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The headache started slow but then quick like tidal waves and it causes Jung Hwa to feel his ears painfully ringing. A certain anger was inside his heart but his mind was yet taking in the current situation of his surrounding. He first met Seoyeon's eyes that was filled with concern for him, "Can you see me? Do you know who I am?" Seoyeon asked, helping him to grasp his surrounding.

"He won't forget anything and anyone," came the fortuneteller's voice behind her which had Jung Hwa to snap his eyes almost immediately toward the woman. The last memory of the fight then thundered inside his mind, replaying in speed.

With a frown of his eyebrows, Jung Hwa landed his hand on the ground on his sides, ready to attack when Seoyeon hurriedly caught his arm, "She decided to help."

"Help?" Jung Hwa repeated with his voice low and hoarse, causing him to sound feral, "In exchange for what?" 

"Nothing," the fortuneteller answered. She cannot see the couple but she could tell how one of them must be glaring daggers toward her. "If you can assess yourself, you would know of how disappointingly useless you two are; chased by hunters, witches, and vampires? Bad luck must be your family's name."

"And death is soon going to be your friend," Jung Hwa cut the woman's words and the tense silence arises to the peak. 

"It will be fine," Seoyeon said, the fortuneteller's sardonic reply instead of directly replying was not of help at all. "She decided to help me after I managed to dissemble her magic. We made a bet and I won."

"I am a human of my word, loyal with my promise," added the fortuneteller who then flipped the page as she was blind, the whispers beside her was the one who aided her to read the book now.

Jung Hwa narrowed his eyes, the scowl on his eyes didn't leave as he could hardly trust the fortuneteller's words, "Simply because Seoyeon manage to undone your magic? What a simple reason to sway you. Even if you accepted me, I won't let you off easy for what you did earlier."

"What did I do?" The fortuneteller asked as though her memories had disappeared in a smoke. With Jung Hwa's deeper frown and his killing intent, she spoke, "I only played some of your past memories for you to remember it again."

"The last scene you showed me isn't real," said Jung Hwa with a click of his tongue and Seoyeon snapped her eyes to look at him, wondering if he was speaking about the moment he had killed his brother which the fortuneteller had shown to him again. "It never happened."

"That one was a reminder for you," the fortuneteller who had been staring at the book then shifted her face toward their direction. Seoyeon saw the woman smile craftily. "A reminder of who you have chosen and the consequence that came with her," and Seoyeon realize the person the fortuneteller mentioned was her. She heard the fortuneteller continued, "I wanted to see who you will choose," the fortuneteller then snapped her face to meet her, "and you would be delighted and moved to hear it was you he chose. What a great love," the woman said and though she sounded sincere with her compliment, Seoyeon could also hear the woman's dispirited tone.

"You can kill me if you wish, pureblood but remember your action came with consequence. If you kill me now, the only alternative method for you to save your dear woman would be gone."

Jung Hwa continue to glare at the woman and only cease his glare as he knew better that the woman and her power might be a help for Seoyeon. His eyes quickly meet Seoyeon's black ones, "Are you alright?"

She nodded her head, letting Jung Hwa to hold her wrist as his gaze studied her to validate her safety. "Nothing happened to me, she didn't hurt me," she said, and though still feel upset when she remembered how the fortuneteller had hurt Jung Hwa, it wasn't the time to dwell in it and she had to push aside it for now.

"How long do you think it will take for you to successfully find the method to elicit the lucid dream?" Asked Seoyeon and the woman hummed.

"I can do it now," she offered and Seoyeon's eyes brightened because it was perfect for them who was running out of time. "The safety is still a question however."

"Useless," Jung Hwa chided with a look of glaring, "The priority is her safety, I expected more for a light witch."

Seoyeon raised her brows, and her eyes blinked to look back at him, "You knew?" 

"Her power is one of a kind, I just filled the puzzle. But I don't know anything other than that and I think I deserve an explanation."

"I can tell you about it," offered Seoyeon and she started her tale of what happened once he was held captive, revealing the truth about the fortuneteller and her reincarnation, and their new question that had appeared.

Right when Seoyeon had explained everything, the fortuneteller raised her voice, "I say that you're impressive to fit the puzzle and find the answer on your own with the lack of information," the fortuneteller deadpanned, "Your hearing and patience is not as impressive as your brilliant mind, however. I haven't laid out my side of explanation. According to this book, I would need you to be in a sleep for around a day before the magic is cast on her. You will feel light headed after waking up and faint but it shouldn't be anywhere deadly."

"The warrant? Seoyeon's life is on your hand I want a warrant from you to trust you with her life," Jung Hwa said, his eyes transforming to red, growling in defendant as he was on guard against the light witch. The woman had hid lots of secrets of herself and he doubted she had came clear about all her secret. What she appears now was only a quarter of her real self.

"As the only light witch on this world, I can assure you that no grim reaper should be able to appear next to her side during this ritual. Seoyeon will have to stay here and sleep until tomorrow before we can proceed with next steps."

"Here?" Jung Hwa pointed how dilapidated the hut in which the fortuneteller live at that seemed as if one large blow of a wind would topple the foundation, flattening the hut to nothingness.

"This is the best place for anyone to live at and mind your manners, this house is the most secure. I can prove you by how there had not been any black witch stepping inside this house."

Seoyeon had seen the woman's power before and found herself relaying on the woman's words with more reassurance. Compared to her, Jung Hwa wasn't completely bought. He asked, "Yet you let me in when I was a potential danger?" 

"I wanted not to let you in but her," the fortuneteller pointed her finger to Seoyeon. "If I had shoo you off it would only raise suspicions and I cannot afford losing my peaceful life due to a scene a pureblood created. Take the box behind you, Seoyeon."

Seoyeon turned her head to look at the wall, searching for what the fortuneteller pointed out to see a wooden box filled. She walked up and took the box, bringing it again to the seat where she had taken earlier on the ground and opened the latch of the box. Her eyes then stopped at all the clear-looking liquid placed in a bulb-like glass container.

"You should be able to find a yellow potion amongst there. It is a potion that I made which two spoonful of it will put a person to sleep three days.

"Yellow?" Seoyeon asked for the woman to repeat again because she couldn't find any yellow potion. All the liquid looked the same and similar— clear looking without a single color in it.

"One of the potions from there should hold a tinge of yellow."

Seoyeon pulled out all the potion, placing it near the lamp beside her and she raised her eyebrows. Tinge of yellow? The potion barely hold color at all! Only if Seoyeon squint her eyes hardly and placed it so close to the lamp that she noticed the faint blue color of the one poison.

"Is there any way I can find the potion other then relaying on the color?" Asked Seoyeon and the fortuneteller shook her head.

"Don't even try drinking it, some are deadly," warned the woman. Seoyeon wasn't sure if she should call this woman meticulous or troublesome but then her thought was brought to life when Jung Hwa spoke in her stead,

"Troublesome, you could have thicken the color," Jung Hwa left a remark that caused the fortuneteller's lips to twitch. 

"I am blind, how can I know the color of my potion and doing this will make it difficult for others to find them."

"Which mean yo can find the poison faster than ordering Seoyeon to do it."

"That I can't. I am busy reading this. We cannot waste a single second. She will come her own way soon either way."

Seoyeon was getting a headache with both Jung Hwa and the fortuneteller's bickering and she place her hand on Jung Hwa's arm, showing him a nod. "I can do this myself."

"I will help," Jung Hwa then offered, his eyes lowly giving the fortuneteller a look, "Compared to the polite and gentle nature the light witch is famous for, I see those are only but whispers. You don't seem to be any different than the dark witches."

"Well if I am not kind I won't be here doing this task I don't really want to be part of."

Seoyeon shook her head, she questioned herself what could make these two stop retorting on every words the other say. While picking and separating the potion to find the yellow potion amongst all the seventy nine potion in the box, Jung Hwa then came up with a question, "You said earlier that Seoyeon could only drink two spoonful of the potion. What happen if anyone drink all of it?"

"They will die," the fortuneteller said, her expression and voice sinking down very subtly for the other two people to not pick up the change in her voice.. "It is the most gentlest potion I have for me to kill a person, preferably for suicide."