"Nothing" Lina replied with a bitter smile. "I don't believe it! I will make those pay whoever did this to you! So, don't understimate me and tell me who is responsible for it?" Yeon Hoon was looking so fierce all of a sudden. But Lina found him cute and couldn't resist herself from smiling.
"Who is responsible for it?" Lina found him cute and smiled.
"Are you smiling right now? You think I can't do anything?" he told with his pride.
"No! You were too cute." she laughed but she has to stop laughing because her cheeks hurt when she laughed.
"Come with me. I will treat you." he wanted to pull her with him. He grabbed her hand but Lina exceeded her hand right away. He surprised and looked at her with his curious and hurt eyes.
"No, I can't go with you. You should go on your path. I should go mine." saying this she pushed him away and start walking slowly. She wanted to walk fast but she couldn't. Yeon Hoon couldn't understand anything and he was standing there quietly. After some moments when he realized she was still ignoring him, he ran to her.
"Noona! Are you still mad at me? Why? What did I wrong? I told you I'll manage everything and I will be more careful from now on! Then, why you are doing this to me?" he shouted. But she didn't reply to him and kept walking.
"Answer me!" he screamed like he will destroy everything if she doesn't look at him.
"I understand. You are not ignoring me for my sake. I was interrupting your life too much. I am a burden for you and you just wanted to throw me away from your shoulder. Okay, I won't come to you. I will never come to irritate you. I will just die rather than come to you. You will be happy then, right? I don't know what I have done that wrong to you! But, listen to me. I will never forget you. Those moments we spent together were really precious to me. But I think you just think of me a piece thrush, nothing else. I will just die..." his voice was full of tears so he couldn't say more than that. As Lina was too kind-hearted, she couldn't continue her cold acting. She looked back and saw that Yeon Hoon was sitting on his knee while dropping his valuable tears. She came to him. She also couldn't hold her tears but not by hearing his words. She was crying for remembering something else. But if she cries, then who will condole him? So, she controlled herself and went to him. She put her hand on his head.
"Why you are behaving like that? I was just doing it for you! I never think of me while pushing you far. It was always you. I know I was being rude but what can I do more than that? You have no idea how much I love you! That's why I was pushing you away from me. What do you think? I can live happily by behaving with you that rude? Never! But, it's the best way. I can't see you crying. And I could never bear it if you get hurt because of me. What if you get punished because of those false rumors? Can I ever forgive myself?" she said with a very sweet and gentle voice. She wanted to make him understand but as a new adult, these kinds of words can't make him stop by doing whatever he wanted to. He stopped dropping his tears and looked at her.
"Did you mean it?" he asked and looked at her with his puppy eyes. She finds him cute and said,
"Of course I mean it. Now get up. Come to noona." she extended her hand towards him. He took her hand and stood up. She wiped his tears with her sleeves and said, "Don't shed your valuable tears for these kinds of silly reasons. Got it?" She pulled him near her and hugged him to condole him like he is her son. But Yeon Hoon felt it differently. She said earlier that she loved him but in which way she didn't tell that. She means it but it was not that love between a girl and a boy. Her love for him was like a younger brother. But he understood something else and when she hugged him, he got blushed and his heart rate was increasing slowly. He has to bend when she was hugging him as he was taller than her.
After some times, she exceeded him and said,
"I have some work to do. So, I have to leave. You better go home. It's getting cold." She wanted to escape from there and that's why she started walking. But her body gets weaker and she couldn't continue walking. Suddenly she felt like the world is rotating around her. She wanted to control herself but she couldn't. She sat down on the ground. Yeon Hoon saw her and ran to her.
"What happened? Are you okay?" he asked and bend down in front of her.
"Yes, I am okay. You don't need to worry." she stood up again and tried to walk but her legs were shaking so she couldn't act that she was okay anymore. She lost her consciousness and almost fall but there was someone for her who hold her.
"Noona! Are you okay? Wake up! Hey!" he called her and shook her head which was on his lap. He doesn't know what he should do so he got afraid.
[On the other side]
Dae Ju was walking on the street. Everything was normal around him. But he saw them differently. Looks like everyone was looking at him and for some reason, they were laughing at him. He saw them and felt like everything was going on like a movie. They all have been filtered to slow motion. He couldn't understand what was happening around him. He felt so down that he didn't notice someone was calling by his name. Suddenly a hand fall on his shoulder strongly and he got afraid. He turned back and see it was Jheong Woo. "I was calling you since....What happened? You seem ill." he noticed his friend's disappointed and hopeless face. He was calling him and following him for ten minutes and now finally, he could reach him. But he was surprised when he looked at his poor face.
"I don't know." he sighed. Seems like he was in meditation and he couldn't look anywhere and listen to anything.
"Tell me. I will help you," he said.
"Jheong Woo! Can you really help me?" he asked with a pitiful voice.
"I will try my best. What do you need?" said his friend and condole him.
"Kill me. You can do it, right? I just want to die." he replied like he was asking for some cheap things.
"Hey! What's wrong with you? What happened? Tell me, am I not your friend?" he gets shocked by his answer and felt curious about him. Dae Ju told him everything with a very sorrowful voice. How he went to the training, how he came back from there, how he was stuck in the middle of his path, how he listened to the wind whooshing, how he found himself on the bed and how Lina was looking like and behaving with him.
"That means something must happen when you passed out." Jheong Woo said like a detective who will find out the truth anyhow.
"But what happened? Can't you remember anything of that?" he asked him.
"Um-hm." he shook his head negatively.
"Should we go to the priest?" he asked suddenly.
"Priest? Who is the priest?" he looked at him with questionable eyes. I mean, that....guy....hujr...or whatever you call him. Who gave you that holy water." saying this he started thinking and within a minute, he looked at Dae Ju with suspicious eyes and asked,
"Hey! Did you bathed with that water?"
"N-no! I-I f-f-forgot." Dae Ju said falteringly. His voice was calm.
"That's why I didn't have any hope on you from first!" he gave him a death glare and said. Dae Ju looked down and make a very guilty face.
"Let's go." without getting a reply he said again and start walking fast. Dae Ju also followed him and reached that house. This house was not decorated with any lights or anything. There were trees everywhere like always. Seems like the guy liked trees a lot. The garden around the house was looking very beautiful today. The snow has been cleaned and it looks like spring has bloomed in this garden. It was already noon and the sun was shining. So the cold has been decreased a little. They came to the house and knocked on the door.
"Who?" a lady said from inside.
"We need your master's help. Please open the door." Jheong Woo said and Dae Ju kept standing like a statue.
"Please, come after evening, he is not available now." the lady said.
"We have an emergency, please let us in." Jheong Woo said. He continued knocking at the door. The lady opened the door. At first, she didn't recognize Dae Ju. Dae Ju also didn't notice her but when he noticed, he surprised,
"Ajumma! What are you doing here?" Dae Ju asked. It was that suspicious lady who came to him and used to take money from him.
"Nothing! What are you doing here?" she asked him hesitatingly.
"Is he your boss?" Dae Ju asked her out of curiosity.
"Yes," she replied with pride. It could be seen that she was lying in front of him.
"Who is your boss?" the guy came from inside.
"Nobody!" she answered him silently and looked down.
"Come with me." he pointed at Dae Ju and said. Dae Ju and Jheong Woo followed him silently and went inside a room.
"Sit down. he said and took his seat. Both of them sat in front of him. Dae Ju explained everything to him. After listening to him, he acts as nothing happened.
"I can't tell you anything now. Come to me in the evening. When he will come into my body, he will explain everything to you. I am sorry I can't help you now." his voice was calm but not heavy. He was acting very normal.
"Okay, I understand." both of them stood up and went outside. They went to a sauna and spent times as they have nothing in their life. Dae Ju doesn't want to go home and Jheong Woo was just staying with him as he has really nothing to do. When it became darker outside, they went to him again as they wanted to know the truth.
"Welcome." said the guy with a deep voice. They took their seats and looked at him with four curious eyes.
"I know about you. You have an attack by the worst thing in the world. You have been possessed by it. Though it couldn't stay in your body for long but it did its best to push you away from this body." he said in a gentle but heavy voice. This time his voice was completely different from the morning. He looks completely different but Dae Ju finds him cool when his personality change.
"That's what I need to know. You told me earlier that you can tell the past not the future. And I need to know the past. If I don't know about it..." he couldn't continue anymore. He felt too pressured that his mind wasn't working well.
"Patience! Give me some time! Please stay seated for a while. I will be in meditation not more than five minutes." saying this he closed his eyes. Dae Ju also closed his eyes. He was in big tension so he was praying for listening to something good. After a few minutes, the guy opened his eyes and looked at Dae Ju.
"That was wrong! What happened was wrong! This should not happen. I can't tell you but you will remember it very soon." saying this he started to reading something in his mind. He closed his eyes and opened. He continued mumbling for some time. Then he stopped and gestured Dae Ju to come to him. Dae Ju went near to him. He blew his spell on Dae Ju and said him to close his eyes.