On a flame-like metal bed,Minjae's body is placed to be examined.
Javern and his men had carried the body to the Palace at Songrim. The royals examine the blue mark and wonder where her soul is.
"Jiwon, come here". Jiwon had just walked into the room where Javern and the Old Seo were.
"Is she Minjae?" Jiwon asked.
"Yes, this mark shows that her soul has left the body. Remember this mark when someone tries to switch bodies, it leaves a blue bruise like this right on top of their hearts " the old Seo said, showing the mark on Minjae's shoulder to Jiwon.
"Does that mean her soul escaped her body?" Jiwon said, looking at Javern.
"She seemed to have tried but failed"
"This proves that her soul escaped her body, but there are no signs that her soul entered another body."
Jiwon went closer to Minjae's dead body and noticed a whistle tied to her waist.
"It is a whistle"
"A whistle?" Javern went closer to confirm.
"I once had a similar one myself back then when I had a pet bird," Jiwon continued.
"Did she have a pet bird? Old Seo asked Javern.
"I think she had a pet bird for a while".
"It looks like it's a very important item then, she
must have been an assassin who killed people like it was nothing but she was still human she must have had a story of her own". Old Seo continued.
Javern walked Old Seo out of the room where Minjae was and at the entrance he reminded him that a lot of people have already seen Minjae's body and that words will spread of the wizardry of souls.
"Has it been twenty years since we last saw a soul shifter? Old Seo enquired.
"Yes"
The last soul shifter went wild and started killing people, I'm worried this might happen again".
They were interrupted by an amateur mage who ran into their mist excited.
"Uncle I heard Minjae was a soul shifter, Master Seo, have you seen her too?"
"You seem awfully excited to start rumours," Javern told him.
"But the rumors are everywhere in the village already,I came as fast as I heard about it".
"Where did you hear it?" Old Seo asked him.
"At Winchang ."
"You're a mage of Kpakpanga, instead of practicing you go to bars and listen to rumors." Javern charged at him.
"Songrim Kpakpanga is not only for mages to practice their spells, but to also gather information and also Sang-ku here will follow in your footsteps and become the leader of the Songrim household. He should know his liquor." Old Seo told Javern in a way to calm him down.
"Now tell me what liquor tastes the best in Winchang?"he continued.
"I do not go there as often anymore, now that Youkay is not here"
"Youkay,the son of Gang Jang?"Old Seo asked Sang-Ku.
"Is he not learning how to write at the village school in Songrim Kpakpanga?"
" Ah! Old Seo, he was kicked out of there ages ago. Right now he is in Tankis".
"I sent him to receive training from Buskain Yeong".Javern finally said after listening to these two talks.
" Uuh, uuh, so Youkay went to the temple of Buskain this time to receive training". Old Seo sounded tired of Youkay's excesses.
Youkay Gang is the son of Jang Gang. A fine gentleman who is currently off training in the mountains. Youkay is on the mountain with his master sitting on his knees.
His current teacher, an elder monk, is angry at his attitude and refuses to teach him.
"Today, I shall end my training". He tells his master
"You have not even finished your training, how dare you decide to end the training without my permission?"
"You asked me to expand my knowledge, so I read and memorized hundreds of spell books. You asked me to train my mind, so I patiently sharpened hundreds of swords. However, you never taught me any kinds of spells. The only lessons I have learnt here is that you have no intentions to teach me spells at all, now that I have learnt a big lesson I'd love to end it and leave."
"The leader of Kpakpanga asked me to keep you here for three years" Youkay wasn't ready to listen to what the monk had to say, he wasn't the type that kept to rules.
"I know you're building a sanctuary with the money paid to you in advance. I will not ask for a refund, so I hope it is successfully built." He stood up to leave.
"Where are you going, I didn't say you could leave" The monk was furious at Youkay and screamed at the top of his voice.
"Did this look like I was asking for your permission?"
Youkay isn't deterred and definitely claims he's going to find someone else to teach him instead.
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"Miyoung are you okay?". Miyoung, who was asleep, suddenly wakes up after hitting her head on a box close to where she was sleeping in the moving boat. It turns out Minjae's soul was actually transferred into a blind girl called Miyoung, who's currently receiving safe passage out of the area to another part of the town. Minjae in Miyoung's body sat up fondling her fingers and touched the bandage wrapped around her eyes, there and then she remembered throwing her magic crystal into a bucket of water while invoking the spirit of the waters and amidst the invocation she fall into a body of water and instead of the bar girl it was Miyoung the blind girl with the bandage over her eyes she saw in the water.
" Why did I have to enter a body like this one?"
Flashback to Miyoung's life she often gets kicked off the road because she couldn't see.
"I am sure she was blind". The new body who is now Miyoung slowly unveils the bandage from her eyes.
" But why is it that I can see now?" She said to herself. "Is it because I'm in a different soul? She didn't even have a blue mark showing I entered her body, this is so unusual."
"Try and bear with the motion sickness, we are almost there, Miyoung." One of the men sailing the boat told her.
"Miyoung?" Minjae asked herself after hearing the name of the blind girl.
"She's the blind girl from the countryside who got sold off to the fortress." She suddenly remembered who Miyoung was. The entire time Miyoung was having an internal monologue conversation.
Miyoung got up on her feet and attempted to leave.
"Sit down, you will fall," one of the sailors told her.
Feistily she said'' thanks for the journey, I would be leaving now. Unknown to the sailors Miyoung jumped with her two hands on the deck of the wooden bridge but couldn't claim further she doesn't seem to be blind but Minjae in Miyoung's body has also lost her powers as well.
Miyoung screamed for help when she couldn't jump further up the bridge. She fell into the water when she couldn't hold on again, there she knew she had lost her strength while transforming.
"Why were you hanging from there when you cannot even see? "You could have gotten bad".Miyoung's master was furious with her after helping her out of the water, he offered her a towel to dry up her body.
Miyoung was covered in rags and given a walking stick.
" This is really bad, my strength is gone." Miyoung said within her, dabbed her body, she held her fist and suddenly threw up.
"Is it motion sickness again?" "I'm so worried about how weak you have become" her master said tapping her back
"Weak?" "This body is unbelievably weak and unhealthy, I shouldn't switch bodies just yet. Let me stay as Miyoung for now."
"I'm sorry, mister" She told her presumed master audibly.
"It's fine, It's because your body is weak. Let us fill ourselves up" Miyoung simply nodded weakly. She wasn't willing to say much anymore.
Minjae gets accustomed to becoming Miyoung.
Minjae as a Shadow Assassin is sensitive to the smell of blood, therefore she didn't eat animals that shed blood as humans but as Miyoung she was forced to eat chicken and other animals at the restaurant and she loved it absolutely.
She starts to understand the world she's tumbled into, as she finds herself outside the brothel with her supposed master all covered in rags and a blindfold with her walking stick. No one knew Miyoung could see except her, Miyoung was sold to the brothel mistress for a ransom.
"An old woman took her in after she lost both of her parents but she got sick and recently passed away, the debts she had due to her illness got passed down to her, which is why she's here to be sold off. I will be leaving now" Miyoung held him by the hand when he intended to leave.
"You cannot sell off this poor soul to the brothel" she said to him.
"I wish you well but… he quickly struggled out of her hold and went off hastily.
Miyoung was fuming in anger but she had no choice.
"I can't believe he fed me chicken to sell me off to this place" Miyoung fumes increase now, all the while talking inwardly." I will rip you into pieces once I regain my powers."
The brothel mistress walked down to where she was standing
"You look way too skinny" Miyoung is being cut out of her fumes by the brothel mistress.
"I wonder if you will become prettier if you become chubbier." Miyoung turns to look at her pitifully
"Just give up on me, getting chubbier will not make me prettier. I am useless and not suitable to work in a brothel, sell me off to somewhere else".
" You talk eloquently, I heard you sing well, I hope you sing as well as you talk." The brothel mistress went closer to scent her and held her nose in disgust.
"You should wash first and doll yourself up". Miyoung slowly let go of her stick and made a dance kind of move with the mistress' hand. She was surprised and scared at first but almost immediately cheered up and smiled. " So you can dance as well?"
"Did it look like a dance?" Apparently, Miyoung was obviously making one of her fight moves which the mistress didn't understand, but because it didn't hurt her she felt it was a dance move.
"If my moves contained power, your arm would have fallen right off." Miyoung said inwardly, she.was quickly snapped out of her assumptions when the mistress dragged her cheeks
"I am older than you, so you should speak in honorifics and I hope you will also treat my customers with respect too." The mistress kept to her cheeks and shaked her as though to lay emphasis.
" You just wait, I will kill you too." Miyoung wasn't comfortable with this threat and as usual she kept her ill speeches in her mind.
"A lot of powerful people come to our brothel. The four seasons of Kpakpanga are also regulars of Winchang". The mistress seems to have calmed down now, she was gentle with her speech now.
" The four what?" Miyoung asked again.
"There are four different types of beautiful people in the fortress of Songrim Kpakpanga, and there are called four seasons." Intending to scout out the monks she's been sent there to kill. These happen to be known as the Four Seasons of Songrim Kpakpanga.