A Kind Goblin’s Bird

Your Highness, Your Highness, The Crown Prince.

Court Lady Yoon swallowed a gulp.

Sa Heon-yeong smiled languidly as he looked into her eyes asking if he had committed a betrayal. Betrayal*? Wasnt what they had done to him a betrayal?

Has he ever been given a familial relationship? How can it be a betrayal when a family relationship hasnt been established?

He became a fish.

What do you mean a fish, Your Highness.

He lives in a dark underground fish tank. I cant say for sure how long hell live.

Wa, water prison. Court Lady Yoon covered her mouth without realizing it. Or a scream would explode.

Water prison is the most painful prison , among the prisons of the Sun dynasty. Did he mean that the Crown Prince was locked up there?

Then, Em, Empress,

She became a tree. I was going to make her into a doll, but it was a little,

Who is this person?

Court Lady Yoon looked up blankly at Sa Heon-yeong.

The languid face looks like the Crown Prince, and the tone that comes out of his mouth is that of Sa Heon-yeong. No, no, its the first time shes heard of it. A tone that sounds like a song, like a sutra. In the voice that seems to be extinguished at any moment, there is a curse in each letter.

Sa Heon-young has always been a loyal person.

He didnt enjoy drinking or anything, he just did his thing. He defended the country, supported the emperor, and became the Crown Princes sword according to the emperors command.

If the Empress wanted it, no matter how busy he was, he even moved himself to verify the truth of the rumors. Everyone misunderstood him, but he didnt even try to clear the misunderstanding. He just stood there silently and did his best. He was like that.

He laughed and spit curses, becoming a goblin.

Boring.

What do you mean boring, Your Highness!

Court Lady Yoon. Many people died that night when the new fish was introduced into the underground fish tank. Everyone involved was killed.

Sa Heon-yeong, who had been walking around her, knelt on one knee in front of Court Lady Yoon and made his and her eye level similar.

My wife is going to Mang Mountain, and she has dark eyes and cant walk well, so if I dont light it with blood, she will fall.

Madness was burning in his gentle voice.

What did they do? They were just following the masters orders. Why did they die? They met the wrong owner. So I showed mercy. I allowed death with one nights pain. But who is responsible for all this, huh?

Your Highness

My wife will never rest. There were no prayers for her, nor was she buried; she was buried mixed with the bodies of sinners. What rest is there with her?

I cant kill easily, I cant. Im not like that.

A lovely person that he can remember even when he closes his eyes. Can he make them pay back his sorrow for having her taken away with only death?

Sa Heon-young smiled bitterly.

He gave the Empress medicine for her blood pressure. By the time the Empresss suppressed blood pressure was released, her body stiffened due to the medicine. He gave her medicine every hour. The Empress rebelled, but she couldnt resist with a body as hard as a tree.

And soon her body began to warp.

It was a medicine that turned people into trees. The skin becomes as stiff as the bark of a tree, and the body twists. The last Emperor of the former dynasty had a bad taste of making people into human trees and seeing them, and that was the medicine he used.

I thought I would kill you too.

Sa Heon-youngs eyes moved once. Like a snakes tongue touched her, and Court Lady Yoon was unable to speak properly and trembled.

I dont know what kind of wind blew you that day, but you didnt really touch my wife. So, luckily, you survived. But I dont want to see you in my palace, so get off this place. If I see you again, I will make you something non-human. Do you understand me?

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*) So the word used for betrayal here is quite specific () which means a betrayal of a person in a family.