HIM THEY CALL THE CRUEL KING (Completed)

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"Who are you? Take off that cloak please." The King's man asks.

Yoon Ji remains silent and thinks something to say. Meanwhile D steps into the scene. She had been on the other side of the shop and now had spotted Yoon Ji being questioned by a soldier. Still covering her face with her cloak, she speaks, "How dare you ask her do that?"

Yoon Ji's nerve sets on fire. "I TOLD HER NOT TO SPEAK A WORD. WHAT IS SHE DOING?" She passes the message to herself

"Move aside. You don't know who she is. We stand in a higher position than you. If I tell this to the King, he will rip your lips out." D scares him.

The soldier touches his lips in fear of her words.
."WHAT HIGHER POSITION SHE IS TALKING ABOUT? SOMEBODY STOP HER..." Yoon Ji's inner self starts to shout soundlessly.

Before D could utter any words further, Ho Seok reaches the spot and gives an excuse to the soldier.

"They are the scholars from the neighborhood. They are in search of scholar's inn." Ho Seok blurted out. The soldier nodded and left suspiciously looking at D.

As the soldier goes away, D quickly takes off her cloak and hugs Ho Seok in excitement. But he couldn't recognize her for an instant.

"I can't believe it is you. I thought I wouldn't meet you again." She Says.

HoSeok pulls her off from him and asks, "I don't recognize you. But... your voice resembles someone I know." Ho Seok uttered.

D introduces disappointedly, "it's me, Da Won."

Ho Seok still remains puzzled.

Yoon Ji takes her cloak off too and reminds D that she is still disguised. "Your scar. He didn't recognize you because of that scar."

"Your scar. What happened to you?" Hoseok worriedly asks.

"It's fake. She did it to avoid people from identifying her."

Seeing Yoon Ji, Ho Seok feels like he has been thrown back to his childhood days. "Yoon Ji? Is it really you?" He asks.

She nodded with a smile.

He seems to have a lot of confusions and lot to question, but he just couldn't ask them in that place. So he opens up his shop, lets them in and closes it from inside. They turn on the lights and take their seats down on the floor which is least dusted.

Taking up a long deep breathe Ho Seok starts to question them. "Okay. Nobody will question anything when I'm questioning you and you both got to tell me the truth."

D interrupts. "But I have a question for you before you start any. Can I?" She asks humbly.

Ho Seok disapproves, "No, answer mine first and then question me."

"You said, you will depart from the village after you see Seok Jin. Why are you still here?" Ho Seok questions D.

"I had been away, but I came back to help Ji Min and on my way I met Yoon Ji. And now we are in disguise to find Ji Min. We both are here to help him." D answers.

"And Yoon Ji, do you have anything to say?" He asks.

Yoon Ji inhales deeply. "I have lot to tell you. Da Won, I told you that I know a person by the name Ho Seok and his sibling Da Won, it's him and his sister. No doubt in it. I still recognize him."

D listens to her without raising a question.

"Ho Seok and his sister are not just ordinary villagers, but were the ones from the royal family. His father was the Army general of the nation who served during the rule of late King. But now, he's thrown away from the palace like other family members. His father couldn't survive anymore after the attack and Yoon Gi asked him to leave the palace with his family."