A Kind Goblin's Bird

Sa Heon-young when asked by Young-young what was bad, he only replied, “It’s a little ugly to tell the wife.” Young-young didn’t ask any more. 

While the bathtub was coming in, she only gently caressed Sa Heon-yeong’s hand. Unaware of the existence of the twisted minds that were entangled, she patiently patted him, until they were loosened.

After entering the bathtub with her, he washed her and she sang her song. Although she hummed, her unique and beautiful voice remained in Sa Heon-yeong’s ears for a long time.

‘What’s the bad thing?’

Young-young often pierces right at the spot with those innocent eyes. 

Sa Heon-young thought as he walked down the hallway of the dungeon. 

What made his mood so twisted? Because another man’s hand took her? Sa Heon-yeong thought about her for a moment, but she was still pretty and lovely. She was the wife to whom he gave his name, whether or not another man’s hand touched her. His wife with a name full of flowers.

“A viper in the prison bit the leg. I had no choice but to cut it.”

When Sa Heon-yeong entered the prison, the dog that had instilled fear in Young-young was already without two legs. As soon as he, who was lying on the floor without legs, saw Sa Heon-young, he cried and begged for help. Seeing that scene, Sa Heon-yeong thoughtlessly recalled Young-young’s voice once again.

‘What’s the bad thing?’

Ah, yes.

Sa Heon-young chuckled. He smiled bitterly when he realized why he had been grumpy and childish towards Young-young.

It upsets him to think that he didn’t even know while she was being subjected to something by this bug-like person. What the hell was he doing while she was being attacked by a guy like this who’s over with just one swing of a sword? Did he protect his country? For whom? The Emperor? Empress? Or is it the Crown Prince?

He couldn’t find her or meet her, what the hell was he doing? For those long years that she cried and feared.

“Your Highness?”

General Joo cautiously called Sa Heon-yeong. Without saying anything, he seemed puzzled.

Sa Heon-yeong looked down at the bug that had lost its legs without saying a word. He remembered Young-young. He clings to Young-young. He was not aware of it himself, but he was very offended. So he dug into his one and only woman.

He was angry with himself. To him who couldn’t find her.

To the stupid him who had been indifferent to her during the years she suffered. 

He was annoyed. He was offended. He knows it’s inevitable, but his heart says inevitable is not enough. He should have tried though. He should have known she was somewhere. How could he not know such a strong relationship? How can he throw her away? She can’t see well, she can’t walk well, and it seems like it’s all his fault.

But there is nowhere else to pour out these feelings but to her. Even though he knows he was stupid and cowardly, he still digs into her, be grumpy, and held her. He was mad for doing something wrong, and this mean act of asking her to release that anger.

“Listen.”

Sa Heon-young crossed his arms.

The bug cried out loud. 

According to the bug, he didn’t assault Young-young. Sa Heon-young saw her virgin blood in the early night of the wedding night, so he could have guessed that she wasn’t assaulted. 

In retrospect, it could be said that he didn’t do anything. 

The bastard attacked her a few times, but she ran away, and his wife said that the bastard didn’t climb the mountain very often either. When the bastard waited for her in her hut, he knew she had been hiding in the mountains all night without returning to her hut. 

The bastard didn’t do anything to his wife.

He said crying. I didn’t do anything. Please save me. The guy begged. What he said was true to some extent. Please have mercy on me, King Mun. The man who could neither stand nor walk on his own begged. He lay down and rubbed his hands together.

“A promise is a promise. Treat him like everyone else.”

Sa Heon-yeong said so and got up. Thank you for your grace, thank you for your grace. The bug, which disappeared crying like that, immediately screamed. No, no, nooo, there is not one prison in this dungeon, and the rest of them are also locked in prison. The rest of them are just different in where they were locked up.

“I have nothing more to hear, so release the viper.”

Oh, one more. Others will have water up to their knees and thighs, but fill his up to his neck. That would be one different thing.

He didn’t do anything?

Sa Heon-young remembered Young-young. That scream of terror. He wondered how many years she would have lived and trembled like that. Would that bug-like bastard come one night or tomorrow night, would he be on her body when she woke up from sleep, how scared she was the whole time. That guy didn’t do anything after giving her that kind of fear?

“General Joo.”

“Yes, Your Highness.”

“An easy death is not allowed. Show them my wrath. Make them wander around this place as a ghost even when they die.”

Sa Heon-young’s voice was languid. There was no emotion in the voice.

“I will keep that in mind.”

General Joo bowed.