The Rival Who Killed Me Remembers Too novel · Chapter 19 of 24

Chapter 19: Nine Seals

The Hall of Nine Seals stood on the highest terrace of Mount Baegun, under a roof held up by nine black pillars.

Each pillar carried the seal of one sect, in red lacquer, and the floor between them was bare stone.

By law it was never entered with a weapon, and never used except to hear a charge too large for any single sect to judge.

It had not been opened in thirty years.

At noon it held six hundred people standing shoulder to shoulder.

Woo-jin stood in the center of the stone, in plain robes, with no sword.

The Chief sat on the high seat with his eight fellow elders on benches around him.

Ok Hwa-rim sat below them, small and white and sorrowful, with her hands folded.

Mu-yeol knelt at the far end of the floor in chains, with a guard at each shoulder.

He looked at Woo-jin once as he came in.

He looked as if he had slept, which Woo-jin knew he hadn't, and the sight of him loosened something in Woo-jin's chest.

"The host's claim is heard," the Chief said. "State it, Gang Woo-jin."

"I claim that the pledge of the Crimson Lotus is held on a false charge," Woo-jin said.

"And the person who made that charge is in this hall."

A rustle went round the pillars.

"Call your witness."

Woo-jin turned to the great doors.

They opened.

Yoo-chan walked in first.

He had his shoulder bound in clean white and his topknot combed, and he held the medicine chest in both arms.

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