The Dinosaur Bastards Hit Her
Right after leaving the Kunlun Sect, Hyangbi slipped the small jade bead she had been clutching back into her bosom.
‘Thankfully I didn’t have to use this… but it was a little too close for comfort.’
The item Soyu had pressed into her hands before they entered here, telling her to use it if trouble arose.
And Hyangbi knew exactly what it was from everything she had experienced so far.
‘Honestly, the moment I received it I thought he was overthinking, but… I guess I really am still far from it.’
Hyangbi, who had been utterly defeated without resistance by six Kunlun disciples moments earlier.
Fortunately, their actions had carried no killing intent and they had never laid a hand on Dohwa, yet regardless of that fact Hyangbi felt her own helplessness once again through this single incident.
Her master, the one who had entrusted her with his younger sister.
Perhaps this was the master’s way of testing how much she had grown.
And the result had been a complete disaster.
Thankfully she had not even reached the point of begging her master for help at the end, but still, Hyangbi felt bone-deep that she was nowhere near capable of meeting her master’s expectations.
‘I’m still far from it… With this kind of strength I can’t help Master at all. If I don’t train myself even harsher from now on…’
Thinking that, Hyangbi clenched her fist slightly and kept walking beside Dohwa.
Feeling utterly ashamed in front of the master waiting ahead.
*
I was waiting quietly near the village.
This place was close enough that I could have walked straight into the Kunlun Sect headquarters, but for Dohwa the climb up the high mountain meant she needed some rest.
So I had sent her and Hyangbi into the village to do some shopping and eat something good.
The reason I had sent just the two of them without joining was one simple fact I had noticed on the way here.
It was the relationship between Hyangbi and Dohwa, which could never be described as good.
Despite the long journey, I had not once seen the two of them talking to each other.
Any conversation had always been forced with me in the middle, and when I tried to join in they would awkwardly end it.
Even I, who usually didn’t notice these things, could see that the two of them clearly disliked each other.
So at this opportunity I had decided to give them time together to help them get along a little.
‘In my position both are precious younger sisters… Even if I can’t make them blood sisters, I want them to at least get along as well as possible.’
Although there were some worries—after the Demon Cult’s attacks became routine most villages had barriers and I couldn’t use my skills—honestly I wasn’t particularly concerned about that.
Ha Sowol, the leader of the Kunlun Sect ruling this area, was someone I was on friendly terms with.
Moreover, she had always maintained a domineering stance toward the Murim Alliance, so in some ways this place could be considered safer than anywhere we had passed before.
Even though I couldn’t use my skills here, I had given Hyangbi an item that could call me in an emergency.
A contingency plan to move immediately if she faced trouble she couldn’t handle.
With that taken care of, I could send the two of them to the village with peace of mind.
‘Well, so far no reaction… and quite some time has passed, so it seems there’s no big problem.’
Thinking that everything was fine, I started to feel the auras of the two people and turned my head that way.
But…
“Welcome back? You worked hard….!?”
The next moment,
The sight of Hyangbi and Dohwa that appeared before my eyes made my expression harden instantly.
Hyangbi lying on the ground, covered head to toe in dirt.
And Dohwa with both eyes swollen as if she had been beaten by someone.
At that moment I automatically grabbed Hyangbi with intense anger and demanded,
“What… what is this? Why are you two like this?”
“…I’m sorry, Master… I failed to carry out Master’s orders.”
“The order isn’t important! What the hell happened? Explain what went wrong!”
“Th-that…”
I raised my voice at Hyangbi who was apologizing…
Instead of Hyangbi who couldn’t continue speaking due to the intense tension, Dohwa answered with a trembling voice.
“Th-that… We were trying to buy something… Bad people appeared and tried to hit on Hyangbi unnie and me… Unnie beat those people, but other people came and beat unnie to the ground… We were about to be taken to prison like that, but the little brother who was with us apologized and let us go, so here we are…”
“…”
Dohwa’s appearance as she was stammering and barely managing to tell the story.
But through this I could automatically roughly figure out what had happened, and immediately after I started to be gripped by sincere displeasure, not just momentary irritation.
“Those who dared to touch you… Who are those bastards who did such a thing?”
“I… I don’t know exactly, but… it seemed like those dinosaur guys. Those guys hit Hyangbi unnie.”
“…I see… So that’s what happened?”
Although Dohwa’s words weren’t accurate, I could clearly tell that the Kunlun bastards had tried to touch Hyangbi and Dohwa and failed, and that was why they had attacked Hyangbi.
Of course, the situation suggested it was probably just underlings doing something they didn’t know, not a serious conspiracy, but even that, from my perspective, was something I could never let slide.
I had lived so far, spitting on my face and cursing, and endured with a smile, but the bastards who touched my younger sister were my absolute rule to thoroughly punish in any way.
In fact, even when I was groveling in the Murim Alliance before, I had buried without a trace the bastard who tried to touch Hyangbi arbitrarily using his power.
Now that I had no more to watch out for, I didn’t need to say more.
So I decided right then to catch the bastards who did this and punish them, and said to my younger sister,
“Let’s go.”
“N-no? Where…?”
“Where else? Of course to the Kunlun Sect headquarters! I have to personally stomp on the bastards who did this and offended my unnie!”
*
The saying that when the body feels comfortable, the mind also feels somewhat comfortable.
Feeling that this was not entirely wrong, Kali slowly got up from her seat.
The time she had spent here couldn’t be said to be long, but during four days she had done nothing but rest, and she could feel that her condition had improved a lot compared to before.
‘Sometimes… this isn’t bad either. After all, I was really running around in a panic…’
She had only thought about how to become stronger day by day, and only that.
So this was the first time she had sat and rolled around without even basic training since she had grown up.
But, separate from the time that was quite good, she started to feel the need to get up now.
Although the mental shock hadn’t completely faded, she was still a born martial artist.
The desire for strength was not extinguished, but if she stayed like this it would be itchy.
So she straightened her half-unbuttoned clothes and started to leave the room.
‘I can’t stay like this forever. Maybe I should take a short walk?’
Although there were still people in the Kunlun Sect who didn’t like her, there wouldn’t be anyone who would touch her as Ha Sowol’s guest.
So after casually putting on her shoes she was about to walk towards the headquarters exit…
“!! Huff!”
The next moment, a creepy aura suddenly enveloped her whole body.
Kali felt her legs lose strength and looked at the headquarters gate she was about to pass with a terrified expression.
“Who… who… are you?”
“This… this place is the… Kunlun… Sect…”
The gatekeepers trembling like aspen leaves in front of the door, squeezing out their voices with difficulty.
However, at this moment they didn’t even dare to lift a finger to stop the ‘something’ in front of them, and just like Kali they sat down in place, trembling.
One of them even started foaming at the mouth and convulsing.
So, without any hindrance from the gatekeepers.
The person…
The target of fear that broke Kali’s heart, the monster that shook her life to the core.
Looking at Kali sitting in the courtyard of the headquarters, he said with a voice filled with terrifying anger.
“We meet again?”