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CHAPTER 28 - Searching For Balls
It wasn't just one person who came in.
One by one, about seven men in black clothes entered.
One of them was carrying a lady-in-waiting and roughly lowered her to the floor.
The lady-in-waiting was wearing a yellow comb, so Sango guessed she's a member of the food club.
She was probably threatened into giving directions.
The lady-in-waiting seemed to be injured. Blood was dripping from her forehead onto the bright red rug spread out on the floor.
The female officers were thrown into confusion by the unexpected attack. They let out a scream and started running.
At the same time, the men also began to move.
The target was Princess Hoshi. The ladies-in-waiting surrounded her, trying to protect her master.
Among them, the first to move was Hongyu, who was wearing a sword. He pulled his sword out of its sheath and leaped forward.
Without hesitation, he attacked the man in black who attacked him, he slashed him from the chest to the abdomen.
Blood flower like large drops of rain.
Hongyu threw the sword in his hand at the man in black. He was able to successfully cut his opponent in the abdomen and stop him from moving.
He flicked the sword that was at Sango's feet with his foot. While the sword was floating in the air, he grabbed the hilt, and at the same time stepped forward and slashed another man in black who was approaching in front of him.
Hongyu was showing incredible strength.
Sango searched for something that could be used as a weapon. She noticed a long stick with a decorative string hanging from it, she pulled it out and swung it around. It was made of iron and it seemed to be fairly strong.
On the other hand, most of the ladies-in-waiting had not escaped from the hall. They stood as a wall to protect their master.
"Don't worry about me, just run! You shouldn't lose your life in a place like this!"
Princess Hoshi Hoshi screamed, but no one listened.
Meanwhile, one of the men in black arrived in front of Princess Hoshi.
“Kill those who get in your way,” the man shouted.
His sword swung down, and the girl who was standing in front of Princess Hoshi screamed with her hands outstretched. Despite how hard the man in black was pushing his sword, the sword couldn't reach the lady-in-waiting.
That was because Sango was blocking the sword with the iron rod he was holding.
Since she could not be defeated by force, she quickly brushed aside the sword and kicked the black-clad man between the legs with all her might.
The man screamed and fell to the floor.
Sango said without looking back at the ladies-in-waiting.
"That is a man's vital point! Please remember this!"
It was a life-threatening situation. Since it was important, Sango instructed the ladies how to use the men's weaknesses.
Clutching the sword that was lying on the floor, she confronted the two men in black who came to her next.
It seemed like they had some training, but they were no match for Sango, who spent all her time training as a knight.
They both attacked her at the same time.
She missed the first blow and hit the back of her hand with the hilt of her sword. Fortunately, the sword left the man's hand. The second shot flew backwards and distanced himself. There was a steamer containing crabs in front of him, she immediately threw the shell at him with all her might.
It seemed that the sauce inside the shell containing mustard got into the black-robed man's eyes and robbed him of his vision. Sango took advantage of the opportunity and slashed at his thigh.
Sango and Hongyu fought so hard that the men fell to the ground.
“Where on earth did these guys come from?”
The moment Hongyu asked, the men in black took out something that looked like medicine from their pockets and started stirring things up all at once.
Everyone began to suffer at the same time, and the men died.
"Poison!"
There was no one who could reply to Princess Hoshi murmurings.
In the blink of an eye, the incident came to an end.
Naturally, the Miyabi party that day was cancelled.
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The next day, the bodies of the men in black from Peony Palace were carried out by Sango and Hongyu.
The incident was reported to the military, and the body was recovered by the dispatched soldiers.
Although they conducted an investigation based on the scene and the clothes the men in black were wearing, they were unable to find out who they were or where they came from.
Fortunately, although one of the ladies in charge of Peony Palace was injured, no one died.
However, the culprit was unknown, and all the men in black swallowed poison and died. It was a hair-raising incident in which everything was unclear.
Later, a horrifying truth was discovered.
The faces of the men in black had been burnt, making it difficult to identify them based on their faces.
‘Who exactly gave this order?’
The mystery deepened.
Guard soldiers were dispatched around the Peony Palace.
They had been thinking that something like that might happen. It seemed that the soldiers were prepared.
Sango asked Hongyu about the investigation. Hongyu became angry.
“The eunuchs will take care of it.”
Sango tilted her head, not understanding what happened.
“What is eunuchs?”
Hongyu asked her to keep quiet.
“A eunuch is a castrated man.”
“Castrated?”
“Why did they do that?”
Hongyuki answered that question.
"In the past, men other than the Emperor were not allowed to enter or leave the Seraglio. However, it was difficult to survive with just women. Therefore, a man who had been castrated was sent to the Seraglio. This was the beginning."
"Well, that's the history..."
Hongyu explained that the castration of the eunuchs was the most important thing to do in order to maintain order in the inner palace.
“If you become an eunuch official, you can earn a lot of money. It doesn't matter what your social status is, so it seems like there was no problem for someone who became an eunuch.''
“What a horrible thing.”
It was a painful thing for Hongyu, a man, to talk about it. Sango felt sorry and bowed to him.
"I'll tell you first, don't approach the eunuch officer outside, okay?"
"Why?"
"A castrated eunuch is not a man. There are some who are interested in men. Well, guess what? They might be interested in you."
Sango often received love letters from women in her homeland.
That's what happened because she was mistaken for a man. She was aware of this herself, and she understood very well why she might be targeted by the eunuch.
"Okay, I'll be careful."
When she answered that, Hongyu nodded with satisfaction.
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At night.
After making sure that Hongyu was asleep, she tried to change into her night clothes.
At that moment, she noticed something strange.
The pouch hanging from her waist was gone.
Inside was the amber that Hongyu had given him.
“Oh, what?”
“Kuun?”
The raccoon dog came to Sango, who was in a panic.
"You don't know about that bag of amber, do you?"
"Kuun..."
Even tanuki didn't seem to know.
There was a time when she was taking a bath. If she lost it, it would be after that.
Two hours earlier, a member of the Hyōbu had arrived and conducted an investigation at the Miyabi-kai venue. Maybe it was dropped at that time.
Sango told Tanuki to wait in the room. She went to the hall where the Miyabi party was held.
To be honest, she didn't want to go alone because it's scary.
However, she couldn't calm down without the amber at hand.
When she arrived at the hall, she relied on the light of a small lantern to search for the pouch containing the amber.
It was dark purple, so it was hard to spot in the darkness.
At this point, the entrance door suddenly opened.
"Who is that?"
Sango was startled by the sharp scream and dropped the lamp on the floor.
The impact extinguished the fire.
The voice sounded like Princess Hoshi.
"It's Princess Hoshi. Is that Sango's voice?"
"Yes"
"What are you doing there?"
“What I’m looking for.”
Princess Hoshi seemed to have snuck out of her sleeping quarters to take a night walk, and was alone. Moreover, she didn't seem to have any lights or anything. She said she saw a suspicious figure in the hallway and she followed him.
She slowly approached Sango.
"Don't startle me by wandering off this late at night!"
“I-I’m sorry!”
"Kyaa!"
Princess Hoshi didn't have a good sense of distance. She almost fell when she tripped on Sango that was crawling on the floor, but she managed to escape without a problem as she was pinned down by Sango.
Princess Hoshi’s hand was on Sango's inner thigh, so when she touched her, she trembled and swayed. She was quick to let go of her hand.
"Eh!? Oh, lord, what happened to your balls?"
"Ball? Oh, sorry, I lost it."
"W-what do you mean? Did you mean that you lost your genitals through punishment? I didn't notice it at all. That's why you are with the Wang family's internal official. It created a suspicious atmosphere."
Princess Hoshi seemed upset. She was mumbling something, but she spoke so fast and so low that Sango couldn't hear her.
There was a huge misunderstanding between the two sides. The ball that Princess Hoshi was talking about and the ball that Sango was looking for were two different things.
Princess Hoshi was talking about men's scrotum, Sango was talking about a jade made from polished amber.
The two were unaware of the strange coincidence.
"You were a palace official, not a eunuch. But why aren't you a man?"
"A man? I'm not a man?"
"I had a misunderstanding."
"No, don't worry."
Even in her homeland, Sango was often called ‘big brother’ by small children.
It was not uncommon for people to be mistaken for their gender.
"Yes, that's right. I've always been mistaken for a man."
It seemed that the reason Princess Hoshi was cold until now was because Sango was mistaken for a man.
"You had a hard time, too, because you didn't have any balls. I didn't realize that and treat you coldly."
Sango shook her head.
She was a kind person who deeply sympathized with Sango's loss.
Princess Hoshi stood up and made a surprising wish.
“Sango, I’m sorry for everything that happened.”
Sango shook her head, thinking this was outrageous.
"Will you forgive me?"
Sango nodded.
Although it was in the dark, they were able to smile at each other for the first time.
Princess Hoshi seemed to have misunderstood Sango as a man who didn't have balls, no reproductive ability.
Sango mistakenly thought that Princess Hoshi had been cold to him because she had always thought of him as a man.
Both sides seemed to have resolved their misunderstanding, but it had not been resolved at all.
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