A man who is prime minister of Busan is standing at the bank of the river holding a wooden box.

" I'm so sorry your royal highness. I know this is unfair to you.......but it's for the sake of the kingdom." he said in his mind while looking at the little life sleeping peacefully in the wooden box with knife on the top of her.

"but we have to sacrifice you" while pitying her.

He dropped the wooden box into the water. The wooden box drowned into the water and the depth of the river.

"You son of a bastard get out!!" A man said while throwing him outside.

"Aaahh" The boy winced in pain.

"Life is already hard enough in lean times and we still have to keep a cowpoke that never get full!! you and your scourge sister are bringing all the bad luck to master's house!!!" the man said while coming towards the kid. The kid was covered with bruises and cuts.

"What the f*ck are you looking at!! get out with this disgraceful thing!!! NOW!"

"aaaahhhh" the boys screams while running towards the small sack like cloth.

The small kid sits resting on the wooden wall.

"In the end, my sister still couldn't survive this winter." he said in his mind while looking at his sister.

"I will bring you to the holy river. So that you can reincarnate in a wealthy family in your next life." He said looking at his sister as his tears were falling like river itself.

He go to a shop.

"It is said that if one is sunk in the holy river after he dies, he will live a good life in his reincarnation." He said while buying something.

"I can't afford a coffin, I can only buy you a wooden box." He says to his already dead little sister. His shoe torn from his toes. It was hurting him as his foot was getting on small rocks.

"Ah" He winced in pain.

He comes in front of the holy river.

"This is it." He says and start pushing the wooden box into the water.

SUDDENLY,

"Caw caawww!!" A group of crows came flying and took the wooden box and fly away.

"No." He says panicking. " Don't eat my sister." He says trying to reach them.

He falls into the river. "No." He get chokes by the water.

He go deep and see a wooden box there.

"There she is." He says in mind. He takes the box swim up to the surface and place it on the bank of river.

"Let me take a look at you for one more time. " He says while opening it. "Just one time." his tears threatening to fall.

He opens it aaaannnndddd he is left astonished. "Awww" A cute little babygirl says and had her hands in air signing him to pick her up.

"Yah!" The cute baby says. He took her with him and tie her at his back as she is asleep.

"Dear god, are you giving me a second sister?" He says in mind while staring at the sky as it is almost evening. "But..... I can barely feed myself...."

Then he starts walking towards the village.

"I have to survive! I have to raise up my sister! Both of us will live!" The young boy says in his mind as he walks in the village.

"The box is well made, and her clothes are also fancy, but there's only 4 coins and a knife in it." He says in his mind while looking at the coins on his palm.

"At last it's enough to buy her some goat milk, we better survive tonight first." He thought.

"It's Ji min! We found him!" People say as they saw him buying goat milk from a shop.

"You bastard! How dare you steal money from the butler! You're a dead man!" One of them says to Ji min while pointing a finger at him.

"You must have stolen the gold from Dabasi too! Come back with us." He further continuous.

Ji min takes the goat milk and runs from there.

"Stop! You disgraceful brat!" A man shout while chasing him.

" I can't be caught!" Ji min says in mind.

He runs faster saying in his mind:

"They will beat me to death! And my sister too!"

He puts his hand on his back preventing any damage happening to the baby and jumps the boundary of the village.

"Should we follow him there?" Man says to the others.

"He got into the prairie at night, he won't survive tonight, let's go!" Other one says and they walk back to the village.

//On the other hand, Ji min//

"Awooo." A sound of wolf is heard in the night. The moon shining in the sky along with the stars.

The baby is drinking milk laying in Ji min's lap.

After drinking the milk, the baby makes a burping sound, that means she had digest it.

Ji min put her aside on the cloth and he make fire stable using a thin branch of wood like a stick.

The baby crawl a little and says:

"Aga" Baby babbling. Ji min see her and takes her happily in his arms.

"What's waiting for us next..." He thought in his mind while staring at the babygirl smiling.

They both fell asleep.

//Next morning//

A lady bug flies in the grass and sits on Ji min's little finger.

Ji min wakes up when the baby starts getting on him while sobbing.

"What's the matter..." He says as he sit straight.

He sees at the cloth and see poop then he took the baby and the cloth and cleaned them.

After some time, he takes the now dried cloth and smiles while seeing the baby putting her foot in her mouth. The baby looks so fucking cute.

Suddenly,

He hears a rustle sound and he sees a man pointing an arrow towards the baby's direction.

.

He quickly takes the baby and save her.

"Nice try." An unknown man says as he sees him.

Ji min looks up to see a group of men on horses and one in the front their boss.

...// Author's POV //...

" Are they bandits of this prairie?!? " Jimin says in mind as he see them sitting on their horses right in front of him.

" Third master, let me kill these two kids, we can make some cured meat out of them. " The man with him says while holding an arrow.

Third master turn his face towards him and glance at him.

" I can herd! I can do anything! Please don't kill me. " Jimin says while panicking and holding onto his sister tighter.

He continues.

" I eat only once a day, if you could just spare some food for my sister. " Jimin says to the third master.

Third master look at him and says to the men with him.

" Take them with us, alive. "

He with his group start marching.

" Follow up you little bastard, or I will kill you with my arrow. " The man from earlier says to Jimin.

Jimin steadily stands up with his sister at his back and

" I have to catch up with them, otherwise I would be killed! " he thought to himself.

He start running following them barefooted.

His feet start being bruised as walk on the grassy land.

It was so painful.

*gasp*

He gasps due to unbearable pain in his feet.

After walking sometime they slow down a bit...

" Why did they slow down? " Jimin thought to himself.

When they stop at the mountain Jimin glance behind and

*phew*

He releases a sigh of relief when they stop but...

when he look at front his eyes widened.

He sees a mountain of skulls and bones here and there.

" This must be the entrance of the bandit village. " He says in mind as he look around.

" Ugh! " The word he says in his mind.

As he look at his feet bending forward sitting on the ground holding his bruised feets.

The third master get off from his horse and look at Jimin who is sitting on the ground while holding his bruised feets.

*phew*

He sighed in relief.

While standing, his hand on his waist and still looking at Jimin.

" Now this is right, It's his first time to the skeleton mountain, I would be surprised if he didn't react anyhow. " He says in mind.

......................

The skeleton mountain is a natural impregnable fortress. Also the paradise of bandits.

However, the biggest concern of the skeleton mountain is that, no child was born here.

The big master kidnapped dozens of women, more than 10 of them got pregnant, but none of them had their child born.

Big master's favourite girl, the one who he kidnapped from a caravan of merchants also losts her child.

......................

" Ba, find a place for him, he will be herding horses with you. " Third master says to the horse herder.

" Yes third master. " The horse herder replies while bowing.

The third master signal Jimin to follow the horse herder.

He starts walking and Jimin follows him.

While walking they have pass the through a bridge and then they enter a cave.

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