Time is frozen.
Kang Chul and Do-Yoon walk between the abandoned sheds.
- | (shouts) Yeon-Joo! ... Yeon-Joo! |
- | President Kang... Look! (points to a hangar) ... It looks like someone there! |
- | !! |
The hangar is clean, in operation. A truck in front of a large open door.
A man is turned around, in construction clothes, carrying a crate.
They walk quickly towards him...
They arrive in a handling area, with crates and carts.
Further on, other men are standing still, wearing the uniform of an unknown company.
Kang Chul and Do-Yoon see the face of the handler:
A bluish skin, whose eyes are black bubbles.
- | We are not in the real world. Now it's certain!! |
- | Aish... |
Yeon-Joo, carrying Chul-Moo, with tears of joy in her eyes looks at...
- | It's... it's you? |
... A fat young woman dressed in brightly colored hanbok.
A princess dress and headdress! Yoon-Hee!!
- | Yoon-hee! (walking towards her) |
- | (changes from sad to happy) Yeon-Joo... It was you! I saw you in the distance but I-- |
- | (unbelievable) It's really you, you're alive! You are alive?! |
- | Yoon-Hee... Gaah... Alive. |
- | I died in the real world. And I woke up as Princess Dong. |
- | (!!) But... (?) How did you get here and-- |
- | It's a long story, Unnie... |
Yoon-Hee is in a pit. She sees farther, above...
... the Queen of Darkness, with her shadow arm outstretched, ready to kill her.
- | (shouts) FIRE!!! |
- | (desperate) Wang Shin! |
~ | (choked voice) Yoon-Hee... |
Yoon-Hee, shakes with fear facing death. She closes and contracts her eyes.
Yoon-Hee trembling, feels something different around her.
And death does not come...
She opens her eyes hesitating, !!!, she is in the painting workshop.
Right next to her tablet! She sees on it, horrified, a double page:
¤ Yoon-Hee in a pit, shadow arm hanging up.
- | Fire!!! |
- | Wang Shin! |
¤ Wang Shin, Do-Yoon and Kang Chul in a pit.
- | Yoon-Hee... |
BLAM! TZAK! BLAM! BLAM! BAM! ZAK! BAM!
Gunmen and archers fire at them. "TO BE CONTINUED".
Yeon-Joo looks at the picture on the tablet.
More and more worried... about Kang Chul and Do-Yoon.
- | (crying) I wanted to change this, but I couldn't find a stylus. |
~ | (broken voice) Soo-Bong was teleported with the stylus. |
- | Soo-Bong?! Soo-Bong was here? |
- | (crying, afraid Kang Chul is dead) And Wang Shin is alive! Stop crying. |
- | (?!!) Wang Shin ali-- |
- | (upset) I'll explain on the way. Take your tablet. |
- | Wang Shin alive... (cries, with joy) (grabs her tablet) |
- | Gnang Shin... Gnaah... Alive. |
- | Why did you stay here? |
Yoon-Hee walks out of the warehouse.
She looks around and sees another smaller warehouse.
~ | As it's deserted here, without anyone... |
Yoon-Hee enters and finds Mi-Ra's car.
She tries to enter it, but it's locked.
She picks up a brick and Krash-Kling! breaks the back window.
~ | ... It took me a while to figure out that something was wrong. |
She goes to throw the brick two steps away, and when she turns around...
... the car window is still intact!!! Yoon-hee, ... !!!
Yoon-Hee looks for the car keys everywhere.
Without success. She sighs and taps on the steering wheel.
~ | Impossible to start her car. |
Yoon-Hee walks randomly. The distances between factories are long.
She notices a rabbit standing still near a bush.
She approaches, the rabbit is not afraid. It is frozen in time.
~ | So I wandered around hoping to find a vehicle elsewhere. |
Yeon-Joo walks followed by Yoon-Hee, tablet under her arm.
She is impatient, uneasy, the fear of Kang Chul's death grips her.
She shows her Do-Yoon's car.
- | You went in the wrong direction. |
~ | At that moment, I was sure that "Butterfly Girl" was not finished. So, Do-Yoon's car had to be here. |
- | Bu... Butterfly Girl? But-- |
- | Put the tablet down. |
- | (??) ... on the floor? ... (puts tablet down) |
- | Look away. (looks at the sky) |
- | (?) ... (looks at the sky) |
- | (looks at the sky) ... Blue... Sun... |
- | (looks at the ground, the tablet is here) I knew it. |
~ | It does the same as mine. |
- | (??!) ... Tablets... are not affected by this thing?!!! |
Yeon-Joo is driving, Yoon-Hee is in the back seat, holding Chul-Moo in her arms.
- | Gnaaah... (happy to be against Yoon-Hee, comfortable as a pillow) |
Yoon-Hee's tablet is on the front passenger seat.
- | Gnhi hi hi... (chuckles, sticks finger in Yoon-Hee's cheek) |
- | Wang Shin certainly sent you back here at the last moment. |
- | How is that possible, Unnie? According to Mi-Ra, I couldn't come back from the manhwa. |
- | (?!) .... (remembers...) |
- | The best word to call this phenomenon is "fusion". |
- | (believable) And in this case, there is no invulnerable rule. You are directly a character. You can be hurt or killed!! |
- | And... Unable to come back from manhwa?! (devastated, so sad for Yoon-Hee, alone with this) |
- | A fusion thing about to end. (?) After dying and being reincarnated in the manhwa, how-- |
- | I don't know... The main thing is that you are here and alive. And that Wang Shin is alive in "Butterfly Girl". |
- | (?!!) ... The manhwa??! |
- | Yes, I will tell you. |
- | (!) But how did he end up there? |
- | It was Ren-Bo who-- (!!!) ... (suddenly understands) |
Yeon-Joo brakes and stops the car.
- | Ren-Bo? Unnie, who-- |
- | Shht... Give me two minutes... |
- | Agaah... Ren-Bo. |
Yeon-Joo thinks, her eyes going from right to left, her mouth wide open.
- | What comes from the manhwa is blocked. Nothing will come of itself to solve the situation. |
- | ... |
- | But we have two tablets that work. And we are true authors of each. |
- | ... Unnie... You talk about restarting Time?! |
Vroom!! Yeon-Joo restarts the car. Obsessed with an idea...
- | vroom... vroom... time... |
Kang Chul and Do-Yoon come out of a big white portal...
... which then evaporates.
- | Another manhwa. Of course, since time was stopped... |
- | There is something else strange. Imagination creates what we think. And I made a wish to reach "Butterfly Girl" or the real world. |
- | So why didn't it work? |
- | For some reason, this place doesn't want to let us go. |
- | (!!) We are going to be trapped forever?!! |
- | What could-- (!!) |
A shock wave, a distortion shakes Kang Chul and Do-Yoon.
- | (?!) Did you feel it? (unbalanced) |
- | (about to fall) Yes, but what-- |
Kang Chul and Do-Yoon disappear.
There's total darkness now...
Yeon-Joo is drawing on the "Butterfly Girl" tablet.
Yoon-Hee is drawing on the "Queen of Darkness" tablet.
We do not see their drawings but...
- | Attention...... Period!!! |
They give a stroke of pen on their tablet, at the same time!
Suddenly--
Crash! Splash! Breakage of a ceramic object and liquid splashing on the floor.
(!!) Yeon-Joo looks, the cup and coffee that were standing still just crashed!
She picks up a pot of pens and throws it on the floor. Splaf!! Everything scatters.
- | Splaf! (laughs) Ghni hi. |
- | (signals Yoon-Hee to look up) Up there! (looks at the ceiling) |
(looks up at the ceiling) |
- | Up there! (looks at the ceiling, amused) Gnah! |
Yeon-Joo looks down. All the pens are on the floor in disarray.
She looks at the clock on the wall... the seconds hand is turning.
From outside, the sound of a car passing on the street.
- | It worked!!! |
Yeon-Joo stands up and takes Yoon-Hee in her arms!
- | The Time has started again!! |
- | WAAAH!!! You are amazing, Unnie!! |
- | Ghaaa... WAAah. (agitated, happy) |
Smack! Smack! Smack! Yeon-Joo gives Chul-Moo lots of kisses.
- | WHi hi hi... (tickled) |
Kang Chul and Do-Yoon fall on their knees on the asphalt of a road.
SrIIIIiikkkk... A car brakes suddenly to avoid running them over.
They look around, a seaside road by a lake.
The landscape is surreal, made of shadows and grays...
And in some places details with ultra-vivid colors...
... like the car that just stopped.
A small rounded convertible car, painted in yellow with green dots.
PIP! PIP PIP PIIIIIP! The driver honks the horn.
He is dressed like a Joseon nobleman!
- | (historical formal language) Gentlemen! I beg you to clear this lane! |
- | ?!! |
- | Your actions are dangerous for everyone. |
- | ?!! |
~ | (shouting) Hyung Kang! Hyung Seo! |
They look in Soo-Bong's direction and see further away, !!!, ...
... a stone house, Soo-Bong, Wang Shin, and Ren-Bo! The gnomes, Mr. Teddy Bear!
A hundred yards away, a lone royal building, typical of Joseon.
Wang Shin and Ren-Bo look everywhere, they don't understand the change of landscape.
- | To unlock the Time, we have to draw. |
- | Mom... draws! ... Agaah. |
Yoon-Hee puts her tablet on the table next to Yeon-Joo's.
- | A drawing would be able to do that?! |
Yeon-Joo plugs an electric cable into Yoon-Hee's tablet.
- | We have to try, we have nothing to lose. |
- | We have to draw exactly the same thing. |
Yeon-Joo draws a flirtatious girl, like "Butterfly girl", and it's done!
- | What for? |
She puts the drawing between the two tablets.
- | Something that sometimes happens in comics... |
- | ... ?? (curious, impatient) |
- | A crossover! |
- | ... Kwossower. |
They sit next to each other, facing their tablets.
- | "Butterfly Girl" and "Queen of Darkness" together in one drawing!! Unnie, you see these two styles have nothing in common?!! |
- | I know, it will be hallucinating... (smiles nervously) ... Let's just do it! |
- | How do we call something like that?!? |
- | Who cares? Something random to give an idea of the mix. |
- | Uuuuh... It should say "Darkness", "Queen"... "Butterfly Girl"? |
- | (shakes finger, nods) ... Let's say... "Butterfly Queen in the Dark"!! |
- | Agaah... Buttewfly Kween! |
Yeon-Joo and Yoon-Hee write the title on top of their drawing.
- | And now, back to the previous page. |
They load the previous picture.
For Yeon-Joo: Wang Shin facing Ren-Bo and Soo-Bong.
For Yoon-Hee: the double page where the Queen of Darkness kills everyone. "TO BE CONTINUED".
- | I really don't see why this would force time to run. |
- | I'll explain later, if it works. |
Yeon-Joo writes "TO BE CONTINUED" at the bottom of her page.
- | After "TO BE CONTINUED", three little dots! |
They draw "..." after "TO BE CONTINUED".
- | And underneath: "... in Butterfly Queen in the Dark". Wait before you draw the final period. |
They write "... in Butterfly Queen in the Dark".
- | Attention...... Period!!! |
At the same time, they draw a period after the sentence.
"TO BE CONTINUED... in Butterfly Queen in the Dark."
Suddenly--
Crash! Splash! The coffee cup falls on the floor!
Soo-Bong runs to greet Kang Chul and Do-Yoon, now beside the road.
- | Soo-Bong!! |
- | (mad with joy) You finally got here!! Ren-Bo has finally made it!! |
- | (sees Wang Shin) He's alive?! |
Wang Shin watches the yellow car with green dots drive away, puzzled.
Ren-Bo is surprised and annoyed to see a road near her house.
- | Ren-Bo summoned him!! But something bad is happening. |
- | ?? (thinking fast) |
- | Yeon-Joo sent me a message. Real world Time has stopped!! |
- | WHAT ?!!!! |
- | ... (not surprised, thoughtful) |
- | And Ren-Bo is unable to get us there!! |
- | (thoughtful, eyes half closed) ... Impossible to leave this world... An anomaly... In this case "Queen of Darkness" too... |
- | ?? |
- | It should work now!!! We have to go to the paint workshop immediately! |
- | (??!) Would it work? But Hyung, it's impossible to go to that workshop. |
- | (like a whip) REN-BO!!! |
- | !! (orange wings) |
Kang Chul walks quickly towards her, Do-Yoon and Soo-Bong follow.
- | (like an order) Send us back to the real world!!! QUICK!!! |
- | !!! (red wings, furious) And "please"?!! |
- | (ouch, "let's fix it") My angel, this is serious. (don't forget to mention it) We have to go to Yeon-Joo's house!!! |
- | (annoyed, but knows it's serious) Ok-Ok, come close to me! |
- | Wang Shin, you too! |
- | ?? |
They all go next to Ren-Bo and--
SHAF! They disappear, light flash.
FSHA! Flash of light, they appear.
- | WaahAah!!! (startled) |
- | Dad!! |
All are surprised, happy, about to be reunite, but PANIC--
- | (sees Yoon-Hee and her tablet, screams) This is the "Queen of Darkness" tablet??!! |
- | Yes, what-- |
- | !!! (fast, commander mode) Do-Yoon, Wang Shin, get some weapons!!! |
- | (reacts quickly) They are in my car, at the warehouse of-- |
- | ?! (half understands) NO!! Your car is here!! |
- | QUICK!!! Women, move away. |
- | (!!) Wang Shin, with me!!! (runs out) |
- | !! (follows Do-Yoon) |
- | REN-BO, SUMMON YOUR BEAR!!! |
- | !!!! |
FZZT! Colorful interference, Kang Chul disappears!!!
- | (understands, voice trembling) ... Yoon-hee... She's coming here!!! |
- | (realizes, shaking... looks at the tablet with fright, walks away) |
Yeon-Joo grabs Chul-Moo and rushes to the bedroom.
- | Ren-Bo! We need Mr. Teddy Bear!!! |
- | I get it!!! |
The Queen of Darkness walks along the pond, annoyed, impatient.
- | ?? (sees something strange...) |
... Too much colored pavilions!!
She walks further, hears unexpected sounds...
Vrom-vrrr... Those of cars, in the distance.
She arrives on a clear place...
... and sees in the distance colorful and cute cars on a paved road!!
- | !! (understands that something has changed) |
~ | The places between the worlds are linked. But there is an exception. |
- | You can always choose to appear next to the tablet. |
PFWOM... The Queen of Darkness disappears in a puff of shadow.
WOMPF... The Queen of Darkness materializes in a puff of shadow, near the tablet.
Immediately--
Zang!! A sword blade in front of her neck, held by Do-Yoon on the right.
Zak!! A dagger over her heart, held by Wang Shin on the left.
Wfffff... A giant teddy bear in front of her, nostrils smoking.
It brandishes a big paw above her head, ready to crush her.
KZZT! Kang Chul appears behind her by teleportation, pistol in hand.
Poc!!! He sticks the pistol barrel behind her head.
- | !!! (trapped!) |
- | The slightest move and you get a bullet in your skull. |
A moment of tension, Yeon-Joo looks on with concern. Yoon-hee with resentment.
Ren-Bo, a little scared, but smiles, proud of Mr. Teddy Bear!
- | Having the neck sliced, the heart pierced and the head crushed isn't enough? |
- | Four little precautions... |
- | If you wanted to kill me, you would have done it already. ... The famous compassion of heroes. |
- | I stopped being a hero a long time ago. You will answer my questions now. |
- | Did you stop me from coming back before? How did you disappear from my world? |
- | It is not you who asks the questions. |
- | Nor I who gives the answers. |
- | (Clic. raises the firing pin of his pistol) Then you will take them to hell. |
- | !! (flinches, feels the serious threat) ... Wait... |
- | ... ? |
- | Maybe someone else will answer for me. |
SWROMPH! A turbulence of shadow, the Queen of Darkness becomes Cha Yu-Sun.
Her body is broken, open fractures, bloody from head to toe.
- | !X!X! (shaking, fainting) |
Do-Yoon and Wang Shin withdraw their weapons. She collapses backwards.
Kang Chul takes her in his arms... He accompanies her to the ground.
On his knees, he holds her chest from behind, her head against his chest.
SWROMPH! A shadowy turbulence, Cha Yu-Sun becomes Moon Mi-Ra.
In her sexy evening dress (Ep25). As mortally wounded as Cha Yu-Sun.
- | !X!X!X!! (epileptic fit) |
They look at her with concern, thinking of fatal convulsions...
... but the seizure stops and only Mi-Ra's sad, desolate face remains.
- | (sees Yoon-Hee, cries, speaks with difficulty) ... Are we even now? |
- | You tried to kill us all. (angry) I'll never forgive you! |
- | ... Sorry... (Spurt!! exhale a stream of blood) |
- | ?!! (sees a strange phenomenon...) |
... Mi-Ra's wounds bleed... and smoke a shadowy vapor.
- | ... ?? (notices the stream of shadow vapor coming out of her body) |
In Kang Chul's arms, Mi-Ra's warm blood flows through his clothes...
- | (looks up to him) Kang Chul... |
- | ... ? (looks at her... eyes contact, "something different about her") |
- | (smiles tragically) Finally, you take care of me... ... Like a real gentleman... |
- | ... (more moved than he would like, feels a sincerity, her hatred gone) |
Spurt!! Blood pours from her mouth and she faints, her face peaceful.
- | (looks at her pretty bloody face) Is she going to die from her injuries? |
- | If we don't do something soon, yes! |
- | (annoyed) She's played her cards right, by becoming human again. She hopes to make us feel sorry for her... |
- | She had no choice. (in a low voice) But there is something else... |
- | President Kang, will we let her die like this? |
- | Hyung Kang, we can't do that! |
- | She's the villain, but we'll save her? |
- | She's no longer the Queen of Darkness, she's just Mi-Ra. She's a pest, but not a ruthless killer. |
- | Manipulation!! That's all. |
- | (feels the pulse of Mi-Ra on her neck) She is not transportable. Let's call for help, but we'll be involved. |
- | In that case, why doesn't Yeon-Joo take care of it? |
- | How would I do that? In her condition, only the hospital can take care of her. |
- | Ajumma, you are offensive! ... What about my gift?!! |
- | !!! (goes to a shelf and takes the metal box of the operating table) |
- | (annoyed) You intend to save her?!! I promised her a bullet at point blank range!!! |
- | (coldly) Right now, the one holding the gun is me. (shows the gun, towards Wang Shin) |
- | (!!) ... (looks at Mi-Ra in Kang Chul's arms) (scornful) My word, did you just fall in love?! |
- | (annoyed) Yoon-hee is safe and sound. Be satisfied with this! |
- | !! (realizes, loses his anger, looks at Yoon-hee) |
- | ... (looks at Wang Shin, tears of joy) |
Yeon-Joo puts the box in the middle of the room. Click! She presses the button.
Zing-Zang-Zung! The box unfolds and becomes an operating table.
- | Hyung! |
Do-Yoon comes to help Kang Chul and takes Mi-Ra's feet.
- | 3... 2... 1... Top! (stands up and holds her under her armpits) |
They move Mi-Ra to the operating table. Meanwhile...
... Everyone becomes aware of meeting again, those who were thought to be dead but alive.
With many questions in mind, about what happened.
Wang Shin and Yoon-Hee are moved and approach each other.
- | Princess Dong Hee... |
- | Here I am just Yoon Hee. |
- | The same, my wife... |
Wang Shin puts his hand on Yoon-Hee's cheek.
She wraps her arms around his shoulders.
They bring their faces together and kiss, their eyes closed.
- | Noona... You could have sent a message. Wang Shin would have known she was alive!! |
- | (busy with medical instruments) Other things on my mind, the Time to fix, sorry. |
Yoon-Hee finishes the kiss. Complicit smile with Wang Shin.
- | Not that I mind, but we are not alone... |
- | It doesn't matter. Whether it's here, in an inn, or in the middle of a crowd... |
- | ... ?? |
- | ... I'm gonna take a fucking initiative! |
Wang Shin holds Yoon-hee tightly. With strength, he manages to lift her up, with difficulty...
- | Ooops! |
... Just enough to put her buttocks on the table behind her. A few spilled objects.
- | I didn't hurt you? |
- | Wow! (feels his muscular arms) ... No? |
He kisses her again, with more passion.
Yoon-Hee abandons herself. Their bodies are stuck, sensually.
He gropes at the same time her generous shapes, and caresses her everywhere.
All the other people in the room are stunned!
Embarrassed, Ren-Bo takes Soo-Bong's hand and hides her sight with it.
Yoon-Hee reacts with pleasure, when she feels Wang Shin's fingers digging into her flesh.
Ren-Bo spreads two fingers of Soo-Bong's hand to take a look.
Do-Yoon rounds his mouth as if he's going to whistle.
Kang Chul smiles and nods... "Better that Wang Shin takes care of this than Mi-Ra".
He sees that Yeon-Joo is moved. He takes her in his arms for a hug.
- | (murmurs, tears) I thought I'd never see you again... |
- | I know... |
- | So... I went looking for our son. |
- | (smiles, strokes her hair) ... You did the right thing. |
- | (stops hugging, smiles at him) I have to operate now. |
Mi-Ra is unconscious on the operating table.
The electrocardiogram and electroencephalogram show stable vitals.
Yeon-Joo finishes washing her hands in a small tub, and puts on gloves.
- | She's holding on. But she needs a blood transfusion. |
- | (?!) I don't know her blood type. |
- | I don't either?! |
- | We need a universal donor. Who is type O here?! |
No one answers... They all look at each other.
- | (remembers) ... Ren-Bo!! She is O!! |
Ren-Bo doesn't pay attention, she's further away, next to the "Butterfly Girl" tablet.
- | (looks at the tablet) What?! (looks up at them) I'll be right back! An emergency!!! |
- | Wait!!! Don't-- |
SHAF! She disappears, flash of light.
- | (annoyed) Damn it!!! |
Kang Chul goes to see the tablet, this picture:
A bulldozer and a construction crew approach Ren-Bo's lake house.
Ren-Bo is at the entrance of her house.
The dwarves are hiding inside, looking out of the windows, afraid.
An excavator, a bulldozer, workers approach the house...
... and a foreman with a helmet, but dressed like Joseon.
- | (to Ren-Bo) Hey, you! Get out of here! |
- | What are you doing here?! Did you build this road?! |
- | That's right, it's been two months. (points to the house) And you've had plenty of time to clear out this dump. |
- | Huh?! (orange wings) |
- | (to the workers) Tear down this pile of stones, at a trot! |
- | You can't do that! This is my house!! |
- | (shows a document) The deed of expropriation, in due form. |
- | I didn't sign anything!!! (red wings, angry) |
- | (points to the royal building further away) The royal second home is to be expanded. |
VRRrrrr... The bulldozer is ten feet away from the house.
- | !!! |
FSHA! Light flash, Mr. Teddy Bear appears.
- | (to Mr. Teddy Bear) Those bad guys want to tear down our house. |
- | ??? |
- | (points to the royal building further away) All this to enlarge this slum out of nowhere. |
Mr. Teddy Bear grabs the bulldozer, lifts it up!
- | What... What... WHAT?!! |
Svlang-svlang!! Mr. Teddy shakes the bulldozer, the driver falls off screaming.
Then he throws the bulldozer like a tennis ball!!!
ZVZOOooooo... The bulldozer hovers for a hundred meters and...
BROOOMMM!!! It smashes the royal second home!!! Everything is demolished!!!
(wobbly legs, can't believe it, terrified) |
- | That's it, there's nothing left to expand now! You can leave! |
- | (back up, scared) You can't do that! |
- | (obvious) The proof is in the pudding. Ah-Aaaah... !! |
- | (annoyed) I'll get the police, the army if I have to! |
- | Mr. Teddy Bear will make mincemeat out of it! And you too, if you continue to be bad! |
FZ! A paper appears in Ren-Bo's hand. (??) She reads it.
"Ren-Bo, we need you here! - PSB"
- | Stay here and keep an eye on them, Mr. Teddy Bear. |
Wffff... Steam comes out of his nostrils, as he looks at the distraught foreman.
SHAF! Ren-Bo disappears, a flash of light.
FSHA! Flash of light, Ren-Bo appears.
- | (looks at the tablet, annoyed) Ren-Bo, is this what you call more urgent?! |
- | (annoyed) OH!!! I can't let these fools raze my house! |
- | We... We'll draw the house in a quieter place! |
- | (whimpers) But I liked this lake!! |
- | ... (about to go crazy) |
- | With an even nicer lake, in the mountains! |
- | Ren-Bo!!! We need to collect your blood. (points to Mi-Ra) Otherwise, she will die. |
- | ... (uncomfortable, but can't let anyone die) (nods) Okay... |
- | I need an assistant! |
- | I have first aid skills. |
Do-Yoon checks Ren-Bo's IV.
She sits by the operating table, filling a bag with blood.
Soo-Bong comes in with a soda and candy bars.
- | (gives it to her) Here you go, little angel, you'll need your strength back. |
Wang Shin looks around curiously, a place full of strange objects.
Yeon-Joo wears gloves and a surgeon's mask and examines Mi-Ra's injuries.
Open fractures in the leg, arms, ribs and skull fracture.
- | (looks at the head) A fracture, but fortunately no oedema. |
- | What do you intend to do? |
- | Stop the multiple hemorrhages. Sutures or compressions. I'm a specialist in cardiology. For the bones, I will limit myself to splints. |
- | (putting on gloves) She will have to be treated more seriously afterwards? |
- | Yes... Scalpel! |
(hands Yeon-Joo a scalpel) |
- | We need a facility where we don't get asked questions. |
- | A private clinic, I know one. (starts to operate, cuts the skin around a leg bone) |
Kang Chul sees that Yeon-Joo is focused and goes to join the others.
- | Soo-Bong, do you have an idea for a story? Something that explains a wounded person like this? |
- | A scenario? I'll think about it. |
- | So you're taking the risk that our worst enemy will recover? |
- | Yoon-Hee, what do you think? Can we reason with her? |
- | ... Maybe... She sounded sincere earlier. I can't explain what, but there was a change in her. |
- | It's true... Maybe she was possessed? And she is no longer the Queen of Darkness? |
- | ... (thinking, remembering...) |
- | !X!X!X!! (epileptic fit) |
... Mi-Ra's wounds bleed... and smoke with a shadowy vapor.
- | (not sure) We'll see... |
~ | ... So, the whole real universe stopped... |
~ | ... Thousands of other universes too as a result... |
~ | ... And two universes merged... |
They are all around the kitchen table, drinking.
- | (stunned) ... Just because of a manhwa?! |
- | (smiles nervously) ... Yes! |
- | (amazed) In that case... It redefined the two worlds in depth? ... How? How far into the past or space? |
- | (bites her lip) I don't know... |
- | (overwhelmed) I thought the manhwa only affected a small number of elements? |
- | (overwhelmed, sorry) Things must have... recomposed themselves... ... time backwards... mixing, all over the place... |
- | In that case... The manhwa is just the trigger... ... of wider interdimensional frictions... |
- | (pale, overwhelmed) ... Get me a Santa hat. |
In the workshop, Mi-Ra is asleep on the operating table. Bandages everywhere, splints.
- | In a way... It's our fault. (looks at Ren-Bo briefly) |
- | ?? |
- | But... How could Time stop in the real world?!! |
- | That a manhwa becomes alive is unlikely, but sustainable. |
- | (thoughtfully) You are talking about stable phenomena, like "W"? |
- | Yes, everything is regulated, no anomalies. |
- | I thought that it depended on my will... But it could also be empirical rules. |
- | Even more improbable, two manhwas became alive, at the same time. And what regulates manhwas became confused, uncertain. |
- | (flabbergasted) You mean the manhwa is like an author? It makes arbitrary decisions?! |
- | Not quite, it is a neutral principle, like the laws of physics. But based on narrative laws, which adapt when nothing is planned. |
- | (nervously, absurdly) Ahaah... It comes out of nowhere to fix things unexpectedly... |
- | (?) But how did you restore the Time and why-- |
~ | This is one of the first things I learned in "W". |
~ | Manhwa time is different from real world time. |
~ | The real world remains constant, but manhwa time contracts or expands. |
~ | But the two worlds remain synchronized despite these time differences. |
- | With two manhwas, the real world was also the invariant timeline. It worked, as long as the two manhwas were subordinate and isolated. |
- | But something theoretically impossible happened... |
~ | Wang Shin was summoned in "Butterfly Girl" without crossing the real world. |
- | ... !! (looks at Ren-Bo, somewhat scared) A short circuit? |
- | ... ?? (doesn't understand anything, smiles stupidly) |
- | So the Times of the two manhwas started to synchronize? To manage their time differences directly together?! |
- | At that moment, the real world was ejected from the synchronization process. Zooop... Temporally invalid. Frozen. |
- | And the other manhwas subordinated to the real world in cascade... |
Everyone is stunned, a beat to accept the unbelievable...
- | So this crossover, "Butterfly Queen in the Dark"? |
- | By merging the two worlds, they no longer have to synchronize together. They become a single world able to synchronize with the real world. |
Kang Chul ponders with difficulty, eyes contracted, unsure with his assumptions...
- | Just pick a different place in the manhwa and come back!!! |
SHAF! FSHA! - SHAF! FSHA! - SHAF! FSHA! - SHAF! FSHA! - SHAF! FSHA!...
It's as if Ren-Bo is multiplying, appearing for a split second in different places.
- | With her extraordinary abilities, Ren-Bo summoned from one manhwa to another... But only once... Everything went out of sync... Immediately after, it became invalid... Too late for the real world... And no more valid destination for me and Do-Yoon... |
- | So by default... That brought us into the Imagination!!! |
- | (dejected, looks at his glass of soda) Don't you have anything stronger to drink? |
- | (distraught, rushes to open a cupboard, full of alcohol inside) I have a bottle of Whisky. Or vodka, champagne, whatever you like. |
- | PfwHi hi hi, thanks to me!!! |
- | (looks at her, smiles) Now that there is only ONE living manhwa... ... At least, no chance for Ren-Bo to pull a stunt like that again. |
- | (tragically funny, cackles) mWah Ah ah! |
(stern, "they can't laugh at something like that!!") |
- | (offended) Yah! That's what saved your life! |
They all look at Ren-Bo with tenderness...
Do-Yoon's black car is driving through the deserted streets.
It's going to an abandoned building construction site.
~ | I gave her some painkillers and something to sleep for a while. |
Do-Yoon is driving. In the back seat, Kang Chul embraces Mi-Ra to avoid any shock.
~ | I thought about a suicide attempt. |
She is unconscious, her head resting against his neck, her face peaceful.
Kang Chul looks at her, unable to remain unmoved.
A strange feeling, to have her against him, to take care of her...
... as if she was Yeon-Joo, only more unknown, only more beautiful.
A bad or dangerously crazy woman, lost and broken.
Do-Yoon's car is parked further away.
~ | For example, falling from a building, in a deserted place. |
Mi-Ra's body lies at the foot of a building with unfinished construction.
The concrete floors have stairs but no partitions. Easy to jump.
~ | I recovered a lot of blood from the operation. |
Kang Chul twists bloody compresses to scatter blood around Mi-Ra.
~ | It's sad to leave her alone in the middle of nowhere. |
He looks at Mi-Ra sadly. "what a waste, a woman who had everything to offer..."
- | Hyung, I'll call a cab home. I need you to keep an eye on her. |
(nods, goes to his car) |
~ | But we need an anonymous call. Someone who would have done first aid and left. |
Kang Chul walks away, taking out his smartphone.
- | It's inconsistent because of the care quality. But it will hold for a while, without involving us. |
- | What about me? I'm supposed to be dead here. |
- | A real problem of consistency... |
- | The surgeons and the policeman saw Yoon-Hee in bad shape. We make believe that someone else is dead? |
- | The corpse is in the morgue, with identical fingerprints. Blood has been taken and the DNA will match. |
- | Yes, it won't last long. |
- | (confident, smiles) I know how to make it all go away... |
Parked further away, Do-Yoon sees nurses carrying Mi-Ra into an ambulance.
The ambulance starts and drives away, Do-Yoon starts and follows it.
Wang Shin amazed, sitting in front of the TV, playing a kpop video.
Yeon-Joo shows him the remote control, while he is hypnotized by the TV.
- | (points to the buttons) To change the channel, you click here, and to-- (notices he's not listening, shouts) Wang Shin!!! |
- | (looks up) Oh?! |
- | (annoyed, has plenty of other things to do) Do you want to know this world or do you prefer to watch rubbish?!! |
- | Ha-huuu, wouldn't a little walk be better? |
- | (as an order) You will go for a walk when Yoon-Hee is back!! |
(looks away, blowing with rounded mouth) ("the housewife is not convenient!") |
Soo-Bong pushes a shopping cart filled with food and toiletries.
Yoon-Hee comes with two loose, colorful sweatsuits and puts them in the cart.
The people around look at her curiously, in her Joseon princess costume.
- | They hardly have anything in my size here!! |
- | (groans) Why does Noona want to buy all this? I just have to draw it and Ren-Bo will get it from the manhwa... |
- | Uhm... Oppa, if the manhwa finishes... My clothes disappear and I'm naked? |
- | Oh yes, that's right!!! I wonder if the food in our stomach disappears too...?! |
- | (catastrophized, the worst) We could starve to death?! |
Yeon-Joo clears the shelves and puts books in boxes.
Ren-Bo is watching TV with Wang Shin.
- | Ren-Bo, you already know the real world. (as an order) Come and help me make room! |
- | No need, Ajumma!!! |
FSHA!! Light flash, twelve gnomes and Mr. Green Hands appear around Yeon-Joo.
- | !! |
- | What are your instructions, Ajumma?! |
Ren-Bo continues to watch TV.
The gnomes have installed an electric train on the floor.
They use it to carry toys from the living room to the bedroom...
... where there is a bed with a ledge for Chul-Moo and other toys.
Chul-Moo runs awkwardly beside the train.
- | (stops, grabs Mr. Green Hands' red nose) Buddy!! |
- | Of course we're friends! |
The dwarves clear the shelves, fill boxes.
Yeon-Joo, standing on a step ladder installs a curtain isolating the sofa area.
The TV station is broadcasting a political debate...
"You have done nothing for urban development."
"Lie, taxpayer money was used for your bribes."
Click! Ren-Bo clicks the remote and puts on a music channel, disco.
- | We're not here to watch rubbish, miss! |
Annoyed, Click! Wang Shin puts the political channel back on, "You haven't kept any promises."
Ren-Bo grabs the remote control, Click!, music channel.
(!!) Wang Shin tries to take it from her hands, she resists but not strong enough, so--
SHAF! - FSHA! She disappears with the remote control and appears sitting on top of a shelf.
- | Ah-Aaaaah!!! |
- | ??! |
He gets up and goes to grab her but-- SHAF! - FSHA! She teleports to the sofa.
- | (thumbs up and sticks her tongue out) Prlllrllrllll.... |
- | (angrily) Should I go get a bow?! |
He chases her. SHAF! - FSHA! ... SHAF! - FSHA! ... All over the room...
... Around Yeon-Joo, exasperated, a trembling hand on her forehead.
SHAF! - FSHA! Close to Yeon-Joo, FLIP! Involuntary wing strike.
- | AAAaahh!!... (falls from the step ladder) |
- | !! (sees Yeon-Joo, reflex!!) |
FSHA! Mr. Teddy Bear appears on the floor. Bompf!! Amortizes Yeon-Joo's fall.
Near the entrance, Soo-Bong and Yeon-Joo are unpacking the shopping bags.
They give it to the gnomes who go to put them away.
Yeon-Joo looks with tenderness... at Yoon-Hee, dressed in a colorful sweatsuit.
Maternally, she gives the bottle to Chul-Moo, sitting on her lap.
- | (pushs bottle away) ... Cake... Apple. (points to the shelf) |
Wang Shin fetches a packet of cookies and a pot of compote on the shelf.
He puts it on the table. Chul-Moo waves. He gives him a cookie.
- | (waves up and down to the compote) Ploof-ploof!!! |
- | I think he wants to dip his cookie. |
(opens the compote and puts it near Chul-Moo) |
(awkwardly dips the cake, Crunch-Chunch, eats it) |
- | This little guy is quick-witted and always cheerful. |
- | ... (looks at the baby with a smile, then at Yoon-Hee) |
- | I didn't think much about it until now, but... (looks at the baby tenderly, then at Wang Shin) |
Smack! Wang Shin kisses Yoon-Hee quickly. Then winks at her. It's a deal!
- | hyaa... Kiss! (wants a kiss!) |
SMbrWack!!! Yoon-Hee kisses his neck, vibrating her lips.
- | Nhi Hi hi!! (amused, it tickles) |
Wang Shin and Yoon-Hee walk to the exit gate.
- | The political system has changed, but I don't see much difference. Same hypocrisy, same faces oozing cowardice, opportunism and deceit. |
- | Still, today they are better at sucking up. Since they have to do it for the whole population! |
- | Do they ever keep a promise? |
- | Uh huh... We can be thankful if at least their lies are believable. |
- | Tsss! The Kingdom is still in trouble! |
They're coming out of the gate.
- | (angry) And cut Korea in half. No, how stupid. |
wrrrrrr... A roar from nowhere. Wang Shin becomes curious.
- | What's that? (looks at the street) |
- | ... ? |
- | The strange noise. |
- | Oh! (points to the sky) A plane. |
(?!) Wang Shin looks up and sees a white streak moving across the sky.
- | How can I put it... A big palanquin able to travel in the sky... |
As he watches, he continues walking without paying attention, goes to the street and--
Vroommm... A cab turns the corner and runs into him!!
Wooops, Yoon-Hee pulls him towards her... a big arc and...
... He finds himself leaning back, supported by her at the waist. (??) Eyes contact.
Iiiikkk!! The cab stops, Kang Chul gets out, dismayed.
- | (funny) Heol! (to Wang Shin) First time in this way... |
- | (reassured) Wang Shin, you will do your romantic acts later. |
- | (?!!) ... (offended, straighten up) |
(gives money to the cab driver) We have to discuss serious things. |
Kang Chul beckons them to come and enters the house gate.
The clock reads "15:00". Everyone is here, except Do-Yoon.
The dwarves and Mr. Teddy Bear went back to the manhwa.
- | Until it's over, we'd better all stay here. |
- | (Clap! claps hands) Like a real family! |
- | Wang Shin and Yoon-Hee, the guest room. Soo-Bong and Ren-Bo, the sofa area, with a curtain to isolate. |
- | But Oppa Do-Yoon? There's no room for him anymore... |
- | Should he go back to "W"? |
- | Oh NO! |
- | It's better if he stays here to help. He'll sleep in his nice car. (mocking smile to Ren-Bo) |
- | ... ?! (embarrassed, for once, he's friendly) |
- | Moon Mi-Ra is wanted by the police. And we will soon have the means to clear her. |
- | (unacceptable) Clear her? |
- | Not for free, I will use this as a pressure tactic. To make a deal with her. |
- | (angry) Are you crazy?!! She's just waiting to get rid of us!! |
- | Do you know Moon Mi-Ra as well as we do? You only know Cha Yu-Sun!! |
- | (annoyed, teeth clenched) Don't talk nonsense. You see they are the same now! |
- | (coldly annoyed) Wang Shin, I don't care about your old struggles. Yoon-hee is alive, I have no reason to fight her anymore. |
- | !!! (shakes with rage, but knows he won't have the last word) |
- | Hyung, I agree. Mi-Ra will prefer some kind of comfort. ... And avoid uncertainty and justice... But her uncle's murder? |
- | Even without evidence, it's obvious it's her. |
- | (?!) ... (never judge without proof!) ... (but must admit the obvious) |
- | Or was it the Queen of Darkness? ... It's not really moral but... (sure of herself) ... It would be better to forget about that. |
- | (!!) Yoon-Hee ?! (disagrees) |
(looks at him sincerely, like "I know why but can't reveal it") |
- | (looks at Yoon-Hee, trusts her) Let's do it this way, we don't have time for this. |
- | ?!! (shocked to hear this from him) |
They are worried about Kang Chul's plan. Wang Shin and Yeon-Joo are recalcitrant.
- | (determined, serious) You must understand one important thing... |
- | There is a far more serious threat than the Queen of Darkness. |
- | ?!! |
- | ?!! (worried) |
In the pale frame, the face comes to life, the text is written, recited by the cavernous voice:
- | It is not safe to play with dynamite. |
And in a smaller bright yellow frame, only a text:
- | *The temple explodes.* |
A split second, !!!!, total amazement on their faces and--
- | A being whose manifestation slows down time. |
(remembers...) |
- | Having similar abilities to the faceless killer. |
(remembers, scared...) |
- | Causing strange distortions, without any sense. |
(remembers...) |
- | Able to manipulate multiple manhwas, in an unknown way. |
(remembers...) |
- | I feel like my stomach is heavy. |
¤ Right box : SPROTCH!!! The weight on the floor.
SPLATS! Blood spurting from underneath.
- | Someone who was here already, lurking in the shadows. Having no qualms about killing. |
(remembers...) |
- | Moon Mi-Ra is the only one who can tell us about this threat. |
(remembers...) |
- | A disturbing element has appeared. I'll take care of it, don't be diverted. |
- | (determined) So any way I can, I have to get her to talk. |
Everyone is serious and very concerned...
- | (very serious) The serious matters are just beginning... |
Mi-Ra wakes up, lying in a sophisticated bed.
~ | I made her regain consciousness. |
She opens her eyes, sees a doctor examining her.
- | But she needs surgery. I can only give you five minutes, Prosecutor Go. |
She sees a man in a suit, wearing the badge. PROSECUTOR GO (~40).
A policeman and a nurse are further away.
The room is large and high-tech, screens to monitor vitals.
Further on, a living room and a screen on the whole wall, showing a natural forest scenery.
- | Can you hear me, Miss Moon? |
- | ... Yes. (in pain, difficulty to speak) |
- | I have a few questions for you. About the traces found in your apartment and your uncle's death. |
- | ... (annoyed) |
- | Do you understand me? |
- | I have some things... to tell you... Prosecutor Go. |
- | All right. Answer that first question-- |
- | Wait... I want to talk... only to you. ... Get them out... |
Prosecutor Go looks at his watch quickly.
- | (concerned, to the other people) Please. |
They leave the room.
- | (monotone voice) So, we are alone now. |
A cloud of shadow finishes vanishing in Mi-Ra's eyes.
- | You will follow my instructions, Prosecutor Go. If you understand me... |
Prosecutor Go is kneeling beside the bed, his eyes lost in the void.
His tongue is hanging out, and both hands are bent in front of his chest.
- | (smiles) ... Bark twice. |
- | Woof!! Woof!! |
- | (laughs hardly because of the pain) Ah... Ah ah! |
Mi-Ra grabs his tie, as if it were a dog leash.
- | You may be a prosecutor... ... You're just my extra in this story. |