[Storybook] Tale of Sangoon

Chapter 3: Order to Disband While listening to Taesoo's story, Hyang-goong came running to tell them that Old Man Mansoo was taken prisoner by the government office! According to the trial by the Hyungam, Mansoo's first crime was conspiring with Mr. Byeon to illegally breed and distribute snakes. The witness was the snake catcher from the Honorable Choi's house, but Mansoo said that it was actually the snake catcher who not only poached the snakes of Donghae Province, but of Bari Forest as well. His second crime was the violation of curfew. He allegedly delivered the Byukgye petition to the capital at night, as no one else could have made it through the treacherous terrain of Mount Taebak in the dark. The Hyungam went silent when Captain Ahong said that, if those claims were true, then there was something that the Stripefolk were being kept in the dark about regarding the happenings of Donghae Province... and right then the Yeongam of the East walked in. The Yeongam stated that the captain was mistaken. The curfew was to prevent the spread of the Oduksini, and that the Stripefolk Tigerslayers were not called upon as they are His Majesty's personal guards. Then, he declared that the Tiger Palace was now off limits and disbanded the Stripefolk Tigerslayers, claiming the dispatch was unexpected and they are tight on budget. However, the watching villagers plead for him to withdraw the order. "To bring peace back to our lands, to send down the Stripefolk, isn't that the will of the King?"