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" So you were the one who ran from me."

Suddenly the voice from the person Na-ra tried so hard not to notice fills in the room as she turn back to glance at him only to find his eyes fixed on someone another.

"Mu-deok , was it?I'm sorry to have startled you...Are you injured? ."

The boy asks with a apologetic smile towards the girl while the other still hung up on his gaze towards the girl.

The two of them holded the gaze for a minute and For a minute Na-ra's heart tightned at the view as she looked at it.. This view was so similar to her, but she didn't know what is similar ? Why does her breath seems to locked inside her throat? Why is her eyes falter at the moment? ..

There was lot of questions that only she should know the answer but her mind blocked from getting those answers, because she didn't want those answers to be what she think it is.

And suddenly jang uk broke the silence by calling his maid and she replied with respect to seo yul however the awkward silence still lacing on the atmosphere and then only dang-gu informed that naksu's body is missing which make Na-ra's eyes get widened hoping for something, and for some reason the male twin kept talking about how he curious about Naksu which make the younger twin to furrow her eyebrows thinking what is he getting at .

The four of them went to the secret room to inspect how did Naksu's body got missing and when yul asked curiously did jang uk saw someone while hiding he responded by he didn't and he was with mu-deok all along but that statement made Na-ra to squint her eyes because when she tried to follow mu-deok jang uk was nowhere there to see.

" Do you think naksu shifted her soul into another woman's body and came to retrieve her body? "

Dang-gu probed anxiously thinking what would the danger the assassin might bring however hearing dang-gu's words Na-ra hoped much more, hoping that her old friend might be still be alive .

She know that naksu will never stop taking revenge if she's not dead but a part of Na-ra wanted her to bury the revenge that blinded her with rage, Na-ra hoped that her old friend cho-yeon not naksu, the killer of mages could live a peaceful life without bloodstain and revenge that made her heart stone cold however in the the end it's just a hope after all .

Jang uk kept inquire about soul shifter and naksu and in the end he asked if she resembled mu-deok his maid while she throw glares at him probably because he compared naksu to her was Na-ra thought obviously ignoring the hints . Dang-gu defended mu-deok by saying how cute and abdorable she is and how could a assassin could be anything like her by squeezing her face like grandma's.

" You are right. I bet she was a monster. "

" No, she was a human... A human just like us, everyone has their own story to be who they are now.. She might have one too.. "

Na-ra without thinking through suddenly interjected mu-deok words hearing cho-yeon called being a monster is a lie she was never one to her.. She was a young girl with a broken soul but winded up in revenge because that was only option for her to cope with the pain and anger inside her.

After saying that out loud in slight anger Na-ra looked around by realizing what she just did, the older twin looked at her in confused glance as the maid next to him looked at her in a soft gaze for some reason, park dangu nodded at her statement like he understand whatever she said and Na-ra couldn't look at the person behind for so many reasons.

" She's right . Let us not belittle the dead, even if she was an assassin."

Seo-yul remarked as another mage came to the room to relay a message.

" Master Heo wants to see you .. Especially young lady Na-ra.. "

The mage relayed the message as she knew master park would have already explained the problem to Master Heo why she came to see Master park at this time.

" Go without me. He dislikes me anyway."

" Well there is a reason for it. "

Na-ra answered  as jang uk threw glares at her but Na-ra just rolled her eyes as she turned around but only to meet with someone's eyes which she was trying to avoid. Na-ra blinked for a second repeatedly in surprise and walked past him like he was just a stranger.. Well she even smiled to strangers so more worse than strangers.

Seo-yul exhaled heavily knowing he really messed everything and followed her path with dang-gu .

The three of them was walking under the guide of the mage and suddenly seo-yul halt as he clutch to his sword making everyone to turn at him.

" Yul, what is it?? "

Dan-gu asked in confusion as he saw his friend is stopped on his track. Seo-yul glanced at Na-ra at first and back to dang-gu for a second.

" Dang-gu , how about you and him get going first? I have something to talk to Na-ra.. "

Seo-yul answered as Na-ra furrow her eyebrows in confusion however dang-gu mouth him a good luck because he knew the two has been good friends before and one day it all ended, it was like they didn't existed to each other .The four of them yul, uk, Na-ra and him was in a great friendship and one day it all ended as Na-ra stopped Visiting songrim and seo-yul seemed to be occupied in his training too much that's all he knew. Him or uk didn't know what happened to them and they didn't asked knowing they would never answer the truth, however all he knew was a communication might help whatever is going on between them or worse it might make a bigger problem.... So,The boy took ahold of the mage and walked off hastily.

Na-ra was just standing there not knowing what to do, what does he want to tell me? Does he still hate me? Thousands of questions gone over her head as stood there. The full moon gazing up on them as the cold breeze go through them but none of them felt cold at that moment one was standing there clutching on his swords with sweat running through his forehead and other one was standing there frozen with a thousands of thoughts in her head as her breath hitched in her throat.

" I-i am sorry.. "

The boy voiced out as he looked down at the ground,guilt all over his face however Na-ra couldn't take off her at him tears trying to come out of her but she did the best not to break right there and atleast not in front of him ,not again.

" For what? "

He looked upto her slowly after hearing her reply only to see blank eyes that became familiar to him past years.

"For everything.. For ignoring you, for blaming you when it wasn't your fault and...for replying to your feelings like that...at that day.. "

Na-ra wanted to cry, she really wanted to but remembering the past she couldn't... She could never ,again.she exhaled as she looked upto his eyes again which was already on her looking like seeking for something ignoring that she replied to him.

" First of all i can't blame you for ignoring me.. I would have done the same . . . And that day it was my fault ..I know that, you don't need to deny that .. If I didn't talk to her that day... Maybe it would have been different.. "

" No. It would have been the same.. It either was me Or you..so stop taking the blame for it, I crossed every line that day.. "

The boy hunged his head low in guilty of the things he blamed her that one day still remembering every second of it.

Na-ra looked at the ground , tears forming but still not allowing to flow as she wiped it away in a split second with a half hearted smile showing in her lips.
Even when herself she thought that it was her fault she wanted someone to say it wasn't or it was okay, that all was she ever wanted even knowing it would be a lie.

" So let me apologize one more time.. For ruining everything between us.. And for those words, which I never felt.. "

Seo-yul apologized as he looked upto her eyes again but this was even a teeny bit of emotion he sensed making him breath again in a little ease .

" No... You haven't ruined anything...
I did... By spouting my Idiotic words.. "

" Idiotic words?.. "

The boy responded as he repeated the words that came out of her lips with a slight laugh,not knowing what to even think at the moment the boy repeatedly blinked.

" Yes, .. I mean i don't like you anymore- i mean not like that way.. We were young after all.. I just mistook my feelings for you.. That's all.. "

The girl answered with a calm voice even the wind around them breezing quietly but Na-ra could hear the voices that screamed in her head with agony.

" Then..can we be friends.. Like before? ... Before everything happened?... "

" Of course.. Why shouldn't we.. Since we already sorted out everything... We could be friends... 𝓙𝓾𝓼𝓽 𝓵𝓲𝓴𝓮 𝓫𝓮𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓮... "

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