The morning beautiful flowers compliments the blazing Dawn sun as it lights the day and shows the dazzling daughter of The Singh family who has the vitality of spring Chaewon Singh.
The heir of the Farky family, who has the
energy of a hot summer Farky Sang-ku.
The genius of the Seo family, who is as Noble as the sunset in fall. Jiwon Seo. Then there's Youkay Gang, the successor of the Gang Jang family who is as dazzling as the winter snow.
"Farky, Singh,Seo and Gang families. They're the well known mage families in Kpakpanga, their children are known as the four seasons." The brothel mistress explains to Miyoung.
"Is that what they're called in the fortress?" Miyoung was sure of her mission now, she sounded furious already.
"Is that my Summer prince"? The mistress sighted Sang-ku from afar and joyfully left Miyoung to welcome him.
"If he is the heir of the Farky family, then he is Javern's nephew"."Javern Farky! He was there that night too, Singh, Farky, Seo, Gang. She said to herself. Javern had fought her at the lake. Miyoung had become highly emotional and angry at the same time. She recalls as a child hiding in the woods and witnessing her kin being killed without mercy. Miyoung's hatred for these families increases as she's determined to get her revenge.
"The four seasons?Once I come across all four of you, it will be the end of it. May you greet your death as beautifully as your names are." She smiled mysteriously.
The mistress took the prince inside an open hut of the brothel.
"Who are you here to see today?" She started a conversation.
"My uncle asked me to come and fetch someone."
"Fetch someone? Who?"
"A trainee from Buskain, he humiliated his master and got sent away. I bet this is where he is hiding" As the prince walks into the brothel every passing maid takes bows.
" Will you look at that?" Sang-ku saw some maids taking some meat and fish into one of the open rooms and quickly called the mistress's attention to it. The mistress who was just lost in his jokes snapped out of her gaze.
"He must have craved seafood, because he stayed in the mountains for so long," he continued jokely. The mistress simply laughed it off.
" I guess he is in that room, I should go there".
Sang-ku took a clown walk into the room where seafoods were taken, leaving the mistress all by herself.
Miyoung's new mistress was nice to her. She had taken Miyoung into the dressing room to wear her make-up after having her washed up when she found out that she could see. She wasn't blind like everyone thought she was. Miyoung in order to escape threw one of the powder on her mistress's face and ran off. Wo-jul her mistress raised an alarm and the brothel guards went after her.
Miyoung is spotted wandering through the royal palace and being able to see. Nevertheless, It's Youkay who spots her while she's trying to escape from her maid. Miyoung ran into the palace and was caught peeping out.
"What are you looking at?" Miyoung was startled by the voice behind her. The tall elegant and fair man in front of her threw her off balance, Miyoung had never seen such a handsome man in her life. Their eyes met and what seemed like a chemistry was formed. She attempted to cover her eyes again when Youkay stopped her.
"You…?" It seems like Youkay was almost recognising her when she resisted his hand with fights and initiated her moves on him threatening him with a crab leg.
"Do not make a sound" she instructed, pointing the crab legs to his throat.
"I heard a blind girl recently joined the place, but you can see. They told me your name, I think it starts with 'D' or something." Youkay sounded so unbothered by her threat.
"No!" She said,
"Ooh I remember, Miyoung."
"Yes, that is my name Miyoung." She finally agreed.
"I know what you look like, so if you do not stay quiet until I leave, I will come back and behead you." Miyoung threatens him further.
Youkay chuckles, he doesn't seem to take it seriously.
"What's funny" Miyoung wasn't getting the joke as to why Youkay was unbothered.
"You have beautiful eyes." Youkay continued like she didn't have crab legs to his neck.
" Cut the nonsense."She was caught completely off-guard and never expected that.
"Right, sorry, only your eyes are beautiful." He wasn't ready for more arguments.
"You must be crazy." She shuffles beneath her breath. She ran off with a picky bag of coins and in an attempt to escape fell off the window and Youkay couldn't help but feel pity for her.
Sang-ku walks into the room immediately after Miyoung leaves.
"What are you looking at?" Youkay, who was still staring at the window, turned to look at him.
"What? Nothing, Sang-ku, I heard the Shadow Assassin uses Tansus." Youkay picks the crab leg and examines it carefully.
Sang-ku chuckled,"What do you know about Tansus?"
"I know enough, I read about it in my free time". Youkay sounded confident about this information.
"Tansus is the type of swordsmanship that only the best mages can learn, you flick energy with a blade just like you flick water. A single strike is enough to kill someone." Sang-ku explained to Youkay.
" But why did you ask?"
Youkay raised the crab leg in his face and recalled the moves Miyoung made on him "I am just wondering if this crab leg almost could have killed me."
"Give it here, give it to me, I will pick out the way…" Sang-ku attempted to collect the crab leg from him when Youkay retreated the crab leg straight to his neck. Sang-ku was scared for his life
"Listen, Youkay, you're aiming at a vital point. I could die" Sang-ku could see the edge of the crab almost piercing him.
" Yes, she aimed at my vital point in just one go." Youkay was certain Miyoung was really talented with her fighting ability.
Miyoung was in the market wanting to eat as her weak body craved food often when the mages entered the market. The women were murmuring about a female assassin who wanted to kill the mages and its leaders but got caught. The group of mages was led by Jiwon one of the seasons, they were merely taking a walk around town.
Jiwon and Minjae had had an encounter in the past when they were younger. Minjae in Miyoung's body recalls seating on a tree with Jiwon and he gave her a whistle. She couldn't get her gaze away from him in the market as he walked past her.
" He must have seen my dead body, he likely would not recognize me. I am sure he did not recognize the whistle either" Miyoung fell into her endless monologue and got emotional on seeing Jiwon.
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Down below the mountains into the Stony Forest are Miyoung's superiors – the ones who trained her and have sent her on her mission whose faces were barely seen because they were covered in black cloths from head to toe.
" There are no signs of Minjae having visited this place, I think she failed to find a new body." One of the superiors said.
" Even if she succeeded, she probably isn't showing herself because she's facing a problem. An Assassin with a revealed identity must be discarded. We have to retrieve her body and sword, get rid of everything that has to do with her." The older superior replied.
" What happens if she's still alive?" The younger superior was insisted
" She will either get killed for being a soul shifter, or her soul will clash with the new body and she will turn to a rock. I trained her very well to become the best assassin, it's a pity." The oldest Superior sounded disappointed.
Nevertheless, Youkay Gang ordered his men to kidnap Miyoung and bring her back to the palace.
Miyoung was rendered unconscious at the gold shop where she had gone to sell off one of the royal Jade she stole while in the palace when some group of men came in and kidnapped her.
" Where am I? Did I get caught? Then is this Kpakpanga?" Miyoung woke up to see herself in a strange room and had questions all over her head.
The door cracked open and a maid walked in with clothes. "Are you awake?" The maid asked.
"Who are you? Where is this place?" Miyoung was curious about her new environment.
"It is in the house of master Gang Jang, the head of Ganwanchi"
"Gang Jang? So this is the Hand family's house." One of those are monologues again.
"I wonder why the young master brought home such a weak girl." It's obvious the maid didn't like her.
"Young master? Miyoung couldn't hide her curiosity.
"That is right, young master Gang Youkay paid money for you to be brought here from the brothel. I heard you stole his Jade plague from the brothel"
"Why would he bring me here?" Miyoung was certain he was up to something because earlier on he gave her the Jade plague willingly.
"I was worried when he said he was bringing a girl home, but you put me at ease. He only helped you out of pity." The maid wasn't pleased to see her and she didn't need to hide it but Miyoung was totally unbothered by her actions. She came in with some maid clothes and asked Miyoung to change into it. She didn't fail to remind her that she was answerable to her before leaving the room for her to change up.
Miyoung was glad she was going to be staying there, at least it was safer for her until she recovers and if he was falling head over hills for her, he would treat her right.
"Then I guess I will continue to live my life here as Miyoung." She said to herself.
Miyoung was overly cheerful with him and apologized for threatening him with a crab leg the previous day.
Youkay constantly tries her patience, being overly picky with everything she does from making the bed to running a bath. Miyoung promises to kill him first once she's regained her power. Unfortunately, she doesn't have her water powers right now. But hey, that doesn't stop a girl from dreaming!
Interestingly, Miyoung does notice something intriguing in Youkay's possession while bringing him his clothes, coming in the form of a spirit emblem; that shiny blue necklace Minjae used to restrict Javern at the lake.
"That spirit plague will allow me to break the barrier and enter Songrim. But I cannot do that right now because I do not have powers to cast spells. I should find my sword, I might get my powers back if I find my sword."
"With that spirit plague, I will be able to enter Songrim. Miyoung said audibly this time