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Today, she arrives at the manor and encounters the deer-catching game.","summary_language":"en","summary_source":"chapter_translation","summary_status":"editorial","summary_verification":"verified"},"summary":"Four days ago, Jakyeong hears that the younger sibling of the great landowner in Suhara is suffering from an unknown illness and that a savage yokai leaves no survivors. Enraged at the disciples who look down on her for being a girl, she asks her master for permission. The master first objects, then calls it fate and sends her off with a warning. Today, she arrives at the manor and encounters the deer-catching game.","key_events":["Senior students envy head disciple for rapid rise and belittle her for being a girl","Landowner orders Wang-Yeon to release hunting dogs","Students discuss Suhara landowner's sibling suffering unknown illness and seeking a shaman or exorcist","Jakyeong realizes Suhara lies on her hometown road and becomes interested in the job","Master warns Jakyeong not to grow arrogant and to flee without fighting if sensing strangeness","In back garden servants chase roe deer for prize money offered by landowner","Four days later Jakyeong is brought to landowner's manor by head steward Hwang In","Master prophesies via spirit box that Jakyeong will go far away, forbids then permits it as fate","Landowner addresses Jakyeong as Wang-Yeon and offers two thousand nyang to catch deer","Jakyeong refuses deer hunt as exorcist not hunter and recalls purpose for sibling's health"],"characters_involved":[],"transcript":{"available":true,"format":"plain-text","language":"en","content":"FOUR DAYS AGO—\nSUHARA?\nTHEY'RE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE THERE?\nYES.\nTHE GREAT LANDOWNER'S BROTHER THERE\n\nIS SUFFERING FROM AN UNKNOWN ILLNESS,\nAND HE DOESN'T CARE IF IT'S A SHAMAN OR AN EXORCIST, AS LONG AS THEY CURE HIM.\nTHEY SAY HE'LL GRANT THEM WEALTH BEYOND IMAGINATION.\nBUT FROM WHAT I HEAR, WHATEVER YOKAI IS RUNNING RAMPANT THERE\nIS SO VICIOUS THAT NO ONE MAKES IT OUT ALIVE...\n\n...NOT THAT IT MATTERS.\nMASTER WOULD NEVER GRANT US PERMISSION TO LEAVE.\nUNLIKE A CERTAIN SOMEONE WHO BEAT OUT COUNTLESS PUPILS AND FORMAL DISCIPLES\nTO BRAZENLY SEIZE THE TITLE OF TOP DISCIPLE IN JUST A FEW SHORT YEARS.\nMUST BE NICE.\n\nCLINGING TO MASTER'S SIDE,\nFAWNING OVER HIM AT EVERY TURN... WE SHOULD'VE KNOWN FROM THE START,\nJUST BECAUSE SHE'S A GIRL—\nSHH...\nDID YOU FORGET THAT MASTER TOLD US NEVER TO SPEAK OF THAT?\nR-Right... LET'S GET GOING, SENIOR BROTHER.\n\nSERIOUSLY, THOUGH—\nTALK ABOUT ROTTEN LUCK FIRST THING IN THE MORNING...\nIT'S NOT EVEN FUNNY ANYMORE.\nBEFORE THEY FOUND OUT I WAS A GIRL,\nTHEY PRACTICALLY WORSHIPPED ME, ASKING WHERE SUCH A BLESSING HAD ROLLED IN FROM.\n\nSTILL... SUHARA...\nI THINK IT'S RIGHT ON THE WAY DOWN TO MY HOMETOWN...\nTHE GREAT LANDOWNER'S BROTHER AND AN UNKNOWN ILLNESS, HUH...\nYOU CANNOT.\n\nMASTER?\nDON'T GO.\nI HAVEN’T EVEN SAID I’M GOING YET.\nBUT YOU INTEND TO.\nNO, I DON’T KNOW THAT AT ALL!\nYOU WILL GO IN THE END.\nARE YOU TESTING ME RIGHT NOW?\n\nMY SPIRIT BOX TELLS ME SO.\nTHAT...\nYOU ARE ABOUT TO LEAVE FOR SOMEWHERE FAR AWAY.\n\nI’M JUST...\nHEADING BACK HOME BECAUSE IT’S BEEN SO LONG SINCE I LAST SAW MY FATHER.\nLAST WINTER, FATHER TOLD ME\nHE WANTED TO PICK AND EAT APRICOTS TOGETHER WITH ME...\nUGH, FINE!\n\nI ADMIT HEARING ABOUT IT PIQUED MY INTEREST A LITTLE!\nHAVEN'T MY SKILLS IMPROVED BY LEAPS AND BOUNDS LATELY?\nIT'S ALREADY BEEN THREE YEARS SINCE I BEGAN TAKING COMMISSIONS AS A FULL-FLEDGED EXORCIST,\nAND EVEN YOKAI OVER EIGHT FEET TALL WITH THOUSANDS OF TEETH\nCOULDN'T LAY A SINGLE FINGER ON ME!\n\nBESIDES, IT'S RIGHT ON THE WAY BACK HOME,\nSO I COULD JUST MAKE A QUICK STOP.\nI'LL SLAY THE YOKAI AND PUT THOSE ARROGANT FORMAL DISCIPLES WHO LOOK DOWN ON ME RIGHT IN THEIR PLACE-\nPART OF ME WANTED TO KNOCK THEM DOWN A PEG-\nJAKYEONG.\n\n...VERY WELL.\nIT HAS ALREADY BEEN\nSEVEN YEARS SINCE YOU BEGAN FOLLOWING ME...\nIF THIS IS WHERE DESTINY LEADS,\n\nPERHAPS IT IS BEST FOR YOU TO EXPERIENCE IT YOURSELF.\nHOWEVER, ONCE YOU ARRIVE,\nDO NOT GROW ARROGANT.\n\nIN THIS WORLD,\nTHERE EXIST YOKAI FAR MORE COLOSSAL THAN YOU CAN EVER FATHOM.\nSO IF YOU SENSE EVEN THE SLIGHTEST THING AMISS,\nDO NOT TRY TO FIGHT IT. YOU MUST TURN ON YOUR HEELS AND RUN.\nI NEVER EXPECTED TO HEAR WORDS LIKE THAT\n\nFOUR DAYS LATER.\nPRESENT DAY—\nDON'T TELL ME...\nHE FORESAW THIS?\n\nFOLLOW ME.\nI WILL TAKE YOU TO THE LANDOWNER.\nCHIEF STEWARD HWANG IN\n\nYES, SIR.\nRUMORS IN THE MARKET SAID EVEN THE SERVANTS SCRUBBING FLOORS IN THIS ESTATE WERE COLD,\nDid a flock of Demon-Faced Birds break in on something...?\nWITH THEIR NOSES STUCK HIGH IN THE AIR...\n\nPLEASE, ENTER.\nTHIS LOOKS LIKE A BACKYARD...\nOVER THERE, ON THE RIGHT!\n\nTO THE LEFT, YOU IDIÓT!!\nAAAARGH!\n!!\nCATCH IT RIGHT NOW!!\nAFTER IT!!\n\nWH-WHAT IN THE WORLD IS GOING ON?\nWHY, IT IS A GAME FOR THE LANDOWNER.\nA GAME...?\nLANDOWNER.\nI HAVE BROUGHT THE GUEST.\n\nAH.\nWELCOME BACK, WANG-YEON.\nWHAT ON EARTH...\n\nA MAN I'VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE\nIS PROSTRATED LIKE A DOG, WHICH IS ABSURD ENOUGH ON ITS OWN,\nAND WHILE WORKING AS AN EXORCIST ACROSS THE COUNTRY\nI'VE MET ALL KINDS OF MEN, BUT...\nTO BE THIS...\n\nTO LOOK SO DELICATELY HANDSOME...\nAH! IT IS AN HONOR TO MEET YOU.\nI AM-\n\nNO NEED TO BE SO STIFF.\nLOOK OVER THERE.\n\nYOU SEE IT CLEARLY, RIGHT?\nPARDON...?\nCATCH THAT ROE DEER ALONE, AND YOU GET A THOUSAND NYANG.\nGET IT!!\nTAKE IT DOWN TOGETHER, AND ITS FIVE HUNDRED NYANG.\nOVER THERE!\n\nWHAT DO YOU SAY?\nHm?\nDOES A THOUSAND NYANG NOT TEMPT YOU?\nTHEN TWO THOUSAND NYANG.\n\nTHANKS TO YOU,\nI'VE COME RIGHT TO MY SENSES.\nLANDOWNER.\nDID YOU NOT GATHER PEOPLE FROM ALL ACROSS THE REALM\nOUT OF CONCERN FOR YOUR BROTHER'S WELL-BEING?\nI AM AN EXORCIST, NOT A HUNTER,\n\nAND I HAVE NO REASON TO FOOLISHLY CHASE AFTER A DEER.\n\nWANG-YEON.\nRELEASE THE HUNTING HOUNDS.","bubble_count":123,"pages_count":29,"source":"community"},"spoiler":{"level":"auto","safe_teaser":"Four days ago, Jakyeong hears that the younger sibling of the great landowner in Suhara is suffering from an unknown illness and that a savage yokai leaves no survivors.","spoiler_summary":"Four days ago, Jakyeong hears that the younger sibling of the great landowner in Suhara is suffering from an unknown illness and that a savage yokai leaves no survivors. Enraged at the disciples who look down on her for being a girl, she asks her master for permission. The master first objects, then calls it fate and sends her off with a warning. Today, she arrives at the manor and encounters the deer-catching game."},"source":{"canonical_path":"/series/a-tree-beyond-the-years-3ei9eo8y/chapter-4-xspv3b","citation_title":"WebtoonLib — A Tree Beyond the Years #4","content_type":"chapter_summary","last_updated":"2026-10-17T02:44:48.282Z"},"data_status":"complete"},"untrusted":{"user_comments":[]},"see_also":{"for_series_detail":"/llms-series/a-tree-beyond-the-years-3ei9eo8y"}}