When the Black Moon Rises - Chapter 235
Chapter 235
She nodded her head once again.
Perhaps where in that innocent answer was funny, the man smiled, watching Sehwa being like that.
Every time he smiled like this, Sehwa’s gaze would loosen up.
It was the same now.
I heard he never smiled before, is it true?
‘How surprised I was when you suddenly said that we had to ruin the wedding ceremony and went to the Ju Clan. Even more, since you’re a person who had never even properly smiled before, how brightly you were smiling, even my heart was surprised…….’
That he didn’t serve her as Lady of the House after seeing Young Lady's ability.
That there was no one before who could make our Clan Head have such an expression, and there wouldn't be anyone after besides Young Lady, so he decided to naturally serve her as the Lady of the House.
It was what Baek Manyong said to her later on.
While it wasn't very believable since he had never not had this kind of face when seeing her,
As she thought of the members of the Baek family who were surprised every time he smiled like this, it also seemed like it was really so.
With their hands tightly intertwined, he gestured toward the altar again.
“Shall we go?”
Along with those words, the sound of the musicians’ instruments that had stopped flowed out again.
She, who nodded, told the Ju family elders to get up, and then walked with him leading her.
Even the order of events was a bit different from the wedding she had memorized beforehand.
Without even the process of greeting her parents or drinking wedding wine, they went up the stairs toward the altar right away.
While Baek Manyong was still following them, the Baek family elders stopped below the altar.
However, they didn’t go back to the Baek Clan’s seat among the Six Clans, and remained in front of the stairs of the altar.
“It would be an obvious story, but.”
When Sehwa tilted her head, Baek Giha quietly began to speak.
“If I force you to do something you don't want to do, you will get angry at me, right? ……By any chance, a lot?”
“?”
“Just. I’m suddenly worried about that.”
“I won’t.”
“You won’t?”
Because it was too obvious a story for Sehwa, the answer came out a bit insincere.
“You thought that you had to do so in your judgment, so you must have done so.”
“Even so, if I do so while ruining a very important matter to us, you will get angry at that time, right?”
“I won’t. Because you would have done it thinking of it as that necessary.”
Where was this ceremony going?
Why were the Baek Clan elders remaining under the altar?
And why was this man giving this kind of question here?
It was all things that had no answer even if she thought about them.
‘Well. You must be doing it because it’s that possible. You’ll tell me after the ceremony ends.’
While the questions remained, she, who cleared her head, got up to the top of the altar with a light face with effort.
On top of the altar, the Baek Clan's Spirit Stone that proved marriage was placed.
Baek Manyong, who had followed, whispered in a small voice from behind.
“Lady of the House, please offer the incense first.”
‘Me first? Isn’t this something that the man’s side does first?’
“Quickly.”
While she hesitated for a moment, Sehwa offered the incense first at that urge.
Baek Giha lit the incense following her.
Following, Baek Manyong whispered again in a small voice.
“Please pour the alcohol placed on the table into the two glasses.”
Baek Giha did that.
However, Baek Giha didn’t give the alcohol that Sehwa considered wedding wine to her, and placed it on the altar again.
‘What is it?’
As though that was enough, Baek Manyong whispered again.
“Please put your hands above the Spirit Stone.”
Sehwa and Baek Giha put their hands above it at the same time.
Warm body temperatures touched and each other’s hands intertwined.
“Lady of the House, please lift the placed glass and drink it, and then please tell the oath.”
‘……To drink alcohol separately. It wasn’t wedding wine? Besides, even this time me first?’
At the small voice being heard again, she couldn't hold it in this time and headed behind her for a moment.
“Quickly.”
But not only Baek Manyong, who urged resolutely as if there was no problem, but also Baek Giha, who seemed to know the order better than her, said nothing.
Since there was no one who taught her. Well. She couldn’t do anything but do as told.
‘By any chance, is the Baek Clan’s wedding like this?’
While she felt frustrated, since there was no other way, she obediently opened her mouth first after drinking the alcohol glass.
“The seventh day of the first month of the year Myeongshin.”
The clear and soft voice rang, cutting off the musicians’ instrument sounds.
“Lacking two Dragon and Tiger have stood in this place to tie each other’s lives and hearts under the auspices of the heavens. I, Sehwa, daughter of Yeonghwi of the Ju Clan, accept Giha, descendant of Yuksan of the Baek Clan, as my lifelong partner…….”
After that, Sehwa took out promises of being faithful to their life together from her mouth in the shape of a pledge.
“That my heart will not change at any time. That I will not run away from crisis and be together in whatever hardship.”
Baek Giha’s hands, intertwined with Sehwa’s atop the Spirit Stone, tightened slightly as if he was nervous.
“So, that we will not abandon each other forever. We will clearly confess this to the heavens in this place. If you would, I wish for the heavens to watch over all these pledges so that they may last forever.”
It was when her words ended like that.
Baek Giha, who had been watching without taking his eyes off her even once while her oath was flowing out, drank the alcohol glass placed in front of him at once.
He took his hands off the Spirit Stone abruptly and stepped back one step.
And bowed his body.
He bowed his head toward her, quietly bending one knee.
“!”
What's this.
She, who was surprised, looked back at Baek Manyong, but at some point, he was also kneeling on both knees.
Something was placed on the Chancellor's two hands that had been politely raised.
A translucent, pure white bead comparable to the Red Dragon’s Spirit Orb.
It was the sacred object of the Baek Clan, the White Tiger’s Spirit Orb.
“What’s the meaning of-.”
“The seventh day of the first month of the year Myeongshin.”
Dismissing her fluster, a low and powerful voice flowed from Baek Giha’s lips as he wore a pure white ceremonial robe and Clan Head’s hat.
“A lacking descendant of the Baek Clan stands in this place to prove the direction of his life and the weight of his loyalty under the auspices of the heavens. I, Giha, Clan Head of the Yuksan Baek Clan, and the Baek Clan’s blood relatives, accept Sehwa, daughter of Yeonghwi of the Ju Clan, as our lifelong master-.”
“Master?!”
Sehwa was even more surprised as unexpected words, not an oath, popped out from Baek Giha’s mouth.
Her hardened gaze blankly stared at him.
“That I will become her sword and protect her with my life at any time. That I will always assist her who carries out justice with loyalty. That I will trust and follow her even in any hardship. So.”
His elegant face that had been bowing toward her rose to face her.
With a soft expression different from his firm voice.
“I pledge with the sacred object of the Baek Clan as proof that we may be together forever, so if you would, I wish for the heavens to carve this pledge into heaven and earth and protect it so that it may last forever.”
Baek Manyong made a voice.
“Please protect it.”
The core elders of the Baek Clan lined up below the altar, and the entire Baek Clan members standing in the Six Clans’ seats, knelt and shouted with one voice.
“Please protect it!”
“……You.”
It was that moment.
Before even her fluster could end, there was a voice cutting in.
“The seventh day of the first month of the year Myeongshin!”
It was the Cheon Clan Head.
“A lacking descendant of the Cheon Clan stands in this place to dedicate loyalty and life to my master under the auspices of the heavens. I, Suhan, Clan Head of the Jangil Cheon Clan, and the Cheon Clan’s blood relatives, accept Sehwa, daughter of Yeonghwi of the Ju Clan, as our lifelong master-.”
“!!”
Even in the Cheon Clan Head’s hands, the Spirit Orb that was the sacred object of the Cheon Clan was placed.
“So, I pledge with the sacred object of the Cheon Clan as proof for all these pledges, so I wish for the heavens to protect all these pledges so that they may last forever!”
“Please protect it!”
As the Cheon family Clan Head knelt as is, the Cheon family members who had been lined up knelt and shouted.
‘Why suddenly even the Cheon Clan Head.’
However, it didn't end with that.
“The seventh day of the first month of the year Myeongshin.”
The Jang family Clan Head loudly made a voice as if he was furious and felt wronged that his first pledge had been stolen.
“A lacking descendant of the Jang family stands in this place to dedicate loyalty and his life to his master-.”
“!!”
As he took out the Jang family’s sacred object and knelt, the Jang Clan’s blood relatives also knelt and shouted with resolute faces.
“Please protect it so that all these pledges may last forever!”
“Please protect it!”
It wasn’t only the Cheon Clan and the Jang Clan. Following continuously, even the Clan Heads of the Jin family and Yeo family recited their oaths and knelt.
“The seventh day of the first month of the year Myeongshin-.”
As a familiar voice followed behind that, Sehwa slowly turned her body.
“……Father.”
Ju Myoungyoon’s gaze as he was continuing the oath with a calm voice was soft. Cheon Sua’s was the same.
“So I pledge that I will follow with loyalty, without going against justice, so if you would, I wish for the heavens to protect all these pledges of oaths so that they may be continued.”
“Please protect it.”
Along with those words, Ju Myoungyoon knelt. Then the elders, including Ju Jayoon, and even the elders who had been following Ju Sanghyun, knelt together.
“Please protect it.”
Even the wind seemed to have stopped in the space, and quietness flowed.
People forgot even to breathe and watched the woman in red clothes above the high altar.
Choi Jangmyung who had been watching this appearance also deeply bowed his head towards Sehwa, and then slowly bent his knees.
The group wearing black clothes followed behind.
Behind them were the warriors who had been guarding this place, and then all of the Baek Clan's maids and servants.
Only then did those watching realize the reason why this ceremony had been strange.
Even the true meaning of this ceremony.
They also hurriedly knelt.
They bowed their heads in the most polite appearance.
To accept the newly enthroned Mystic Ruler.
“…….”
The red ceremonial robe shook in the wind.
Her gaze, having forgotten words, briefly looked around the surroundings.
The world was quiet, and all those who knew her were kneeling to her.
Everyone’s heads were bowed towards her alone.
“……Mystic Ruler.”
Her red lips briefly recited the name of the responsibility she would hold and walk with from now on.
When did the musicians’ playing stop?
Sehwa couldn’t recall it at all.
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