The Only Ice Flower

“Is it spring or summer? It doesn’t seem like autumn.”

“…”

“Spring, then.”

“Yes! I am a servant of spring!”

After awakening from a long slumber, I-gyeol, the God of Winter, intends to kill Myeong, who has trespassed into his domain and disturbed his sleep.

However, he becomes intrigued when Myeong introduces himself as someone who was born in the Garden of Spring but never given a name.

“I’m nothing. …That’s why I came here to obtain an ice flower. I thought the God of Spring might give me a name if I offered it to him.”

Myeong intends to prove his own existence by obtaining the God of Winter’s treasure, the ice flower, and presenting it to the God of Spring.
But I-gyeol is displeased with the God of Spring for having someone like Myeong under his care…

“I want to go to the Palace of Spring.”

As time passed, Myeong longed to return to spring. Although I-gyeol thought it might be better to simply get him out of his sight, he found himself dissatisfied whenever Myeong was nowhere to be seen.

“Will we be able to meet again?”

“No.”

In the end, I-gyeol coldly sent Myeong away when he decided to return to the land of spring…

“Thinking about it just makes me angrier. After everything I did for him, he couldn’t even cry and follow me.”

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“Do you know how much I’ve been letting you off?”

‘I haven’t killed you, I’ve shared my energy with you, and I’ve even saved your life. When will this little thing ever repay the debt he owes me?’

I-gyeol took out his frustration by gently twisting Myeong’s nose as he slept.

“Mm…”

“There is no king as merciful as me.”