Chapter 55
“What were you thinking as you killed the demon beasts?”
Seolhwa asked, her sword raised.
“You knew why the monkeys turned into demon beasts, didn’t you?”
“...You told me.”
“How did it feel? Killing those demon beasts.”
Cheongun couldn’t answer.
Only the sensation of cutting through the demon beasts lingered faintly at his fingertips.
“Among those demon beasts, there were probably monkeys who had to watch their own child’s brain being eaten right before their eyes.”
The jingling of a bell that signals freshness to humans was, to a mother monkey watching, the sound that marked her child’s final breath.
When the jingling finally stopped, what must that mother monkey have felt?
“That must’ve been how you felt when you lost me.”
When a child’s scream is swallowed by the rushing water.