CLS-Chapter 620

Chapter 620:

“What do you think would be best?”

“Even if you ask me that…”

Wei Yan-ho shrugged his shoulders.

Well, it wasn’t a problem that could be answered no matter who you asked.

If you were bitten by a venomous snake and had to amputate both legs to survive, who could easily ask to have their legs cut off?

Still, it would be better if you could choose for yourself. At least you could bear that responsibility yourself.

But what if you were bitten by a snake, lost consciousness, and when you opened your eyes both legs were already severed? Would words of rational gratitude for having your life saved come out of your mouth?

‘That’s impossible.’

Wei Jeong-han knew. Humans pretend to be very rational, but in fact they are beings who can never be truly rational. The moment humans become rational is when they discuss someone else’s affairs, not their own.

No one could coldly watch their own legs being cut off. And for a martial artist, losing internal energy was an even greater shock than having their legs severed.

He could guarantee that not a single martial artist would choose losing internal energy over cutting off their legs.

Although not all internal energy would disappear, that was equally meaningless. If your leg was cut off, could you be happy that it was cut below the knee rather than above it?

They would undoubtedly feel tremendous loss. And when humans suffer hardships they didn’t choose, they almost invariably look for someone to blame.

Sometimes it becomes god, sometimes the people around them. And this time it would probably be…

‘That guy.’

Wei Yan-ho. It had to be Wei Yan-ho.

Even if these people were miraculously healed and regained consciousness, they would never be grateful to Wei Yan-ho. It was obvious they would only remember the fact that Wei Yan-ho had absorbed their internal energy.

‘Well, how did it come to this?’

Wei Jeong-han let out a bitter laugh.

It was about saving people. But the price was more likely to be resentment rather than praise. And it wouldn’t be ordinary resentment either. There might even be those who would curse Wei Yan-ho to death.

As a father, could he ask his child to do such a thing?

“Just, let me think for a moment…”

“We don’t have that much time.”

“I know. Just a moment.”

“Yes, well, if that’s what you want…”

Wei Jeong-han held his head.

‘This is really…’

He couldn’t see a way forward. Common sense dictated that saving people should come first, no matter what happened. How many things in the world were more important than thousands of lives?

It wasn’t about sacrificing lives, and if thousands of lives could be saved in exchange for some criticism, there was no better deal than that.

The problem was that Wei Yan-ho wouldn’t benefit from it. So how could he force this upon him?

“You, what do you want to do?”

The others seemed to have caught on to how the situation was unfolding. They didn’t dare offer a single word of advice on this matter.

‘This is really messed up.’

‘How unlucky.’

This time they truly sympathized with Wei Yan-ho.

Jang-il shook his head.

‘If you look closely, that guy is really unlucky.’

No, thinking about it, he was blatantly unlucky. Of course, Wei Yan-ho’s ability to overcome crises was at its peak, so he had been overturning all the misfortunes that befell him and moving forward.

But thinking carefully, if he had failed to properly handle even one of the misfortunes that had come his way so far, Wei Yan-ho’s life would have been thoroughly twisted.

And the same was true this time.

‘What are we supposed to do about this?’

‘Get cursed if you save them, but you can’t just not save them either.’

Even the Zhuge family member couldn’t rashly open his mouth. Though his role was to come up with the most excellent strategy for Wei Yan-ho, even that Zhuge family member couldn’t find an answer right now.

“Isn’t there another way?”

“Would there be one?”

“…I suppose not.”

There couldn’t be such a thing. They should consider themselves fortunate that they could somehow treat and save those who were dying. But a good direction where no one gets hurt?

There couldn’t be such a convenient thing in the world. The world wasn’t that easy.

“Then…”

Wei Jeong-han ultimately had no choice but to make a decision. This was a matter he dared not speak about. If Wei Yan-ho had to endure everything, then that decision too had to be left entirely to Wei Yan-ho.

“What do you want to do?”

He thought an answer wouldn’t come easily. But surprisingly, Wei Yan-ho answered without a moment’s hesitation.

“If it’s a problem either way… we have to save people.”

“…Right.”

Bitterness seeped into Wei Jeong-han’s voice.

‘He’s grown up a lot.’

He felt foolish for having worried. Wei Yan-ho had already established his own principles, hadn’t he?

Where could there be principles greater than saving people?

Wei Jeong-han closed his eyes tightly.

Even though thousands of lives were at stake, he couldn’t easily make a decision because he feared the criticism and resentment his son would receive. How could Wei Jeong-han call himself the Righteous Hero Sword with such an attitude?

Wei Yan-ho had re-established the principles that had been dulled by being swayed by emotion. The current Wei Yan-ho truly deserved to be called a righteous hero.

“Yes, well said…”

Wei Jeong-han was speaking with a somewhat moved heart when his head turned sideways.

‘Huh?’

Wei Yan-ho’s expression was a bit strange.

That guy, right now…

Huh?

“Yan-ho?”

“Yes?”

“…I don’t know if I’m seeing things wrong, but are you drooling right now?”

“No, I’m not!”

Wei Yan-ho hurriedly wiped the corner of his mouth with his sleeve.

“…”

“…”

Everyone stared at Wei Yan-ho blankly.

This bastard, surely not?

Jang-il voiced everyone’s suspicion.

“You’re not happy right now because you can absorb internal energy, are you?”

“Wh-wh-what nonsense are you talking about!”

At this moment, Jang-il could be certain of one thing.

Wei Yan-ho might be unlucky, annoying, someone who turned people’s insides upside down, and a human scumbag whose every word grated on people’s nerves, but…

‘He’s an incredibly honest person.’

To be this bad at lying.

This human was hopeless at deceiving anyone from the start.

Look at that face burning red, those eyes that couldn’t find where to look, and that stammering mouth. Even a three-year-old child could tell he was lying.

‘Then everything this guy has said and done so far has been the truth without a single lie…’

That was scary in its own way.

“Hey, you bastard! There are other things to be happy about!”

“Why? Should I cry from sadness instead!”

“…”

“They’re going to die anyway if left alone! How is treating them like this not better! It’s not like I’m treating them to get that! If I have to treat them, there’s no choice, so what do you want me to do!”

“Th-that’s true, but…”

“I’m not asking for money! I’m not asking for anything! When a doctor treats patients, if their medical skills improve while treating them, that’s unavoidable! But asking me to be sad about that – does that even make sense!”

And that mouth was becoming more and more eloquent as time went on.

Unfortunately, Jang-il couldn’t find any flaws in Wei Yan-ho’s logic.

“But Yan-ho.”

“Yes?”

Wei Jeong-han added a word.

“The thinking itself isn’t wrong, but humans aren’t that rational. These people will definitely resent you.”

“It’s okay.”

“…It’s not such a simple problem.”

“No, well, it’s not like they would like me if I didn’t do this anyway, right?”

“What?”

Wei Yan-ho opened his eyes wide and said,

“They’re people I originally don’t know well and have no particular relationship with… So do I have to live worrying about what people think of me one by one?”

“…”

Jang-il almost clapped.

What a pure and clear way of living this was.

As someone who knew well how difficult it was to live without caring about others’ eyes and reputation, Jang-il could only praise Wei Yan-ho’s unwavering spirit.

‘Of course someone like that would live that way.’

Looking back, no human who cared even a little about others’ gazes could live like Wei Yan-ho.

Wasn’t Wei Yan-ho the one who remained completely unshaken and lazy despite receiving countless glares?

“It would be fine if they just disliked you. But there will be people who try to harm you.”

“Who?”

“These people.”

“So who exactly?”

“…”

Wei Jeong-han’s eyes trembled slightly.

Harm?

Uh… Wei Yan-ho?

‘What nonsense am I saying right now?’

Wei Jeong-han suddenly realized what kind of person his son was.

‘The people here are going to harm my son?’

That didn’t make sense.

How could mice harm a tiger? At most they could bite the tiger’s tail while it slept. After that, all that would remain was being devoured.

No matter how much resentment they held, there wouldn’t be anyone bold enough to try to vent that resentment on Wei Yan-ho. Life was precious to everyone.

“Then?”

Wei Yan-ho slightly pushed out his belly.

“If they feel wronged, tell them to come complain. I’ll resolve it well through dialogue.”

Physical dialogue, that is.

The biggest problem was resolved(?). Wei Jeong-han could no longer stop Wei Yan-ho.

‘It’ll work out somehow.’

And when has any of Wei Yan-ho’s actions ever been sensible and safe? This was just an extension of that anyway.

“Do whatever you want.”

“Yes.”

Wei Yan-ho giggled and grabbed the wrist of someone lying down.

“Well then, cleanly…!”

Wooooong!

Wei Jeong-han’s eyes widened slightly.

‘What’s that?’

The moment Wei Yan-ho grabbed the wrist, light burst forth from his body.

It was a common occurrence.

It would be surprising for someone seeing it for the first time, but it wasn’t something that would surprise Wei Jeong-han at this point. But he couldn’t help but be surprised.

Because it was clearly visible that what was emitting light wasn’t Wei Yan-ho, but something inside Wei Yan-ho’s belly.

‘A bead?’

A bead about the size of a child’s fist that emitted pure white light was clearly visible inside Wei Yan-ho’s body. It was penetrating through Wei Yan-ho’s body and emitting dazzling light.

And then…

“Gasp!”

The flow of light suddenly moved through Wei Yan-ho’s body, then transferred to the fallen person’s body through the wrist.

“…”

It felt like looking inside someone else’s organs with the naked eye. The flow of light swept through the Eight Extraordinary Meridians and completely through all the minute meridians throughout the entire body. Then it returned to Wei Yan-ho’s body.

At first it was blindingly white light, but by the time it returned, you could see with your own eyes that it was mixed with some black.

“Th-that…”

Wei Yan-ho released his hand from the wrist.

“Mm, this is definitely purer than the last one. Last time there was too much poison and impure energy so it didn’t taste good, but this time it’s what you might call a clean taste?”

“…”

“Well then…”

Wei Yan-ho grinned.

“Today’s a day for overeating. Ehihihihihit.“

Now I don’t know.

I really don’t know.