A Kind Goblin's Bird

Chapter 29

Became A Goblin

“What is my goblin doing?”

The prince was happy these days.

“When he heard the news, he passed out and woke up,”

Ha ha ha, the prince burst into laughter. Oh, this part is the funniest. No matter how many times I hear it, it’s really fun. The prince spoke to himself and said while holding the glass he had filled next to him.

“Come on, tell me.”

These days, the prince was excited to hold a banquet every day. It’s alcohol, it’s woman, he plays as he wanted, and when the atmosphere matures, he brings up the story. It was a bad hobby.

The spy did not show a sign of embarrassment and continued speaking while clasping his head.

“He has gone to the cliff of sinners. He ran down the cliff and began to search for her body himself…….”

Hahaha, the prince laughed again with joy.

***

Sa Heon-yeong fainted after hearing that the wife he loved suffered hardship in the palace of the Empress and died. At that moment, everyone thought that his heart had stopped beating from the shock. King Mun’s large body collapsed as it was, and even the spy reporting to the Crown Prince was surprised at that moment and shouted sincerely.

He got up and headed for the northern cliff where the bodies of criminals were dumped. He jumped straight down the cliff using his dexterity.

And the road to hell unfolded.

For three days and three nights, he neither ate nor drank, and went through thousands of corpses with his own hands. Young Young. Young-ah, where are you? He kept shouting. He turned the bodies over with his bare hands, and over and over again. He didn’t care whether it was a body with an oozing discharge, rotten, or maggots. Three days and nights. But it is the place where the bodies of all the criminals on Yangan are gathered. Where the crows clamored, during the day, he turned over the bodies and called for his wife, and at night he fought with the beasts that came to eat the bodies. Three days and nights. Everyone was overwhelmed by the maddening sight.

The armed forces were also desperately searching. Even just the body, please come out. On the first day, tears flowed down the demon king’s mask, but on the third day, the tears turned into tears of blood.

Rumors spread all over the place. It was the story of the demon king who drank blood and ate human flesh, looking for the dead in the cliff of sinners with a terrifying appearance. After losing his favorite wife, he was searching through the dirty bodies to find it. He doesn’t care if it’s a plagued corpse or a rotting corpse. At the words that he was looking for her with tears of blood, the people couldn’t help but listen. And on the third night, when it started to rain, people began to say that the sky was telling him to stop because they couldn’t see it anymore.

“Let me go!”

“Your Highness, please. There’s a landship. You have to go back. Your Highness!”

The soldiers of the subordinates knelt at their feet and begged. With his head bowed, General Joo hung on Sa Heon-yeong’s legs. You must go back. At those words, Sa Heon-yeong listened with his dazed head. To go back? He couldn’t find her even here now, but now when it rains, a landslide occurs, and so many bodies are buried, how does he find her?

Young-young grew up not eating properly all her life, so she was too small. Her hands, feet, and body were small everywhere. It’s just a handful of people. How to find that person? Let her wallow with sinners forever? That woman? She was named after him, who always smiled at him, who loved him. She was like a single spring day to him? Here? Leave her to shreds in this dirty, cold place full of maggots and crows? Should I leave her? There will be no rest forever? Even that little thing wouldn’t be allowed to her?

“You go.”

He can’t go. He can’t turn back on her, leaving her here. It would be nice if they were buried together. If she is forever trapped here, he will find her someday.

“Your Highness, you must go with me.”

Drip, drip– the rain was getting stronger. His eyes were getting blurry. Rumble, an unusual sound resounded from the top of the mountain. The general begged

“Your Highness, plan for the future. …… Think of Her Highness’ grievance!”

At that, Sa Heon-young stopped.

Was she hurt? It must have been very painful……. It must have been painful when Sa Heon-yeong remembered the scar the prince left on him when he was young. How foolish had he been to his little wife to erase the scars? Even though it is a very old wound, it often throbs and shows off its presence. But she died……. With a body that can’t walk properly.

“Your Highness, you must relieve her grievance.”

Sa Heon-yeong looked down blankly as his dirty hands were washed away in the rain. His tears were flowing, and now he didn’t even seem to be crying. Blood continues to drip on his hands. Blood is flowing from his eyes.

‘But Lord Heon-yeong is prettier.’

You, who smiled bashfully, are still vivid in my eyes. I haven’t forgotten anything about the feel of your skin or your body.

You want me to accept that I won’t be able to see you forever?

I can’t even hold her hardened body.

I can’t even fill the coffin with flowers.

I can’t even put her on a white sailboat.

Leaving you in this dirty place? Do you want me to do that? Your grievance, yes, because there is that…….. In fact, you might not even know what resentment is.

Just the beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, wife like my flower.

“…… return.”

He could feel the gaze of the spy. The gaze of the spy that he has felt all his life. He always thought it was familiar, but at this moment, Sa Heon-young wanted to twist that spy’s neck. He wanted to tear his limbs apart. He wanted to burn it all down. Finish it all.

Young-ah, if only I could.

But think of her grievance. Her grievance that won’t even exist. Those who killed her. ‘Enemy’. Those who are now nothing but ‘enemy’. Those who will make a joke even if he dies here. It’s okay to be a laughing stock, but if he dies here, who will comfort the soul of his pitiful flower? Who?

His body is heavy. He knew she was here, but the thought didn’t stop him from walking away. His whole body feels like it’s falling down to the ground…….

As Sa Heon-yeong’s body collapsed, the armed forces rushed in. Your Highness! The voice calling out like that was far away. His body was heavy.

Did your grievance cling to me? Did your grievance even come to me? Then don’t go. Never, never go.

Sa Heon-young closed his eyes. The last tears of blood pooled on his lips and flowed down his chin.

***

It was two days later that Sa Heon-young woke up again.

His eyes were covered and he thought he was blind for a moment. Sa Heon-young was not surprised at that moment. He didn’t seem to be surprised by anything anymore. What is surprising about becoming blind or becoming a beggar. He’s already lost everything.

He lost Young-young.

“Did a landslide happen?”

“…… Yes, Your Highness.”

She was buried with the dirty things. The flowery one will be forever mingled with the dirtiest ones on Yangan.

“I see.”

There were no tears now. The tears seemed to have all flowed out in the valley of sinners. It was like sand, not blood, that was circulating in his body, pouring out all his emotions. Skree, skree. He heard such a sound inside his body.

“Your Highness, this is Ha Soye.”

“Yes.”

“That……, This lowly thing has something to tell you, but I want to send back all the surroundings.”

Sa Heon-yeong did not send back the people. He was no longer afraid of anything. It didn’t matter what the spy said. Just, it was all boring. He already knew which one was the prince’s spy and his mother’s spy. The reason he didn’t deal with them was that he had to deal with them and it would be repeated again. In that case, it would be better to know and control who they are and to give them something to say in moderation. Knowing that, Ha Soye had always been very careful.

But now, even if he declares his disrespect and falls under the Prince’s sword once more, what does that mean?

Young-young doesn’t exist anymore.

“Why did they kill her?”

Ha Soye grew up at the court. She knew the affairs of court ladies quickly, and if she wanted to find out, there was nothing she couldn’t figure out. Ha Soye looked embarrassed and cautioned, “Your Highness.”

“Just tell me.”

“Your Highness, forgive me…….”

Ha Soye blurted her words as if in trouble. Sa Heon-yeong asked, curious about Ha Soye, who blurs her words even though she knows what he means.

“Why?”

“…… Her Highness… … , it’s a will, how dare I.”

A will?

Sa Heon-yeong unwrapped the cloth that was covering his eyes and threw it away and waved his hand. At that one gesture, everyone retreated from the bed in unison.

Sa Heon-yeong called Ha Soye, who was a little far away, closer with his hand gestures. Will. What did she say? Did she even curse? She must have tried to, saying that she would repay everything in the underworld for meeting her ugly husband and being brutally murdered.

“What did she……say?”

There wasn’t any place that wasn’t pretty, but her voice was particularly pretty. Even if she would hum a little, the people would look back at her in captivatedness, but to say that she cursed with that voice?

Sa Heon-yeong knew the rough story. Sa Heon-yeong also had a spy placed in the palace of the Empress. But he didn’t hear the details. On that day, the spy did not get close enough. He could hear about the scene that day, but he couldn’t hear the details of the inner story.

Ha Soye was terrified of how she was going to tell this story. Uncharacteristically, she continued her story with hesitation, unlike her. The atmosphere when the queen arrived before the empress. The story of the day when the queen was beaten and sang, and the empress who slept while listening to the song, suddenly changed and whipped the queen, and the queen endured not to sing, and everyone went crazy.

He thought he knew the gist of the story, but it was much worse than he thought. The Empress did not consider his wife from the beginning, and when her wish did not come true, she beat her recklessly like a beast.

‘Which bitch put a goblin egg in my stomach?’