Chapter 49
To speak plainly—Chief Steward Seong had once been a martial artist.
He’d entered the Everlasting Snow Palace to live as a martial artist, «N.o.v.e.l.i.g.h.t» trained and grew stronger there, but the post he was given was within the White Snow Phantom Corps.
An entity devoted to preserving the Palace’s bloodline by concealing its identity—thoroughly, utterly.
It was not the path he had set out to walk. And yet, no one ever told him that.
Everyone just assumed it was the natural course of things.
Not just the division leader—even Palace Lord Seol Jungcheon thought nothing of it. There was nothing left to say after that.
This was the first time.
The first time anyone had said something like this to him.
“...Why are you suddenly saying something touching like that? At this rate, I won’t live long.”
Seol Unwi silently looked at Seong, whose eyes were already reddening, and then said quietly:
“Recruit more stewards. And I’m planning to establish the position of Protector.”
“...Protector?”