Episode 1.

This story is about the mages of Daeho, a place that does not exist in both history books or maps.

They call me Naksu, for wherever I go, heads fall to the ground.

Remember this mark. When someone tries to switch bodies, it leaves a blue bruise like this right on top of their heart. - Heo Yeom

She may have been an assassin who killed people like it was nothing, but she was still human. She must have had a story of her own.

I will find my own master—someone extremely powerful and skilled. - Jang Wook

This body is unbelievably unhealthy and weak. - Naksu

Mudeok: Why are you here?

Jang Wook: Because of your eyes. I knew the moment I saw you. You are my master.

Episode 2.

Why would he decide my own fate? No one even considers him as my true father anyway! - Jang Wook

I have met a total of 12 masters and have been kicked out every time. And finally, I have met the master who will change my fate. - Jang Wook

I have been searching for someone who can break this spell to call my master. And then I found you, Naksu. - Jang Wook

Jang Wook: I want you to be my master. We could form a beautiful relationship where we benefit from each other.

Mudeok: Not interested.

Jang Wook: If you do not want to be my master, you could be my wife instead.

The alchemy of souls, a type of sorcery, has one weakness. There is a gap between the body and soul. The evil energy seeps out from it. - Park Dang Gu

The people I have met so far only wanted me dead. You are the first person who tried to save me. - Mudeok

You are just as powerless as me. We are useless. - Jang Wook

I want you to be my Lake Gyeongcheondaeho. - Mudeok

So you survived, my pupil. - Mudeok

Episode 3.

Not only does his birth not make sense, but it never should have happened either.

I am the only person who is safe enough to come this close to you. - Jang Wook

All my life, no one ever seemed to know how desperate I was. No one has ever risked their life for me like you did. - Jang Wook

Once I am no longer of use to you, you may abandon me. - Jang Wook

Do not feel miserable. You have me. - Jang Wook

I know how it feels to be in a situation where you cannot do anything for the person you love. - Park Jin

Find a man who will support your cause. - Jin Ho Gyeong

So you remember me, Seo Yul. - Mudeok

Be careful who you fall for. - Jang Wook

Episode 4.

I will have a son thanks to your alchemy of souls. - King

There was a huge tree where I used to live and there was a bird's nest on top. The egg inside it was warm. The mother bird always came by and sat on the egg. I am the egg that is at the top of the tree. I know no one and I am powerless. You are the only one who can take care of me. My life is in your hands. - Mudeok

What is the point of unsheathing the sword when you cannot even hold it? - Park Jin

We share the same pain of not having our feelings reciprocated by the ones we love. So let us not hurt each other. - Park Jin

Mudeok: I do not need a pupil who will not do anything.

Jang Wook: Then don't be my master. Just be my maid. Annoy me again and I will sell you off.

Episode 5.

I do not know if I toughened up to survive or if I survived because I was tough. - Naksu

So I am your master when you are in need but your maid when you need a servant? - Mudeok

You know we are both connected by fate. And you are asking me to be the one to end it. You coward. – Mudeok

Once I put my mind to something, I tend to learn very fast. – Jang Wook

Look at you babbling about love. That is why you two are still single. – Heo Yeom

Episode 6.

I could not stop her from leaving. I could not ask her why. The moment she sliced my sincerity in half, I could no longer cherish our memories together. It became a secret that I had to bury within my heart. – Seo Yul

Master, do not cheat on me. – Jang Wook

I do not want to climb such a special tree with just anyone. – Mudeok

Your tongue is sharp like a sword. You do not hesitate to cut me with your words. How merciless. – Jang Wook

Think of me as a mother bird who is worried about her egg cracking. – Jang Wook

The blue marks are barely visible now. They were quite pretty. – Jang Wook

I have no plans to stay by your side as just a maid. – Mudeok

I may be a filthy girl whom everyone avoids, but I refuse to serve just anyone. – Mudeok

I am just so puzzled by you. – Seo Yul

Episode 7.

Humans are incapable of seeing themselves with their own eyes. The only way is to see themselves through a mirror. So the perception you have about yourself is nothing but an illusion. The same goes for how others perceive you. They only see what they want to see and create an illusion that suits them. It is all just an illusion.

While you were gone, I thought about what I could do to keep you by my side. – Jang Wook

When you have a lot to protect, you sometimes have no choice but to be heartless. – Park Jin

Master, let us stay loyal and dutiful to each other. – Jang Wook

Episode 8.

I may have been too weak to protect him from you, but I will make sure to end your life. – Mudeok

Look into my eyes. It is me, right? I am the only one who can look at you from this close. – Jang Wook

As Songrim's leader, there will come a time when I will have to be cold and heartless. But I truly do not want to hurt you. – Park Jin

Jang Wook, your master is neither strong enough to pull you up nor support you from the bottom. – Mudeok

Episode 9.

I easily get lost whenever I am not clearheaded. I have always walked the right path. I never did anything wrong. But I have gone astray. – Seo Yul

You never confessed your love. "I am in love with you," you always circled those words, never saying them out loud. Eventually, you lost her to a man who was much more straightforward. – Kim Do Joo

You can be very frustrating. You act interested, but you stay distant. Then you suddenly become intimate. You need to tell a woman how you feel so that she can make up her mind and decide to wait for you. – Kim Do Joo

A person's true intention behind the spell seems a lot more important. – Jang Wook

Mudeok: Do not worry. Once it hatches, I am sure it will fly away.

Maidservant Kim: How could she when she has feelings for him?

What Jang Wook and I shared was the desperate feeling of survival and the earnestness of finding ourselves. Once we got what we wanted, we promised to part ways without looking back. – Mudeok

The love that Maidservant Kim mentioned may have seeped in between us, but it is nothing but a shell that I will leave behind once I hatch. – Mudeok

If you abandon me, I swear I will kill you. – Mudeok

Episode 10.

No matter how pathetic you feel, you must do what you can at the moment. If I am not willing to anything, I might as well just die. – Mudeok

An invisible letter that was never sent? What a coward. He wrote down his feelings without her knowing. What a foolish and pitiful love letter. – Mudeok

What is there to a letter? As long as it delivers your feelings. – Jang Wook

I did not know if I should reply as your young master or pupil, or just reply based on what I read. It is written here, "I will go this far to see you," "I can do anything if it means being able to see you." And this is my reply. I also missed you. That is my reply. – Jang Wook

I should have braced myself before letting him get this close to me. – Mudeok

What I gave him should not have been read or delivered in the first place. It was my foolish and pathetic love letter. – Mudeok

Episode 11.

This is a clear and dangerous signal. I am in love with this man. – Mudeok

Just as you saw my blue mark and found out I was a soul shifter, you have once again caught me. You have found another weakness of mine. But Jang Wook, it seem you have already poisoned yourself. You will become weak and miserable. It is a terrible poison you cannot escape as its only antidote is the person it is from. – Mudeok

Mudeok: You did not believe me when I said I was in love with you.

Seo Yul: Then do a better job and make me believe it.

She turned me down because she did not like me. She did not miss me like I did. I was the only one who felt that way. I should just poison myself and die. – Jang Wook

Mudeok: I am indeed in love with you. I can tell you that hundreds and thousands of times.

Seo Yul: I do not know much about love, but when you truly love someone you will not need to say it that often. Because it will be hard just to say it once.

That whistle used to belong to a friend I once failed to confess my feelings for. "I liked you a lot." I have always wanted to tell her that. – Seo Yul

You will always be my precious young master no matter how competent on incompetent you are. – Kim Do Joo

I never pretended. My feelings were sincere. You said you did not want a loveless marriage. I figured if I married you, you would at least marry a man that loved you. – Park Dang Gu

Dang Gu: You should meet a man that you have feelings for.

Cho Yeon: I feel like I have already met him.

As long as we possess the power of the ice stone, our souls will be able to live forever instead of dying in this body. – Jin Mu

Episode 12.

Fighting is like a game of tug-of-war. Your opponent will pull if you feign letting your guard down. That is when you should strike. - Mudeok

She is a mother who has lost her daughter. I can only win her heart by pulling at her heartstrings. – So Yi

Mudeok: If I am truly running wild, then you must not touch me. Otherwise, your energy will be stolen and you will die.

Jang Wook: *hugs Mudeok*

Episode 13.

Once a soul shifter runs wild, they are no longer human. They are monsters. – Park Jin

I am going to call my savior for help—a person who will come running over with a fluttering heart. – Jang Wook

He was angry at the world, and he his hid helplessness and indolence by putting a cold-hearted mask. He never did anything with a goal. – Jin Mu

Mudeok: Feel free to run away or kill me if you must. But if I devour your energy until you die, that will be unbearable.

Jang Wook: You made my heart race. What you just said holds a deeper meaning than saying "I missed you." The cruel assassin has finally replied to my naïve and sincere love confession.

I will find the ice stone so that you will never feel the need to devour my energy. – Jang Wook

Episode 14.

They are geniuses. But to the world, they seem reckless, unreliable, and even dangerous at times. That is because they are different from the rest of us. We react that way because we do not know how they will use their terrifying powers. Will he save this world like Master Seo Gyeong did? Or will he do the very opposite? We do not know. – Master Lee

Episode 15.

They are not foolish. They are frightened. Calling them fools when they are actually scared is negligence. – Jang Wook

I like Mudeok a lot. – Jang Wook

I like young master Jang very much. – Mudeok

Mudeok: Do not put everything on the line for something as fickle as love. If something like this ever happens again and you find yourself in a life situation, give up on love and choose your life. Do that if you do not wish to die. That is an order from your master.

Jang Wook: Master, what if I do not mind dying? Then can I hold onto it and keep loving you? I told you that I am willing to risk it all and that we are in this together. I will keep going no matter what. So you should do the same and stick to your confession. Keep loving me to death.

Episode 16.

If I am to stay in love with you, I need to be certain that you are mine. – Mudeok

I will not be foolish like my father and live under constant fear. – Crown Prince Go Won

I was never her favorite. My sister was her pride and joy. – Jin Cho Yeon

He must have been worried and scared to do something he knew was wrong just to protect his friends. – Jang Wook

To punish oneself more harshly than others would, is it some sort of a heightened state of morality? – Park Dang Gu

You are feigning ignorance, right? Like the time we buried the inkstone. It must be tough for you. – Jang Wook

Episode 17.

I am damaged to the very depths of my soul. – Jang Gang

I see you are trying hard not to love me. – Jang Wook

It shows the foolishness and heartache of a man who was willing to go against the laws of nature to save a loved one. This is Master Seo Gyeong's confession in Words of the Heart. – Jang Wook

Episode 18.

Bu Yeon: No one can truly own the ice stone. You only use its power. Pull and get pushed. Earn one, and lose the other. That is the burden you will have to carry.

Mudeok: I can gladly endure that.

Bu Yeon: Then try it. Overflowing power means you will not be able to control how much of it you use. Desire rain and you will get flood. Desire wind and you will get a typhoon. Try to endure it.

How dare a soul living off my body call me a relic? – Jin Bu Yeon

Mudeok: As your maid, I shall leave you now. And this will be the end, my pupil.

Jang Wook: Are you saying you will not ever see me again?

Mudeok: We agreed that it would be the end once I regain my power.

Jang Wook: But we agreed to talk about our future as well.

Mudeok: There is no other future for us.

If I need to lose you to regain my power, I will bear it. – Mudeok

Jang Wook: I am scared that you may break our promise and abandon me without looking back. Master, please do not abandon me. If you do, I will cry a river.

Mudeok: You say such embarrassing things so openly. You will regret it when you look back.

Jang Wook: I can always say such things if I endure the embarrassment. But I can never turn back time even if I regret something. Master, endure the embarrassment and be honest with yourself. That way, you will not regret anything.

You are unbelievable. You are always impertinent and barge your way in. But whenever I reach for you, you always back away. – Crown Prince Go Won

I cherish all the memories I had in Danhyanggok. – Seo Yul

I just need to be Naksu again. – Mudeok

I had cut ties with him back then. I will do the same with everyone. – Mudeok

Like you promised, point your sword at me first. – Jang Wook

Make me another promise just like you said youwould. – Mudeok

Episode 19.
To protect what we must, one must sometimes choose to let go of everything. - Park Jin

Why are you so desperate to be acknowledged? - Shaman Choi

"It's better to die than to do nothing." I will be trying something not out of stupidity, but out of vigor. Just as my master has taught me. - Jang Wook

He already had a miserable childhood. Do not let him live as the son of a sinner. - Jang Gang

The King's Star is up in the night sky!

I am sorry. And thank you for protecting me. - Mudeok

Let us say goodbye to each other while these three breaths last. - Mudeok

I also enjoyed my time with you at Danhyanggok. Thank you for everything. - Mudeok

Jang Wook: Master, as of today, I wish to end my training as your pupil. I am grateful that you always pushed me to train harder despite how lacking I was. I know that you gave up your chance to regain your energy. I, too, chose to give up the energy I tried so hard to build. But instead, I now have someone precious I wish to keep by my side forever. I do not wish to be used and discarded. I wish to protect and cherish you. Thus, allow me to quit.
Mudeok: I, Mudeok, your master, allow my pupil Jang Wook to quit.
Jang Wook: All right then. Marry me, Mudeok.

Episode 20.
I am not that dense, you know? - Park Jin

Are you a fool? You are the one I have feelings for. Even though you are slow, I thought you would one day catch on to my feelings. That was my hope. - Kim Do Joo

You know I am fond of spreading rumors. - Ju Wol

I always thought you could cut ties with everyone and disappear. - Ju Wol

If I hold onto her, do you think she will stay? - Park Jin

You are the King's Star who has been granted the power of the sky. This is not your end, Jang Wook. - Master Lee Cheol