THE CURSED ONE - THE BOY WHO CHALLENGE DESTINY

A Group of Mysterious Peoples - 2

Hyung Jae who still curious about their identity peeking at them several times especially at the beautiful girl next to his table, at one moment his eyes meet with the girl's eyes which makes him shy and he immediately throws his face away to the view outside the window. His eye tail keeps taking a peek at them, the girl seen by him whispering to the big guy beside her. Suddenly the big guy stands up and starts walks toward him, this is an unexpected thing but he tries to cool himself down and pretend not to see the big guy’s arrival.

“Oh s**t, I am a dead man, do I made a mistake by staring at the girl before? I will be in a problem if this guy creating chaos in here, Man Dook will eliminate me if he knows.” Hyung Jae talks to himself. He can't hide his anxiety yet he still put his face towards the window.

The big guy finally arrives at Hyung Jae's table and starting a conversation.

“Greeting, Sir, my name is Kazan, may I sit in here?” Kazan introduced himself to Hyung Jae.

Hyung Jae little bit shocked hearing this man speaks in his language, but he immediately controls himself.

“No problem, have a sit. I am Hyung Jae from the Blue Wind sect, what can I do for you, Mr. Kazan?” Hyung Jae asked politely.

“Just call me Kazan sir, that lady in there is Princess Imma and I am her bodyguard, we come from Dragon Spring Valley in Southern Desert,” Kazan continues.

Hyung Jae's prediction was true, they come from the southern desert, but this is the first time he heard about Dragon Spring Valley.

“Princess Imma wanted to ask a few questions if you don’t mind, but if we are bothering you, I will leave now, no problem,” Kazan added.

Hyung Jae thinks for a while, “No, I’m not bothered, I’m free. What are the questions that Princess Imma wanted to ask?” ask Hyung Jae.

“Princess Imma can feel you big amount of energy, he thinks you are a great martial artist and from your appearance, you look like a wanderer, Princess Imma thought if you knew something about a recent incident in this land, do you know about Cloud Valley tragedy?” Kazan asked.

Hyung Jae thinks again, he heard some news about Cloud Valley Tragedy around 2 months ago, the information that spreads mentioned that a group of merchant was slaughtered on their way crossing the Cloud Valley, 20 members of that group, men, women, old or young all become victims, all their goods are also gone and no any witnesses at all. Then around one month ago, a piece of new information spreads, this time it was said that the horde who slaughtering the merchant in Cloud Valley has been identified and eradicated by Joyonghan, the emperor's special guard. The horde's name was Devils Wolf, all the members of the Devils Wolf were killed, including the leader Ta Di.

“Yes, I heard about that tragedy, the rumor said that one group of merchants being robbed, and all the members get killed without mercy, but the robber has been eradicated by Joyonghan.” Hyung Jae answered.

“No, it was not quite accurate,” Kazan said, “The real victims were not a group of a merchant, but they were our sect members, our families. They were on their way to Red Dragon sect.” Kazan explained while his face turns to sadness, Kazan then continues his story, “For the first time after hundreds of years our sect agreed to open a connection with this land, this was started a half years ago when the vice leader of Red Dragon sect Cheon Dan and some of his men lost in the middle of the southern desert and our men had saved them and brought them to our sect. After Cheon Dan and his men recovered, they wanted to return to their sect, and as a sign of gratitude, Cheon Dan invited us to go to the Red Dragon sect and opened formal relations with this land, we accept the invitation with gratitude. Around three months ago, we sent some of our members as our representatives to go to the Red Dragon sect, our purpose is to explicitly announce our relations with the martial art world especially with the Red Dragon sect, but we lost contact with them, apparently, they choose a different path than the usual one and we don’t know why. We then sent our man to check to Red Dragon sect but they said they never received any guest from our tribe.” Kazan tells his long story, while Hyung Jae listens.

“We keep looking for the trace of our members with the help from Red Dragon sect, not long after, we heard the news about one group of a merchant being slaughtered in Cloud Valley. We directly went to the Cloud Valley to looks for any evidence, but what's left only blood trace and fighting trace, no other things left. After that we came back to Cheon Dan to ask for his help to contact Emperor Palace, we believe that the victims were our families and we wanted to take their dead body back, but Cheon Dan said that all the dead body had been buried by Joyonghan because the condition of the body was very terrible” Kazan continued his story, Hyung Jae feels the change in Kazan’s expression, Kazan's face looks very sad but full with anger at the same time.

 “We wanted to find out the perpetrator by ourselves, but Cheon Dan asked us to give the investigations to Joyonghan. As a guest in this land, we didn't have any choice and only able to wait for the outcome of the investigations. Approximately one month later we receive formal information that the slaughterer has been eradicated completely by Joyonghan .” Kazan finished his story.

“I see, so what’s the question you wanted to ask?” ask Hyung Jae.

“Do you know anything about the horde of Devils Wolf? Any information no matter how small it is will be very valuable to us” Kazan asked his question.

“I’m sorry, I just know a little about that horde, their leader was Ta Di, a warrior that has been expelled by the Red Dragon sect, they only have less than 20 members and as far as I know they weren’t very dangerous robbers, before this tragedy, not much big crime that they did.” Hyung Jae answered.

“That’s why our Princess coming far away from our valley to this land. She wanted to make sure her self about the Devil's Wolf. We suspect the real slaughterer still not caught yet, we suggest that there was someone else behind this slaughtering.” Kazan added.

“What makes you so sure if the Devils Wolf was not the real slaughterer?” Hyung Jae asked.

 “Because there were at least 3 masters in that group, include Princess Yimma, the sister of Princess Imma.” Kazan explained.

Hyung Jae frowned, how 3 masters can be slaughtered easily by those robbers? He never met with Devils Wolfs yet, but it was very rare for a horde of robbers to have a great martial artist who can take down 3 masters at once, now the suspicions of Princess Imma are understandable.

“I understand about your suspicions, it’s too bad that I don’t have much information to share.” Hyung Jae said.

“Well, it is fine, we will try another way to get the information, and thank you for your time, Hyung Jae.” Kazan ends his words and he goes back to his group.

Hyung Jae looking at Princess Imma while throwing a smile at her and Princess Imma smiled back at him.

After eating their food, Princess Imma and her group left the Food House, and Hyung Jae stared at them from the window.