The Bloody General Sword

Vol 10

You know the story of a king who became a foam? That's the story I heard from the people around me.

"Could the general go there?" matsue asked as she held onto her chin.

"For what?" hatachi said, he continued while imagining something and said.

"I still want to live a long time, I don't want to be a foam" he said, shaking his head.

"Stop Hatachi of your words!" snapped Rui. Since then Rui just fell silent while holding each other and thinking, only this time he spoke and was angry.

"Aren't you worried about the general?" rui was upset.

Hatachi widened his eyes looking at Rui angrily.

"Whatchu mean? You think you're the only one who thinks about generals?"

"Enough!" otaru mediates.

"Don't fight, save your energy, tomorrow we'll go to the Kyusu river."

The five Akai did not sleep that night, events like this have only happened since the many wars they went through.

At the time when the general took control of the war in Koshiro, the general suggested to the king to expand outside of the Koshiro kingdom of Hanjang, the land of gangseng, do not know why the general wanted to go to Hangjang, his place now.

Before the sun rose, the five Akai had headed towards the Kyusu river, they stepped carefully, Hatachi jumped up and down not wanting to be hit by a single speck of water onto his clothes.

Arriving by the river they saw a little boy sleeping on the rocks and beside him lay a long black sword which they knew very well.

Rui knelt down to take the sword, followed by Tutsima who looked at the boy who was still asleep on the rocks.

"Here, this is the general's sword" said Rui.

"Why is the general's sword here? what really happened."

Otaru observed the fainted child, then he remembered the son and father they had helped while in the market.

"Rui, isn't he the kid in the market?" Rui finally glanced at the child while frowning looking at him.

"Yes, you're right he's the kid who was in the market when we helped him" Rui said.

"No, he fainted, we have to wake him up, this kid must know something about the general" Tutsima said.

Rui looked at the sword in his hand, then he looked at the flowing Kyusu river calmly, clasping tightly onto the general's sword and unwilling to justify what was in his head at the moment.

Tutsima lifted Geem up on a flatter rock and laid him there, suddenly Geem coughed and began to open his eyes. The five Akai looked at Geem, then Hatachi and Otaru were sitting beside him.

Geem choked on the water coming down his throat, and Tutsima sat him down.

"You okay?" Geem regained his senses, he looked around him, then looked at the people before him.

Otaru asked Geem.

"What's your name?"

The frightened Geem replied slowly.

"G-geem my name. Mm Lee geem ling," he said timidly.

"You must not fear Geem" said Otaru.

"Why are you in this place? And the sword that's beside you, do you know it?"

Geem recalled the incident that happened to him with his father, and then he started talking.

"We .. we were pursued by Ochtosk's army, then my father, father ...." Geem shed his tears.

"My father was hit by a lot of arrows until he was killed, they then chased me to the river Kyusu." Geem wiped his tears with his hands. The Akai listened carefully.

"But I was helped by a brother, he helped me in the market."

Otaru gasped in surprise when listening to Geem's words

'There was a woman who resisted the thug attack while in the market, could she be a general? But, not necessarily he's a general, it's impossible.' Otaru thought to deny it.

"Then where's that brother who helped you, Geem?" ask Tutsima. Geem took a breath and came back crying.

"Hik hik hik ... That brother, he had changed, he turned into foam."