"You all can call me Kim Sungmi. In human's age, I'm about the same age as Minseong, just slightly older. And I'm the owner of this castle, so people who know me usually will call me princess. From now on, everything that I'm going to tell you might sound silly, but I should tell you the truth."
Even the beginning is already quite silly, Myungwoo thought.
"Kim Myungwoo, Kim Minseong and Cho Bonhwa, you all are three of 17 Element Guardians. Like what you already see, you all got a stone with a different color depending on your element. Myungwoo is a light element guardian, Minseong is air, and Bonhwa is fire. You guys will ask me, why should you guys be the element guardian... the answer is, that is your past life."
"That's why... we somehow feel it's familiar?" asked Minseong.
"Yes. So in your past life, you aren't the human in the world you're living now, but you are living here, in this world. People who are living here are slightly different from the humans you know, we do have longer lifespan and we use magic and ability here. That's why you all have a weapon, that's also your weapon from your past life."
"So we were born as element guardians in our past life?" asked Myungwoo.
"You're right. So the element stone was inside your body when you were born. And your job is to guard this world from evil power."
"Did we all die because of... evil people?" asked Bonhwa, who doesn't like his own idea.
"That's not completely right but you all sacrificed your energy to lock the Darkness Lord. I'm the one who guards the lock now. Since you all sacrificed your energy, then you all died because of that. Then you guys reincarnate to how you are now. And I hope I will never see you again, or call you like this, to once again, awaken the energy inside you."
"Did something happen until you called us again?" asked Myungwoo.
Half of Myungwoo's brain is trying to understand the story she told, but he still can't completely trust everything. It sounds like a fairy tale, it doesn't make sense.
