Chronicles of the Lazy Sovereign Novel - Chapter 70

Chapter 70

“Even so, you’re supposed to be an inspector of the Censorship!

“Inspector?”

Jwageol bowed his head.

Jin So-ah shouted with great vigor.

That gentleman over there is an inspector! He saw with his own eyes your bad deeds, so he won’t stand by!

Jwageol’s face got serious.

If that inspector really referred to the Imperial Censorship, it was not a common matter. If he was a real inspector, he had the power to erase from the world something like the Black Branch Gaming House.

But!

‘An inspector?’

That guy?

Jwageol looked at Wei Yan-ho with a dubious expression.

Even if he admitted a hundred times that man could be an expert in martial arts (since he had seen it with his own eyes, he had no choice but to believe it), somehow he could accept it.

But an inspector?

Being an inspector wasn’t something anyone could do.

The Censorship was a place that could only be accessed by the most prominent among those who had passed the incredibly difficult imperial examinations.

But that guy with a face completely devoid of intelligence was an inspector?

Jwageol looked at Jin So-ah with half suspicion and half doubt.

Realizing what Jwageol’s gaze meant, Jin So-ah vigorously denied his head.

“N-I’m not lying!”

“Even so, this is a bit…”

“You can ask him directly!”

“Mmmmm…”

Jwageol still looked at Wei Yan-ho with a hosque expression.

“Is it true?”

“What?”

“Are you an inspector?”

“Me?”

Wei Yan-ho laughed with a baffled expression.

“No, I’m not.”

“…”

When Jwageol turned with a ‘I told you so’ look, Jin So-ah stuttered and screamed.

I heard him with my own ears, he said he was an inspector!

When Jwageol’s gaze returned to Wei Yan-ho, Wei Yan-ho responded calmly again.

“No, I’m not.”

“He says it’s not…”

My God, this is driving me crazy! Why are you lying? I definitely heard it!

Wei Yan-ho yawned lazily and continued.

“Come on, does it make sense for someone my age to be an inspector?”

“You’re right, aren’t you?”

The child must have been dreaming, please understand with a generous heart.

“Haha, you’re really wise.”

Watching Wei Yan-ho, who instantly started getting along with Jwageol, Jin So-ah hit his chest.

How could such a person come home and create this disaster?

“Hmmm.”

Jin So-ah wanted to scream at the same time, but he wasn’t dumb enough not to know that his irritation wouldn’t help solve the situation in the slightest.

– So you won’t interfere with the Black Branch Gambling House business?

Jwageol’s words became sharp again.

“Wait a minute.”

“Mmm?”

I’m not very smart, so when you push me like this, I can’t calculate well. I need to figure out which side you’re doing the right thing.

Saying this, Wei Yan-ho put his head completely under the blanket.

“…You think in a unique way.”

Jwageol had a lot to say, but he had doubts about grabbing Wei Yan-ho and continuing for a long time.

– Let’s wait a bit.

If only I’d waited a little longer…

♪ Snoring ♪

Jwageol’s pupils trembled.

Jwageol and Jin So-ah’s eyes met.

Jin So-ah uttered a moaning as if he was in pain, then sneaked up to Wei Yan-ho and shook him, with blanket and everything.

– Young hero, you can’t sleep. Young hero?

“Mmm…”

Wei Yan-ho’s head came out of under the blanket much more slowly than when he entered.

Jwageol wanted to cry.

But what could I do? If they hurt you, you should become a martial arts expert.

If he hadn’t tried to kidnap that eccentric who said he’d take him for his impressive complexion when he was a child and cursed him, he wouldn’t be suffering this humiliation now.

“But how can you sleep in the middle of all this?”

This time even Wei Yan-ho seemed embarrassed and showed an uncomfortable smile.

“I couldn’t sleep well last night…”

“…”

Jin So-ah looked up at the sky with empty eyes.

If someone whose only activity throughout the day was sleeping said he can’t sleep, then everyone else would probably already be going to the afterlife for lack of sleep.

“Anyway.”

Wei Yan-ho yawned lazily again and opened his mouth.

“I thought about it…”

“Yes.”

“It looks like I can’t give you that young girl.”

At the words of Wei Yan-ho, Jwageol’s face blushed.

“Are you saying you’re gonna interfere with the Black Branch Gaming House business now?”

Black Branch Gambling House, Black Mosquito House, I don’t know much about those things. I thought about it, and since I came up with a letter of recommendation, if I fired that young lady like that, it would hurt the one who sent me…

Wei Yan-ho shivered as if he remembered something.

“Thinking of a woman who would attack me to devour me alive if she found out what happened, I don’t think I can send that young woman away for the sake of my comfortable dream in the future.”

Jwageol looked at Wei Yan-ho with a hardened expression.

Normally, there would be no need for such a conversation, but he could not engage in a fistfight with a martial arts expert, so he had no choice but to try to resolve it through dialogue.

“Then I will assume that you have decided to interfere in the affairs of our establishment.

“I have no intention of interfering.”

When Jwageol was about to say something with a nervous expression on his face, Wei Yan-ho interrupted him.

“So… the problem right now is money, right?”

Jwageol’s eyebrows have been cracked.

“That’s one way of saying it.”

“So, if we just give the money back, that’s all, right? You get the money, so you’re happy, and this side doesn’t have to suffer.”

“Oh?”

Jwageol said with delight.

“Are you saying you’ll return the money instead?”

Wei Yan-ho’s eyes were wide open.

Where would he get money?

“…”

“I’ve never had money in my life.”

Jwageol found himself nodding unconsciously.

Well, that seemed likely.

Seeing his behavior, it seemed like he couldn’t even get a proper meal, let alone money.

“And then how will you give me back the money?”

“You can make money.”

If it were easy to make money, who would suffer?

Jwageol wanted to scream out loud, but the warning from his jaw, which had not yet fully recovered the sensitivity, was too realistic for that.

“Hmmm.”

When Jwageol shook his head as if he had no hope, Wei Yan-ho smiled.

I’ll make the money and give it to you, so don’t worry and come back.

If I come back like this, they’ll beat me to death, at least set a deadline.

I should be able to hand it over to you in half a month.

“Really?”

“Don’t you trust me?”

Jwageol’s eyes wavered.

Of course I don’t trust you!

When have I seen you trust yourself?

But what could I do? The law is far away, but the fists nearby.

To further argue, the excellence of Wei Yan-ho, who had been stirring under the blanket since before, was bothering him.

“…I will trust you.”

Jwageol bowed his head deeply.

The greatest reason he had survived in the underworld until now was his ability to properly find his place.

But wherever I looked, that wasn’t a place to stay.

He had the strong premonition that if he clumsily crossed the line, he would have to eat only porridge instead of meat for the rest of his life.

“I trust you will keep your promise.”

If they take away my trust, I’m just a corpse.

Jwageol looked at Wei Yan-ho as if he could not believe him at all, then turned his head to stare at the Jin So-ah and Jin Ye-ran brothers.

As the gentleman promised me, I will trust his words and return today. But if you cannot return the money even after the promised deadline, I will show you the true taste of bitterness. Then there will be no excuses! Next time, I will not go alone.

Jwageol’s words were addressed to the two brothers, but they were also a warning to Wei Yan-ho.

But Wei Yan-ho, whether he knew it or not, was crawling slowly into the room.

“I’m leaving.”

When Jwageol turned and left the Sacred Hand Hall, Jin So-ah sat without strength as if his tension had been released.

“ Ufff!”

A deep sigh escaped naturally.

“What the hell is all this?”

While Jin So-ah was grinning at the medical clinic in chaos with patients who had been taken out, Jin Ye-ran urged him with a calm voice.

“First, escort the patients back to their rooms and take your pulse to see if they were scared.”

“Are patients the problem right now?”

“If patients are not the problem of a medical clinic, then what is?”

Sister, they almost dragged you to a brothel, even in that situation, you’re telling me to treat patients?

At that moment, sparks flew out of Jin Ye-ran’s eyes.

Are those words that should come out of a doctor’s mouth? Have you forgotten our late father’s teaching that, for a doctor, patients should always be the first in any situation?

Jin So-ah complained as he stood up from his seat.

Doctor Hwang, please help me. We need to escort people with mobility problems to their rooms.

“Understood.”

When Jin So-ah stepped forward to push patients back to their rooms, peace was quickly restored.

Jin Ye-ran watched this scene quietly, then turned his head to look at the door of the room Wei Yan-ho had entered.

Jin Ye-ran’s eyes were colored with complex light.

That night.

“Do you sleep?”

“Yes.”

“…you’re sleeping.”

Jin So-ah opened the door of Wei Yan-ho without hesitation and entered.

“Huh?”

Jin So-ah rubbed his eyes like he was surprised.

“I definitely heard an answer?”

Jin So-ah rubbed his eyes and looked around the room, but there was no trace of Wei Yan-ho anywhere.

“This is enough to make a ghost cry.”

“Tsk.”

Wei Yan-ho snapped his tongue as he looked at Jin So-ah, who was watching the room from the ceiling.

“What are you trying to do to me now?”

Jin So-ah did not particularly torment him, but his whining was too severe.

If he kept up, he couldn’t rest well tonight either. In that case, it was better to sleep on the roof, even if it was a little cold.

The night dew was cold, but for Wei Yan-ho, who had spent five years in a cave, this level of air and night dew was almost endearing.

“Well then, let’s go to sleep…”

Just as Wei Yan-ho was about to fall asleep, a soft sob came to his ears.

“Eh…”

Wei Yan-ho looked down with a slightly surprised expression.

‘Whose room is this?’

There was no need to find out. The sob was sharp. It was the cry of a young woman.

Wei Yan-ho felt his chest squeezed a little while looking at the sky full of stars.

“…Mother.”

Listening to the low sobbing that escaped, Wei Yan-ho let a little silent sigh slip away.

“My destiny.”

Wherever he went, his fate was completely ruined as to rest in peace. The place where he had rested most comfortably since he left the cave was a lair of beggars. Need I say more?

Heaven is truly ruthless.

Give laziness and a lot of trouble to a single body. Isn’t that exactly how someone is tormented?

“Hmmm.”

Wei Yan-ho closed his eyes tightly.

Even if tomorrow’s work was settled tomorrow, I had to sleep today. If I couldn’t sleep well today, it would collapse tomorrow.

The distant sound of insects, low sobs, and Wei Yan-ho’s small breath filled the night sky where the light of the stars descended.