Tale of Our Love // Pucca (EXTENDED)

Chapter 4

Besides the fact that Dong King lived around the village, Sooga was a pretty peaceful place. There were barely any people around, but they all got along very well. Everyone accepted everyone for who they were, and they never failed to give off a positive aura even in the worst situations. At least, that was the way that Teansi saw the village that she swore to protect. She wasn't sure of it yet, but perhaps the reason why she preferred to watch over the villagers rather than hang out with her fellow gods and goddesses was because of this fact.

It was not that Teansi detested her siblings. In fact, she loved them so much that she would give up her life for their sake. However, she never heard anything from them other than their complaints about how terrible the human world was. She had been listening to the things that they were saying for seventy three years already, and she eventually grew tired of hearing the same things over and over again. If one was to eat the same food for three years, without eating anything else, they would grow sick of it's taste. The same went for her.

In addition, the atmosphere she felt whenever her siblings talked about those things was always heavy. However, whenever she watched over her tranquil village, all of those heavy feelings inside her would fade away like they had never been there. Teansi always got tired whenever she heard at least one of her siblings complain. It wasn't that she thought that it was wrong to express your emotions honestly. She continued to speak to them about what they were dealing with, because she knew that it wouldn't be right for her to let them deal with their problems alone. It was just that... she preferred to conceal all of the negative things and focus only on the positive. That was probably because she couldn't understand how stressful dealing with humans could be.

"Teansi, I'll let you know that humans are not as good as the ones in your village. You should be lucky Master Soo sent you to a very peaceful one. And now I'm forced to watch over humans who suck!"

Could Taiyang be referring to people like Dong King when she said that? Were there more people like him in the world, and she just wasn't aware of it at all?

Earth consisted of seven billion human beings, so of course there would be more like him. Teansi desperately hoped that this was rare, but if her siblings' words were to be taken into consideration, there were more people like Dong King than Teansi thought. The thought of it made her feel down, yet at the same time, there was nothing she could do about it. Although she was a goddess, she felt powerless about how there was nothing she could do to save people from being in such situations. Everyone's hands were tied. Yet everyone continued to blame everyone.

Were humans really as terrible as her siblings said they were? Were they truly heartless creatures who lacked compassion and love? Even Master Soo himself said that the country of Chijako was a corrupted one, and that Teansi was sent to the only tranquil village that there was in the entire country. Teansi didn't know how cruel humans could be. The cruelest human being that she had ever seen was Dong King, and other than that, there was nobody. Everyone was kind and friendly to one another, and they even tried to comfort Ring-Ring in the best way possible.

She heard that Chijako was so terrible that it earned a low reputation amongst other countries. She heard from her siblings, terms like "forced prostitution", "forced marriage", "slavery", "death", and "torture". As horrible as those words sounded, Teansi didn't understand them very well. None of them ever told her the deep details about what they had witnessed. She wanted to argue that she was not a kid anymore, and that she could handle it. However, everyone refused, declaring that she would still be a child in human ages. She didn't like how they were treating her as though she was a special snowflake. She wanted to fit in like everyone else.