It is perhaps an Imoogi, Ji-ah supplied.
Elsewhere, Rang was making his way to a well bound in rope. The shaman greeted him respectfully and start telling him the revered serpent has been slumbering inside.
"I heard that it died after fighting with Yeon? and that human girl also died"
" yes it is true, but the serpent left 'a part of his body' with her family before taking the girl's body"
It sound like the shaman has a female sacrifice prepared. They planned that while Rang takes care of Yeon, shaman has to pick primroses from the graveyard that "grew from the deceased's blood and flesh."
The shaman, being all nervous asked one question:
"are you and Yeon biological siblings?"
"We are half siblings"
"If it has been awakened again, Yeon had no chance of living...Why are you helping your brother's enemy?"
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Whereas, Yeon ordered Ji-ah to leave the island immediately, warning her she could die if she didn't go this instant .
" Pack your things and leave this island"
"why?"
"Just believe me and leave okay?"
Ji-ah doesn't see why he cared about saving her when he's made it clear he's not interested in saving people.
And she was not ready to leave without answers about her parents.
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At the well, Rang thought the shaman was smart for not trusting him, as a gumiho and asks her if she's familiar with what Yeon was like as a god(mountain spirit).
She recites that he was the harshest of the four gods and ensured no one exploited his domain.
Rang reminisces about Yeon giving him the bigger half when they'd share an apple.
"He cut into my stomach with that kind hand of his that used to halve an apple."
He revealed a scar on his stomach, which was long and it looked like he was severely injured, and says that the scar on his heart that Yeon gave is much bigger, and foxes always repay debts. So he have to pay Yeon his debt, soon, he and Yeon will go to hell together. Sooo that explains a lot.
Meanwhile, Ji-ah asked Jae-hwan to look up any incidents that happened on the island, particularly strange deaths. Yeon also made a call to Taluipa to make sure she hasn't heard any news of the supposedly dead Imoogi – he can't have it in the same world as Ah-eum.
where,
Ji-ah checks in with Pyeong-hee, who's reading Moby Dick.
Sharp as ever, Ji-ah immediately knows it's not her, and Rang shifts back to himself. He advances on her, noting with a wolfish smile that she's alone. Ji-ah scoffed at his obvious book choice and surmises he's the one who killed the fishermen. But why?
While, Yeon threatened another man into talking, this time about the Dragon King painting;
Rang is impressed by Ji-ah's deduction that he's up to something and using the deaths as a smokescreen. He try to offer her a prize for her correct answer: he'll find her parents.
Yeon learns that an elderly neighborhood woman bought those paintings from the market for everyone, but why ; he erases the man's memory of their conversation. As he goes to leave, the man mentions the "pretty young man" who was looking for Pyeong-hee's house.
Said 'pretty man' tells Ji-ah to just say the word. She steels herself and declines – foxes always repay, so favors come with a price. Ji-ah gave him a "friendly" warning to stop playing with people's pain, also calling him a bullying bastard.
That gets him angry since he apparently hates profanity. She ask him why he hovers around her, but ofcourse he won't say.
He leaves her with a warning in return: don't trust Yeon too much. Things won't go well for her if Yeon gets what he wants.
Yeon comes running up, to find a dejected but fine Ji-ah. She tells him about Rang's offer, and he looks smug when she admitted that she turned him down because...
she's betting on him instead. But Ji-ah didn't mention Rang's warning.
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At the Snail Bride, Shin-joo watches Yoo-ri and recognize that she's not a local gumiho. He muses to Hye-ja that the only ways for a fox to have that kind of status is to be born rich (like Yeon) or steal someone's life.
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On the island, Ji-ah thinks a boring, relaxing life sounds nice. Whereas Yeon would rather have modern luxuries, like his beloved mint chocolate ice cream and americanos than nature. Besides, life is harsh everywhere.
Ji-ah wondered if his long life has been harsh, but Yeon turns the question on her.
"Why are you waiting so long for her parents?" Ji-ah simply replied that she missed them.
Yeon shares that he's also waiting for someone he misses.
Ji-ah guesses it's his first love.
Who was she? How did they part? There were many questions in her mind and ;
Yeon revealed that she was a human and she died. He is waiting for her to fulfill her promise to reincarnate.
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At the Snail Bride, Shin-joo caught Yoo-ri trying to sneak into the staff room. She introduced herself, calling them the same species (She is a gumiho!). Shin-joo correctly guesses she's from Russia, and Yoo-ri claims she was smuggled into Korea.
She knows he was curious about how she got so rich and waves him close. "Sweetly and violently," she discloses as she kisses him on the cheek and puts a pistol against his stomach. Yoo-ri easily swiped his necklace and walked away.
Shin-joo called Yeon all depressed because he can't talk to animals without the necklace. Yeon berated him for losing his head over a woman, which Shin-joo thinks is rich coming from him because Yeon was born in a silver spoon . Shin-joo was shot once and lost his tail, so he's scared of guns and begs Yeon to come help him. Yeon hangs up.
(A/N : Poor shin joo *sob *sob)
While the shaman prepares for a ritual,
Yeon heals a broken tree, and Ji-ah talks to Jae-hwan, who tells her about the four suspicious murders over the years on the island. She realizes they all happened on the same day on the Lunar calendar, which happens to be that day.
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PRESENT
"Why did you kill me?"
While Ji-ah was questioning Yeon he remembers him pointing a sword at Ah-eum and he stabbed her.
Ji-ah continues that he shouldn't have stopped the boat that day. Yeon doesn't buy that she's Ah-eum since she doesn't have his fox bead. She laughs and says he knows nothing.
And suddenly she's Ji-ah again with no recollection of what just happened. He yells at her, asking who she is. They're both confused as she replied
"I am Ji-ah" .
Out of nowhere Rang appears, and Yeon grabs Ji-ah and runs. But she goes back for her picture (seriously?!), Rang attacks her with rocks and Yeon shields her from Rang's rock missiles. He tells Ji-ah to run away and tries to hold Rang off.
Rang jokingly calls this domestic violence, as Yeon argues he wasn't able to discipline Rang, so a fox turned into a dog.
"Don't forget it was you who abandoned me first... don't blame me"
Ji-ah wanders through the woods and comes across a house , it was the shaman who was finding a female sacrifice. Ji-ah showed her the picture of her parents, and the shaman recognizes them. She serves Ji-ah some tea and asks her to have a seat near a aroma and says that her mother came to pray for a safe birth, her safe birth.
She continues that , their island was once rich in ancestral rites and held the Festival of the Souls each year. Ji-ah observed the date matched when the mysterious deaths occurred, and asks the shaman must've personally held the ceremony.
Ji-ah noticed the flag typical of shamans outside her house. Plus, her mother was a doctor and would've gone to a hospital, not the gods, for birth complications.
The shaman said that Ji-ah can't leave even if she tried , and Ji-ah assumes it's because of the tea which she didn't drink.
But when she tries to walk away, her feet couldn't move. She fell to the ground concious , and the shaman mockingly explained it was the fragrance, not the tea.
While looking at the mirror, the shaman appears as a much older woman. A grandmother to be exact