The Terminally Ill Young Master is the Mad Dog of the Underworld
Chapter 242

[Translator - Pot ]

[Proofreader - Kawaii ]

Chapter 242: True Purpose

"I'm tired but can't even sleep properly. What a pitiful state I'm in."

Perhaps it was Venion's tip, but I dragged the personal guard members out in the middle of the night for training.

"If there's anyone who sees this Young Master Allenvert's sword today and their blood doesn't boil with the urge to train, they'll be transferred out immediately."

"If there's such a person, they wouldn't be a warrior!"

"Good, that's reassuring."

I walked around checking their stances, then pointed to Kaimak to start instructional sparring.

"Please take care of me!"

"Let's start right away."

I drew one of my bracelet swords and parried Kaimak's sword strike.

"Haaaam. Ah, sorry about that."

I was so sleepy that I yawned involuntarily.

"My goodness! To yawn while facing this Kaimak's sword, you're truly amazing, sir!"

"Your interpretation is excessively positive."

I squeezed my eyes shut and opened them to drive away the drowsiness, then used a defensive technique imitating Siena's Black Hawk Soul-Binding Sword Technique to close the distance with Kaimak.

Then—

"Your waist is open."

I aimed for a momentary gap and cut Kaimak's belt.

"Whoa!"

At the sword strike that cut precisely only the belt as it passed, Kaimak rubbed his forearm.

"This is really, wow! It gives me chills, young master!"

"It's not over yet, so shut your mouth and raise your sword."

"Yes sir!"

I then executed the offensive sword techniques of the Black Hawk Soul-Binding Sword Technique.

Clang clang clang clang clang!

A dazzling yet perfectly efficient chain of sword strikes began pressuring Kaimak.

'I deliberately don't go deeper and narrow down the opponent's options until a definite opportunity comes.'

Until the opponent feels frustrated.

"Grr!"

It's best when impatience leads to a reckless counterattack.

"Your patience is lacking."

The rough sword strike he swung to somehow shake me off, I gently deflected while executing the palm technique of the Flowing Cloud Thunder Fist on his chest.

"Ugh!"

Or pretending to, then immediately stopped right in front and grabbed Kaimak's collar with that same hand, tripping him and throwing him down.

"Gah!"

Kaimak, who fell without a chance to break his fall, immediately got back up.

"I'll challenge you once more!"

What is he, a roly-poly toy?

"Fine, try to endure better this time."

I repeated the exact same attack to corner Kaimak.

"Just taking a defensive stance doesn't mean opportunities will come."

Swish!

I stopped my blade right in front of the completely defenseless Kaimak.

"Hup."

Kaimak had an expression showing he couldn't understand why he was unable to respond at all.

"You focused too much on the middle section this time, so you were late to respond to the upper section."

"Mm! I got hit again! It's an honor!"

"I don't understand why you're so cheerful."

"Isn't it quite stylish for someone who's supposedly a noble young master in white to train in martial arts wearing these dust-covered clothes?"

"Is that stylish?"

"Who could know what's in his head, young master?"

Jeffrey snorted.

"That's true."

While I was tossing Kaimak around this way and that, Jeffrey and Taris were trying to imitate various movements I had shown in the fight with Siena.

"Did you twist like this?"

"Yes. Then I would lose balance like this..."

"That's the difficult part. How can you control the flow of power so perfectly?"

Jeffrey grumbled.

"It's not about controlling it."

I advised.

"You understand the direction of freely rampaging power and gently push, pull, and twist it. There's no need to be forceful at all."

Jeffrey blinked several times and looked at Taris.

"...Do you understand what he's saying?"

"If I could do that, I'd be your superior."

"Well, that's true."

I listened to the conversation of these two pathetic men and nodded.

"Good, this Young Master Allenvert is becoming an example for you all."

"I too will strive hardeeeer!"

Kaimak shouted.

"Mm, full of spirit."

I moistened my throat with water and briefly looked up at the sky.

'Huh?'

I felt something catch in the web of mana sense I had habitually spread out.

'This is the presence of someone I know?'

I immediately activated Insight Star and confirmed the presence of someone moving stealthily at high speed.

'...No doubt about it. That's Siena.'

I couldn't mistake the wavelength of power from the Falling Star Beneath the Azure Night Cultivation technique, a cultivation technique quite different from that of Grunewald.

'Huh? What? She's leaving the castle?'

I was puzzled by Siena's presence disappearing outside the castle in an instant.

'Could it be.'

Is this what Venion was talking about?

'How absurd.'

How did Venion know about this, and why is Siena doing that?

Questions flooded my mind, but hesitation only delays action.

"Taris. Go get the Mask of Aminicrus."

When I ordered with a serious expression, Taris answered immediately.

"Yes. Where can I find it?"

"Ask Peter."

"Understood."

Taris ran off quickly, and I turned to Jeffrey.

"I need to go out. Something seems to have happened again."

"...There's never a peaceful day."

"Stand by. You probably won't need to act, though."

I returned my sword to bracelet form and cracked my neck left and right.

Time to return to being Karzan, the underworld figure, genius swordsman, and mad dog.

* * *

I pursued Siena using a combination of the Whispering Snow in the Night and Dark Star, the ultimate stealth technique that had even fooled the Svaltalfar brothers.

Whoooosh!

It felt like even the passing wind went through me.

The Scarlet Cloud Ghost Path, which had reached its peak, gave me a lightness as if running on clouds.

'Who could notice me?'

Even Skella's blood bats wouldn't be able to find me immediately.

'Where is she going?'

Siena navigated through winding alleyways as if she knew the terrain perfectly.

Night markets, various districts of the underworld, and then,

'Huh?'

Suddenly, a masked man appeared and guided Siena somewhere.

'That's Reinholdt.'

I was certain. The presence of a 7th tier master is hard to hide no matter how much you try.

'Unless your stealth technique has reached a transcendent level.'

And it's unlikely for a Royal Guard Grand Commander to learn such stealth techniques.

"Well, look at this?"

Why is the Grand Commander doing that there?

'This is becoming quite unusual.'

I tracked them while even holding my breath unnecessarily.

'...I can't hear what they're saying clearly.'

Due to the strong sea breeze and the noise of the night streets, even with my enhanced hearing, it was difficult to make out their conversation.

'Should I close the distance a bit more?'

Of course, it was dangerous.

No matter how excellent my stealth technique was, now that Reinholdt had joined Siena, there was no guarantee I could perfectly fool even a 7th tier master.

'Alright. If I use dark mana to enhance the level of stealth.'

That's when it happened.

Swooooosh!

A sword strike suddenly flew at me at a speed beyond the realm of perception.

"!"

I used the mystery of the Scarlet Cloud Ghost Path to deflect the strike and then infused power into my bracelet.

'Was I discovered!'

Reinholdt, who had somehow climbed onto a building, was continuously firing sword strikes at me.

'This is a sword strike from a 7th tier swordsman.'

The sword strikes from Reinholdt, a master who had crossed the wall that even my previous life couldn't reach, were so fierce I didn't dare try to block them directly.

"You bastard, who are you?"

Reinholdt's voice, infused with mana, sounded as vivid as if he were right next to me.

'Shit, I've been discovered.'

Is this what a 7th tier is after all?

I made sword energy forged with the Seven Stars of the Black Sea Technique and the Ink Soul Sacred Shadow Technique invisible using the ability of Dark Star.

Swooooosh!

The Ink Soul Sacred Shadow Technique is fundamentally a strong technique.

In terms of the intensity of sword energy fired, I too could produce power that transcended ordinary levels.

"Hmm!"

While Reinholdt parried the invisible strikes one after another, I activated my stealth technique and hid in the commotion of the black market.

"You bastard, what's your identity?"

Damn it.

After shaking off Reinholdt, Siena was now chasing me.

"Absurd. To think there would be a master capable of detecting my presence here as well."

Since I was already discovered, I tried to act mysterious like a black-clad figure.

"Don't underestimate Valkenhain's martial arts. We can easily detect that level of stealth technique."

Even the Svaltalfar assassins were fooled by it, you know?

'If that's true, it's absurd. Do they have their own unique martial learning regarding mana sense?'

Of course, thinking about it carefully, since Reinholdt noticed me first, it would be correct to say that Siena belatedly detected me now that I had been 'perceived.'

"Ho."

Anyway, that aside, I couldn't resist the villain's line that came to mind and said.

"So you turn out to be Valkenhain's precious daughter?"

"You bastard. How dare you carelessly mention my clan name."

"Haha! What's so great about Valkenhain anyway?"

That sounded pretty villainous even to me.

'But once I started acting, I can't stop.'

Did I perhaps have a burning acting spirit too?

"State your name."

"If you're curious, try to find out with your strength."

"How dare you!"

Siena, who flared up, raised her sword in an ominous stance.

"Black Hawk Heaven Flash."

With an ominous rippling of aura, the sword strikes Siena fired soared toward the black sky, then-

'Oh shit.'

Like hawks diving toward their prey, they came falling at high speed aiming for me.

'Suddenly launching a special technique? No mercy at all.'

Anyway, the attacks contained such power and speed that I'd be pulverized if hit wrong, so I parried what I could parry and dodged what I could dodge while fleeing between the alleys.

Bang bang bang bang!

With sounds like bombs exploding, the walls and ground hit by the sword strikes suffered large wounds.

'Wow, damn powerful.'

The Black Dragon Scale Armor's defense was fucking amazing, but the power of that special technique called Black Hawk Heaven Flash was also tremendous.

'A genius, 6th tier master, and the enormous amount of mana accumulated as a duke's daughter.'

Facing her as an enemy anew, Siena was a formidable opponent.

It's because it was me that I won.

'Anyway, now that combat has begun, it's too late to pass quietly.'

I thought while being conscious of Reinholdt's presence, who was already circling behind me to tighten the encirclement.

'Ah, whatever.'

Swooooosh!

I extended my palm defensively toward the sword strikes coming from front and back.

"?!"

Absorption.

My palm sucked in both people's sword strikes like a well and absorbed them completely.

'If I hadn't circulated the Body Protection Art, my palm would have been torn apart.'

After wrapping myself in the mana of the Silent Soul Star Shadow Art to deflect the attacks, the power contained in the sword strikes became nourishment for me.

'Wow, I'm full.'

This is as good as a spirit medicine.

"What the hell, you bastard. What is this—"

I couldn't bring myself to burp due to the atmosphere.

"What exactly is your identity?"

Reinholdt asked with a stern face.

"Don't tell me you're someone sent by the Black Society."

"That's an unbearable misunderstanding."

Of all things, the Black Society?

"Then state your name."

I was going to do that anyway.

"Fine. My name is Karzan."

"?!"

Seeing both people's surprised reactions as if they recognized my name, I realized anew that my reputation had risen considerably.

"And my other name is."

I removed my mask and revealed myself.

"Young master?!"

"What, why is the young master here?"

I shrugged my shoulders.

"That's exactly the question I want to ask you two."

I looked straight at Siena and asked.

"What exactly are you trying to do?"

"..."

Siena squeezed her eyes shut and opened them before answering.

"Young master, this is something the both dukes agreed upon."

"What?"

"It means Duke Heukdam also approved of it."

"...!"

How absurd.

"The real purpose of the young lady coming here wasn't for a match against me, was it?"

[Translator - Pot ]

[Proofreader - Kawaii ]