an intangible wall and exploded.
Boom!
‘Wh, what? Is it Baek Giha? Who deflected my power right now……’
It was when Ju Sanghyun briefly covered his face with his sleeves while enduring the aftereffects of Spiritual Power.
“I’ve heard well about the noble sacrifices of the dignified Mystic Ruler and Ju family warriors.”
The calm voice precisely dug into the ears of the crowd inside that quietness.
“But there’s one thing I want to ask.”
It was Sehwa.
“Among those great records, what did you do, Elder, that you’re acting so snobbish?”
“Wh, what. Snobbish?”
“Even when the Six Clans requested a search for children who went missing before the war. So, even when we had to have a power struggle with the Six Clans’ warriors for ten years. Not even one person participated from the elders’ private armies and the Mystic Ruler’s warriors. Even when the Mystic Ruler burned those without families alive in the battlefield. Even when the servants died in the elders’ mansions, becoming targets of their anger for no reason.”
She, walking out one step, two steps, looked back at the Ju family elders and asked toward Ju Sanghyun,
“Is there anyone here who stepped forward to fix the situation? Even those you insulted, saying that they have lowly blood, aren’t they the ones who unjustly had their families sacrificed by the Mystic Ruler and had the stigma of criminals placed on them? But are you shamelessly putting such words in your mouth so confidently? While trying to cover and gloss over your faults with your ancestors' achievements?”
“How can you guarantee that that is a stigma or not?!”
At that moment, one of the elders who had been standing behind Ju Sanghyun popped out from the group and pointed a finger.
“I also acknowledge that some among those lowly criminals went through an unfortunate matter. But even though evidence wasn’t discovered from everyone, you’re trying to pressure us by exaggerating small crimes?”
“Small crimes?”
“That’s right! You say to cover my mistakes with my ancestors’ achievements? We’re doing so because it’s possible to do so! Why is bloodline important?! It’s because that is the origin of the members of that family!”
He shouted toward Sehwa with a reddened face.
“Can a dog become a dragon? Can a rat become a hawk? Once a dragon is a dragon forever, and a lowly and dirty thing is a lowly and dirty thing even at the last moment of the Mystic Realm! Why?! It’s because those have always lived like that. The deeds of the ancestors are the very origin and essence representing those blood relatives!”
“…….”
“Dogs and pigs are dogs and pigs at whatever moment! Unlike us!”
A hollow laugh flowed out between the lips of Sehwa, who had stopped for a moment.
The red lips trembled thinly.
Such words came out even while watching the criminals being dragged to the judgment stand.
‘These people are not changing at all.’
Her laughter like a sigh continued for a bit more.
She briefly closed her eyes, glancing at the elders who were sending an aggressive gaze at her as if agreeing with those words.
The long and pitiful eyelashes trembled like blades of grass.
However, when the thin white eyelids went up again,
“Choi Jangmyung.”
Emotions were no longer contained inside those eyes.
Anger flared inside her at the conduct of these people who had not changed at all, even after going through many things.
“Yes, Young Lady.”
At Sehwa’s call, Choi Jangmyung, fully equipped in black ceremonial attire, came out to the front at once.
“Recite this elder’s conduct here. The name is Ju Ikhyun.”
“What?”
Choi Jangmyung's gently folded eyebrows on his neat face slightly narrowed from bewilderment.
He had received beforehand the conducts until now of the Ju Clan elders who weren’t sent to the judgment stand, whom Sehwa had stolen from Seowol and then moved to the Baek Clan.
‘Somehow, she kept telling me to keep them.’
But for the wedding, it would be better to calm them down so that they would no longer make a scene.
‘Is Young Lady thinking of inciting more fighting?’
While he worried, there was no hesitation.
He proceeded right away with what he had been ordered.
T/N: Hey there! There seems to have been a mishap with the navigation links in the next few chapters. I've already fixed the issue. If there are any types of mistakes in the future chapters, please let me know in the comments.
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