Chronicles of the Lazy Sovereign Novel - Chapter 34

Chapter 34

“This…”

Nok Mok-pung’s face blushed.

No matter how I looked at him, I could only think that Wei Yan-ho was deliberately provoking him.

“Turtle bastard!”

Wei Yan-ho looked at Nok Mok-pung with surprise.

“How did you know?”

Instead, Nok Mok-pung was baffled.

“What are you talking about?”

Wei Yan-ho asked with a serious face.

“How did you know my nickname was turtle?”

“This bastard is making fun of me until the end!”

– No… I’m serious.

Wei Yan-ho felt aggrieved.

Even when he was telling the truth, they didn’t believe him. What a ruthless world this was. It didn’t make sense to get more involved with such heartless people; it would only bring trouble.

“Anyway, then.”

Wei Yan-ho tried to jump from the wall.

“Wait, you bastard!”

At that time, Moon Eun-ji cried out urgently.

“Why?”

“You have to help before you leave!”

“I told you I don’t have that skill.”

Moon Eun-ji was exasperated.

“It’s because you find it annoying!”

Wei Yan-ho shivered.

That woman understood that very well.

“Well, a little of that too.”

Moon Eun-ji squeezed her teeth.

It wasn’t just “a little bit,” it was definitely that. She was furious and heated, but screaming wouldn’t solve anything.

Wasn’t Moon Eun-ji the one who was in need?

“If you help, I will give you a great reward!”

“Rewards?”

Wei Yan-ho’s ears were cheered up.

“What kind of reward?”

Moon Eun-ji looked urgently at Lee Wang-ya, the Second Prince.

Lee Wang-ya looked Moon Eun-ji in the eyes reluctantly. He then observed the pathetic figure of Wei Yan-ho, who only turned his head while he was on the wall.

‘Really…’

No matter how I looked at him, he was a person I couldn’t trust.

However, the movement that had blown up the man dressed in black previously definitely indicated that Wei Yan-ho had something.

Grab a burning nail… no, calling Wei Yan-ho a burning nail was too generous. With the mentality of clinging even to a burning nail, Lee Wang-ya opened his mouth.

“If you help me, I will give you a great reward.”

“What kind of reward?”

“I will give you a greater reward than you can imagine!”

Wei Yan-ho seemed to reflect and then shook his head.

“If I die doing that, I won’t need any reward. I’ll leave, so keep up with what you were doing.”

Lee Wang-ya lowered her head with a devastated expression.

Trying to negotiate with such a damn person was already quite humiliating, but on top of being rejected.

It was a night when tears could fall that I hadn’t shed in decades.

At the same time, Moon Eun-ji realized his mistake. Such methods work with ordinary people.

Wei Yan-ho was different.

He had to use suitable methods to the person who was Wei Yan-ho, based on what he had observed so far.

‘I was stupid!’

Realizing his mistake, Moon Eun-ji quickly revised his strategy.

“Wait!”

“What now?”

“Do you have somewhere to go?”

“…….”

“Money?”

Wei Yan-ho hesitated.

“Do you remember you were in the bones when you got here? If you leave like this, you’ll have to go back to living eating roots for a while.”

Wei Yan-ho nodded with hardened expression. In fact, getting from the cave to this place was not just a feat. As for survival, Wei Yan-ho was inferior to beggars wandering the streets.

How much suffering had he endured, sleeping in the open night after night, to get here?

While it was nice to see beautiful landscapes instead of caves, I was sick of not eating properly and getting soaked in the night dew.

Expert martial artists could travel with money, camping and hunting, but that was impossible for Wei Yan-ho. If I had to choose between moving his body to hunt and satiate or starve, Wei Yan-ho would choose the latter without hesitation.

How could a person walk around catching beasts?

This was Wei Yan-ho, who passed by the ripe fruit without reaching it because extending his arm was annoying.

Then Moon Eun-ji struck the decisive blow.

“If you solve this thing well, I won’t give you the can to work from tomorrow, and you won’t have to play Go either!”

“Wow…”

“Think about it. Will you go to suffering hardships or will you now endure a little discomfort to live comfortably for a long time?”

Wei Yan-ho looked at Moon Eun-ji with penetrating eyes.

Moon Eun-ji also looked directly at Wei Yan-ho with firm eyes.

His eyes met and there was an intense battle of nerves.

“Meals?”

“Higher quality!”

“Sleeping time?”

“Full guaranteed day!”

Wei Yan-ho’s body trembled.

“A day full of guaranteed action!”

For Wei Yan-ho, the guarantee of sleeping all day long was too great a temptation. It sounded so sweet that saliva almost accumulated in his mouth.

– You’re not gonna say that and then subtly bother me, are you?

“No!”

Wei Yan-ho looked at Moon Yu-hwan with flaming eyes.

“Is that true?”

Moon Yu-hwan observed the situation with a strange expression, then suddenly coughed when Wei Yan-ho asked him directly.

Should you get involved in this strange situation?

“Ahem, Coff, I guarantee it.”

Wei Yan-ho jumped from the wall.

Along with that, Wei Yan-ho’s face was filled with a seriousness that had not been there before.

Wei Yan-ho straightened his shoulders and proudly declared:

“As a gentleman, I cannot overlook such an unfair matter!”

Lee Wang-ya’s mouth opened weakly.

“This little bastard…”

Lee Wang-ya spoke rude words for the first time in decades.

Where the hell did such a person come from?

It wasn’t just Lee Wang-ya who was shocked.

Everyone in the courtyard looked at Wei Yan-ho with disbelief. Among them, the most unbelieving was undoubtedly Nok Mok-pung.

“Ha ha…”

Where did that trust come from, as if I could wipe them all out whenever I wanted?

“Heuk-il”. [TL/N: Heuk-il is a Korean term meaning “Black Horse” and usually refers to a powerful martial artist or murderer with a fearsome reputation.]

“Yes!”

The man dressed in black who was behind Nok Mok-pung responded immediately.

“How long will I have to endure such absurdity?”

“Excuse me, I’ll take care of it immediately.”

“Don’t kill him.”

Heuk-il looked at Nok Mok-pung with perplexed eyes. Given his personality, it seemed strange that he would forgive someone like that. But Heuk-il’s curiosity quickly dissipated. A cruel anger was reflected in Nok Mok-pung’s eyes.

“I will destroy it with my own hands.”

“Yes!”

Heuk-il rose from his position and slowly approached Wei Yan-ho.

“Little bastard turtle you’ve become bold.”

Wei Yan-ho corrected it.

“I told you it’s turtle, not turtle.”

Heh, heh, what an interesting boy, to see how long you still interest me.

Heuk-il raised both hands.

Then Wei Yan-ho raised his hand to stop Heuk-il.

“Wait.”

“…what?”

Wei Yan-ho looked at Moon Eun-ji.

“Hey!”

“Yes?”

“What happened to the sword that was trapped in my package?”

Moon Eun-ji responded with a stupefied expression.

I kept it in a corner of the room.

“Really?”

Wei Yan-ho snapped his lips.

Then he spoke casually to Heuk-il.

“Excuse me.”

“What?”

I need to use a sword, can you wait a minute?

“You’re a crazy bastard.”

Wei Yan-ho’s cheek swelled.

“Hey, you look old, but when a young man says he’s gonna get a sword, you get angry!”

“Shut your mouth!”

Wei Yan-ho kept complaining.

“Five years ago it wasn’t like that, but in the meantime, why has the world become so heartless?”

Wei Yan-ho looked around.

Something suitable to use as a weapon…

“Mmm……”

Wei Yan-ho walked slowly back and picked up a broom leaning against the wall.

“What are you doing?”

Wei Yan-ho was irritated.

What do you think I’m doing? I have to go get a sword, but you won’t let me, so I have to use something like this.

“……are you making fun of me?”

“Why are you angry? Let me go get the sword!”

Unable to bear it more, Heuk-il looked at Wei Yan-ho with an angry face and raised both hands.

“I will not kill you! But I will make you feel a pain that will make you think death is better.”

“Well.”

“Even if you cry and beg…”

“I understand, can we start now?” I woke up and got a little sleepy.”

Heuk-il felt that he understood what it meant to smoke out of his ears. This bastard was nodding with his sleepy eyes, but his mouth kept talking.

It was as if only his mouth moved independently.

Kaaaah, you little bastard turtle!

Heuk-il fell over Wei Yan-ho without warning.

“I told you it’s a turtle.”

Heuk-il’s right hand flew quickly toward Wei Yan-ho’s face.

At the same time, Heuk-il grabbed his head and stepped back.

‘What, what?’

Wei Yan-ho snapped his tongue at Heuk-il.

“It’s for being me that it all ended up like this. If you’d run into our con man, sir, you’d be dead today! You can’t rush so honestly. First, you need to play your opponent…”

Heuk-il struck Wei Yan-ho again.

Hit!

Then he grabbed his head again and stepped back.

Wei Yan-ho looked at Heuk-il with compassionate eyes.

“I’m explaining it to you nicely!”

But Heuk-il could no longer respond to Wei Yan-ho’s words.

A cold sweat began to run him in the back. He realized that the young man in front of him was not just a fool with just a living mouth.

‘A teacher!’

What if what had just hit his head had been a sword instead of that broom?

Heuk-il would probably have died with his head open.

Moreover, Heuk-il could not even see how Wei Yan-ho handled the broom. He was at an unimaginable speed.

“How exactly!”

Wei Yan-ho sighed.

That’s what I’m trying to explain to you. I’m telling you with affection, but you don’t listen to me when I talk to you and now you ask me.

The tension appeared on Heuk-il’s face.

Heuk-il put his hand in his chest and pulled out a dagger with a black glow.

It was a dagger he considered his secret weapon.

Although the blade was only seven inches long, it was covered with the poison of the Seven Step Soul Slayer that it had obtained with difficulty.

It was a terrible poison that killed you before you could take seven steps, even with a simple scratch.

A teacher!

Considering his young age, he was incredible, but the young man in front of him was definitely stronger than Heuk-il.

Heuk-il clearly recognized that fact.

What he considered his strength was his carelessness. There was no need to be proud just because a child was stronger than him. In actual combat, the strong do not always win.

The fight was a world where the strongest does not win, but the winner becomes strong.

The young man was certainly strong, but considering his age, he would definitely not have much experience in real combat.

Just a scratch and I’d win.

Oh, yeah, Poison?

Anyway, Wei Yan-ho casually moved his mouth.

“Using venom in an overlap?”

“You can blame me all you want after you die.”

Wei Yan-ho smiled.

“But that won’t work for me.”

“Are you saying you’re immune to all poisons?”

Wei Yan-ho shook his head.

“It’s not like I’ve eaten boiled ginseng root, so there’s no way the poison won’t work on me.”

“Heh, heh, you know it well.”

“May I ask what that poison is?”

“I’ll tell you, it’s the Seven Step Soulhunter Snake.”

The faces of those who heard the seven-step Serpent words that haunt souls hardened.

“Vicious…”

Only by the reactions of the surroundings, one could guess how extremely poisonous the Seven Step Soul Slayer was.

But Wei Yan-ho was calm.