Episode 761
The three headed to the Maitreya Temple.
For some reason, no one was seen in the temple, and Jin Cheon-hee ordered Hwanggu to search the nearby area.
“There is no one, neither the Yang people nor the Maitreya people.”
Jashi also muttered something to the sky and came to a conclusion.
“I don’t feel the power of the spell at all.”
“no way.”
“Has something occurred to you? brother?”
Jin Cheon-hee is slightly embarrassed by the expectant look in his eyes.
Why on earth does everyone think that if they say Zhuge Sega, they can point out everything in the world?
‘The only one who can do that is Master, and I am just a person with modern knowledge.’
I felt a little embarrassed and scratched my cheek.
“Maybe he just finished his business and left…”
“Hmm. That’s correct. “It’s a common occurrence in Gangho.”
Jashi’s face crumpled at Yeo Ha-ryun’s words.
“I will chase them even to the end of hell and tear them to pieces!”
Jashi created a giant wolf from wolf skin again.
“Do you think we’ll leave their temple alone?!”
Just as they were about to destroy all but a single blade of grass, a scream rang out from somewhere.
“Ugh!”
Jin Cheon-hee, who learned the sound technique, immediately found the owner of the sound.
A young voice. He was the son of the lord of Seongju.
When Jin Cheon-hee gave instructions, Hwang-gu went to the child’s side and waggled his tail. But the child was already so scared that he sat down.
“Job. Don’t eat me! “Don’t eat me!”
When Jin Cheon-hee winked, Ja-si finally returned the wolf to its skin.
Meanwhile, Jin Cheon-hee slowly headed towards the child.
Anyway, he is the child of the castle owner and now he is caught prying on his back.
It seemed like I was talking to a neighborhood kid in a friendly way like last time, but the situation could get even worse.
The child was already scared.
After Jin Cheon-hee spread both hands and showed that she had no intention of harming him.
Speak as politely as possible.
“hello. Are you seeing it again? Rest assured. “This is something that my brother made… so it’s like a doll.”
Only when the wolf disappeared did the child regain his breath.
“Huh huh. “Sobbing.”
Aren’t you going to cry this time?
Jin Cheon-hee quickly took out a Dalgona candy from her pocket.
I must have gotten the sugar in advance. It was a product made by Namtz.
High calories and high sugar.
After the battle is over, take one out and put it in your mouth.
“Even though people here aren’t hungry, it doesn’t mean they can’t taste the food. Uh… would you like to try this?”
After crying for a while, my eyes turn back to the sweet smell.
I reluctantly put it in my mouth and my eyes widened.
“Wow!”
Sugar is expensive and requires a lot of work even in the central region.
Someone said somewhere. God gave people potatoes to keep them from going hungry, but the devil fried them.
Same thing. God gave people soda stones to make toothpaste, but the devil put them in sugar water and boiled them down.
Dalgona.
Yeo Ha-ryun said.
[He was shaking with fear just now, but now his expression changes at the sight of something to eat. Is it possible to change so easily?]
[Ha-Ryun. You are a child.]
[At our school, we never treat you as a child.]
[Yes. So, it’s a demonic religion.]
Sensitivity to death and a demonic religion.
Jin Cheon-hee said to Yeo Ha-ryun.
[At the same time, Kang-ho is also the one who can’t do that.]
There are only one or two people who can live in the form of a child.
It was understandable that Yeo Ha-ryun was wary.
The child took some more dalgona and ate it, and only then did he open his mouth.
“I warned you like that, but you didn’t run away in the end. “You are all going to die now.”
“Why do you think that?”
“Because the Rakshashas kill. All people from outside. “The Rakshasha ate it.”
“Aha… So you told us to leave?”
The child gathered courage and spoke out.
“okay. Otherwise you will die! Uncle Hopper and Aunt Tika both became Rakshashas. “All good people and close friends have become Rakshashas.”
It seemed like this child had seen people he knew turn into monsters one by one.
“Um, shall we go somewhere else first? I don’t think it’s appropriate to talk here…”
The boy nodded at those words.
“Follow me.”
After saying that, he brushed his butt off and took the lead.
There was a secret passage hidden behind the shabbiest Buddha statue inside the temple.
When the child touched the stone lantern, it clicked and a passage opened.
Jin Cheon-hee followed the child quietly into the passage.
How long did you walk?
Suddenly, I looked up in the moonlight shining through the bricks, and the garden inside the castle came into view.
‘What a big deal?’
So the group was able to go back into the castle and immediately arrive at the original VIP room.
“It’s safe here.”
The boy seemed to have been here a lot.
Jin Cheon-hee took out more sweets from her luggage for the child.
The child received candy, dried fruit, and other snacks and put them all in his mouth.
‘This child seems to feel hunger unlike other people.’
Looking at my body, fortunately, it looks like I wasn’t starving.
Since he is the son of the lord of the castle, that would be especially unlikely.
“Dried vegetables don’t taste good. Dried lamb also tastes dry. “Because everyone didn’t eat, the food tasted bland.”
This was the reason why the lamb stew we received after the banquet was very bland.
Sweetness made people happy.
But for this boy, sweetness was a painkiller.
Painkillers to forget reality.
“There were many infectious diseases during the rinderpest season. Everyone is dead. “After the Maitreya religion came, no one died, but at night like that, people turn into Rakshasha.”
“Are the parties aware of that fact?”
“no. at all. I don’t think my mom or dad have any idea when I became a Rakshasa. Even though it ate a person, it said it was fortunate that it wasn’t hungry.”
“….”
“My father is such a good person during the day. Without killing anyone carelessly. “I accepted being a flatterer in the first place because I didn’t want anyone to starve.”
But isn’t the price too harsh?
The boy continued talking.
“When other villages sacrificed people, my father looked for a way to avoid doing that.”
In order to support all people, he wandered around looking for a way.
And that’s how I found ‘heaven’.
The answer was extremely cruel.
The boy who saw it… lived in hell alone for the sin of not becoming a Rakshasa.
It was not a burden the child could bear.
“You’re strong.”
“Speak comfortably. brother. Even though he is the son of the castle lord, it is not a proper city anyway. “I…”
Tears well up in the child’s eyes again.
“I am… I have been alone all along…”
For the first time, I have someone to listen to my story.
Scary and sad emotions overflowed my heart and came out of my eyes.
The mind was very strange.
When I was alone, it didn’t hurt that much.
It’s just something cold and hard settled in the solar plexus.
Because all I could do was live each day with a constant feeling of shame.
But when there was someone listening to me for the first time in front of me, I realized how painful and scary it was.
Kiing –
Hwanggu crawled into my arms.
The characteristic smell of a furry animal, the sound of rapid breathing, and a higher body temperature than an average person fluttered between the armpits.
The child pressed his face against the yellow helmet and cried for a long time.
Hwanggu stayed silent until the child calmed down.
* * *
“Why did you come all the way there?”
As the child requested, Jin Cheon-hee spoke comfortably.
Because he seemed to feel more comfortable that way.
Speaks like the older brother next door.
The child seemed to like it and smiled.
“I looked to see if there was anything I could do. “Strangely, the Rakshasha doesn’t harm me… only me.”
“Hoo.”
“That’s why it’s even scarier.”
It was strange.
“What about the elixir?”
“Neither my mom nor my dad nor anyone else in the castle gave me the elixir.”
It was strange.
Especially since no one really talks about the reason.
“I wish I could eat that and be the same…”
He said that and started crying again, as if the tears were welling up in his eyes.
‘okay. ‘That’s it.’
Being able to cry all the time and let out your emotions is something that only happens in movies and dramas.
Reality cries. I keep crying.
Whether someone breaks up with you, gets seriously hurt, or loses something.
Humans will continue to cry until they are exhausted and the pain is alleviated by something called Oblivion.
Jin Cheon-hee held the child and patted it a few times.
How long has it been like that? Now I was so exhausted that I fell asleep.
“It must have been difficult.”
Yeo Ha-ryun nodded at his brother’s words.
On the other hand, Jashi just sighed softly and said nothing.
Probably because it reminded me of the dead Usha.
Jin Cheon-hee said.
“If the child is right, it might be better to conduct the investigation during the day. what do you think about it?”
“To agree. “It would be better to move when you come back to your senses.”
Jashi asked.
“But maybe there are some things that can only be discovered at night?”
“You have to do whatever you can to improvise at that time.”
While saying that, he stroked the top of the child’s head.
The top of my head was soaked, probably because I cried a lot.
“Okay then, let’s take a little rest. “That way you can move around during the day.”
* * *
As the day dawned, everyone returned to their original places.
Guards patrol as usual and servants carry blankets.
“It’s disgusting to see such peace.”
At Jashi’s words, Jin Cheonhee just smiled silently.
That’s how life was. Whether or not you kill someone at night and consume their flesh, the sun rises in the morning and the work that needs to be done continues.
In a daily life that revolves around a hamster wheel, humans just live and survive.
Jin Cheon-hee called an attendant and told him that the lord’s son had come to visit and was sleeping.
It’s difficult to wake him up, so let’s just leave him alone.
The servant said thank you and went back.
How long did I wait?
An attendant brought a message that the lord of the castle was calling.
‘Hmm, I guess the important transaction is roughly over?’
With that in mind, I went to see Seongju, and what Seongju took out was a glass bottle containing a white, milky liquid.
“It’s the elixir of Buddha.”
“Why are you giving this to me?”
Seongju smiled brightly at Jin Cheonhee’s words.
“Originally, it was never allowed to outsiders, but Maitreya members specifically allowed it. “The virtue accumulated by the divine doctor must be that great.”
Yeo Ha-ryun’s eyebrows twitched at those words.
[Ha-Ryun. Straighten your expression.]
Hearing his brother’s words, Yeo Ha-ryun forcibly grabs his eyebrows and tries to straighten them.
[Put your life in.]
Take a deep breath in and out.
[Good job. [My younger brother.]
Jin Cheon-hee smiled as sweetly as possible, taking advantage of her beauty.
“I really don’t know how to answer this…”
“You don’t know how happy I am to be able to hand this over to God. Would you like to try it now?”
There was no lie in Seongju’s attitude.
He seemed so happy to be able to recommend this precious medicine to Jin Cheon-hee.
‘If I eat this here….’
Is this an elixir that can be detoxified with the Five Element Poison Ball?
[Brother, don’t do anything crazy.]
[No matter how much I do, I don’t do experiments like that with my body.]
[I do it sometimes.]
The moment I open the cap, I feel the will to smash the entire bottle.
Jin Cheonhee raised his head.
“Thank you, but I am practicing Seondo separately, so it is unreasonable for me to consume illegal items.”
Jin Cheon-hee gave a religious reason.
Saying that you won’t take the elixir because it’s suspicious would be like calling for war.
just as expected.
“exactly? “It’s such a shame.”
In a province where religion was important, Jin Cheon-hee’s refusal worked well.
Because Seongju stopped forcing it and stopped.
“Okay then.”
“Accept it anyway. Then, if you ever need it, use it.”
“thank you.”
Jin Cheon-hee put the medicine bottle in her arms.
“So now that the deal is done, are you leaving?”
“First, I’d like to take a tour of the mine. “And I’m thinking of going back after a few days of travel.”
“Oh, in that case, I will tell you something special about the mine. Please rest well.”
Seongju smiled kindly again.
If you look at this alone, it is a holy army that cares about its people.
Because that was actually what he was pursuing.
Paradise, where no one goes hungry and no one dies.
It is truly a paradise for royalties.
‘There’s no way something like that exists.’
