As if fate was mocking you, paths of people you thought would never cross again at all cost would still happen whether you wanted it or not.


    "Is that?"


    "Hyun Jae!"


    "Did you say, Hyun Jae?!" Iris eximed in surprise.


    Mya didn''t respond and instead, without wasting any moment of time, she grabbed a talisman and tore it to pieces.


    Hyun Jae with her usual white flowy dress with light blueces fluttered as she made a run for her dear life. Behind him, hungry packs of ck wolves were chasing after her.


    "Ah!" She tripped when she didn''t see the small bump on the way.


    "Raaa!" One big wolf jumped towards her.


    "No!" Hyun Jae covered as she closed her eyes but momentster, nothing happened to her.


    "Hyun Jae, are you alright?"


    Instead, she heard someone''s voice and a whimper of a wolf.


    She immediately nced up and to her surprise, the wolf that was going to attack her was now fallen to the ground.


    The other wolves, seeing that their leader was down, immediately ran away.


    Besides the wolf there was someone with a dark brown cloak fluttering, standing. The said person was holding a strange weapon, some sort of a wooden-shaped weapon.


    The said person turned towards Hyun Jae, and their faces were covered with a white mask. Making it hard for Hyun Jae to know the identity of the said person.


    "Thank you for saving me," Hyun Jae said as she tried to stand up but then she winced when she felt pain in her right ankle.


    "Did you twist your foot?" Mya went to her to check her foot.


    "Mya!"


    Hyun Jae gasped when she heard that name. Iris caught her breath as she finally reached them. She was followed by Elred and Rein.


    "Now you suddenly y a hero that saves a damsel in distress," Iris said.


    "Mya?" Hyun Jae''s soft voice resonated which earned the attention of everyone. Mya couldn''t help but sigh inwardly.


    "Hyun Jae, it''s been a while," Mya said as she took off her mask and cloak. Her once brown hair started to change into her real dark ocean ones and her eyes too.


    "Mya!" Hyun Jae eximed in delight as she tried to stand up and give Mya a hug. But Hyun Jae winced when her foot hurt.


    "Don''t move too much for now," Mya said as she nodded with Rein.


    "Let me look after your foot, Ms. Hyun Jae." Rein said as he lowered to check her foot.


    "Ah! There is no need for that." Hyun Jae immediately declined as her hands glowed with a gentle green hue. Then she ced it on the top of her swollen ankle. The green light flew to the swollen part of the wound and it started to heal.


    ''Ah right, she''s a healer.'' Mya thought as she watched Hyun Jae do her magic.


    After a few minutes, Hyun Jae stood up and jumped up and down. "See! It''s all healed up now," she eximed in delight.


    "Now that you are alright, what are you doing here, Hyun Jae, and all by yourself?"


    ''Wait I clearly saw there was someone else with her too. Did my eyes just y tricks on me due to the distance?''


    "About that," Hyun Jae fiddled with her fingers as she nced down. "I ran away from the pce."


    "Ah I see so you just run away I thought...." Mya realized what Hyun Jae just said right now. "You did what?!"


    Hyun Jae flinched when Mya screamed.


    "The truth is I came here on my own ord because I got worried about Oliver and Aadel."


    "Those two? What''s the matter with them?"


    "They also went here but it''s been three weeks for them now, and they still haven''te back. The others told me to not worry but I just couldn''t help it. But I couldn''t find them and I have been wandering in this deste ce for almost a week now."


    Mya massaged her aching temples. ''She''s been here for a week now. The empire must be inplete chaos due to her disappearance right now. Oh, God.''


    "And how in the world did you even get here?"


    "Actually I''m not alone, Theo helped me get here by every means but due to some reason, I got separated from him."


    "Theo? Ah, the son of themander of the Eagle Knights Order."


    "Yes." Hyun Jae nodded her head. "I hope he is alright..."


    *Flick!*


    Hyun Hae pouted when Mys flicked her forehead all of the sudden.


    "Rather than worrying about him, you should have looked out for yourself more. If we are one stepte, you could have been eaten by those wolves right now."


    "I could have just healed myself if they attacked me."


    Hyun Jae received another flick to her head and this time looked at Mya with teary eyes.


    "You can''t heal a dead body, Hyun Jae," Mya said, looking firmly at the teary ck eyes of Hyun Jae. "You should take care of your life more since you only have one of it." Mya reached her hand to Hyun Jae''s head and patted it. "Will you do that, Hyun Jae?"


    Since Mya was two feet tall to Hyun Jae, they were like an elder sister reprimanding her little sister.


    Hyun Jae nodded her head as she looked at Mya with awe.


    "Yes yes, big sister Mya." Iris interrupted with a huge teasing grin stered on her face.


    "I''ll also give you head pats," Mya said as she grinned back to Iris.


    "I hate head pats," Iris growled. "And there is still this cat thatpletely nested on my head.


    Kayden who became aplete little ck little kitten raised his head then simply went back to sleep.


    "So you''re the famous saintess," Iris said with all smiles. "Nice to meet you, I''m Iris."


    "Hyun Jae," Mya leaned closer towards Hyun Jae''s ears. "Though she is still a good person. Be careful the most when she smiles like that."


    "Hey!" Iris retorted.


    "Ehem." Rein gathered their attention. "Mdy, I think for now we should find a safe ce to camp here and rest."


    "Yes," Mya said solemnly.. "That should be the best we can do for the time being as we figure out what''s going on."