chapter 1

Behind You

Chapter 1

In this world, there are many different species of creatures, humans are the most advanced and intelligent animals. But humanity still has many limitations, they always have to create and invent modern machines to serve their living needs. There is something that someone can do that humans cannot.

That is witch.

Existing somewhere on this huge globe, a small community of witches with special abilities. They can make anyone lose a certain sense, or they can make anyone sick with some disease, or they can control water or wind. They manifest as fully human beings, with physical appearance, hair, face, and limbs.

The only difference is that they have completely black eyes, with no whites, but when presented to humans, they will wear an assistive device, which makes them have human-like eyes.

A group of people with such special abilities, will they be able to rule the world? The answer is no, because each witch can only cast magic on one object, then will lose all their magical abilities, return to a normal human, but their eyes still can't have whites.

So they never stepped out into the light, telling everyone who they were. They live a simple and closed life. Everything seemed to be going well, but some people in the community were discovered by humans, so there was some agreement between the witch and the human.

A group of people including billionaires, financiers, politicians with social status, they know about the existence of witches. They take advantage of agreements with the wizarding community to achieve their own personal ends.

Including Oh Seunghee, the 8th generation descendant of King Oh Sehun under the Joseon era, is a middle-aged woman. According to history, in the 14th century, the king at the head of the court was Oh Sejong, the younger brother of Oh Sehun. There is a secret that few people know, that is that the king at that time should be Sehun, but because Sejong used infamous tricks to make Sehun's image worse in the eyes of the people. Their father,  supreme leader Oh chose that Oh Sejong is the next king to succeed him.

This feud Oh Sehun keeps from this life to the next life over the years, his descendants found all sorts of ways to eliminate the entire lineage related to Oh Sejong. Up to the present era, the only surviving family that bears a little bit of Sejong's blood, is the Kim family, headed by Kim Junsu.

Kim Junsu is married and has only one daughter named Kim Bora, 11 years old.

Oh Seunghee knows the existence of a community of witches, she uses her family background to make requests to them. The Kim family needs to disappear from this world.

For the Kim couple, Seunghee just needed an accident scenario that could end their lives. But for the only daughter of the Kim family, she wants to destroy it by another method, that is through witchcraft.

Seunghee ordered the witch community to make Kim Bora lose one of her senses, and live suffering until 30 years old, then she will die of a stroke.

And the person is assigned by the witch community to kill Kim Bora, is Lee Siyeon.

Lee Siyeon comes from a family of witch parents. Usually in the media or in movies, people portray witches as people with long pointed noses, gaunt eyes, thin and wet hair, and wearing dark and gloomy clothes. . Both the appearance and the face give a creepy feeling to the viewers.

But in fact, witches all have the same appearance as humans, even witches have ideal bodies and beautiful faces.

Lee Siyeon is one of them.

She owns a height of 166cm, an extremely sharp and beautiful face to the point of arrogance, along with a cold aura. Her eyes are as cold as the sea at night, her body is also toned, thighs, biceps… even though she doesn't participate in any exercise.

The growth and maturity of a witch is also different from that of a normal human. They only need after 5 years to be able to grow to 160 to 170cm, and stop there, not tall anymore. Lee Siyeon as of now is 10 years old, but has a body like a seasoned adult woman.

That's why witches can't go to school like everyone else, they can only stay at home, or go to work with a fake document.

After accepting the mission, Siyeon goes to find the identity of the victim she needs to target. She stood in front of the Piri school gate, where the victim was attending secondary school.

In her hand was a picture of a child named Kim Bora, the only and last descendant of Oh Sejong. A pretty girl, chubby cheeks, exceptionally high nose bridge, 140cm tall, which means the top of Bora’s head is just as high as Siyeon's chest.

In terms of years of life, this girl is one year older than Siyeon, but in terms of maturity and understanding of life, of course Siyeon is better. Living in the community of witches, she knew everything related to this complex society.

After ten minutes of waiting, Kim Bora's short and petite figure appeared in her eyes, Siyeon quietly followed Bora. Bora was walking with some girl friends, talking happily.

This little girl….has a very bright smile.

This isn't the first time Siyeon has seen someone smile, albeit a little. Because in her world, not everyone likes to laugh.

But this was the smile she judged that….it was the most beautiful of the smiles she had ever seen in anyone.

After walking for a short distance, Bora said goodbye to her friends, she turned to another road and walked home alone. The Kim family house is quite close to Piri school, Siyeon learned that Kim Bora goes to school and goes home alone. On Bora’s wrist, she wears a watch with a locator and call function, which seems to be the way the Kims take care of her.

But unfortunately, even with this watch, no one can save this little girl. Bora's parents won't be able to come home tonight, that's a plan.

Siyeon moved quickly, touching Bora's short white collar, and after a second, Bora collapsed to the ground.

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In a mysterious dark room, Kim Bora lay motionless on the back on the bed, Siyeon sat beside Bora and began her spell, the curse was released. The sense that Bora will lose is the ability to listen, the hearing will be completely paralyzed.

After an hour of work, Siyeon completed the task. Siyeon has one more job, which is to observe Kim Bora during the time Bora was deaf until she received a stroke at the age of 30, to make sure, the plan to completely eradicate the family Sejong's is success.

Kim Bora is currently unconscious, Siyeon takes Bora back to the Kim family house, puts the small body on a bed in the room she is guessing is Bora's room. The house key she rummaged through Bora's briefcase.

Siyeon looked around the room, red as the main color, seems to be Bora’s favorite color. On the wall were many painted paintings, which appeared to be self-painted rather than a painting from a certain shop. Because Siyeon glanced in the corner of the room there was a place to draw, tools for crayons, a frame to support the picture, a brush to paint the picture, all of them.

In the corner of the bed were stuffed animals in the shape of an elephant and a baepsae, apparently Bora's favorite animals.

Then Siyeon didn't understand why she took the time to look at this room so closely, even scrutinizing every line of Kim Bora's unconscious face, that ideal slim figure. .

Later, Kim Bora grows up, becomes a mature young woman, will definitely be as beautiful as a beauty queen.

Siyeon should have gone home early, she was done with her duties, but now she has an extra hour in this red and white room. She just stood there like that and looked around, there was no other activity

All the objects in the room held their breath, waiting to see what she was going to do next.

Observing boredom, Siyeon turned to leave the house, she would come here from time to time to check on Kim Bora's condition.

Climbing into her blue Porsche, driving in the dark, Siyeon thought, how will Kim Bora wake up tomorrow and know that she is deaf, how will she react….

And after learning that her parents have passed away, how will she react….?

Such terrible things to happen to a girl who was only 11 years old, is absolutely outrageous isn't it….?

This was something Siyeon didn't need to worry about, but she spent way too much time thinking about it. It's not the first time she's seen something atrocious, she's seen situations like this many times, there are similar stories in the wizarding community.

Witches have special abilities, but because of their limited power and small number of witches, they are manipulated by humans, especially underground forces in society, so they have no choice but to accept the situation, if they want to live in peace.

When Siyeon was assigned this task, she originally had a spirit of acceptance, but now she feels so tormented...

Really strange....

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Tomorrow…

Kim Bora woke up, her dark eyes wandering around, she was in her own room, and the reason she entered this room was a question mark.

In her memory, the last image left is her familiar way home, she can't even remember how she entered the house yesterday, what was dinner, did her homework? has she talked about anything special with parents Kim ….?

Bora jumped up, bent down to see her body still covered by her school uniform. Why is this….didn't she  shower and change when she got home….?

Where are parents Kim???

Bora went out of the room because she had a feeling of insecurity and unease in her heart, she ran around the house but there was no one, she shouted to her parents….

And suddenly she realized….

She couldn't even hear her own screams….

- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Bora shouted louder, trying to listen to any noise.

She touched her ears, twisted them for a while, used cotton swabs to clean them, and then said a few words…

Still can't hear anything.

Bora woke up feeling strange because she didn't hear the sound of the air conditioner blowing, or the ticking of the wall clock, or the small noises coming from the street through the window. Those were the sounds she used to hear every morning.

And now she had the answer to this strangeness.

Today was still a school day, but she couldn't go to school in this state.

Bora took out her phone, Mr and Mrs Kim bought her a mid-range phone recently, the main function is to make calls. The girl texted her homeroom teacher to inform the teacher about her current situation, then asked for help.

After an hour, a woman appeared at the gate of the Kim family's house, it was Kim JiU, Bora's homeroom teacher.

JiU received information about the accident of Mr. and Mrs. Kim, because her phone number was among the top numbers that the Kims contacted recently. She was in a state of panic from the moment she received the call from the police, she could not have imagined that things would turn out like this, a terrible car accident on the highway took the lives of two people.

Kim Bora is officially an orphan with no father or mother.

JiU asked a teacher to teach in her place at school and went to Bora's house. When she entered the house, she hugged the little girl in her arms.

- Bora, I'm sorry, your parents had a traffic accident, the emergency at the hospital couldn't work, so they died right on the hospital bed.

Bora tried to observe the teacher's expression, the teacher’s anguished face made her heart ache. What happened in the end, she couldn't hear well…

JiU hugged Bora for a while and then, seeing no response from Bora, she pulled away and looked at Bora with sad eyes.

The little girl is still looking up at JiU, without much emotion, which makes JiU feel difficult to understand.

- Bora?

- Miss Kim, what's wrong?

- I just said that your parents had a traffic accident and couldn't make it, didn't you hear?

- What, you speak slowly, I can't hear anything anymore - said Bora, trembling, her eyes narrowing at the older woman's mouth.

Kim JiU was stunned, Bora's voice was both loud and scared. What did Bora say, couldn't hear?

- Bora, did the things I said you didn't hear anything?

- What does that mean? – Bora's voice is a bit loud.

JiU suddenly realized, it seems that Bora is deaf for some reason. That's why Bora couldn't hear her own voice, so her voice was suddenly louder than usual.

- Oh my god, Bora - JiU hugged the little girl painfully, she didn't understand the current situation, why such bad things happened at the same time.

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At Lee Siyeon's house.

Siyeon and her cousin are sitting at the table relaxing with a cup of coffee. Siyeon's cousin, Lee Gahyeon, is also a witch. Siyeon in the first years lived with her parents in Daegu city, then she bought a new house and moved to Seoul, because she preferred to live in a crowded and bustling city.

The witch community does not do normal jobs, or if they do, they will hide their identity and go to do a certain job to integrate with people. Money is never lacking, because for each task given, they earn enough money to live a lifetime without worrying about anything.

Siyeon lives in a high-class apartment for the rich, her cousin Gahyeon also lives in Seoul, so the two meet occasionally to share stories about life.

Gahyeon is only 4 years younger than Siyeon, that is, she is currently 6 years old, but with the growth and development of a witch, she resembles Siyeon, has the appearance of an adult woman.

- Have you accepted any mission yet? - Siyeon asked.

- Just yesterday, the victim is a middle-aged man who has committed a lot of crimes, the client is a high-ranking government official, they want this victim to lose his senses, have physical disabilities body and live suffering until the end of life, do not let die immediately.

- Easy task.

- What about you, the task is difficult?

- My victim is a girl only 11 years old.

- What did that girl do to be turned into a victim?

- As a descendant of a certain general 8 centuries ago, the feud of the family is so big that this girl will have to die young.

- That's unfortunate, but that's people's fate anyway, you don't have to worry about it, just relax -  Gahyeon waved her hand.

Siyeon mused, thinking about Kim Bora too many times a day. She had witnessed minor victims before, when she watched other witches on duty, her emotions were completely blank at that time, she had no comment on those situations. .

But this time her feelings were stronger, she couldn't understand herself….

She decided to go see Kim Bora tomorrow.

End of chapter 1.