A Kind Goblin’s Bird - Chapter 59

“Sit down.”

If there is no place to sit, how can they sit?

“Sit down.”

In the end, the four of them knelt down on their knees at the abstract-like command. I’m sorry, Your Majesty King Mun. Song Geun-ryang said in a trembling voice.

***

Naturally, Song Geun-ryang had to turn around without any result.

‘What’s the purpose?’

All he could do was say that he just wanted to see if the girl was doing well while trembling under the Demon King’s presence. The Demon King, of course, didn’t seem to believe it. He laughed.

‘Song Geun-ryang.’

‘Yes, yes, Your Highness.’

‘Never set foot in my palace again. Not even a letter. If any traces of you are discovered in the future.’

And for a moment, the Demon King was silent.

Tap, tap, tap. It was just a sound. The Demon King’s fingernails were tapping the ivory handle. The sound of tapping without a word gradually increased, then slowed down, and then quickly again, repeatedly. 

The Demon King was thinking about something. In his thoughts, he imagined how he would have disposed of Song Geun-ryang. Would he be dead or alive?

Tap. The knocking stopped.

‘…… I am trying to show mercy to you. Please don’t waste my efforts. Do you know what I mean?’

That was the end.

The Demon King elegantly waved his hand outward. It was a movement like kicking a fly away. Then the escorts who had removed the chairs approached. Let’s go. Their voice was low and firm, like that of a reaper. He didn’t even have time to put a single word on it.

“Then why did you ask me to come here?”

The disgraced wife was angry with a blushing face. His daughter, who seemed to be more angry than the wife, said nothing. She seemed to have been deeply shocked by the fact that the illegitimate child, whom she had neglected for the rest of her life, was living a noble life more than anyone else. 

The child was jealous, so there is a possibility that she will be completely obsessed for the time being. Normally he would have worried about his cherished daughter, but now he has to catch the fire at his feet first.

The herbs, what to do with the herbs.

He failed to keep her mouth shut. Besides, he can’t even access her anymore. What to do?

Would he rather run at night? Song Geun-ryang’s mind wandered in confusion. The idiot, like an idiot, was not very talkative. So, she won’t tell unless asked, but when he thinks about how long this secret will be kept, he is devastated.

Yes, he’ll have to slowly organize his fortune from now on. It would be difficult to survive in Yangan

―That’s when Song Geun-ryang made up his mind.

***

Sa Heon-yeong, who had chased Young-young’s family members as if chasing bugs in the audience room of Hyeonseon Hall, turned his back. He thought that someday, when the time comes, he will also have to deal with them slowly. 

In front of the door, Sa Heon-yeong’s shadowy escorts were waiting for him, and he had to pass by them and leave the audience room. However, he did not try to pass by and stopped in front of an officer. The commander, who had bowed his head, raised his head curiously.

“Your Highness?”

“It’s similar, isn’t it?”

Sa Heon-yeong asked without asking anyone. The shadow of Sa Heon-yeong was cast over the officer’s body. Ha So-ye, who was walking behind Sa Heon-yeong, glanced at the military officer and muttered, “Ah!”

“The son-in-law and General Joo looked alike. If you see them in the dark, you will be mistaken.”

Mistaken. At that moment, a scene popped into Sa Heon-yeong’s mind.

It’s the day after the first night. She had disappeared from his bed and screamed from a few feet away.

‘Don’t come!’

That desperate scream.

The one who had apparently found her.

“It is you.”

“What?”

The general did not understand and asked, but Sa Heon-yeong was lost in thought without answering.

Young-young couldn’t see at night because she did not eat properly. Seeing someone who could easily be mistaken in the dark, she screamed. Don’t come. There was only one person who that bashful, smiling Young-Young showed such sharp vigilance to. 

And that one person.

Come to think of it, the night he went to meet Young-young, the guy and the girl that was his wife had a quarrel.

‘Do I look like I have a mind to let that happen?! The Demon King, it’s the Demon King! Oh my God. You were aiming for that crazy bitch and now I look like a crazy bitch?’

‘Oh, why are you saying that again? When did I ever have a heart to that bitch?’

‘On the subject of swallowing saliva just looking at her breakable legs.’

That bitch.

That crazy bitch.

Who are they talking about?

Aaaaaaak Aaak Aaaaaaaakkkkkkkk

That night, Yeong-yeong’s scream, who had mistaken General Joo for ‘someone’, still echoed in his ears. The screams of her who can’t see anything. 

Young-young is not that kind of person. She bears even pain well, she is a woman who can go through hardship. He cannot even gauge what it was like if she goes through something painful. Such a woman, to be so terrified, what happened?

“Fill the prison with water.”

At Sa Heon-yeong’s low voice, the officers faced each other. To fill the prison with water means to put a criminal in it. A prison filled with water. It’s not just for imprisoning criminals.

“Yes, Your Highness.”

General Joo lowered his eyes. It’s still late afternoon. He has a feeling that tonight will be very long.