Episode 199

Hearing the shout from Ho Yeon-ji, Dan Somi looked at Jumun Won in shock.

Her face went pale at what she saw.

Finally, the man raised his hand and swung it at Dan Somi.

Slash!

“Kuak!”

The raised hand did not achieve its purpose. Baek Myo, which was hiding in her hands, reached up and scratched him.

Jumun Won was shocked at how fiercely the Cat moved and stepped back.

Blood flowed down his chest from the scratch.

“A Spiritual Beast?”

Baek Myo stood in front of Jumun Won, keeping its fur standing and watching him. Its golden eyes looked fiercely now like they would not miss a single movement from Jumun Won.

Jumun Won who had no idea that she held something like this, looked at his chest. The blood flow wasn’t stopping.

He didn’t feel pain but he realized the claws had dug in deeper than he thought.

‘We don’t have time!’

He knew that the child was from the Hunan Dan family and there was this damned woman from the Ho Yeon family too, so he had to react swiftly.

Just because he felt no pain it didn’t mean that the bleeding would stop and if all the blood was gone from his body, even if he was Jumun Won, he would die.

So he had to get stronger.

He moved his body. Although his internal qi wasn’t the same, his martial arts skills weren’t poor enough to lose to a small Spiritual Beast.

He stretched his hand out.

Kwang!

“Somi!”

In the meantime, Ho Yeon-ji rushed and grabbed Dan Somi’s hand.

The sound of a violent explosion defeaned her ears but she just wanted to leave this place.

And so they went down the rough mountain path.

Even when she slipped and her clothes were torn, even when the branches were cutting into her, her grip on Dan Somi didn’t loosen; she had to keep this child safe.

‘Why is that man…!’

In such a place?

Looking like that?

Ho Yeon-ji glanced back and looked back. Maybe he was struggling with the cuts from the White Cat, but he was following them.

And that gap they have created wouldn’t last for long.

Jumun Won was gradually gaining on them. It was a move which would surprise even Baek Myo.

It seemed like if they didn’t run further ahead, then he would quickly follow after them.

“Ha, haa, unnie?”

Dan Somi tilted her head, unable to understand the situation. The man was nice to her until a moment ago, but then he turned really horrible like a demon.

Dan Somi looked like she would cry at any moment. But she knew that this wasn’t the time to do that so she silently moved with Ho Yeon-ji.

Bang!

There was a loud roar again and Dan Somi looked behind her.

Baek Myo hadn’t followed them yet.

And this broke the heart of that child.

Puak!

“Ack!”

That was the moment when Ho Yeon-ji, who was hit by something, fell down and hugged Dan Somi.

She was rolling around and crouching to protect Dan Somi at all costs.

“Did you think you could run?”

A person appeared, smiling, and it was none other than Jumun Won.

There were what appeared to be wounds inflicted by the Cat. Although it was clear that any ordinary person wouldn’t be able to control their body in pain, Jumun Won seemed unfazed by it all.

He seemed like a man who didn’t register what pain was.

“Seeing us meet here like this, it feels as if the Heavens are helping me.”

Jumun Won let out a low chuckle and looked at both women. The moment she fell, Dan Somi had already lost consciousness.

Ho Yeon-ji was hugging her and gritting her teeth.

She had to get out of this place somehow.

“If that is true, then I need to curse the Heavens.”

“If the Heavens can help you, how can there be no one to save you?”

Jumun Won grinned and stepped closer to her. He gradually narrowed the distance till he was right in front of her and lifted her face so she was looking at him.

“How can you show up in front of me with no force?”

“Kuak!”

Ho Yeon-ji spat on his face.

As her spit dripped down, Jumun Won smiled wider, wiping it off. Although her gaze was strong now, soon, she would feel despair.

Shhh…

That was when Jumun Won startled.

His eyes looked all around. But he couldn’t see what was moving at all.

‘Is it just the sound of the wind?’

He tried to overcome it that way, but it felt like something heavy was moving.

Shhh!

“Who is it!?”

Right.

Surely there was someone.

At this, all his thoughts vanished.

Maybe that Spiritual Beast he saw earlier had come back? But even if it wasn’t possible to kill it, he wondered if the Beast would be able to survive after the injury it sustained.

That couldn’t be it then.

Because the force he was feeling now felt colossal.

The Spiritual Beast who was smaller in form, also emanated an amazing pressure, but now it felt like this was one was on a whole different level.

Jumun Won suddenly opened his eyes wide and looked around.

Shhh…!

He turned his head quickly at the sound he heard. And that was when something huge came out of the bushes.

Kwaaang!

“White Tiger!?”

It opened its large mouth and aimed right for Jumun Won’s neck. The distance was so close that he couldn’t do anything, so he just blocked its mouth with his arm.

Kwak!

But the White Tiger expected it and bit his arm and ripped it off like a leisurely, everyday game.

The White Tiger, which landed down lightly, looked at Jumun Won, who didn’t groan oddly.

And it spat out the arm in its mouth.

“You…”

He couldn’t help but be shocked at the sudden appearance of a White Tiger here.

It didn’t seem like it came here for the purpose of hunting. This is because as the gaze of the White Tiger alternated between Ho Yeon-ji and him, he saw the difference in how it looked at the woman and how it looked at him.

The enormous eyes were giving out this eerie feeling but Jumun Won wasn’t the kind to step back, he raised one hand up and unleashed the strength.

Kwang!

And the White Tiger dodged the qi from his hand.

Jumun Won had lost one arm. And because of that, the balance of his body had to be righted, and he couldn’t get it right.

What strength he had left felt diminished and it only provided an opportunity for the White Tiger to strike. And so, it moved like it would bite him down.

He tried to move his body but because of its agile movements, the Tiger flew in and swung its paws.

Shh…!

Even so, his chest was slashed open by the White Cat before and now the large claws sank deeper, right before his ribs.

It felt like it was cutting into everything.

And during that time, Ho Yeon-ji’s dagger found its way into his chest. Burrowing deeper, she made sure it reached his heart.

Jumun Won couldn’t feel pain even in this situation, he didn’t think this could be real.

The slash was too much.

And he didn’t even notice the woman until she approached him?

Jumun Won looked at the Tiger with trembling lips—the presence of this beast was so overwhelming that he couldn’t detect that woman’s presence.

And the moment he frowned thinking of the mistake he made.

The sharp teeth of the White Tiger came for him.

Jaws wide open to bite down anything in its way, and it seemed as if there was nothing it couldn’t bite through.

And without realizing he smiled.

‘I… Jumun Won…’

His last moments in Hunan, where no one was supposed to surpass him.

Crush!

The White Tiger came in and snapped off his neck. The neck and head were seperated with the leftover blood in the body flowing down and the body went limp.

Flinch!

Jumun Won’s body convulsed as the head was severed and the White Tiger threw the head in its mouth to the side.

It licked the blood all around its mouth as if it had been a long time since it tasted blood.

“Haa… haa… haaa…”

Even as Ho Yeon-ji looked at the body of Jumun Won, where the dagger she stabbed him with was embedded, she didn’t know if this was real or not.

And slowly raised her hand which was soaked in blood with this odd fishy smell coming from it.

“Sigh….”

She sighed at the numerous emotions coursing through her body.

Since she pierced the sword of his man with her own hands it can be called as revenge. And she couldn’t believe that she finally got her revenge.

Her beating heart wasn’t calming down. But this time, she wasn’t going to get too caught up in the emotions.

Dan Somi was still unconscious, and if she woke up now, she would be terrified from these visuals.

Because she didn’t want the child to see all this, Ho Yeon-ji looked at Baekho and said,

“Somi… can you take her to a place where there’s water?”

Baekho looked at her; it had already licked off the blood on its body and went to stand next to Dan Somi.

Ho Yeon-ji wiped her bloody hands and carefully placed Dan Somi onto Baekho’s back.

Meow!

It was then that a small sound came.

And it arrived just in time. Baek Myo jumped next to Dan Somi.

Like it would guard her too.

Ho Yeon-ji looked at this and smiled.

“Let’s go to a place with water. After we wash off the blood, we need to get away from here as soon as possible.”

Before Dan Somi wakes.

Before leaving, she looked back at Jumun Won’s body one last time.

She spat and turned her head.

After the Ho Yeon family was annihilated, Ho Yeon-ji, who has never laid down those heavy feelings, felt a bit lighter as she moved now.