Psycho in Ancient World
Copyright© 2026 by K.W
Chapter 10. Stairs
The Family?
“Family? Are you talking about our Danri Family?”
“Yes.”
Gi Dae-hyo briefly scratched his chin and sank into thought. It was a habit of his whenever he was troubled.
A moment later.
“Where is the place where the two of them killed themselves?”
He made a decision.
“It’s Bongyang Inn.”
“Let’s go.”
“Huh?”
Gi Man-ji was surprised because Gi Dae-hyo said he would go in person. Usually, the leader of the Black Five Group didn’t step to the front for things like this. The customary practice was to stay behind and only give orders.
“For Father to go personally is a bit...”
“No. I need to see it myself.”
Gi Dae-hyo cut off Gi Man-ji and left Black Five Hall without delay.
Ssssss-.
Gi Dae-hyo unfolded his movement technique as if vanishing straight toward the east.
That was the direction where the main gate of the Danri Family was.
At the time Gi Dae-hyo was heading to Bongyang Inn, Dong Bong-su was spending his day as usual, as the horse stable hireling Sosam.
He had already finished waking early, cleaning up horse dung, and feeding the horses their fodder.
From now on, the work he had to do was the most important duty in his routine.
Taking the Blood-Sweating Horse for a walk.
In the Danri Family, there was only a single Blood-Sweating Horse.
Its name was Yeoro. The beloved horse of Danri Cheon-u, the head of the Danri Family.
With its white coat and mane flying magnificently, Yeoro was by far the most expensive horse in the Danri Family.
Because of that, it was a special-grade management target for all the horse stable hirelings in the Family. If even a small wound appeared on Yeoro, the horse stable hirelings might be forced into a funeral procession of their own. In fact, once before, when a small boil appeared on Yeoro’s skin, the horse stable hirelings had been beaten as a group.
However,
After Dong Bong-su—rather than Sosam—took charge of Yeoro, such a thing never happened at all.
Animals instinctively recognize the “beasts” they shouldn’t mess with. All the horses in the East stable became very docile from the moment Sosam changed into Dong Bong-su.
In the past, there had been accidents once in a while, but now such things never happened. Even newly brought-in wild horses only rampaged at first; the moment their eyes met Dong Bong-su’s, they became gentle lambs.
People who saw it whispered among themselves.
[After Sosam got hurt, instead of losing horses, he gained horse spirit!]
Sometimes they even called him a horse demon. That was how freely Sosam could control horses. Because of this, the looks full of contempt that had been aimed at him decreased a great deal.
As a very natural result, Yeoro’s care became Sosam’s responsibility. In the Danri Family there were several horse stable hirelings, but aside from Danri Cheon-u, the only person who could perfectly control Yeoro was Sosam.
From Dong Bong-su’s perspective as well, there was no reason to refuse taking Yeoro on. There were many benefits he could gain by being responsible for Yeoro.
After he took on the work of caring for Yeoro, he had a lot more free time. The ones who picked fights for no reason decreased, and the people who shoved work off onto him were almost gone. Even Machil, who had tormented Dong Bong-su the most, had already sunk into the pit of hellfire.
Naturally, he had more time left over.
And...
In Bongyang, the number of people dying after catching the suicide plague also increased along with it.
Dong Bong-su led Yeoro out of the family estate and headed for the market streets of Bongyang City. As usual, during these walks he looked for prey. If possible, he dealt with them on the spot. But there were also cases where it was difficult to deal with them right away. In those cases, he observed the target, memorized them in his head, and killed them later.
Yeoro was like wings to him not only inside the family estate, but outside it as well. If he walked around with Yeoro, people moved out of the way on their own. Everyone in Bongyang knew whose horse Yeoro was, and what kind of existence it represented.
Flaunt borrowed authority.
It was a phrase people coined because Mabyeonsam borrowed the horse’s authority to put on airs. In truth, it wasn’t so much “putting on airs” as simply passing along the road, but to people, maybe it looked that way.
Either way, Dong Bong-su was benefiting greatly from Yeoro. Thanks to the beast, he could stroll through the market streets without trouble and search for suitable prey.
However.
‘It’s useless now.’
Dong Bong-su realized it was time to stop hunting like this. Recently he had killed 196 people, but the experience bar only filled about one third. At this rate, there was no telling when he would level up and become stronger.
From an efficiency standpoint, it was clear he had nearly reached diminishing marginal returns.
‘There’s an obvious limit to building experience like this.’
While he was mulling over this,
Dong Bong-su finally confirmed clearly that even among humans, the amount of experience could differ.