"No More Lies...Part 1"

Mi-kyung had called everyone down for dinner. Taehyung questioned Mi-kyung. She very much was a mystery to everyone present. "Do you have a soul ?" Mi-kyung nodded. What would she gain from lying ? "I have a soul, yes. Does that make you all uncomfortable ?" Yoongi snarled, "기분 나빠요. 영혼을 가진 사람들은 복수심이 강하고 자기보존적입니다. 우린 지옥에나 가겠죠?" (It makes me uncomfortable. People with souls are vindictive & self preserving. To Hell for the rest of us, right ?)

It was true. This era did nothing for those who possessed no soul at all. There was no ill intention from Mi-kyung. Or was there ? Her family has run this refuge since the dawn of this era started. Soul or no soul, her family sees everyone as equal. As people, right ? Namjoon spoke up next. Which wasn't expected. "You didn't just call us for dinner, did you ?"

Perceptive. Namjoon truly impressed Mi-kyung. He was more aware than she had thought. Mother Cha' was entirely a refuge, but it had its secrets too. Survival was the end goal for everyone in the end. "As you've all figured out, I have limited magical abilities..." Jungkook interjected angrily. "Something was off when you showed us to our rooms. What aren't you telling us ?"

Mi-kyung was aware she there would be seven against one. Their anger was valid, but they were entirely foolish to blindly accept the circumstances of the society they lived in. "벽 안에 비밀의 방이 숨겨져 있어요...복도를 배회할 때 보이는 것 이상을 담고 있어요..." (There is a secret room hidden within the walls...It holds more than what you see when you roam the halls...) Everyone was intrigued, angry, or simply confused. Why did she take them in if all she was going to do was make fools of them all ? Yoongi was by far the most violent out of the seven. He stabbed a knife into the table directly in front of Mi-kyung. "You will show us this room now. No more fucking lies."

Mi-kyung lead them to the room where one by one they began inspecting everything. Hoseok read an excerpt from a diary. His voice was shaking & he couldn't believe what he was reading. "Diary one...Blood. So much blood littered the streets & steps of our refuge...This was an act of violence. An act of war. 'Witches must die !', the saying plastered to our front door. That is when I made a damning decision. I changed the fate of my family..." Mi-kyung stood quiet while they all began reading things or pointing things out.

Seokjin pointed out a bottle in a seal display case. The plaque before the case reading: Family Blood. "You keep a bottle of blood here ? Why ?!", Jimin asked totally in fear of Mi-kyung now. She didn't bother answering before Namjoon found another excerpt to read. The excerpt broken between english & korean. "I called the last of us forth. The witches not yet dead at the hands of those who wanted them eradicated...I quickly sat a bottle on the ground. 성병에 피를 빼기 위해 손바닥을 자르라고 명령했어요. (I ordered that we all cut our palms to drain the blood into the sacred bottle.) With our lives hanging in the balance for less than a minute, we performed a powerful spell together. 이 특정한 마법은 우리의 피를 빠르게 빨아들였고 우리의 마법은 영원히 봉인될 것입니다. (This specific spell drained our blood quickly and our magic alone with it would be sealed away forever.) This was the end, right ?"

That is when Jungkook pointed at the centerpiece of the hidden room.