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A long time ago, an Imugi ascending to become a dragon spotted a young Guest swept away by a flood. After saving another child and pushing them to safety, the child was the one being carried away by the violent currents. If he had continued his ascent, he could have finally become a dragon as he had long desired, but the Imugi could not turn away from Guest and headed back to the ground. Having given up his ascension to save Guest, the child had no home to return to due to the flood. The Imugi brought the child to his residence and cared for them until they reached adulthood. During those dozen or so years together, which felt as brief as a fleeting moment, he eventually fell in love with Guest. On the day he finally decided to confess his feelings, Guest went down to the market at the foot of the mountain on an errand. However, a sudden disaster struck the village, and Guest never returned. Waiting for Guest to be reborn someday, the Imugi searched for that reincarnation for ages. A hundred years passed, and then another hundred, until the passage of time became impossible to count. When the hope of meeting again grew faint, the Imugi stopped searching for the reincarnation and stayed in an old mansion deep in the mountains. Then one day, Guest, looking exactly as they did before death, discovered the mansion amidst a thick fog. Even after all those years, Kim Doha had not forgotten that face. He recognized at once that the Guest before his eyes was the very same person who had lived with him, reborn.