Merchant

I said to him. “Should I congratulate you?” “I’m not sure about that myself.” He pushed himself up as he spoke. “I heard my parents are still living in that house.” “Yes.” “Are they in good health?” For a brief moment, I hesitated. His eyes darkened at once. “Now that I think about it, you…

At his words, Mae Jeong quietly wondered what had gotten into him. This was a man who usually treated him like he barely existed. Even when he had something to say, he would either pass the message through someone else or send a letter. But Mae Jeong had no choice but to stop at what…

Escort Guard Yeo Eung-am’s voice came from outside just then. “My lord, the Merchant Lord says he wishes to see you.” At that, I quickly threw on my outer robe and went outside. A man who seemed to be an attendant bowed to me. “I am the Merchant Lord’s attendant. I will escort you to…

First, I had to find Old Man Mae’s son… To do that, I needed something his son had used. As I was wondering how I should get my hands on something like that, one door caught my eye. “Then, by any chance, is that your son’s room?” “…It is.” “Would you mind if I took…

A few days had passed since my audience with the Emperor. By now, I was about due to hear something about establishing the Martial Arts Academy… With that thought in mind, I was inspecting the sites. There were three candidate sites in total for this Martial Arts Academy. And I had decided to look through…

The Imperial Palace feels like it’s been a while. Has it been almost two months? I left for the North Sea Ice Palace around the middle of the Third Month, and now it’s already the beginning of the Fifth Month. I really spent this spring running around without a moment to breathe. I followed Warrior…

The Assistant Director readily agreed to my request. Then he went around telling people, with a little extra embellishment, how we had retrieved the Soul-Enslaving Incense from the Blood Claw Pirates and smashed it apart in the process. This was not coming from someone in the Eunhae Merchant Group, but from the Assistant Director, an…

I asked my Escort Guards. “Does anyone here think we shouldn’t kill these pirates?” At my question, they answered. “Not at all. I’m not merciful enough to spare villains.” “These are men who cut open pregnant women’s bellies and tell fortunes by the child’s sex. They’re not people who should ever be left alive.” “They…

Soul-Enslaving Incense. The reason it was called evil was because it had the power to suppress another person’s will and make them move exactly as one pleased. It was the same kind of thing as the Straw Effigy the Shaanxi Scorpion had carried before. I had no idea why an Artifact like that had ever…

Those who had been staring blankly at the landslide began whispering among themselves, then turned to look at me. “Under normal circumstances, we’d be passing through there right now, wouldn’t we?” “Y-yeah. We would.” “Then… Deputy Merchant Lord Eun Seo-ho saved us from dying?” “Uh…” They rushed over to me, bowing again and again as…