“I don’t know what happened between the two of you, but come to your senses. Think about it carefully, gwijaes can be found everywhere. You can find another successor. But not another wild ginseng child. This is not the time!”
Lee Youngshin sharply rebuked him.
Jaegyeom, who was still standing on the spot, took something out of his school uniform pants. It was an old silver dagger used to make talismans the other day. At that, Lee Youngshin looked at Jaegyeom in shock, ‘Does he have a weapon?’
Peeling off the rusty scabbard revealed a ghastly blade. Jaegyeom stretched out one of his arms and, without hesitation, inserted the blade into his wrist sleeve. Mesani‘s eyes widened and he screamed.
“M- My lord, no! D- Don’t!”
However, Jaegyeom did not stop his hand. In an instant, the school uniform fabric wrapped around his arm was cut by the sharp blade. When his bare arms were exposed from his wrists to his shoulders, Jaegyeom brought the silver dagger to the wrist where he had first placed the blade. He thrust the blade in an inch and began slicing the skin on the inner arm in a straight line, all the way to his shoulder.
The exorcists drew in a breath at the horrifying sight.
“What is this. C- Crazy…”
They thought he would throw that knife or cut the rope tied around his ankle. But contrary to expectations, the boy was hurting himself. Yoon Taehee, who was standing at a distance and wondering what he was doing, made a face faintly. Realizing what Jaegyeom was about to do, Mesani burst into tears.
“Please don’t do it, uhhnng, my lord, you can’t…”
The boy’s unblemished arm now had a cut from his wrist to shoulder, deep enough to show his flesh. A dangerously large amount of blood was shed, far more than when he had been previously hit directly by the battery. Just looking at it gave one terrible pain. Jaegyeom raised his other hand without hesitation. He gritted his teeth and started working through the wound on his arm. As though looking for something.
Everyone looked at the scene with their mouths agape in a daze.
“Bone, did he take out the bone, just now?”
Manager Park stuttered with a white face. What Jaegyeom took out from his outstretched arm was a stick that was just as long as the stab wound. The stick taken out of the blood was, of course, soaked in blood. Jaegyeom took the long stick and swung it lightly. It was much thinner to be called a bone, and seemed strangely elastic.
“It wouldn’t be fair if I was the only one barehanded.”
He originally intended to kill them by hitting them one by one with his bare hands. However, since he was nailed to this spot like this, it was impossible to approach the exorcists. Besides, they used strange tools and shallow tricks he didn’t recognise. It felt like his energy was being blocked from before. Every time he sent out spiritual energy, it seemed like something was sucking it back. Probably because of the ropes tied around his feet.
The first thing he took out for the first time in a while made his heart shake. Jaegyeom, who had been staring at the stick, finally turned his gaze to the exorcists. He grabbed the center of the long stick and stretched his arms out into the air. The flashing eyes were eerie as though they were not sane.
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As the boy pulled the empty bow as if pulling the air, the fresh blood that flowed from his arm began to take shape in an instant. In the blink of an eye, an arrow stained with blood appeared.
“… A bow?”
The sight of the boy holding the bow while covered in his blood was eerie. As the boy pulled the string with all his might, blood poured from his injured arm, but he didn’t care. The terrifying eyes aiming at the exorcist were as fierce and sharp as the arrowhead.
It was a clean counterattack without any frills.
The exorcists, who had been frozen, took a backward step before they could comprehend the situation. While the startled exorcists were unable to run away or hide, the boy let go of the bowstring.
“Ugh!”
As soon as it shot out, one of the exorcists was hit by the arrow in the shoulder and fell down. They screamed in agony and struggled for a moment, then fell silent. The pain overwhelmed them and they passed out.
The boy immediately drew his bow again. Lee Youngshin, who had been in a state of confusion, hurriedly waved his hand. He was thinking of blowing the arrow away with the wind, however, the arrow cut through the set trajectory without wavering. Lee Youngshin belatedly turned to avoid it.
“Ugh!”
The arrow barely grazed his arm. If he had been a little slower, he would have been struck in his arm. Lee Youngshin’s face was distorted as he grabbed his wounded arm and hid behind a tree.
Arrows flew one after another without giving anyone a chance to breathe. Even though it was getting darker in the middle of the mountain by the minute, the young shooter clearly penetrated the darkness. He never lost sight of his prey.
“Manager Park!”
This time it was Manager Park’s thigh. Manager Park collapsed on the spot. It wasn’t a very fatal wound to the leg but he also frothed at his mouth and his limbs flailed, just like the previous exorcist, and then blacked out.
Jaegyeom swept his emotionless gaze over the body. With this, there were three rats left. Following Lee Youngshin, one of the exorcists quickly hid behind a tree. However, Yoon Taehee, for some reason, was still within range.
The blood-stained arrow aimed precisely at the mask Yoon Taehee was wearing. A bloody sound cut through the air. Yoon Taehee hesitantly waved his hand. A ghostly gust of wind swept through the mountains.
This time, the arrow veered off the track and was lodged in a tree. As the arrow bounced away smoothly, Lee Youngshin, who was hiding behind a tree, widened his eyes like a rabbit. It didn’t work when he did it earlier!
Lee Youngshin, feeling unfair, yelled.
“Hey! Why did you stay still until now when you could stop it!”
Yoon Taehee, who had been silent, raised his hand and replied briefly.
“I didn’t know, sorry.”
It was an insincere apology that didn’t feel apologetic at all. Although wanting to fuss further, Lee Youngshin gritted his teeth. It was because the skin that had been grazed by the arrow stung as if it was being burned.
After the half-hearted appeasement, Yoon Taehee turned his head and stared at the arrow stuck in the tree. The bow the boy pulled out after cutting his arm looked unusual at first glance. Moreover, what was that arrow made of blood, and why were they made so helpless…
Yoon Taehee’s eyes slowly widened as she carefully observed the arrow.
“A scar…”
The tree was turning black around the part where the arrow was stuck. ‘Scar’ was a word often used among exorcists, and since it happened often, there was no particular reason to be surprised.
However, Yoon Taehee looked very flustered. While he was staring intently at the boy who was aiming the bow with a look of disbelief, a human figure popped out in front of his eyes. It was an exorcist of the Ceremonial Instruments Department who had been hiding behind a tree to avoid the arrows.
When Yoon Taehee blocked the boy’s arrow, it seemed that he believed in it and jumped out with the intention of removing the arrows from the other exorcists and giving them first aid. Just when he was about to reach for the arrow shaft,
“Wait. If you touch it… !”
Yoon Taehee turned his head and opened his mouth. But it was a step too late. As soon as he grabbed the arrow shaft, the exorcist’s face distorted. He immediately grabbed his own wrist and began to struggle.
“Aargh!”
The palms that had touched the shaft began to turn black as if they had been scorched by fire. His eyes rolled back and he started to scream, but just blacked out. Lee Youngshin, who saw the scene hiding behind a tree, was as stunned as Yoon Taehee.
“How does a scar, there’s no way…”
Lee Youngshin stammered with a pale face.
To have a scar meant that there was a ‘dongti’.
Dongti, which was often used as an expression of suffering from something ominous, was a realm of divine punishment that occurs when a person recklessly touches a sacred natural object or angers a divine spirit. It was possible to wash away and purify it with human power, but no matter how strong a spiritual energy is, it is impossible to bring about ‘a scar’ with it.
“Ha, it’s a big problem. Fuck…”
Lee Youngshin, who was standing leaning against a tree, burst into a curse and slid down to the ground. His face was now covered in cold sweat. He thought it was strange that the pain in his arm that had been grazed by an arrow was getting worse. Now he understood. The burning pain spread to the point where it was difficult to control the body.
He should not have tied the boy’s feet. That bow was an object beyond something humane. A weapon like that was a foul. The boy was the one who was tied, but funny enough, it was him who was unable to move. Even though his subordinates were falling, he couldn’t even go to rescue them.
At first, he thought he would just bound his feet together. But now he couldn’t dare to deal with that mysterious boy. Rather, he was even afraid. Lee Youngshin groaned and closed his eyes tightly. Still, he couldn’t give up on the ginseng spirit child like this.
“Is he human? Is that a human!”
Physical strength was no match for the boy. While Yoon Taehee stole attention from the front like that, Lee Youngshin had to find the answer. In his head, he pictured the items in the hip sack. Running through the functions and uses of each, he could see a way out.
In the end, the only thing he could trust was always the instruments.
“Where did you get that bow?”
Meanwhile, Yoon Taehee asked in a low voice from beyond the mask. However, Jaegyeom did not answer the question and just pulled the bow again with a macabre face. Just when another arrow was about to emerge from the gushing blood,
“My lord, please stop… It’s dangerous to bleed more than that. You’ve already lost too much blood. Yes? Sniff, you know, right… !”
Jaegyeom’s hand paused at Mesani’s plea.
Welp, if I’m gonna hang myself anyway might as well hang on the cliff. 🫠
Thank you for the chappie <33
In all this sh*t I’m crying for Mesani.
Why is Jaegyeom so pitiful but also badass at the same time?
Thank you for the update 💜
Thank you 😁
Jaegyeom is such a badass. I must say, this is going to be a good k-drama if anyone decides to make it!
Oh yes! Why I didn’t through about it 😁
I’ve been thinking that since the first chapters! It would look really cool
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I am flabbergasted. Jaegyeom is so cool but I’m like Mesani, I don’t want to see him hurt💔