<Episode 222> Prelude. (8)
Prelude. (8)
How many days have passed since I was trapped in the forest?
It was a terrible space where you couldn’t see day or night, so I couldn’t tell exactly.
All you can do is wait for time to pass, there’s nothing you can do.
– What’s even more fucked up is being with you.
– Why are you making a fuss when you’re just staying still?
– You do it often too. Hang in there.
– Are you finally crazy? Oh, was that how it was originally?
We walked for a while, exchanging trivial words.
In the first place, I couldn’t even walk, so I couldn’t figure out why I was even moving.
Because I know that if I say I won’t do it, I’ll just look at you with a vicious look in my eyes and yell at you.
I was just following along.
– Oh my… You crazy bitch.
– I can hear everything.
– I’m telling you to listen. I’m telling you to listen.
Seolbong Mo Yong-hee and Awa were trapped in this forest.
I tried all sorts of methods, but ultimately failed to find a way out.
It was food, I had to survive somehow, whether it was killing monsters or eating bugs.
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It was extremely frustrating to go around in circles in the same place without being able to get out.
– This is fucking true. Why does it have to be like this?
-Do you really have to use such vulgar language?
-That’s so low-class, you must be noble even in this situation, right?
-I really don’t want to date you… Are you really a descendant of a noble family? No matter how I look at it, it doesn’t seem like you are.
-I feel the same way, you fucking bitch. Don’t talk to me and just walk.
The world is so hot, and this year has the biggest share of it.
Why on earth did you have to hang out with this annoying woman out of all the guys?
Isn’t it better than a sleeping dragon?
The sleeping dragon was a dirty guy.
In a way, it was like that.
-What have you been mumbling to yourself all this time?
-Don’t worry about it and just look ahead. Why do you keep coming at me?
-Who said you were stuck? Do you want to die?
-How dare you use such vulgar language. Speak politely, young lady.
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-•••Wait a minute. It’s right there.
-An An Seo.
It was a repetition of fighting that could hardly be called a conversation.
Since our personalities don’t match at all, how can we possibly get along?
Move as if running away.
He looked back and asked.
– Seriously, why do you keep trying to stick to me?
– … When did I? Why would I be with a person like you… .
– So, why are you trying to stick around? Do you like me?
– I’ll rip your mouth open and kill you.
– Yeah, I don’t think that’s true.
The killing sensation I just felt was real.
You’re spewing out murderous words just because I made a joke…
-Then why are you doing that?
-I can’t say no, I have eyes too.
– there is?
—Are you crazy?
He clicked his tongue once and turned his head.
I really wonder why they do that.
-It’s been the same since I entered the forest.
It seems like the subtle distance between me and Seolbong has narrowed considerably.
Mo Yong-hee, who kept a fixed gaze as if she was looking at an insect and did not even come near.
For some reason, I was strangely bothered by the way he kept sticking to my side.
After thinking about this carefully, he asked Seolbong.
– hey.
-why.
-Are you scared?
-•••What did you say?
Seol Bong frowned as if he had misheard, but he could feel a slight gap there.
-It’s dark, are you scared?
– Where does it hurt? Why are you talking nonsense all of a sudden?
To say no, Seol Bong’s eyes were shaking for a rare moment.
The hand that was stroking my shoulder was moving faster because it was cold.
I had to frown when I saw that.
– It was somehow creepy and clingy.
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– •••I told you not to.
– Then get out. Don’t stick around.
It was incredibly uncomfortable that the distance between us kept getting shorter than usual.
I just wanted to stay away from it, whether it was right or not.
– •••What if we fall apart and get lost?
– I’ve already lost my way, so what difference does it make if I stick to it?
No matter how hard you try, you’ll end up back in the same place.
As I spoke with a frown on my face, Seolbong’s eyes became slightly narrower.
– As expected, you don’t seem to be interested in anyone other than Sogeomseong.
– What the hell are you talking about all of a sudden? Why are you talking about that woman here?
Suddenly, you’re talking about a short sword. Are you really crazy because you haven’t eaten?
– You don’t know, but everyone else knows that you are particularly weak to the Sogeomseong.
– That’s bullshit.
It’s not like I’m going to stick around because it’s uncomfortable. What do you mean by weak?
– Oh, being weak doesn’t mean being forceful. I think you already know that you are the weakest.
– That fucking bitch… .
I really wanted to slam him in the face just now, but I barely held myself back.
Even if I try to hit it, it won’t work anyway.
– I feel like my stomach is turning because I’m stuck with you.
– What a coincidence. I did that too.
Seol Bong turns his head and says something.
I growled and changed direction.
If you don’t follow or cling to it, it will fall off on its own.
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..
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After walking through the foggy forest for a while, I quietly muttered.
– What a fucking world.
There was nothing left to say except these words.
Because it was a word that suited me better than anything else.
– Am I going to die like this?
It was a truly scary story, even though it was said in a calm voice.
Actually, I didn’t have any particular thoughts when I said those words.
Even if you make it short, it’s seven days and nights.
It must have been about that long since I entered this forest.
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Even though I couldn’t tell the difference between day and night, that’s how it felt.
If I really can’t escape from the forest like this and end up dying.
– It was a useless life.
I couldn’t help but laugh.
Because it seems like I’m going to die in such a dirty way.
Rustle.
I broke through the bushes.
I didn’t really have a specific goal in mind.
Since I wouldn’t be able to get out no matter how much I walked, I was looking for a place to rest.
Then suddenly.
– hmm?
It felt different somehow.
Because it was a little different from the road I had been walking on for several days.
Why?
A road that I’ve become so familiar with that I can walk on it with my eyes closed.
For some reason, I feel a change.
I quickened my pace.
Because I didn’t know that the forest would change so that I could go out.
It was a little bit urgent.
So I went through the trees and out of the bushes.
-what…?
A space I had never seen before was waiting for me.
-What’s wrong? What’s going on?
After I stopped, Seol Bong came running towards me in a hurry.
You said you weren’t going to follow me… .
Of course, now was not the time to point that out.
Seolbong looked at the place I was looking at and his eyes grew as big as lanterns.
-•••cave?
In front of us was a cave we had never seen before.
It was a cave that wasn’t very big, but it was dark because no light came in.
I headed straight there.
-Okay, just wait a minute.
As I head towards the cave, Seolbong stops me with an urgent voice.
He turned his head slightly and asked while looking at Seolbong.
-why.
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-•••Are you going there now?
-Can’t you tell by looking?
-I knew what was going to happen.
A dark space where you can’t see even an inch ahead.
As Seolbong said, I was about to enter a space where I didn’t know what would be there.
She stopped me.
What Seolbong said was valid, but it was a story I couldn’t understand.
-So, are you just going to stay here and die?
-That’s not it. Let’s find out something… .
-Find out, you find out yourself. I’ll go in…
As I was about to shake it off and go in, there was something strange about Seolbong’s face.
-Why is your face red?
At my question, Seol Bong quickly covers the ball with his hand and hides it.
As if it shouldn’t be shown.
-It’s nothing… It’s just a little hot.
-Is it hot? You?
Even in the sweltering weather, you wrap yourself up in the clothes that other people have taken off, and you say it’s hot?
-You’re talking nonsense. If you were feeling unwell, you should have stayed here.
-•••I told you it was okay! Don’t worry about it.
-Why are you yelling and making a fuss…!
Anyway, she seems like a woman with a strange personality.
I left that snow peak alone and headed towards the cave.
Since there was no answer even if I stayed here, I had to search for something.
-No… Wait…!
Throw yourself into the darkness.
Seol Bong, who was left alone, bit his lip.
-•••Why on earth did I have to stay with someone like that…!
Leaving behind my body that was constantly seething, I hesitated for a moment and then moved to another cave in Seolbong.
I hated being left alone in this dark space.
That’s when the trouble started.
“go away.”
After letting out the sound, he immediately grabbed it with his hand.
‘•••I made a mistake.’
This is because the words I was thinking inside came out differently from what I originally intended to say.
At least I tried not to get involved with that kind of thing.
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‘Anyway, you’re a loser.’
It seemed that the instincts that had been building up little by little could not handle it.
I guess it’s the words that were gathered together in my heart.
‘This is not the time.’
First of all, we had to urgently resolve this.
“No, that’s not it… I ate something wrong this morning… .”
I tried to control it by gesturing with my hands and feet.
-Foot.
I heard laughter from up ahead.
“haha…!”
I looked at it wondering what it was.
“ha ha ha!”
Mo Yong-hee couldn’t hold back her laughter and covered her mouth with one hand.
He was holding his stomach with his other hand and laughing heartily.
“•••I guess it wasn’t me who ate breakfast wrong?”
Why is he doing that?
You’re getting cursed at and then bursting out laughing. What did you really do wrong?
“Over there… Miss Mo Yong.”
“Ha.•.haha… . Ah… I’m sorry.”
As if she had just come to her senses, Mo Yong-hee adjusts her posture.
However, it seems that he couldn’t stop laughing completely.
It seemed as if he was trying to stop the corners of his mouth from going up every now and then.
“I didn’t know… I’m sorry.”
“•••No. I’m sorry too.”
“It seems like Your Majesty has misunderstood something.”
“Are you mistaken?”
Asking me to spend the night with you.
Was that a statement that could have been misunderstood? Anyone could see that it was a statement that would hit me straight in the face.
[Misunderstanding… I want to hear it.]
‘Noya, please relax your voice… … .’
Noya’s voice, which had become very serious as if he had been quietly sharpening his sword, sounded sad.
If it wasn’t a misunderstanding, what would you have tried to do?
To my question, Mo Yong-hee smiled and said.
“I just asked you to spend some time with me.”
“What time is it? Didn’t you say it was night?”
“Yeah. I guess I made a mistake.”
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Mo Yong-hee smiles, her eyes furrowing as if she said something wrong.
It wasn’t a mistake.
He definitely said that on purpose.
“Isn’t it easy to make a mistake when you mix in the word night?”
“I ate breakfast wrong.”
“Aha, are you going to use that now?”
That’s why smart things… .
“••• Okay. Please explain what you mean by asking me to spend time with you.”
“Your Majesty the Prince is truly unique.”
“why?”
“It’s more surprising that you don’t know that. Maybe it’s because there’s a sword dancer around… ”
Why is the story about Namgungbia coming up?
I squinted my eyes and looked up.
After Mo Yong-hee coughs once, she continues speaking.
“I want to buy Confucius’s passion.”
“•••What?”
“I have already received permission from the head of the Gu family.”
“Sleep… Open… No, did you get permission from your father?”
What the hell is this bullshit story going on right now?
Should I buy a heater?
“Yes, the Lord has given his permission… I would like to buy some of the Lord’s passion.”
“… You’re buying heat. What do you plan to buy it with?”
“I prepared something expensive, but if that doesn’t work… with my body?”
The way he speaks while tilting his head as if he knows nothing.
It’s as if he wants to pretend to be innocent.
It was a move that made me take a step back.
[They say that if you’re going to be successful, you’ll get rich quick even if you just sit still. Life really sucks.]
‘Does that matter now, in this situation?’
[It doesn’t matter to you, you rotten bastard!]
Noya’s anger wasn’t the first or second time, so it was something that could be overlooked by now.
It did seem a bit more extreme than usual, though… Ah, is it because you’re Mr. Moryong?
“No… heat… no.”
“Wouldn’t that work?”
“It’s not that it’s not possible. What exactly do you want to do?”
“It’s okay, unless it doesn’t work out. I’ll come back later.”
“What the hell… Where are you going…? Where are you going now, hey! Where are you going!”
After saying just what I wanted to say, Mo Yong-hee and her attendants walked away from me.
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I thought I should grab the moment and ask.
If I were to ask that question right now, I could see that that sly woman would have something to say.
“Buy heat…?”
What are you talking about, you think my passion is an object?
But from afar, I saw Seol-ah Wi running towards me with something to wipe my sweat.
Sweat and tears.
I had to go find my father right away.
“What’s going on?”
I opened the door and went in as if I was going to barge in.
My father looked at me with a questioning expression.
I looked at my father and asked.
“Lady Moyong came to see me and asked me to buy her something. Do you know what she meant?”
I came to ask since I had received permission from my father, Mo Yong-hee.
‘I doubt my father would do something like this…’
Why would you sell heat for something so out of the blue?
Even I thought it was strange.
“okay.”
“Right? Even my father doesn’t know… Yes?”
“I said I would do that.”
“You decided to let me buy your passion?”
“There’s nothing left to do but think. The deal is already done.”
“Why did you do that without asking my opinion…?” The moment when you try to express your displeasure at something that happened without asking a single question
My father takes a letter out of a drawer and hands it to me.
“These are the terms of the transaction concluded with Mo Yong-se.”
“•••Why are you suddenly giving this to me?”
“Everything written there is an item that you trade for your passion.”
At his father’s words, he turned his gaze to the letter.
What the hell, how great was it that you bet on… . “ ”
I had to keep my mouth shut as soon as I read it.
The quantity was that overwhelming.
Starting with silks that are not easily traded with the outside world.
Even the industrial complex that sells clothing made from that silk.
‘•••Is Mo Yong-se really crazy?’
Otherwise, it would have been difficult to understand.
“The details are confidential and will be told to you separately.”
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“•••What, do you have to keep the fire burning all day? You know I’ll be closing soon, don’t you?”
It was worth it, even if it was burning like a human bonfire right next to you all day long.
Even if this comes second.
Of course, it will be closed in the future.
Since there was a schedule that required going to the front lines, it was unclear why Mo Yong-se had made such a deal.
“I said I would take responsibility for that part and handle it, so it should be okay.”
“I don’t know what’s okay about this… Especially not this….”
“A portion of the amount written there will go to you.”
“It’ll be okay. I’ll just try hard.”
[•••He’s crazy.]
Thinking about it again, it didn’t seem like something worth worrying about since it was such a big deal.
‘But why me?’
I already knew a certain amount about Mo Yong-hee’s constitution.
A body slowly being consumed by cold.
It is a constitution that cannot be cured by medicine, let alone by God.
Could that be why you want my heat?
‘Even if we say so….’
If you look at Sega as a chemical engineer, not only is there a father right now.
There are many other chemical companies that are unmanned, so I don’t know why you specifically called me out.
My enthusiasm won’t be of any help to Mo Yong-hee.’
This was something I knew from experience in a past life.
My heat doesn’t reach her.
Even if it touches you, it won’t be enough to help melt the cold away… .
‘Did you find anything else?’
In this life, the power of the Heavenly Horse.
Purifying magic, absorbing other energy, etc.
As much as we have experienced absurd changes.
I have a feeling that there might be other differences there too.
‘So that’s why Mo Yong-hee came looking for me?’
If my heat helps Mo Yong-hee’s constitution.
From the perspective of the Mo Yong-se family, it is understandable that they would spend this kind of money to get my attention.
What I don’t know is.
This was Mo Yong-hee’s reaction.
For some reason, the reaction of enjoying it was so different from my previous life.
It makes me flinch without me knowing.
‘If this is true, then is Mo Yong-hee going to stay here forever?’
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Just imagining it gave me goosebumps for some reason.
‘•••No, there are plenty of places to run to in the closed building and on the front lines, so it’ll be okay.’
The Mo Yong-se family said they would take care of it too.
At least it will be okay for that time.
When I’m lost in thought.
Suddenly, Shin Noya muttered something.
[It reminds me of something I said a long time ago.]
‘What are you talking about?’
[That’s what I meant when I said I would group women by the color of their hair.]
‘…’
[That’s exactly what it is now. Heh heh. In this damn world, those who are destined to succeed are too toothless to chew, but somehow they manage to survive by spoon-feeding them.]
Noya started muttering to himself as if he was going crazy.
I’m talking about Mo Yong-hee.
I had to worry about whether I should tell Wi Seol-ah or Nam Gung-bia.
‘•••Whether you say it or not.’
Anyway, there was no good conclusion in sight.
I just wanted to close it quickly.
