Webtoon- Episode 4

**Episode 4** is the fourth chapter in the Legend of the Northern Blade webtoon series.

## Summary

Jin Mu-Won is surprised by the unconscious woman, bleeding on the floor. He questions why there is a woman here and what the hell is going on. He asks himself if she is a criminal and wonders what he should do. Then he realizes that he first needs to see if she is still alive and crouches down and puts his left ear upto her chest and remarks that she is still breathing.

In the snowy weather, Jin cries out in frustration wondering why this is happening to him and carries the unconscious woman to his bedroom. He reaches the room and lays her on the bed and removes her overcoat to see the damage she has taken from the wound. He recognizes the wound and is worried if it's poison. He thinks that she must have gotten attacked by som deadly poison qi.

He remembers that he has the Internal Protection Antidote. It is the only one he has left and he's making a big sacrifice by using this and is reminded of the time Hwang-Cheol gave it to him saying that if anything happens to Jin, it would surely come in handy.

He doubts his decision and is flustered on what to do as he doesn't even know who the woman is. Seeing her state, he decides to use the antidote and carefully starts placing needles around the wound. He finishes after sometime and says that he has done everything he could and states that it seems like she has stopped bleeding. Then, he looks at her and once again questions who she is and where she came from and mutters that he keeps getting more and more unwanted guests.

The woman wakes up to blinding sunlight and her shoulder starts paining. She tries to remember what happened and wonders who healer her as she sees her bloody clothing on a table beside her. As she is wondering about this, Jin enters the room and sees that she is awake. He is seen holding a cooking utensil. He says that he is almost done with her porridge and asks here to give him a second. She then remembers the previous night's events.

She remembers that she was walking around in the Home of Ten Thousand Spirits injured and she realizes someone coming in and quickly hides. As the person enters, she quickly goes behind him and puts her knife upto his throat and asks him who he is. A surprised Jin says he should be asking her the question. Jin then says that he is the owner of the place and Ha-Seol asks if he is the descendant of the Northern Heavenly Sect and he says that that's correct. Then as she is about to answer him, she falls unconscious.

As she remembers all this, she wonder why the man healed her. At this time Jin enters the room with a bowl of porridge on a tray and says that he thought she was good as dead since she was asleep for three days. Ha-Seol is astounded by this and asks Jin why someone like him healed her. Jin is dumbfounded by this question. He then proceeds to say that first of all, he doesn't know if she is an assassin sent to kill or just a passerby on the verge of death and says he can't stand the sight of someone dying in front of him so he couldn't just leave her to die. At the very least, he never wants to see someone die in his house again.

Eun Ha-Seol thinks that it doesn't seem like he has ill intentions and also she can't detect any qi from him. She wonders if he is actually helping her out of goodwill. Jin wonders why Ha-Seol is silent. He then lays down the tray with the porridge and tell Ha-Seol to hurry and eat. Even though he has been feeding her for the past three days, it is better for her to feed herself now that she is awake. Ha-Seol reluctantly says that she'll stay until she recovers. To this, Jin mocks her saying that she is deciding all this on her own. My goodness. As he is wearing his coat, he asks for her name. Ha-Seol is flustered by this and ask why he needs to know her name. Jin gets really angry at this and wearing his shawl, shouts at her saying that not only did he heal her, he also eat her sleep and eat here for free. He says that she also decided to stay at his house all on her own and with all that's happened, shouldn't she at least tell him her name!

Listening to this, she reluctantly says that her name is Eun Ha-Seol. As Jin is about to leave the room, he says that he doesn't know if it'll fit but there are some clothes for her to change into over there pointing and a closet. He says there is also some food in the storage room, os if she eats frugally, it'll last her a couple of months. He will be in the building next door so if she needs anything, she'll know where to find him. He tells her to hurry and eat the porridge before it gets too cold. Saying all this, he leaves the room and slams the door shut.

Ha-Seol stares at the door and winces in pain and grabs her shoulder. She first needs to recover her internal energy and then draw out the poison slowly. She wonders why this person whose name she believes is Jin Mu-Won would go out of his way to help someone like her. She wonders if he does not know who she is and thinks that he is a weird guy.

Jin Mu-Won sits on the rooftop of the Home of Ten Thousand Spirits and thinks that all that he is doing is a big risk since it's uncertain who the woman is or where she's from but the fact that he just willingly let her stay. Is he really that lonely? Jin Mu-Won remarks that Eun Ha-Seol is a pretty name.

Meanwhile, the Third Mercenary Group is busy renovating a building. Material is scattered everywhere. Some people are on ladders rebuilding the roof while others are carrying materials. Seo Mu-Sang is giving out orders to the group and supervising the effort. Jang Pae-San is seen snoozing and drooling possibly from the booze and food lying around him.

Jin Mu-Won stares through the snow at the room that Eun Ha-Seol is staying in and says that she hasn't left the house in three days again and wonders if she is okay.

Inside, Eun Ha-Seol is in deep concentration and is frustrated at the fact that in the end, she could only recover half of her internal energy. Under normal circumstances, she would need to have a full recovery of her internal state before she attempts to draw out the poison in her body but she has no time. She has been infected with the most dangerous poison out there, the Consuming Flames of Darkness. She doesn't know what antidote Jin Mu-Won used but since the medicinal properties are starting to dwindle, it seems the effects of the antidote are almost gone. It is getting harder for her to counteract the poison. It's dangerous but she'll need to draw out the rest of the poison with whatever internal energy she has recovered. She needs to focus.

As she is attempting this operations, the poison suddenly starts to spread to the rest of her body from her injured left shoulder. She struggles and starts bleeding from her mouth and starts to lose consciousness as she is falling of the bed. She wonders if this is the end and thinks that she didn't even get to thank Jin Mu-Won. Just then a cloaked, unknown man jumps from the ceiling and lands on the room's floor.

## Characters in Order of Appearance

* Eun Ha-Seol
* Jin Mu-Won
* Hwang-Cheol*(Mentioned)*
* Seo Mu-Sang*(Shown)*
* Jang Pae-San*(Shown)*
* Sa-Ryung*(Shown)*

## Trivia

* This is the first chapter that qi and internal energy is talked about in the series.
* It is also the first chapter that poison is talked about in the series.

1. ↑ A spiritual medicine that excels at counteracting poison and providing healing properties to protect the internal qi circulation.