Chaotic Nights — Chapter 138. Innocent Girl

Translator: Atlas

Weekly Chapter 4/4

Gari, who had her hands tied, was pushed up the mountain. She could not look at the moon because she was blindfolded. Nor could she scream because she was gagged.

She felt so afraid that she could not take a single step.

“It’s your fault. You should have kept quiet.”

Her tears began to flow when she heard the man’s words. Were they afraid that she would tell him that Eunha was kicked out? That’s why they wanted to kill her.

Her body trembled like an aspen.

Her tear-soaked blindfold clung to her face as the man heedlessly pulled her up the mountain, impervious to her desperate pleas.

“Ah!”

The man who threw the girl to the ground pulled a dagger from his belt with a bitter expression on his face. He had always unhesitatingly wielded this dagger.

But he could not do the same to an innocent girl.

Cold sweat ran down his back. White breath came from his lips. The man, who pondered Kim’s words, tightened his grip on the handle.

“I’m sorry.”

Gari’s blood would become Eunha’s blood, and her ankles buried in the ground would become Eunha’s. The man raised the dagger.

“Stop.”

An object was pressed against the man’s head.

“Put the dagger down.”

Goosebumps rose on his skin. Not only because he hadn’t felt any presence, but because it was the voice of a woman who shouldn’t be here.

“Who are you?”

“You know who I am.”

The man who dropped his dagger raised his hands above his head.

“You’re alive.”

She did not respond to his words.

“Quick kill me.”

The person who pointed the gun at him was Eunha. When she nodded, a man appeared and untied the rope binding Gari. When he removed the blindfold covering her eyes, Gari began to shed tears again.

“Ah!”

“Are you alright?”

“Yes. I’m fine.”

Eunha offered a faint smile to Gari, who appeared unscathed.

She pushed the man’s head with the gun. The man walked to a tree.

“I don’t plan to kill you. But I can hurt you.”

“I’m sorry. I couldn’t refuse…”

“Could you bind him?”

The man, who closed his eyes with a smile, placed his hands behind his waist. The hunters tied the man’s wrists with the rope that had bound Gari, then with a blow to the head knocked him unconscious.

The man fell to the ground.

“He knows how to use a dagger, he will not fall prey to the beasts.”

The hunter leader leaned the man’s back against the tree trunk.

Eunha, who approached Gari, wiped away her tears.

“Don’t cry. I’m here.”

“I really thought I was going to die!”

“I’m sorry that my actions had affected you.”

Eunha tried to calm her down.

“Go straight back to your original owner’s house this way. Just say you were sent back or that you finished the job.”

Gari, who belatedly looked at the hunters, grabbed Eunha’s hand.

“What do you plan to do?”

“I will leave Harye. I plan to reunite with my sister.”

“You don’t plan to return?”

“I don’t want another person to get hurt because of me. I would like you to keep what happened in Harye a secret.”

Eunha hugged the devastated Gari tightly once more, then stood up. She asked the hunter Daegun to guide her.

“How can we separate like this?”

“It’s a complicated situation. I’m sorry.”

“I will look after you!”

“It’s no longer necessary. Thank you. Someday we’ll meet again.”

Eunha turned away without hesitation. Gari sobbed, tears streaming down her face. She was probably in shock because she had almost lost her life.

Soon she started down the mountain in Daegun’s company.

When Gari’s figure disappeared, Eunha let out a long sigh.

“Shall we go?”

“Yes, how long will it take?”

“Merchants typically lack endurance, so they should maintain a leisurely walking pace. I think we can reach her, right?”

Eunha nodded. She looked towards the direction where Gari had disappeared.

“Let’s go.”

She took a step forward. She didn’t want to linger so as not to inconvenience the hunters.

The farther she got away from Harye, the more her heart hardened.

When dawn came, she had crossed Harye’s first mountain.