THE CURSED ONE - THE BOY WHO CHALLENGE DESTINY

Unexpected Incident - 2

Both Hyung Jae and the masked man increasing their guard, they prepare themselves for a battle anytime.

“Who are you? Why you make a problem with me?” Say the masked man.

 “Hey, shouldn’t I the one who asks that question?” Answer Hyung Jae. “Why you are jumping on people’s rooftop at the midnight like this? So suspicious, you must be a thief, am I right?” Hyung Jae Asked.

“My business doesn’t have any relations with you, get lost now before you hurt yourself.” The masked man tried to threaten Hyung Jae.

“Huff... I think I don’t have any choice, I will beat you to the pulp before I drag you to the gungjeon gyeongbi.” Hyung Jae responded with confidence, he is sure of himself.

The masked man launching the first attack, he throws a small knife at Hyung Jae, and it is easily avoided by Hyung Jae. “Seriously? With that kind of attack? You must be joking right?” Hyung Jae said.

The masked man similarly throws another knife, Hyung Jae avoiding again with ease, “What did I tell…” before Hyung Jae finishing his words, another knife flying and aiming his head. Hyung Jae is shocked a bit, but he immediately controls himself and catches the flying knife, he is unharmed thanks to his ki which is covering his hand, he almost got himself trouble because of his cockiness.

“Hey, how many knives do you have? Are you selling knives or something?” Hyung Jae said.

The masked man realizes that Hyung Jae is not an easy opponent, he knows that he won't be able to take down Hyung Jae in an ordinary fight.

“It's enough, just give up or I have to beat you up before I drag you to the guard in the front gate.” Hyung Jae repeats his threat.

The masked man seems doesn’t intend to give up, he throws something again and right now Hyung Jae chooses to kick it back to the masked man. But, “Boom!!!” a small explosion broke the silence of the night, the thing that Hyung Jae had kicked was a smoke bomb.

A cloud of thick smoke covered a small area around Hyung Jae and make him coughed.

“Cough…Cough… Damn him, what a bad day, after washing dishes now I have to breathe in smoke like this. I’ll beat you to pulp once I catch you, bastard thief.” Hyung Jae grunted in anger, for a moment he doesn’t care about the masked man, he just wants to immediately run outside the smoke to get fresh air.

He’s jumping down from the rooftop to escape from the thick smoke. After controlling his breath, he strengthens all his sense to look for the presence of the masked man but he doesn’t see or feel his presence anywhere.

“Damn him, he’s good at hiding his presence,” Hyung Jae cursed, "Why he didn't attack when I was inside the smoke? he had a good chance to do that." Hyung Jae's question unanswered because the masked man has gone now.

“Fweeet…Fweeet!!!” Sound of whistles heard by Hyung Jae, he knows if that's the whistle from the guards, it seems that they heard the smoke bomb explosion previously.

“Now I can take a rest and let the guards looking for that asshole, I will punch him in the face when they catch him later.” Hyung Jae murmured.

“Fweeet…Fweeet!!!” Again, Hyung Jae heard the whistle, but this time he heard along with the guard voices.

“Here, the explosion sound comes from this direction, hurry up,” one of the guardians said it, “We see the suspect, everyone be prepared to fight.” He continues.

In an instant 10 guards surrounded Hyung Jae which is now standing on the ground.

Hyung Jae tries to report the situations, “Hyung Jae reporting sir, I found a suspicious man who created the explosion, he wears a black suit and a mask, I think he was a thief, sir,” Hyung Jae explained, “He’s gone now, but I believe he still hide somewhere in here,” Hyung Jae added, “I had chased him from there and he's gone after throwing a smoke bomb,” His finger pointed to some direction, “I am tired, pls found him, sir, I’ll punch him in the face for the problem he caused to me.”

Hyung Jae walks with the intention to go to the front gate, but all the guards who have surrounded him draw their swords and pointed them at him.

“Hey, what is this?” Hyung Jae said in confusion.

“Shut your mouth, don’t you know if this is the Emperor City?! Every thief will get severe punishment, we’ll cut their hand. Drop your sword now!!” Jang Jan the chief of the night guard said it loudly, he then makes some gestures with his hand as an order for his men to arrest Hyung Jae.

“Hold it, sir, this is a mistake. I’m not the thief but I’m the one who chases the thief, the thief was the one who wears a mask and black suit, I chased him till I got in here and then he throws a smoke bomb at me and get disappeared,” Hyung Jae tries to convince the guards. “Can I go now, Sir?”

“Stop your lame act, don’t pretend anymore, you are the only one in the explosion area. Right or wrong will be decided by the judge.” Jang Jan answered firmly.

“I’m not pretending, it was true. Even I’m one of the gungjeon gyeongbi like you, Sir.” Hyung Jae tries defending himself.

“Haha…laughable. Why you don’t pretend as emperor son?” Jang Jan laughed.

“Daamnn this… what am I dreaming last night? After washing so many dishes, running in the middle of the night, breathing in smoke, and now, wrongly accused as a thief. Why I was so unlucky today?” Hyung Jae grumbled.

He doesn’t want to fight with the guards so he dropped his sword on the ground and 2 guards arrest him without any fight.

“Hey, hey… That’s my precious weapons, be careful with it.” Hyung Jae said it to the guard who takes his sword.

“Just shut up, don’t say a word.” Jang Jan scolded him.

“I’m one of gungjeon gyeongbi just like you, please believe me.” Hyung Jae not giving up defending himself.

“So, where is your plaque as gungjeon gyeongbi?” Jang Jan asked.

“Err… I don’t have it yet, but tomorrow, I'll give it to you by tomorrow.” Hyung Jae answered.

“Hahaha… you’re a funny thief,” Jang Jan laughed again, he's not impressed with Hyung Jae's confession, “Bring him to the prison now.” He instructed his men.

In the middle of a cold night,  Hyung Jae’s fate leads him to enter the Emperor City Prison. Will his good luck returned inside the prison? Or the bad luck that awaits?