Chapter 47 : Chapter 47
Chapter 47 - Rain Forest Pavilion (1)
Knock knock
“Young Hero Jaun. May I come in?”
“Yes? Ah. Just a moment.”
A little time passed, and the door creaked open.
Jaun must have just come out from washing, as the back of the black martial arts uniform he had changed into was wet with water and clung slightly to his body.
‘His muscles have grown tremendously since the beginning. Is it because he's growing? He became a man in no time.’
The Ice Rakshasa, who quickly scanned Jaun’s firm back with a glance, quietly flipped her hair to the other side.
Releasing her hand that was covering the front of her clothes, the Ice Rakshasa slowly placed two bottles of Bamboo Leaf Green liquor, cups, and snacks on the table next to the bed.
“You're tired, right? Young Hero Jaun went through hardship too, so have a drink. You need to warm your body and rest well so it will be less tough tomorrow.”
At the Ice Rakshasa’s words, Jaun lowered his head and looked at the liquor bottles.
‘Bamboo Leaf Green.’
A small village in the mountains.
And a bottle of Bamboo Leaf Green there.
It was a night that reminded him of the days he spent with his father.
The scent faintly emanating from the Ice Rakshasa’s body also made Jaun feel at ease.
“It's been a really long time since I had liquor.”
“You couldn't even touch a drop in prison, right? I bought this thinking of you, Young Hero Jaun, so you have to drink all of this today.”
Two masters who had surpassed the Peak Realm.
Anyway, a bottle or two wouldn't even properly intoxicate them, but the moonlight reflecting on the liquor cups was creating a peculiar atmosphere.
“First, a toast!”
The Ice Rakshasa, who handed a cup filled with Bamboo Leaf Green to Jaun, tossed the contents of her cup into her mouth first.
“Phew.”
It wasn't just Jaun; it had been a long time for the Ice Rakshasa too.
As the clean white liquor that seemed to burn the throat went down to the stomach, it felt like the body was loosening up a bit.
Watching the Ice Rakshasa shiver, Jaun chuckled and also tossed the liquor in his cup into his mouth.
“I didn't know the two of us would end up sharing a celebratory drink like this?”
The Ice Rakshasa, who was giggling while watching Jaun drink, picked up the bottle again, extended it towards Jaun’s empty cup, and bowed her head deeply.
As the Ice Rakshasa bowed, the thin silk robe that was loosely draped over her slid down slightly.
At the bright skin filling his view, Jaun’s cheeks turned red. Embarrassed, Jaun slightly turned his head and let out a small hem cough.
‘Cute.’
Even Jaun’s awkward appearance looked good to her.
The Ice Rakshasa licked her lips once, filled her own cup, and raised it towards Jaun.
“Up to three celebratory cups, empty them in one go like now!”
As the Ice Rakshasa winked and tossed the cup into her mouth, Jaun also smiled and brought the cup to his lips.
Another cup of liquor went down their throats.
With the stinging sensation going down his throat, Jaun also felt much more at ease.
‘This is nice. This kind of leisure.’
“Young Hero Jaun. Was there anything interesting in the prison?”
“Um……. Nothing special. Ah, actually no. There was a small commotion with a jailer.”
As Jaun naturally started to unravel the events in the prison, the Ice Rakshasa smiled and responded to Jaun’s words.
The Ice Rakshasa, who listened to Jaun’s story for a long time, bowed her head deeply once again and poured the liquor.
Confirming that Jaun’s cheeks flushed a little more, the Ice Rakshasa cheered inwardly.
‘The atmosphere is good? It seems Young Hero Jaun has opened up to some extent too. Surely today…….’
Slightly shaking her shoulders to loosen the front of her clothes a bit more, the Ice Rakshasa flipped her hair to one side and smiled brightly at Jaun.
“This is the last celebratory cup for Young Hero Jaun getting out of prison. After drinking this, we will drink three cups again for tonight’s beautiful night.”
With smiling eyes, the Ice Rakshasa gently placed her hand over Jaun’s hand holding the liquor cup.
Watching Jaun accepting the liquor while his hand was held without any particular resistance, the Ice Rakshasa cheered inwardly.
‘Done. Just a little more like this…….’
At that moment when the Ice Rakshasa, wearing a smile, was certain that her plan was working out.
Crash!
The sound of objects spilling came from outside the inn.
“Hoho. Everyone must be having a busy night. What a noise…….”
The Ice Rakshasa, who hurriedly approached the window, closed the slightly open window.
“What is going on?”
“It’s nothing. It just seems like something spilled outside.”
The Ice Rakshasa, grabbing the wrist of Jaun who was trying to walk towards the window and seating him back down, lifted a cup and handed it to him.
“Now, this is a cup for our night. ……Young Hero Jaun?”
Even though the Ice Rakshasa was holding the liquor bottle, Jaun’s cup did not come up.
Jaun’s gaze was directed straight towards the wall.
“Old hag. Are you relying on those Zhongnan Sect bastards to act like this? Huh? If you want to do business, you have to pay the stall fee!”
Crash-crash!
Along with a loud shout, the sound of something spilling again was heard from outside the window.
The Ice Rakshasa, who hurriedly surrounded the entire window with a Qi membrane to block the sound, cleared her throat with a hem-hem and looked back at Jaun.
“Ohoho. Let's not pay attention to outside matters.”
“Miss. The place where the noise is coming from now is the noodle shop we visited earlier.”
At Jaun’s words, the Ice Rakshasa paused.
Releasing the Qi membrane, the Ice Rakshasa spread her senses wide.
As Jaun said, the place where the commotion was happening now was indeed that noodle shop.
Hearing the sound of bowls rolling around again, the Ice Rakshasa let out a deep sigh.
Then, putting the cup down on the table, she cracked her neck left and right.
“……You’re right. It is that noodle shop. Of all times. Now. Hohoho.”
The Ice Rakshasa, forcing a smile at Jaun, turned her body.
And muttered with a chilly face.
“Which son of a bitch…… You really want to die……!”
Bam!
The Ice Rakshasa threw the guest room window open as if smashing it and flew out the window.
“So if you want to do business, the stall fee…….”
Chill.
The man who had raised his hand towards the old woman felt a cool aura and turned his head.
“……What?”
Slap!
The Ice Rakshasa’s hand struck the man's cheek fiercely, and the man's body floated up and fell down into a corner of the market with a thudding noise.
“What are you guys? Where do you belong? Huh? Know that today is the day your sect closes its doors, you scum!”
The Ice Rakshasa roughly rolled up the sleeves of the thin silk robe she was wearing and looked around, huffing.
Noodle bowls were scattered everywhere, and the old woman, the owner of the shop, was hugging a broth pot and crying.
One of those who were shouting and intimidating the old woman turned his head towards the Ice Rakshasa.
“You wench! What are you doing right now……! Do you know who you dared to touch just now!”
The Ice Rakshasa’s chilly gaze turned towards the man who spoke.
“Then do you know who you touched just now?”
The Ice Rakshasa walked towards the man with heavy steps.
With every step she took, a cold chill weighed down heavily on the surroundings.
The man, confirming the Ice Rakshasa’s momentum, opened his mouth stammering with a pale face.
“E-Even if you are a master, we have the Sado Alliance behind us! The person you just touched is the Inspection Leader of the Rain Forest Pavilion. If you kneel and apologize right now, we won't report this matter to the Sado Alliance.”
At the man's words, the Ice Rakshasa flinched and stopped in her tracks.
“Rain Forest Pavilion, you say?”
“T-That’s right! You have just touched a Squad Leader belonging to the Great Sado Alliance's Rain Forest Pavilion. Do you realize how great a sin you have committed now?”
“Ha…… These small fry bastards.”
The Ice Rakshasa’s cold gaze took on a look of contempt.
Following that, a huge storm of cold air swept past the front of the inn.
***
Four burly men with faces turned into a mess were kneeling side by side.
The Ice Rakshasa asked the man kneeling on the far left.
“Say it again. What are you doing this for?”
“Hiss hiss. I'm shorry. The Zhongnan Shect bashtards shtarted it firsht cough. We alsho had to find a way to live…….”
Thwack
The Ice Rakshasa’s fist struck the man's face once again, and teeth poured out of the man's mouth.
“Speak so I can understand. Because it's annoying. Hey! You say it.”
“Z-Zhongnan picked a fight first. They kept bothering our business site……. So we were also exerting some force in Zhongnan's territory.”
The man who managed to speak properly with swollen lips gasped for breath with difficulty.
“So Zhongnan touched your business site, so you guys were getting revenge too. Is that it?”
“Well……. Actually, it's not exactly that Zhongnan touched our business site, but they kept coming and bothering us…….”
The Ice Rakshasa let out a deep sigh.
“For such a reason, today, at this time, and of all places here, you cause such a ruckus?”
As the Ice Rakshasa raised her energy again, frost began to settle on the men's knees.
“H-Heroine! No, Great Hero! We don't know who you are, but we have committed a mortal sin.”
The men curled their trembling bodies and bowed their heads repeatedly.
“Young Hero Jaun. These guys…… shall I kill them?”
“Eh?”
Jaun, who was intently observing something, hurriedly shook his head.
“N-No. I think admonishing them so they won't do this kind of thing again will suffice. Apart from that…….”
Jaun approached the man who claimed to be the Inspection Leader of the Rain Forest Pavilion.
And looking here and there on the Inspection Leader’s body, he raised a finger.
“That necklace, where did you get it?”
The man, who moved his gaze following Jaun’s hand, fumbled with the black necklace hanging around his neck and answered hurriedly.
“Ah, t-this i-is a gift from the Paviliown Mashter…….”
“Hmm. Rain Forest Pavilion.”
Jaun fell into thought for a moment and turned towards the Ice Rakshasa.
“It seems we need to visit the Rain Forest Pavilion before the Four Seas Bank.”
“Huh? Rain Forest Pavilion?”
The Ice Rakshasa, who was looking at Jaun with wide eyes, thought about something and soon smiled brightly.
“Hehe. I see. Our Young Hero Jaun was also very disappointed, right? You're going to teach the Rain Forest Pavilion a lesson, right?”
The Ice Rakshasa, poking Jaun’s side, wrapped one hand around his arm.
“Alright. Let's go and just smash the Rain Forest Pavilion or whatever to pieces.”
At the Ice Rakshasa’s words, the men's faces turned pale, and Jaun, whose interest was solely on the necklace, calmly said to the Inspection Leader.
“We will visit the Rain Forest Pavilion tomorrow afternoon, so please tell the Pavilion Master to be present.”
“Tell him also not to think about fleeing because if we go and he's not there, I'll chase him to the ends of hell and cut off all his limbs.”
At the Ice Rakshasa’s terrifying threat, the men nodded their heads vigorously.
***
“What are you saying? At all.”
The Rain Forest Pavilion Master picked his ear this way and that.
“A peerless beauty wearing a fluttering thin silk robe fell from the sky and slapped your cheek?”
“I’m telling you, Pavilion Master! The surroundings became cool, so at first I thought it was a ghost…….”
The Rain Forest Pavilion Master, burying his body deeply in a fluffy chair, looked down at the Inspection Leader whose face was swollen, and yawned loudly.
“Did you come to brag? That a peerless beauty slapped your cheek? Did this bastard drink from the morning…….”
The strong men standing around giggled.
“That’s not it, Pavilion Master! They said they are coming here this afternoon!”
“If a peerless beauty comes all the way here, you just say ‘Thank you!’ and lock her in the back room; what on earth are you worried about?”
“She's a peerless beauty and a peerless master at the same time! I tell you I couldn't even properly see her move!”
“You didn't see because your eyes were stopped somewhere else. Was her body killer too? Ah, I wish a peerless beauty like that would slap my cheek once too. Hehe.”
At the Pavilion Master’s words, the Inspection Leader beat his frustrated chest.
“I'm telling you we'll all die if we're not careful? She's not an ordinary crazy bitch. Big trouble is coming today, this.”
The Pavilion Master shook his head from side to side.
“I’m already dying of headache because of the Zhongnan Sect psychos, so shut up. If a peerless beauty really comes here as you say, I'll make you the Vice Pavilion Master.”
The Inspection Leader let out a huge sigh as if frustrated, walked to the window, and looked down outside.
Rain Forest .
This place, where tombstones filled the surroundings like a forest, was a cemetery for military officials created after a great battle long ago.
***
“The Rain Forest wasn't a secret forest but a forest of tombstones ?”
The Ice Rakshasa, looking around with disgusted eyes, shook her head from side to side.
“What kind of crazy bastards established a sect in the middle of a cemetery? Anyway, there are all sorts of weirdos.”
The Ice Rakshasa kicked the leaves covering the ground.
The five-story pavilion standing in the middle of the cemetery wasn't properly maintained, revealing traces of time everywhere.
Creeaaaak
As the wind blew, annoying noises came from here and there in the manor building.
“I really hate it, here.”
The Ice Rakshasa shivered, held Jaun’s arm tightly, crossed the manor's gate, and walked towards the central pavilion.
“Th-Th-That bitch, Pavilion Master!”
From inside the pavilion, the Inspection Leader raised a finger and pointed at the Ice Rakshasa.
“Where? Huh?”
Confirming the appearance of the approaching Ice Rakshasa, the Pavilion Master’s eyes went wide.
“Who, who is that person? It can't be that a fairy descended. Where did such a jewel-like person…….”
Scanning the Ice Rakshasa’s figure here and there with hazy eyes, drool trickled from the Pavilion Master’s mouth.
“That person wore a thin silk robe and slapped you? You rascal. What good deeds did you do in your past life…….”
The Pavilion Master looked at the Inspection Leader with envious eyes.
“No, Pavilion Master! I told you she's a crazy bitch? And a peerless master too! Let's run away quickly. That insane bitch, she really crawled all the way here.”
Snatching the back of the neck of the Inspection Leader who was looking out the window and panicking, the Pavilion Master hopped onto the window of the pavilion.
“Hehe. Run away, my foot. Such a peerless beauty came personally to this place, so I must go see! I should get hit hard once too. I'm already looking forward to how her hand feels.”
The Pavilion Master, sending a signal to his subordinates with sparkling eyes, kicked off the window and jumped down from the pavilion.
“Aaaah! Pavilion Master!”
Thud
The heavy body of the Rain Forest Pavilion Master touched the ground of the pavilion.
His knees ached, but as if nothing was wrong, the Pavilion Master slowly lifted his head.
Checking the Ice Rakshasa who was standing with a frown, the Pavilion Master bowed his head slightly with a face full of assumed dignity.
“For such a beauty to visit this shabby place. If I had known, I would have at least laid down silk. Euhahaha.”
The Ice Rakshasa, who walked slowly to the front, looked at the Pavilion Master who was laughing loudly.
“I am Pan Bing-yeong, Law Enforcer of the Sado Alliance. Who is the Pavilion Master here?”
“Euhaha! ……Huh? Sado, Sado Alliance? Law Enforcer?”
At the Ice Rakshasa’s words that came suddenly, the Pavilion Master couldn't come to his senses and tilted his head.
“Wait. Law Enforcer of the Sado Alliance? What are you saying now. Hey, Inspection Leader.”
When the Pavilion Master turned his head, he saw the Inspection Leader trembling with a face drained of color.
“Ice, Ice Rakshasa…….”
“Right. That's me. So I asked who is the Pavilion Master?”
The Inspection Leader’s eyes rolled back, and with a gurgling sound, he fell backward.
“If you make me say it one more time, I'll kill you all? Pavilion Master, hurry up and pop out to the front.”
Feeling the energy the Ice Rakshasa drew up, the Pavilion Master turned pale and froze in place.