Chapter 60
Chapter 60
Ch. 60🔒 .｡.:✧ Family Council ✧:.｡.
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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Chaos
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The distribution of rewards and punishments was underway.
Under the guise of a council, they were unilaterally exercising their authority, while Eun Hajin and I simply watched the situation unfold in silence.
My brother, Eun Hajin, who was standing next to me, trembled with rage at their attitude of showing not even a shred of interest in us.
He muttered in a voice filled with lament.
“How could our family have fallen so far…?”
“……”
I remained silent.
In the midst of this situation, the Black Serpent, the leader of the retainers who had been conducting the meeting with meaningless conversation, clapped his hands together.
Then he casually threw a question to the head of the Silver River Trading Company, Eun Hacheol, who was sitting next to him with an even more gaunt face.
“Family Head.”
“……”
“It’s time for you to speak.”
“……”
At the Black Serpent’s words, Eun Hacheol slowly nodded with a blank gaze.
It seemed that from now on, he was going to use the family head’s authority to issue rules or orders that could pressure me and Eun Hajin.
At the Black Serpent’s action, one corner of my mouth twisted up on its own.
‘It’s obvious that they will commit a series of unreasonable acts that are considered absurd.’
They would either argue about the matter of the heir, or try to reduce our authority as much as possible.
At their transparent actions, I couldn’t help but sneer inwardly.
‘But I’ve experienced such schemes countless times before I was transmigrated… so this incident doesn’t even count as a crisis.’
I tried to recall the memories of the past, which were now faint.
It was a memory from a long time ago.
The betrayal of trusted comrades, limbs being torn off by monsters, the envy and jealousy towards me who was growing stronger by the day.
I had experienced it all countless times.
To put it simply, yes… that world was an era of cataclysm.
‘It was an absurd situation. Even thinking about it now.’
The law of the jungle had arrived.
The realization that the struggle of those with nothing was even more brutal was an enlightenment that came when hell descended upon the world.
I felt a premonition and smiled faintly.
‘Now… how will you act?’
The atmosphere began to escalate.
I looked at the head seat where the family head was located.
There, the Black Serpent spoke.
“Now, come forward.”
“…My name is Eun Hamin.”
A skinny man awkwardly scratched his head.
I don’t know how they had won him over, but they had brought a distant collateral branch member and were trying to delegate a significant portion of the heir’s authority to him.
This was clearly crossing the line.
I felt that the stage to finally correct the situation had been set.
‘There are many branch heads in this place who are not happy with the family being taken over by a pack of wolves who are mere retainers.’
Sure enough, when I glanced around, I saw the faces of the branch heads who had hardened their expressions and slightly frowned, as if they had noticed the sudden change in the situation.
In that situation, I sent a telepathic message to the person waiting outside.
[Please begin.]
[…I understand.]
Perhaps because we had made at least minimal preparations during the five days, though not thoroughly.
Instead of fear, a sense of fighting spirit began to well up from deep within my heart.
In that situation, as if the device I had planted in advance had been activated.
A faint scent began to drift through the family head’s residence where the meeting was being held.
“…What is this?”
“Oh… it seems they’ve even prepared this. Indeed, did they buy incense for the family council.”
Though it was faint, as the scent of plum blossoms slowly spread, the reactions of those attending the meeting changed from moment to moment.
Some were curious, some were bewildered, and some were angry.
“……”
“…Family Head?”
In that situation, the Black Serpent, who had noticed something was wrong, tilted his head.
“……!”
“H-Here… Keuk…!”
The Black Serpent’s face began to turn pale as he felt the turbid gaze of the family head, Eun Hacheol, gradually returning to normal.
It was an unexpected situation for him as well.
In fact, without the help of the Hidden Healer, Dokgo Hyun, this counterattack would not have even begun.
‘Killing the leader of the assassins and forming a connection with the Hao Clan was the right decision.’
I smiled faintly and slowly rose from my seat in the corner.
Perhaps because I, the nominal heir, had been assigned a seat in the corner instead of the head seat.
No one was paying attention to this side.
But as I slowly walked the red silk path leading to the head seat.
Finally, the relatives and branch heads who had attended began to turn their gazes towards me, one by one.
“…What is going on?”
“Even if he is the heir, the place where only the family head can walk…?”
Pretending to be concerned, I saw branch heads everywhere showing an attitude of trying to stop me.
Ignoring the gazes of all those martial artists, I continued to walk towards the head seat where the family head was located.
Thump, thump—
How long had I walked like that?
“……”
“K-Keuk…”
As I moved to just below the head seat where the Black Serpent and the family head, Eun Hacheol, were located, I stretched my foot towards the stairs leading to the head seat without a moment’s hesitation.
At that, the Black Serpent, finally feeling a sense of unease, shouted at me.
“Stop! Even if you are the heir of the Silver River Trading Company, you cannot ascend to the head seat where the family head is located without permission!”
“…And you, what kind of order did you receive to act so recklessly?”
As I asked in a cold, somber voice, the Black Serpent, whose face had turned pale, swallowed hard.
At the Black Serpent’s frightened attitude, I sneered and said as if making a declaration.
“Get out of here right now.”
“……!”
“If you don’t want to die.”
“K-Keuk…! W-What is this…!”
Though he said that, the Black Serpent, feeling the pressure emanating from my aura, immediately took a few steps back.
In the meantime, the pupils of Eun Hacheol, which had been turbid, began to regain their pure white color.
Watching the family head’s reaction, I slowly took out the bamboo slip hidden in my robes.
It was a shabby declaration with only a few sentences carved on it, but it didn’t matter.
I cleared my throat.
“Ahem.”
“……”
The audience fell silent.
Though they had tried to contain it, perhaps because they felt a faint, angry energy, no one dared to interrupt me or step forward rashly.
I slowly opened my mouth.
“I have been a person who has not only failed to act as an heir, but also lacked the proper sense of responsibility as a son of the Silver River Trading Company… but I no longer want to stand by and watch the family fall, so I will say a few things here.”
“……”
In the family head’s residence, which was still somber in silence, I was the only one speaking.
I continued without paying any heed.
“…I believe there are those who are lamenting this situation where mere ronin who are nothing but retainers have settled in this family and are acting as masters.”
“……”
“Though there are those who already know without explanation, let me state a few of the wrongs committed by those wolves.”
Swish—
As I looked around the audience, I saw the figures of the ronin looking at this side with frightened eyes.
Among them, there were those who were trying to report this situation to someone.
I inwardly sneered at the sight of them hastily leaving the meeting hall and opened my mouth.
“First, they threatened the trading posts owned by the Silver River Trading Company and the businesses closely related to them with force, and forced them into unfair contracts.”
There was more than enough evidence.
It was something that could be proven with the testimony of a few branch heads who had sided with us.
I continued to speak.
“Second, they intimidated the branch heads and relatives who opposed their will, that is, those belonging to the collateral branches, and purged or demoted all those who opposed them.”
Finally, I put the finishing touch.
I opened my mouth, my voice filled with anger as if exploding with the emotions I had accumulated.
“Finally… those people colluded with an external force to forcibly turn the family head into their puppet, and made him move like a living corpse, so it is only right to behead and purge all of them in this place.”
“……!”
The audience began to stir.
In the meantime, as if someone had been brought in.
The aura of the ronin, who had been cornered in a corner with fear, began to change.
It was at that moment.
‘……!’
Woong—
Someone was drawing out their energy and driving out the scent that filled the family head’s residence.
At that, the family head’s pupils began to turn black again.
“…You’ve appeared.”
I, who had already guessed who had committed the act, let out a hollow laugh.
Kwoong—
The door from the outside swung open, and immediately a woman began to glare at me with terrifying eyes.
The bewitching woman who had called herself a physician’s assistant finally shouted in a voice filled with evil energy.
“You’ve finally shown your true colors…!”
“……”
“I did not harm you, the son of the family…! Do you know what kind of chaos you are causing now—!”
At the woman’s angry shout, I simply replied from the head seat.
“Shut up, you minion of the Divine Cult… Were you happy thinking you could offer a wealthy family to the cult with your own arbitrary judgment?”
“……! H-How did you…!”
“The Silent Demon, Byeok Ri-seol, a peak master who uses poison, belonging to the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult. Are you afraid now that your identity has been revealed in an unexpected place?”
I said, as if reciting the information I had obtained by requesting it from the Hao Clan, sneered, and drew the trembling Falling Star.
Srrrng—
As Falling Star slowly revealed itself, a brilliant light and the spreading scent of plum blossoms quickly began to fill the family head’s residence.
In the reversed situation, I slowly raised the tip of my sword and pointed it at the master belonging to the Divine Cult, the Silent Demon.
And then I muttered while raising my energy.
“So,”
At that moment, the masters on my side who were waiting outside began to break through the ceiling and enter from all over the place.
Kwaaang—!
In that situation where the heavens and the earth were shaking, I said to end the family council.
“…You should have known when to stop, you tenacious venomous pests.”
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