Chronicles of the Lazy Sovereign Novel - Chapter 18

Chapter 18

And so, Wei Yan-ho took control of the Kaifeng subdivision in an instant.

“I’m thirsty…”

“Bring me water!”

“…The bowl is dirty.”

“Bring him in a new bowl, you foolish beggar!”

“Is it warm?”

Get on the mountain and bring cold, clean water! How many times do I have to tell you to understand!

Wei Yan-ho felt like in heaven. Everything was resolved as soon as he opened his mouth. Even when he was at home, he had never enjoyed such luxury by standing still.

‘Do I have natural characteristics to be a beggar?’

Once he left everything and agreed to be a beggar, a new world opened up.

On the contrary, the Beggar Sect beggars wandered through hell.

Hey, hasn’t the information we requested from the station arrived yet?

“Well, they said it would take seven days and seven nights…”

Who said that information would take seven days and seven nights?

Yeah, got it!

Wei Yan-ho stretched.

– Mm-hmm. Is it okay if I go out for a while?

What reason would you have to move in?

A cold sweat dripped through Jang-il’s forehead.

From his perspective, Wei Yan-ho was like a walking bomb. Even without begging, the mere fact of being seen was enough to threaten his survival: he was a terrifying god of disaster.

“I just want to enjoy the warm sun.”

What’s wrong with that?

The roof? Mr. Rama’s Chief! Without that roof, we’ll freeze in the rain.

“Do you want me to tear your stomach apart?”

“I’ll take it down.”

Wei Yan-ho frowned.

“But then it will be cold at night.”

You heard him, put him back at night!

“…yes.”

During the three days he waited for information, Jang-il’s blood dried up.

The food didn’t go down his throat and the cold sweat ran through his throat naturally. Meanwhile, Wei Yan-ho spent time hanging around in bed.

No matter how much the people around him supported him, anyone would get bored while lying down for three days, but Wei Yan-ho had no intention of getting up at all.

Each meal offered the best cuisine, and even a single sip of water was of first quality, clear, cold and clean, freshly extracted from the streams of the mountain valley.

When it was hot, fans came from everywhere, and when it was cold, they gave us the best duvet of Mandarin duck feathers. Although it was a bit dirty, by Wei Yan-ho standards, this place was a real paradise.

During those three days, Jang-il and the beggars were reduced to skin and bones.

“Lord Chief of Rama, at this rate we will die first.”

“Uf, is the information still far away?”

They say they’ll be sending it soon, but when exactly will that “soon” be…?

“Should I really go and meet the Mendigo King?”

“Instead, how about we come up with another plan?”

“Another plan?”

“Well, anyway, there’s nowhere to escape, as silently as mice and birds…

Are you the leader of a demonic sect?

“But the situation is…”

“Wow.”

Actually, Jang-il had not considered such thoughts.

However, the problem was that if there was a voice that the Beggar Sect beggars had murdered a poor beggar merchant, the seed of the beggars in Kaifeng could dry up completely.

Let’s wait a minute, and spread the word discreetly that the beggars of the Mendigo sect have welcomed and fed that poor beggar.

“Will we get into the manipulation of public opinion?”

“… Discreetly.”

“Understood.”

Another day passed like this, and the communication came from headquarters. Jang-il grabbed the document that had arrived and ran to Wei Yan-ho like lightning.

The information you were looking for is here!

Oh, yeah, you’re early?

Hurry up, hurry up and read it.

‘Please go away, you bastard who’ll die drowning in shitty water!’

The last words couldn’t get out of his mouth.

“Mmm…”

Wei Yan-ho, who was browsing the document, frowned.

“Is this all there is?”

“Huh?”

“Are you going to sell this as information?”

Jang-il took the document from Wei Yan-ho.

Then he read it frantically.

“Wow.”

What had come as information was half written and half marked as unknown.

It was a half-done document, with little information scattered everywhere.

“E-this is the best they could do…”

“Are you sure?”

What beggars know is just rumors, and we tend to focus on information about martial arts…

The Mendigo sect isn’t a big deal either? They don’t know how to beg or collect information.

“Wow.”

Jang-il’s pride as a member of the Beggar Sect was shattered into pieces.

Still, you have to complete what needs to be completed. What is this? What am I supposed to do with this? Ugh, well, you can’t help it. I’ll wait a little longer, so when you have the right information, tell me again.

“…more?”

“Of course?”

“No, we… if you want more information, the price goes up a lot…

Wei Yan-ho rose from his seat.

“Then there is no choice.”

“You’re leaving?”

“I’ll be back at night.”

Where are you going?

You said you needed money, didn’t you?

Jang-il ran desperately and pulled Wei Yan-ho back to sit down.

Calm down, there has to be a way, a way!

“Money is the way.”

To be honest, this is not information that the Mendigo Section can collect. As much money as you invest, you cannot get the systematic information you are looking for!

“Mmm?”

This goes beyond our specialty… hey, yeah, that would work!

“What?”

Follow me, I’ll give you information!

Wei Yan-ho and Jang-il went to the bustling Kaifeng district.

“Will you give me information here?”

“No, to be precise, it’s in here.”

Realizing Jang-il’s incompetence, Wei Yan-ho became abrupt when he spoke. His way of speaking changed from the beginning, dealing with capable and incapable people.

“Huh?”

Jang-il entered an alley on the corner of the bustling district.

Why do you keep going into dark places, murder and extermination?

This is fate!

Jang-il protested as if he had been hurt.

Murder and extermination!

Although the Mendigo sect was a prestigious Orthodox sect, there was no way that he, the leader of a branch, would do such a thing.

Then he walked through alley after alley and knocked on a side door located in the deepest place.

After waiting a bit, an irritated voice flowed from within.

“Who is it?”

“It’s Jang-il.”

“Jang-il?”

“The beggar Jang-il.”

“…go ahead.”

When the door was opened, Jang-il put Wei Yan-ho in. Unlike the derailed exterior, the interior was quite spacious.

All over the space filled with acre smoke, gambling was taking place.

“A gambling house?”

“Follow me.”

Jang-il went in without hesitation and stopped in front of a door in the corner. Then, the men blocking the door stood in their way.

“What is it?”

“Jang-il, a member of the Mendigo sect, has come to meet with the leader of the branch.”

“Jang-il?”

The men looked at Jang-il from top to bottom and then nodded.

“Wait.”

A man came through the door and, after a while, the door opened.

Jang-il entered and Wei Yan-ho followed him.

When they entered through the door, the outside appeared again.

“A house?”

They had entered a building, but in front of them was a fairly large house.

However, the house was blocked by walls everywhere, and this door was the only way out.

Jang-il opened the door and entered.

“Is the leader of the branch here?”

Then a woman from the inside greeted Jang-il.

“It’s unusual for Fox-Dog to come looking for this place.”

She was a woman in a very distinctive outfit, but Wei Yan-ho’s interest wasn’t there.

“Zorro-Dog?”

Jang-il smiled bitterly.

“It’s my epithet.”

Your epithet is Fox-Dog, because you’re like a fox and like a dog?

“Because I’m smart and loyal!”

“The same difference. Anyway, Fox-Dog… Fox-Dog? Fox-Dog? Your epithet is Fox-Dog?

“Puaj…”

Jang-il held his head in his hands.

Fox Dog, your epithet is Fox Dog, what kind of Fox Dog epithet is that?

A light dew formed in Jang-il’s eyes.

How did he come to have an epithet so similar to that of Fox-Dog?

Jang-il desperately ignored Wei Yan-ho, who held his stomach and laughed, and spoke to the woman before him.

“I need information.”

This is really unusual. Does the head of Kaifeng’s branch come to the Hao Gate to ask for information?

“…the situation got like this.”

“Is Beggar Sect making an official request?”

“That’s not all.”

Before Jang-il’s firm words, the woman shook her hand with disdain.

– Then there’s no reason to answer.

It’s not what I want!

“A customer?”

“This person.”

Jang-il pointed to Wei Yan-ho.

The woman honestly expressed her impression of Wei Yan-ho.

“…A beggar.”

– I keep telling you it’s not like that. Really!

Wei Yan-ho was offended, but the woman seemed even more bewildered.

You’re kidding, it’s not even a petition from the Mendigo Section, and the client is a beggar?

Someone being a beggar doesn’t mean everyone is from the Beggar Sect! I swear this person is not a member of the Beggar Sect!

For something Fox-Dog says, the trick is too superficial, there’s nothing here, so please go.

I keep telling you, I really don’t.

Jang-il wanted to go crazy and jump everywhere.

I had to sort this out somehow to send away this damn incarnation of disaster, but the leader of Hao Gate’s Kaifeng branch would not believe his words at all.

“Say something.”

“I’m not from the Beggar Sect.”

“Don’t joke with us”

“Am I serious?”

“…”

The woman’s irritation reached its peak.

Kaifeng is where the seat of the Beggar Sect is located.

The existence that Hao Gate, who lives with information, finds more problematic is precisely the Section of the Mendigo, and thanks to this, the branch office of Hao Gate de Kaifeng was in a sense one of the most dangerous and important places.

As they recognize the existence of the other, they are not openly pursued, but implicit controls are always produced.

They live together but at the same time are the most dangerous enemies: that is the relationship between the Mendigo sect and the Hao gate.

And now the head of the branch of that Beggar Sect, and not any branch chief but the head of the branch of Kaifeng, had come to the Hao Gate asking for information, doing those tricks.

And what a transparent trick to present someone who was clearly a beggar to anyone and say he’s not a member of the Beggar Sect, so we should give him information.

This was a provocation and a mockery.

If they let this happen, Hao Gate’s reputation would fall on the ground.

If you keep making fun of us like this, we will not tolerate it. Please remember that we also have our pride.

– I’m not making fun of you. What would make you believe me?

“…Hmm, so the head of the branch and that person are complete strangers?”

“That’s right!”

“So it wouldn’t matter if that person died?”

Jang-il sighed. “He understood what the woman in front of him meant. It was also the most accurate way to prove that they had no relationship.

“It’s true, but it’s someone I brought.”

“So what are you trying to do?”

“Well…”

Jang-il was equally frustrated.

To send Wei Yan-ho away, he needed Hao Gate’s information.

But the Hao Gate was not a place where information was sold just because Wei Yan-ho was alone. The information handled by the Hao Gate contained so many secret elements that selling it to anyone could easily cause serious problems.

In the end, to get so far, they needed Jang-il with his confirmed identity, but conversely, as Jang-il had come, they would not sell information.

It was a situation in which neither this nor that could be done.

‘How did I get into something like that?’

Jang-il died trying to find the best solution.

At that time, Wei Yan-ho stepped forward.

“Excuse me, ma’am.”