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The Master warns her, offering one last chance to live as a woman, but Jakyeong is resolute and begins her first yokai lesson.","summary_language":"en","summary_source":"chapter_translation","summary_status":"editorial","summary_verification":"verified"},"summary":"At night, Jakyeong bids farewell to her father and asks the exorcist to accept her as his apprentice. She laments being unable to read because she was born a girl and blames herself for her mother's death; her father sends her off as his shining star. After stubbornly persuading the Master, Jakyeong seeks to atone by serving the master who forgave her mother's killer. The Master warns her, offering one last chance to live as a woman, but Jakyeong is resolute and begins her first yokai lesson.","key_events":["Jakyeong bids farewell to her father promising to earn money and return","Jakyeong demands the exorcist accept her as apprentice with insistence and threats","Seven years later 22-year-old Jakyeong trains with Firebird God living inside her","Jakyeong and other apprentices experience chase during yokai hunt","Master offers last chance to live as woman, Jakyeong refuses and is accepted as exorcist","Jakyeong talks with her father at night about regret of not being born male and wanting to try something","Master teaches first lesson on yokai vengeance and opening vessel to become one with god"],"characters_involved":[],"transcript":{"available":true,"format":"plain-text","language":"en","content":"YOU...!\nTAKE ME...\nAS YOUR DISCIPLE.\n\nOH, JAKYEONG...!\nWHERE ARE YOU HEADING IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT, HM?\n\n...FATHER.\nIF I WERE A BOY, IT WOULD'VE BEEN EASY TO LEARN HOW TO READ, RIGHT...?\nIF I HAD BEEN A BOY...\nMOTHER WOULDN'T HAVE DIED EITHER, RIGHT?\nJAKYEONG!\nBUT BECAUSE I WAS BORN A GIRL...\nTHE ONLY THING LEFT\n\nFOR ME TO DO IS MARRY SOME PEASANT FARMER'S SON.\nSO...\nI WANT TO TRY DOING SOMETHING BEFORE THAT...\n\nIS THAT SELFISH OF ME, TOO?\n...JAKYEONG.\nIF THERE'S SOMETHING YOU WANT TO DO...\nNEVER HOLD YOURSELF BACK. LIVE YOUR LIFE.\n\nBECAUSE TO YOUR FATHER, YOU ARE\nTHE ONE SHINING STAR IN MY LIFE...\nSHOULD I ADDRESS YOU AS MASTER FROM NOW ON?\n\nWHAT...?\nJUST SO YOU KNOW, I VALUE STANDING MY GROUND\nFAR MORE THAN SAVING FACE.\nA WHILE AGO, A WOMAN BOUGHT TEN BASKETS THAT MY MOTHER MADE,\nONLY TO PICK A PETTY QUARREL AND RIP HER MONEY BACK.\n\nSO I SPRAWLED OUT FLAT IN HER FRONT YARD,\nBARGED IN AND PLANTED MYSELF RIGHT AT THEIR DINNER TABLE,\nAND EVEN TRIED TO SNATCH HER BABY'S BREAST MILK.\nARE YOU... TRYING TO THREATEN ME RIGHT NOW?\nI'M SAYING IT WOULD BE WISE TO TAKE ME IN WITHOUT A FUSS. I INTEND TO TAKE BACK EVERYTHING OWED TO ME.\n\nIN RETURN,\nI PLAN TO FORGIVE YOU, MASTER.\nI'LL FORGIVE THE EXORCIST WHO SPARED MY MOTHER'S KILLER,\nAND BY SERVING THAT VERY EXORCIST AS MY MASTER,\n\nI WILL ATONE FOR IT.\n...WHAT DID YOU SAY YOUR NAME WAS?\nIT'S JAKYEONG.\n\nJAKYEONG...\n\nYOU REALLY WILL BE BACK IN JUST A FEW MONTHS, WON'T YOU...?\n...YES.\nI'LL GO MAKE PLENTY OF MONEY AND COME RIGHT BACK, FATHER.\nWHO CARES ABOUT MONEY...!\nJUST DON'T GET SICK OR HURT, AND IF IT'S TOO HARD, YOU CAN COME STRAIGHT BACK HOME...\n\n...I HOPE THIS PARTING\nGIVES EACH OF US THE STRENGTH TO CARRY ON.\nBECAUSE I AM MY FATHER'S STAR,\nAND MY FATHER IS MY EARTH.\n\nARE YOU SNEAKING OFF ALL BY YOURSELF? THAT'S FOUL PLAY!\nQUICKENING YOUR PACE WON'T HELP YOU, MASTER!\nWHERE ON EARTH DID YOU LEARN TO SPEAK LIKE THAT...?\nI WAS PLANNING TO RETURN HERE IN TEN YEARS ANYWAY.\n\nRIGHT AROUND THE TIME THE YOKAI WAKES.\nONCE I CUT ITS LIFE SHORT,\nYOUR MOTHER'S REVENGE WILL BE SETTLED.\nBESIDES, IF YOU WISH TO GO TO THE SHAMAN BUREAU, I COULD WRITE YOU A LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION.\n\nEVEN IF YOU CANNOT BECOME AN OFFICIAL SHAMANESS,\nIF YOU HELP WITH CHORES AND LEARN OVER THEIR SHOULDERS-\nWHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT...?!\nI MEAN THAT I AM OFFERING YOU ONE LAST CHANCE.\nONE LAST CHANCE...\nTO LIVE YOUR LIFE AS A WOMAN.\n\n...I DON'T CARE IF I CAN'T LIVE AS A WOMAN.\nI KNOW I WON’T REGRET IT.\n...VERY WELL.\nTHEN,\nI SUPPOSE I’LL HAVE TO LEARN THE FIRST LESSON.\n\nTHE FIRST...?\nWHEN ELIMINATING YOKAI OF CONSIDERABLE EXPERIENCE,\nYOU MUST DEVOTE EVERY OUNCE OF YOUR FOCUS.\nAND WHAT’S MOST IMPORTANT THEN IS...\n\nPREVENTING THEM FROM SEEKING REVENGE.\nEVEN THOSE WRETCHED YOKAI THAT DEVOUR HUMAN ENTRAILS\nAND DRINK BLOOD FROM SKULLS\n\nPOSSESS THEIR OWN PATHETIC HUMAN EMOTIONS.\nSO IF YOU HAPPEN TO KILL THEIR MATE OR YOUNG,\nTHEY WILL RELENTLESSLY SEEK RETALIATION ACROSS DECADES.\nWHOA...\nIF THAT'S TRUE,\nARE YOU SAYING WE HAVE TO TAKE A YOKAI'S PERSONAL CIRCUMSTANCES INTO ACCOUNT WHEN WE SLAY IT?\nABSURD AS IT SOUNDS, YES.\n\nWe Are Sorry, Master!\nARE THEY ALL DISCIPLES...?\nA SHAMANESS MAY BE ABLE TO HOLE UP\nIN THE SHAMAN BUREAU SURROUNDED BY A BARRIER WHEN THINGS GO WRONG,\n\nBUT AN EXORCIST MUST SURVIVE BY PROTECTING THEIR OWN FLESH AND BLOOD.\nTHEREFORE, FROM NOW ON, YOU MUST OPEN YOUR VESSEL\nSO YOU CAN PROPERLY UNLEASH YOUR POWER.\nEVEN UNLOCKING HALF OF YOUR ENERGY WILL LET A GOD RUN RAMPANT THROUGH YOUR BODY,\nSO IT WILL BE AN ARDUOUS PATH.\nYET ALL THE MORE REASON YOU MUST ENDURE AND GROW ACCUSTOMED TO IT.\n\nSINCE IT MEANS BECOMING ONE WITH A GOD,\nYOU MUST NEVER SLACK OFF ON YOUR TRAINING JUST BECAUSE IT FEELS UNCOMFORTABLE.\n\nMOTHER...\nDON'T GO...\nI'M SORRY...\n\nSEVEN YEARS LATER-\nBE CAREFUL...!\nAH...\nEEK...!\n\nAVERT YOUR GAZE, AND CALM YOUR BREATH-\nFOR FEAR WILL VANISH, GATHERED IN MY EMBRACE.\nAMI.\n\nSEEK REST NO LONGER,\nAND RETURN TO YOUR NEST.\n\nJAKYEONG, AGE 22\nMASTER!\n\nYOU ARE ACTUALLY QUITE DECENT NOW.\nTHE ENTITY DWELLING WITHIN ME IS THE ‘FIREBIRD GOD.’\nUgh, Give Me A Proper Explanation Already~\n\nWHEN I FELT THE SHARP YET WARM ENERGY EMANATING FROM ITS SOFT, PALE YELLOW FEATHERS,\nMASTER SAID TO ME,\n\"looks Like I Won't Need To Watch Over You Anymore.\"\n\"yes! Much Obliged!\"\nPERHAPS...\nMY LATE MOTHER\nHAD RETURNED AS A DEITY.\n\nINDEED.\n\nEVEN THEN, I HAD NO IDEA.\nOVER THERE, TO THE RIGHT!\nIT'S TO THE LEFT, YOU IDIOT!!\n\nAAAARGH!\nCATCH IT RIGHT NOW!!\nAFTER IT!!\nFEARLESS AND AFRAID OF NOTHING IN THE WORLD...\nOVERWHELMED WITH THE JOY OF FEELING LIKE MY MOTHER WAS WITH ME ANYTIME, ANYWHERE,\nI NEVER IMAGINED SOMEONE WOULD APPEAR AND HOLD MY ENTIRE LIFE HOSTAGE.","bubble_count":128,"pages_count":33,"source":"community"},"spoiler":{"level":"auto","safe_teaser":"At night, Jakyeong bids farewell to her father and asks the exorcist to accept her as his apprentice.","spoiler_summary":"At night, Jakyeong bids farewell to her father and asks the exorcist to accept her as his apprentice. She laments being unable to read because she was born a girl and blames herself for her mother's death; her father sends her off as his shining star. 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