I’m an Unknown Actress, But Everyone Knows Me - Chapter 163
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Episode 163
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[♨Please don’t end it, let’s stay here together forever, Strange Tales Episode 14 Fire Board♨] (9221)
-This is saying goodbye next week..? We’re ending here…?
-Ugh fuck this is driving me crazy I don’t want to break upㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠdo moreㅠㅠㅠㅠ
-I’ll pretend not to know if you continue with Myeongdo tree Seoryeong caught, please damn
The Fire Board, finally with only one week left until the final episode, was noisy as usual today. They had been waiting, going through several Fire Boards even before it started.
“Ah… It’s starting…”
Chapter 14
Masked Ghost
Along with the increasingly overlapping sounds of ritual instruments, letters were carved into the dark screen.
There was no time. Both Seoryeong and Myeongdo became anxious at this fact.
This wasn’t a level of death curse that could be handled with the divine power they possessed. The Yeom family’s vicious curse was eating away at Seoryeong’s life.
“Seeing that the Prince has set out to find me, nothing has happened to the Crown Prince yet. However, where he has gone…”
“This is maddening. The place where you and the Crown Prince separated is in the complete opposite direction from Jincheonji, which should be our final destination.”
There was one last place where evil energy remained. There, Seoryeong had to release her restraints.
But if she released the restraints, it would only be a matter of time before the Yeom family discovered her location.
“It would be good if the Crown Prince were at Jincheonji, but the probability of that right now is…”
“…”
Would the Yeom family come looking for Seoryeong, or would they wait near the palace? It was impossible to know.
The only certainty was that the King and Crown Prince were in danger. Before Seoryeong could break her restraints, someone had to enter the palace. There was no telling how far the Yeom family’s wrath would reach.
“Then, you should…”
“…If I do that, won’t you be left alone?”
There was only one method left. For Myeongdo to return to his original position. As a royal attendant, he had no choice but to find the Crown Prince and warn him of the danger.
It was the moment when Myeongdo had to go in the opposite direction while Seoryeong went alone to the final location.
Even knowing this, neither of them opened their mouth.
Before them, a small figure came running frantically from far away. As if they had been waiting. As soon as the child reached Seoryeong, they burst into tears.
The young shaman girl, whose divine power wasn’t remarkable enough to perform sorcery or use talismans, but whose prophecy ability alone was outstanding, grabbed onto Seoryeong and begged desperately.
“Please save me, please save me… Please, please.”
The girl, who seemed half out of her mind, grabbed Seoryeong’s collar like a lifeline and cried.
“I know who you are.”
The child’s eyes were bloodshot. She looked to be about six or seven years old. Seoryeong, guessing that such desperation must have some story behind it, asked.
“Explain briefly.”
Prince Seonghui was gradually tightening his grip around their necks. At this rate, they might fall into Prince Seonghui’s hands before even going to meet the Yeom family.
All the money that had been sent to support the isolated villages had been divided between corrupt officials and Prince Seonghui.
Where could all that money have flowed? Prince Seonghui was making plans for when he couldn’t peacefully inherit the throne.
He kept private soldiers and prepared for the time.
Only for the day when he would devour the throne.
“I’m part of a wandering troupe. Sometimes when markets opened… I would tell fortunes and receive payment.”
The young child’s past somewhat resembled Seoryeong’s. Young age, amazing ability, and a guardian with no blood relation.
“Word of my abilities reached the ears of someone high up, and they… told me to cast a death curse…”
It was roughly understandable. But the child, who didn’t have the power to curse others, would have refused, saying she couldn’t do such things. The official who wasn’t satisfied with this would have made threats.
What could have tormented the child so much? Seoryeong’s face hardened as she listened quietly.
“They took the Troupe Leader… and tortured him without giving him a drop of water. They said they would do this until I cast the death curse…”
The child collapsed on the ground and wailed. She rubbed her dirty hands together on the dirt ground and bowed her head.
“The Troupe Leader, who suffered for three days and nights, died in prison. But when I still couldn’t use a single talisman, this time they took the Troupe Leader’s son too… They said they would capture the entire troupe until I cast the death curse.”
Tears flowed down the child’s face like mad.
Seoryeong closed her eyes tightly. If she helped this child here, things might go wrong. Dealing with the Yeom family required that much caution and more caution.
Seoryeong’s lips began to tremble.
“In the future you see, what did it say…? That I would help you?”
Seoryeong’s divine power was still sealed. Due to overusing her divine power while wearing restraints, her current divine power was almost depleted.
Even for Seoryeong, who could see the past, the future still didn’t appear clearly.
An unclear future. But one thing was certain: she would snatch this Yeomho Kingdom from the Yeom family’s grasp.
“I don’t know. I only know that you would arrive at this place.”
The sniffling child’s answer resembled what Jeongan had once said.
“Because the future branches into many paths, there are more uncertain things than certain ones. What I can discover are the major branches, not the smaller ones.”
Jeongan’s words echoed.
Unmoved like a mountain, unwavering and firm like a mountain,
“Whew…”
After sighing briefly, Seoryeong extended her hand to the child kneeling on the ground.
She couldn’t bring herself to pretend not to know.
It was because she had seen too many people trampled by officials while traveling through isolated places. When the powerless were crushed, not a single person stood up for them.
Her sense of responsibility as a shaman stirred deep in her heart.
There were things in this world that only Seoryeong could do.
“Where is the Troupe Leader’s son imprisoned?”
For this, Seoryeong made up her mind. After this matter, she decided to go to Jincheonji alone.
It was time for Myeongdo to resume his role as royal attendant. She couldn’t turn away from this forever.
Still, she wanted to try hiding her selfish desire to stay together a little longer behind justification. What was hidden within her heart to help the weak was clearly romantic affection.
Do not yield when it comes to righteousness, do not avoid the right path.
Myeongdo looked at Seoryeong with surprised eyes as she took the child’s hand. Seoryeong helped the child up and then met Myeongdo’s gaze.
The bright path shines through to the end.
As if the path they had to walk together was not frightening.
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The King had his eyes closed.
The Royal Bed Chamber covered with thick blankets was utterly dark. The scent of burning medicinal herbs spread from both sides. Gloomy smoke was thick in the air.
“This was for the best.”
Seonghui, kneeling before him, muttered with a self-deprecating laugh.
“So if you had just passed the throne to me, wouldn’t this have been avoided…”
Seonghui had ultimately cast a death curse on the King as well. Due to the evil things that appeared in his dreams every day, the King had collapsed. The weakened King couldn’t rise from his bed.
Yunhui’s whereabouts were unknown, and with the King collapsed, it was the perfect moment to become the new heaven.
“May you have pleasant dreams.”
Seonghui mockingly raised both hands to his forehead. Then he bowed twice in succession.
His disciplined posture truly seemed to mourn the King’s final moments.
Seonghui left the King’s Royal Bed Chamber with leisurely steps. The sliding door closed quietly.
“….”
As Seonghui left, the King’s closed eyes opened.
“You there.”
The King, who had only appeared to be sleeping, commanded someone in a toneless voice.
Then a Guard who had been hiding his presence behind the Folding Screen revealed himself.
“Prepare the army.”
He was the warrior Yunhui had sent. The Guard who bowed his head in acceptance pulled something from his chest.
It was Yunhui’s Talisman.
Yunhui’s past appeared on the screen.
“Report to the Palace.”
At dawn, tormented by nightmares, Yunhui gazed at the sheer cliff and took a deep breath as if making some resolution.
“Tell them I will rest and recover here. Add that my mind and body seem to have grown weak.”
Yunhui, who sent one Guard to the Palace, seemed to shake hands unusually long.
“Make sure to deliver this properly to His Majesty.”
It wasn’t just hands clasped together. Yunhui held something in his hand.
Hidden within his long sleeves was a Talisman. Yunhui sent Jeongan’s Talisman with the Guard. Yunhui threw himself into nightmares, hoping the King would be safe.
“I must show them that evil things dare not run rampant in this place.”
The King who received the Talisman tore it apart.
From the beginning, the King had never once been tormented by evil things.
When the heavens collapse, the people collapse.
Yunhui knew this well.
Yunhui had endured until now with an upright heart. Adding a few more days of suffering would not change anything.
He did not use even a single Talisman for himself. Only for a peaceful nation. For heavens that would not collapse. For my people.
Because he was a Crown Prince who knew how to willingly sacrifice himself.
Everything was bait to catch Seonghui.
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