[Storybook] Stone Statue

Stone Statue III: Child Born of the Heart

The traveler offered the makgeolli given to him by the wife to the man's grave.
But wait, why was there a child staring at them with curious eyes?
The traveler asked what the child's relationship was to this man,
to which the child replied,

"He would always call for me, "Yongcheol, Yongcheol!"
And ever since then, I started calling him father."

"Father mentioned that there was a place he must return to.
He didn't say where...
But I think you might know, adventurer."

And then the child took out a pair of flower shoes he had held dear.

"My father wanted to give these to someone when he returned to where he came from,
but he was never able to.
Adventurer, could you deliver these for him?"

The man who crossed to ocean to far off lands for his wife,
even across the vast sea, never once forgot his beloved.
The pair of flower shoes that the child held were lovely.