The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 138

Swordmaster Wants to Live Peacefully – Episode 138

Swordmaster Wants to Live Peacefully 138

Reorganization (3)

“How much money did they throw at this? They’re insane, really.”

As law-abiding citizens of South Korea, the two had to appear in court.

Of course, public opinion also flipped.

Online communities were flooded with posts questioning what the government was thinking.

They were all criticizing the government, saying, ‘How can they do this to the heroes who protected the country?’

Meteor Industries also began to respond in earnest.

They hired lawyers and stirred up the media.

Yoo Ji-woo and Yoo Seong-woo were in custody.

However, since they were both S-class Divers [individuals with superhuman abilities], physical confinement was impossible.

So, although the warrant was issued, they were staying at home.

Yoo Seong-woo opened his mouth.

“It’s his doing.”

“Who?”

“Min Jong-ho. Minister of the Department of Multiverse Affairs.”

“Ah, that Min Jong-ho… you’re saying the minister is trying to screw us over?”

“Yes. He’s a lackey of the Ascendant Church. Even if he’s not a subordinate, he must have joined hands. I crushed the Ascendant Church, so this is revenge.”

“Are you out of your mind? Why is he rushing at us like he’s trying to die, instead of quietly switching sides?”

Yoo Ji-woo’s words made sense.

Even if the Ascendant Church was getting beaten up, they shouldn’t be rushing in to die like moths to a flame.

“Ugh, I thought things were going well, but this happens.”

“…Sister, are you having a hard time?”

After Yoo Ji-woo sighed a few times, Knox, who was next to her, grabbed her sleeve and asked.

“I like it when you’re home, Sister. We can play together.”

“…Our Knox, how can you say such pretty things?”

She couldn’t hold back and hugged Knox, rolling around on the sofa.

Knox giggled in Yoo Ji-woo’s arms.

Yoo Seong-woo clicked his tongue as he watched them and said.

“National treason, huh? All I did was kill those who were trying to sell the country.”

“It’s only a problem because the guys trying to sell the country were Korean.”

Yoo Ji-woo massaged Knox’s face with her hands, relieving her stress.

“Don’t try to do anything this time. The legal team will take care of it.”

“This time, the goal isn’t to throw us in jail, but to paralyze our operations. Meteor Industries was also raided, right?”

“Tch, that’s true… but it’s not good to be at odds with politicians. Especially at the ministerial level.”

At her words, Yoo Seong-woo tapped the table with his finger.

He didn’t like this situation at all. Did he have to be dragged around by the selfishness of such guys?

No.

If he didn’t like it… besides, wasn’t he a guy who tried to sell the country?

He was a ‘traitor’.

“We’ll just have to replace the minister.”

“…Are you serious?”

“He’s a guy I have to kill anyway.”

“Do you only have two categories for people, those to kill and those to save?”

“Exactly. To me, they’re all the same, but the only criterion that separates them is that. If I don’t kill the ones I have to kill, it’ll cause trouble later.”

Yoo Ji-woo also wanted to kill Min Jong-ho if she could.

To indict them for national treason just because he killed his son and ruined his business…

‘I guess it’s indictable?’

Anyway, Yoo Seong-woo was thinking of killing Min Jong-ho one way or another, as he suspected that Min Jong-ho had instigated Black Bear.

‘That bastard, you just wait…….’

The day they face each other was not far off.

* * *

“I’m going to retire.”

Choi Ah-yeon, the leader of the direct unit of the Department of Multiverse Affairs, which operates separately from the military.

As an S-class Diver belonging to the government, she had been working with a sense of duty to protect the people.

But now, she couldn’t take it anymore.

“What are you talking about?”

“The order to arrest Yoo Seong-woo is impossible. So I’m going to retire.”

Choi Ah-yeon’s superior was only the Minister of the Diver Management Department, Min Jong-ho.

She expressed her intention to retire in front of such Min Jong-ho.

At her words, Min Jong-ho frowned and shouted.

“Are you going to disobey? This is a serious matter concerning the survival of the nation! And you’re retiring because you can’t do that one thing? Do you want to go to jail for insubordination?”

“Then send me. I think the minister will have changed by the time I get out of jail.”

Choi Ah-yeon decided to go all the way.

She knew very well how absurd the things Yoo Seong-woo had done were.

To arrest him was like jumping naked into an armed enemy camp.

Yoo Seong-woo would kill them all and come back even if he fell into the enemy camp naked, but she wouldn’t.

“You bastard!”

“Don’t call me a bastard. It makes the bastard who’s listening feel bad.”

Choi Ah-yeon, who spat out those words, frowned. She was also an S-class Diver.

A superhuman who could easily kill an ordinary person with one finger.

When Choi Ah-yeon came on strong, Min Jong-ho gritted his teeth and said.

“If you don’t go, the guy below you will go. If the guy below you doesn’t go, then the guy below him will have to go.”

It was a threat.

If she didn’t want to send all her subordinates to their deaths, she should go and arrest Yoo Seong-woo herself.

Choi Ah-yeon glared at him, who had begun to act meanly, and clenched her fist.

She held back what she wanted to say right away, turned her body, and said.

“…Don’t live like that. You petty human.”

She even spoke harshly to her superior, but she wouldn’t be punished.

Because there was no one in the current government to replace her.

There were other S-class Divers, but their skills were not up to Choi Ah-yeon’s level.

As she left the office, Min Jong-ho picked up the ashtray on his desk and threw it to express his anger.

The ashtray that hit the door Choi Ah-yeon had left through shattered and scattered.

“Damn bitch… just because she got lucky and became a superhuman, she’s so arrogant…….”

Those who wouldn’t have dared to say a word before the Great Disaster are starting to climb up.

Min Jong-ho clenched his fist tightly and slammed the desk several times.

“Damn bitch, damn bastard, what kind of shitty things are starting to swarm the world like bugs…….”

He thought of his son.

Min Chung-woon, who was killed by Yoo Seong-woo, was a superhuman.

The fact that he was able to sit in the position of Minister of the Diver Management Department was also thanks to Min Chung-woon, who was an S-class Diver to some extent.

Even such Min Chung-woon couldn’t move a muscle at his words.

How did the world become like this?

“I have to kill them all…….”

* * *

“Please cooperate. Please. Please. Let’s talk.”

Yoo Seong-woo held his Ilseng [his sword].

Choi Ah-yeon knelt down.

“I definitely don’t have the confidence to beat you. How can I beat someone who conquers 2nd and 1st class Abyss alone?”

“Then why did you come?”

Someone kept ringing the bell, so he came out, and there was Choi Ah-yeon, whom he had met once before.

Yoo Seong-woo looked down at her kneeling down, still holding Ilseng.

“Can’t you just let us arrest you once? Just to the extent of being dragged to the interrogation room…….”

“Are you out of your mind?”

“…I didn’t want to come either. I wanted to retire as it was, but I came because they said they would send my subordinates if I didn’t go.”

“Military injustice.”

“…Yes, so please, can’t you just let us arrest you once?”

Choi Ah-yeon put her hands together and started begging.

The sight of her begging with her hands and feet was extremely pathetic.

It was a scene where they had thrown away all their pride for the sake of their subordinates.

It didn’t matter if he left her in front of the front door like this…….

“Come in.”

Yoo Seong-woo sent Ilseng back and let Choi Ah-yeon into the house.

She was wearing plain clothes instead of combat clothes, and she didn’t have the momentum to attack.

It seemed like she had come with just the one thought of ‘do what you’re told’ from the military.

“Sit there.”

Fortunately or unfortunately, no one was home right now.

Yoo Ji-woo had gone to a meeting with the legal team, and Schuel had gone to a nearby mart with Knox to buy equipment.

Choi Ah-yeon, who was sitting awkwardly across from Yoo Seong-woo, lowered her head and mumbled.

‘…I want to die.’

‘But I don’t really want to die…….’

‘I want to quit…….’

As always, all sorts of thoughts came to her mind.

But they were immediately blown away by Yoo Seong-woo’s voice.

“It must be hard being a soldier. There are too many assholes.”

“…Yes.”

“I understand. Originally, soldiers don’t have flexibility, and especially if the higher-ups are morons, it’s a hopeless group.”

“My superior is Minister Min Jong-ho…….”

“Did I say something wrong?”

“That’s right.”

Choi Ah-yeon felt much more comfortable.

Maybe it was because she was talking about a common topic with Yoo Seong-woo, or maybe it was thanks to his live broadcast that she had seen before coming.

‘Maybe he’s not a scary person…….’

“I used to be in the military too. It wasn’t Korea, but another world, but my superior was a very asshole…….”

“What did you do?”

“I killed him myself. He was doing a ritual to die while carrying out the operation. So I killed him and deserted.”

‘…He’s definitely a scary person.’

“If you have a superior you don’t like, just stab him and run away.”

“I don’t have the guts to do that…….”

“Then you’ll have to do what you’re told for the rest of your life.”

Choi Ah-yeon made a sullen expression. She didn’t want to live like that for the rest of her life, which was also a person’s heart.

“So what’s the reason you came?”

“That, Yoo Seong-woo and Yoo Ji-woo have arrest warrants issued. There will be a trial soon…….”

“Yeah.”

“So just once, I was hoping you could come with me. Ah, this is, um, a visiting gift…….”

Choi Ah-yeon said that and handed over the paper bag she had brought.

When she checked the contents, there was a fairly expensive-looking Korean beef gift set along with high-end liquor.

“I didn’t know what you’d like…….”

A bizarre situation where a soldier who came to catch a criminal was giving a bribe instead.

Yoo Seong-woo accepted the paper bag, put it down next to him, and said.

“It’s a good thing you came. I was thinking I should go once. I have to tie up the loose ends.”

“…Yes?”

“I don’t like this situation right now. I feel like sweeping away the Blue House [the executive office and official residence of the President of South Korea], the National Assembly [the legislature of South Korea], and everything.”

“That’s a bit…….”

“Min Jong-ho tried to kill me. By instigating Black Bear. It’s okay to see it as the government being hostile to me, right?”

“Ah, no, that, that can’t be.”

Certainly, there were politicians who hated Yoo Seong-woo.

But there must be people who like him too. The emergence of someone who cuts through the entrenched generation with a single sword.

It is a clash between those who do not want change and those who want change.

Yoo Seong-woo was the center of it, a typhoon that swept across the entire country, bringing the wind.

He looked at the flustered Choi Ah-yeon and opened his mouth again.

“I will attend the trial myself. Only me. That’s the condition. I won’t accept anything else, and if you refuse, I’ll go to the National Assembly. With a sword.”

With a sword.

The shock that one word brought was so great.

If Yoo Seong-woo went to the National Assembly with a sword, who would be able to stop him?

Even if they mobilized the entire military and brought all the government’s Divers, they wouldn’t be able to stop him.

He was someone who seemed like he couldn’t be stopped even if they launched a nuclear missile.

Choi Ah-yeon was consumed by fear.

It was as if a shadow had fallen on Yoo Seong-woo’s face, which had been slightly friendly until just now, and his eyes were not visible.

The bright red eyes flowing out from between his hair seemed to show his true nature.

She had no choice but to nod.