The Mouse Caught the Dragon's Tail/ A Mouse Biting a Dragon's Tail/ Ryuu no Shippo wo Kamu Hatsukanezumi/ 竜の尻尾を噛む二十日鼠/ 용의 꼬리를 문 생쥐
“If you stay here, you’ll die.”
Ten coins and a piece of charred roasted chicken—that was the price of the girl.
Born an orphan with no one in the world, she was sold to a back-alley tavern. Over the sixteen years that followed, she was given only one thing: a name.
Mouse.
A filthy, insignificant name that suited her ragged appearance—so thin and androgynous that no one could even tell whether she was a boy or a girl.
One evening, after being beaten for no reason as usual, Mouse stops in front of a noble’s grand mansion and whispers a wish.
She doesn’t mind dying right now.
She just wants to step inside those gates—just once.
It’s a wish she never expects to come true.
But then, she hears it.
Permission to enter.
Without hesitation, Mouse takes a step forward— unaware of the fate waiting inside, and of where that single step will lead her.
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