화랑 - a tale of curiosity [ON HOLD]

🌸chapter twenty-three🌸

After Ji-ae's absent minded strolling, she found her way into hall, filing in with all the other Hwarang's, her art carefully tucked under her arm.

She walked behind where Sun Woo was sat, but before she took another step her wrist was caught by none other then Ban Ryu. The two locked eyes for a mere second, but Ji-ae pulled her hand away.

"Don't you think I deserve a little more respect?" Ban Ryu spat, his eyes almost burning, but Ji-ae shook her head.

"Perhaps when you learn some yourself." Ji-ae quipped back. "Then maybe you'll get shown some in return."

"I don't have time for your philisophical lines."

"And I don't have time for you arrogant attitude." She said back. "I respect people who respect me, it's as easy as that." Ji-ae reasoned, taking steps back. "Take it into consideration."

Ban Ryu then watched as Ji-ae made her way up the steps, seating herself towards the front corner to get a view of the scene she would be sketching.

Ban Ryu then looked down to his feet, noticing a familair Hwarang below him. Liking the satisfaction he got from reading Sun Woo, he took the empty spot beside him, his persona radiating pure arrogance.

"Perhaps, you don't know what self-respect means." Ban Ryu began. "If you know who I am, you must know what I said earlier is true. You have to start, so I can start." He elaborated, turning to Sun Woo. "Are you a fool?"

"No." Sun Woo responded. "I am just ignoring you so that you cannot start."

"You will not last in here." Ban Ryu chimed back. "I'll bring your down, as well as the Hwarang House."

Sun Woo took in a sharp breath, turning to look at Ban Ryu. "Why me?" He asked, curious as to where the True Bone was heading with this teasing.

"One." He started. "I hate you because you are the Queen's Hwarang. Two." He started again. "If I fight with others, it will get complicated between families. It does not matter with you." From the sidelines, Soo Hoo - who was overhearing this - chortled to himself, shaking his head at Ban Ryu. "Three. I hear your sister is pretty enough to become my concubine."

At the sound of a rushed footstep, Ji-ae looked up to see Sun Woo punching Ban Ryu around the face. She gasped, gaining the attention of the other Hwarang's that had failed to notice the scene.

"You started it." Ban Ryu remarked, into for Soo Hoo to come stepping forward.

"You did not even get to start with me." With that, Soo Hoo's raised fist then made contact with Ban Ryu's face, making Ji-ae stand up from her seat, her jaw against the floor.

That one punch intiated a whole ro to turn inti chaos. Everyone began punching one another randomly, the tension being released with each hit. As worried as Ji-ae was, she kept aside trying to find Hansung amidst the fighting, but the figuees had beocme a distorted and blurred mess with the violence they were inflicting on each other.

"A lady shouldn't have to witness this." Yeo Wool stated, stepping aside as two members came flying past them. "Say, are you looking for your precious beloved?" Ji-ae turned to face Yeo Wool, her eyebrows furrowed at him as he wafted his white fan calmly infront of him. "What?"

"Do you realise that there is an indoor brawl, going on?" Ji-ae asked him.

Yeo Wool looked to the fighting scene infront of him and Ji-ae, and then turned back. "Yes." He hummed. "It's quite entertaining, don't you think?" Ji-ae huffed out, and then had Yeo Wool pulled her aside, a Hwarang now laying in the space Ji-ae was once stood.