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" Waah!! If that idiot isn't here either I'm going to beat him to death before Go-won does!! "

Na-ra murmured to herself as she imagined tons of ways to torture her twin for his disappear act and the lying act about him staying on sari village.

" If ju-wol is right, he should be here. "

Seo-yul reassured the girl with his words with a slight smile as the girl just nods her head in understanding until an idea popped on dang-gu's head.

" We should split up!! That way we can find them faster!! "

" And what if we get lost?? "

" You two came here several times before!! So i think you guys already know the way, and if I ever get lost I'll just come back here okay. and if we didn't find them in an hour let's meet here again."

" Waah, summer prince ,when did you start to use your brain?? "

Na-ra teased the boy shoving a nudge on his shoulder as he slightly gave her a hurt act in return and without wasting anymore time and without any further discussion the three agreed and walked in three directions.

The further Na-ra walked the more she felt familiar to the place,she remembered the past were she ran through this path with her friends.

It was the same.

The same old flowers covering the rocky path with no trace of another living beings at the moment, only the sound of water flowing between the rocks , chirping and tweets were heard as she walked until she halted her steps looking at a huge rock,deciphering a flood of memories. A memory which started with a blade on her neck and ended the same...

" Why do you have that face?.... "

A voice echoed throughout the forest as Na-ra quickly looked upto the rock in front of her from previously which the voice came from revealing mu-deok with an unreadable look.

" Wha-wait no, good thing you guys were here, where is uk?? "

Na-ra was about to ask what mu-deok meant by that question but knowing they were here ,Na-ra was relieved however not seeing her brother led her to look over her shoulders to find no one.

" You.... You still remember right?.... "

Mu-deok asked again more like whispering this time but since they were surrounded by silence it was audible to Na-ra.

" What do you mean?? Remember what??"

Confuse would be an understatement at that moment for Na-ra. Mu-deok stepped more close to the end of the rock to get closer to Na-ra.

" Wait- why are coming closer?! You might fall- are you drunk?!? "

Na-ra yelled seeing the girl staggering at her own steps above the rock clearly one step away from falling and leading to a not so good scenario.

" I.. Wanted to see... You.. again.. but.. I cannot after...I-"

" Wait-!! "

The girl kept letting out words until...as Na-ra indicated, she fell...... Ironically on top of Na-ra who also fell on the hard ground however relieved she didn't hit her head hardly on the ground as only a painful groan was found.

" Yah?? You okay?!? I told you not to-"

Na-ra was about to scold her for her doing until the daylight shined on mu-deok's face who was still on top of her drunk slowly trying to stand up.

That is until Na-ra saw a familiar mark on the girl's eyes.....

A blue mark.

The soul shifter's mark.

It was certainly that.

" Wha-what is with your-"

Na-ra didn't even have to double check, it was the same. The same blue mark that was on the soul shifter's shoulder.... But why is it that on her eyes.. Should she be cautious?.. Is she who think she was all this time?... Who is she?...

" I'm sorry I hurt you that day... I'm... "

Mu-deok who sat opposite of her slightly traced the forearm of the girl as Na-ra sat still without even blinking cannot having the ability to process her thoughts at the moment.

" What do you-"

" I am sorry... I.. Didn't even gave you time to hear you that day.... My revenge.... "

That words. That words took her to a specific memory only she knew deep down which pained like knife slashing insides of her heart.

And if the girl in front of her is who she think it is, which would be impossible....

Or not....

Taking all her breath in , to make this sure Na-ra called out her name.. A name only a few have known.

" Cho- yeong...... "

"... Yes... "

Her heart picked up an pace as her all those hopes which died down reborn again hearing her affirmation.

" I... How-no, what... "

Words didn't suited the situation as her brain was racing on thoughts which she couldn't apprehend but her face really deciphered her thoughts.

" I-"

Before the girl could voice out her thoughts another pair of footsteps were heard revealing her twin stepping towards them with seo-yul and
park dang-gu.

" Oh! You two were here?? We were looking for you.....mu-deok-ah,are you drunk??"

Her brother inquired with a strictly teasing tone as his sister was still immersed in the fact she just found out her long lost friend is still alive as an maid working for her brother.

All this time she was beside her...

How couldn't she recognize??

And what about uk??

Did he knew this?

That she's a soul shifter??

No rather does he know it's cho-yeong Or known as naksu??

Or is he keeping her beside because he know that??

Is that why they were suspicious from the day she met them together??

" Na-ra saw my- mhmhmm"

Before mu-deok could talk out aloud what just happened Na-ra pressed her hands to her mouth to not let out anything audible. While the trio stared at the duo with confused eyes .

" I - she was saying that she just fell on me from the rock and seems like her ankle is twisted!! Right mu-deok?!? "

Na-ra quickly picked up an lie which is half true ,staring at the girl while still her hand on her mouth .

" are you okay?? You have a scratch on your forearm it must've happened when you fell on the ground . "

Seo-yul pointed out to a slight scratch on Na-ra's forearm which the girl wasn't aware until the boy pointed it out, it wasn't even scratch there was a little of redness that's all.

" I'll carry mu-deok, you three follow me. We are living right around here now."

Uk hastily went upto mu-deok's side partially covering her face like he just saw something that other's shouldn't see, and by that Na-ra came to sure that he knew about it.

" Ah... I seems to have twisted my ankle as well... Summer prince, care to help this beautiful lady? ~"

Na-ra teasingly called out to dang-gu who seemed to be in a deep thinking for a minute and suddenly he crouched in pain while clutching to his knee.

" Ah, what do I do?? My knee hurts sooooo much by walking soooo much you see.... But don't worry~ yul would be happy to help you ~ "

It doesn't take a genius to understand that this guy was acting and like cherry on top he sent a sly wink to the girl with a thumps up.

" You know what it feels better now!! I'm fine-"

The girl hastily tries to stand up flustered after even thinking about the scenario incident similar happened before however her ankle said other wise as she stumble the next second only to caught by seo-yul who carried her like in a bridal style the next second .

" Yul, it's okay-"

" Let's just go. "

It only took those three word to shut the girl's voice as she slowly nods and park dang-gu who looking at them awe behind them gave the girl a another thumbs up as he runs before them to catch up with uk.

" That idiot is misunderstanding things..... "

Na-ra whispered to the boy's war's as he falters his step for a second while walking.

" I can walk, it doesn't hurt that bad-"

" It's not that ,I- it's okay I just slipped. "

" Oh.... "

The girl stared at the three, quite long distance from them and glanced to yul who seemed to only fixed his gaze on the path and for some unknown reason she felt a drowsiness in the air maybe it's because of the all the sudden information she had to take in an second that entirely changed her life or maybe it's because of the particular scent of green ripe apples and mint scent that detected from the boy next to her.

She never noticed this until now how much of a calmness that Scent gave off. The silky midnight dark black hair that's perfect to ruffle though with the drowsy scent to green apples and mint maybe that made the girl to slowly rest her head on the boy's shoulder to doze off while a deep flush came over to the boy's ears.

.....

" Where the heck am I..... "

The place Na-ra woke up to wasn't familiar , it was a house..... Well figuratively. Hearing the boys sound outside gave her a big relief as she slowly step out of the house as the three eyes fell on her.

" Did I doze off?? You guys could have woke me up. "

" I thought you should get some sleep so-"

" You were sleeping like a log!! "

Jang uk interrupted seo-yul as he was waiting for her to be awake so he could start a war however Na-ra was too still dozy so she just spared him a glare in return as she settled between yul and dang-gu.

" I mean how can you sleep like that..... Don't train too much if you can't handle it... "

" Ok, ok my sweet little brother~ . So what were you guys talking about?? "

" Oh we were talking about how you two were in Danhyanggok before but what I don't know is that why did you guys one day after that didn't even talk-"

Before dang-gu could talk more nonsense uk throwed a glare to his side shutting him up .

Of course the two knew that something happened with them after that one day , they two had an inseparable friendship throughout their life until one day they were strangers and they gave time that is years and as they wished the two started to talk again , even though it wasn't like before, it was a start.

" By the way, what kind of tea is this? It smells really nice.. "

Park dang-gu pours out a cup of tea beside him as he smells like a heavenly smell.

" Did you drink that?!!! "

" Yes.why? Is it good for you?? "

" Yes.... Of course. It was made with medicinal herb that can be only found in Danhyanggok. "

" Really? "

That piqued Na-ra's interest as she also took a smell of the tea.

" Wait- Na-ra i don't think you... Like that.. "

Uk Contemplated whether what to do until Na-ra scrunched her nose not wanting to drink any other tea other than the sweet Cherry Blossom tea at the moment.

" You guys can drink I don't want anything right now. "

" Yul, you have some. "

Park dang-gu gave out a cup of tea towards seo-yul as he takes it while smells the scent of it.

" It really smells nice... "

" Yes, I know. "

And just like that two was about to drink tea mu-deok who was asleep until now sit right up staring at the teacups that two held.

" This is chaste tea. "

" What? Chives leaves?? "

" You will all lose your- "

Before the girl could finish jang uk threw a blanket over the girl completely letting her to doze off again.

But the girl's words ran thoughts to Na-ra's head, Chaste tea? Where have she heard that before?......... WAIT!! CHASTE TEA?!?! AS MADE WITH CHASTE HERBS THAT COULD CUT OFF THE-

The girl didn't took any seconds as she snatched yul's tea from his hands as everyone looks just look stunned by the girl's act.

" Yul-ah, I think dang-gu should drink this...."

Na-ra smiled widely as she pours down the tea to dang-gu's cup as he looks upto her emotionally.

" Na-ra i didn't thought you cared for me this much... "

" Oh yeah, yeah... "

Na-ra turned to look at yul , as their eyes met she mouthed him the word chaste herbs , it took him a minute to remember what it helped but just as he remembered he moved slightly away from the drink not meeting the girl's gaze for a while.....

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