MB Ch 1

“Agh! Ugh!”

The pile of dirt that looked like a grave began to shake. With a poof, a small hole appeared. A figure covered in dirt crawled out like a caterpillar.

“My god! What is going on?”

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There was an earthquake — an incredibly intense earthquake at that. Piles of dirt floated in the air briefly before crashing back down. She thought she would die at this rate.

“Ugh! Ptooey! Ptooey!”

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Bari spit out the dirt in her mouth and looked around. My god. She found herself surrounded by a wasteland. The house where she used to live… Maybe ‘house’ wasn’t the right word since it was pretty big. ‘Castle’ was probably a better term. No, that’s not right. It was too rundown to be called a ‘castle’…… Either way, it was the place where she ate, slept, and took shelter, so she decided to just call it her ‘house’. More importantly, her house had completely collapsed to the ground.

The large pillars had fallen as if they were large trees that had been axed down. The sturdy roof had also fallen and shattered onto the ground. Her surroundings were filled with lumps of dirt, and even the beautiful, black marble floor had been rendered to small pieces and scattered in all directions. Just how strong had the earthquake been to create such destruction? It was a miracle that she had managed to make it out alive at all.

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“My goodness…”

Bari brought her hands to her face. She shook her head as she tried to return to her senses. It all happened in an instant, so she found it hard to believe that this wasn’t just a dream. But no matter how much she denied it, reality was reality.

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“Ah, my stuff…”

Bari finally thought about all her possessions. Although it was only a small bundle, it had been an incredible help in her journey until now. But now, it was probably underneath all that rubble. Just thinking about it gave her a headache.

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“Agh, what do I do?”

She thoughtlessly rushed over to the collapsed building and began to sift through the rocks and roof tiles. Was anything still intact? To make matters worse, the more she looked, the more she realized how difficult this would be. To think that she lost all of her things! And one of them was crucial to her return home!

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“Bari!”

She heard Ran calling her name.

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“Bari!”

“Be quiet for a second. I’m a bit busy right now.”

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“Bari!”

“I said be quiet.”

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“The master is coming.”

“What?”

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Bari turned her head in surprise. The flickering blue goblin fire quickly transformed into a young boy. He had a small body and a pale face, blue eyes, and dark blue hair. He looked up at Bari with nervous eyes.

“I said the master is coming.”

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“Gah!”

Bari automatically gasped. At the thought of that jerk, she felt goosebumps rise along her back.

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Was he coming back to check up on his house because of the earthquake? Well, he must have been surprised as well. In the nine years she’d been living here, this was the first time she’d experienced something of this magnitude. Once the master saw the state of his demolished house, he was going to collapse from shock. Despite its rundown state, didn’t he return to this house every night?

“Do you think he’s going to blame me for this?”

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He was as terrifying as a ghost, had a nasty personality, and didn’t have a single drop of compassion in his heart. Just thinking about this person made her head throb. He wasn’t going to blame her for the house, was he? The reason why the kitchen had been burnt to a crisp last time wasn’t her fault. Ran had mistakenly used goblin fire, which had resulted in the poor state of the kitchen. After that incident, she was nearly kicked out. With that thought, her expression grew dim.

While she was the uninvited guest, Bari was human. She didn’t have the ability to create natural disasters. But he wasn’t the kind of guy who’d keep that in mind. He treated her as if she were a thorn in his side, and he was probably going to blame her for this as well.

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Every time that jerk tried to kick her out, she begged and begged him to reconsider. If she was thrown out of the Magenta Forest, she’d have to find her way back again. She would toil to no end to pass through the thorny Red Forest. And that wasn’t all. Once she returned to the house, she’d have to lay down her pride and dignity and serve the master some delicious food. She’d put her all into cleaning the house and try to get back on his good side. Just thinking about this repetitive cycle she had lived for the past nine years made her nose sting.

“Damn it, do you really think I’ll leave just like that?”

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She wasn’t going to leave. Not until she found the yaksu of Mount Dongdae. No matter how stubborn the master was, Bari was not going to back down. No, to be more exact, there was no place she could go back to.

“Let’s hide.”

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Bari decided to try hiding for now. Before that jerk came back to the house and found it in this state, she was going to hide and evade his wrath. She didn’t like the idea of going back into the rubble, but there was no other choice.

She should be able to find a small space to crawl into within the debris. Like a rabbit, Bari sprang towards the collapsed house and crouched down as she searched for a hole. But it was too late. By the time she had fit half of her body inside, a rough hand grabbed her by the back of her neck and pulled her out.

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“Aagh!”

A cry burst out of her lips. When she saw the burly man appear before her eyes, she let out a gasp. Mujang had returned. It had always bothered her how such a large man could move so silently, but the biggest problem was that he was able to suddenly shove his way in front of her out of nowhere.

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Puff, his breath turned into smoke in the cold air as it flowed out of his mouth. His silver eyes gleamed from between his disheveled hair as he glared at her. His expression was so fierce that ice could have formed on his cold, pale skin. No matter how handsome he was, what did it matter in the end? He was as scary as a ghost!

“What…?”

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Bari turned as white as a sheet and barely managed to get the word out of her mouth.

“M-Master, what is the matter…?”

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He merely continued to glare at her and didn’t move a muscle. She felt her blood run dry, and her limbs and cheeks stiffened. Why is he like this? What did I do for him to treat me like this? I didn’t do anything! Stop glaring at me! I’m scared you’ll appear in my dreams!

In the end, Bari couldn’t endure it any longer and shouted out.

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“I didn’t do this.”

“What?”

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“That…That house! I didn’t make it collapse.”

“What are you talking about?”

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The man looked bewildered, but Bari wasn’t in her right mind to notice.

“How could I do something like this? I’m human. A mere human! Very normal! Just your average human! I’m just a human.”

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A cold wind blew past the rubble. Mujang glared at her in disbelief. Damn it. Is he still suspecting me? Suddenly, Mujang’s lips smiled crookedly and he brought his face closer to hers as he glared at her even more fiercely. It was as if he was finally taking a good look at her for the first time. She wanted to shove his face away, but she reluctantly held still as she gritted her teeth. After a while, he opened his mouth.

“Human…”

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“Yes!”

“A normal human, you say…”

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“That’s what I said…!”

Before she could finish her silent protest, Mujang’s hand undid her jeogori and slid inside.

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“Uwaagh!”

Shocked, Bari shrieked as she tried to block his hand, but it was no use. His large, coarse hand went underneath the jeogori and brushed against the bound cloth underneath. In one fell swoop, she heard the fabric rip apart. Bari then realized what it was that Mujang had discovered.

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Her breasts!

The breasts that had grown without her supervision.

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This man found out that she was a woman.

“No!”

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Bari grabbed the hand that had plunged inside her top with all her might. But his hand had already begun squeezing her unbound breast.

Kyaaa! A scream rang in the air along with the sound of a slap. Without any thought, her hand had already landed a slap across his cheek.

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“Gah!”

She couldn’t tell who was more shocked. H-How could she have hit his cheek?! No matter how shocked she was, how dare she slap the cheek of Mujang, the god of Mount Dongdae…?!

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But the deed had already been done. Bari suddenly felt as if her soul had left her body. She wouldn’t be able to do anything to stop him from eating her whole if he wanted to. No, wait. Who’s going to be eaten? No! Definitely not!

“No!”

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Bari slammed her forehead against his with all her might. With a loud thud, her vision went black as her surroundings spun. Thankfully, the bastard seemed to let her go due to sheer shock.

Bari tumbled to the ground, and a piercing pain ran through her bottom. However, survival instincts were a marvelous thing. As soon as she hit the ground, Bari began to run off like a kitten whose backside was on fire. The yaksu of Mount Dongdae could wait. For now, she needed to escape that man.

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“Bari! Over here! Over here!”

She heard the voice of the goblin, Ran. It seemed that he had also escaped Mujang as soon as he saw an opportunity to escape. Bari followed his voice and jumped into the Magenta Forest.  She was afraid of the sharp red thorns, but not as terrified as she was of that damned bastard!

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“Bari!”

Just as she heard the frantic voice, her body floated into the air. Her racing legs continued to move like wheels in the air. She gasped in shock and turned around to see Mujang’s venomous gaze.

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The bastard’s lips twisted as he laughed. ‘Laugh?! This crazy bastard was laughing?!’ She screamed this silently in her mind, but she felt the goosebumps rise on her flesh.

“What are you?”

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‘W-What?’

She wanted to respond, but it was as if her lips were glued shut. Mujang pulled her closer to his face. Between the strands of his hair, she could see his eyes coldly looking at her.

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“Speak.”

“Ah… that… that is…”

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“What are you?”

“I didn’t mean to fool you.”

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Bari clasped her hands together and looked at him earnestly as she began to give her excuses. She truly never had any intention of fooling him from the very beginning.

When she had first arrived at this place, she was merely thirteen years old. It wasn’t an age where one could tell whether she was a boy or a girl. And it was incredibly difficult to make the journey here, so she had been wearing a jeogori and pants when she had arrived. She was supposed to venture through such an unfamiliar and dangerous place. Was she supposed to gussy up and travel around in a pretty dress? How stupid was that?

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All she wanted was a bowl full of the yaksu of Mount Dongdae. If this damned gatekeeper just helped her out, she’d be able to get a bowl of yaksu. No one knew just how hard she had worked to get all the way here.

On top of that, almost ten years had already passed. No matter how different time flowed in this world or her world, ten years was still a long time for her.

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Bari unconsciously gathered her two hands together.

“I-I’m really sorry about hitting you. You touched my chest, so I was surprised and inadvertently…”

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She wanted to calm his anger in any way she could, so she gave him a pitiful smile as she put her hands together. Ah, whatever. What did it matter if she were a boy or a girl? But wasn’t it more likely for him to take pity on her now that he knew she was a girl? She had crossed this dangerous world of Mount Dongdae as a delicate woman for nine years. He could show her some pity. Just a little, hm?

Mujang stared at her for a long while. Then he threw her back onto the ground as if he were ridiculing her stupid hopes.

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“So what?”

Agh, Bari fell to the ground and looked up at him. Mujang’s expression had returned to normal. As if he had no interest in anything. His cold face had returned, and he spoke as if it meant nothing.

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“Get lost.”

“I’m not even a candle, so how can I¹…?”

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His eyes grew colder at her ridiculous wordplay. It almost seemed as if he’d seriously rip her limbs apart right here, right now.

“Whether you’re a man or a woman, a ghost or a human, it doesn’t matter. Get lost.”

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He spit out the words once again.

Damn it. Bari cursed inside her heart and drew closer to him. She didn’t just draw closer to him. She fell onto the ground and grabbed his pant leg. She couldn’t back down now.

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“I can’t leave.”

“I’ll kill you.”

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“Please just give me one bowl of yaksu.”

She raised one finger as she begged for the yaksu. Mujang’s eyes grew even colder. He seriously hadn’t changed at all in these nine years. However, Bari gritted her teeth and continued to stand her ground.

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If he had wanted to kill her, he would have killed her nine years ago. No, he could have killed her at any time in these past nine years. But he didn’t kill her, right? Well, it might be because he truly didn’t care about her at all, but the most important thing was that she had endured these past nine years on Mount Dongdae. She couldn’t back down now.

She needed to obtain the yaksu no matter what. The one bowl of yaksu would allow her to return to her hometown. No, it would return everything to the way it was before!

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“That’s all I want.”

Mujang merely glared at her in silence. She was sorry for hitting his cheek and slamming her head against his, but there was nothing she could do about it. Either way, her attacks were nothing more than a mosquito bite to a demon like him, so, please… Please…!

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“Yaksu?”

He spit out the words. Then his lips twisted in laughter once again.

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“Yes, please, just one bowl…”

Bari gathered her hands together and begged.

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“And then I’ll disappear from your sight.”

This was true. She planned on running away the moment she received the yaksu. The yaksu of Mount Dongdae. It was a magical drug that could save a life, only available to the gods. Even if the body had long died and turned into a crumbling corpse, with one drop of the yaksu, blood would run in its veins and muscles would return to its bones once again.

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And there was someone who guarded this precious yaksu. It was the very gatekeeper of Mount Dongdae himself, the one called Mujang.

He was well over six feet tall and had powerful, broad shoulders. His whole body was covered in dark muscles. With his long, black hair and black clothes, he was more like a grim reaper than the guardian of the yaksu. 

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It didn’t matter to her whether he was a grim reaper, a demon, a giant, or a beast. Only the yaksu mattered. The yaksu that could return her world to the way it was.

“Please…”

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Bari whispered once again as she looked up at him desperately.

For nine years, she had lived taking all his abuse. She only looked at him as she lived in this damn gray world where one couldn’t tell if it was morning or night. Mujang’s days were always the same. He sequestered himself inside his room and rarely came out. He would only come out to climb Mount Dongdae. Suspecting that he was going to check on the yaksu, Bari had trailed after him countless times.

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However, when they reached the Magenta Forest, he’d always disappear. She had gone through everything in the house several times, and she had spent years looking under every rock in the areas surrounding the mountain.

However, she could never reach the summit of Mount Dongdae. Whenever she grew close, she always found herself wandering until she found herself back where she had started. Almost as if it was surrounded by a trap. No matter how hard she tried, she could never find the path to the peak.

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He was the only one who could reach the peak.

That meant that he was the only one who could draw near the yaksu.

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“Why must I give you the yaksu?”

Mujang’s question cut through Bari’s thoughts. Startled, Bari looked up at him with wide eyes.

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“What?”

“Why must I give the sacred medicine known as the yaksu of Mount Dongdae to someone like you?”

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When his cold eyes drew closer to her face, Bari felt as if she couldn’t breathe.

Why must he give it to me? To me? That’s because…

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“H-Haven’t I worked hard for you?”

Bari cried out with wide eyes.

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“What?”

“I-I’ve worked myself to the bone for these past nine years, haven’t I?!”

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Did anyone tell you to work that hard? Mujang glared at her in disbelief. Bari knew her excuse was ridiculous, but she didn’t know what else to say.

“Y-You know, you probably haven’t noticed because I didn’t make it so obvious, but d-do you know how hard I’ve been working? I’m the one who cleans this house every day. I fetch the firewood to keep the fire going, and I’m the one who cooks. Haven’t you been eating well lately? The food I made!”

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Food? How ridiculous. It was a fact that all the food prepared at funerals and memorials came here. Even if she worked hard to cook, the rice jar would never go empty here.

Cleaning? His castle had already collapsed to the ground, but he clearly remembered how it had been before. It was basically a ruin. It always had been.

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“Such nonsense.”

Mujang snorted as he turned around. It didn’t matter whether she was a girl or not. He didn’t plan on following Mago’s order to have her produce his child. He was even more reluctant to have that child land in Mago’s bowl for her to consume. Even if it would allow him to obtain the yaksu.

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“Please, I beg you!”

However, Bari was persistent. She circled her arms around his leg and held on.

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“What are you…?”

“I need that yaksu! I must have it no matter what!”

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She held onto him like a lunatic.

“I won’t take one more step until I have the yaksu. Even if it kills me! Please, I beg you. It’s not that difficult for you, right? Just one gourdful. That’s all I need! Please? I’m begging you. Anything, I’ll do anything, so just give me a gourdful of the yaksu!”

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Did she even know what she was saying?

Mujang looked down at her in disbelief.

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There was no yaksu. Not even a drop. She wasn’t the only one who needed the yaksu. He needed it too. He had been trapped inside this damned underworld for so long that rumors had begun to spread that he was the protector of the yaksu.

But the truth was that he wasn’t here to guard the yaksu. He was trapped in here because he was looking for it. And for the past 2,800 years, he hadn’t found a single drop.

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“Please, I’m begging you!”

Not knowing the truth, this foolish woman was grabbing onto him as she begged for the yaksu. 

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Mujang could hardly believe it. He had shaken Mount Dongdae to its very core twenty-eight times. With a strength that had taken hundreds of years to gather, he wanted to shake awake the spring of yaksu.

But it had all been for naught. All that was left was complete despair. And now this foolish human girl had appeared and was crying out for some yaksu. He truly wanted to kill her. No, that’s not right. He still had to consider Mago’s ridiculous words.

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“Will you truly do anything?”

“Yes! I’ll do anything.”

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“Then you can just bear me a child.”

She gave him a stunned expression.

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“What?”

“Didn’t you say you’d do anything? Bear my child. Then I will gift you the yaksu that you seek so ardently.”

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Either way, both of them needed the yaksu, so this all worked out. What was so hard about giving birth to a child? If they didn’t find the yaksu, he was going to be stuck in this disgusting underworld with this stubborn girl. He wouldn’t be able to escape the eternal pain and suffering.

This girl was also in desperate need of the yaksu, so why not? They could just produce a child and hand it over to Mago for the yaksu.

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“What did you say?”

This time, the woman blinked up at him. She couldn’t process the words he had just told her.

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“Don’t make me repeat myself.”

Mujang drew his face close to hers and growled.

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“Didn’t you say you’d do anything to obtain the yaksu? I’m asking you to bear my child. Then I will give you the yaksu. What’s one gourdful? I’ll give you ten jars full of it.”

Her expression was quite a sight to see. She was holding her breath, and her face grew pale before turning red. Then she let out a gasp and pulled back. She was still holding onto his leg, so she merely fell back onto her bottom. 

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Her face, neck, and the skin underneath her jeogori grew red as well.

Mujang sneered when he saw the girl scared out of her wits. She had struggled enough in this tiresome place. Wasn’t it worth a try?

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“What?”

She grasped the front of her jeogori together as if she were afraid he’d begin violating her right now.

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“Th-That’s absurd!”

“Didn’t you say you’d do anything?”

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“But that’s… that’s…”

She didn’t mean anything.

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Bari’s red face turned as white as a sheet. It changed into all sorts of colors.

“But still, how can I do that with you… I mean, with Master…”

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It wasn’t just her face. It seemed that her mind was in a state of chaos as well. She had called him ‘you’ before changing it back to ‘Master’ as if she were really on a mission to get herself killed. 

Mujang straightened up and snorted.

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“Do you mean to tell me that you didn’t even have that kind of resolve when you tried to obtain the yaksu? Why don’t you try waiting a thousand or ten thousand years? See if you’ll receive even one drop! If just anyone could receive the yaksu of Mount Dongdae, then it wouldn’t be as precious as it is. Get lost and stay out of my sight. If I ever see you again, I’ll rip you to shreds and scatter you all over the underworld!”

Mujang growled like a beast and yelled out before going inside. Bari remained frozen in the dust as if she had just lost her soul.

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