Chapter 034 : Han Seol-bi
‘It is a relationship where we will soon hold an engagent ceremony.’
Hyeokryeon Yeom ruminated on the words Seol Ye-rin had just said while performing movent arts.
‘Hmm.’
-Tsk tsk, what are you worrying about so much?
-Hoho, of course, he would be worried. Isn't he thinking about what in the world the Young Palace Head’s words ant?
‘No, I am not.’
A need to worry about the aning?
None.
Since an engagent ceremony is just sothing to hold.
Since the Young Palace Head also needs to keep Hyeokryeon Yeom by her side to have even a little possibility of surviving, this was a naturally necessary action for the sake of maintaining each other's relationship.
The problem was.
-Then what kind of worry is it?
‘If we hold an engagent ceremony… I was worried that people from Our Cult might visit the Ice Palace.’
I wasn't ready to face Hyeokryeon Geuk yet.
-…You were worrying about sothing unexpectedly strange.
‘Is that so?’
-From our perspective, it is a strange worry. Rather than that, we are here.
Looking ahead at the Sword Venerable’s words, the castle walls of the Ice Palace began to be seen before I knew it.
“Finally……!”
Moyong Geum burst out an exclamation seeing the castle walls of the Ice Palace.
After Seol Ye-rin declared she planned to hold an engagent ceremony with , Moyong Geum had been performing movent arts silently without a word.
It wasn't a secret that the Small Snow Squad mbers were chattering via telepathy that it was clear Moyong Geum had an interest in the Young Palace Head.
“We can supply Cold Iron!”
It seed he wasn't happy about arriving at the Ice Palace, but happy about the fact that he could earn money by selling Cold Iron.
“Hahahaha, let’s go see the Cold Iron quickly…….”
“Young Master!”
“No, let’s go see the Palace Lord!”
Only after Jang Baek-rim restrained Moyong Geum did Moyong Geum seem to co to his senses.
‘I think his eyes spun just now.’
True to his na, Moyong Geum (Gold) seed to go crazy for money.
“Captain.”
Just as we were about to enter the Ice Palace, Eun Bin called separately.
“Why?”
“Is it okay to enter inside the Ice Palace like this? Isn't the probability very high that the one who commissioned Blood Tears to ambush Young Master Moyong is a traitor within the Ice Palace?”
As expected of Eun Bin who has experience leading a squad, his judgnt was quick.
“It is certainly as the Vice Captain says.”
The spy within the Ice Palace is a thorough guy enough to read our movents and send assassins.
“So we have to go in.”
Even if just to notify them of the fact that we survived the attack of Blood Tears.
“While I see the Palace Lord with the Young Palace Head and Young Master Moyong. The Vice Captain should take the Small Snow Squad mbers and convey the story of subjugating the assassins to the General Manager.”
Currently, the only person trustworthy was the General Manager, Seol Su-hyeok.
“Understood.”
“Don't forget to take Ji-yeong, Squad Leader Baek, and Un-seo too.”
“…Do I absolutely have to take them?”
“It would be good if you induce the Elders to eat Tae Un-seo’s cooking.”
“…Confird.”
I expected if it were Eun Bin, he would understand perfectly what I wanted.
Like that, the Small Snow Squad was able to bring the Moyong Clan rchant Guild safely into the Ice Palace.
***
“Greetings to the Palace Lord.”
“Right, it has been a long ti.”
“It seems it is the first ti since seeing you when I was young.”
North Sea Ice Palace, Palace Lord’s Hall.
Moyong Geum was conversing with my father-in-law without being nervous at all.
“…Were you acquaintances?”
“I am close friends with the Moyong rchant Guild Leader. We t often until the trade was cut off.”
“Then…….”
Naturally, my head turned towards Seol Ye-rin.
“Was Ye-rin acting prickly this ti too?”
“Although she covered her face with a veil, it seems she has beco pretty to the point I couldn't recognize her.”
So, it ans the two are childhood friends.
“I have never gone out of the Ice Palace, though.”
“It is natural that you do not rember. Young Master Moyong visited the Ice Palace together with the rchant Guild Leader to take Cold Iron. Although you did exchange greetings every ti that happened.”
Seol Ye-rin would not have taken a single step out of her room.
‘But is that really a friend?’
Just a relationship without even knowing the face.
In other words, a stranger.
“He is a stranger.”
At Seol Ye-rin’s firm drawing of a line.
“Haha, it seems it has been too long since we couldn't communicate due to horse bandits.”
Moyong Geum made a truly regrettable expression.
But now I felt I could understand the aning of those words.
‘He must feel it’s a waste since he couldn't trade Cold Iron for all that long ti.’
A feeling of roughly grasping the person called Moyong Geum.
It seems the Palace Lord had already done this grasping.
“General Manager.”
“…….”
He called General Manager Seol Su-hyeok, but there was no answer.
“The General Manager went out for a mont as there was a matter to discuss with the Vice Captain. If you have any needed business, please tell .”
“I was thinking shall we go see the Cold Iron, but a story to tell the General Manager. Did sothing happen?”
My father-in-law pretended not to know and broached the subject to .
At that gaze, I glanced at Moyong Geum,
“Oh my, Palace Lord. It is nothing special. There was a brief ambush on the way coming here, but…….”
Moyong Geum stepped forward first.
“An ambush?”
“Yes, yes. It was nothing special. Thanks to the Small Snow Squad Captain, we blocked the ambush easily. Thank you very much for attaching a great escort.”
Watching Moyong Geum’s action, I could feel that he was certainly quick at calculation.
The first life I passed through.
The scouters who ca to sign a contract with in the past life were acting exactly like Moyong Geum.
From Moyong Geum’s perspective, my father-in-law and I were like custors.
Now he opened the trade with the Moyong rchant Guild due to the connection ford in the past.
But, if Moyong Geum makes even a small mistake here, he doesn't know if this deal might fall through.
That absolutely must not happen,
“Palace Lord, if you just tell where it is, I will guide Young Master Moyong.”
“Did you find ?”
Just as we were about to leave, General Manager Seol Su-hyeok returned again.
“Right, guide the two people to the warehouse keeping the Cold Iron.”
“Yes, Palace Lord.”
We began to move following General Manager Seol Su-hyeok.
“How much would the amount be?”
Moyong Geum began to ask the General Manager with sparkling eyes.
“There is a lot of Cold Iron we set aside while trade wasn't happening all this while. I trust the Moyong rchant Guild will sell it well.”
“A lot of money……. Since Cold Iron is overflowing with scarcity, I can adjust the volu of goods distributed at once a little, right?”
“We will entrust everything about selling.”
“Thank you!”
Watching Moyong Geum whose eyes sparkled as soon as the talk of money ca out, I ca to have a thought ‘Perhaps……’.
‘Surely the rchant King of the Moyong rchant Guild isn't Moyong Geum, right?’
The rchant King who will co to possess the power to sway the business world of the Central Plains in the future.
To fight against Hyeokryeon Geuk, I had thought in advance of the people I had to win over through the mories of his past life.
First of all, the Ice Palace was the very first.
Second was the experts of the Potala Palace, Poison Palace, and Great Thunder Temple.
Third was the rchant King responsible for the business world of the Central Plains and the Manor Master of the Ten Thousand Gold Manor.
And if possible, even those who can be won over among the Ten Venerables under the Heavens.
‘To deal with the Demonic Cult, I should prepare at least this much.’
If Moyong Geum is the one who becos the rchant King in the future, I had to win him over right here sohow.
-Captain.
At that ti, Eun Bin’s telepathy was heard.
-What is it?
-While we were out, the atmosphere of the Ice Palace was strange.
-What is strange?
-It is the news that the Palace Lord summoned the heads of the Five Families of the Ice Palace.
Five Families?
-Kneuk kneuk, does it an the Five Families are still being maintained?
-Tradition ought to be continued.
As if they secretly overheard the telepathy between and Eun Bin, the Sword Venerable and the Demon Queen brought up the story.
‘Please tell a bit.’
In the Demonic Cult, I hadn't heard news up to the Five Families of the Ice Palace.
-In the Ice Palace, the Five Families exist.
-North Wind Seol Clan, Ice Wolf Baek Clan, Cold Blood Han Family, Snow Tiger Gwak Clan, Guardian Jang Clan.
The Seol Clan would be my father-in-law’s family.
I roughly understood Baek Mu-yong’s family, the Ice Wolf Baek Clan, and the Elder from the Snow Tiger Squad, Gwak Tae-san’s family, the Snow Tiger Gwak Clan.
Elder Han Bing-ok’s place of origin is the Cold Blood Han Family.
‘It is the first ti I hear of the Guardian Jang Clan, though.’
Another ard force of the Ice Palace.
It seed to be the family of the Guardian Squad protecting the Ice Palace.
The fact that he summoned all of them would an my father-in-law drew his sword at the news of the ambush.
I expected the force that realized Blood Tears was defeated would co to find us imdiately.
If it becos like this, I wonder if I should leave the elimination of the traitor to my father-in-law.
“Is sothing wrong?”
At the feeling that Hyeokryeon Yeom was continuously exchanging telepathy, the Young Palace Head, Seol Ye-rin, asked.
“No. First of all, showing the Cold Iron to Young Master Moyong and opening the trade seems to be the priority.”
“We arrived.”
As I conversed with Seol Ye-rin, we arrived at the warehouse.
We could discover Cold Iron piled up fully inside the warehouse.
“Wooooah!!”
I had an illusion that Moyong Geum’s eyes, witnessing the fully piled Cold Iron, were dyed in golden light.
“This, all! of! it! The Moyong rchant Guild will purchase and distribute it!”
“Thank you, Young Master.”
“For transport, I will go back and tell my father and send the escort agency to the Ice Palace.”
“Yes, Young Master, co to think of it, it seems you moved without being given ti to relieve the fatigue of the journey. Since you finished checking, please rest quickly now.”
At the fact that he could finally rest, Moyong Geum’s pulse seed to relax.
“Whew, it seems I should do that.”
Moyong Geum’s escort, Jang Baek-rim, supported Moyong Geum who started to stagger.
“I will treat you to a delicious dinner!”
At that appearance, Tae Un-seo shouted with sparkling eyes, and,
“N, no. First I need to sleep a bit.”
“Guide him to the accommodation.”
“Yes, I will guide him.”
Moyong Geum stopped his steps for a mont and conveyed a greeting with a light clasped hands greeting towards .
“Young Palace Head, Captain. You worked hard escorting a long way. I wish to see you again after taking a rest for a while. Since I have things to talk about too.”
“Yes, yes, Young Master. Then see you later.”
Baek Mu-yong took Moyong Geum along with White Night.
“Miss Seol should also go back quickly and rest, no?”
“After sending back, what work do you intend to start again, Captain Hyeokryeon?”
She is incredibly quick-witted too.
Since it seed she was curious about the telepathy with Eun Bin, I conveyed the news about the Five Families to Seol Ye-rin via telepathy.
Then,
“Wait… then…….”
“What’s wrong?”
“If Father summoned the head of the Cold Blood Han Family, surely! General Manager!”
Seol Ye-rin quickly looked back at General Manager Seol Su-hyeok.
“Probably, as the Young Palace Head anticipated, it is expected they will co in together.”
“Ah. I, I will try going back to the Young Palace Head’s Hall quickly.”
“Why are you suddenly like this?”
The mont I made a puzzled expression at Seol Ye-rin’s appearance of being extrely flustered and restless.
“Oh my oh my, you really ca out, Sister!”
I could see a woman running at a crazy speed from far away.
“Sister?”
A woman enough to be able to call Seol Ye-rin sister.
My head started spinning fiercely.
“To be able to see Sister like this, ah, this Seol-bi is so touched!”
The pure white hair of the woman who ran quickly and landed in front of Seol Ye-rin fluttered.
“This woman is……?”
“Oh my, who is this person?”
Hyeokryeon Yeom and the woman’s eyes beca entangled.
“He is Captain Hyeokryeon Yeom who beca the new Small Snow Squad Captain this ti.”
At Seol Su-hyeok’s introduction, the woman reacted.
“Small Snow Squad Captain… Nice to et you! I am Sister’s lovely sworn sister! Han Seol-bi!”
‘Surna Han?’
A woman of ultra-extroverted disposition who looks completely opposite to Seol Ye-rin appeared in front of my eyes.
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