298. East, Yue Kingdom (25)
From the moment I first set foot in Wolyounghoe, I was bound to have many question marks, and Howol continued to answer my questions without hesitation.
“The organizational structure of Wolyeonghoe is sometimes compared to a tree. To be exact, it is a peach tree, which was the symbol of the Lord. The closer you get to the roots, the more you learn about Wolyeonghoe, and you are considered an important person… Cho (梢) is, among other things, an executive position given to two promising young people who have been recognized for their skills at the end of the branch. The current left-hander is Raijin, and the right-hander is a woman named ‘Nahwa’… Nahwa is busy with work and is currently here. “Not in.”
After listening to the explanation, Wolyounghoe seemed to have a fairly systematic organizational structure.
In short, Strand and Ucho appeared to be similar to the later exponents of the Patriotic War.
I was curious about this, so I asked Howell, who was looking at Raijin’s condition, again.
“Why are these people joining the Wolyeonghoe?”
How did someone with talent so outstanding that he was accepted into the royal guard end up in the Wolyeonghoe?
“There are two types of people in Wolyeonghoe. One side collects lost children like the ones we met earlier, provides education to them, and when those children grow up, they naturally join Wolyeonghoe. That’s the case. That’s the case with me and Raijin. Raijin and I grew up together in this Doam Cave since we were young.”
“Then the other side…”
“You may have already heard of it since you said you had a conversation with Hanzo’s ghost earlier. It’s a case where you like the ideas of Lord Hoe or Lord Cheongyeol Baek and want to join in with them. In the past, this was the majority of cases. , Unfortunately, after the absence of the Lord of the Association, the ratio naturally decreased. The representative figure in the current Wolyeonghoe is ‘Nahwa’, which I explained earlier.”
After Baekdohwa and Baekcheongyeol, which were the reason for the powerful to gather together, disappeared, the number of cases of the latter was bound to decrease.
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After understanding Howell’s explanation, I nodded her head slightly and turned my gaze elsewhere.
There was another group of people in one corner of the medical room, and they looked suspicious even though they were wearing pitch black masks.
They weren’t particularly unconscious like Raijin, but they remained silent as they stared at me.
Howell soon introduces them.
“This is the Muyoung, the pride of the Wolyeonghoe. They are trustworthy assassins who have learned the Lord Hoe’s vision techniques that have been passed down from the distant past. They seem honored to have met Kaen.”
“You mean the same…?”
“…I’ll go out and explain that.”
Howell demanded as he walked out of her medical room with a wry smile. As we follow Howol, she opens her mouth again.
“Muyeongs are made up of people who suffer from inconveniences in their physical functions, whether congenital or acquired. Some of them are unable to raise their voices. However, since their job is work, there are times when their silence becomes an advantage. There are many. That does not mean that all those with physical disabilities become Muyeongs, but most of them choose to become Muyeongs. It is also the only way to learn Hoeju’s vision skills. Perhaps that is why they all take pride in their work.”
It’s a vision technology.
I don’t know what amazing technology it was that I made something like that in my past life, but I wasn’t surprised anymore so I didn’t ask about it.
“No one is born worthless. Your worth depends solely on your abilities. So, do not fall easily.”
“Perhaps Baek Do-hwa said something like that in the past…”
“Yes, it is one of the sayings that the Lord of the Society left behind. Most of them were discriminated against wherever they went, so the reason they chose that path was to express their gratitude to the Wolyeonghoe and the Lord of the Society for accepting them without any hesitation. “I think it’s their own way.”
“Then why is Wolyeonghoe helping orphans and the disabled?”
“…After the absence of the chairman, Wolyeonghoe ceased to be a simple organization. To be more precise, I should say that it had no choice but to increase its size. However, the first vice-owner was called to fit the purpose of the chairman, even if the size was increased. “He thought he had to leave. As a result, all the words the chairman left behind became Wolyeonghoe’s operating policy.”
“I didn’t understand it earlier, but what specifically did Baek Do-hwa leave behind?”
“Ah, that’s what you were curious about. We, Wolyeonghoe, have a diary containing the life of Lord Hoe.”
“Baek Do-hwa’s diary…?”
The diary I wrote in my past life became the operating policy of the organization I created in my previous life.
This was not simply a question of whether you could believe it or not, but a question of whether you were reluctant or not.
I can’t believe someone else is reading my diary.
They say the dead don’t speak, but is it okay to do so without permission?
“…Don’t worry too much. The Lord’s diary itself is strictly controlled so that only the current Vice Lord and the person designated as the next Vice Lord can read it.”
Howell soon read the emotions on my face and responded like that.
“……”
Anyway, I didn’t think it was a problem for me to say anything about, so I didn’t say anything.
However, it wasn’t that I didn’t like the current management method of Wolyeonghoe.
No one is born worthless.
Is it because there is a person around me who serves as an example of that saying? It was a sentence that conveyed deep resonance.
The problem was that I couldn’t tell if Baek Do-hwa and I felt that way because they were the same person, or if we were simply influenced by ‘him’.
Anyway, it is true that Wolyeonghoe does good things, but it does not mean that it is a well-intentioned group that only does good things. Howell added an explanation, saying that you can tell this just by looking at Muyoung right now.
There are cases where people end up killing people while running an organization. Well, most of the targets were evil people, but that didn’t mean they were very clean either.
It is said that the purpose of Wolyeonghoe has not changed since a very long time.
Howol did not explain what the purpose was, but he knew this from Hanzo before.
‘Baekcheongyeol’s escort.’
I wonder if it applies even after reincarnation, but it seems clear that the purpose has never changed.
She seemed to be sparing her words, fearing that Howol might feel that revealing the purpose of the Wolyeong meeting was coercive.
By the way, there were all sorts of things inside Doam Cave.
From a restaurant where you can taste various foods to a classroom or training center that provides education to children.
This entire cave was a city and a village.
Now I couldn’t even guess how huge this Doam Cave was.
The last place we arrived was a room filled with piles of documents.
“This is the department that manages information. Wolyeonghoe paid a lot of attention to ‘information’ to the point where it built its own information network early on. Thanks to that, I was able to meet Kaen.”
“…Everyone is so enthusiastic.”
So many people were stuck in a pile of documents that it could be safely considered an information guild, looking through them intently.
If there is one thing in common between them and the Information Guild, it is that most of the people doing paperwork have stayed up for three days and nights.
“……”
Soon after, a young man who was sitting at her desk watching her and I made eye contact with her, and he waved his arm and made a gesture towards her.
“…Umm. Um. Ah.”
I seemed to understand what he was saying just by gesturing with my hands, but then Howol looked at me and asked me a question.
“Kaen, is there anyone around you who has black hair and clear eyes?”
It was a somewhat unexpected question considering the man’s loud movements.
“Black-haired Byeok-an…?”
“…I presume it’s probably a man. It may not necessarily be someone nearby. It doesn’t matter if you’ve encountered it at least once.”
The black-haired man behind the wall.
The only person that came to mind was ‘him’.
“Are you talking about Jeto?”
“Yes…?!”
Howol is startled when he hears me muttering.
“I guess you know who he is.”
“If it was someone close to Kaen, we did some research. Well, he is also a famous person among the cadets…”
“I can’t think of anything else other than black hair.”
That’s because there weren’t many black hairs in the academy, so the only one around me with black hair was Zeto, and he was the ‘man’ with blue eyes.
“But he…”
Howell trailed off as if that could not have happened.
“Oh, he usually covers it with a bandage. Well, I’ve only seen him once. When he woke up from the coffin.”
“Well, it can’t be… It can’t be…”
Suddenly Howol sits down.
What is happening?
Could it be that they also realize to some extent that Jeto is the reincarnation of Baek Cheon-gyeol?
***
Howell felt dizzy.
‘The Baek Cheon-gyeol I know is definitely…’
She wanted to deny that Baek Cheon-gyeol’s reincarnation was Jeto.
Baek Cheon-gyeol, whom she encountered in Baek Do-hwa’s diary, who was the next vice president, was a man with a single-minded attitude toward Baek Do-hwa.
But what was Zeto like?
The image of Baek Cheon-gyeol in Howol’s mind was not that kind of flirtatious man.
She had previously discussed the reincarnation of Baekcheon-gyeol with Buhoeju.
When Vice President asked whether there would be a need to separately investigate the color of Zeto’s eyes, she answered that he would never be.
Jeto was excluded from the list of Baek Cheon-gyeol’s presumed reincarnation figures.
At least, Howell wanted to believe that.
‘There’s no way our Baek Cheon-gyeol is a playboy, right? Right? It’s a relationship that lasted even after death, but there’s no way he was flaunting an affair with another woman, let alone meeting fate…?’
What is important here is that Howell was a very common sense girl.
And Zeto’s plan to embrace everyone was clearly on the nonsensical side.
To Howell, who had no way of knowing this, Zeto naturally seemed like a womanizer or a womanizer with a good-looking face.
Of course, it was not immediately clear that he was Baek Cheon-gyeol’s reincarnation, but even so, Howol could not shake off the ominous feeling.
In fact, it was an unmistakable fact that Jeto was the reincarnation of Baek Cheon-gyeol.
‘What should I do…? ‘What should I do…?’
Tears well up in Howol’s eyes.
In her mind, the words she had spoken to Jeto were flashing like a flash of light.
It wasn’t that big of a deal to leave it off the list.
The informants who would learn of this fact later would be furious, but even that was no big deal compared to the ‘remarks’ she made.
That’s right bi***. You better cry.