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The inn that is Jin Cheon's land and, at the same time, the current base of the Black Spirit Faction.
Creak—!
The door opens.
A young beggar with only sharp eyes, Eyeball, trudged in.
The members of the Black Spirit Faction laughed at the gloomy-looking Eyeball.
"Looks like Eyeball struck out today?"
Е̄n ûḿ а̌. i̊d
"Normally you'd come running all excited."
"Don't tell me you tried to lift something off some terrifying expert?"
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Eyeball puffed her cheeks and plopped down carelessly in a corner.
"Something like that."
"It either happened or it didn't. What's this 'something like that'?"
"He asked me to guide him somewhere. And he also snatched my coin pouch in an instant."
Ë n̈umа̇
"……?"
Everyone blinked.
Martial artists, whether old or young, were all savage without exception.
Especially when they saw an easy target like the Black Spirit Faction, they'd get excited and start swinging blades.
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Because of that, pickpockets like Eyeball would often get an arm broken if they picked the wrong mark—and honestly, that was the better outcome.
The nastier ones would crush someone's wrist bones so they'd never properly hold a spoon again for the rest of their life.
Е n̆u m а̌
Everyone was relieved that Eyeball had come back without anything broken or beaten.
"It's fine, days like this happen too."
Deepest inside.
A man, his head shaved bald without a single strand of hair, spoke while polishing a gleaming great blade.
"As long as your body's in one piece, that's enough."
The boss of the Black Spirit Faction, Heuk Do-chi.
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A long scar running from his face up through his head told of the time he had survived.
Whoosh—!
Heuk Do-chi gestured for Eyeball to come closer.
Eyeball, who had been dispirited, walked over with a little more strength, taking it as the boss's comfort—or something like comfort.
But—
Swish—!
Еnum̂á
A hand roughly grabbed Eyeball's collar and lifted her up.
"This is exactly the problem with you, Boss."
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The Black Spirit Faction's third-in-command, enforcer Gilsang.
Gilsang, who stood a head taller than the others, looked Eyeball over and set her back down.
"The kid's fine, but the name Black Spirit Faction is going to weep."
"Gilsang."
Ŵе̊ b̂ ň ovѐl Ě nǔ m̈ӓ
"Where did the terrifying Black Blade go? I don't understand why you suddenly started acting like some saintly gentleman after getting married."
"……."
"At this rate, I don't know if we can even do business in this territory. We really should move to another district—"
Whoooosh—!
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At that moment, a sharp wind like a blade swept through.
The room was closed, so it obviously hadn't blown in from outside.
Е́ n̊ùm̆ а̇
"Then should I go back to doing it the old way, since that's what you want?"
Heuk Do-chi's bloodlust began to boil.
His neat, jet-black eyes glared at Gilsang, a stark contrast to his fierce face.
They were the eyes of a man who had lived thin and long at the very bottom.
The man who had been composed just a moment ago was gone. Gilsang, who had raised a small rebellion, was instantly struck speechless by that chilling gaze.
Heuk Do-chi was still Heuk Do-chi.
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"Don't like it?"
"…No, sir."
"Then let's just do things properly."
"Understood, Boss."
Gilsang finally lowered his head.
Even with complaints, he wasn't at the point of disregarding Heuk Do-chi.
Е̊ n̈um а̀.і́ d́
"You too."
"Yes, Boss!!"
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The dozens of men watching all lowered their heads as one.
Having instantly brought the Black Spirit Faction's members back under his grip, Heuk Do-chi nodded, satisfied, with a smile.
"Then let's do it."
"—B-Boss."
Ẁ е̂b nо̌v̆ e l .Ẽ_n ú mа̀
Gilsang lifted his head and looked at Heuk Do-chi.
Everything else he could let slide, but what was about to be demanded of him was agonizing every single time.
It made up about eighty percent of the reason he rebelled against Heuk Do-chi at all.
"Black Spirit."
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Heuk Do-chi shouted Black Spirit, but the rest of the members just watched Gilsang's face.
It meant: step up and stop this.
Ӗ n̊ u̇ḿ a
"Do it, Gilsang. If you don't do it, the others won't either."
Heuk Do-chi pressed Gilsang again, and Gilsang, swallowing his rising humiliation and resentment, said quietly.
"Good…"
"Louder! Black Spirit!"
"Good!"
"Black Spirit!!"
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"Good!!"
Starting with him, the others began shouting too, eyes squeezed shut.
It was a repetition of "Good" whose purpose no one understood at all.
"Enforcer!"
"…Good."
"Your voice is too small!"
Ẅ ё b̂ n o v е l Е n̊ u m̈ а
"Good!"
"Blade-wielder!"
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"Good!"
And so Heuk Do-chi called on everyone in turn, and the last, naturally, was the youngest, Eyeball.
She wasn't officially a member of the Black Spirit Faction, so he'd meant to skip her, but her needlessly bright eyes made Heuk Do-chi chuckle.
"Eyeball!"
Еnu mа . id̈
"Good—!!"
"Good. Good that everyone's saying good, even better."
Heuk Do-chi nodded.
It might be a pointless ritual, but if you force yourself to shout good even under duress, good things might follow.
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Having lived this long, it seemed to work out, so he did it every time, and honestly, he found it quite fun.
Just as everyone was about to go back to their own business—
Е n̄û m̀а
"My land, I like."
An eerie voice echoed through the room.
Everyone began looking around at each other.
A voice never once heard inside the Black Spirit Faction.
It had a tone like a newly appointed official clearly reading out a royal decree—a feeling nowhere to be found within the Black Spirit Faction no matter how hard you looked.
"My land, truly like."
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Shhk!
In an instant, a man appeared right in the middle of them all.
A pale, delicate build and gentle-looking eyes.
"Th-th-that person!"
Eyeball cried out in shock, pointing at Jin Cheon.
Everyone realized at once that the expert Eyeball had been robbed by today had come all the way here.
W e̊ b́n̂_оv̄.еl E ñ úm̃ а
Shhk—!
Gilsang, true to his role as enforcer, immediately went to draw his blade.
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But he couldn't draw it. The other man had pointed his index finger at Gilsang's blade.
"My land, like. Your blade, not like."
"……?"
"Draw it, and you die."
W̄ e̊ b̀.n̄ó vё l È ň ũ m̄ǎ
"……!"
Fwooooosh—!
It wasn't like Heuk Do-chi's bloodlust from a moment ago.
He was simply speaking flatly, and yet Jin Cheon's words carried an aura that sent a chill down the neck.
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The Black Spirit Faction's members' eyes darted around.
Having survived on scraps within Heavenly Sword Castle, they had met plenty of skilled martial artists.
Ёňü m̀ â
But among all those experts, one this unsettling was a first.
Still, since Jin Cheon's appearance looked so unassuming, they all kept gripping and releasing their blades, hesitating.
They wondered if, in a real fight, he might turn out to be all bark and no bite, unlike the impression he gave.
"This one greets the esteemed elder."
At that moment, Heuk Do-chi rose from his seat.
Shing, clack!
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He sheathed the great blade he had been polishing, then walked forward toward Jin Cheon.
Like a salmon swimming upstream against the current.
Jin Cheon noticed that Heuk Do-chi's energy was deep and unwavering, close to that of the Orthodox Sects.
"I'm hardly an elder."
"Then I shall call you Great Hero."
"Suit yourself."
E n u m̊ а́
"This one is the boss of the Black Spirit Faction, Heuk Do-chi. May I ask the esteemed Great Hero's name?"
On top of that, though he looked the most like a bandit of anyone here, his manners were quite proper.
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"Jin Cheon."
"Great Hero Jin Cheon, if our youngest here offended your sensibilities, this one offers his apologies."
Heuk Do-chi stood before Jin Cheon.
And slowly began to bow his head.
Е̄ n̂ ü ṁa .і̊ d̂
Gilsang clicked his tongue at a resolution so unbefitting a Renegade Sect boss, while Eyeball grew anxious that the boss was bowing his head because of her.
Jin Cheon caught Heuk Do-chi as he bowed.
"I already settled things cleanly with that one earlier."
Heuk Do-chi turned to look at Eyeball.
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So the talk of guiding him somewhere and so on really had ended in some kind of agreement.
In a world ranked first for cruelty and cold-heartedness, such rare goodwill was somewhat surprising.
Е ṅú m̄а
"But the reason I'm here is about the land."
"…The land, you say?"
Heuk Do-chi tilted his head.
Jin Cheon, who at a glance looked like some skilled martial artist, had suddenly shown up and started talking about land—it was baffling.
Thud, thud—!
Jin Cheon stamped his foot.
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The Black Spirit Faction's base seemed to be fairly solidly built, as the sound dulled and faded away without shaking loose a speck of dust.
"This place is my land, see."
"Excuse me?"
"Here's the land deed."
Though yellowed with age, a land deed is a document proving ownership of land.
It was written in fairly complicated script, difficult for the illiterate to read, but beneath it the land was drawn out like fish scales, so one could roughly make sense of it at a glance.
Ё ñ ů mà. id
The other members of the Black Spirit Faction gathered behind Heuk Do-chi and looked at the land deed Jin Cheon held out.
"What's all this about?"
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"Land, all of a sudden?"
"Well, it's not like we've ever cared much about whose land this is anyway."
"Does a Renegade Sect even need to care about that?"
Everyone chimed in with a comment.
Е̊ńûḿ а̊ . і d̆
They were a Renegade Sect.
They lived by extorting shops and merchants under the pretext of protection money, or shaking down people in the lowest trades under the guise of protecting them.
Inside Heavenly Sword Castle things were a bit different from outside, but at their core, the work was much the same.
In other words, of course they didn't live by the law—that was what made a Renegade Sect a Renegade Sect, and the Black Spirit Faction was no exception.
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When a landowner showed up, the tradition handed down through Renegade Sects was to rough them up and chase them off—but with someone like Jin Cheon, clearly an expert, they were all at a loss for what to do.
"Well, since you're a bit late in coming, I'm willing to let some of it slide."
Ě n u̇ ḿa . і_d
Jin Cheon tucked the land deed back into his robe.
Rather than acting rashly, Heuk Do-chi decided to hear Jin Cheon out first.
Of course, this was only because Jin Cheon seemed like an incredible expert.
"Just pay up."
"…You mean, pay rent."
"You've been using my land without permission. I'll let bygones be bygones for what's already been used, so pay from now on."
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For a moment, the Black Spirit Faction's members went blank at what he'd said, then, once it sank in, began to seethe.
It wasn't a matter of how much money—this was a Renegade Sect's pride at stake.
What Renegade Sect paid for its own land?
If something valuable existed, you took it.
If something was good, you just used it.
A Renegade Sect was made up entirely of people like that—which was exactly why everyone paid up, out of fear of them.
W ė bnо̇v́ ёľ Ёnu m à
But to live paying land rent, bit by bit, in an orderly fashion—that would mean the very foundation of being a Renegade Sect had collapsed.
"…Understood."
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Heuk Do-chi nodded calmly.
The good do not come, and those who come are not good.
He didn't know it was a saying from Laozi, but from all his experience scraping by at the bottom, things rarely ended well once they reached this point.
Shing—!
W ѐ b̄ ǹ о̂v ê l̇ Ën̈ u m̆ á
Heuk Do-chi drew his great blade, large enough to match an ordinary man's torso.
Then, calmly, as though simply doing what needed to be done, he leveled the blade at Jin Cheon.
"By the Great Hero's words, we can no longer set foot here."
"……."
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"A Renegade Sect has its pride. And our usefulness in this district would disappear too."
Jin Cheon blinked for a moment.
E̊ n̆ u m̈а._і d̆
He'd thought he was offering fairly lenient terms; he hadn't expected this kind of response.
He'd devised a way to avoid bloodshed if possible, but that didn't mean he was averse to shedding it.
That, after all, was exactly what the Baleful Star was.
Shhk!
Jin Cheon swept his hair back.
At the pale forehead this revealed, the other members of the Black Spirit Faction raised their voices.
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"Boss, he looks weak at a glance, just snap him in half!"
"Show that pasty bastard the taste of the Black Spirit Faction!"
Heuk Do-chi smiled bitterly.
Facing Jin Cheon, he found it hard even to take a single step forward.
A true expert.
Not some half-baked fighter, but a Peerless Expert who had walked the line between life and death every day.
Wеbnӧv́e l̈ Ê ǹú m а̄
Heuk Do-chi, who had survived countless times thanks to his instincts, trembled before Jin Cheon, who seemed limitlessly vast.
"Come."
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Tak!
Jin Cheon clasped his left hand behind his back and extended his right hand forward.
"……?"
In the old days he'd have simply struck without a word, but the tip of Heuk Do-chi's blade pleased him quite a bit.
Е̂ n u m̂.а
That kind of cautious yet forceful presence he'd only seen before in a few promising ones up north.
"If you can so much as make me take one step, you win."
"……!"
Heuk Do-chi's eyes widened.
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Naturally, being a Renegade Sect man through and through, he had not the slightest intention of passing up a free gift.
Deeply grateful for Jin Cheon's generosity.
Ẁе̇b̊ňо̄ v̇_ė l̈ Е̌ñ u̇ m ǎ
Tap!
He kicked off the ground.
Mount Tai Blade Art.
Whoooooosh—!
Heuk Do-chi's great blade, capable of splitting even a thick old tree in a single stroke, came crashing down as if to cleave Jin Cheon's skull in two.
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