Goblin: The Lonely and the Great God - Chapter 13

My First Love


Goblin: The Lonely and the Great God - Chapter 13




The Goblin stood there in shock for a long time before time ticked again. The snowflakes that were frozen in time, started to fall down onto the ground.
“Open your eyes.”

The low voice made Eun Tak flinch back a little, but she opened her eyes slowly. The Goblin’s face was cold so she stepped away quickly. 

“I’m sorry. I was getting desperate.”

“What in the world did you just do? Are you insane?”

“Insane? Is that all you can say to a high-schooler who’s trying their best to make you pretty? Do you think that I wanted to do that? Actually, if you think about it, I’m the one at loss here. You might have done that a lot in your 900 year life, but that was my!”

Eun Tak shut her mouth and pushed up her sleeves. She gathered her hands around the sword again, but it was useless. The sword just wouldn’t come into her hands. 

“Why did you stop at my?”

“That was my first kiss! I shouldn’t have used it for something like this. Come back here, let’s try that again.”

The Goblin stepped back as Eun Tak walked towards him. It was Eun Tak who couldn’t pull the sword, but the girl started to get angry at the Goblin instead.

“Come back here! I am going to pull out that sword today. You’re going to make me give everything back, if I can’t. Don’t get in my way. I am going to pull out that sword somehow.”

“Why are you angry at me? This is all your fault. How are you going to somehow pull out the sword?”

“Even after all that, nothing worked, so now there’s only one explanation left.”

The Goblin kept walking backwards until they were back at the door.

“Love. If that is needed, we need to do that too.”

Eun Tak hugged the handbag tightly as she said this. She would rather love the Goblin than lose this bag. The Goblin sighed and glared at the girl angrily. Frightened by the angry glare, Eun Tak lowered her head in shame.

“I’m really sorry. I know you tried really hard; making it snow and stuff.”

The Goblin couldn’t figure out how he was feeling. He had been ready to die. He had said farewell to everyone and he had given most of the things Eun Tak had wanted; he had even made it snow. Truthfully, it was a bit humiliating. And Eun Tak wasn’t his bride…

The snow stopped falling again. White snowflakes gleamed brightly under the moonlight, making Eun Tak breathless, once again. She touched one with the tip of her finger, and it crumbled from her heat.

“What’s going to happen to me now? Where am I going to stay when you kick me out of the house?”

“I’m not going to kick you out!”

The Goblin held the door open for her, and Eun Tak walked back into the house.


*


In the vision he had seen, Eun Tak did not know him. He was certain that he was going to die and go back to nothing; but why was he still here? Had the girl’s future changed, or had her destiny changed?

“I know it shouldn’t be… But it’s nice to be back.” 

The credit card he had given Duk Hwa, the house he had given to the grim reaper, and the scroll he had given to Chairman Yoo. They needed to come back to him. Also, the handbag, the perfume, and the 5000 dollars. They all needed to come back to him. After losing everything, Eun Tak knocked on the Goblin’s door desperately, asking for it back, but he pretended he couldn’t hear her.  

Because of the signed contract, Eun Tak wasn’t kicked out of the house. She wasn’t kicked out of the house, but it might’ve been better if she had. The Goblin was bullying Eun Tak for not being able to pull out his sword. He kept muttering in front of her how there was laundry that needed to be done, and that the house needed cleaning. Compared to her aunt and cousins’ bullying, it was nothing, but the Goblin was just annoying. 

Next to Eun Tak, who was hanging the laundry, the Goblin sat reading his book peacefully. She slapped the towel down hard, and water splashed over his face. 

“I think you did that on purpose.”

“I didn’t.”

“I think you did do that on purpose. Why? Do you not want to do the laundry? Don’t splash water over me like that, and tell me if you have something to complain about.”

“Do I have something to complain about? Oh yes, I do. You’re probably thinking that I’m not your bride or something, but you should think about it one more time. You’re going to regret it big time when you find out that you’ve bullied your poor bride.”

“You are the bride? Then why did you go, ‘why isn’t this working? I can see it, but I can’t touch it,’ yesterday?”

“How could you talk about someone’s pain so sharply?”

The Goblin just stared at the girl’s sorrowful face.

“You said that every moment with me shined! You said that every day with me was a good day! Whether the day was good, bad, or normal!”

“You’re right. It is shining.”

“Told you! …Wait, what?”

“I know it shouldn’t be, but it is shining.”

Eun Tak gulped.

“Then why am I getting bullied?”

“Because this moment shining, and you getting bullied, are two different things.”

“How are they two different things? I make all your days good. Let’s stop all this bullying and find us another relationship. If you don’t want me to be your bride, I could be your girlfriend.”

“No.”

“Then let’s just be friends.”

“No.”

The Goblin was being so annoying, Eun Tak wanted to hit him. 

“Fine, I’ll just be a tenant.”

“Then pay rent. 500 dollars a month. You have to pay your own water and electricity fees.”

The Goblin had once been her ‘groom,’ but now he was nothing better than an enemy.

 

Eun Tak found the grim reaper in his room after the Goblin told her to pay rent. The grim reaper could see that Eun Tak was really angry when she was telling him that she had kissed the Goblin. This time, the grim reaper went to the Goblin’s room, angrily. To him, it all just sounded like a stupid lover’s quarrel. 

“You’re glad that the Missing Soul can’t pull out your sword, aren’t you? You’re glad that you can keep seeing that girl, aren’t you?”

“Why would I be glad that she can’t pull it out? I’ve been waiting 900 years for death!”

“Really? Then I’ll take her. For our friendship. You’re probably sick of her too; kissing you and all.”

The Goblin gasped in surprise. Had Eun Tak told the grim reaper about everything that had happened?

“Our friendship? Do you even know what a friendship is? Do you think encouraging my death is friendship?”

After snorting in disbelief, the Goblin left the room. He was so obviously glad that he hadn’t died. The grim reaper sighed; he was glad too.

In the handbag he had got back from Eun Tak, the Goblin took out the contract he had signed and looked at the last condition. ‘B’ will agree to be summoned every time the first snow comes. ‘A’ will be waiting.’ He really hoped that it was a condition he could keep.

 

*

 

It was the long-awaited Final Exams. The tension in her face could not be hidden as she walked to the bus, on her way to school.

The Goblin waited with her at the bus station. Eun Tak had asked him to tell her the answers to the exams, but the Goblin had refused. She hadn’t really wanted to know the answers; she had just wanted to see whether the Goblin would do something like that for her. 

“You need to respect grand powers like mine. But if you really want… Should I start with languages?”

“Oh, be quiet. I probably already know all the answers.”

Eun Tak quickly stopped the man before he actually told her the answers. The Goblin stroked her head. Because the girl with her backpack on her back and her red scarf on her neck was cute; because he wanted the girl to do well on her exams; because his hand just reached out. The girl froze under his hand. This was the first time they had touched each other after their kiss. Seeing Eun Tak frozen like that, the Goblin noticed what he was doing, and froze too.

The bus stopped and left. They were the only ones left at the bus station.

“It would be more natural if I patted your shoulder too, wouldn’t it?”

The Goblin lowered his hand down to her shoulders. Eun Tak smiled awkwardly.

“Then I will naturally look at my watch to see…”

She screamed.

“Did you just stop time?”

“No.”

“Ohmygosh! I am so dead! It’s already been 30 minutes!”

“Relax. Did you forget? Your boyfriends a goblin.”

Eun Tak raised an eyebrow at the Goblin’s relaxed tone.

“You said that you didn’t want to be my boyfriend.”

“I was lying. Come with me.”

Holding Eun Tak’s wrist, the Goblin ran towards the buildings. The streets were filled with the sound of their fast footsteps, but the only thing Eun Tak could hear was her fast beating heart. Why was it beating fast? Was it because she was running, or was it because the Goblin had said that he had lied? Did that mean that he did want to be her boyfriend? The Goblin opened one of the building doors and Eun Tak could see her school. He waved goodbye and shut the door. 

Out of the door he had just gone through, he came back out. The Goblin turned to look at the door one more time when a bicycle hurtled down the road at a fast speed. The boy riding the bicycle had not expected the Goblin to suddenly come out of the door; he closed his eyes waiting for the crash when the bicycle fell to its side. The Goblin had saved them both. 

The boy stood up dazed; he was sure that they had been about to crash. Glaring at the Goblin, the boy shouted angrily.

“Oh, f*cking hell! Are you blind? Look at where you’re going!”

After climbing back onto the bicycle, the boy rode back down the street. The Goblin stared at the disappearing silhouette of the boy. He had seen the boy’s horrifying future.

 

After taking her exams, Eun Tak rode the bus back home with tired footsteps. It wasn’t because she had ruined her exams or anything, in fact she had done really well. It was because of the families waiting in front of the school gates; congratulating their child that they had done well. No one was there for her today. 

Eun Tak touched her scarf lightly, but that didn’t help today. Today was one of those days when she wished more than ever that her mother was alive. 

“Good afternoon… I’m so tired; I used my brain too much…”

Eun Tak stopped short in front of the doorway. The Goblin, the grim reaper, and Duk Hwa were standing in front of her. There was a cake in the grim reaper’s hands. Duk Hwa quickly lit the candles and asked if she had done well in her exams. Eun Tak nodded. 

“I thought of the idea; the Goblin paid the money; and Duk Hwa went to buy it.”

Seeing the grim reaper hold out the cake proudly, the tears Eun Tak had been pressing down fell down her cheek. The three men looked at each other in confusement; this wasn’t what they had planned. The Goblin quickly walked over to the crying girl.

“Why are you crying? Did you not do well?”

“It’s not that… I’m just so, so happy.”

Eun Tak started to cry out loud like a child. She shouldn’t have been this happy, but now happiness was overwhelming her. The three men looked at each other again. Why was she crying if she was happy? 

“I’m going to make a wish.”

She clasped her hands together and closed her eyes tightly. Eun Tak was thinking inside her head, but the Goblin could hear everything. He smiled. The girl opened her eyes again, and before the Goblin could stop her, she blew out the candles.

He had been standing next to them a moment ago, but now he was standing behind the girl. The grim reaper and Duk Hwa stared at the Goblin, waiting for an explanation, but the Goblin shook his head and looked at Eun Tak.

“Why are you standing there?”

“Huh?”

“Let’s watch the movie. We could eat popcorn too. Your wish has come true.”

Eun Tak ran up the stairs in delight; she had forgotten that the Goblin was her guardian angel.

 

The havoc he created at the movies was unspeakable. After the movie, they went to eat sandwiches but Eun Tak kept looking at the Goblin and sighing. The movie hadn’t even been that scary, but the Goblin had been scared out of his wits. When the zombies came onto the screen, the shaking man had thrown all his popcorn in the air. The Goblin had been a nuisance the whole time. 

Only ordering his sandwich, the Goblin ate very happily in front of Eun Tak. He was already on his second one.

“Do you know how much you’ve eaten? Overeating is bad for your health.”

“Are you okay? How’s your health? Are you feeling okay after eating all those cows?”

Eun Tak pouted her mouth; he never lost a single word.

“Are you going to keep bullying me like this? You give me everything and then take it all back. That handbag was pretty; it was my first time seeing 5000 dollars! If you were going to take it all back anyway, you shouldn’t have given it to me in the first place!”

“I’ll keep that in mind for next time.”

“And it was really weird. You gave us all those presents as if, as if you weren’t going to be with us anymore. You told me to use them when I was older, when you could have just given them to me when I was older. Duk Hwa got the credit card, the grim reaper got the house. You gave everyone exactly what they wanted. Like a farewell gift.”

The Goblin placed his sandwich back onto the table. Everything was so true, he had nothing to say. 

“I’m right, aren’t I? Were you going to leave us once I pulled out your sword?”

“I think I told you this before. That I needed to get ready to go further away.”

“To where? Europe? Canada? Do you still want to leave us?”

A place that was further than the place he was supposed to go. How far away was that?

“No. I don’t want to. But if the real bride appears, I have no choice in that matter.”

The real bride. Those words hit Eun Tak hard. She wasn’t his ‘real’ bride. Now it wasn’t just the Goblin telling her that she wasn’t the bride; there was no excuse or explanation left. 

“Are you going to leave? With the real bride?”

“Will you let me?”

“I’m never going to let you go, so you’ll just have to leave me here. I’m going to leave this house before the real bride appears, just leave when I’m not around. So I won’t know that you’re gone.”

The Goblin swallowed his bitter spit. She still didn’t know where he was leaving. She also didn’t know how happy he was because she wasn’t his bride. Eun Tak was never going to know.

 

*

After finishing her university entrance exams, Eun Tak walked around the school campus. It already seemed like she was a student at this school.

The Goblin stood in front of the university and waited for Eun Tak to come out. A big flower bouquet was in his hands. 

Seeing Eun Tak walking his way, the Goblin smiled and walked over, but Eun Tak was looking at the school baseball team. Everything about the school felt welcoming. Whoosh, a baseball came flying her way. She covered her face with her hands and flinched back but she could feel no pain. Someone was hugging her. 

It was a boy wearing a baseball uniform. After checking his face, Eun Tak smiled.

“Tae Hee?”

“... Eun Tak? Wow, it’s been so long. I couldn’t recognise you.”

“Oh, yeah. I’ve changed a lot. I’ve been through a lot…”

“Yeah. You got prettier. You’ve grown taller too.”

Tae Hee ruffled Eun Tak’s hair like he had done when they were younger. Her tidy hair had become a mess, but Eun Tak smiled happily. They had known each other when they were very young, although they had suddenly cut ties when she had gone off to live with her auntie. 

When he was still in primary school, Tae Hee always went to the automatic baseball thrower and practiced; Eun Tak had always watched the ‘cool’ boy from far away. 

“Do you go to this school? I took the entrance exam today.”

The boy in the baseball uniform smiled. He had sometimes wondered how the girl who had watched him from afar was living, and here she was, as pretty as ever.

From far away, the Goblin was watching the happy reunification. Something dropped onto the ground. It was the flower bouquet. 

“Is it that guy? That annoying sir…”

The clear skies suddenly turned cloudy, and raindrops started to fall, making people run under cover.

 

When Eun Tak had come back home after her part-time job, the Goblin was eating ice cream by himself on the dining table. It was the ice cream she liked, so Eun Tak ran over to get a bite, but the Goblin turned his head away from her and stuffed the sweet substance into his mouth. Eun Tak sighed; it had rained today.

“Fine. Tell me. Why were you sad? Why were you depressed?”

The hand that had ruffled her hair annoyed him. And Eun Tak had been shy. Everything annoyed him. He should have just let that Tae Hee boy keep playing piano. If he had, the two would never have met like this today.

Eun Tak was watching Tae Hee like usual, but today something kept getting into her vision. A man was hitting at the automatic baseball thrower and he was very bad indeed. That man had made her lose the flower in her hand by losing control of the baseball bat and making it fly towards her. 

She probably couldn’t remember it, but that man was the Goblin. The bold boy, Tae Hee looked down on the Goblin and started a bet with him. It was obvious who was going to win the ‘grant my wish’ bet, but the Goblin - who loved bets - played with him anyway. The Goblin had also been Tae Hee’s guardian angel; he had lost the bet on purpose.

Tae Hee had asked him to get rid of his piano. He really didn’t want to play piano, but his mother wanted him to. When he had gone home that day, the lounge felt empty. His piano was gone, and his mother was on the phone. A burglar had come into their house that day and stolen one thing: the huge piano. Thanks to the Goblin, Tae Hee could play baseball instead of piano. 

“Do you really not know why?”

“Why? Because I can’t pull out your sword? How is that my fault? I tried my best and, wait a second… Is that sword even pullable? We kissed but it didn’t work; we confessed our love to each other but it didn’t work. What more was I supposed to do?”

“You didn’t mean it at all. Your ‘I love you’ was a very fake ‘I love you’.”

“You say that like you had all the meaning in the world in your ‘I love you’. Your ‘I love you’ was a very pressured ‘I love you’. There’s a reason why people say that you have a rubbish personality.”

“You say that like you have a really good personality!”

“I’m young.”

“What about being young? I’m not getting any older, but you are going to. I’m always going to be this young and beautiful.”

“Young? You’re not young. Beautiful? I learnt what beautiful was today and you’re not it. You see, I met my first love again.”

“First, what?”

“Are you good at baseball? My first love, Tae Hee, is really good!”

“Have you ever seen me play baseball? You’re in for a big shock.”

“Yeah, sure. Well I’ll be off then, to be shocked.”

 

That night, Eun Tak creeped into the Goblin’s room and checked the handbag, the perfume, and the 5000 dollars whereabouts. She had creeped into the room to change the contract paper. Thinking that everything was done, she was about to leave when the Goblin caught her red-handed. He even noticed the different contract paper. 

Eun Tak saw the book she had once lent the Goblin and started to shout at him. She had only lent it to him, but why did he still have it? With the poem book in hand, she quickly rushed out of the room. 

Back in her room, Eun Tak opened the book she had gotten back. What if he had ruined the book because it wasn’t his?

“If there’s a single stain…”

She flipped the pages with angry fingers. On some pages there were underlinings that she had not done, and there was a page where a line of the poem was written again. It was a poem called ‘The Physics of Love.’  He had even scribbled on someone else’s book. Eun Tak looked at the line he had written again.

‘It was my first love.’

The last line of the poem. First, love. The Goblin had lived for 939 years, obviously he had a first love when she had lived 19 years and had a first love. 

When Eun Tak thought about the Goblin’s first love, all she could feel was annoyance. If she had been born a bit earlier… 

 

*

 

The first time they met, he had cried; the second time they met, he had been flustered because Sunny had asked his name. Now it was their third meet, and he had made up a name called Woo Bin Kim. He wanted to seem like a normal person, so he had practiced with Eun Tak. Like other normal couples, the two sat in front of each other at a cafe. The grim reaper became dazzled again by her beauty. 

Sunny was dazzled too. A man who had cried the first time they had met; a man who always disappeared; a man who wouldn’t even tell her his name; a man who was so pale and white; a man who was so confusing. When she had finally figured out his name, she had asked for his business card, and he had disappeared again. But they had met again; his straight, white face and his big, round eyes made her heart flutter again. Had she always been this soft-hearted to good-looking men? 

“My birthday is at the beginning of November according to the Lunar Calendar. My zodiac star is Sagittarius. My blood type is AB. I am single. I live in a leased house. I will get a car if I need one. I’ve got a clean record. I don’t have a business card yet. I missed you.”

Seeing this man, the only thing she could do was smile. She was certain that it wasn’t just because of his looks.

“My gosh… Me too.”

The grim reaper smiled brightly, making Sunny smile too.

“This is so stupid. Are you happy? After ignoring all my calls like that?”

“I thought you wouldn’t like men without business cards…”

“Then you could have called me and told me that you didn’t have a business card. You could have texted me, even.”

“I will keep that in mind for next time. Do you have a business card?”

“My face is my business card. See, it says ‘Pretty person’,”

“Oh… Yes, it does… I would really like to take one.”

Sunny bursted out laughing again; he was a really strange and clumsy man. She couldn’t figure out whether he was just truthful or if he had thought up these pick-up lines. 

“We always have a good time whenever we meet. Let’s just keep getting closer like this. Get to know each other a bit more. What do you like?”

“You.”

“...You’re driving me crazy. Not that. Do you have any hobbies or something?”

“You.”

Sunny stared at the brightly smiling man sitting in front of her, but he just kept smiling.

“Your unpredictable movements are more entertaining than a drama. Your movements make me imagine the future, but all my stupid predictions seem to be wrong. This new hobby of mine seems like the gods plan but it also seems like the gods mistake. That is my hobby these days.”

Hearing the man who always stuttered, speak so fast, made Sunny a bit anxious. Was he buddhist?

“Why are you so good at speaking suddenly? Do you have a religion?”

“Oh… That’s what I left out. Then I’ll call you again when I have my religion ready…”

The sudden farewell flustered Sunny, and she jumped up and stopped the man. Whenever she asked a question, he couldn’t answer, and whenever he couldn’t answer, he disappeared. 

“You don’t need one! You don’t need to have a religion!”

The man sat down again in front of her. 

It was the man sitting in front of her who was doing the unpredictable movements, but it seemed that it wasn’t just her that found the other unpredictable. 

 

*

 

After seeing Tae Hee and Eun Tak eating ice cream together at the ice cream shop, the Goblin started to worry evertime she wasn't in front of her that Eun Tak might be with Tae Hee. It was nearly dinner time, but she still hadn’t come home. Was she out meeting that Tae Hee again? The Goblin walked around the house with annoyance. Even he thought that he was acting a bit weird. This was jealousy and jealousy was what ‘real boyfriends’ did. Why was he jealous? In the end, he went out to find her.

She wasn’t at the chicken shop; she wasn’t at the street she always walked by. After searching for quite a time, the place he found Eun Tak was a wedding hall. The Goblin knew that Eun Tak had increased the number of part-time jobs since her Final Exams were over, but he didn’t know that she was doing a wedding ceremony job too. He certainly didn’t know that the job was the performance part. 

With the pretty voice she always called him, Eun Tak was now singing blessings to the couple. The lyrics touched his heart. If we meet again even after time passes; if our love is really destiny; I want to be your miracle. 

She was a pretty child. She was also a lady who was about to turn 20. His eyes caught hers. 

 

“You’re good at singing.”

The kind compliment made Eun Tak smile. She wasn’t lonely on the way back home. 

“Kind of. But how did you know I was here?”

“Just try running away; you’re always in the palm of my hand. What about the chicken shop? Did you get fired?”

“No, I’m still doing that job too. I like doing wedding hall part-time jobs; it’s always strange to see people getting married.”

“What’s so strange about getting married?”

“It’s just… Oh, I don’t have a mum who will light those candles for me. Oh, I don’t have a dad who will walk down the aisle with me. I don’t have any friends so there won’t be any need to take photos; no friends, means no congratulatory money… Just things like that. It’s silly, isn’t it?”

The Goblin frowned. This girl always made him feel bad - whatever he asked - she always had thousands of sad stories to tell him. 

“That’s why I was so desperate to be your bride. I wanted to have a family. I thought you had come to be my family; I thought it was all part of my destiny…”

As Eun Tak started to tell the Goblin her deepest thoughts and feeling; a tear dropped from her eyes, and she quickly wiped it away. 

“Why are you crying? Are you trying to make me feel sorry?”

“It’s not that. Truthfully, I’m the one who should feel sorry. You see… I’m really sorry I couldn’t pull out your sword… I kept wanting to tell you this, but we keep fighting these days, I never had the chance. You can burn up that contract; it’s not like I had use to you from the beginning.”

She smiled apologetically. Crying and smiling was ugly, but for some reason, she looked pretty. It was him who was ugly. He didn’t want her to cry anymore. She kept crying these days; it was all probably because of him. 

“I know this isn’t the time to say this, but I’ve been working a lot these days; I’ve been getting ready to leave. Can you just wait a little until I leave the house? For instance, you could be a bit nicer to me, and stop bullying me. Could you give me a 50% student discount on your bullying?” 

Even when she was sad, even when she was happy, even when the street lamp was dim, she shone brightly. He felt sorry for her, and she felt sorry for him. Everything had been and was a first to him. 

The Goblin opened his arms wide and hugged her. The sudden movement flustered Eun Tak, but the Goblin just rested his chin on her head. 

“Sorry. No discounts.”

The girl in his arms smiled. 

“What about 45%?”

He smiled too. Once again, he was glad that he was able to stay alive. He was glad he was able to see this lovely girl once again. Eun Tak looked up at him, smiling, but suddenly the Goblin’s face became white with terror. 

The sword had started to ring again. The sword in his chest rang; giving him more pain than he had ever felt in his life. The Goblin fell to his knees, his hands trying to grab the pain. 

“What’s wrong? Is the sword hurting you?”

Eun Tak could feel the sword ringing too. She reached her hand out to him subconsciously when something hit her hand.

“I, I can touch the sword!”

The handle of the sword was in her hands. She was the Goblin’s bride. This was the only thing she had to do for him. Eun Tak grabbed the handle with two hands.

“Wait a second, I’ll pull it out for you.”

With all the strength in her fingers, she started to pull out the sword. Little by little, the sword started to come out of him. The Goblin’s face creased with pain; this pain was worse than when the sword had been thrusted into him. Noticing that the sword was moving, Eun Tak tried to pull it out completely.

“No!” The Goblin roared. 

He pushed away Eun Tak forcefully. The girl who had been concentrating on pulling out the sword, suddenly got blasted into the air towards the streets. On the street she was headed towards, a huge truck was driving past.

Before her body hit the truck, the Goblin, who had seen what he had done, wrapped himself around her. The two rolled onto the ground. The Goblin hugged the unconscious girl tightly in his arms. 

‘The gods were right. The future I saw was right.’

Eun Tak was his bride. But Eun Tak was too lovely to be his bride. So he had wished that she wasn’t his bride. 

‘This girl will now give me death, and end the curse of immortality.’

He could feel the girl’s warmth in his arms.

‘A human’s lifespan is only 100 years. What am I trying to gain from staying alive? Is it this life, or is it you?’

Her heavy eyelids opened slowly. In her blurry vision, she could see the Goblin’s face. A tear dropped from her closed eyes. 

‘... I think it’s you.’

The pain he felt now was different from the pain the sword had given him. This pain was sadness.



    (This is a translated version of "Goblin: The Lonely and the Great God." Written by Eun Sook Kim and Soo Yeon Kim.)

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  1. good job!!! i felt emotional while reading...its brings back memories of the k-drama

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    1. Thank you!!! I'm writing this while thinking of the k-drama too!!

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  2. Jealousy explodes and Eun Tak nearly pulls out the sword in Chapter 13... Comment your thoughts and feelings!! Give me feedback too ^^

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