Chapter 53
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Once, she was a princess loved by everyone.
But their love was false, and they imprisoned her in a glass container, taking away her rights to freedom and choice.
In the container where not even a point of light entered, very lonely, isolated.
The princess despaired.
She burst into tears.
She denied reality.
That there was no one left here to love her.
Crying… crying… she kept crying.
Until the glass container was filled with her tears.
Her sobbing did not stop.
Then one day.
A prince appeared who would stop her tears.
The righteous prince approached the princess and very confidently said this.
‘I will take up my sword for you!’
The princess’s eyes sparkled.
‘This prince still loves me,’ the princess said she saw a starlight-like sparkle from the prince standing before her.
She held hope.
She decided to believe in ‘love’ once again.
Waiting for the prince who would defeat all evil and return to her.
The princess.
Continued…
Continued to be trapped in the glass container……
The princess continued to wait for the prince who would keep his promise and return……
She waited.
………………
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[The princess endlessly thought of the characters meaning ‘weariness’ in her endless waiting.]
The princess’s voice echoes through the skull to the depths of the mind.
[And belatedly, she noticed that she had been in a great delusion.]
The black ink began to slowly gather before Park Yeon-jeong’s eyes.
As if the princess was holding expectations of meeting the prince she had been waiting for so long.
It quickly took form.
In an instant, the princess who appeared before us in complete form was… smiling.
Very brightly.
Park Yeon-jeong belatedly realized that such a bright smile could be so eerie and unpleasant.
[She realized that the waiting was now over.]
[Now it was her turn to go find the prince herself… and.]
The princess’s hand slowly reached out toward Park Yeon-jeong who was lying on the floor.
[Prince… I have come to meet you like this.]
“……”
The princess with ebony-like flowing hair and lips like red roses, blushing at the reunion with the prince she had longed for so much.
She spoke in a faint voice.
[Please swear on your heart that you will never leave me again.]
“……”
What?
My heart?
No, more than that.
This situation was truly an unintended mistake.
If there was any fortunate point, judging from the princess’s attitude, the charm effect of the purple bullet still seemed valid, but.
No way.
To think that what I hastily threw would be.
Not something else, but a quill pen…
With such a ridiculous mistake, I ended up creating an absurd situation.
I made two ghost stories that I should never meet.
Swish!
Just from the Queen’s fan gesture moments ago, I could instantly realize how uncomfortable I had made her.
Was that all?
Rrrrrrip-
Now I wanted to cover my ears from the endless tearing bizarre sound.
[You’ve been playing with me from the beginning.]
That can’t be.
I only did my best to survive, Your Majesty.
[Your cunning tongue was playing me… Yes, did you enjoy it?]
Rat-tat-tat-tat!
The sound of threads bursting throughout the space echoed harshly, and the Queen’s elevated voice finally exploded.
[Men who only hurt women are unnecessary!!]
Swish!
Along with the sound of folding the fan.
Tat-tat-tat-tat!
The Queen’s bridegrooms, who until now had been filling seats in the venue like sculptures, all rose from their seats and began rushing toward me like a zombie horde.
It was definitely not a voluntary movement.
Beings like slaves who move only at the Queen’s word, literally like the Queen’s toys.
As Park Yeon-jeong put his hand in his inside pocket to pull out thousands of gazes even now.
Huhu.
A woman’s laughter flowed softly into his ears.
[Your Majesty, I greet you after a long time. And today as always… you are very beautiful.]
As soon as the princess opened her mouth.
Halt!
All the bridegrooms who had been moving fiercely just now stopped in their tracks.
The Queen’s gaze was also directed not at Park Yeon-jeong himself, but at the princess.
Along with the suddenly arrived empty silence.
Grind-
The sound of grinding teeth broke the silence.
[… I don’t like you.]
The Queen said softly.
[I love Your Majesty.]
The princess continued, and their conversation began to intersect.
[Do you, who easily obtains the emotion of love from anyone, truly know what love is!]
[That’s why, whenever I see Your Majesty longing for love, I learn what love is.]
[Shut up!!]
Griiiiind-!
The sound of grinding teeth intensifies.
But the sound of grinding teeth soon.
Crack!
Along with the sound of something breaking.
No more sounds could be heard.
All that could be heard.
Was a woman’s hate-filled verbal abuse.
[Then I’ll let you feel all the love from men that you’ve been wanting so badly!]
Swish!
Once again, the sound of folding the fan echoed through the space.
Tat-tat-tat-tat-tat!
The footsteps of the numerous corpse slaves who had been rushing toward Park Yeon-jeong all extended toward the princess wearing purple armor.
[I’ll defile that pure body of yours! I’ll engrave on your entire body the ugliness hidden behind the sweet words of love!!]
Thud!
Soon the corpse slaves grabbed the princess’s limbs.
Bodies crawling with maggots clung to the princess’s body, beginning to tear off the armor she was wearing.
If she had been an ordinary woman, she would have been wailing and making a scene,
Grin-
[They say there are various methods of love.]
The princess, without losing her characteristically beautiful smile.
Her gaze was fixed on only one place.
[Your Majesty truly… is unskilled at love.]
[Shut up!!!!!]
The Queen’s intensifying anger was directly transmitted to the corpses.
Tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat!
Just a few seconds.
The princess was covered by numerous corpses and could no longer be seen.
Clatter… clatter.
All that could be heard.
Through the moving heap of corpses, only the sound of unknown armor rattling echoed.
The princess’s voice was no longer heard.
“……”
Park Yeon-jeong, who had been watching this entire scene, naturally turned his gaze toward the Queen who was breathing heavily.
The dress that had been shining like pure white silk until just now.
Drip… drip.
Red stains appeared here and there from red flesh pieces falling between the white veil.
Drip.
The veil, gradually turning red, also began to stick to the Queen’s face, clearly revealing her exhaling.
When first facing the Queen’s appearance.
Fear enveloped his entire body.
But.
At the same time, another emotion was also felt.
Strange and bizarre.
‘Sympathy’.
Even while knowing that all her actions were clearly wrong, this strange ache in the chest felt from her crumbling appearance.
Park Yeon-jeong had already experienced this unpleasant feeling once before.
Ghost story name.
[I don’t like darkness.]
:Identification code Cd-A-11
The strange sympathy he had felt for the ghost story child.
At that time, he couldn’t define it.
But now, he could define it like this.
-Contradictory sympathy.
As it were…
Drip… drip.
Once again, with red flesh pieces falling through the veil.
The Queen’s gaze turned toward the man sitting on the floor.
Drip.
And.
The Queen’s voice was more miserable than ever before, and in her voice was an indescribable faint… sobbing.
[…Don’t look.]
“……”
[Didn’t I tell you not to look!]
With the Queen’s loud scolding.
Several corpse slaves who had been pressing down on the princess began to run toward Park Yeon-jeong.
!
But.
Before the corpse, slaves’ footsteps could reach Park Yeon-jeong.
Clatter.
The sound of armor pieces hitting each other sharply struck his hearing.
Clatter, clatter.
Gradually the sound grew louder, and before long a large shadow was cast before Park Yeon-jeong’s eyes.
What entered his view was.
The back of a knight clad in orange armor from head to toe.
Clatter.
Through the orange helmet, a solemn voice flowed.
[The princess wants the prince’s left arm.]
The orange knight, who grabbed the left arm of the corpse rushing toward Park Yeon-jeong.
Crack-Rip!
Mercilessly tore off the corpse’s left arm.
Soon after.
Clatter, clatter, clatter!
Like a chain reaction, numerous sounds of armor colliding began to echo, threatening to tear the eardrums.
[The prince’s right arm!]
[The prince’s left leg!]
[The prince’s head!]
The knights who revealed themselves immediately rushed toward the corpse slaves covering the princess and shouted loudly.
[Only for the princess!]
[For her love!]
Rip!
Crack!
Snap!
The knights who rushed toward the corpses quickly pulled off all the limbs of the corpses there, like weeding, at a rapid pace.
Thump! Snap! Rip!
The merciless movements continued.
The limbs of fallen corpses were torn off without mercy, and the venue was instantly filled with the horrible sounds of limbs being torn.
Corpses were torn, broken, shattered, and scattered.
The time it took to deal with all the corpses covering the princess was just.
30 seconds.
The princess, covered in flesh pieces and entrails of numerous corpses, still not losing her bright smile.
She gently took the hand extended by the orange knight and rose from her place.
[I have well received the love Your Majesty gave me.]
[……]
The Queen closed her mouth.
But the princess still looked at the Queen with a bright smile.
That gaze was unwavering, and that curve was undisturbed.
As if that smile were destined to never be erased.
[Isn’t love supposed to be given and received?]
[!!]
[I will also return it. This thing called love that Your Majesty gave me.]
Step!
The footsteps of the knights guarding the princess’s side moved relentlessly toward a single figure.
There was no hesitation or confusion in their movements.
Only blind loyalty moved them toward a single purpose.
And they all shouted in unison.
[Only for the princess.]
Step step step step step step!
With the knights advancing relentlessly toward the Queen, her voice only grew louder.
[Do not come!]
Swish!
Through the veil stained with red blood, the Queen tried to stop the knights.
Step, step, step, step, step, step!
But.
The knights would not listen to the Queen’s words.
They were knights who existed only for the princess.
The Queen stepped back.
As if trying to escape somewhere,
She retreated step by step, looking for an exit.
However—
A fleeting moment.
Swish!
The tip of her foot stepped on the hem of her dress, soaked in her own blood.
In that instant, her body wavered.
Her eyes widened.
Her outstretched fingertips sliced through the empty air.
Crash—!
Soon, the powerless queen was seized by the knights, and she let out a loud scream.
〖Let go! Let me go!〗
But.
That voice soon turned into the wretched wailing of a woman.
The Red Knight and the Green Knight held the queen’s head and torso.
One after another, the knights moved in turn.
The Orange Knight took the queen’s left arm.
The Yellow Knight took the queen’s right arm.
The Blue Knight took the queen’s left leg.
The Navy Knight took the queen’s right leg.
And finally, as she watched the scene unfold, the princess’s lips curled into the same expression as always—
A beautiful, eerie, and radiant smile.
Cough!
By the time the pure white veil was completely stained red,
The princess’s gaze stopped in front of Park Yeon-jeong.
【Prince, thank you.】
“……What?”
At my brief question, the princess gave an answer I never expected.
【For arranging an opportunity for reconciliation with the queen.】
Reconciliation…?
The moment that word slipped from the princess’s lips and brushed against my ears,
My gaze slowly, heavily sank.
The knights holding onto what remained of the queen’s body—
A body from which all limbs had already been torn away, leaving only the torso.
I silently looked down at those blood-soaked remains.
And the princess—
The one I had so easily believed I had captured—
She was no different from any other nightmare.
………Clack!
!!
The air shifted.
The atmosphere changed.
A familiar resonance rang in my eardrums.
A blinding light instantly poured down onto Park Yeon-jeong.
Sizzle—
The all-too-familiar static filled the space completely.
As my vision blurred, my gaze slowly lifted.
And through my foolishly parted lips, a faint voice slipped out.
Breaking through my throat, barely audible.
I whispered the name of that person.
“……Noise ?”
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