The Art Of Sword

Everyone is now confused about what Jihu just said except for Sunz.

Grace points at Sunz and says: Isn’t he the weird one, not you?

Sunz: Jihu my friend, I think you should explain it in simple terms for them to understand.

Jihu: There is nothing to explain. The place is literally called Dungeon.

“Now everyone grab a card and follow me.”

Sunz: How far are we going to walk for?

Jihu: About 10 minutes.

Everyone grabs a gold card and keeps it safe somewhere on their body. Jihu also pockets the extra card and then leads everyone outside of the hotel.

On their way to the “Dungeon”, everyone has something to keep them occupied:

- Jihu and No Name have a small talk.

Jihu: No Name, is that your placeholder name for this tournament?

No Name: Do you have a problem with that? Are you going to disqualify me?

Jihu: Please, don’t take it the wrong way. When people hide or abbreviate their name, that must mean they play an important role. So I’m just curious about your role in this tournament.

No Name: You are digging a bit too deep into someone's personal matter.

Jihu: I am. But it’s your choice to answer the question, lie to me, or stay silent.

…

No Name: I don’t play a role or not yet. Hiding my name was a way to keep my personal information out of this tournament… I am not as important as you think. Right now! I’m just your friend's biggest obstacle.

Jihu: That was before, your role right now is a member of this group.

“Which is kinda strange. You said you want to keep your information to yourself but you accept his invitation to join us.”

No Name: He did go out of his way to invite me, so it would be rude to decline. Plus, it is not a two-person trip.

Jihu: Well, this is just my speculation. The reason why you decided to join this trip was because you were lonely. Have no one to rely on.

No Name *scoff*: And you’re saying that he is the one who pulled me out of that ditch.

Jihu: haha…haizz, If that was true, he and I wouldn’t have become friends.

No Name was shocked to hear that but didn’t say out loud (What?!)

Jihu: You and him are kinda similar in a way. You both want to be alone and don’t think that you need friends.

No Name: About what you just said before, did you become friends with him just out of pity?

Jihu: If that was all it took, it would make me look bad. It’s more like a combination of I feel pity for him, he is strange and time. It’s taken me at least a week of pestering, just for him to talk with me.

No Name: Wouldn’t that have the opposite effect most of the time?

Jihu: That is also dependent on the person too.

“Didn’t you also get pestered by someone too? The person that allows you to be comfortable wherever you are with them.”

*No Name got a flashback of the previous night. After Sunz left, about 10 minutes later she heard constant knocking on her door. She draws her weapon and opens the door. Something lunged at her sword and got stabbed. That something was Grace, when No Name saw who was at the door she wasn’t quick enough to draw the sword away. Leading to a nonfatal injury near Grace’s collarbone.

*Grace quickly took off a piece of her attire to cover the wound, then pulled her suitcases inside the room and closed the door. While she was doing that No Name tried to find some stuff to patch her up but was only able to find some bandages.

*Grace said “That will work!” then grabbed one of the bandages off No-Name’s hand. Still holding the piece of attire on her wound, Grace activates her ability to lower her body temperature to stop the bleeding and then close her wound with the bandage.

*No Name asked with a confused look: What are you doing here? How did you know my room number?

*Grace opens her suitcases and says: I’m here to bond with you… And you already know who I need to pressure for the information.

*No Name: Bonding? I… don’t think it necessary.

*Grace grabs both of No-Name’s hands and says: If you want me to leave then just say it. If not we are going to have some fun.

*No Name: I…uhm… Please leave.

*Grace answers with a smile: No!

*No Name: But you just said.

*Grace: And your answer was hesitant…So we are going to have a lot of time to bond.

*Grace used the moment No-Name’s guard was down to release both of their hand and start stripping No-Name.

*Flashback end.

No Name: Is pestering the same as stripping someone bare?

Jihu: What?... I guess different people have different ways.

“The outfit you’re wearing right now. It’s from Grace, isn’t it?”

No Name: So you notice. Grace has so many different outfits, but for some reason, they’re all in pair of Black and White.

Jihu: Grace is definitely an interesting addition to our life.

“I’m happy to see that she is doing fine in life. You now have a friend who works in the same field as yourself.”

“But I have to say, Sunz is going to be affected the most. He now has someone that will help him grow up.”

No Name: Even though their relationship is pretty one-sided.

Jihu: How one-sided?

No Name tells Jihu about the deal between Grace and Sunz.

Jihu: Oh, so that's happened. Hmm, when will these two get married?

No Name: How can you be so sure about that?

Jihu: I can give you a bunch of reasons like (Relationship can grow no matter how one-sided it is.), (Our line of work is dangerous for family members or loved ones that can’t protect themselves.)

“But I’m sure because I saw their ‘Red Thread’.”

- Sunz and Grace were walking behind them while having their own conversation. More like they don’t know what to say to each other and are still lost in their thoughts.

Grace’s mind (Why isn’t he saying anything? Am I always have to take the initiative? But what can I ask? His family? Where did he go last night? Does he like that ‘Windbreaker’ more than me? Ok, that was a stupid one. Maybe that is his only comfortable clothes.)

Sunz’s mind (Moron think of something to say! Compliment her outfit or something. But what do I follow up with? Just give her a compliment then be quiet for the next minute. Well, I could ask about that bandage on her chest. But she will answer by asking “Were you looking at my chest?”… Let’s just go with that script, it is easy, predictable, and will have the conversation rolling.

Sunz: So…why is there a bandage on your chest?

Grace (Finally): Oh this! I have some accident so I need to cover it up.

Sunz: Accident like cutting yourself?

Grace: Yeah, that type of accident.

Sunz: How can you even cut yourself? Aren’t you very skilled with that rapier?

Grace: Uhmmm…

Sunz: I remember that you didn’t have a bandage when I met you last night.

Grace (Don’t skip my turn like that! And how did you even remember that detail?)

Sunz: Did you accidentally assault No Name and get stabbed there?

Grace (How the fuck did you get that!): Why would you think that ridiculous scenario lead to the bandage?

Sunz: Well, you did ask for No-Name’s room number and I met you inside her room this morning.

Grace:…That is true. But why ‘stabbing’ and ‘assault’?

Sunz: As a victim who had her sword to the neck before, I just use that as a base, and for ‘assault’ it is just to fill in the blank. For the bandage, I just have to put it in between since I don’t know who would bring bandages with them.

“So if the bandage is easy to remove, it was put on last night. If not, it was put on this morning.”

Grace: Who are you, Sherlock?

Sunz: Did I dig a bit too deep?

Grace: You want to know how it happened?

Sunz: If you don’t mind telling, then yes.

*Grace tells Sunz how she got the bandage.*

Sunz: Then what did you do after that?

Grace: Don’t dig too deep into ‘Girl Time’!

Sunz: Sorry. Is it still hurt if you touch it?

Something just erupted in Grace’s mind (!!!!!!!!!!!)

“Well well, why don’t you give it a try!” she said after putting one finger on the bandage.

Sunz and Grace have never been this fast in their life. After Sunz touches the bandage, both of them quickly retract their hand and act casually, like nothing happened.

Lucky for them, almost no one sees their unholy action. Except for Jihu and No Name.

Jihu and No Name (That was cute but don’t do it in public.)

Both Sunz and Grace's body temperatures rise at the same time so Grace decides to grab Sunz’s hand and cool his body down.

Grace: Let me help you with that!

Sunz: Thank you! The outfit you’re wearing is very beautiful, especially the dress, its color goes well with your hair.

Grace: Thank you! You pick it after all.

Sunz: I’m sorry that I couldn’t compliment your outfit sooner. I’m really bad at describing clothes.

Grace: To be honest, when it comes to attire I’m also as bad as you are. I have a friend who gave me a file of what pieces of clothing to mix together.

Sunz: She sounds like a considerate person.

Grace: She is and she loves fashion a bit too much.

While Grace and Sunz continued to talk with each other, No Name and Jihu had stopped their to eavesdropping on them.

While two people eavesdropping on the others, Yama constantly charms every Korean he walks by with his look. (This includes both males and females.)