Chapter 603

Chapter 603 - Side Story 37

Jin Ja-gang shook his head.

"No. You told me you wanted to live on your own and that you were ready to be independent. That's why I spared your life. Did you forget?"

Right Commander shouted.

"Don't talk nonsense! How can I live comfortably alone while leaving my enemy alive!"

"If that's your choice, I'll respect it."

"Respect? Who are you to dare speak of respect to me?"

Jin Ja-gang turned his gaze to Tang Yu-jeong and asked.

"How long are you going to stay here?"

"I'm going to leave soon."

The conversation exchanged between father and daughter lit a fire in Right Commander's eyes.

"These bastards are all ignoring me?"

Right Commander used all his power to deploy his movement technique. Tang Gyeong, who was close to Jin Ja-gang, was impossible. Tang Yu-jeong, who had blown him away in one strike, was awkward to deal with. What remained was one person, Jin Heon who had been frozen and motionless since Jin Ja-gang appeared.

Right Commander left an afterimage and went behind Jin Heon. Jin Heon came to his senses belatedly, but Right Commander instantly kicked Jin Heon's leg joint to make him kneel and grabbed and twisted his wrist to subdue him.

"Keuk!"

Right Commander wedged Jin Heon's arm and upper body between his legs and forced his mouth open. Then he held up a small medicine bottle. Everyone's attention focused on Right Commander, on the medicine bottle in Right Commander's hand.

Right Commander said with a cruel smile.

"Do you know what this is? It's called Heavenly God Dew. It reacts to Asura Blood. The blood boils dry and you die. Your son will now die mummified before your eyes."

Right Commander laughed as if his mouth would tear. A glimmer of death also briefly passed across Jin Heon's face. Jin Heon's and Tang Yu-jeong's eyes met. In Jin Heon's gaze, rather than resentment, complex emotions like regret and lingering attachment were contained. Soon Right Commander shoved the medicine bottle of Heavenly God Dew into Jin Heon's mouth.

Seo Gyun looked not at Right Commander but at Jin Ja-gang while tightly gripping his sword handle. If something were to happen, his sword would be aimed not at Right Commander but at Jin Ja-gang.

But that didn't happen.

Smack!

It was the sound of Right Commander hitting Jin Heon's face with his bare hand.

The medicine bottle wasn't in his hand, so he just hit his face.

Right Commander turned his gaze to look beside him.

Tang Yu-jeong had the medicine bottle containing Heavenly God Dew. He didn't know at all when or how she moved to snatch the medicine bottle from his hand.

"Wh, what!"

"I wondered what you were scheming until the end, turns out lackey uncle was counting on this?"

Tang Yu-jeong threw the medicine bottle containing Heavenly God Dew to Jin Ja-gang.

Jin Ja-gang caught the medicine bottle.

"Reacts to Asura Blood..."

Right Commander quickly came to his senses. He lost his ace move but it wasn't over yet. He grabbed Jin Heon's head and threatened as if he would smash his skull at any moment.

"Drink it!"

Jin Ja-gang raised his eyes to look at Right Commander.

"Drink it! Unless you want to see your son die!"

Jin Heon clenched his teeth. He spat out words through his teeth.

"Because of me... you don't need to. I don't even want that from you!"

Jin Ja-gang looked at Jin Heon for a moment, then asked Right Commander.

"If I drink Heavenly God Dew, will you let Heon go?"

"Yes!"

"Seeing how confident you are, the effect must be certain."

At Jin Ja-gang's words, Jin Heon shouted.

"You don't need to!"

"It's okay."

Jin Heon insisted fiercely.

"It's not okay!"

Right Commander grabbed Jin Heon's nose and upper jaw and twisted his lower jaw to prevent him from speaking. It was a posture as if he would tear his mouth.

"Of course it's not okay. Even the world's Poison Dragon dies if he drinks Heavenly God Dew. There's absolutely no escape. So drink it properly! Don't try anything!"

Jin Heon finally voiced out.

"Don't be conceited! If you die, if you die then Mom... Mom!"

Jin Ja-gang looked at Jin Heon.

That was Jin Heon's true feelings.

It was the moment the cause of his hatred toward Jin Ja-gang was revealed.

Jin Ja-gang smiled.

"Don't worry."

"No!"

Jin Ja-gang put the entire medicine bottle in his mouth without removing the cap.

Then he stared at Right Commander and bit down on the medicine bottle.

Crack!

Everyone watching Jin Ja-gang's action was shocked. There was no need to question whether he pretended to eat it or not.

Crunch crunch!

Jin Ja-gang chewed the medicine bottle. Each time he chewed, blood gushed from his mouth and stained his lips.

Seo Gyun exhaled with a "hoo" feeling goosebumps. His body trembled.

This is Poison Dragon.

This is why people kept saying Poison Dragon, Poison Dragon.

How wicked was Mu-gak who taught martial arts to die together with such a person!

No matter how much he thought about it, he was glad he listened to Yuk Ha-seon.

Rather than watching Jin Ja-gang use his power to harm innocent people and then fighting Jin Ja-gang, wouldn't it be better if he prevented such things from happening in the first place, so they wouldn't have to fight each other, she had said.

Jin Ja-gang swallowed the medicine bottle after chewing it all up, then raised his hand.

It meant to let Jin Heon go.

Right Commander's legs wobbled. He broke out in cold sweat. Poison Dragon's characteristic aura was still the same even now after time had passed. The terror he felt on the day King the Great One died, that fear came back to life and crept up.

"W, wait. The poison hasn't spread yet..."

"Keep your promise."

"The poison hasn't spread yet... no, this can't be..."

Right Commander babbled incoherently.

Jin Ja-gang was perfectly fine. He didn't just eat it, he chewed it with the bottle, so there were definitely wounds inside his mouth and it certainly mixed with that blood too. But Heavenly God Dew had no effect at all.

Right Commander clenched his teeth. Even if Heavenly God Dew didn't work, he couldn't let Poison Dragon's child live like this!

Right Commander put strength into his hands to try to twist Jin Heon's head sideways and break it. Jin Heon clenched his teeth and resisted with all his strength.

"Nnnngh!"

Jin Ja-gang called Tang Yu-jeong.

"Yu-jeong."

"It's no use! This body has indestructible...!"

In that instant, Right Commander was slammed to the ground by some irresistible force.

Bang!

He didn't know what happened, but as soon as he came to his senses, he reflexively got up. His face was covered in dirt. Jin Heon was thrown far away.

Tang Yu-jeong raised her hand upward right in front of him.

"Won't keep promise?"

Right Commander's eyes rolled back.

"You die instead!"

Right Commander drew out hand strength sharply with his left hand fingers pointed together, and gathered power in his palm center with his right hand. He would destroy the ground with his palm to reduce Tang Yu-jeong's range of action while extending the hand strength to pierce through her throat.

Crash!

The boundary of the ground appeared divided vertically. As his mind gradually returned, he realized it was horizontal, not vertical. He tried to move his limbs but they wouldn't move. His arm was broken and his shoulder dislocated.

Tang Yu-jeong's interlocked fists had crushed both the hand strength and palm that Right Commander extended. Brutally.

It didn't make sense.

That his body, close to being indestructible, received this much shock!

Tang Yu-jeong struck Right Commander again with her interlocked hands and drove him into the ground.

Bang crash bang!

"Keep promise. I said keep promise. Promise!"

With each hit, Right Commander's body jerked and dug deeper into the ground.

Jin Heon called Tang Yu-jeong.

"Stop. He'll die."

"Whew. He's indestructible, so he's fine."

Jin Heon looked at Tang Yu-jeong in disbelief. She had an expression that said she finally got to use some strength after a long time.

Jin Ja-gang, who was perfectly fine even after eating the poison that the descendant of the Hungry Ghost King so confidently presented, the poison that reacts to Asura Blood which is Jin Ja-gang's main poison, and Tang Yu-jeong's tremendous internal power that struck and beat to a pulp a body close to being indestructible.

Something clicked.

"Ahhh..."

And it was the same for the Twin Merciless Axe who had seen and heard everything that happened here.

Twin Merciless Axe pointed at Tang Yu-jeong with his finger and shouted in surprise.

"That kid sucked up all her father's poison too!"

Tang Yu-jeong got angry at Twin Merciless Axe.

"Ah geez!"

Tang Gyeong lay down spread-eagled.

Tang Gyeong knew too. The reason his older sister was so strong.

"So how could I win?"

Seo Gyun also looked back and forth between Jin Ja-gang and Tang Yu-jeong with bewildered eyes.

"What happened?"

Jin Ja-gang answered.

"It's exactly what you saw."

"I don't understand?"

"I'll explain shortly."

Jin Ja-gang saw Jin Heon struggling to stand up in the midst of it all. Jin Heon was turning away from Jin Ja-gang and trying to go down the mountain.

"Heon."

Jin Ja-gang called.

"I came because I have something to tell you."

Jin Heon stopped and said, clenching his molars tightly.

"I... have nothing to say to you."

Jin Heon didn't stop walking. He just tried to ignore Jin Ja-gang and leave. But he had to stop at Jin Ja-gang's next words.

Jin Ja-gang said.

"I want to take you and Sister Son to the Tang Family. No, I must go. Definitely."

In that instant, Jin Heon stopped as if struck by lightning.

He trembled in place.

"But, then the Tang Family..."

"You don't need to worry that they won't accept us."

Jin Ja-gang looked back at Tang Gyeong and Tang Yu-jeong.

"You probably already know, but he's Dad's son."

Tang Yu-jeong answered.

"I know."

"Yes. I'd like to ask for your support too."

Tang Gyeong nodded.

"Of course!"

Tang Yu-jeong was the same.

"Me too, I agree. If it's Heon."

But Tang Gyeong, as if something occurred to him, said with an "oops" expression.

"Ah, then does that mean the allowance Dad secretly gives will be reduced by a third?"

Jin Ja-gang rubbed his forehead with his fingertips.

"That's not regular allowance. Anyway, I'll try to earn more diligently."

Jin Heon said in a voice mixed with tears, as if lamenting.

"Why, why only now..."

Only now, only now did Jin Ja-gang acknowledge him. He had waited so long.

Jin Heon had to protect his sick mother. Rather than Poison Dragon looking for him, he hoped his mother Son Bi would be happy.

To the point of naming her child's childhood name Chu Mong, Son Bi's heart toward Jin Ja-gang was so passionate... Jin Ja-gang who didn't acknowledge that was hateful. That's why he couldn't live as Jin Ja-gang's son. His mother Son Bi's happiness had to come first.

But now Jin Ja-gang decided to accept Son Bi.

His resentment toward Jin Ja-gang melted away like snow. Perhaps it was also thanks to Tang Yu-jeong and Tang Gyeong who gradually broke down Jin Heon's barriers.

Jin Heon stood in place and dropped his head.

Jin Ja-gang approached Jin Heon. Then he hesitated for a moment to pat his shoulder, but soon carefully placed his hand on his shoulder.

Jin Heon's tears dripped to the ground.

Tang Gyeong sniffled. Tang Yu-jeong's eyes also glistened with tears.

Seo Gyun coughed awkwardly for a moment and looked far away for no reason.

Twin Merciless Axe, perhaps feeling awkward, got up and poked at Right Commander who was crumpled into the ground.

"Hey, lucky you did a good deed before dying. You protected one family. No, is it two families or something?"

Right Commander's eyes flickered sideways to glare at Twin Merciless Axe.

"What! You're not dead yet?"

Twin Merciless Axe pulled out an axe, having grabbed it from somewhere. As if telling him to die if he wasn't dead, he hacked at Right Commander. But since his indestructibility wasn't completely broken, Right Commander only suffered pain and the axe didn't actually pierce him. He just glared with vicious eyes as if to remember Twin Merciless Axe.

"Really indestructible?"

Because Tang Yu-jeong beat him up so easily, they thought it wasn't indestructibility. It couldn't help but be strange that indestructibility was crumpled like this.