Chapter 118 : Two Won
At Cheon Jeok-pa's explosive statent, Cheon Deung-jin's mind flashed white.
The union of three massive powers representing the Outer Regions.
The justification was plausible, but what had to stand at the center was ultimately her own sincere feelings.
The emotions suppressed all her life, trapped in the shackles of cross-dressing, were fluctuating as if they had been waiting for her father's encouragent.
"F-Father...... But Mister considers just a colleague......."
"We don't know that. Affection might have developed, don't you think?"
At Cheon Jeok-pa's sharp point, Cheon Deung-jin shut her mouth.
Hyeokryeon Yeom was always like that.
While seeming indifferent, he always stood in front of her at decisive monts.
"Go. Tonight, serve tea to the Guest Hall for External Guests and check your feelings. This father will clean up the dregs of the Blood Cult rooted inside the Potala Palace in the anti."
The cruel killing intent unique to the Lion King dwelled in Cheon Jeok-pa's eyes.
The price for Disciplinary Hall Master Ja Seong daring to cause a disturbance with a forged ssage from the Great Thunder Temple would never be light.
At that ti, the Guest Hall for External Guests.
I was leaning against the window, looking at the night scenery of the Potala Palace.
The night sky of the Western Regions was close as if stars would pour down, and the air was sharp and cold.
-Kekeke, why are you looking at the stars on a moonlit night?
At the Sword Venerable's question, I answered.
"Since I obtained the Buddhist Venerable's Divine Item, I have now acquired four Divine Items of the Ten Venerables under the Heavens."
To resolve the instability of the Ice Crystal guarded by Chang Seong, finding the legacy of the Ice Emperor, Seol Cheon-u, was actually the priority.
And as I acquired more legacies of the Ten Venerables, I got the thought that I would be able to find the Ice Emperor, Seol Cheon-u, only after obtaining all the legacies of the Ten Venerables.
In other words, it ans I have to find the other Ten Venerables as well.
My gaze scanned the inside of the Potala Palace.
I felt a disparate blood qi when subduing Ja Seong earlier.
Similar to what Ma Seok-du exploded at the Great Thunder Temple,
but a much more elaborately hidden energy perated throughout the palace.
"What are you thinking about so deeply?"
The guest room door opened, and Seol Ye-rin entered.
Seol Ye-rin was dressed in thinner silk clothes than usual, but the cold qi that seed to freeze the surrounding temperature was the sa.
"Lady Seol, why aren't you sleeping?"
"Because I can't sleep."
Seol Ye-rin stood side by side next to and looked at the night sky.
Seol Ye-rin's hand gently touched the tip of my sleeve.
"These days, you don't ask for my hand."
"Haha, then I can hold it now."
I grabbed Seol Ye-rin's hand abruptly.
Chiiik-
Enough for smoke to rise from the hand.
However, it wasn't as much as before.
"Did you want to hold hands?"
"I asked because I felt a chill."
"Is it warm?"
"It is warm."
"So, what is it that you really want to say?"
There was no way Seol Ye-rin would co to find without business.
"I wondered until when I could hold this hand."
"Hm? Of course."
Just as I was about to ask why she was asking such a question.
Careful footsteps were heard from outside the guest hall.
Knock, knock.
"Mister, are you inside? It is Cheon Deung-jin. I brought so tea...... may I co in?"
Cheon Deung-jin's voice was trembling thinly.
Seol Ye-rin's eyebrows raised slightly.
-Kekeke, sparks are flying! To think the Young Palace Head of the North Sea Ice Palace and the Young Palace Head of the Potala Palace are gathering in one room!
At the Sword Venerable's words, I sighed and opened the door.
As the door opened, Cheon Deung-jin, whose lines looked strangely delicate unlike her usual dignified cross-dressed appearance, was standing holding a tea tray.
"Ah...... Lady Seol was here too."
Cheon Deung-jin's gaze lingered on Seol Ye-rin's hand holding my sleeve.
In an instant, at the sa ti the temperature inside the guest room dropped rapidly, hot Fire Spirit energy rose like heat haze around Cheon Deung-jin.
I intuited it.
I don't know why, but tonight, a storm more terrifying than the Blood Cult's raid would begin inside this guest hall.
"......Co in for now. The tea will get cold."
My indifferent remark broke the silence in the room.
A strange current began to flow between the three people.
***
Cheon Deung-jin's gait entering the room was awkward.
Where did her usual appearance of walking with her chest puffed out dignifiedly go? Her fingertips holding the tea tray were trembling slightly.
However, the place Seol Ye-rin's gaze was fixed on was not Cheon Deung-jin's hands, but that 'look' in her eyes gazing at .
'......Dangerous.'
Instinctive warning sounds rang inside her head.
A woman's intuition was frighteningly accurate.
Those unusually soft eyes and flushed cheeks.
And that Fire Spirit energy shimring every ti she faced was not a simple sign of gratitude.
It was an expression of love, hot enough to lt even the eternal snow of the North Sea.
Seol Ye-rin subtly applied strength to the hand holding my sleeve and pulled closer towards her side.
"Lady Cheon, tea at this late hour. The Small Snow Squad Captain was discussing important matters with until just now."
She deliberately mixed chill into her voice.
As thin frost began to form on the floor of the guest hall,
Cheon Deung-jin flinched and put the tea tray down on the table.
"Ah...... I apologize if I interrupted. However, since Mister suffered a lot coming all the way to the Western Regions, I definitely wanted to treat him to the Potala Palace's famous tea......."
Cheon Deung-jin bowed her head and filled the teacups.
A subtle scent rose from the steaming tea, but the sll of a rival in love, thicker than that, vibrated at the tip of Seol Ye-rin's nose.
Seol Ye-rin stared intently at my face.
This dense man was just holding the teacup saying the tea scent was good.
Usually, he read killing intent like a ghost, so why couldn't he hear the sound of won's hearts colliding?
"Third Young Master, the tea is hot, so I will cool it for you."
Seol Ye-rin gently reached out her hand and wrapped it around the cup with cold qi before I even brought the teacup to my lips.
In an instant, the temperature dropped to a drinkable level.
Cheon Deung-jin's eyebrows were seen trembling.
"......Lady Seol is truly affectionate."
There was no strength in Cheon Deung-jin's voice. Cheon Deung-jin sat closely next to Seol Ye-rin, on the side of my opposite sleeve.
"However, considering Mister's constitution, warm energy will suit him better than sothing too cold. My warmth was helpful even when controlling the Fire Spirit Jade's energy."
'Warmth? Helpful?'
A chill settled in a corner of her chest.
During the ti Seol Ye-rin didn't know, what happened between the two?
Did their bodies touch in the process of treating the Fire Spirit Body?
Seol Ye-rin applied strength to her fingers holding the teacup.
"I know the Small Snow Squad Captain's constitution better than anyone. And guarding the Small Snow Squad Captain's side is my role as the Ice Palace's Young Palace Head."
"Role...... A role that the heart does not follow only becos a heavy burden."
Cheon Deung-jin smiled brightly and retorted.
The air in the room was now creating bizarre vibrations as freezing cold qi and burning hot fire qi clashed.
Caught in the center, I was making a troubled expression while just sipping tea, but Seol Ye-rin had no intention of backing down.
Just as there was only one owner of the North Sea, the place by this man's side had to be only one.
***
The palms holding the teacup beca damp.
Tension she had never felt even when wielding the heavy staff dominated her whole body.
'Lady Seol's check...... is extraordinary.'
Seol Ye-rin's eyes saying she would defend with full power.
Cheon Deung-jin also had no intention of backing down.
Didn't her father say so? To confirm directly if there was sothing she wanted.
Cheon Deung-jin clenched her fists tightly under the table.
The heat of the Fire Spirit Body fluctuated pleasantly near her heart.
It wasn't a painful fla like before.
It was a warm and intense power that had beco a part of Cheon Deung-jin, left behind by while purifying the poison inside her body.
"Lady Seol, could you perhaps make ti for and Mister Hyeokryeon to talk alone?"
Cheon Deung-jin leaned her body further toward .
The unique scent of flas felt from my clothes tickled the tip of her nose.
Slling that scent, the sensation of his firm arms that held her up in the cold underground cave vividly ca to mind.
"What kind of conversation are you trying to have?"
Lady Seol Ye-rin's blue gaze deepened further.
The tea inside the guest room beca cool as if it would freeze, but Cheon Deung-jin subtly raised the Fire Spirit energy and pushed away that chill.
"Mister, how is the tea? I didn't know your taste, so I picked the most precious leaves in the Potala Palace......."
Cheon Deung-jin smiled with effort to catch my gaze.
At this mont, Cheon Deung-jin was desperate.
Although she was standing before the massive mountain called the Ice Palace's Young Palace Head, she couldn't forget those indifferent yet affectionate eyes I showed her.
I put down the teacup and scratched the back of my head as if troubled.
"......The tea tastes good. But aren't you two emitting too much energy since earlier? The guest hall might collapse."
At my scolding, a corner of Cheon Deung-jin's chest stung.
She was this desperate, but I was insensitive as usual.
"Since Lady Cheon says she wants to, I was thinking of talking a bit......."
Just as Seol Ye-rin was about to raise her eyebrows at that one remark.
Breaking the silence outside the window, a very faint but unpleasant fishy sll brushed the tip of the nose.
I rose from my seat.
"It seems we will have to talk later."
Cheon Deung-jin stood next to and awakened the Fire Spirit energy.
"I think we should. This energy...... It's from the Disciplinary Hall. It seems the bastards made the first move before Father could act."
"Rather, it worked out well."
She had to stop the dogs of the Blood Cult from occupying the Potala Palace no matter what happened.
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