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𝐓𝐇𝐄 pitch black space conventionally enveloped around Na-ra as if it was trying to drown her in it's drowsiness , she was quite perplexed at the initial second , sight focused on nothing but darkness enclosed surrounding her .

Nonetheless, she has became quite familiar with this darkness by now.

Her eyes swept around through the darkness, to find the one and only thing she could find here. However , a shimmer of light from far away enticed her sight, attracting her whole attention to it.

She took lazy steps ahead to the light, the influence of the glimmer of light clearly alluring her steps towards it.

Nevertheless where things got delirious was despite the steps she continuously took towards the light, there wasn't an change of light that indicating she's getting closer.

Even though how much she walked forward there was no progress, she clenched her fist with quite determination glazing through her eyes before she hastily ran towards it instead.

However, it was an endless path and how much more energetic she was til now, her legs started to take in the pain and drowsiness of tiredness by now.

There is no way this could happen to her, Na-ra, who relentlessly trained until the end of the day could never feel tiresome by some walk or a sprint. Yet, her legs gave up in the end as she finally gave up before falling to the ground.

" 𝓕𝓮𝓮𝓵𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓽𝓲𝓻𝓮𝓭 ?? "

Her eyes snapped to her side where the familiar figure slowly came to the view, with amusement visible in it's face.

" 𝓓𝓲𝓭 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓶𝓲𝓼𝓼 𝓶𝓮?? "

Clearly the silhouette was awaiting for the anger bursting out from the girl by it's sarcastic query , however Na-ra's eyes glinted with delight by that question.

" Yes... I missed you so much. "

Perplexed by the answer the figure visibly shifted in it's stance, lips curving upwards from the response.

" 𝓡𝓮𝓪𝓵𝓵𝔂? 𝓨𝓸𝓾 𝓭𝓲𝓭?? 𝓝𝓸𝔀 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽'𝓼 𝓪 𝓹𝓻𝓸𝓰𝓻𝓮𝓼𝓼- "

Before it could finish it's sentence, Na-ra's hands were on it's neck, tightening her grip without wasting an second.

" You are just my conscious all this time, weren't you?? "

Her voice at the end dripped with despair while the figure sustained it's serenity, even when it's neck was in the tight grip of the girl.

" So? You want to destroy me by what?.... Choking me?? "

It's voice ranged through the dark space with a hint of satirical. Na-ra's eyes contemplated in the question, what is she supposed to do? She is meant to destroy whatever this is and everything would be in the rightful place... Right?

" 𝓢𝓮𝓮? 𝓔𝓿𝓮𝓷 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓯𝓾𝓼𝓮𝓭 𝔀𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓽𝓸 𝓭𝓸.... "

It's eyes glinted the same like Na-ra before , nonetheless with more Poisonous mixed in. Na-ra's gaze faltered for a second so as her grip on the figure's neck.

" No.... I just need to have control on my conscious and you wouldn't be here anymore. "

" 𝓨𝓸𝓾 𝓼𝓾𝓻𝓮 𝓪𝓫𝓸𝓾𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 ? "

The same voice asserted from her back, which made the girl to turn on her heels in an second, only to meet with the same eyes.

" 𝓨𝓸𝓾 𝓭𝓸𝓷'𝓽 𝓷𝓮𝓮𝓭 𝓽𝓸 𝓫𝓮 𝓬𝓪𝓾𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓶𝓮 𝓝𝓪-𝓻𝓪... "

It was the first time her name swirled from the figure's mouth , rather than feeling disgusted by it, it somewhat felt settling .

" 𝓨𝓸𝓾 𝓷𝓮𝓮𝓭 𝓽𝓸 𝓫𝓮 𝓬𝓪𝓾𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓽𝓸 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓹𝓮𝓸𝓹𝓵𝓮 𝓪𝓻𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓭 𝔂𝓸𝓾.... 𝓘'𝓶 𝓼𝓲𝓶𝓹𝓵𝔂 𝔀𝓪𝓷𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓲𝓼 𝓼𝓾𝓹𝓹𝓸𝓼𝓮𝓭 𝓽𝓸 𝓱𝓪𝓹𝓹𝓮𝓷 𝓲𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝔀𝓪𝔂 𝓲𝓽 𝔀𝓸𝓾𝓵𝓭𝓷'𝓽 𝓱𝓾𝓻𝓽 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓲𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓮𝓷𝓭...."

" What? What do you mean?? "

Feeling frustration brimming inside by the riddles again, she quietly anticipated for an answer .

" 𝓨𝓸𝓾 𝓼𝓱𝓸𝓾𝓵𝓭𝓷'𝓽 𝓫𝓮 𝓼𝓬𝓪𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝔀𝓱𝓮𝓷 𝓘'𝓶 𝓼𝓱𝓸𝔀𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓾𝓹.... 𝓨𝓸𝓾 𝓼𝓱𝓸𝓾𝓵𝓭 𝓫𝓮 𝓼𝓬𝓪𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝔀𝓱𝓮𝓷 𝓘 𝓭𝓸𝓷'𝓽... "

The figure's gaze replaced from Na-ra to the glint of light that appeared to be diminished a little.

" STOP TALKING IN RIDDLES AN- "

" 𝓘 𝓱𝓸𝓹𝓮.... 𝓨𝓸𝓾 𝔀𝓲𝓵𝓵 𝓾𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓷𝓭.... 𝓑𝓮𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓮 𝓲𝓽'𝓼 𝓽𝓸𝓸 𝓵𝓪𝓽𝓮 ... 𝓣𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓘'𝓶 𝓷𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻 𝓪 𝓽𝓱𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽 𝓯𝓻𝓸𝓶 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓫𝓮𝓰𝓲𝓷𝓷𝓲𝓷𝓰... "

" What do you mean? How can I trus- "

She couldn't even finish her sentence before she snapped opened her eyes, awake from her slumber.

She hastily sat up, eyes slowly fitting to the light .clearly the words of the figure swarming through her mind with thousands of questions behind it.

𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘦?...

𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺??...

𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵?....

The questions that hurdled without acquiring the answers vexed her thoughts along with brimming emotions.

Nevertheless, as an blessing, before she could lose her own mind from these questions, Young-hee stepped into the room, with an delighted look adorning her complexion.

" Why do you look so over the moon in the early morning?? "

Now, Na-ra wouldn't question anyone else who looked this happy at any matter unless it affected her, however the person right in front of her who looked like she won over the entire world was young-hee.... The literal representation of people who has the face of depressed mother.

" Seems like young lady got a good sleep... Don't you remember?? "

" Remember? Remember wha-"

The realisation dawned into Na-ra as her mind recalled the past night memories as a flash.

Seo-yul.

The girl covered her own mouth as she realized that it wasn't a dream, she had 'slightly-slammed-her-hand-to-his-cheek'
Enough for him to fall unconscious at the damn spot.

Well it wasn't partly her fault right?!? He was the one who tried to- ... She didn't even wanted to emphasize the word in her mind as she prayed that he has forgotten it like in the past....

But the author wants to have progress you know.

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

A crease of light that gleamed to the particular boy's features made him to uncomfortably shift from his posture, shifting to the other side to continue his comfortable slumber.

Nonetheless, a finger poked his puffy cheeks to wake him up, however he chose to ignore it as he continued to drift off to his dreamland.

Nevertheless, a second later, the frequent poke to his cheek finally made the guy to hastily awake from his slumber.Clearly frustrated by the fact he couldn't continue his sleep any longer.

" Was the dream that good? "

The piqued familiar but unfamiliar voice startled the boy who was still half asleep, now clearly alerted.

His eyes locked onto the intrigued gaze of a familiar younger boy , slowly a wave of alertness building up as his eyes scanned through the unfamiliar dorm room which clearly isn't his.

Quickly his gaze locked on to the mirror beside him as his eyes widened by his own figure. Disheveled hair along with the red puffy eyes.

Nevertheless, what perplexed his senses was the mostly faded red print of his cheeks.

" What happened?And what happened to my face? "

The boy Tried his best to be calm at this very much confusing situation as he pointed to his cheek that has a slight bit tad of redness,however his voice at the end gave it away his nervousness.

" Ah that.... I don't know. "

The blunt answer of the younger kim boy's, took a baffled visage to the latter, who is evidently tearing off his calm demeanor.

" What?"

" When she dragged you into here , I thought she may have slapped you or something.... Well it is less redden now.. "

The not-so-normal words in this situation wasn't really helping the latter's trouble in keeping his calm stance, nonetheless just by Hyunsik's face anyone could tell he was quite more than intrigued.

" Dragged- ? Wait, who?? "

" Ahh... You don't remember??young-hee, No-I mean, I accidentally saw young lady Na-ra's personal maid dragging you through the ground here to the dorm. She said you were passed out right outside here, and since she can't enter the dorm, she told me to . . . Keep you here?? "

The latter was quite confused just reminiscing about the past night's encounter with the strange girl , who smiled widely.....maybe more Creepy, running into him.

" I was....Passed out...Outside?.. "

The perfect man of daeho....

The very first potential man that should every women in daeho desire to date....

Most of the people must have seen him drunk like this in chwiseonru, The place where the rumour even spreads....

His image is doomed.

Young-hee probably tells this Na-ra, right??

What would she think about him from now on?!?

The thousands of questions circled around his head,and at one point focusing on the particular girl at the end. 

Nonetheless, just as his mind swirled the girl's name , a pang of pain erected in his cheek ,Where the redden part located.

" Yes, that's what she said....but."

Hyunsik without any prior notice, not even wasting an second ,drew closer to boy in secretive which made the latter to flinch as he backed away a step.

" I do not trust her.... She is very... What was that word again... Ah, creepy. "

Young-hee is?? The boy almost scoffed at his comment, young-hee is someone who was always beside Na-ra, protecting her as much as she can without even having any power to do so.

However just as he was about to walk away, a glimpse of past night's memory etched into his eyes.

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘐 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘱𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘰𝘳𝘮...

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘐 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘭 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘱𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘰𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘢 𝘨𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘴...

𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘐 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘵.... 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘐 𝘴𝘢𝘸 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯??

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘴𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘮 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘦𝘯.

𝘈𝘯𝘥.... 𝘞𝘢𝘪𝘵, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵??

𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵?!?

Yul's memory was scattered and in a form of daze. Nothing was clear, however he sensed a pain of.... Maybe fainting against a door or something?? Maybe that's were the redness of his cheeks formed...

Nevertheless, the thoughts of embarrassment was consuming his mind, so better yet , leaving was the only option.

" Yes,Thank you.For letting me stay here... Then."

Yul abruptly left the room as the fast of light without even hearing any last words from the former. He was too embarrassed not to keep his calm stance rather than scream into his pillow by the gut wrenching embarrassment brimming inside.

" Is he okay?? "

..........

" Yul-ah, are you okay?? You walked away from us after drinking two bottles of liquor , I thought you must have passed out in the path or something. "

Dang-gu who finally spot down the boy in the library, who appeared like his life was drained out from inside. However in response a lifeless answer what he got in return.

" Oh..... "

" What happened?Are you still not over the hangover??"

Concern laced through the boy's eyes as he questioned his friend, who looked like he was out of the dimension ,Deeply in thoughts of the train of embarrassment.

" I can't ....remember.... "

" What? "

𝘐 𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘵 ?!?

𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘮𝘺 𝘫𝘢𝘸 𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘴𝘰 𝘣𝘢𝘥??

𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥.. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘸 𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘥𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘬𝘢𝘳𝘥!!

𝘔𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵?.... 𝘙𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵??

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

" He must have forgotten it.... Right?.."

A soft murmur left the girl's lip along with a sigh of  relief, nonetheless a hint of dejection was barely visible at the end lines.

" What? "

" Ah! Nothing. let's go back again? "

Na-ra requested to the eldest kim with a weak smile passing through her lips for another duel while the boy nodded with a wide smile adorning his lips, clearly evident he'd do anything as she requests.

" This time, focus on the energy emerging through your swords rather than the fighting. Your swords skills are getting better and better as days pass but the control of the energy isn't for some reason... "

The boy was quite confused as  matter of fact, her control on the energy was good til now, but it kept going out of control, which was odd and confusing.

Nevertheless, to the girl it wasn't. The Firebird's energy is trying to fight against the seal which her two masters done, and because of this the core gate of energy is being relentless being in the same body.

She could feel it. The way sometimes her heart clench or beat faster so much she could physically feel it.

However, one thing she got to knew is that it wouldn't let her die, cause if she dies, then that means there is no longer a  host for it.

It will disappear with her.

" Yeah, I think so too- "

" What are you guys doing here in this secluded place alone?... "

A eery voice beside the two sprang , Startling the two from their stance only to met with, the one and only Jang uk, who held a icy cold glare specifically towards the innocent sweet boy. And along with him, the summerboy and .... Yul.

Na-ra's gaze lingered on the boy for a long second before she hastily broke it down as his gaze almost converged to hers.

" What do you think we were doing ?! "

Na-ra held out the swords as if it wasn't obvious enough to tell, however he took those words and actions to a no to his head while his skeptical gaze scanned the two from head to toe.

" And why are you drenched in water??"

" You..we need to have a talk later .. "

Pointing his index finger at his own sister he walked away like nothing happened while the others stared at him like he was crazy....who's we to judge right?..

" Then we leave you two alone?~ "

Dang-gu who is unaware of the glare that just got from that comment from his side, was about to leave the two for their alone time until the person who's been throwing glares at him spoke out all of a sudden.

" How about a duel ? "

Now, anyone that is sane and insane would have thought the solicit was pointed to the kim boy,however his eyes were set ablaze on the girl.

[ 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝'𝚜 𝚑𝚘𝚠 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚏𝚕𝚒𝚛𝚝 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚐𝚒𝚛𝚕 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚐𝚞𝚢𝚜(T^T)]

" Duel.. Duel with YOU?!? I'm not even that good?? "

The trio were clearly stunned by the sudden challenge the boy put upfront , nonetheless no one was startled more than the girl... She was bewildered to be exact.

The one fearful question for Na-ra ran through her mind a hundred mile faster , as she couldn't help but recall the last night events.

𝘋𝘪𝘥 𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘵 ??

𝘋𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨?!?

" It's just a friendly match."

His gaze DEFINITELY doesn't emphasize that. Na-ra gulped down as she clutched on to her swords before she gave out a awkward smile.

It was true she improved her swordsmanship too much than anyone could in these past months, however it is seo-yul whose opposed to her.

The only student in songrim that is close to achieve chisu while she clearly just finished ryusu.... There is no way she could win against him .

And the reputation of him losing against no one til now wasn't helping either.

Nevertheless, she brimmed in words of Confidence to her mind that could maybe she have a chance to win .

Backing out was too not her thing... Not this time atleast.

" Okay... Let's do it. "

The other two confused about the situation that happened very sudden out of nowhere, glanced to eachother before backing out while the other two rooted on their stance.

" Don't be nervous, it's just me."

𝘈𝘕𝘋 𝘛𝘏𝘈𝘛'𝘚 𝘞𝘏𝘈𝘛 𝘔𝘈𝘒𝘌𝘚 𝘔𝘌 𝘕𝘌𝘙𝘝𝘖𝘜𝘚!!

Na-ra internally cursed herself as she observed the boy who drew out his swords .

𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘵?.....

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