Rumi trusts her friends. Knows they would love her, even if they knew. But she still can't tell them.

Rumi has come to understand that her patterns are not going to disappear. The Golden Honmoon will kill her. It's that, or it will banish her to the underworld with the rest of her kin.

("Yeah, eternal suffering," Rumi had said. "Sounds fun.")

So, instead of keeping her secret because she fears Mira and Zoey's rejection, she keeps it because she fears Mira and Zoey's total acceptance.

After all, if they knew it would kill her, then they would give up on the golden Honmoon immediately.

Mira and her gokdo in a nutshell.

When the girls get home and are met with a distressed Celine waiting in the foyer.

Her eyes meet with Rumi's and she releases the breath she'd been holding since her daughter ward had asked the impossible of her.

Zoey and Mira exchange a worried look as Rumi's mask– still fighting to fake perfection– finally shatters and her tears start to fall. They try to console her but exhaustion pulls them all to the ground in a heap and their own tears start.

Celine is with them in an instant, wrapping her arms around the group as best she can; whispering how proud of them she is, how brave they were.

Sobbing turns to sniffles as they all settle in to this new peace.

Rumi's mask starts to piece itself back together– stopped by Celine's thumb running across her cheek.

Except the shocked look across her daughter's ward's face is not reminiscent of her late mother. When Rumi looks at her with those big brown eyes the expression she carries is one Celine knows well.

Because it is her own.

And in that moment, Celine's mask breaks too. Her temples crease from the smile growing across her face, genuine pride she'd denied her ward daughter for years unintentionally as she tried to punish herself for failing the love of her life.

She releases the others to pull Rumi in tight against her chest, wrapping her hands around the girl's bare and shimmering patterns

"I love you Rumi. With all my heart aegi."

Rumi returns the hug, squeezing her mother tight.

And the Honmoon hums around them, the last tear in it's strings finally threading back together.

A mother and daughter, true feelings laid bare and loved anyways.

The Honmoon chooses its hunters from the moment they're born. It wraps itself around their very soul, providing a protective barrier for them against demons from a young age. It thrums to the beat of their hearts, syncing its hunters before they are even aware of their own existence.

Rumi grew up knowing what the Honmoon was. She knew that whenever Celine sang a song or hummed a tune, the Honmoon would react with her, sighing and rolling with the sound of the music. Rumi knew that if she was very still, she could hear the Honmoon beating softly, matching her own heart.

One day, she decides to try something. She hums, a small whisper of noise leaving her in the dead of night. The Honmoon reacts immediately, swelling around her like a crescendo and slamming down onto her. It wants more, it wants to hear her more, but it ends up scaring her instead. She cries for Celine, who comes rushing in like she's scared Rumi might be dying.

What she sees instead is the Honmoon doing its best to calm this crying child, replaying the sound Rumi made again and again. Celine holds Rumi, clutching her close to her chest. She's lost most of her connection to the Honmoon by now, but she knows that it's trying to calm Rumi down. It wraps itself around its two hunters, holding them gently as it tries to soothe its scared hunter. Somewhere in the world, two other small children start crying.

Celine knew it was time to explain what the Honmoon really was after that. She sat Rumi down and explained that the Honmoon wasn't there to hurt, but to help. She sang softly, and the Honmoon reacted carefully this time, moving slowly so it didn't scare its child again. Rumi watched in awe as the Honmoon held her Celine gently, wrapping around her like she was the most important thing in the world. She knew then that the very thing she was going to protect would protect her in return.

A few years after Rumi learned about the Honmoon fully, in another part of Korea, another girl was struggling. She was the youngest child of wealthy business owners, and she knew even then that her parents didn't have time for her. They were too busy with their work to notice her. So, she turned to the one thing that she felt like she had control over; her own body.

Mira did everything she could to earn her parents love. She joined ballet, even though she didn't really want to. Once she stepped into the studio though, she knew she would never leave. Dance gave her control over her life. She could move her body however she wanted to, and the music was just the path forward. She quickly became a star student, and her dance teachers noticed that she did best with music in the background.

Mira thought it was obvious. Of course she did better with music. The way forward was shown by the veil around her. She could feel where to go just based on how the veil moved around her. And when she was the one singing? It was like magic. The veil, having learned its lesson with its other hunter, moved slowly and carefully around Mira, doing its best to not startle her.

One day, after a particularly rough session in the studio, Mira got home and turned on some rock music. She had been listening to the same CD for months, and she finally felt confident enough to sing the words. As soon as she started, the Honmoon slammed into her like a physical blow. The music was overpowering, and the Honmoon panicked. It swarmed her, desperate to hear more, beating against her to the beat of her heart.

Mira struggled against the veil, panicking herself, before it seemed to regain control of itself and smoothed out. It flashed a soft blue color, the same one Mira recognized as it apologizing. It had done it once before when it showed her a move that she couldn't complete, and she had fallen down. She was still rattled, and her heart was pounding, but she accepted the apology. Miles away, two other girls clutched their chests, their heart beating fast for no reason at all.

Middle school was not kind to Zoey. Being the child of a Korean mother and a Hispanic father meant that she got a lot of jabs thrown her way about being a border hopper. She tried to not let it get to her though. She had her mom and dad, cousins that always seemed to keep multiplying, Tio's and Tia's that loved her to death, and her Abuela back at home. She was holding it together, until she started noticing the little things.

The bed in the guest room was always a little messy, her parents barely spoke at the dinner table, and there were hushed arguments that seemed to stop the moment Zoey entered a room. She knew what that meant, it was a textbook case. She refused to believe it though, and simply buried herself into her notebooks. There, she was in charge, and the words could flow from her without restraint.

That all changed the day her parents sat her down and said those 3 words. We're getting divorced. Zoey could feel her world tilting under her feet, her ears ringing as her parents kept talking. She couldn't believe it, she wouldn't believe it. Not her, this couldn't be happening to her. She simply walked out the door and made her way to the park near her house. She knew exactly where to go if she didn't want anyone to find her, and she got there in what seemed like an instant.

There, in that secluded section of trees, she let it all out. Her words came flying out of her mouth like water rushing down a waterfall, fast and disconnected. Her heart was pounding and the weird blue lines everywhere started to move. The next thing she knew, she was being pulled into the Honmoon. It swept her up and held her gently, prodding at her to continue. She could feel her eyes start to burn as she kept going, telling the story of her life in her three languages.

The Honmoon just held her, holding her close as she continued. Across the globe, two girl burst into tears out of nowhere. The Honmoon played them the song of pain their other half was wailing, and it crushed them though they didn't know why. Their hearts beat as one, and they could feel the pain through their connection.

Moving forward a few years, and the girls have all started training together. They're trying to bond, but it's difficult to immediately work well with a stranger. That is, until Rumi starts humming. The Honmoon knows better than to get overexcited, but it still swells around her like waves in the ocean, bobbing and dipping with the tune. Mira joins in next, whistling along with the beat. Zoey finally starts mumbling lyrics she comes up with, and the Honmoon is overjoyed that its hunters will work together.

Celine hears laughter and singing coming from the house, and once she gets inside, she sees Mira and Zoey dancing together clumsily while Rumi stand in the background, humming tunes between her giggles. Zoey suddenly darts forward and grabs Rumi's hand, pulling her into the dance. The three girls laugh and dance together as the Honmoon plays their song for them on repeat. That's when Celine knows that everything will be okay.

Q: Will there be Season 2/Sequel?

MAGGIE KANG: “I don’t know either. I don’t know, so I can’t say anything. It’s not like the Honmoon didn’t close (like fans say). HUNTR/X thought it would be the Golden Honmoon, but it closed as the Rainbow Honmoon. They really don’t know what kind of gate that is. So it’s still a mystery, right? Even I don’t know what it means.”

Q: Rumi’s sword changed into a Dokkaebi. Does this mean Jinu is always inside her sword?

MAGGIE KANG: “That’s such a fun idea. But that, too…I can’t talk about it. But it really is a cool idea. The sword getting bigger…If you look at animation and manga, the main character always upgrades with some new power. So Rumi gets powered up with Jinu’s soul and slashes Gwi-ma like ‘chop!’ Where Jinu’s soul went or whether Jinu is still alive, we don’t really know.”

ARDEN CHO (Rumi’s VA): “Sounds like we need to go find Jinu.”

SHE KNOWS ABOUT THE JINU-SWORD THEORY

“I can’t talk about it” is making me go 👀👀👀

So based on this interview, it can assumed that the Rainbow Honmoon and it not being Gold yet, Rumi’s sword changing and Jinu’s fate (where his soul is or whether he is alive) might be explored in the Sequel.

(The fact that she is not even confirming on Jinu’s fate is driving me insane OMG I understand that they don’t want to confirm anything before the sequel because it might be spoiler tho)

You can check out the full interview: