<embed src="http://player.bgmstore.net/LXXGo" allowaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="422" height="180"></embed><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://bgmstore.net/view/LXXGo" target="_blank">BGM정보 : 브금저장소 - http://bgmstore.net/view/LXXGo</a> <div><br /></div> <div>웃대 '초록환타'님 작품입니다.<br /> <div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px"><br /></span></div> <div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px"><br /></span></div> <div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px"><br /></span></div> <div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px"><br /></span></div> <div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">동자승은 커다란 협곡을 힘들게 이어 올라가고 있었다. 그가 올라가고 있는 곳은</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">조선 땅 안에서 가장 고명하다는 사소대사（思蘇大師）가 살고 있는 곳이었다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">생각할 사（思）, 깨어날 소（蘇） 두글자의 의미는 그 놀라운 법력을 지닌 사람의</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">명칭으로는 오히려 너무 가벼웠다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">이제 거의 다 올랐다. 꼬박 하루를 맨손으로 올라온 소년의 손은 피투성이가 되어 있었다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">맨 처음 덩굴로 손을 감고서 오르기 시작했지만, 날카롭고 뾰족한 절벽 바위는 그것을 허용하지 않았다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">소년은 마지막으로 절벽 꼭대기에 다닿아 손을 짚고는 몸을 앞으로 굽혀 기어 올랐다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">"후우.." 절벽 아래를 내려다보니 까마득했다. 용케 이런곳을 기어 올라왔다 싶었다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">고개를 돌려 앞을 보니, 이곳에 들렀다 왔던 사람들의 말처럼 허름한 초가집이 한채 서있는 것이</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">눈에 들어왔다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">"사소대사께서는, 만약 자네가 진정으로 거짓없이 원하는게 있다면, 능히 이루어주실수 있는 분일세"</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">장터에서 만난 각다귀 중에, 사는게 지겨워 죽을 각오를 하고 그곳에 올라왔갔었다던 늙은 노인이</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">한 말이었다. "그러는 당신은 그분을 만나고서도 왜 걸인 꼴을 벗어나지 못하는 것이오?"</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">어린 동자승의 당찬 반발에 그 늙은 각다귀는 슬그머니 웃었다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">"에하아라, 내 맘대로 내 길대로 그래그래 가리라, 좋기도 좋고 흥겹기도 흥겹구나.."</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">각다귀는 묘한 노랫가락을 부르면서 무리들 사이로 섞여 갔고, 묘한 눈으로 쳐다보던 동자승은</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">노인에게 들었던 소사대사의 거처를 찾아 당장 짐을 꾸려 떠났다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">그것이 한달 전이었다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">동자승은 하루를 꼬박 올라왔음에도 불구하고 당당하게 빛나는 형형한 눈을 지니고 있었다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">거침없이 걸어간 소년은 초가집앞에 멈춰 서고는 큰소리로 외쳤다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">"사소대사님, 어리석고 이 못난 자가, 대사님의 혜안에 기대어 몇마디 조언 듣기를 청하옵니다"</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">대답은 금방왔다. 오랫동안 말을 하지 않았던듯 심하게 갈라지는 쇳소리처럼 들리는 그목소리는</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">부드럽지만 사람을 강하게 잡아끄는 묘한 힘이 있었다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">"...어린 동자께서 이 별볼일 없는 늙은이를 찾아 먼 고생길을 사서 하셨구나, 그래 무슨 일인가?"</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">초가집의 낡아빠진 문 사이로 문답은 계속 되었다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">"지금 이 세상은 예전 같지 않사옵니다, 사람은 서로를 미워하고 증오하며 사랑과 포용은 잊은지 오랩니다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">간성지장（干城之將） 같은 나라를 위할 줄 아는 위인은 없고,</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">간신적자（奸臣賊子） 같은 부모를 팔고, 나라를 팔며, 끝으로 나아가서는 임금의 눈을 가리고</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">스스로의 배를 불릴 생각만하는 시정잡배들은 날로 늘어가고 있습니다."</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">동자승은 잠시 말을 멈추고 쏘는 듯한 눈빛으로 초가집 헤진 문을 바라보았다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">"대사께서는, 제가 우주 만물에 대해 각성하여, 깨달음을 얻고 사람들을 구할 방도를</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">얻고자 한다면, 저에게 길을 내려주실 수 있습니까?"</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">초가집에서는 아무런 말도 흘러나오지 않았다. 동자승이 초조하여 다시금 말소리를 내려 할때였다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">"허허허허... 허헛, 허허허허허.."</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">비아냥거림이나 불쾌함이 묻어나지 않는, 진실로 통쾌한듯 웃는 소리였다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">"어린 동자께서 포부가 대단하시구려, 하지만 이 늙은 노인에게 하셔서 방도를 얻으실 말은 아닌것 같소"</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">그러자 동자승은 눈빛을 더욱 날카롭게 하여 문을 노려보았다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">"나라안에서 가장 깨달음의 경지가 높으시다는 대사께서 하실 말씀은 아닌 것 같습니다."</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">초가집에서는 다시 죽은듯이 기척이 없었다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">"만물의 영장인 사람이 이토록 썩어간다면, 우리를 이토록 번영토록한 세상의 모든 섭리에 대해</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">책임을 물어주어야 할 것입니다, 진정 답이 없사오니까?"</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">그때였다, 부서진 문풍지 사이로 둘둘말린 흰색의 종이가 내밀어졌다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">동자승은 급히 다가가 그것을 받아 들었다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">"잘들으시오, 풍운의 기회를 얻고자 하는 어린 동자여. 그 안에 든것은</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">사람들을 개혁시킬수 있는 물건이라오" 동자승이 조심스럽게 종이를 펼쳐들자,</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">안에는 각기 빛깔이 틀린 네개의 둥그런 환약이 있었다. 각각, 검은색과 상록, 흰색과 갈색이었다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">"그 환약은 각각이 모두 이 조선팔도내에서 가장 사악했던 네 동물들의 정기（精氣） 담고 있소.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">그것을 먹으면, 그 동물들로 변하게 되오. 그리고 그 시간은 무려 10년.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">그약을 먹은 후에 해야 할 것은.." 대사의 목소리가 자츰 사그러 들었다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">"무엇입니까?" 동자승이 다급하게 되물었다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">"바로 사람들에게 갖가지 패악을 부리는 것이오"</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">동자승의 눈이 의아하게 뒤바뀌었다. "그 무슨 말씀입니까 대사님, 나라를 구할 방도를 청하고자</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">왔는데, 짐승이 되어 패악을 부리라니요" </span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">대사는 일언반구도 없이 할말을 끝마쳤다. "환약은 모두 네개, 각각이 10년으로 모두 40년이오.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">그대는 40년동안 사람에게 끊임없는 횡포를 부려야 하오. 그것이 진정 사람을 위하는 일이오.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">그대가 부린 40년의 패악은, 그대가 하기 나름으로 4만년의 태평성대를 가져올 수도 있음이오.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">내게 조언을 구하고자 왔다면, 나를 믿고 따르시오."</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">동자승은 환약을 꼭 쥐고서 한참을 서있었다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">그리고는 말없이 굽혀 초가집을 향해 절을 올리고 난뒤에 서툴게 절벽을 내려가기 시작했다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">동자승은 마을앞에 이르러 환약이 든 종이뭉치를 꺼내었다. 그리고 더 나은 미래와 더 나은 인간상을</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">위한 희생이라고 스스로를 위로하며 검은색 환약을 삼켰다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">이제 마을앞에 작은 동자는 없었다. 집채만한 덩치를 가진 검은 호랑이 한마리가 있을 뿐이었다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">눈에서는 달덩이를 박아 놓은 듯한 부리부리한 광채가 흘러나왔고, 울음소리 한번에 태산이</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">풀쩍 뛰었다가 가라 앉았다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">검은 호랑이는 조선 내에서 공포의 대상이 되었다. 닥치는 대로 먹어치웠으며, 산을 무너뜨리고</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">강을 훌쩍 마셔 농작물을 마르게 했다. 나라가 호랑이 울음소리와 발구름소리로 조용할 날이 없었다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">임금이 직접 포상금을 내걸고, 전국에 내로라하는 사냥꾼들이 나섰지만, 모두가 호랑이의 밥이 되었다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">사람을 닥치는대로 집어 삼키며 조선땅을 두려움으로 몰아 넣었던 호랑이는 어느 날부터 갑자기</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">자취를 감추었다. 그리고 사람들은 안도하면서 다시금 평범한 일상으로 돌아가기 시작했다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">10년이 지나 사람으로 돌아온 동자승은 울부짖으며 스스로의 피부를 손톱으로 찢어 발겼다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">622명, 자신이 호랑이로 화했을 적에 죽인 사람의 수였다. 무너뜨린 집과 비워버린 강도</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">셀수없을 정도였다. 그러나 그는 멈출수 없었다. 그는 사람들이 어느정도 불행을 잊었을때,</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">덜덜 떨리는 손으로 초록색 환약을 삼켰다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">사람들은 다시금 공포에 사로 잡혔다. 건장한 성인 남성을 한발에 채어갈수 있을 만한 커다란</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">솔개가 나타난것이다. 호랑이가 사라졌다며 기뻐하던 사람들은 다시금 나타난 솔개에 정신을</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">차릴 수가 없었다. 집에 틀어박혀 나오지 않는 사람들은, 자신들의 집 지중을 뜯어내는</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">커다란 발톱과 이내 날아드는 청동빛의 부리와 굳센 날개를 볼수있었다. 황소를 채어갈 정도로</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">힘이 좋은 솔개에게 베겨낼 사람은 단 한명도 없었다. 그리고, 솔개를 피하기 위해</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">중국과 일본으로 사람들이 도망쳐 갈 무렵, 공포의 솔개는 다시금 호랑이처럼 사라져버렸다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">동자는 심한 공포에 떨었다, 어느덧 자신이 죽인 사람의 수가 1000여명을 육박했다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">그러나 앞으로도 먹어야할 환약의 개수는 2개, 그건 앞으로 20년의 살생이 더 남았다는 걸</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">의미했다. 동자승은 비뚤어지고 있는 마음에 자신에게 환약을 준 사소대사를 원망하기 시작했다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">진정 그는 이런 방법밖에 없어서 나에게 환약을 준 것인가? 정녕 이런 끔찍한 방법밖에 없어서?</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">하지만 그는 멈출 수 없었다. 그는 다시 사람들이 불행을 잊고 어느정도 번영을 누리는 때에,</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">흰색 환약을 삼켰다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">사람들은 서서히 절망에 익숙해져 갔다. 이번에 경상도 쪽에서 사람을 한입에 삼켜버리는</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">백색 구렁이가 나타났다는 말에도 크게 놀라지 않았다. 그저 천지신령께서 노하셨을까,</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">막연히 생각할 뿐이었다. 구렁이는 산길을 완전히 막아버렸다. 그 산을 지나가는 사람은</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">낮이든 밤이든 절대로 살아남지 못했다. 사람들은 불편을 감수하고 그 산을 돌아다녀야 했다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">세배가 넘는 거리였지만, 목숨을 보전하기 위해서 어쩔수 없는 선택이었다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">때로는 마을에 나타나 멱감는 아이나, 바다에 헤엄쳐나가 고기를 잡는 해녀나 어부들을 통째로</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">삼키어 버리고는 유유히 산속으로 기어 들어갔다. 임금은 호랑이와 솔개, 그리고 흰뱀이 나타난</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">이유가 되었다. "다 임금이 부덕해서지.." 요즘 사람들이 가장 잘 내뱉는 말이었다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">10년뒤, 약속이라도 한것처럼 흰뱀은 홀연히 사라졌다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">사람으로 돌아온 동자는 이제 미쳐버린 사람의 것 같은 회의어린 눈동자를 가지고 있었다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">30년의 세월에 의해 얼굴에도 주름이 가득하고, 수심과 고뇌에 시달려온 까닭에</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">실제 나이보다 무척 늙어보였다. 턱수염도 멋없이 지저분하게 자라나있었다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">사실 동자는 갓 사람으로 돌아오자, 모든걸 포기하고 대사에게 달려가 환약을 줘 버리고 싶었다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">그것만이 아니었다. 자신에게 이런 힘겨운 고난을 씌운 대사를 죽여버리고자 마음 먹었다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">살인귀로서의 10년은 그토록 힘들고 두려운 것이었다. 하지만 하나 남은 환약을 보면서</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">그는 마음을 다잡았다. 이제 10년 뒤에 사람으로 돌아올때면, 그는 우주의 본질을 꿰어 보고</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">만물과 하나가 되는 깨달음을 경험할 수 있을 터였다. 그는 속세를 살펴보면서,</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">사람들이 다시 어느덧 흰뱀이 파괴한 것을 복구하였을 즈음에 마지막 노란 환약을 삼키었다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">이번에는 지리산 쪽이었다. 삐죽 삐죽한 가시나무 같은 날카로운 뿔을 지닌 노란터럭의 사슴이</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">나타났다고 했다. 약초를 찾는 사람들이나 심마니들은 무자비하게 뿔에 질려 죽었다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">다른 온순한 사슴들과는 달리, 무시무시한 칼날같은 뿔을 들이밀고 달려드는 사슴때문에</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">어떤 이들도 지리산에 오르지 못했다. 혹여 올랐다면, 난자되어 내장이 흘러나오는 시체를</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">수습이라도 할 수 있다면 다행이라고 여겼다. 심지어는 산 속에 사는 범과 곰, 늑대같은 육식동물을</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">비롯해 모조리 죽여버리는 사슴에 의해 온 지리산이 썩은내로 진동했다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">설상가상으로 썩어가는 시체들로 인해 역병이 돌아 지리산에 인접한 마을 사람들이 엄청나게</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">죽어나갔다. 마치 억겁과도 같은 시간, 그 사슴도 홀연히 사라졌다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">그리고, 그는 다시 인간이 되었다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">동자승은 부릅뜨고 자신이 40년 전에 찾아왔던 절벽을 올라가고 있었다. 입에는</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">날이 시퍼렇게 선 비수가 물려져있었다. 눈을 어찌나 치켜떴는지 실핏줄이 터져나가 온통</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">붉어진 혈안을 하고 있었다. 엉망으로 자라난 머리와 거뭇거뭇한 피부, 엉킨 길다란 수염의</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">비쩍 마른 노인이 입에 칼을 물고 절벽을 타고 있는 광경은 그 자체로 섬뜩했다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">그는 사소대사를 죽여버릴 생각이었다. 4개의 환약을 모조리 먹은 뒤에 깨달음을 얻을수 있다고 생각했던 </span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">그는, 마지막 환약을 먹고 10년뒤 인간이 되었다. 깨달음의 각성을 들떠 기다리는 그는,</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">아무런 반응이 없는 자신을 이상하게 여겼지만, 희망을 가지고 인내하며 기다렸다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">그리고,</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">1년째 기다리던 날, 그는 사소대사를 죽여버리기로 마음을 먹었다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">"사소대사! 썩 나와라! 이 천하의 빌어먹을 사기꾼 같으니!" 흥분한 그는 비수를 움켜쥐고서</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">그가 왔던 40년 전보다 더욱 낡아 무너지기 일보 직전인 초가집을 그는 박차고 들어갔다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">그리고 멈칫했다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">낡은 개다리 책상위에 다소곳이 놓인 종이 뭉치와 서필하나, 이것은...?</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">이것을 자네가 보고 있다는 것은, 마치 억겁과도 같았을 40년을 모두 인내해 내었다는 것일테지..</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">자네는 깨달음을 얻지 못해 이곳으로 왔을 테고. 이 늙은이를 시해하기 위해서일 게야.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">허나 안타깝게도 나는 이미 죽었을 것이네. 자네가 찾아왔던 40년 전에도 이미</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">긴 삶이 남지 않았던 늙은 노인네였으므로. 나는 자네가 그토록 바라던 깨달음을 주기위해</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">이 서신을 남기는 걸세. 자네는 이무기에서 용으로 거듭나는 걸세, 자네가 먹었던</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">네개의 환약은, 사악했지만 한없이 강한 자연의 기를 받고 태어났던 사신（四神）이라네.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">그 모든 기운은 자네의 몸속에 깃들어 있을테지, 내가 마지막으로 남긴 환약을 먹고 나면,</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">자네는 진정한 깨달음속에서 우주와 의식을 함께할 수 있을 것이네.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">그는 편지를 읽으며 미친듯 울고 웃었다. 기쁨과 분노, 회한과 허탈감등의 오만가지 감정이 그를</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">사로잡았다. 떨리는 손으로 종이 뭉치를 펴냈다. 안에 들어있는건,</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">황금으로 만든것처럼 찬란하게 빛이나는 금색의 환약이었다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">떨리는 손으로 집어 들었다, 천천히 입으로 가져가 조심스럽게 넣었다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">이빨을 들어 묵묵히 짓이겨냈다. 그가 겪었던 원치 않던 살인의 고통, 그것의 결실이었다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">비가 내리기 시작했다, 우르르.. 우르르르... 구름이 끼어 순식간에 하늘이 어두워졌다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">콰르릉, 쿠릉.. 번개와 천둥까지 요동치기 시작한 하늘은 시커먼 먹빛이었다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">그때였다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">높다란 절벽위에 초가집이 무너지기 시작했다. 기왓장들과 짚들이 바닥으로 떨어지기 시작하자,</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">엉성하게 쌓인 토벽도 순식간에 큰 금을 따라 부서져내렸다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">협곡 위에 산산히 부서져 내린 초가집의 잔해, </span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">그리고 그 속에서 길게 활개 치며 하늘로 솟아 오르는 것,</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">그것은..</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">그것은 찬란한 황금빛 비늘을 지닌 황룡이었다. </span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">사슴의 뿔, 독수리의 발톱, 호랑이의 아가리, 뱀의 비늘을 지닌 고귀한 환수..</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">가우우우우..</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">조그맣고 길게 포효한 용은 협곡위를 아름다운 원을 그리며 부드럽게 한번 날았다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">끊임없이 내리는 빗줄기속에서 부드럽게 유영했다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">그리고는 가볍게 위로 솟구쳤다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">황금빛 비늘이 마치 지상으로 내려 꽂히는 번개 같았다. 그리고, 스스로도 번개가 된 마냥</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">그렇게 하늘을 향해 끊임없이 비상했다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">먹구름을 헤치고 솟아오르는 황룡이 더이상 보이지 않게 되자, 날씨는 삽시간에 말갛게 개었다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">비온뒤 개인 하늘은 티없이 맑은 푸른 빛을 띄었다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px">너무나 아름다운 하늘이었다.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: dotum, 돋움, gulim, 굴림, Helvetica, Apple-Gothic, sans-serif; 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