214 – 41. Kim Ha-neul and Kim Ha-neul
Kim Ha-neul walks out from beyond the collapsed door and wall.
With an expression that Kim Ha-neul has never seen before.
With a gait that Kim Ha-neul did not do.
She put her hands together politely and tilted her head.
The first to react was the emperor.
“Ah, ah.”
Apparently, nothing has changed in the collateral royal family, Kim Ha-neul.
Nevertheless, the emperor was shedding tears.
“Ha, sky!”
“You…? Why are you crying so much?”
“How long have I been waiting for this moment…”
Forgetting even the pain of being pierced by an arrow.
The emperor, who was shedding tears little by little, approaches Kim Ha-neul with joy.
Contrary to the thought that he would rush straight away, the emperor was very cautious in his actions.
Is that an act of concern for her wife, who may have possessed Kim Ha-neul’s body?
Or is it just that I doubt the acting?
…… At least what is certain is that the emperor has been waiting for this moment for a long time.
“Sky…!!”
That appearance, the longing that the emperor expresses with his whole body…… It’s creating a strange pressure.
Neither I nor Eunha could stop the reunion of those two.
Except for just one person.
Hook!!!
“Whoosh!!”
“Everything, you!”
“……….”
At the point when the wall collapsed due to the galaxy and the true nature of the small room was revealed.
Inside the purple circle, Kim Woo-sung’s eyes were fixed on a middle-aged woman.
Without the slightest hesitation, he shot the emperor in the thigh and knocked him down.
In a slightly different sense than emperor…… The taste was quite gone.
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“Kim…Woosung!”
“…At best, because of something like this, my mother…My mother?”
“Who are you!? Take the bow away from him right now!”
“Is this…Because of a trivial play?”
Kirik.
I didn’t shed any tears.
Kim Woo-sung just burst out laughing as if he was helpless.
What were his inner thoughts as he looked at his mother in the pile of corpses?
Kim Woo-seong, who stared at the emperor with blank yet burning eyes for a moment, soon moved the bowstring to Kim Ha-neul.
“Sister.”
“Sister…? I am the empress of the Korean Empire! Can’t we get rid of that bow quickly?”
“Sister, it’s such a trivial play. It’s so obvious.”
Kim Woo-sung knew the whole truth.
…… Maybe it’s natural. His mother was the emperor’s concubine, and she said she was on the emperor’s side until the end.
There is a high possibility that he knows about the emperor’s vain dream of the empress’s resurrection. Especially if the Emperor has fallen and his allies are almost gone.
That’s why her son, Kim Woo-sung, knows that.
The fact that Kim Woo-sung did not reveal that fact to me.
──So, leave this matter to me.
And…… There was no way Eunha didn’t know about this incident.
It was all natural.
“The real Empress, Princess Kim Eun-ha, passed away when she was young. So how can we recognize her now?”
It would be simple to shoot an arrow, but Kim Woo-sung’s words showed a different desire.
It seemed like she was hoping that this ugly ritual that took her mother’s life would end in complete failure.
In order to completely destroy even the emperor’s last hope, Kim Woo-sung denied Kim Ha-neul before his eyes.
“Princess Kim Eun-ha, isn’t that right?”
“…Kim Woo-sung is right. You are not my mother. You are just Kim Ha-neul, a collateral royal family member and .”
“Eunha, I recognize you. Although you have changed a lot since you were young… I still have memories of Haneul.”
“Yes?”
“Really… I feel like I’ve been dreaming for a long time. How long have I been in this small room? How long have I been in a state where I couldn’t go to rest or wake up… While I was doing that, I saw Haneul. “I couldn’t help but become attached to this poor child because it had the same name as mine.”
“……………….”
“This is Haneul’s body, right? Is that why… I can vaguely read Haneul’s memories. And I see you in those memories. From the way you were when you were young, you grew up so wonderfully…”
“……No.”
“This is what my daughter looks like.”
“This… Isn’t.”
Kim Ha-neul’s smile was kindness itself. It was an expression that clearly conveyed maternal love and sadness.
Her joy and love at meeting her adult daughter, and her regret at not being able to watch her grow up.
Eunha inadvertently took a step back at the sight, which could not possibly be imagined as the acting of an .
Smiling mom. Dying mother.
A sweet mother. Dead mother.
Mom holding a knife. Dead mom.
My mother tried to kill me. The mother I killed───
“That can’t be possible.”
“I’m sorry, Eunha. I’m so sorry… Blame this on your mom.”
“This, this is definitely acting…!!”
Eunha tried to undo the step she had taken backwards…… She actually took a step back,
She seemed to be experiencing extreme confusion.
Kim Ha-neul, who thought it was just acting, really looked like her mother.
This look can’t be considered acting at all.
That tone of voice, facial expression, even gestures.
Everything about her is the same as the ‘Kim Ha-neul’ in her memories.
‘Besides…….’
After all, this is an underground prison.
The place where Eunha killed her mother, the place where Kim Ha-neul met her death, the happiest memory but also the most terrible space for Eunha.
Right there, in the same room where she had killed her mother, she came face to face with her resurrected mother.
Even if it wasn’t real, it was natural for her emotions to run wild.
So, I stood up.
…… After pulling out the short spear from my thigh.
“Galaxy.”
“Ah…Ah?”
“I understand it’s embarrassing. Anyone would be embarrassed. But Eunha, I’m behind you.”
Fresh blood flows like crazy from the spot where the javelin was pulled out. The effects of Had not yet ended, so there was no worry about death from shock, but instead, it felt like her thighs were going to break.
…… Well then, let it break.
Because Eunha, who is now taking a step back, was more important than my thighs.
She somehow got up from her seat and supported herself.
“We…Min.”
“Eunha, Is flowing out. Can you see it?”
“……………….”
“Do you remember what happened in this dungeon? Self-restraint. Self-control. If Runs rampant here… There will really be no turning back.”
Eunha’s Was leaking out little by little in line with her embarrassment and confusion.
If this turns into a monster like last time, what kind of tragedy will happen?
I didn’t want to imagine it, and I was scared, but I was confident.
Because Eunha has already overcome it once and has learned her self-control.
All I have to do is give her a little push on the back.
“Calm down. Eunha, always remember.”
“……………….”
“I am behind you. So…Rest assured.”
She didn’t give her any power or cause change.
All I said was a few words.
Even though it is just that.
The galaxy slowly…… And with gritted teeth.
He turned his back on me and stood on his own.
“…I’m sorry, my Min. I guess I lost my mind for a moment.”
“If I had left it to Eunha, I would have been in big trouble.”
“……Sure.”
If Eunha and Kim Seong-il knew everything about this incident, there would have been no need for me to intervene.
The thought I had for a moment was easily erased.
What would have happened if I hadn’t come to the Korean Empire?
Could it have been possible for Eunha’s To not run away?
‘It’s a useless idea.’
……… Anyway, those things are all just what ifs.
In the end, only this in front of you is reality and is real.
I just do the best I can.
“So…Next time, so that our people can really rest in peace.”
“Galaxy.”
“I’ll definitely tie the knot and come back.”
With those words, Eunha took a deep breath and looked ahead.
Kim Ha-neul is there. She doesn’t know if she’s real or acting, and she doesn’t know if she’s her mother or a collateral royal family member.
The choice of galaxy was simple.
“Let’s…Move the location.”
“What───”
Bam!!
In an instant, he snatches Kim Ha-neul’s wrist and disappears through the ceiling.
A hole has been opened in the dungeon, but it is still dawn up there. There was no light coming in.
Because of that.
No matter how much the emperor looks up the hole, he will never be able to see anything above it.
“I didn’t stop it. Even though I could have stopped it.”
“……………….”
“Are you going to throw it like a brick like you did to me earlier?”
“…Haneul is my wife, and Eunha is my daughter. How can that be?”
“The wife went crazy and tried to kill her daughter, but she ended up dying, and she was almost killed by her crazy mother.”
“Fortune teller… Lee.”
Certainly, the beginning may not have been anyone’s fault.
The princess was born weak, and her mother’s maternal love did anything to save her daughter.
Because of that, her galaxy was given
.
That was the beginning of all tragedies.
“What are you saying you know? Sky, Eunha, Seongil, and me!!”
“I don’t know, I don’t know. But I know you weren’t a good parent.”
“……………….”
“In the end, you… Chose your wife… Over the country, over the people, over your children.”
How will Eunha react if her dead mother comes back alive?
How can Kim Seong-il remain calm? But what about Eunha who killed her mother with her own hands?
‘I avoided the question about the galaxy earlier.’
Wouldn’t it be great if it could be completely revived, but such a half-hearted effort would only scratch the galaxy’s painful past.
The emperor clearly loved Eunha as her father. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have built the princess’s palace and dungeon for Eunha, who had to kill people on a regular basis because of .
But after the planned tragedy, the emperor did not treat the daughter who killed her mother or wife as a daughter.
I just semi-forcibly sealed her
.
And didn’t Eunha know that?
Now that her father no longer loves her?
He said it was because he killed her mother.
Did you really not know?
“The catastrophe was predestined. Whether the Empress really came back to life or failed… It was certain that the end would be the worst.”
“……………….”
“You couldn’t have known all that. Even though you knew that, did you still want to meet her? Instead of caring for her daughter, you were obsessed with her dead wife?”
“……You won’t know.”
“What?”
“Accepting that a loved one has died and is no longer in this world…Is a greater pain than anything in the world.”
“…Well.”
This is what the son who buried his parents who committed suicide says.
“It’s a pain that everyone experiences. Every person in the world.”
“……….”
“And you just didn’t love your daughter, using that pain as an excuse to spread more pain.”
We won’t be able to understand each other anyway.
The emperor and I had no choice but to stand on opposite sides.
And that’s why.
The emperor did not stop Eunha from taking Kim Ha-neul.
In order to meet my beloved wife, I had to put an end to the fortune teller first so I could feel safe.
“Do I need to say any more?”
“…Okay. It’s not necessary.”
The fortune teller and the emperor glare at each other.
The two painfully realized that they couldn’t be at peace without ending each other.
But the difference between the two is clear.
The fortune teller is on the verge of death from shock due to excessive blood loss, and his limbs are not moving properly. Somehow he stood on two legs, but he doubted whether it would even be possible to move.
On the other hand, the emperor was relatively unharmed even though he was pierced in two places by arrows. ‘S physical abilities were truly transcendent, so he would be able to kill the fortuneteller at any time after recovering some of the initial damage.
That’s why.
‘When are you coming?’
Instead of the last actor who kept waiting, Kim Woo-sung was the first to quietly aim the arrow at the emperor.
“Kim Woo-sung….”
“…Namgoong Min, you’re still alive.”
“What?”
“Mom, Mom. I’m breathing, I’m breathing…! Maybe it’s my mood. Maybe it’s just my imagination…But I don’t have time.”
“…Okay.”
Didn’t the emperor really kill his concubine, Kim Woo-sung’s mother? I don’t know about that.
But I agree with the statement that there is no time.
I somehow moved my body, which was creaking in pain, and glared at the emperor.
He has been reduced to a mere beast and will do his best to kill both of us at any time.
And.
“Namgoong Min, you’re not trying to leave me out, are you?”
“……Okay, I was wondering when you would come.”
Tak.
Fall from a hole that opened all the way to the ceiling.
Even the last remaining family members who should be here.
Everyone gathered together.
In this damned Korean Empire’s imperial situation…… It was time to put an end to it.