THE CURSED ONE - THE BOY WHO CHALLENGE DESTINY

Unexpected Incident -1

“A beautiful princess who also a legendary martial artist, what a perfect combination,” Hyung Jae admiring Princess Imma, “If only I don’t have a promise to find the boy, I might help you right now”.

Something suddenly crossed in Hyung Jae’s mind, “Wasn’t the Cloud Valley located under Cloud Sun sect control? Why they search for information here which is very far away from the Cloud Valley? Wouldn’t be better if they asked the Cloud Sun sect?” So many questions in his mind but it's too late now, Princess Imma and her men are already gone and Hyung Jae doesn’t have the intention to search them. Hyung Jae is only able to hope if Princess Imma will find the clues that she’s looking for.

Time has passed by quickly, Hyung Jae still sits in the food house, he is now the only customer left in there. Somebody come over to Hyung Jae's table, “Sorry sir, but we will close now, it’s already late night and this is your bill, sir.” It’s the food house owner, he then gives some bills to Hyung Jae.

“Wh...what?! 2 silver coins?!” Hyung Jae almost screamed when he saw the bills.

“Is there any wrong thing sir?” The owner asked.

“N... no, no problem at all,” Hyung Jae feels nervous now. “I am dead now, I only have 1 silver coin, how to pay this bill?” He grunted, suddenly something crossed his mind.

Hyung Jae smiled at the owner and say “Do you know who I am Mr.?”

“No, I don’t know who you are sir.” The owner said in curious.

“Listen carefully, I am the mighty Hyung Jae the wanderer, someone who loves to fight the crime and defend the justice,” Hyung Jae said while making a silly pose. “How if I stay here and guard this place for tonight? You don’t have to pay me, just give me free food, how was that? Isn’t that a good deal for you to have a handsome warrior like me guarding your place? Everything is secured, guaranteed.” Hyung Jae tries to persuade while his eyes peeking at the shop owner.

“What good deal? You just wanted to get free food and free shelter to stay right? Don’t try to make a fool of me,” Said the owner. “No, no, you must pay the bill now.” He now starts to grope Hyung Jae’s body to get money.

“Hey stop it...” Hyung Jae screamed and tickled, a new idea crossed in Hyung Jae’s brain.

“Help me!!! Help Me!!! A p*****t man tries to touch me!” Hyung Jae screams loudly, he starts playing his drama.

“What p*****t? Don’t be silly.” The owner said irritably.

“You’ve touched my body, you must be wanted to exploit me right?” Hyung Jae said while his mind is laughing. “The waiter right there is the witness, you see this p*****t old man touching me, right Mr. Waiter?”

“Y… yeah, but?” the waiter answered, but Hyung Jae cut his words, “I’m a normal guy, I don’t have any taste in my kind, moreover an old man like you.” Hyung Jae’s drama continues.

“What are you talking about? Hurry up give me your money.” Say the owner while he tries again to grope Hyung Jae’s body.

“Help… Hel…” Before Hyung Jae finish screams, the owners put his hand to close Hyung Jae’s mouth.

“Okay fine, rather than my reputations dropped I prefer to lose some money, but you have to do something in return.” The owner said while he grabs Hyung Jae’s hand and drags him to the sink in the backside of the house.

“You cleans up all of this, don’t try to run away or I will report to the gungjeon gyeongbi .” The old man gives his order.

No other choice, Hyung Jae finally starts to wash the dishes and all other messes in the sink. “Damn it, why I need to do all of this cleaning? There are so many of it.” He grunted, but he keeps doing it until everything cleaned up.

Hyung Jae's job has finished at the midnight, he then walks to the front door. The owner still waiting for him, “Finished all?” The owner asked.

“Yes boss, all have cleaned up.” Hyung Jae answered while rubbing his head.

“Very good, you can leave now. If you want to wash the dishes again, just come over tomorrow.” The old man tries to mock him.

“hehe… today is enough boss, thank you.” Hyung Jae answered, he then goes out of that place after taking his sword on the table.

Hyung Jae walks on the city road, it’s dark but he can see some torch burning as a road light. No one on the road right now, even no guard seen around.

“Damn, I failed to get free shelter tonight. At least I still have my money and my stomach has filled with delicious foods,” Hyung Jae talked to himself, “Where to go now?” he stopped in the middle of the crossroad.

“Better if I go to the front gate, some guards might be on their night shift there.” Hyung Jae decided to go to the city front gate, he wants to spend this night there and planned to say if he was a new guard if they asked.

Before he starts walking, he saw something moving in the distance. Even though it was dark, but he still able to see the shadow that running and jumping on the rooftop, the distances around 150 steps from him. Hyung Jae is sure if that was a man who has a good body lifting technique.

“Who in the night like this running on the people's rooftop?” Hyung Jae questioning in his mind, “Maybe he was one of the city guards that on his night duty? Nah, it’s impossible, a guard won’t run on people's rooftop like that or maybe that was a thief? Yes, that must be a thief. If not, why he runs on top of the roof in the middle of the night like this?”

Hyung Jae starts running towards the shadows, he used his body lifting technique. “This is my chance, if I can catch the thief and bring him to the guard, Man Dook will be happy and I can get some reward.” Hyung Jae talks in his running.

He increasing his speed and jump to the rooftop where the shadow visible for the last time, he stands up and looks around with sharpened eyes. He’s looking for any suspicious shadow, but he doesn’t find it anywhere, the darkness of the night making it’s more difficult to watch around. Hyung Jae put himself down to hide while his eyes still sharpened and watch in every direction, he's patiently waiting for the shadow to appears again. Not long after, the shadow is seen again and this time the distance only around 50-foot steps from him.

“I think he knows my presence,” Hyung Jae whispered to himself. “I have to catch him fast before he is hiding again.”

Hyung Jae doesn’t want to miss this chance, he runs faster than before towards the shadow. He saw a shadow is a masked man in a black suit. He almost catches that masked man, but that man suddenly increasing his speed.

“Hey, stop running, till when you’ll run away? It's no use, I’ll catch you anyway.” Hyung Jae speaks as he tries to make the shadows stopped.

That masked man keeps running and ignoring Hyung Jae’s words.

“Woah, he has good body lifting technique,” says Hyung Jae, “But I won’t lose.”

Hyung Jae increasing his speed, he used his ultimate technique, “Thousand Steps Without Shadows…” He screams while he rushed his body forward at magnificent speeds toward the shadow.

In an instant, Hyung Jae leaps 50 steps he is now running side by side with the masked man. Hyung Jae’s presence shocking the masked man, he doesn’t estimate Hyung Jae’s ability to move faster than him. Hyung Jae tries to take the mask off with his right hand, which the masked man avoided by rolling his body sidewise, away from Hyung Jae. The masked man stopped 10 steps in front of Hyung Jae, he now standing face to face with him.