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33 - Sweater Weather

<Choi Palace>

"Hmm any particular place you wanna see in the palace?" Dino asked while walking in the hallways with Taeri.

"Oh, yes!" Taeri squealed, "How about the place where you keep your weapons?"

"Weapons?" Dino frowned, "Didn't know you were interested in all that."

"Why won't I?" Taeri's eyes widened, "I'm always intrigued in those stuff."

"Alright, let's go." Dino guided the way to the weapon-house, "This is the place."

"Oh wow!!" Taeri gasped, "I had always expected it to be magnificent, but this is way too grand!"

"Yeah." Dino chuckled. While they walked in, the guards and staff bowed for them.

"Amazing!!" Taeri looked around the place, "Which of these weapons do you specialize in?"

"Sword. I know all of them, but we are always taught about swords the most because we use most of our spells through it." Dino explained, "These warfare assets are for the defense army, we rarely use these."

"Oh, I get it. You've your own customized weapons which are only for you." Taeri nodded.

"Yeah, you can say that." Dino agreed. Both of them wandered around the weapon-house thoroughly after which they were back to the corridors of the palace.

"Umm Taeri-" Dino addressed, "Tomorrow, we've a celebration for my birthday. The invitation would have been sent but I wanted to ask you personally. You'll come, right?"

"Of course, I will." Taeri chuckled, "Don't worry."

"Thank you." Dino grinned.

"Alright, I'll be leaving now." Taeri bowed slightly.

"Already? I thought we could spend some time together." Dino suggested.

"I'm sorry for it but I'll have to go. Mom had some work with me." Taeri apologized.

"It's alright, take care!" Dino nodded.

"You too." Taeri waved him a goodbye as she left. She reached the parking lot and got into her car as the driver drove it. After a journey of considerable time, she reached her home.

"Welcome back, dear sister?" Mingyu sarcastically stated.

Taeri rolled her eyes as she walked upstairs into her room.

Mingyu found her behavior a little odd. He knew both of them were always bickering, so he expected a rather twisted response but not complete silence.

Not being able to shrug off the feeling, he reached her room and knocked it, but she didn't open the door. After several trials, Taeri finally opened the door, "What?"

"What do you mean, 'what'?" Mingyu frowned, "You just came back from the palace and you're acting like you were sleeping for ages."

"Palace?" Taeri scrunched her brows, "I'm sleeping since last night- Oh my god, why didn't you wake me up earlier?! The entire morning passed!!"

"Taeri?!" Mingyu held her shoulders, "You woke up in the morning, got ready and went to visit the palace!"

"What are you talking about?" Taeri was confused, "I didn't even wake up before now!"

"What the-"

"Mingyu, what's wrong?" Taeri's eyes held a glint of fear, "What's happening?"

"Don't panic." Mingyu embraced her, "Let's go to the palace and talk to them."