Episode two added a bit of comedy and a lot more darkness to the story.
After telling her mother she’ll be staying with a friend, Fa finds herself sleeping on Ajin’s surrounded by his occult talismans and alters. She also walks in on him shirtless.
The next day students see her arriving on the back of Ajin’s motorcycle and immediately assume the two are dating. With a bit of magic, Ajin convinces them that he is her uncle, not her lover. Though the spell works, it involves him casting on her mother, which Fa is more than a little upset about. But it was a necessity.
While Ajin starts to exorcise the classrooms he tasks Fa with keeping an eye out on her fellow students. He wants them to figure out who’s next. Fa fears it’s her old friend, Nam (Kanyarat Ruangrung), especially after Nam stumbles upon a dummy made up to look like her hanging by a noose in the music room. The event scared her enough that she left the school.
With Nam Safe, Fa and Ajin work together to develop a plan to get the school’s top students in one place. Though it involves them coming in on a Saturday, the ruse proves effective and the two discover Yiwha (Sureeyares Yakares), as someone who stands out and could be their spell caster.
She’s not. She ends up being a student who’s been studying the occult herself and has been doing her own research on what’s been happening, though she (like Fa before her) suspects Ajin as the culprit. After forming a fast friendship Yiwha and Fa skip the special class and get to know one another in the library while Ajin continues to exorcise the classrooms.
He discovers that the the dark energy is not coming from a place inside the school but rather in the forest behind it.
Thankful to have a friend she can speak openly with about the occult, Yiwha confesses to Fa that she thought Ajin was a part of Enigma – an organization made up of the darkest practitioners of magic.
While all of the students, including Yiwha and Fa start to fall under a dark spell, Ajin is attacked. He fights off the dark forces, but not before Fa is blinded by another spell and walks right into the dark practitioner’s trap. Who just happens to be Nam.
Quick Take: I was one, the practitioner of dark magic was not the person I thought it was. I love that it’s injecting bits of humor into the suspense. It makes much more interesting and engaging. Also, seeing Win shirtless and covered in tattoos is not something I (or any sane person really) should ever say no to seeing.
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More Enigma soon so…
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