The Place Where I Was Sold as a Slave Was the Imperial Palace

＜ Caught ＞

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I thought the night was the time of thieves.

But that might be a story only possible on Earth.

This world is very dark.

Looking outside through the wooden shutters, there was only pitch darkness, not a single light leaking through.

Looking into the darkness, I couldn’t tell where I was right now.

Whether it’s like today, or whether this world is like that, there are no moon or stars in the sky. I couldn’t even tell where the boundary between heaven and earth was.

In such darkness, even a thief would not be able to move without a light.

Jeong Jin-young closed the wooden shutters and hooked the small bolts attached to the inside.

Suddenly, the gaze I felt during the day came to mind, and I sighed.

First of all, the front door was blocked with a chair and table, but the house was old and broken, so the second floor windows and back door could not be properly locked.

In the first place, except for one wooden shutter, there is a front door and a back door, and none of the doors are properly locked.

So were the windows.

It seems that someone forcibly broke in and destroyed everything.

There were only a few tables and chairs left, as if someone had stolen them, so the only thing left was to block the front door.

Reluctantly, the back door leaned against a broken wooden plank.

If you push the door from the outside in, it will become a support and prevent intrusion, but if you push it with strong force, you won’t know.

If anyone had an axe, it would be a rat in a poison.

The windows couldn’t be blocked, so I scattered pieces of broken wood in the middle of the stairs going down instead.

Even if you are asleep, if someone comes down and steps on it, it will make a sound.

If you do well, you may lose your balance and fall down the stairs.

Well, in any case, it would be difficult for anyone to break in in the dark, so there should be some time to rest.

It’s not like the people here are exceptionally good at night vision, unlike Earthlings.

Recalling that the nanny’s eyes were wide as she watched her actions yesterday, Jeong Jin-young let out a small sigh.

‘It would have been nice if I was at least ten years old.’

There’s really nothing you can do with a four-year-old’s body.

* * *

I don’t know how much I slept.

Jung Jin-young woke up in the arms of his nanny.

I don’t know why I opened my eyes, but I could tell that it was because something was wrong.

It is still dark inside the building.

Jung Jin-young listened quietly in the dark.

I heard the creaking of trees from above.

It was some time after waking up.

Maybe he tried to enter through the front door, but when the door wouldn’t open, he headed upstairs.

Jinyoung moved a small hand to cover the nanny’s mouth.

She must have been quite tired, and even after doing so, the nanny did not wake up.

“nurse! nurse!”

When he called in a low voice, the nanny started to move.

The nanny, who was startled and tried to make a noise, tightly shuts her mouth.

Then, perhaps realizing that her mouth was blocked, the nanny swallowed a gulp and quietly hugged him.

After confirming that the nanny had calmed down, she quietly removed her hand.

“I hear sounds from upstairs.”

“…”

The nanny gropes the floor and finds a knife she has kept by her side.

kiik… kiik…

The sound of stepping on wooden boards was heard again.

I thought it might not be one.

Jung Jin-young held a nail wrapped in cloth in his hand.

“Bocchan, stick to the wall.”

The nanny spoke softly as she stood up.

“huh. Watch out, nanny. When they come down, open the window.”

“…”

The nanny seems to be staring down at him without answering.

My mind was a little nervous.

Perhaps the nanny had thought something was wrong since he had locked down the door last night.

The nanny spoke in a low voice after a while.

“If the window is open, a little light will come in. thank you.”

“···huh. If you step on the piece of wood placed on the stairs, it will open right away. Watch out, nanny.”

“Yes, don’t worry.”

I want to think what if I thought it was possessed by a ghost or a demon.

‘Couldn’t they be going through something like a demon hunt or taking them to the priest for an exorcism ritual?’

be nervous

But if I keep my mouth shut now, I’ll be killed by tramps and thieves before I hunt demons.

‘Should I run away once this is over?’

If the nanny notices anything strange, let’s leave immediately.

Jung Jinyoung sighed and groped the floor.

It almost crawls and sticks to the wall, then moves little by little.

When I finally reached what I thought was a window, I quietly unlatched the wooden shutters.

I was worried that there might be people outside, but there wasn’t.

Jeong Jin-young closed the shutters again and quietly waited for them to come down.

The tension put strength in the hand holding the nail.

After a while, the sound of the door on the second floor being opened was heard.

Because it is quiet, it rings loud enough to pass by.

Perhaps the intruders were also startled, and it seemed that they did not move for a moment.

But after a while, I heard the men talking in silence.

“I bet you wouldn’t hear this and run away, would you?”

“You must be sleeping. Besides, it looks like you have something piled up on the door, so you won’t be able to get out that easily.”

“Keukkeu, a woman…. It’s been a while since I’ve been relaxing.”

“Let’s hurry up and stop talking nonsense. This will brighten me up.”

“okay.”

It seems that there are only two men.

It was quiet, so even though it was a small sound, it sounded smart.

Men seem to be coming down the stairs.

The creaking of trees echoed through the darkness.

A creaking sound gradually descended, and suddenly a man rolled down the stairs with a clunky sound.

It is now.

When Jeong Jin-young opened the window, the faint dawn light penetrated the building.

It was still dark inside the building, but I could see the man’s shape vaguely.

One was on the floor, the other in the middle of the stairs.

The nanny’s thick knife, which had been prepared in advance, landed on the man’s body as he fell to the floor.

“Ahh!”

“aaagh!”

At the same time as a scream erupted from the man’s mouth, the person on the stairs also shouted loudly, as if surprised.

But the next moment, the nanny, who was about to pull out the knife, hesitated.

Unlike a sword that just cuts or stabs, what Nanny is holding is a square-shaped knife used for slaughtering livestock.

The knife cut the fallen man’s throat halfway and stuck to the floor, seemingly unable to be removed.

Blood gushed out of the man’s neck. The man screamed and tried to put his hand on his neck.

As the man struggled, blood splattered in all directions and onto the nanny’s hands.

When your hands are bloody and slippery, it becomes even more difficult to pull out the knife.

While the nanny panicked, the man on the stairs raised his club as if he had come to his senses.

Jeong Jin-young ran towards it as if rolling.

But it’s a little late.

The man jumped down the stairs and hit the nanny on the back with a stick.

The nanny screamed and fell to the floor.

However, the place where I fell was not good.

It was the place where the knife was stuck.

The nanny’s face was stuck between the floor and the blade, and blood gushed out.

“Damn it b*tch!”

The man climbed onto the nurse’s back.

He grabbed his hair, lifted it up, and slammed his head on the floor.

The nanny was screaming and screaming and screaming.

But the man did not stop. He continued to grab the nanny by the head and hit it.

The red blood gradually spread throughout the area.

Jeong Jin-young ran, but the man didn’t even pay attention, perhaps because he was a four-year-old child.

Jung Jinyoung gritted his teeth.

‘You shouldn’t be excited. You have to be calm, calm.’

If you fail, it’s over, you only get one chance.

Jung Jinyoung took a deep breath.

He clung to the man’s back, holding a nail in his right hand.

It is located close to the man’s right shoulder.

Jung Jin-young wrapped his left hand around the man’s neck and held out his right hand.

The man still didn’t know that Jeong Jin-young had a nail in his hand.

It must have been because the room was dark and he hadn’t thought that a child would do such a thing.

Otherwise, there would have been no chance for Jeong Jin-young to stab the man.

“You bastard! I can’t get out of here…”

The moment the man turned his head and shouted, Jung Jin-young pulled his right hand and took the picture.

As intended, the nail was driven into the man’s right eye.

A tingly feeling ran through the nails.

As the man screamed and waved his hands, the tiny body of Jeong Jin-young was thrown helplessly to the floor.

“Ugh!”

Jung Jinyoung let out a small scream.

My whole body hurts from hitting the floor.

But it’s not over yet.

Jeong Jin-young stood up, enduring the pain.

Fortunately, the nail fell right nearby.

The man was struggling and crawling with one hand covering his eyes.

I’m trying to get out of this building.

Jeong Jin-young ran straight ahead and poked a nail into the man’s ear hole.

“Quaaagh!

The man screamed and rolled across the floor.

Jung Jin-young ran to the nanny.

The nanny was lying on her face and passed out. still bleeding There was so much blood, I couldn’t tell exactly where it was hurt.

“nurse! Wake!”

Jeong Jin-young called her several times, but she didn’t open her eyes again.

It’s still breathing, but it won’t come to life.

Even in the eyes of Jeong Jin-young, who was unfamiliar with medicine, it seemed clear.

‘sh*t!’

Can not help it.

Jeong Jin-young untied the nanny’s clothes and untied the long cloth bag that was worn around her waist.

It’s a long piece of cloth that the nanny taught me that it contained money and gold.

Jung Jin-young lifted his shirt and wrapped it around his stomach.

There was no one to see.

Of the two men, the man who had been cut in the neck was already dead, and the other was in a semi-faint state from the pain.

After looking to see if the cloth bag wrapped around her belly was exposed, she picked up a nail and wiped it on the nanny’s clothes.

And that was the moment I was about to go out the door.

Suddenly, a voice came from outside.

“Here!”

“Yes, yes, that aristocratic woman and child must have gone in here.”

It was a big deal.

‘These guys didn’t just break in.’

It seems that these two men took on the role of surveillance while the party went to inform. And he must have thought of enjoying it for a while before the soldiers arrived.

Jung Jin-young quickly turned around.

Going out the back door is unreasonable. Since it is blocked by buildings, you have to climb up the heavenly building, but if you are an adult, it was impossible for Jung Jin-young’s body.

Then there is only one way left, to go out through the second floor window. It’s easier anyway to jump down than to climb up.

Jeong Jin-young heads for the stairs, but the door slams and shakes.

Someone shouted from the wooden shutters.

“I have a child!”

The slam of the door grew louder.

The situation was hopeless.

Even if they managed to get out through the second floor window, it would be difficult to escape unless they were caught.

Still, being human seems inevitable.

Even though I knew I couldn’t escape, my body was running madly up the stairs without permission.

But just as he climbed the last flight of stairs, someone grabbed his arm.

“Got it!”

He was a sloppy-dressed man.

Not a soldier, perhaps an ally of the invader.

The man grabbed Jeong Jin-young’s arm tightly and went down the stairs.

“Damn them! You were trying to have fun without me. Bad children.”

Muttering to himself, the man glanced down at the intruders.

Suddenly, the man who saw the nanny swallowed his saliva.

However, the man continued past the nanny and the intruders and headed for the door.

This man seems to have entered through the window.

There were still piles of chairs and tables at the door.

The man removed the chairs one by one with the other hand, holding on to Jinyoung with one hand to prevent him from escaping.

When there was only one chair left, the door burst open and two soldiers entered.

“What is this again?”

The soldier murmured in amazement and went to the nanny’s side.

When there was no response even when kicked, the soldier muttered that it was not funny.

“Sheesh, are you dead?”

The soldier returned to the door and looked at Jeong Jin-young’s face, then frowned.

“It’s messy.”

Another soldier shouted at the man who caught Jeong Jin-young with a stern face.

“This bastard! Where do you think this guy is noble? How dare you lie to us and take our money!”

The man trembled and quickly fell to the floor.

“Oh, no. Seriously, this kid and that woman aren’t common people. Ooh, we know when we see it. Look at this child’s hand. It’s clean. Commoners are not like this.”

“…”

The soldier takes Jeong Jin-young’s hand and looks at it carefully.

The two soldiers met their eyes, then looked at the tramp again.

“Don’t lie! You filthy dicoquaria! If it doesn’t disappear immediately, I’ll kill you!”

“Ha, but, if you find a noble, they’ll give you money…”

A tramp man protests, but one suddenly draws a knife. He threw the knife at the man.

The soldiers giggled as the tramp fell forward screaming in agony.

“You idiot!”

After saying a word like chewing and spitting, the soldier spat on the tramp’s corpse.

And the soldiers dragged Jinyoung and started walking.

Jung Jin-young ran, almost dragging himself on the floor.

＜ caught ＞ end