When the Black Moon Rises - Chapter 233
Chapter 233
“Ju Clan Elder Ju Ikhyun. Selected as an elder of the Angil region in the 27th year of Seho.”
“?”
Choi Jangmyung’s voice continued amidst the puzzled gazes of those people.
“In the 32nd year of Seho, kidnapped over a hundred people without families and extracted Spirit Orbs in his residence in Angil. Accused seven merchant groups in the Angil region of distributing Spirit Orbs and confiscated their assets. Dragged Merchant Yoo Jihan and forty-nine related people, excluding his blood relatives, to his residence instead of the judgment stand and tortured and extracted Spirit Orbs privately. In the 92nd year of Seho, became the Mystic Ruler's Spirit Orb supplier and-.”
“You bastard, what are you doing now! Can't you shut up?!”
Ju Ikhyun, his face drained of blood and white as a sheet, pointed his finger at Sehwa.
“What's the meaning of this! I was trying to hold it in since it was your wedding!”
Killing people without families and extracting Spirit Orbs was something that would have been glossed over as not a big deal in the past. Not now.
‘…At this time when the resentment for the Ju Clan is through the roof, if that is revealed to be true, I’m a dead man!’
“To frame an elder of the family in this kind of place! You must be out of your mind at the thought of becoming the Lady of the House of the Baek Clan! Do you think your circumstances will get much better after slandering the family you were born and raised in like that?!”
Sehwa just quietly stared at him without answering.
The one who became urgent at that gaze was instead Ju Ikhyun.
He looked around at the other elders around him and shouted.
“No, why are all of you just quietly watching me get framed like this?! A Ju Clan elder is being insulted in front of all these people! Are all of you fine with that? Are you all holding yourselves back because you don't know who will be next if you neglect this?!”
‘……That is exactly why they can’t step forward.’
The elders avoided the eyes of Ju Ikhyun, who was shouting until the veins in his neck stood out.
Didn’t they also do the same things as Ju Ikhyun until now?
‘That young one is warning us, with Ju Ikhyun as an example, that the weaknesses of our elders are inside her hands right now.’
They certainly didn’t want to stand out in this chaotic scene, much less become the next in line.
“Elder Sanghyun! Are even you going to say nothing?!”
The gaze of Ju Sanghyun who had been named trembled for a moment.
He also felt very troubled.
‘How did that young one find out about those matters so in detail?’
Moreover, if they considered the number of times they had forcefully extracted Spirit Orbs from those without families, even though he didn’t know, he would be more than the number of all the elders here combined.
Seeing the young one’s gaze, it didn’t seem like she didn’t know that fact.
“Elder Sanghyun! Please say something!”
The moment when Ju Ikhyun was urging like that, a calm breeze was created from under Sehwa's feet.
The faint wind embraced her body and spun, making the dust on the paving stones float.
It was a clear precursor of rage, one that gave no doubt about the typhoon that would soon strike, but there was no one who had discovered this yet.
A hollow laugh flowed from Sehwa's red lips.
“The origin and essence of one's nature. Even a passing dog would laugh.”
Ju Sanghyun’s eyebrows that had been hesitating rose up at that sarcasm.
Sehwa approached Ju Sanghyun who was like that.
“You keep saying that I slandered the Ju family and insulted the family. But it’s instead you yourselves who have tarnished the face of that family. No one steps forward for the right thing, and every single one of you is passionate like dogs and cows only when it comes to shifting the blame for that damage to others.”
‘Dogs, dogs and cows?’
“Ju Sehwa!”
Ju Sanghyun glared with eyes reddened from fury.
“Yo, you, to the elders of the family right now-.”
“Elders of the family.”
Low laughter flowed from her.
“What are you to say such a thing. You, who shut your mouth when it’s difficult and were busy taking care of your own safety when you’re about to have the things that you did in the past and how you did them revealed in detail from my mouth, what are you to expect an elder’s treatment from me?”
“Yo, you bitch, yo-.”
Ju Sanghyun's fist that he gripped with strength trembled from fury.
This young one certainly wasn't a Ju.
How could he leave this thing who had no intention at all of covering for the faults of blood relatives and was instead openly trampling the elders of the family in front of people, become the Lady of the House of the Six Clans?
He, who clenched his teeth as if they would burst, approached Sehwa closely.
As if being conscious of the surroundings, he lowered his voice and warned her.
“You also, even if you try to cover the sky with your palm with this kind of behavior, it will be no use. Do you think you can forever hide your position where you lost your Spiritual Power with insulting us like this?”
“Lost Spiritual Power?”
“Yes. We also haven’t lived without any flaws until now, but we can’t all be killed just with that. If you create an enemy like this, even you-.”
“Was that it? The reason for your confidence?”
Sehwa laughed a little because she was so dumbfounded.
“Somehow I thought you guys were strangely arrogant.”
Along with those words, the light breeze that had been blooming from under her feet soared up like a swirl.
The sleeves of the long wedding dress shook violently.
Ju Sanghyun became aghast, discovering the boiling Spiritual Power from her entire body.
“Wh, what is this. You… you having lost your power was-.”
“That kind of thinking of you and the blood relatives is what made the Ju Clan into this state today.”
Boom!
In the end, a pillar of fire soared up in a straight line.
“!!”
The paving stones below her feet burst out with a power that couldn’t even be compared to just now, but those that couldn’t pass the barrier of wind became powder and disappeared.
Sehwa’s jet-black pupils that had narrowed vertically stared directly at Ju Sanghyun as if they would pierce through everything.
“…….”
Ju Sanghyun was hardened like a stone in that place.
While he wanted to turn his gaze, he couldn’t.
His jaw trembled, and blood drained from his face in an instant.
He could instinctively know the moment he saw it.
‘Clairvoyance.’
The very power that became the bedrock of the Ju family, reading all things in the world.
The Clan Heads of the Six Clans also blinked their eyes, being conscious of their backs getting wet with sweat.
Even while they knew it wasn’t directed towards them, a fear as though even their deepest insides were being exposed surged.
“I tried to give you a chance. Because I thought that you might be better than those who occupied others’ bodies through body snatching without any sense of guilt and are sitting inside them. Because I thought that you might just have been swept away by the environment and situation, that there might be a chance for rehabilitation.”
Amidst the swirling flames and wind, Sehwa approached him one step at a time as much as Ju Sanghyun retreated.
“But I was completely wrong.”
The paving stones turned into powder and broke with each of her steps.
“So I will open the judgment stand in this place.”
“What?”
As if it had been waiting for her command, the sky rumbled.
Rumble.
“!!”
The clear blue sky that had no clouds was suddenly painted grey as if it had been covered in ash.
The sunlight was blocked in an instant, and the cold north wind circled around them as if a typhoon was coming.
Those flustered fearfully watched the sky and Sehwa alternately.
“I thought that you would realize something watching the series of matters that happened in the family. Even if your true intentions were different, I thought at least on the outside.”
The moment Sehwa’s red lips opened once again, Ju Sanghyun retreated, surprised.
While those words definitely came out from that woman’s mouth, it didn’t seem like a sound.
It was like a command vibrating his entire body, making him forcefully submit.
Like the order of the Mystic Realm, some forceful law that he had been shouting to the other people here.
“I thought that along with the judgment that the Ju Clan no longer had the right to hold the seat of Mystic Ruler any longer, you would equally hand over the right to elect the Mystic Ruler to other families.”
A divine energy flowed from the vertically torn pupils.
Everyone around them, including the elders, forgot even to breathe and hardened at that imposing presence as though they couldn’t disobey the speaker.
“Yes. Did you say that a lowly thing can never become a hawk or a dragon?”
Sehwa, laughing a bit as she said that, lifted her red sleeves.
A five-colored light soared up violently, as though pushing out a pillar of red Spiritual Power from below her feet.
As the power following the flow of water reached the sky, the dark grey sky split as if a door was opening.
Brilliant light poured down like a waterfall.
“Uh, …Oh!”
It was when the group wearing black clothes, surprised by the light embracing them, looked down at their bodies.
Each and every light covering them burst a bright light to the extent that their vision went hazy.
That moment was very short, however, it also felt like an eternity to those whose eyes were covered.
And when they opened their eyes again, a flock of hawks scattering brilliant five-colored Spiritual Power were flapping their wings in that place.
Sehwa’s eyes widened roundly.
“There are things in the world that also change.”
Unlike you.
And the appearance of Choi Jangmyung, who was standing at the very front of the countless hawks, also changed slowly.
While spreading huge feathers clearly different from those of the other exile group,
Screech—He soared into the sky, his menacing eyes glinting.
“…….”
Those watching were all hardened, doubting their own eyes.
Something had happened, but they couldn't understand what they had seen even while watching.
A lowly original form changed? Does that make sense? How is that even possible?
It was something that couldn’t happen, like an old man turning back into a child, or a woman suddenly changing into a man.
Sehwa, who had casually made the ‘impossible thing’ into reality, turned her body.
“Now, then next is.”
“!!”
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