HIM THEY CALL THE CRUEL KING (Completed)

chapter 21

"He is here. One of the soldier of the clan who wanted to challenge us. They came with a word of friendship." Taehyung says

The King looks down from the balcony and gives an evil smirk at the guest who just arrived.
"Friendship?" The King gives out a little laugh, "do they think I would accept any friendship? I'm the only one this nation should be feared of and fearless always stays away from word friendship. I don't trust anyone not others should trust in me that I would spare a mere soldier of my enemy."
"Taehyung ah! Shouldn't we welcome our guest now?"

Taehyung smiles. "I will meet you in the court room."

"Court room?" The King interrogates
"Do you think he will make it up to there?"

Taehyung stands still with his confused gaze, trying to dig into his hyungs words.

"Come with me" says the King as he places his arm around Taehyung's shoulder and walks out of the room.

They walked out of the palace towards the main entrance where the soldier of the enemy clan was asked to wait.

The King and Taehyung takes their seat and waits for the soldier to go on  reading the scroll. The soldier began to sweat and shiver as he began to utter a word which he couldn't even spell properly out of trembling.

"Stop right there." The King uttered. "What does your King really wants from me to prevent this war?"

"Expand our nation's friendship with your nation." The soldier utters.

"Hmmmm... Your King must be clever to send you to us with this proposal. Did you think this proposal would work?" Taehyung asks mocking the soldier.

"Our nation is ruled by Queen and not King." The soldier corrected him

The King tilted his head a bit and turned towards Taehyung and smiled. Of course, Taehyung couldn't understand what his hyung was thinking.

The King stood up giving his thought over the proposal. "It doesn't matter who rules the nation, MIN YOONGI is fearless and wouldn't hesitate to take down a Nation's Queen." He said as he walked up to the soldier. As he reached close enough to hit him with any object, he paused and pulled a sword out of its case from a soldier standing near by as he kept speaking to the soldier, "You made biggest sin in your life by stepping into my nation and asking for compromise on behalf your queen. You should have known that I spare none." He forcibly pulled the sword with an intension but the soldier utter out something really fast in fear.

"What did you say?"the King asked

"There's one more thing to mention incase of refusal. We have taken one of your people as our hostage. In your refusal, that person's life wouldn't be spared."

The King froze on his spot for a second and turned back as he heard some footsteps. Jimin, Hoseok and Yoonji along with Seokjin who is injured appears to the scene.

The King reads Seokjin's condition at a glance, but he didn't utter a word about his injuries to the King. On his behalf, Hoseok speaks out, "Hyung, they have Da Won."

The King tightened his grip on the sword and finished of the soldier within a blink of an eye with just one strike on his neck.

"Your queen picked a wrong person as her hostage. She should have known what's coming after her."
"Get ready with an ARMY, we are refusing the proposal as we have decided before and save our hostage."

"You should have mentioned what she means to you hyung." Taehyung smiled as he spoke to himself.

As the King was about to go in, Yoonji stops Yoongi.
"Victory won't be ours if we don't plan how to strike them. Remember, it's them who asked for a war and not us. They had Dawon with them without our notice. I feel this is something personal. They must have been spying on you and Da Won since long."

For the very first time in a while, Yoongi looks at Yoonji's eyes and says, "if you have one, then bring it on."
"You, you, you, you and you" he pointed to his brothers, Hoseok and Seokjin.
"Don't we think we had wasted lot of time so far? I'm not going to ask you all, but you all are joining in to this victory game. If you all have ideas of yours, excecute them in the court room."
"Taehyung_ah! Escort your brothers and sister to the court room."

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They all gather in the court room for discussion, but the King notices Seokjin's silence ever since he had come back after Da Won was abducted in his presence.

"You are the elderly ones among us here, even though you aren't among my brothers, it doesn't feel right to call you by your name."
"Hyung!" The King called out

Jimin, Taehyung and Jungkook who were keeping their sight low, raised their head in surprise whilst Hoseok pinched himself to check the reality.

"Hyung, you need to tell me everything what had happened last night."

"Then listen." Seokjin uttered
"This happened when your guards let us half a way to the village and began to pull out their swords. We were surprised, but somewhere I knew you wouldn't just let us go like that. But that wasn't it. Those soldiers you sent last night weren't actually your soldiers but from the enemy clan. You have been fooled under your own roof. There is no way you should trust your people, everyone is corrupt here."

"What do you mean corrupt, huh?" Hoseok yelled at him

"Chill Hoseok, I didn't point out in particular. I'm talking about his soldiers and palace people. There is no point at pointing us. We would even dream of harming Da Won nor Yoongi." Seokjin replied.

"Who is this queen we never knew about? And why she had suddenly planned all these?" Yoonji spoke

Yet Yoongi didn't respond to anything but kept listening to them.

"I think I know something." A little hesitant voice was heard as their discussion gave a minute of silence.

It was Jungkook who was standing behind Hoseok and Jimin.

Everyone's attention turned towards the little one.

"I think it's physician Yejin." He says

"What?"
"That can't be. No way" everyone began to murmur.

The King fixed his gaze over Jungkook and smirked. "Brave." He uttered

"What? Hyung? You are believing him?" Taehyung asks desperately

"You don't believe him?" The King asks Taehyung instead.
"He spent years down there in prison. He must have observed something."
"You carry on. Tell me what you know."

"Yejin isn't actually a physician. She disguised herself as a physician. She came here with an intension. The day when I realized that she was injecting something to me in order to black me out, I tried to refuse to take that again. She went crazy and called out few men to hold me out. Those men didn't seem like our men. I believe there are many down there like them." Jungkook explained

"Why would she do that?" Hoseok asks in general.

"Wait! Then how was she entrusted to treat Da Won?" Jimin asks

Taehyung turns towards Jimin and says, "you are right. Da won trusted her so much. More than me from beginning, which means she must have told everything to her. That's how Yejin was able to keep her safe and know whatever she wanted."

The King calls out Yoonji out loud, "Yoonji" that startles everyone there.
"You said you..." Before he could continue, Yoonji began to speak.
"The only queen that was spared from our enemy clans was the one towards the east. Yejin must be the queen of that nation. As per I know from Dad, both nations used to hold very good friend ship until uncle Jung stepped the throne. She must be taking her revenge."

Hoseok steps forward, "If it's that nation, then I know better way to strike them. We will split our army to 3 and attack from 3 side. Other direction is just a dead end. There is no way they can escape from us."

The King pulls out his sword and looks at his reflection on it.
"Get ready to strike."

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For those who are thinking that Namjoon is just nowhere in actual story, I would just ask you all to have some patience. You will soon see him.