Boy Monster Chapter 68

By the way, there was something the Vice Commander had hidden. Now, before the incident was reported to the Government-General, was the safest time to find out what secret he had tried to keep from his subordinate.

After a short break, Jang Hwonwoo flew high to avoid the eyes of passersby and snuck near the Vice Commander’s mansion.

Late at night, the mansion was in an uproar. The policemen who had rushed in to report the Vice Commander’s death were in disarray, and the sound of crying flowed over the wall. Jang Hwonwoo hid in the shadows in a corner of the wall and waited for the right moment. Right after the news of the Vice Commander’s death swept through the mansion, family and relatives got into cars and left. Only a few house servants remained in the large mansion.

Jang Hwonwoo took note of the appearance of the servant who was seeing off the masters of the mansion, then disguised himself as the servant with the most similar build and slipped into the house.

His first target was the Vice Commander’s study. After successfully hiding and entering the Vice Commander’s room without being caught, Jang Hwonwoo quickly rummaged through the desk. It was thanks to the search skills he had honed through his past missions. He searched through letters and document boxes, but he couldn’t see any secret worth hiding. All he found was a suspicious key that didn’t fit any of the door knobs in this house.

Jang Hwonwoo’s sharp search as he looked around the study reached a windowless closet. There was a tiny gap between the bottom of the closet and the floor. He approached the wall and pushed the bookshelf aside, revealing a staircase leading down. Below it was a basement storage.

The key he found in the drawer fit perfectly into the firmly locked padlock of the storage.

Opening the door, Jang Hwonwoo wrinkled his nose at a familiar smell.

It was a vivid smell. It was the scent he had smelled all night on the day he was beaten by the head of the family and locked in the storage room in place of Jae Eunho, who had skipped his pills. This was the smell of insects and sorcery intertwined, rotting.

Jang Hwonwoo used his Hwelju’s fire-starting ability to create a faint flame at his fingertips. Sure enough, a large crock pot appeared in his brightened vision.

Using his telekinesis, he untied the amulet and silk thread sealing the mouth of the crock pot and lifted the lid, and a foul stench hit his nose. Jang Hwonwoo, looking inside the pot, narrowed his brow at the eerie sight and pinched his nose.

“Damn it. So this was it.”

Yeommae (厭魅). A curse that uses the corpse of a young child as a totem. Maggots, centipedes, and insects rolled over the bones of the decaying corpse.

It was one of the forbidden black magic spells. If the head shaman had known about this, she would have been furious and would have stayed away from the mansion for days.

This meant that the family head had created this curse for the Vice Commander. Black magic like Yeommae or Gwijadeukhwalsul were curses that could backfire on the family head, so there was no way he would have simply agreed to such a dangerous spell. Who was he cursing that he would agree to it? Who was the target that the Vice Commander and the family head had conspired to curse? Prince Uichin? The leader of the Chinese army?

Jang Hwonwoo mobilized his remaining telekinesis to dig through the mass of sticky fluid that had become of the maggots and found a spellbook hidden deep beneath the rotten corpse.

A blood-written letter in Chinese characters, written with the family head’s blood, floated up above the crock pot. Jang Hwonwoo’s pupils widened as he confirmed the target of the curse.

‘…!’

The ones they were trying to kill were the highest-ranking generals of the Japanese military.

The Minister of the Army, the Minister of the Navy, the Minister of the Air Force. And even the Emperor’s name….

‘Japan is on the verge of defeat. That is a self-evident fact.’

Amidst the stench, the contents of the spellbook, soaked in a sticky, dark red liquid, were as follows.

Japan is now a runaway train hurtling forward blindly. The inside of the country is devastated by war and the economic structure is shaken, with the revolts of its subjects growing fiercer by the day, yet to quell the public’s discontent and turn their eyes outward, they invade even Southeast Asia and cry for a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. They are trying to reverse the tide of this war, which they are sure to lose, with Sa Hwelju’s power. By the Emperor’s side are only close aides who blindly cheer for victory and flatter him, so they are even trying to fight America recklessly, pinning their hopes on the Sa Hwelju experiment. If we do not eliminate the decision-makers drunk on war, Japan will continue to accelerate towards its ruin….

The Vice Commander and the family head had audaciously tried to kill the Emperor and the military leaders with a curse!

Jang Hwonwoo used his telekinesis to hide the spellbook deep in its original place and closed the lid of the crock pot. As he safely escaped the unlit mansion, fatigue washed over him, but a feeling of joy came with it.

Even within the Japanese army, some generals were rebelling against the top decision-makers who were driving them to the battlefields of death and seppuku. Jang Hwonwoo, having confirmed the state of the world war, couldn’t hide his joy.

Japan will fall into the pit of defeat on its own. It will be thoroughly ruined and will have no choice but to let go of all its colonies.

That wasn’t the only good news Jang Hwonwoo had unearthed.

The family head, who planned this black magic together and even performed the Yeommae (厭魅) himself, must be quite scared by the Vice Commander’s death……. He’ll come looking for me, frantic with worry about being caught. He’ll be on edge throughout the investigation. Now, when he’s mentally shaken, is the best time to drive him to ruin…….

The opportune time to push out the family head and take over the Sashimcheon family has come. It’s now.

Now no one will be able to use Jae Eunho as they please.

Because Jae Eunho will become the property of Jang Hwonwoo, the new head of the Sashimcheon family.

Jang Hwonwoo, holding the weakness that would even oust the family head, left the Vice Commander’s mansion at a leisurely pace with a faint smile. After returning to the Sashimcheon mansion, he didn’t forget to establish a solid alibi. He set the clock two hours forward to the time he had carried out the great deed at the brothel, then loitered around the kitchen to deliberately wake up his attendant. After a brief chat, saying he couldn’t sleep late at night, he confirmed the attendant had returned to his room and turned the clock back.

Jang Hwonwoo’s long night came to an end after he opened Jae Eunho’s door, confirmed he was sound asleep, and closed his eyes.

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<Shocking! A Brutal Murder of Insubordination! Gunshots Ring Out at a Drinking Party>

Vice Commander of the Army Stationed in Joseon, Division Commander, Dead After a Bloody Fight — Yesterday’s Comrades Become Today’s Enemies, Ending in Tragedy.

Jang Hwonwoo and the family head, who had been summoned to the Government-General, had not yet returned. The interrogation was dragging on. It was already dark evening. The gentle light flowing from the paper lantern created butterfly-shaped shadows in the dark room.

“Haa….”

Feeling stuffy, Jae Eunho left his room and wandered around the courtyard of the main building.

The Vice Commander had fired his gun and killed his subordinate just before he died. The Vice Commander was brutally murdered due to the grudges he had accumulated, and according to the officer who inspected the scene, he had not seen such a gruesome corpse in recent years.

—I want him so much. I only think about copulating with that person. Every night. It’s to the point of being painful.

The sparkling eyes of Jang Hwonwoo as he said those words, and the image of Jang Hwonwoo who had brutally succeeded in the great deed, played separately in his mind. It was incredibly difficult to reconcile the two.

A little while ago, Jae Eunho had taken a fake pill that he had swapped with the real one in front of the Hoguk monk guarding the family head. He had taken the risk in case Jang Hwonwoo was in danger during the interrogation and he might need to use his sensory ability.

As Jae Eunho anxiously paced the courtyard, the clamor at the main gate reached his ears. Seeing the Yeonri making a fuss, it seemed Jang Hwonwoo had returned.

“Are you okay? You’re not hurt anywhere?”

“Hwonwoo-nim, I was worried!”

Jae Eunho ran to the plum tree and looked at the gate from a distance. Jang Hwonwoo’s head was turned towards Jae Eunho from a high place.

Eunho secretly waved at Jang Hwonwoo. Jang Hwonwoo, who returned the greeting with his eyes, looked healthy, as if he hadn’t been tortured. It was enough that he was safe. Jae Eunho, with a face of relief, turned and headed to his room. Jang Hwonwoo would probably come to see Jae Eunho after talking with the mansion’s Hoguk master and the head shaman.

However, as he entered the dark hallway lit by the paper lantern, Jang Hwonwoo came running up the stairs, panting.

“Seonsaengnim.”

Jae Eunho did not push away the large figure that rushed to embrace him. He hugged Jang Hwonwoo’s back tightly and inhaled the unfamiliar scent that had clung to him from the interrogation room.

“You’re not hurt anywhere? Why… did you carry out the deed on your own, as you pleased?”

As he asked like he was nagging, caressing his cheek, Jang Hwonwoo let out a breathy sigh and pressed his face closer.

“The investigation was long, but there was no torture. As for the deed, the situation that day was optimal, so I had no choice.”

“…I also took a fake pill just now, as I pleased.”

“Why did you do that. It’s dangerous…,”

“Because I was worried about you. In case I had to use my ability. I was so… worried….”

Jang Hwonwoo gazed at Eunho with wet eyes for a long while before pressing their lips together. Moving into the room lit only by the paper lantern, the two couldn’t contain their passion and shared a heated kiss. Hot breath poured onto their cheeks, and hot saliva flowed in their entangled mouths. Rough breaths burst from between their lips as they sucked on each other’s, as if to get no hotter.

At the sound of people from the mansion entering the main building, the two had to pull their lips apart. Jang Hwonwoo, who brushed his hair back with a regretful breath, said.

“If you wait just a few days, you won’t have to worry about anyone’s eyes.”

“…Why?”

A few days later, Jae Eunho understood what Jang Hwonwoo had meant.

The event that shocked Jae Eunho even more than the brutal assassination was the process of Jang Hwonwoo ousting the family head. Without shedding a single drop of blood, Jang Hwonwoo made the position the family head had held for decades his own in just a few days.

The beginning was the family head’s black magic. Immediately after the murder, Hiroshi, who was a member of the Japanese military, and the family head were also investigated. Jang Hwonwoo was quickly cleared of suspicion as there were witnesses who had seen him at the mansion that night, and he had no contact with the Vice Commander, such as taking up a hobby of dawn hiking a few days before the incident. However, the family head’s case was different. Not only had he been drinking with him at the brothel two or three days before the incident, but he was also loitering near the Vice Commander’s mansion the morning after it happened, which raised great suspicion.