✦ Full Past Life Story

In the twenty-first year of King Myeongjong, you first met at a militia camp. Both were twenty, both friends from the same village who had volunteered together. From childhood you had been close, and even as militia you were together. That was not mere friendship. That was a vow. At the militia camp you were posted to the same unit. One night, gazing at the stars, the two of you made a vow. "When this war ends, let us build a new village together. A village that changes this age. A village where scholarship and martial arts grow together." You inscribed that vow upon your hearts. The war was