23. The lady with Emerald eyes

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"Hyung!" Taehyung exclaimed a bit startled as his tall brother suddenly appeared. Prince Namjoon, the next in line to the throne of central estate was not only a student but also the unofficial discipline checker of the university.In simple terms he was Jihyo's male equivalent.

Namjoon cast a glance at his brother. "I-I mean Namjoon...when did you come." Taehyung quickly asked.

"I was just passing by, when I heard your interesting conversation." He said before eyeing Jungkook. "So Jungkook, I hope you are not planning something scandalous that would cause rumours throughout the kingdoms."

Jungkook was terrified at the threatening tone. Jimin seemed to have notice this, as he replied. "This is nothing like you think. We were just having a conversation about a local that we came across yesterday."

Namjoon lifted a brow in Jimin's direction, the younger continued with a smirk "why is it that you think she can be interesting? Is that how you generally think?"

Namjoon discreetly breathed controlling his emotions. He didn't care to reply to that taunt, instead just looked at his brother "Taehyung come with me." He ordered.

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Dahyun shivered from head to toe, and it wasn't even winter. Chaeyoung blinked at her and giggled. "What was that?" She asked as Dahyun shrugged rubbing her upper arms with her palms.

"Don't know, I feel weird" she said looking around. She looked back and turned in a millisecond. "Why is the music teacher glaring at us?" She whispered.

"It could be my fault" Mina said standing in front of them. Her eyes discreetly travelled towards the said teacher and she got anxious.

"But it's not like you challenged her!" Chaeyoung defended. "She wanted us to do a competition we just obeyed her."

"Ladies! let's go and talk somewhere else." Suddenly Jungyeon appeared surprising them. "Everyone can sense her glaring at us and have been giving weird looks." All four of them moved from the place away from their music teacher's scowl.

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"I think the river water has something to do with this." Nayeon said pointing to the map layout. "The main river bifurcates into Ahor which flows southeast. That is towards this castle and acts as the main source of water for us, and the other distributary is Yawa the one that flows south."

"But just before entering the village, the Rahi stream merges at Yawa." Tzuyu pointed out at the map noticing the small detail.

"The problem could be at any joint." Jihyo thought aloud. "But what could be the problem and why has it just begin to contaminate the water?"

"Rather than guessing, maybe we should go and investigate." Jungyeon suggested.

"And maybe we can ask the villagers to help us." Mina added.

So it was decided that Momo, Chaeyoung, Tzuyu, Nayeon, Jungyeon and Dahyun would go today. "Is it okay for you?" Nayeon asked Dahyun as she had to make two visits in a row.

"Yes, don't worry" Dahyun said "it's not like we just went yesterday, it's been almost three days." With that they rode away.

That afternoon when they were passing through the forest they spotted an isolated cottage on the way.

"Wait!" Dahyun began "I didn't come across this that day"

Jungyeon gasped "did we loose our way?"  She asked worried.

"But we have been on the same single path...there was no other road.." Nayeon reasoned.

Just then an old lady came out of the cottage. She saw them and smiled.

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