Devil Jungkook

The Trial and the Man's Past (2)

Jeon Jungkook. He was born from humble origins. His father was a dim-witted local nobleman with a title in name only, so poor that he could barely make ends meet. His mother was also a lowly maid, treated almost like a slave.

전정국

Jungkook: "Mom, look at this! I can now control magic!!"

No matter how harshly she spoke, no matter how hard she hit him, no matter how hard she beat him to the point of breaking his bones, the maid, who resented her son who ran to her, calling her mother and showing off the purple magic power floating above her small hands, only responded coldly.

하녀

Maid: "...I shouldn't have given birth to someone like you."

전정국

Jungkook: "..Mother...?"

"I'm sick of being called 'mother' now." Jeongguk was hurt by the maid's empty words, her lifeless eyes. Just like everyday life. Yes. As if it were a pattern in his life, the young man was in pain.

The fact that Jeong-guk was able to live a normal life without his ego collapsing was thanks to the previous Demon King, Yoon-gi, and Yeo-ju's father.

(선대)마왕

(Predecessor) Demon King: "Jungkook, you did nothing wrong. Don't be too hurt by what the adults say."

전정국

Jungkook: "Hyung.."

We did nothing wrong. So I'm going to change this rotten demon world.

(선대)마왕

(Predecessor) Demon King: "So come with me, Jeongguk."

Min Hwan, the former Demon King. He was an orphan from a nameless village in the Demon World, but he had great ambitions.

And the more he grew, the deeper his loyalty to him became. No, it wasn't loyalty—

Obedience. It was.

Jungkook always thought that the only person who would help him, who was so lowly, was Hwan.

But that thought was buried by a little girl when the child became a boy.

(선대)마왕

(Predecessor) Demon King: [Jeong-guk, I'm going to destroy this village. So sneak into the noble estate in the neighboring village. I'll let you live off the leash.]

It was heartbreaking to think of my poor parents dying without even having a chance to bond with them, but to Jeong-guk, Jeon-dae's words were absolute.

The noble estate in the neighboring village was huge. Jeong-guk said that his own house was also part of the same noble estate, but it was incomparable.

하녀

Maid: [I shouldn't have given birth to someone like you.]

This was all I could say whenever I saw my only son. But maybe it was because I was a mother.

Even Jeongguk himself hadn't expected to shed tears like this when he thought he could no longer bear to see that despairing face. It was a sad sight to see him quietly weeping in the stable.

(선대)왕비

(Former) Queen: "Why are you crying here?"

전정국

Jungkook: "......Huh...?"

(선대)왕비

(Former) Queen: "Seeing you in the stable... there's no way I haven't seen your face. Did you just finish working? Are you tired? Should I scold my father?"

The girl sitting next to Jeong-guk, who was sulking, patted him on the back and spoke cheerfully, was as pretty as a doll. She blinked her large eyes and looked at me. Her bloodshot red lips quivered as she spoke sweet, soothing words.

(선대)왕비

(Former) Queen: "My father is so mean. How could he make someone my age do something like this?! I'll have to tell him later."

전정국

Jungkook: "......Sigh,"

Jeongguk thought.

(선대)왕비

(Former) Queen: "Huh?! Don't cry!! I came to comfort you, what if you cry more?"

This girl is his salvation.

After that, Jeongguk never left the girl's side. To be exact, the girl never let him go.

The girl was the daughter of a nobleman. Jeong-guk, who had never seen a nobleman in his life except his father, found the girl so different from the image of a nobleman in his head that he couldn't quite grasp the reality.

(선대)왕비

(Former) Queen: "From now on, you will be my friend and servant! My name is Yeonwoo! What is your name?"

"You want to be my friend without even knowing my name?" Jungkook said, unconsciously smiling to himself as he looked at the girl.

전정국

Jungkook: "Jeon Jungkook. Please take care of me, young lady."

My heart pounded and my head started to spin the more I looked. It was a feeling I felt for the first time. It was similar to the feeling I had with my mother, but subtly different.

Yeah, you one.

I can protect you so you don't become like your mother.

Hwan returned a few days later. He said that Jeongguk and the village he lived in had been set on fire and everyone had burned to death.

After that, Jeongguk cried silently for several days and nights. He felt empty. Thinking of his mother, who had always been so cold, he felt like he had lost everything in the world.

But he wasn't always sad. Yeonwoo, the lord's daughter, was always by his side.

(선대)왕비

(Former) Queen: "Jungkook, there's someone I want to introduce you to today!! Let's go out right now!"

전정국

Jungkook: "I understand, Miss. Please walk a little slower. If someone who can't even properly spread their wings gets hurt, I will die for you, Lord."

(선대)왕비

(Former) Queen: "Okay!! Okay. So today I'm going to meet Seungwan and Seongjae. They're my friends. But they like each other-"

전정국

Jungkook: "No, I understand, but I told you to walk a little slower!"

Demon King Jeon Jeongguk. Has there ever been a time in a young boy's life when he was more comfortable?

That's how the boy grew up.

전정국

Jungkook: "Hey Son Seungwan!!!!!! Open the door!!!!"

Jungkook, who had grown a bit bigger, knocked on Seungwan's door roughly.

손승완

Seungwan: "Ahhh-!!!!!!!!!! Why!!! Why you little punk, what's wrong, why the heck!!! Why are you waking me up?!?!"

전정국

Jungkook: "Have you seen the young lady?"

Jungkook asked Seungwan, who barely opened the door while swearing. "No... this kid."

손승완

Seungwan: "Hey, you crazy bastard. Yeonwoo is the girl you serve, so you should know better. Why are you waking up a sleeping person and making a fuss?! Seongjae was in my dream!"

전정국

Jungkook: "Really? Then go back to sleep. And as a bonus, take this kid with you and let him sleep on the floor."

손승완

Seungwan: "What the heck... What the heck? Why did you drag our Sungjae here like a rag?!?! You want to get beaten up?!!!"

전정국

Jungkook: "This kid wouldn't answer no matter how many times I woke him up, so I got mad and threw him into the canyon and rescued him. If you lay him down on the ground, he'll fall asleep on his own, so just leave him alone. I'm going."

Jungkook gently handed the unconscious Sungjae he was holding to Seungwan, then opened the large window in Seungwan's room. He then spread his large wings.

손승완

Seungwan: "You're really amazing too. How can you stand that bubbly personality? I've known you since you were little, so I don't mind."

Jeongguk chuckled at Seungwan's words. What could be so difficult?

전정국

Jungkook: "I'm a servant and you're the lord's daughter. You hid so I could find you, so what are you going to do?"

After saying this, Jeong-guk quickly flew into the air.

While I was thinking about where a young lady might go, I unconsciously found a flower garden.

Since it was a place I often went to, I thought she might be there, so I landed in the middle of the flower field and looked for the girl.

How could someone who grew slower than his peers and hadn't even grown wings yet be able to move around so well? Thanks to that, even the back of Jeongguk's head was covered in snow.

As he searched for Hincham, he saw a giant black wing in the middle of a flower field, far from him. Judging by the wings, it couldn't be the young lady. Jeongguk hid his presence and approached.

I've never seen a demon with wings of that size before, except for my brother. Could that be you?

Jeongguk's mouth opened as he tried to summon Hwan, but stopped. Beyond the large wings, which were not yet known to be Hwan, a vaguely familiar figure appeared.

전정국

Jungkook: "Miss...?"

It was definitely Yeonwoo. Who is that person with those wings? Is it Hwan? I told you not to follow strangers.

전정국

jungkook:".....!!!!"

Those wings... were spread out behind Yeonwoo's back. Had they grown in the gap he'd been searching for? Yeonwoo with wings felt unfamiliar. He'd always carried her on his back, but he thought of Yeonwoo flying alone in the sky.

(선대)왕비

(Former) Queen: "...I missed you."

At the faint sound of the young lady's voice, something deep inside Jeongguk felt like it had dropped. She was smiling. Very shyly, her pure white cheeks flushed red, the young lady was smiling as if she was in love.

Hwan-nim. The name that came out of Yeon-woo's mouth was Hwan. It was the name to which Jeong-guk was unusually loyal.

Oh. Here it is again.

It feels like I've lost everything. It feels like I'm falling into an endless abyss.

Time passed, and the rebellion of the Huan was successful.

The weak public sentiment was already fixated on Hwan and treated him like a king, and the petty nobles tended to side with Hwan's growing power.

To put it simply, Hwan's ambition to change the entire demon world has come true.

And Yeon-woo married Hwan and became queen.

A man who was once an orphan from a rural village became the Demon King who ruled the Demon World.

전정국

Jungkook: "Hyung, congratulations."

Jeongguk, who was smiling bitterly, spoke to Hwan, who was smiling next to Yeonwoo.

(선대)마왕

(Predecessor) Demon King: "Thank you, Jeongguk. You followed me and worked hard together."

When I think about Hwan, who had truly cared for young Jeong-guk and raised him until now, I feel infinitely grateful, but when I think about Yeon-woo, my heart aches.

I didn't want to meet anyone. I forcibly tore open the barrier of the demon world, which I didn't even know how to open. I escaped to the human world, a place I had never been before.

The unfamiliar air of the Demon World. The first time I felt human energy. The first time I felt raindrops.

As soon as his feet touched the floor, Jungkook sank to the ground and leaned against the wall. He tried to calm himself down, telling himself not to cry.

박지민

Jimin: "....What are you doing? Get out of the way."

After that, Jungkook shed tears while talking to Jimin, whom he met for the first time.

Jungkook spent hundreds of years in the human world with Jimin, alternating between identities. Sometimes a teacher, sometimes a doctor, sometimes a farmer, sometimes a nobleman. They lived for centuries.

Although my body was in the human world, I was always thinking inside.

He said that he was the only one who could protect the young lady. And as he went on, someone in his subconscious whispered to him, "Kill Hwan."

The day Jeongguk returned to the Demon World, he became Yeonwoo's knight and met for the first time Hwan and Yeonwoo's son, Yunki, who was born while he was away.

Although it resembled Hwan a lot, I could see a little bit of Yeonwoo in it. So I couldn't blame him.

He was getting crazier and crazier and soon he was losing his mind even when Seungwan, Seongjae, and Jimin tried to stop him.

One day, when he came to, he realized that he had killed everyone in the demon world. He had even brutally killed Hwan and Yeonwoo, who were his benefactors and the center of his resentment.

Jungkook ran away, not knowing what was happening. He ran away, clutching his injured wings.

And then, in a situation where he was injured and his memory was blurred, he met the newborn female protagonist.

***(Yeoju City time. Present. Trial)

김남준

Namjoon: "Up to here. This is Jeon Jungkook's past and memories confirmed with the help of the Creator."

Namjoon finished his explanation and sat down next to Yerim. I couldn't believe it. The man I knew would never do something like that.

여주

Me: "Oppa...is that all real..?"

정호석

Hoseok: "The Creator's power is absolute. If that story really came from searching Jeon Jungkook's memories with that power, then of course it's true."

여주

Me: "That's ridiculous...!!"

민윤기

Yoongi: ".....ha."

Yoon-gi was silent for a moment, then laughed in disbelief.

민윤기

Yoongi: "Just because of that one reason, I lost everything I had? Oh, shit, I'm speechless."

김태형

Taehyung: "Hyung..."

민윤기

Min Yoongi: "Don't stop me, Kim Taehyung. I'm thinking of the best."

But if what Kim Namjoon said about the past was true - Yoongi ground his teeth.

민윤기

Yoongi: "Jeon Jungkook will not be executed, but will die by my hands."

The atmosphere in the courtroom grew chaotic. However, the main character of this trial, Jeong-guk, remained utterly cold. Bae Joo-hyun, too, remained silent even though the verdict had already been handed down.

What on earth are you thinking? I just looked down at him with confused eyes. Then, as if sensing my gaze, he looked up at me immediately.

전정국

Jungkook: "It's okay, baby."

He said this to me with his lips, then looked at me with affectionate eyes and smiled. "No, I look like I'm going to die right now, so how can I have the leisure to smile?"

배주현

Joohyun: "I will pass judgment."

It was the moment when the 'creator' Bae Joo-hyun opened his mouth.

***

The familiar yet unfamiliar smell of disinfectant stung my nose. I felt the sting of the multiple Ringer's needles piercing my arm, but I was still in a daze.

Where... am I? I tried to open my heavy eyelids with difficulty, but they wouldn't budge. I was awake, but my body still seemed to struggle to move. What was I doing?

배주현

Joohyun: [You're not in my big picture. I have to kill you.]

박지민

Jimin: "Fuck!!!!!!!"

I opened my eyes without even feeling the pain of my heart being torn apart as I remembered Bae Joo-hyun's mischievous smile as she poked my stomach and chest with a mocking laugh.

Even if I fucking die, I can't die like this.

Jimin, who had been whining like that for a while, came to his senses and looked around. Anyone could tell that it was a hospital, but where did Jeon Jungkook go?

육성재

Seongjae: "Oh, what's going on? You're awake? Anyway, I told you not to die."

Seongjae, who came in through the hospital room window, saw Jimin and spoke in a surprised voice.

박지민

Jimin: "I don't need you. Where did Jeon Jungkook and Yeoju go?"

육성재

Sungjae: "Where? We went to trial. Jeon Jungkook as the defendant, Yeoju as the witness! The Creator is determined and has completely screwed us over-"

Before Sungjae could finish speaking, Jimin grabbed him by the collar and cut him off.

박지민

Jimin: "Just take me with you. I'll take care of the rest."

배주현

Joohyun: [Goodbye, my friend. See you later in the afterlife.]

The afterlife is a mess. I'm the one sending you to hell.

***

Hello, I'm the author. I'm sorry for keeping you waiting for so long.. (Please hit me..ㅠㅠ) I haven't been able to post for a while due to personal reasons. I'll definitely post the next episode by the day after tomorrow. My writing skills aren't great, so you might not understand... but thank you for always reading! I love you♥♥