129 – 26. Do you know the Tao?
The imperial castle of the Korean Empire, the road leading to the princess’s palace.
The princess’s palace is a separate palace separate from the imperial castle.
Of course, there was no choice but to separate Kim Eun-ha, who was swayed by
Because of this, to get to the princess’s palace, one had to pass through the forest within the vast grounds of the imperial castle.
Because the dense forests and hills gave the princess’s palace its appearance.
“But the air is clear.”
“……………….”
“Isn’t that right?”
“…I see.”
“……Hmm.”
The time is after midnight and dawn is slowly approaching.
However, the look on the princess’s face was not fatigue but anxiety.
The closer you get to the princess’s palace, the more you walk down the familiar path.
Anxiety inevitably wells up inside her.
“Princess, are you still anxious about your life?”
“……….”
“If that’s the case, just trust me──”
“…No, it’s not because of that.”
“Yes?”
“Really…You really don’t know why I’m anxious?”
“……….”
Well, what is it?
If it’s not because of death, then why?
Is this it? Is it the ‘Oppa, I haven’t changed anything’ that I saw in the drama?
How should I answer correctly? … ?
“You didn’t say that the person you had to meet was an .”
“…If that’s the case, didn’t the princess have a rough guess?”
“I did. Yes, I did. But guessing and actually doing it are two different things.”
Trug.
The princess who was walking along the forest path stopped.
Soon, she looked up at me with anxious eyes.
“Do you know what you’re doing right now, Namgoong Min?”
“I’m looking for the princess.”
“You won’t be able to live in the Korean Empire.”
“……….”
“If both the shadows and the oppressors know that they have been deceived, they will never leave you alone. If you stay at the academy, you may be okay, but what if you graduate from the academy? You will never be able to set foot in the Korean Empire for the rest of your life, and you will live in a foreign country. Even if you go, they will want your life.”
“……………….”
“No matter how much my brother and I try to stop it, the scale of this incident is too big. In fact, in fact…”
“It’s like a fight between shadows and oppressors.”
“It’s only because of me──”
“At the same time, it also weakens the emperor’s faction.”
“…Yes?”
It’s true that I’m moving for Kim Eun-ha, and I know that I won’t be able to come to the Korean Empire after this incident.
This was worth more than that.
The prince would know that better than anyone else. Because you’re quick-witted.
“Well, you don’t have to worry too much. The princess has no need to worry or interfere.”
“…Well, I guess so.”
“You don’t have to worry about the shadows and oppressors coming after me.”
“It’s not something to be dismissed so easily!”
“Alternatively, how about relieving And then aim for the throne? I will help the princess.”
Don’t worry.
Would you like to make an empress?
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…… Again.
And you say things like that so casually.
“Princess?”
“……….”
He’s just a somewhat shabby fortune teller with a fair face.
There are two twisted women, and they are caught up in a muddy, passionate fight.
Even if you saved me, there is an overwhelming gap in status between you and me.
‘And yet…….’
For some reason, you came deep into my heart……
…… Shaking someone’s heart and smiling shamelessly.
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The feeling that makes my heart shake every time I see that face.
I don’t know what this is.
I think I know, but no matter how much I think about it, I can’t remember it……
That’s why I have no choice but to look at you.
‘…… Rather.’
It would be better if I wasn’t the princess.
If she were an ordinary girl who could not be concerned about status or status.
Then to you──
“Ah, you’ve arrived.”
“…I see.”
While I was frantically looking up at Namgoong Min, I arrived at a small building with a b*tchy atmosphere.
It is too small to be called a palace, but too big to be called an ordinary house.
Perhaps to prevent the princess’s palace from being seen from the outside, the princess’s palace was lower than the dense trees even though it was a ‘palace’.
And in proportion to that, a magnificent underground area spreads out beneath this palace.
A place where Kim Eun-ha’s memories, memories, and pain are engraved.
“……………….”
It is a place that I ignore on purpose and do not stop by during Chuseok or on a regular basis.
For a moment, when she was soaked in her emotions, she was looking at her palace with her dim eyes.
“Oh, wasn’t there originally a garden around here?”
“…Ah. It was there when I was young. But now that I don’t take care of it, it’s all withered away.”
But how do you know that there was originally a garden?
It must have been over 10 years already.
Before Kim Eun-ha could think about the question, Namgoong Min looked around her and stood in front of the gate of the princess’s palace.
“Isn’t this locked?”
“Don’t worry, it’s open.”
“How do you know?”
“This is a royal order. This is an order to leave the lock when I come here.”
“……….”
“Well, after I left here… I never came back.”
As if to prove that what she said was right.
When Kim Eun-ha pushed the dusty door, it opened with a rusty sound.
Kkiik.
Beyond the door that opened with an eerie sound.
The lobby and hallway, engulfed in darkness and empty of people, stand out.
And also in the large picture hanging on the wall.
“…Is that a portrait?”
“That’s right. It’s my mother’s painting.”
“Her Majesty Empress Lee Ha-neul…….”
“I got it as a birthday present. When her mother couldn’t come often, I would play in front of that painting, missing her mother.”
“……………….”
“…If you are a wise fortune teller, you already know what happened between me and my mother. You must have seen it in your lucid dreams.”
“……….”
“It’s so amazing. I never thought the whole thing would be discovered by a fortune teller… Oh, I don’t mean to belittle you. It’s just funny.”
“I understand.”
“Thank you for the comfort.”
Although she said thank you, the princess’s eyes were only focused on the empress’ portrait.
Kim Eun-ha knew.
Consolation is something that only those who have experienced the pain of the same illness can do.
What kind of consolation can a person who committed the evil act of killing his parents receive?
Even if you accept it, it will only be hypocrisy.
Knowing that Namgoong Min is not the kind of person who would commit hypocrisy in such matters, Kim Eunha lightly passed over the consolation.
If someone else had done it, I would have just shot it with contempt, so it was a very moderate response. From her perspective.
“……Shall we go? I wasted my time for no reason.”
“As long as you enter the princess’s palace, the time is fine. The oppressor and the shadows will collide in one hour no matter how fast you catch it.”
“……Then, would it be okay if I take a quick look around the palace?”
“Of course, whatever you want.”
Walk.
A dusty road, broken and worn in places.
At the same time, the hallway filled with her memories.
“Ah, I remember that picture. When I was young, I accidentally got ice cream on it.”
“I see a stain over there.”
“You said that was also a memorial. Then your mother was a person.”
It was definitely a dark and cold place.
She smiled little by little as the warm past gradually emerged.
“That vase is still broken.”
“Did the princess do it?”
“No way, if I had done that, it would have been shattered. That was what my brother did. At that time, my brother was so scared of me. He even grabbed the vase and swung it.”
“……….”
The structure of the princess’s palace was unique. The palace, which had three floors above ground, had strangely few rooms and was full of hallways.
Now that I know that it was a consideration for the young princess who couldn’t go for a walk outside but instead ran around the hallways.
Eunha Kim poured out her countless memories.
The warm and beautiful days of the past.
“Look, there isn’t a single chandelier in this hallway, right?”
“I see.”
“I figured it out. One time, I came up here while running wild, and the chandelier swinging from the ceiling was so pretty that I ran into it and got knocked down and passed out. I was very fortunate that I passed out before the workers got caught up in the runaway.”
Some people may think it is a twisted, disgusting, and disgusting past.
At least for her.
It was a memory that brought a smile to the princess, who had been abnormal since her birth.
And, she considered herself lucky.
Because the person by her side now is someone she can trust.
That’s why………
“Here, yes.”
“…This is the princess’s room.”
“Oh, how did you know?”
“I saw it in a lucid dream.”
“…I see.”
So you knew there was a garden.
Although she herself does not remember.
If it’s definitely a lucid dream…… I must have had a dream of the past.
“Can you see the bed here?”
“I can see clearly. It’s full of dust.”
“There’s a door down here.”
Squeak.
I lightly lift the dusty bed with one hand and open the iron door hidden underneath.
She weighed close to a ton, so it was really a door that no one but her could open.
Underneath the door was an obvious sight.
Damp underground air, damp moisture, and cold.
Above all, a place full of pitch-black darkness.
But Kim Eun-ha did not hesitate at all.
When I was young, it was a place I went to every day.
“Just follow me.”
“Yes.”
Ttogak. Again. Again.
Unlike the princess’s palace, where even moonlight came in, there was not even the slightest light in the basement.
Nevertheless, Kim Eun-ha moved forward without hesitation as if she could clearly see into the darkness.
I had no choice but to do that.
When she was young, she was so bored that she closed her eyes and memorized the road, because it was a road she had walked countless times.
Even in the darkness, where she couldn’t see an inch ahead, she was able to go where she wanted, as if she were going for a walk.
Walk up the stone stairs, cross the hallway full of bars, and finally reach the end of the hallway.
There is a small switch.
Although she couldn’t see it exactly, she knew there was a switch there.
Tick.
I naturally pressed the switch, and after a brief pause, light came on in the hallway.
Her old lamp sparked and gave off a faint light, and only then was she able to see her surroundings properly.
“…It’s just like the scene in my memories.”
The walls of the prison were covered with dried blood, the red-stained floor, the rusty bars, and even the chilly air.
There was nothing good about it, but Kim Eunha still smiled faintly.
And when she looked behind her.
“Princess.”
“Namgoong Min…? What about that?”
“Okay then, let’s get started right away.”
What Namgoong Min is holding is…… It was a transparent glass teapot.
However, it was cracked and broken in various places, so it looked like it would shatter if used this time.
The water glistening inside falls from the kettle onto the stone floor between her and Namgoong Min.
Special skill .
“───Ah.”
The water is rising.
Water that would only fill a small kettle at best covers the entire dungeon.
I don’t know if it actually happened or if it was just a hallucination seen by her eyes.
But one thing is clear.
The wave that swallowed up all of her memories, memories, and traces that remained in her prison also swallowed her up.
‘Ah…… ….’
Swallowed, sinking.
Understandably, Eunha Kim was not in the middle of a dungeon, but was sinking in the endless deep sea.
There is no force applied anywhere, not even to the tips of the hands.
She sank like that, and then sank again.
Suddenly she realized.
The depths of the sea where she sinks.
Beyond and below.
…… There is something.
An incomplete piece of her.
Sealed nature.
It is a skill I have had since birth.
Kim Eun-ha is something that cannot be separated from human life.
Lee.
Stretch out your arms from below──
‘Finally.’
‘I am.’
‘Becoming complete.’
──With two dark, blood-stained arms.
I crown her with her crown.
“Ah, ah.”
“Princess.”
“Ah, ah, ahhh───!!”
The black eyes are stained with blood.
Not in a lucid dream, but at this moment, fresh blood is gushing out from the floor.
As if it were
The overflowing blood surged and filled up.
A creepy image forms behind Kim Eun-ha, who is screaming and holding her head.
She wears a crown like hers, and her eyes shine red as well.
In front of a being that embodies the desire to kill someone.
There was one princess who was stained with blood.
“Princess Kim Eun-ha.”
“……….”
“How are you feeling?”
“…It’s actually a simple question.”
This is a very simple question, unbecoming of a fortune teller.
How do you feel now?
“It’s refreshing.”
“……….”
“To the point where I want to kill all living things.”
Recovering the sealed .
Kim Eun-ha threw away even the non-killing that Had promised.
He descended as a blood ghost.
“So, I will kill you?”
“Sigh…!?”
Hook.
She became a blood demon──
He smiled as if he felt really refreshed.
Puhwaak!!!
Nam Goong Min’s heart was grabbed and burst.