MB Ch 2 part 1

What did he say?

After Mujang left, Bari remained on the ground in shock.

A child? A child? Whose child was she to bear? A child with that jerk?

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What ridiculous nonsense!

She burst up onto her feet. In all her years, she’d come across plenty of strange people, but she’d never heard such a ridiculous notion of having a child with the god of death.

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How could he ask her to give birth to a child in order to receive one bowl of yaksu? Who made such a ridiculous rule?

“That crazy bastard is spewing nonsense!”

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Bari burst up and began to shout curses. Then she buried her hands into her hair and began to pull.

“Horrible bastard!”

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But no matter how much she cursed, the end result remained the same. She began to run towards Mount Dongdae. Mount Dongdae was made up of sharp boulders that would scratch you with the slightest brush. There were no trees or grass in sight. There was no sign of life. Between the cracks in the boulders, lava would gurgle and release toxic fumes.

How could such a deadly place contain the water that would bring life? She had believed those damned stories and ran all the way to the underworld. She’d spent nine years as that good-for-nothing’s servant. Just the thought made her feel like she was going insane. Was this mountain truly a part of Mount Dongdae? Did that damned man’s mountain truly contain the yaksu?

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“Aaaaagh!”

Bari cried out. She ran without any thought and was caught by a jagged rock and tumbled down. As her skin grazed against the rough stone ground, it began to bleed. However, she didn’t feel any pain. She got back up and continued to run, but she was only caught by another piece of jagged rock and stumbled down again.

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“Damn it! Just where is it? They can just give me one gourdful! Damn it! How can those heartless beings call themselves gods?!”

She was so angry that she couldn’t think straight. Bari shouted out as she slammed her fist against a boulder. There was no way a human’s feeble fist could crack the iron-hard surface of a boulder. Her hands were already covered in blood from the pebbles that had pierced through her skin.

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“Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!”

No matter how much she screamed, the despair and rage did not go away.

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She didn’t know when she’d started crying, but she found her face covered in tears. Her whole body trembled like a leaf in a storm. The tears seemed to be bursting out of her.

“I want to go home…”

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She really wanted to go back. She didn’t care about the yaksu anymore. She hated that Mujang bastard even more. She wanted to get out of this wretched underworld and return to her world. She wanted to run far, far away. She wanted to die.

However, she couldn’t go back. And she definitely couldn’t die.

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If she could do whatever she wanted, she would have already done it a hundred, no, a thousand times over. If she could escape this disgusting fate, she would have done anything and everything.

“Bari…”

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Suddenly, she felt like she heard a low voice. No, she must have been mistaken. Bari continued to cry as she shook her trembling head.

Don’t call me! Don’t call me right now!

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“Bari…”

However, the voice would not stop. In the end, with watery, reddened eyes, she lifted her head and looked up. She saw feet. Dirty, bloody, small feet. Above that, slender ankles that looked to be on the verge of breaking. Torn clothing. Fingernails filled with dirt from digging in the ground. Mud sticking to long hair. Empty eye sockets. A bruised face.

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And then another face. And another.

“Aaaaah.”

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Bari cried out in pain. All the people hanging around were familiar faces. The people who’d raised her. The people who loved her. The friends who grew up with her. They were all people who died because of her.

These vindictive spirits never left her side. Unable to find comfort due to their wrongful deaths, they continued to watch her. They didn’t have eyes as they watched her in silence. Like a curse. Like a scream. With much suffering in their voice, they called her name.

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“Bari…”

“Ugh! Uuuggh!”

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Bari crouched down and smashed her head onto the ground as she screamed. She raised her hands and covered her ears. However, these voices rang inside her head, not through her ears. Even if she tried to block her ears, it was no use.

From the day these people died, ever since they were killed because of her, they would appear before her. They never came near, nor did they stay too far. They were always floating in the air and continuously calling her name without rest.

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However, Bari could not escape their flat, empty voices crying out in pain. Their suffering, their loathing and sadness would not leave her. They weren’t dead or alive. Their curse was slowly intertwining with her life.

Bari wept as she got up. With tears dripping from her eyes, she looked up. She could see a black mountaintop through the ashy fog. Mount Dongdae looked like a floating grave.

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Bari let out a dispirited laugh. She wanted to get out of this place like crazy. But she would never be able to escape this suffering. The only way she could escape this curse was to bring back the yaksu. For this reason, she ran and ran into this dark abyss.

Tears ran down her cheeks once more. Like glass beads, the tears dropped onto the ground. She had suppressed them for so long, but they were now freely falling and exploding when they hit the ground. She couldn’t stop them anymore.

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In the past, whenever she’d cry like this, her grandmother would rush over and wipe the tears off her face with her apron while saying, ‘Aigoo, my baby.’ But now, her grandfather and grandmother were looking at her with sunken eyes and terrifying gazes. Bari lowered her head once more. Her whole body began to shake. If she was so sad and in so much pain that she’d rather die, then bearing the child of a god wouldn’t be much different.

But who knows?

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One never knew what life had in store. It was gloomy and unfathomable like the gray fog of the underworld. She wouldn’t know what kind of monster waited for her on the other side.

“Bari…”

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Suddenly, she heard a voice different from the evil spirits. Bari turned her head mid-cry and saw that the goblin Ran was standing next to her.

“Bari, why are you crying? All the bad guys are gone. Don’t cry anymore, Bari.”

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Ran’s clear, blue eyes were full of worry.

“Ran…”

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Bari hugged Ran and whispered. If it weren’t for this child, she didn’t know how she could have endured the past nine years.

She first met the blue-haired goblin in the Magenta Forest. The ghosts residing there were about to eat her when Ran fatefully saved her life. From then on, Ran always followed Bari wherever she went.

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Ran’s blue goblin fire always saved Bari from evil spirits. Even when she was pleading with that damned god, Ran was always somewhere behind her. Because he was such a scaredy-cat, Ran wasn’t able to come out, and his body was always as small as a child’s. However, Ran was always on her side.

“Don’t cry, Bari.”

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Ran did his best to wipe away Bari’s tears as he whispered.

“Okay, I won’t cry.”

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Bari gave Ran an empty promise and did her best to wipe away her tears. That’s right. Now wasn’t the time to be crying like this. Nothing would be solved if she cried. She could either wait in this damned Mount Dongdae until Mujang gave her the yaksu, or she had to do whatever she could to…

To receive it.

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Bari gritted her teeth and looked back.

* * *

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The dense darkness pressed down around the ruins. Amid this darkness, Mujang sat as still as a statue on a chair that survived the wreckage. His eyes were looking into the darkness, but they were blank. The ashy fog swirled around him like snakes.

“Once a child is born between you and that girl, give that child to me immediately. Only then will I show you where the spring is.”

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It didn’t make any sense.

“Go and bring me the yaksu. Only then will I forgive the guilt you two carry.”

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That damned Heavenly Emperor had said this to him. As if he were being generous. Forgive? What forgiveness? Guilt? If he wasn’t guilty, then he didn’t need forgiveness.

The ones who had suffered were him and Muyi. Everything had collapsed and was torn apart. The only ones left hurting in the aftermath were them.

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But now they were guilty? Forgiveness?

Very funny!

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A prickly, sharp pain tore through his entire body.

This was a result of trying to gather more energy even though he’d exhausted all of it. Mujang tightened his grasp on the armrest of the chair to endure the unbearable ache. The wood shattered in his hand. The wooden splinters escaped his clenched fist like tiny bugs. 

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“I’m… fine, Orabeoni.”

Muyi said this even as her whole body was shaking in fear.

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“Don’t worry about it, Orabeoni. Please… I’m really fine.”

Even though she knew what was to come, the child continued to say this.

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“Damn it.”

Mujang lowered his hand and covered his face with both hands. He gritted his teeth in an effort to endure the pain and rage, but his body still felt like it would shatter.

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She was a pitiful child. His little sister had only suffered since her birth. She was a child who was filled with shame as she told him that someone else was suffering because of her. And this lovely child had met that kind of fate because of him. Because of her foolish older brother, she was trapped in a different kind of torture.

He needed to return.

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Mujang gritted his teeth.

He needed to return to the heavens no matter what.

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But how?

His head throbbed as he remembered Mago’s words.

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A child? Give her his own child?

Crazy bi—…

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A curse hissed out of his lips.

Even though they called themselves gods, Mujang knew what kinds of deeds they’d done to obtain all that power. Sometimes, humans sacrificed their newborns to the gods. And if that child was born from a god and a human, then its worth would be even greater.

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Nothing was free in this world. While the gods did live longer than humans, in order to prolong their lives, they needed sacrifices. A newborn life. A life that was more precious if it carried the divine blood of a god in its veins. But because the child was not completely divine, the god who ate it would not grow sick. Was that what Mago wanted?

However, even if this was true, Mujang did not want to have a child with a human. It was something that mustn’t be done. That would be another crime, and it would only add to his sins. However…

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It was like grasping at straws as he was slowly being drowned.

He couldn’t stop thinking about that disgusting possibility. Even though he knew it was ridiculous, he couldn’t help but wonder. He’d only met with failures for such a long time. Every time, he’d done his best, but it was no use. The outlook was bleak.

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How would one go about it?

Creak.

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Suddenly, he felt the faint presence of someone nearby.

No way. Mujang pulled his hands away from his face and turned his head towards the sound. That girl was standing there. The girl called Bari. The human brat who had infiltrated his house and acted as his servant.

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She made all that fuss and ran away, but now she had returned looking an utter mess. Her hair was sticking out like a bird’s nest, and she was covered in scratches. She was still wearing dirty men’s clothing. Bari slowly moved her dry lips and turned her eyes away from his gaze.

“If I really bear you a child, will you give me the yaksu?”

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Mujang continued to stare at her with a blank face.

“Once a child is born between you and that girl, give that child to me immediately. Only then will I show you where the spring is.”

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Mago’s voice whispered in his ear like a demon.

“I asked you if you will give me some yaksu if I bear your child.”

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Bari asked him again with the same devastated expression.

It was such a terrifying temptation. Mujang gritted his teeth and glared at Bari. An unborn child didn’t give him any kind of feeling. A child born from his divine self and the human Bari. He didn’t even want to think about what kind of child it would be. The only thing he knew for certain was that Mago wanted that child.

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Whatever happened… That child would give him the yaksu.

They were gods whose wickedness had no rival, but they would never go back on a promise. A god’s word was firmly associated with their divine nature. Therefore, this might be the best way to solve both his problem as well as Bari’s. 

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“…Yeah.”

Mujang’s answer was curt. A strange chill flashed through her face. 

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“Why?”

Bari asked with narrowed eyes.

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“What?”

“Why do you need a child?”

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Mujang’s lips remained firmly shut. If he answered her truthfully, then Bari was definitely going to be enraged. No mother would willingly give up her child to be sacrificed. If she found out, she would never agree to this deal.

Mujang clenched his fists. He felt like he was about to commit a huge crime. He mustn’t take another step forward.

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However, the cries… The pained cries rang in his ears.

“Orabeoni!”

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Muyi. If he could only save that child… If she could break free from her suffering… If he just made this wicked deal… Couldn’t he do it? Hadn’t Bari also spent nine years in this place because she wanted the yaksu?

If he had to commit a crime, then it would be best for him to do it alone.

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If he was the one to take responsibility for the terrifying result of this deal, then he would do it alone.

“I want a son to be my heir.”

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He lied indifferently.

“A son?”

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Bari’s eyes trembled. She looked like she didn’t completely believe him.

“Do gods need heirs?”

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No, they didn’t. Once a god died, another god would be chosen to replace them. However, there was no need to tell Bari any of this.

“Yes.”

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Bari’s expression turned dark, but Mujang didn’t care. Honestly, whether the child was a son or a daughter… it didn’t matter. No matter what it was, it would be given to Mago.

“That’s why you want a child?”

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Unaware of his thoughts, Bari asked her question in a lifeless voice.

“Yes.”

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“From me?”

“You’re the only woman in this place, so wouldn’t you be the only choice?”

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“But I’m human.”

Bari furrowed her brow.

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“It doesn’t matter.”

Mujang answered in a cold voice. Bari remained silent for a moment after hearing his reply. Then she lifted her head and looked him in the eye.

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“But I can still raise the child, right?”

“What?”

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“If you only want a child, you’re not going to just take it away as soon as it’s born, right?”

A lie would only beget lies. A heavy sense of guilt pressed down on Mujang. However, he’d already begun, so he could no longer turn back.

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“Of course, you can raise it. How can I raise a baby on my own?”

“That’s true.”

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Bari bit her lips and gazed at him. It didn’t seem like she had completely sorted through her thoughts. Her eyes looked around before she turned back to him with another question.

“When will you give me the yaksu? After I give birth to the child?”

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Mujang calmly looked back at her and answered.

“After you give birth.”

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Bari’s face was pale as she bit her lips. Then she looked up at him and continued.

“I have one condition.”

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“A condition?”

What? He raised a brow. A condition? What kind of condition?

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“What are you talking about? Didn’t I say that I’d give you the yaksu?”

“You can call this an additional condition.”

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“An additional condition?”

What a cheeky human brat. Just what was she going to say?

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Mujang crossed his arms and glared at her.

“Say it.”

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“The first is that we must officially marry. The second is…”

“You have too many conditions.”

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“I only have two, Master.”

Despite calling him her ‘master’, Bari’s eyes seemed to challenge him.

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“What’s the second condition?”

“If the child is a daughter, let her be your heir as well.”

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“What?”

What was she talking about? The gods did not discriminate between sons and daughters. They were determined by the orders of the Heavenly Emperor. However, there was no need to explain any of this right now. But her request to marry was different.

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Mujang looked at her in bewilderment. He had to marry Bari? Did he, as a divine god, have to marry the human Bari?

“That doesn’t make any sense.”

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“Then there is no child.”

Bari’s voice remained firm.

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“What difference does it make whether the child is a boy or a girl? Wouldn’t both carry your blood in their veins? If the child is a son, it’s only right for him to go through the proper procedures to become your heir. As you can see, I cannot help him as a human in that respect. Just think of it as a request from a mother who would like to do the best for her child.”

Mujang crossed his arms and looked down at Bari. Was she trying to fulfill her obligation as a mother? But what would she do when she found out the truth? Judging from her behavior, it didn’t seem like she would give him her permission. He slightly furrowed his brow. What should he do? Would it be better to just give up on this plan?

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He gazed at the black shadow of Mount Dongdae behind her. For the past 2,800 years, he had scoured the mountain and turned it inside out. If he missed this chance, he might have to stay here for another several thousand years. Even if he waited, there wasn’t any certainty that he’d find the yaksu.

“…Fine.”

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Mujang spit out his answer. Bari’s eyes widened even more at his reply.

“Pardon?”

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“I said fine.”

He needed to end this no matter what. He needed to find it no matter what. Whether it was a child or a wedding, what did it matter? In the end, it was merely a promise made with a human. They’d only live to a hundred at most. There was no way the promise would last forever. He felt that it would be better for him to be generous and accept her conditions.

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“Really?”

“Is deception all you’ve done in your life? Why can’t you trust me?”

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Bari stared at him with a blank expression. Her lips slowly stretched into a smile.

Mujang gazed at the smile and felt something prick his heart. With tears still on her face, her smile made her look even more forlorn.