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𝐀 finger flickered back and forth at the side of the table of secret room of cheonbughwan, implicated in the thoughts of the certain girl that have been ignored til now influencing to a outlook of things.

" You're telling me, that her sword showcased a emergence of energy that turned into a flame? "

The man that slightly saw a glimpse of the sight nodded his head as an answer, recollecting the view of the blue lucent that illuminated her sword seconds before the girl fainted on the ground.

" Are you aware of the Idiocracy that you spewed out now??A mere girl who opened her gate of energy less than a month ago, already seeked out her own signature form ?!?! "

Any men or women would laugh at the one who would say the girl who just seeped onto the training just a month ago, already found her signature form of attack or defend. Still, the latter couldn't ignore the sight he saw upon hours ago.

He was about to clear off his words that gave away hearing out his own absurdity in his words,before a clinging sound of indicating something resonated through out the room.

Jin-mu, who was impatiently waiting for the sound til now dismissed the other and bowed his head to the sole figure that walked out from the darkness , managing to not differentiate by the clock that covered their figure.

Yet, when they loosened out the clock that fell upon their shoulders, the face of the queen beneath the soul of another appeared.

" I have heard everything. It's not just a mere girl, It's the child of Jang-Gang... If the boy could already perform Tansu, the girl could also be in his level... Or even higher. "

" But still- "

" If she can handle the man who already completed Chisu, what is the mean of that? "

The answer was vague yet clear. If the girl managed to handle him without any external help, there is some other secret lying in the air they ignored.

" There must be a reason why Jang-Gang chose to take her constellation plate when he could have chosen his son's that shows he owns the king's star...we should have kept an eye on her. "

" We have kept an eye on her....engaging  to the crown prince was the answer, however they chose to break it off. I didn't thought so much into that since she was a mere girl with closed energy- "

" Yet she surprised us..."

The regret and curiousness sizzled through the surrounding air with a mixture of secret, struggling to find the conclusion to the riddle, which is none other than the girl that is til an conception cleared onto the man's mind.

" What would be the capital's reaction, if the broken lovers reunites once again?..."

............

The droplets of the past rain rhythmed through the roof to the ground . The night wind that howled past looted off the voice that creaked from the door ,the presence of the individual certainly not endowing the Contrast to the girl's features in this situation.

" I presume they told you everything? "

Her words dripped off in dismal of the plight, the single thought of him changing his whole demeanor by knowing her secret overwhelmed her heart. Nonetheless, still she didn't showcased it into her features.

" Good. I don't want to be the storyteller for the day. "

The stoic face upholding as she carefully moved a strand of hair from Young-hee's  forehead , who still remained unconscious as Na-ra thought it's better to give her some rest after whatever have been happened to weight her thoughts that led to this.

" Please do not say a word about this to Uk, he'll probably- "

" You do not need to be afraid of that.."

Her words got cutted off as he hastily dismayed her fear. Her eyes lingered on his for a second as she kept the face stoic as she nodded down her head in mixture of understanding and gratefulness before glancing back to the unconscious girl beside .

" But.....how long are you going to keep that stoic face towards me when your eyes are begging to be read?....."

The second his question closed in like his figure, the end of her lips quivered to uphold the stoical facade. Clutching hard on to the hem of her sleeves not to let the emotions to fall apart in front of anyone.

" I don't understand what you- "

Words weren't even fulfilled before the two hands engulfed her whole figure, one hand embracing her head as the fingers dug into her hair, while the other sat right below the neck pulling close even when there weren't a slight space between them.

The girl stayed still like she was frozen at the point at the sudden action without an warning , feeling the comfort that brought upon heating her eyes that held back the tears.

" You can cry.... I'll hold you ,as much as you want..... As much as I can , so please ...stop holding back..."

As if that words were her eyes awaited, her tears that brimmed inside til now poured down one along the other, no intention to stop for a long time until her heart could seep out.

Her cries resonated throughout the four walls ,gradually Immersing herself fully to his hands that gently stroked her hair along with soothing words while she weeps.

" It'll be okay...... It'll be all fine. "

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The morning came with ruthless light cascading yul's sight. Nonetheless, his eyes slowly adjusted to the light before he choose to glance over his surroundings.

On his left, Young-hee was silently asleep by slumped on the chair, still not awaken after losing her conscious and on the other hand Na-ra was asleep too, Soundlessly resting on........ His shoulder.

The sudden wave of surprise nearly jolted his body yet, he quickly composed himself not to awake the girl. His eyes looked away for a second before glancing back to the girl.

Her features entrancing his gaze back for a good minute til she unconsciously decided to nudge her whole face further dangerously close to his neck, which inevitably made the boy to turn his head straight and froze his whole body by being flustered by the mere action.

Gulping down his own littered conscious by seconds, he chose to slowly turn his head to get a glance of the girl only to regret, because his gaze stucked on her and her only by the golden light that creased over her face.

And maybe for a second, he was confidently convinced that this moment was a dream by the Serenity and the light that shined over her was not helping at all. The contrast in her face shining like a sunlight reflecting above the water, the few strands of hair that flew upon her face playing with his mind to tuck back on.

It felt so unreal to him .

As if it was an fever dream.

Nevertheless, the warm feeling soon died out as his eyes fell down to her hands. The tip of her fingers and her palms were all scratched and creased by the crimson colour of her blood.

The boy mentally cursed himself for not noticing it earlier before he gently placed the girl's head back to the wall, trying his best not awake her.

His eyes searched throughout the cabinet to find a sole medicine that he used to take when he hurted himself in the past due to his training and in seconds he found it as a smile of victory ceased past his lips.

He took out a bowl filled with water and wraps to cover along. Clearly he wasn't familiar with it, however since no other mages were present in the Sejukwon at the moment , he chose to do it by his little experience in the past.

Kneeling before the girl who slept soundlessly, he gently placed her hands into the water , delicately rinsing off the dried out blood .

His gaze continuously glanced up to the girl to find any discomfort or awake by the slight pain yet, since he didn't find one, he placed the bowl aside and smeared over a thin layer of ointment before covering the scratches.

Now, you may think this is overboard. Because it is, but what overboard was the boy couldn't even bandage well and had to cover her whole hands.

Things were going right well like the boy planned to, til the girl's leg slightly moved knocking down the bowl which inevitably led the water to spill over her legs, Which awakened her in a trance and the first thing her eyes beheld was the boy kneeling down infront of her, anxious and suprise written throughout his face.

Her eyes widen in suprise and in seconds she noticed the spilled water ,the clean bandages and finally enough her hands that was covered in white bandage.

" Wha-"

" Your... Your hands were bruised so I... I didn't want to awake you.. "

His words stuttered all the way to the end , clearly perplexed that the girl awakened all too sudden.

On the other hand, the girl was way far more than just the word 'Perplexed'. The first thing her eyes focused on when she awoke was none other than him, his eyes that trailed on her hands with the hint of light shining upon them and the light that cascaded his night black hair into a rich brown one.

" I only had some scratches.... But people will think I have broken my arms by this"

Her slight laugh cleared out the tense air as she checked his 'care' that white bandages almost covering out her finger-to-wrist area. Her fingers caressed through the other, a warm smile tugging at her lips.

" Ah.. Other mages weren't here so I- .... Let me look for someone wh- "

" Don't- I like it."

Na-ra hastily cutted off the man's words and stilled his action as he was about to walk away after he stood to find someone to treat her wounds right. Nonetheless, the words she chose to speak halted more than just his steps. His mind gave out a thousands of meanings in the four words.

" I mean, I like being this dramatic. It will scare off some people...especially Uk."

Her mind implemented a quick clarification for her prior words, as she was startled just as the boy who took a second to soak down her words before taking a seat beside hers , in the awkward air that welcomed the two.

Even when they had questions for each other ,some less important-some more. They didn't break the air that tightened around, they simply put together the words they had to ask in their own mind thinking they could muster the courage to ask atleast someday.

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" What? You need to be engaged to Lady Na-ra again?? "

The echo of suprise that laced in the voice piqued interest of the guards that secured the room from outsiders while the crown prince gave out a stern glare towards his eunuch before he covered his mouth as an apology.

" I don't know.... Jin-mu advised me to get engaged to her again so he could strengthen my alliance to the Jang family.... "

The man muttered his own words in confusion mixed with the curious of the question, ' why?' ,Which he did ask but the answer he got in return wasn't Believable words at all.

" But.... I'm not going to do that....I'm going to bet on something so I could solve two problems at once, if it doesn't.... No, 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭. "

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𝐆𝐢𝐫𝐥 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚 ✋🏻

𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐨, 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐨𝐰??

𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐠𝐮𝐲𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐨𝐫?? 𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧'𝐭, 𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐖𝐀𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐅𝐎𝐑?!?! 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐚 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐚 𝐲'𝐚𝐥𝐥 ♡

𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐈 𝐠𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐬 ...𝐨𝐡 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐡 𝐈 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐨𝐭, 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐲 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲, 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐠𝐮𝐲𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐈 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐬𝐨.... 𝐒𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐲𝐲𝐲𝐲𝐲 ♡

𝐀𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 , 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐠𝐮𝐲𝐬𝐬𝐬𝐬𝐬 ♡