Sad Ending - 2
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Ja Som Fa finally understands why her daughter was so eager to release the kid in the detention, he can see if her daughter, who rarely has a male friend, was quite close with the kid who was in prison right now. No wonder he felt strange when his daughter asked him about the black devil's curse a few days ago, now he just understands that his daughter was asked him because she wanted to help her friend.
"Abeoji, please free Jin, I believe he was innocent, Hyul and his g**g have set him up." Youra tried again to convince his father to release Jin from prison.
His father thinks for a moment while he stroked his not-so-long beard.
"Look, Youra, you must have known about the rules within our sect, we can't go around and breaking sect rules like that, even if it was your father, the headmaster." Ja Som Fa tried to make her understand that even though he is the headmaster of the sect he can’t break the rules to release Jin from detention.
"But I believe he was innocent, he was not guilty, you will understand if you talk with him, please help, father." Youra continued to beg his father, she knows that his father would never do anything against the sect's rules, but this was the only way for her to save Jin.
"In your uncle's report, last night mentioned if that child was convincingly proven to be the perpetrator of the theft, Youra. He was the one who brought the kinds of stolen stuff inside his clothes and he had all the opportunity to do the theft. A lot of students witnessing him oftentimes went in and out of the Yellow Hall dormitory when all the students were practicing in the hall. That evidence was more than enough to make him arrested. I couldn't just release the kid from prison for sentimental reasons, Youra, he even doesn’t have any proof or witnesses that supporting his claim of being trapped by Hyul and his friends." Ja Som Fa reaffirmed the reasons why he could not comply with his daughter's wishes.
Youra who sad to hear his father's answer began to shed tears. Her mother becoming sad when she saw her daughter cries, but she did not want to interfere with her husband's affairs in anything related to the sect problems.
"I can't help to free the boy, but maybe I can help to lighten the sentence. You know yourself that theft was very much f*******n in our sect with very severe punishment for the perpetrator. The last thief almost 20 years ago was punished by one of his arm being cut off. I believe in Jin's case there will be someone who going to ask me to cut off his arm as a lesson for others, but I will try to lighten his punishment, he will only be expelled from this sect without any additional punishment, and he must not stepping his feet inside the sect again forever.” This was the only thing that Ja Som Fa can do to help the kid, he can’t do more than this because all the hard evidence was against the kid.
“Stop crying, Youra, there is nothing more that you or I can do. I will go to the main square of the sect to make the announcement." Ja Som Fa left Youra with his mother and Youra is now crying more.
Her mother came over and stroked her daughter's hair. "Your father has done what he can, honey, please don't burden him any further. He must follow the rule in our sect without any exception and he has a lot of responsibility on his shoulders." Youha said to calm her daughter and make her understand her father’s limitations.
"But Eomma, Jin’s fate has always been bad and now it's getting worse, I just want to repay his kindness, Eomma." Youra said tearfully, her tears just won’t stop flowing.
“I know, honey, I’ll tell you what, how if I give him a few coins so he can use it to sustain his life outside the sect? Well, even it won’t help much but at least it is better than nothing, right?” Youra knows if her mother is correct, if she can’t repeal Jin’s punishment then at least she should help him to live his life after expelled from this sect.
Youra wiped her tears she stood up and said to her mother if she will go to the main square of the sect to see her father's speech and also to see Jin right there.
"I'm going to the sect square now, thanks, eomma, I love you."
Her mother stares at her daughter with great affection, right before Youra left, her mother gave a package containing several gold coins, she asks Youra to give it to Jin and Youra take it with a happy feeling, she thinks that even if Jin has left the sect, she would be able to meet him by sneaking out of the sect just like before.
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Golden Flame Main Square
It is still early in the morning but the atmosphere in the field was very busy. Students, teachers, and some sect administrators all gathered to wait for the Headmaster’s announcement. The crowd of thousands of peoples made the atmosphere a little rowdy, everyone curious about the thief’s face and what punishment he would receive.
Jung Kook who was accompanied by Taeman was seen inside the crowd, they were also waiting for the official announcement of the punishment from the sect that would be imposed on Jin. What he actually afraid was if Jin will get expelled from the sect, he truly hoped that Jin will only get some light punishment. Jung Kook and all of his men were very sure that Jin was innocent, but they could do nothing to help him, even this morning when he wanted to visit Jin inside the prison, the guards kicked him out and he was not allowed to meet Jin.
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