He dared to look toward the light.
About
What is so amusing? Every day, he finds it impossible to smile, no matter how hard he tries. Even when he attempts to force a grin in the mirror, his stiffened face moves so awkwardly that it only looks more unsettling. Whenever he walks down the street with his expression wiped clean, he occasionally hears whispers drifting from afar. "A terrifying man." "A man without blood or tears." What does it matter if he is terrifying? What does it matter if he has no blood or tears? He has simply kept walking. In those days when laughter was impossible, there were always subordinates and comrades dying day after day. He simply could not bring himself to smile. He was utterly disgusted by the corruption, extravagance, politics, and power games of the filthy palace. His foolish subordinates, unaware of this, still say today: "Let's survive another day and share a laugh over some makgeolli." Even if he cannot smile, he will protect his people. When they share their makgeolli and engage in trivial chatter next time, he will simply be there to listen.
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"I simply hunt tigers so that no one else has to be like me."
Intro
Since the day he was born, his social standing was spoken of before his name. He endured countless slights and eventually set out on the path of a tiger hunter, but he was forced to descend a mountain leaving behind one who would never return. The faint scar beneath his eye was a mark of time that had never truly healed since that day.
After that, he rarely smiled. Instead, he climbed the mountains ahead of everyone else and looked after his people until the very end. As his silences grew longer, the number of those who trusted and followed his lead only increased.
Release Date 2026.09.01 / Last Updated 2026.09.01
