Call Of The Spear [EN]: Chapter 527

Nangseon Ghwandam – Part 2, Episode 236

Ha.

Mimia let out a hollow laugh, as if dumbfounded, a twisted smile on her face.

“Like mother, like daughter, she’s putting what she learned from her mother to good use.”

Words she could hardly bring herself to say.

An insult to both Seo Dan and her mother, Yang Mi.

Words that were hard to bear in silence.

“You speak quite gratingly.”

Mimia was startled by his sudden appearance and quickly lowered her head.

“Greetings, Great Master Geumcheon.”

Looking at Mimia with her head bowed, Cheonbeom frowned.

“Are you truly seeing me, or are you seeing the position and power I hold?”

“…Pardon? What do you mean by that?”

Mimia was taken aback by the sudden remark.

Cheonbeom spoke, subtly gauging her reaction, as if to say, ‘Isn’t that the case?’

“Isn’t that so? You criticize Mi Seodan without seeing her essence, judging her by her lineage and parents, so I believe the way you see me is no different.”

Only then did Mimia understand why he said those words, and she began to sweat.

“Oh, that’s a misunderstanding!”

“A misunderstanding? It can’t be a misunderstanding, how strange. Are you perhaps saying that my ears are failing and I misheard you?”

“N-No, that’s not it….”

Cheonbeom chuckled and nodded, observing Mimia’s frantic attempts to find an excuse.

“Well, perhaps that’s possible. I, too, cannot know what lineage I come from. Born an orphan from the start, without parents, wouldn’t that make me of the lowest blood according to your words? Having lowly blood, I might have misheard.”

“N-No, that’s absolutely not true!!”

“Why do you say it’s not true? Seodan’s mother, Yang Mi, was also an orphan, and I was also born an orphan, so aren’t we the same? A lowly bloodline according to your words.”

Mimia’s complexion turned deathly pale, and her hands and feet trembled.

Was he bringing this up after hearing everything she said?

Her mind went blank, and she couldn’t think of what to say. She was merely afraid of the aftermath, wondering how to escape this situation and what would happen if the elders found out, and cold sweat streamed down her face.

“Oh dear, I’ve been too rude to the noble-blooded Miss Mimia. Or is that not so, Miss Mi?”

“I-I’m sorry. I’m sorry! If you could just turn a blind eye just this once… I will never, ever do such a thing again….”

She knelt down and began to beg profusely.

No matter how direct a descendant of the Mi Clan she was, she was just a child before Cheonbeom.

He could have forgiven her at this point, but Cheonbeom did not.

“Someone there!! I, Cheonbeom, with my lowly blood, have dared to insult a noble lineage, so I must receive due punishment. Quickly, bring the head of the Mi Clan!!”

He had no intention of ending things casually.

* * *

At the same time.

Cheonchuk, holding Mi Seodan’s wrist, crossed the sky and landed on a cliff halfway up a mountain.

It was a place where the scenery of Mayunjeong could be seen at a glance, and the ancient trees around it added to the charm.

“I’m sorry, Seodan. It seems the situation wasn’t good for you, so I recklessly brought you here first. If you felt uncomfortable, I apologize in advance.”

“No, it’s not that. Not at all. I’m not uncomfortable at all. Rather, I….”

Rather, she was happy.

Why couldn’t she bring herself to say those words?

Seodan bit her lip and brought up another topic.

“But are you alright? Miss Mimia is a direct descendant of the Mi Clan’s head, and there is no one who can match her status and beauty. But because of me, you showed such disrespect to her….”

Seodan was sorry and worried about that.

She knew Mimia’s temperament well, as they had often clashed since childhood.

Once it came to this, she probably wouldn’t back down.

‘She’s probably become even more determined.’

She was a woman with a strange obsession, so she might have ignited a fire in her heart.

Thinking that, Seodan bit her nails, worried about how she would react and what she would do.

However, Cheonchuk, seeing her anxious appearance, burst into laughter.

“Seodan. Weren’t you the one who ordered me to serve you when we were in Sancheong? But I don’t know why you’re so timid now.”

“Yes? B-Back then….”

She was sorry about it.

‘Because you didn’t understand my heart and were kind to everyone in Sancheong….’

That’s what she did.

She told him not to get close to Cheonchuk.

She had done such a foolish thing.

When he brought up that story, the worry on Seodan’s face deepened even more.

“You didn’t give me a very good impression back then, but now that I see you, I think that was better than seeing you so timid like this.”

Seodan blushed with embarrassment and sighed deeply.

She turned her back and approached a large, deeply curved pine tree precariously perched on the cliff, and aimlessly plucked at the pine needles.

“…It was foolish. It was a foolish act committed using the prestige of the family. You have no family or bloodline to boast of, so how can you be so upright and confident? How can you do that….”

Why can’t I do that?

I want to be like you.

I want to be confident like that too. That was the beginning of her feelings for him.

It was the first step.

“It was just a petty tantrum. I was jealous of you. But now, it’s changed a little, or rather, a lot.”

He hadn’t changed. Only one person had appeared behind him.

That was a Wonseon [a being who has transcended mortality], which was rare even in Sugye, no, even in Sanggye [higher realms of existence].

It was just the fact that he was the Great Master Geumcheon.

She blew on the pine needles she was fiddling with, and they scattered down the cliff on the wind.

“It’s funny, isn’t it? Actually, you had a more noble bloodline than anyone else.”

She couldn’t even look Cheonchuk in the eye and just stared at the ground.

Then, Cheonchuk strode forward and grabbed Seodan’s shoulders tightly with both hands.

Startled, she raised her head and opened her eyes wide.

Cheonchuk said with a serious face.

“I am not noble. If anyone is noble, it is my great-grandfather, who achieved everything alone and reached the end of Sangcheon. I am nothing.”

“But….”

“Seodan. Would you not have associated with me if I had not been a blood relative of the Great Master Geumcheon?”

“N-No! That’s not it! I… I realized it when I saw you in mortal danger back then! In the face of death, it doesn’t matter what blood you inherited or whose child you are!”

Only life and death.

In a situation where only that remained, it didn’t matter what bloodline you inherited.

Whether you lived or died.

When that was the question, only one thing remained.

The desire for life.

That was all.

“…You saved me. You almost died, losing an arm because of me. My body still trembles whenever I think about that time.”

Cheonchuk smiled brightly as he held Seodan’s trembling hands.

“Then that’s enough. Miss Mimia is not important to me. She’s just a lady I met for the first time today. It doesn’t matter what family she’s from or what blood she inherited. What’s important to me are the people who have a connection with me. And the connection that has lasted the longest since coming to Sanggye, and has had many twists and turns, is not Mimia, but Seodan. It’s you.”

Then Seodan’s face, with both shoulders firmly held, turned as red as a persimmon.

Unknowingly, she took a step back, and before she knew it, a thick pine tree stopped her steps and made her lean against it.

What did her pounding heart foresee?

Seodan closed her eyes tightly.

“Why are you closing your eyes? Did something get in your eyes?”

Seodan narrowed her brows and opened her eyes.

“Yes, something got in my eyes….”

“Let me take a look.”

Cheonchuk’s face came closer.

At the same time, Mimia’s words that pierced her heart came to mind.

‘Like mother, like daughter, they’re only preoccupied with seducing men.’

The sudden surge of defiance paralyzed her reason, and she immediately acted on it.

Smack.

“….”

Since their lips had touched once, why not two or three times? Riding the momentum, Seodan hugged his neck and kissed him several more times.

Whirr.

A refreshing breeze wrapped around her, and her hair fluttered refreshingly, gently separating the two men and women.

“People say it’s vulgar for a woman to do this first. Cheonchuk, do you think so too?”

Cheonchuk answered her question.

“If it were someone else, I might have.”

“Then….”

“It’s okay because it’s you.”

A smile spread across Seodan’s lips.

* * *

The head of the Mi Clan.

Mi Humang was heading back to the main family home on a cloud.

He had already heard the news and was overjoyed to hear that the newly ascended Wonseon Grand Master Geumcheon had a connection with the Mi Clan and had stopped by.

He had been on the front lines, so he had hurriedly passed through several teleportation formations to get there.

“It’s slowly coming into view now.”

His beloved hometown.

Mayunjeong.

Indeed, there were many signs that they had welcomed the Wonseon Grand Master.

He hurriedly crossed Mayunjeong and headed to the largest main family home of the Mi Clan here and descended.

“Why is it so chaotic?”

“Clan Head…!”

The faces of the family members were pale, as if something terrible had happened.

“What’s going on?”

“T-That’s….”

Unable to even finish their words, they led him to one of the residences.

“…!!”

Wasn’t the entire Mi Clan prostrating themselves before one man!

Among them, his daughter was trembling like an aspen tree, her face pale to the point of being black.

“Mi Clan Head has arrived.”

“Greetings, Great Master Geumcheon.”

As he cupped his fist and paid his respects, a familiar man’s face greeted him.

The former Head of the Military and Civil Affairs Office, now an existence he couldn’t even dare to look at directly.

It was Great Master Geumcheon, Cheonbeom.

The Mi Clan Head subtly assessed the situation and then walked up to him and knelt down.

“As expected of a Clan Head, your judgment of the situation is quick. I am impressed by your swift kneeling.”

“She is still immature. Could you tell me what wrong she has committed? If you do, I will sternly punish her as an example to prevent her from committing the same mistake again!”

“It’s nothing much. She said I was a child without parents and that it was because I had lowly blood. It’s something a child can say, isn’t it?”

His daughter dared to say that to the Wonseon Grand Master?

That was absurd.

He had raised her indulgently, but he hadn’t raised her without such discernment.

He asked with his eyes as if to ask if it was true, and she shook her head, tearfully, as if she felt wronged.

“I-I never said such a thing….”

Then, a stern order fell from Cheonbeom’s mouth, who had been maintaining a smile.

“You wench! Then are you truly saying that I, Jeongnyeong, have gone deaf and misheard you? Now you are not only insulting my bloodline, but also my ears!”

Then Mimia knelt down and begged profusely, her hands becoming her feet [begging desperately].

“I never did such a thing. How could I, someone like me, dare to call Great Master Geumcheon’s bloodline lowly!!”

“Then what was it that I heard?”

“T-That’s….”

The Mi Clan Head urged her.

“Speak quickly!”

“I-I said that Mi Seodan and her mother, Lady Mi’s bloodline was lowly….”

It was like a bolt from the blue.

The Mi Clan Head felt as if the blood in his entire body was rushing backwards at the fact that his daughter had uttered such words.

From what he had heard on his way here, the reason why Great Master Geumcheon had come to the Mi Clan was because of his connection and friendship with Mi Se-pa and his wife.

Yang Mi.

But she had uttered words that insulted such Yang Mi and her daughter!!

‘I heard that there were marriage talks between the great-grandson and Se-pa’s daughter…!’

He had no idea how to cover for her, and his vision was completely dark.

“Why do you say it’s lowly?”

“Isn’t it true that Lady Mi’s bloodline is unclear… Her status was a palace maid….”

The tearful voice she uttered was utterly miserable.

The Mi Clan Head closed his eyes tightly, looking at Cheonbeom with his hands behind his back.

“She is still an immature child. If there is any fault, it is my fault for not teaching her properly, so I will gladly accept any punishment.”

Perhaps Cheonbeom’s heart had softened a little at seeing him come out so humbly, and he nodded with a generous face.

“Yes, I didn’t want to go this far either. A child can do that. Who hasn’t been swayed by emotions in their youthful fervor? I understand everything.”

“Then….”

“The punishment is enough. What punishment would I give for what a child said? The current situation itself is a punishment for that child. Isn’t that so, with all the elders of the family prostrating themselves because of her?”

However, he couldn’t just let it go like this.

“The punishment is enough, but I would like to receive some compensation corresponding to it.”

“Compensation, you say….”

“Seondeung Eumseok [a rare and valuable spiritual stone].”

“……!!”

That would appease the Wonseon Grand Master’s anger a little.