prologue: The story of night market 2

“There is no one who criticizes anyone greatly, so his arrogance reached the heavens, and the third prince struck a chord on one day. When it comes to the youngest prince, even the smiling king would change his complexion and issue a command of disrespect.

Wasn't this prince seduced by the king's most beloved concubine to give birth to bloodstains? What kind of bullshit is this? The king was very angry and ordered to throw away his beloved son, and never show his face in front of him again. And to put the illegitimate child born in the deepest and most humble place in the center of the Palace.

'It's not up to me to know, but how could my father be like this to me?' The third prince weeping. He is only complaining without thinking about his fault, so it's probably not too late for this prince to come to his senses. A woman who fell in love with him and left an unclean seed even though she knew it was profane, he did not blink an eye after hearing the news that she died after taking the drug. 'When the wrath of my father is relieved, I will be freed, then let his resentment go away '. He shouted such a white voice all the way to the outside of the city.”

“Is there anyone in the world who is not as good as that?” This one, who looked like a tourist, exclaimed in indignation. As if in sympathy with him, the gossiper shook his head greatly.

“But the king, freed from the whispers of his son, there is nothing so wicked and venomous stayed afar . It's all because of him or not. When the king realized that he had to strict with him, the prince knew neither humanity nor law. Then he commanded him to learn it for the rest of his life. It's been ten years since that happened, and we can't even see the prince's nose, whether he's dead or alive. Ah! Finally, our Heiran-guk has relieved of one of our troubles!”

The crowd burst into laughter at the action of the gossip who sweeps the chest with an exaggerated face. Ashita smiled bitterly.

Aren't you afraid that you'll get implicate for talking about the royal family?

The story of the gossiper is unstoppable.

“But it is too early to be happy. There is still one problem left! Let's come To princess Soru, the true protagonist of this story, the blood left by that Same prince Shin-yul."

Ashita narrowed his eyes. It was a name he was familiar with. It was also the reason he stopped walking.

There was tension again on the faces of those who laughed happily after hearing the name. Only those who did not know anything had curious faces.

“On the day Princess Soru was born, the king of Heiran was livid and said, The king’s woman gave birth to a child of his son, which is evidence of corruption. Give it to the lowest servant, so that she may not die. And give the lowly daughter a name, she was born with tears, and it is only a concern, so call it Soru! Thus, Princess Soru, who was raised by the oldest and weakest stuttering slave and let her die. But the female servant died in an unfortunate accident, and the shrine maidens took care of her. It is said that it was like What a pity to be a princess!”

The gossiper's voice resounds everywhere. Feeling a gloomy presence, Ashita turned his head.

Heuksan Disastrous child rises like a folding screen behind the palace. The sun was slowly setting over it and it was getting reddish.

It was the color the ghosts liked. Is it time for the ghosts to wake up? It's not that it's not, but in that lively intestine, there is a small, creepy spirit.

It was hard to listen to the story of the gossiper .

“Do you know that she is called a ghost princess for what reason? Thousands of millions of people will die! The princess's eccentricity did not stop there. This girl, who was unusual from birth, grew up so slowly that she was so small and dwarf that she suffered from severe pain every day. It's so tough to be alive evern now and then even though she thinks she is going to die soon. By the time what she had been struggling with began to speak, she mumbled even nonsense. It is not uncommon to her stare into empty space, and on a fictitious day, ghosts came to eat her and even started a game. Do you know that's not at all? This girl also talked with trees, blades of grass, and animals, but the scary thing is that when the little bloodsuckers tell them to bloom, a dead tree blooms; If you say go, she is not going!

'It's really strange, this strange thing, I'm afraid I'm going to die,' the servants ran away from the castle trembling, and rumors spread all over the city that Princess Soru was possessed as a ghost. When the situation became out of hand, the king's patience was worn out. He said, "I can't stand the fortress anymore," and ordered her to lock him up in the palace shrine, and to starve to death without giving her food or water.

A day passed and two days passed... The night after ten days have passed! Thunder and lightning strike all over the heavens and the sky turns black, an ominous sign. A thunderbolt fell from the sky, and the royal palace was engulfed in flames. The shadow of the fire trembled as if the monsters were tangled and writhing! I could clearly see the flames soaring up to the roof of that high palace with my own two eyes!” The gossiper looks at them with a smirk in his eyes. But no one laughed.

“The fire that did not go out even when all the workers in the palace rushed in and poured water on it. It went out like a lie after a strange scream rang out from the sky, and to everyone's surprise the little princess was still alive in the pile of coals! The skinny girl who didn't swallowed a sip of water and a grain of rice for ten days was only blind with two eyes, and everything else was fine.

When the king saw it,, hewas so terrified and said, Wonderful and ominous.. " Wasn't the heaven angry that I tried to cut off my own bloodline ? Let's build a new shrine, let the princess live there, and offer sacrifices to relieve the oars of heaven.'

From that day on, a strange song began to resound in the valley of Heiran-guk, and the content of the song is as follows.

”The gossip cleared his throat and sang.

“If you eat Princess Soru,

Because you can gain a new body and become a person,

Heeran Kingdom Ghosts

they fought over the princess.

The ugliest of them all

It swallowed up all the precious things that came

It's stomach was full, and so could not eat the princess.

the monster eventually

stealing the princess's eyes

ran away.”

The lyrics echoed for a long time in the hall, leaving a strange aftertaste.

“Until the death of the old king, the death of the sickly first prince, and the second prince ascending to the throne, the singing from that valley did not stop, and it still resounds at dusk in that valley of ghosts."

The story is over. The crowd looked towards the valley as if they had promised. As if to prove his words, even more in the reddish sunset light, the shadows of the mountains appear gloomy like the shadows of Youkai. It sounded like a buzzing wind from the black valley that swallowed the sun. The yo-yo lyrics floating in it make my ears dizzy.

“If you eat Princess Soru,

Because it can get a new body and become a human... .”

Ashita, who was quietly looking at the valley, soon began to move through the crowd. In this crowded streets the shadows of people are strangely dark.

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