Fabre in Sacheondangga Episode 156
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As I realized the meaning of Itae’s words and frowned, the eyes of the enemies who had been tense since I appeared became filled with even greater fear.
The dead person must have been someone who was walking around vigorously until yesterday, but was found as a wrinkled corpse.
It didn’t look like a normal death, so it seemed like our children were strongly suspected.
Since it is a supernatural thing for a person to shrink and die, it was perhaps natural that supernatural beings such as spirits would be suspected.
And since the children suspected of being the culprits of the incident were children under my command, it was clear that the thieves were afraid of me as well.
Wouldn’t my children and I just look like demons and demon summoners in their eyes?
‘It’s annoying, but this is such a coincidence. I guess I’ll have to clear up this misunderstanding, right?’
They kept sending messages that the children were eating people to scare the enemies, but who would have thought that someone would meet such a bizarre death in this situation?
This misunderstanding was a difficult situation because there was also a problem with the shipyard.
Anyway, it was a time when I thought the misunderstanding needed to be resolved.
Before I could say anything, the fear of the crowd turned to terror at the sound that followed me.
-Tsur? “Dad?”
I suggested that we go out together when the fog cleared, but I followed Itae out in a hurry without any explanation, and Bin-i seemed to have followed me.
When they heard Bin-yi’s cries, the pirates retreated in terror.
“Ugh!”
“Whoa!”
The scene where a seven-meter-tall black Wukong suddenly appears out of the fog is definitely a scene that will make you shiver with fear.
The enemy had already been scared yesterday and was misunderstanding, so they fell on their butts and retreated.
In my head, Bin-i’s voice was sounding so cute.
I feel like a quick response is needed.
After calling Hwa-eun close and discussing it, he decided to immediately resolve the misunderstanding between Lee Tae and Su-jeok.
Because if the misunderstanding deepens further, it will be irreversible.
“It seems like the people are misunderstanding that our children made that wooden doll. We need to clear up this misunderstanding.”
“Our children!? What kind of nonsense is that···.”
Hwa-eun made a face that said my explanation was nonsense.
Hwa-eun said, holding Bin-i in her arms.
“It’s so frustrating, because they are such small, gentle, and kind children···.”
To be honest, Chona Bin’s appearance, Hwa Eun’s and my eyes still looked small and cute, but if you remove the affection filter from her eyes, she looked like a seven-meter tall monster.
So after awkwardly laughing at Hwa-eun’s answer, I patted Bin-i’s head and explained to Itaewon.
“I guess our children think that the corpse? The neck? That thing? They think that it was made like that. That’s a misunderstanding.”
“A misunderstanding?”
“Our children do not eat people.”
“yes!?”
Itae is startled when he hears that children don’t eat people.
Itae asked back with an expression of disbelief.
Because I sent you a message yesterday saying that you were going to be eaten like that.
“Oh, you clearly said you’d give us food yesterday···.”
“That was just to scare them. These kids are spirits and don’t eat anything.”
At my words, Itae and Sujeok looked at each other.
I feel like you’re probably wondering whether or not you should believe me.
I decided to tell the troubled Lee Tae and Su-jeok about reality.
It may be a bit cold to say, but it’s better than letting misunderstandings pile up.
“It’s okay if you don’t believe it, but if children really do eat people, do I really need to come forward and explain it like this?”
If Cho and Bin were really eating people, honestly, Itae and Su-jeok would have no way to stop it.
And for those who can’t stop the three, the only option is to just sit back and let them eat you one by one.
When I pointed it out, Itaewon flinched and then nodded his head.
“Well, definitely. If the spirits run wild, no one will be able to stop them, so there’s no reason to sneak them out and eat them.”
The crowd shudders as Lee Tae’s words bring back memories of yesterday.
One of the men asked Itaewon.
“Soo, Soojang, but how did Beomgyu die?”
At that moment, footsteps were heard from the cabin, and Sister Seol appeared from the fog and spoke.
“We’ll have to find out from now on.”
***
First, I decided to examine the body with the help of my older sister Seol.
According to Sister Seol, traces of evil spirits are bound to be left on the corpse?
It wasn’t a wrong thing to say, and since Seol Nui showed confidence that among the Beast Palace’s catches, there was a catch that examined the traces of a corpse, I left the corpse to Seol Nui.
They say that it was a catch that came about while examining the corpse to see if it had been eaten by some kind of animal, and I was half-doubtful, but seeing the way they were examining the corpse, they seemed quite professional.
Because, in a way that was out of place in this day and age, they were meticulously examining even the pupils, inside the mouth, and even traces of the skin.
Seol’s sister, who didn’t have any gloves, rummaged through the corpse with something like chopsticks.
Seol’s sister, who had been rummaging through the corpse with the help of her friends, tilted her head and expressed her opinion that the corpse was not Moknae-i.
“First of all, this isn’t exactly a throat infection.”
“No?”
Hwa-eun questioned Seol-nu’s words, and Seol-nu nodded her head at the question.
“Moknaei refers to a completely dried corpse, but this one has had all the blood drained out of it. That’s why it’s wrinkled and pale. The skin is also not dry yet.”
“All the blood drained from your body?”
Seol’s sister explains that she thought it was a dried corpse, but it wasn’t.
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When I opened my eyes wide at the words that all the blood had drained out, Seol’s sister nodded again.
“Yeah. When a person dies and becomes a corpse, the blood coagulates and stains appear on the body, right? But this corpse doesn’t have any of that.
“Normally, when an animal or a person dies, stains start to appear after half an hour, but this corpse has no traces at all? That means that not a single drop of blood was left behind, either while the body was alive or within an hour of death.”
“Then, could it be the Blood Cult!?”
The thing that is most suspicious when they say that all the blood has been sucked out is, of course, the Blood Cult.
Everyone’s faces turned tense at the mention of my bloodline.
If my guess was correct, it meant that the Blood Cult bastard might be hiding in the village.
“Sure. If it’s blood, then the blood sect···.”
“Tongue, you mean Blood Cult!? Those vicious bastards!?”
But then I heard Seol’s sister’s voice.
“The Blood Cult sucks the blood from wounds on the body, right? But this person doesn’t seem to have any such wounds.
“It doesn’t look like a blood cult to me. This is something different.”
As Sister Seol said, the Blood Cult is a group of mosquito-like creatures that inflict wounds on people with knives or daggers and suck their blood through those wounds.
The elders of the Blood Cult had also shown such behavior, so if there were no wounds, there was no way to doubt the Blood Cult.
“Anything else?”
Now that the opinion has shifted to the side that it is not a blood cult, I feel a little relieved.
When asked if she had found out anything else, Seol’s sister shook her head.
“Well? If there had been blood left, we would have been able to know more. Without blood, the wound is hard to see.”
Unfortunately, that’s all Seol’s sister could find out.
I figured that if there was nothing more to find out about the body, I would have to do a site check.
Because as important as the body is the on-site inspection.
“Then, let’s go to Iza’s house first. There might be some traces left.”
“Okay, let’s do that.”
“So-ryong, I’ll check to see if there’s any poison left on this body. It’s a bit strange that someone died in the village last night and no one noticed.”
“Oh, I see. Hwa-eun.”
After leaving Hwa-eun to check if poison had been used, he headed inside the village with Itaewon.
As we crossed the village, the villagers looked at us with fearful eyes and whispered, perhaps due to the effects of the incident that occurred last night.
The place we arrived at after escaping people’s gaze was a small house at the foot of a mountain with a roof made of reeds and walls made of bamboo.
“Here it is, Little Dragon.”
As we followed Itae’s instructions and entered, we saw a bamboo bed inside the messy house.
The area around the bed was quite messy, probably because of the people there.
“According to his subordinates, he was lying on that bed like a corpse. Oh, he was lying there like a corpse…”
As I approached the bed while listening to Lee Tae’s explanation, the faint scent of coriander wafted in.
Although it is not a scent that Koreans like very much, I thought that perhaps they enjoy eating coriander here because of the fishy smell, so I decided to take a closer look inside the mook.
“I was just lying on the bamboo bed···.”
“Yes, I heard that his body was stiff as well.”
There were no other traces on the bed besides the tattered blanket, and Itae and Seol carefully checked the doorways and windows to see if there were any other clues or signs of someone coming and going, but nothing in particular turned up.
“There’s nothing special.”
“surely···.”
Returning to the ship with no results, he asked Hwa-eun if she had found any poison, but was told that the results would come out tomorrow.
“I guess we’ll know tomorrow if it’s poisonous.”
“Surely someone won’t die before Hwa-eun finds out?”
“Seo, no way. Sister Seol, if that happens, it’ll be a big problem.”
I tried hard to suppress the anxiety that rose in my heart at Seol’s question, but isn’t that feeling of unease always right?
The next morning, the pirates rushed through the fog to report that there had been another casualty.
“Little, Little Dragon! People! People! They’ve been found dead! This time, there are two!”
“Two people!?”
I had a feeling that the case was becoming a labyrinth.
***
The place I ran to with my sister Seol was another house near the small house we stopped by yesterday.
Upon entering, they found what appeared to be a young couple lying dead on the bed.
There was no sign of resistance, and the two were still sleeping, hugging each other tightly.
“Nobody touched it?”
“Yes, miss.”
Seol Nooyi quickly approached, looked at the two, and spoke with a serious expression.
“As expected, both of them have no blood.”
This time again, there is no blood.
That was when.
Seol Nui, who was examining the two dead people, tilted her head as if she had discovered something strange and said.
“What is this?”
Seol’s sister felt around the blanket near the bed and brought her hand up to her nose to smell it.
“What do you have?”
“There is water. The blanket is wet.”
“Water? Not the urine you shed when you died?”
“No. It doesn’t smell like urine. It’s a little fishy, though. Isn’t that strange?”
The moment when Sister Seol kept tilting her head to try to figure out what the liquid was.
The scent of coriander drifted in again through the open window as the wind blew in from outside.
The scent of coriander that can be felt here and there, gently tickling my head.
But nothing came to mind.
‘What? I feel like I’m forgetting something important?’
I spent a long time with my sister Seol, but in the end, there was no result today, and the people of Sujeok Village became very hostile.
Although he actively tried to explain, it seems he couldn’t convince everyone.
In the afternoon, Hwa-eun said that she first found paralyzing poison on the body, so I thought about some kind of blood-sucking poison, but nothing came to mind.
And that night.
While I was worrying with my sister Seol about how no one should die today, Itae came to our boat that had been pulled up on land with a dish of fish.
“This isn’t much, but···.”
“You said there weren’t any forms, so why did you bring something like this?”
“I brought this because I appreciate your sincere consideration for the deaths of people like us, Little Dragon.”
“You ordered your men to patrol the village today, right?”
“Yes, I instructed them to divide into three groups of two and tour the village.”
A dish of lightly fried carp cooked in soy sauce.
I had already eaten dinner, but since I had brought it with me, I took a bite and the smell of the earth filled my mouth.
The earthy smell characteristic of freshwater fish filled my mouth.
“Ugh···.”
A situation where I feel nauseous without realizing it, and I find myself thinking about the cilantro I used to hate.
Itaewon was embarrassed by my nausea and said as if he had made a big mistake.
“Oh, this is a mistake, we made it to suit our tastes. We’ll make it again. If it came from the mainland, it would naturally have a fishy smell…”
“Oh, no. It’s more corrupt than I thought. But there’s no coriander?”
The answer I heard as I tilted my head because the spices I had been adding were not in the dish.
“We don’t really taste the fishy smell, so we don’t put in any spices.”
“You don’t put in enough spices?”
“Yes. How many years has it been since you last had fragrant herbs?”
The moment I heard Lee Tae’s words, a page from my insect venom dictionary flashed through my mind.
A large amount of bodily fluid and the smell of urine were left on the bed.
‘Why didn’t I think of that!?’
“Binah!”
-Tsurur?
I ran towards the cabin and called Bin’s name. Bin quickly lowered his head from the cabin entrance.
He ran towards the village holding a lantern and shouted.
“let’s go!”
The first victim’s house was reached while running with Bin.
As I looked around while shining a light on the wall, I saw something black flowing down one side of the wall.
There it was, what I was looking for.
And at that moment.
-Thud thud.
-Tsrrrr!
As I illuminated the ceiling with the lantern, bedbugs the size of my palm began to fall from the ceiling like raindrops. Startled by this sight, Bin-i wrapped her body around me and started to cut the bedbugs in half.
-Crack!
It was clear that the culprit of the watercolor murders was a bedbug the size of the palm of one’s hand.
