THE CURSED ONE - THE BOY WHO CHALLENGE DESTINY

The Headmaster Daughter - 1

Golden Flame Sect

Hundreds of students shouting similar words together, they are under martial arts training inside the Yellow Hall of the Golden Flame School. Jin is outside the hall, instead of following the training class he’s cleaning the grass in the front yard. It is not because he doesn’t want to learn a martial art, but more because his body prevents him from training a martial art. The Black Devil Curse in his body was the problem. Jin keeps doing his work carefully, he doesn’t want if someone will report him to the Golden Flame Master if he works carelessly, Jung Kook will be in trouble if that happens.

From distance, someone is looking at him. He is Hyul, a 14 years old kid, one of the 2nd-grade students in Golden Flame. Instead of joining the training in Blue Hall for 2nd-grade students, he looked at Jin with anger in his mind. He always thinks if Jin was the one that responsible for all of his suffering for the last 3 months, he thinks if Jin was not a weak kid, he didn’t have to go through all the punishment from the School Committee. Had to Clean up the school toilets and wrote 1000 sentences of regret every day was a big humiliation for him who is the oldest son in the Mang Kook family, a very rich and powerful family around and he is someone who will become his family future successor. He wants to take revenge, whatever the cost he had to pay he doesn’t care.

Another student walks silently behind Hyul and manages to shock him. Hyul looked at that student’s face and then punch him in the shoulder, he is Eral, one of Hyul’s best friends.

“What are you doing in here, Hyul?” Eral asked with curiosity, “Did you found a beautiful student in here?”

“No, you moron, I was staring at that kid, that is the bastard who makes the School Committee punished me,” Hyul answered.

“Who? That small and weak kid?” Eral asked while he pointing his finger at Jin.

“Yes, of course, no one else there.” Hyul answered again.

“Ah come on Hyul, just forget him. That kid doesn’t even look powerful or wealthy enough for you to consider him as a rival,” Eral tried to make Hyul forget about Jin. “Don’t waste your time on him.”

Hyul suddenly put his hand in Eral’s neck, “Listen carefully, I never was and never will consider him as my rival, he didn’t even as worth as a flies in my eyes. Never call him my rival again. I just want to make him suffer,” Hyung said angrily, “Do you get it now?!”

Eral is shocked by Hyul’s reaction, he didn’t think if Hyul was very obsessed with that little kid. Eral raises his hands up, “Chill out Hyul, calm down, you hurt my neck. I just want you to remember that we are a successor of a great family, and that kid was nobody, even without our intervention, he will get suffer because of his curse.”

“No, I must make him suffer, much more with my hand.” Hyul answered firmly and release Eral’s neck.

“Okay… okay, what’s your plan then? I will help to make it happen. I believe Cha and Gwang will gladly help you either.” Eral said.

 “Very good, but right now I don’t have any plan, just wait, I’ll make a plan to make him suffer and get expelled from this sect. Let’s leave for now.” Hyul said and asked Eral to leave that place.

Jin doesn’t realize if someone was watching him from distance, he stopped his works for a while and looks at the sky, he sees dark clouds gathered above him, it’s going to rain soon enough. His intuition feels something bad will be about to happen soon. But hey, weren’t bad things always come to him? Another bad fate means nothing because he will keep fighting till the end. That is the only thing that he can do.

Jin finished all of his works in the Yellow Hall, now he wanted to take a bath for a while before he helps another Jung Kook’s works again. While collecting his working tools, he looks inside the Yellow Hall for a glance. He looks at the students who still learning their basic moves, all the moves that Jin already remembered in his brain. Many of the students still struggling to do that basic moves, while Jin can mimic those moves easily, but if he does that he will get the pain that he doesn’t want to feel again, especially because he doesn’t want to put Jung Kook into trouble if he passed out. What he only can do is training the movements in his brain. Every night before sleeping, he will mimic those moves in his brain over and over. Now, he can understand every basic move of Golden Flame martial art easily although he still doesn't have the chance to try it.

The time passed by, it is already midnight when Jin awoke himself because he wants to take a pee. He walks slowly to avoid any noise that will disturb Jung Kook's sleep, when he was already outside the room he started to walk fast towards the bathroom. After finished peeing, he now wants to get back to his room immediately, he's still sleepy. Jin looks around for a moment, this is a quiet night, no one outside, maybe only the guards who are on their night duty. Jin almost reaches the front door of the Food Warehouse when he suddenly heard some voices, he stopped a while and sharpening his ears to hear the voices clearly. It seems 2 persons are talking nearby, but he can’t see them anywhere around from his place. At first, he thinks if those voices might be the voices of the night guards who are talking to each other, but suddenly Jin hears something strange in their conversation. One of the voices said if he wanted to immediately kidnap the daughter of the Golden Flame current headmaster, while the other said if they must wait until the perfect moment.

Jin gets himself down and puts his back on the wall, he tries to moves very slowly and quietly to find the source of the voices, he wanted to hear more of their conversations. Before Jin hears more, a torch is seen closing by from a distance, those are the torch from the guards who are on their duty to check the situations and regularly watching around. The voices suddenly disappear but no sound of people walking or running that Jin can hear.

Jin standing up and looks around, he doesn’t hide again because he knows if he has the guards as his backup if those mysterious people attacking him. Now he tries to look in every direction but he can’t find anyone or any shadows, he keeps looking until the guard notices and asked what he did.

“Hey kid, what are you doing in the midnight like this? Aren’t you the kid who came here with Jung Kook?” Mori, one of the two guards come and asked.

“Yes sir, I’m Jin, Jung Kook’s family,” Jin answered. Jin remembered if Mori was the guard who was permitting him to enter the Golden Flame Sect for the first time after he met Jung Kook, at that time Mori was a gatekeeper and now he’s doing a night watch, “I heard strange voices before, sir. I heard 2 men talked each other about k********g the daughter of Golden Flame headmaster, but now they were gone and I can’t find them anywhere.”

“Haha… k********g the daughter of our sect headmaster? You must be dreaming kid.” Mori laughed hard, he doesn’t believe what Jin has said.

“Do you know how strong our headmaster is, kid? No one in here is able to challenge the headmaster, let alone defeats him. He is one of the strongest in this land right now. Who the hell wants to make him and all Golden Flame Sect an enemy by k********g his daughter? You must be dreaming or hallucinating,” Mori continued, “That’s enough! Go back to your bed now, don’t go around and disturb our night watch.”

Jin doesn’t answer, he just bows himself in front of Mori and his friend as they walk away from him. Jin understands if he doesn’t have any evidence for what he had said, right now he is only able to keep this information himself.

Jin goes back to his room and puts himself on the bed, he still questioning the conversation that he had heard before, he tries to remember if he can know who’s voice was that, but he can’t figure it out. “Maybe what Mori said was right, who wants to make the greatest warrior around as their enemy? Even if there are peoples who wanted to kidnap the headmaster's daughter, surely it won’t be that easy, she must be well protected every day and night.” Jin said to himself. He’s too sleepy to think again and not long after he falls asleep.