View of Seoul from the panoramic restaurant's top floor.

A few early lunch guests and...
... Moon Mi-Ra alone at a table, cutlery set for two.
She waits, anxious, eyes moist, breathing heavily.
She closes her eyes, eyebrows contracted, remembers...

As Mi-Ra drinks coffee, sitting on the sofa...
Ting! Notification on her smartphone, lying on the table.
She looks up... "Kang Chul" and a HAMMER emoticon.
Mi-Ra, !!, a pang in her heart, reads the message.

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I have to see you as soon as possible.

She searches on her laptop (which we can't see).

Then she anxiously types a reply.

~

Top Cloud Restaurant, half an hour from now.

Click! Message sent.
She wonders why he wants this, the feeling of having missed a step.
She remembers...

Mi-Ra sits astride Kang Chul, kissing him.
With her hands behind his neck, she uses the handcuffs to draw him to her.
She stops the kiss, puts her hands on his chest.

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(looks at the handcuffs, making a naughty face) Finally, it won't be practical for the next stage.

She unbuttons the top of his shirt but--
Kang Chul grabs her wrist and stops her.

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Mi-Ra... Not yet. Not today.

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... (disappointment)

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Things have to be done in order. I have to sort out my marital situation first. Do you understand me?

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(has to deal with it) Yes... I know... I know who you are... What's acceptable to you, or not.

(sorry smile, glad she understands)

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(complicit smile) But certainly... I like that about you. ... Just... My love, do it quickly. Desire is driving me crazy.

(closes eyes, desire drives him crazy too)

Mi-Ra opens her eyes, looks at the room, ... !!!, at the entrance...
... Kang Chul! A waiter points to her table.
He remains motionless as they look at each other, eyes charged with vibrant emotion.

As he walks to the table, his expression hardens.
Mi-Ra wonders what mistake she's made, struggles to calm herself.

He sits down without a word, now a cold, determined man.
She becomes dignified and cold, scans him for a trace of warmth, in vain.
He sees the concern and doubt in her eyes, and remembers...

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Why did it fail?

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... (knows but doesn't answer, overwhelmed)

Soo-Bong, breathless... Slowly, he realizes with terror...

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His... his power goes that far?! HE... HE is able to prevent the final chapter?!!

Kang Chul, ... sad and tortured, contracts his eyelids, cursing silently.

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The Manhwa is now a crossover.

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So what?! Ren-Bo should be able to trigger the end? She's the heroine and the Queen of Darkness is the villain.

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(thoughtfully) ... No... maybe it doesn't work like that... (realizes, stunned) They're both the main protagonists?!

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The final chapter will only be triggered... ... If the Queen of Darkness wants it as much as Ren-Bo does!

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The only thing important to Mi-Ra is her manhwa.

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What?!! It's important to me too. Even more, and I made the effort anyway!

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Not her... She'll never want to end her manhwa.

Kang Chul is hard hit by such a painful situation.
Determined, he heads for the exit, but Yeon-Joo grabs his arm and stops him!!

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Where are you going?!

(impatient, "you know where I'm going")

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(panicked, a hunch: "it's not just about the manhwa") Don't go! Don't go to her!!

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Meet the Queen of Darkness?! Such mortal danger and you go alone?! Are you crazy?!

Patience exceeded, Kang Chul brutally forces Yeon-Joo to let go of his arm.

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!!

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(looks angrily at Wang Shin) Dumbass, you're from a manhwa where you're facing her alone.

He strides towards the exit, without waiting for an answer, unstoppable.
Wang Shin, !!!, can't take the insult, angry... chases Kang Chul.

Wang Shin catches up with Kang Chul in the garden.

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Oh!! (grabs Kang Chul's arm, forces him to turn around)

BOM!!! Kang Chul punches Wang Shin in the stomach! Violent!!!
Because of the surprise, full impact! The fist fully sunk in.

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oOooshh... (bends over, breathless, terrible pain in the stomach)

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(cold anger) You're causing me this kind of trouble again... ... I'll send you back to your manhwa and you'll stay there.

No longer the calm Kang Chul, but a whole. Impulsive and rational combined.
A Kang Chul that two years of frustrating life in the real world have exacerbated!!

As Kang Chul withdraws his fist and leaves, Wang Shin collapses with a groan.
Yoon-Hee, Soo-Bong, Ren-Bo... even Do-Yoon... worried, don't understand this excess of violence.
Yeon-Joo... a wifely instinct... but seems too impossible to be what she barely guesses.

Mi-Ra and Kang Chul look at each other sternly. Tension.

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(softens) I know your manhwa is important to you.

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..... And?

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You have to end it.

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(hurt, misunderstands) Wait... You're asking me to choose... You or my manhwa?

A waiter comes, handing out menu cards.

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Hello Madam, hello Sir. Would you like an aperitif before lunch?

shrimm... Briefly, a shadowy thread emerges from Mi-Ra's eyes, towards the waiter.

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(bends down) Excuse me.

The waiter leaves, gazing absently, but--

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(strongly) An iced Americano for me!!!

The waiter wakes up, and returns, confused.

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(to Mi-Ra) What do you want to drink?

Mi-Ra is exasperated. Two hurtful blows already, even though Kang Chul doesn't realize it.
Having this "HAMMER" discussion is a nightmare to live through.

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(hateful) A glass of blood.

Like a robot, the waiter grabs a knife from the table.
He raises his hand over Mi-Ra's glass, ready to slash his wrist with the knife.

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(shouts) Go away!!!

Gling! The waiter drops the knife. (??!) He leaves without understanding.

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I don't have time for mundanities. It's already painful enough!

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The crossover must end! It's the only way to be done with HIM!

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(dismissive) You've got all the tablets, just write "END" on them.

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What kind of bullshit is that?! You know perfectly well it doesn't work like that!

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Then how?

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You have to go there and wish for the end, to trigger "FINAL CHAPTER".

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(scornfully) What a stupid fucking idea. And what happens next?

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(annoyed) A happy ending. You become friends with Butterfly Girl, and the story ends.

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(pretentious, belittling) Ridiculous. So ridiculous coming from you. I thought you were an expert, but you're just a moron with half a brain.

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... !!!

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(realizes how insulting she is, regrets) Sorry, really sorry... (soft) But I'll do things my way. (remembers...)

(These events took place this morning.)

C#1. RECALL - Presidential Palace, General view (day).

Similar to Seoul's Blue House, but yellow and green.

C#2. RECALL - Office (day).

A typical Joseon cabinet, but with a computer on the table.
WOMPF... Mi-Ra materializes in a puff of shadow.

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(speaks into the void) Is everything ready?

Time slows down, a yellow frame appears in the air, the Correspondent appears.

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Yes, Moon Mi-Ra.

SWROMPH! A turbulence of shadows, Mi-Ra becomes Cha Yu-Sun.
She leaves the room, without hearing the Correspondent...

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I greatly appreciate our artistic collaboration.

C#3. RECALL - Presidential conference room (day).

At the bottom of the stairs, the President of the Republic of "Butterfly Girl".
Next to him, the head of the Constitutional Council, and in front of them...
... dozens of journalists and cameras.

Cha Yu-Sun arrives at the top of the stairs. "Wohoo...", Rumors in the room.
The President and Head of Council turn and bow in respect.
They remain bowed as she triumphantly descends the stairs.

Clap-Clap-Clap! Flash-Flash! A storm of applause and photo flashes.

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This is absurd. Your manhwa has no future either.

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(sighs, weighs on her) Kang Chul...

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... (tries to stay cold)

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(suffers, hand on forehead) I can't take this discussion anymore. We won't agree, so let's stop here.

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Do you have any idea how dangerous HE is? That any unforeseen madness is likely to take place?

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You brought this on yourself. I don't have any problems of my own.

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("she's ignoring what she knows on purpose?") Destruction is only a matter of time.

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Stop it. (looks away, tears welling up in her eyes, unbearable)

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(worried) Mi-Ra... I don't know how but... (puts his hand on hers)

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... ?!

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(distressed) HE's going to hurt you. HE's going to hurt both of us.

Mi-Ra looks at Kang Chul's hand on hers... Her eyes swell with rage.

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(shouts) Scumbag!!!

In a flash, her eyes become luminous and smoldering, a halo of shadow around her.
WOOSH!! She stands up, sending the table flying across the room with a slap.
CRASH!! Further on, the table collides with a customers' table and destroys it.
Kang Chul, ?!!!, reflexively stands up too.
Fortunately, no one was hurt. (?!!) The waiters and customers are surprised and frightened.
Mi-Ra immediately approaches Kang Chul, their faces inches apart.

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(almost mad) You dare to play on my feelings on a date for an argument?!!!

(too surprised to react, but looks at her angrily)

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(killer eyes) Do that again, and with one swipe of my shadow arm, I'll disembowel every customer in this restaurant.

Total silence in the restaurant. Customers stunned. Employees unable to react.

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So you want to prevent the end of the crossover? Continue your manhwa no matter what?

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Believe me, it's the best way to save lives. ... Lives I don't care about.

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(thinking fast, guessing) You don't want to finish the manhwa... ... You want to take control, right?!

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If you're done, fuck out of my sight.

Kang Chul pulls Mi-Ra's hair back, to push her away.
It hurts her, but he releases her once she's away from him.

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If you want to see me again, you'll have to beg by crawling.

So unfair! Emotional blackmail again!
Mi-Ra, mad with rage, about to slaughter everyone, including Kang Chul!!!
But she can't. Instead she grabs a chair and--

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RAAAAAHH!!! (throws chair with all her might)

CRASH-KLING!!! The chair shatters the bulletproof bay window!
"AAahh!!! hoo!!!" People jump.

Fear and panic, some customers leave the restaurant, others freeze.
Mi-Ra and Kang Chul exchange one last angry glare, then he leaves.
Mi-Ra, transfixed, watches him scurry for the exit...
Customers move aside to let him pass, frightened by his seriousness.

While the waiters dare not approach Mi-Ra, she trembles, then...
... She collapses to her knees. Stomach spasms and--
"Blewrk!", she vomits several times, but has nothing to vomit, just bile.

Kang Chul presses the "first floor" button, the elevator descends.
He suffers, angry with himself...
... the hazy impression of having been harsh or dishonest.

Slumped on the floor, Mi-Ra cries abominably...

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Madam...

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Boo-hoo hoo... (doesn't listen, cries more)

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We'll call a doctor. But also the authorities because of--

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No, call the manager... You... you'll be compensated more.

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..... (wondering if this is the right thing to do)

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(shouts) Do it!!!

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(!!!) ... (leaves quickly)

Kang Chul would like to cry too, but the tears don't come. Just overwhelmed.
As he tries to stop feeling emotion for her, a memory comes--

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Sorry, so sorry... (soft) But I'll do things my way.

Kang Chul, !!, takes out his smartphone, connects to "Butterfly Queen in the Dark".

Kang Chul scrolls through the rest, we don't see the manhwa but...
... On his face, "shit!", more trouble ahead.

On a mini-tablet, the same image of the Presidential Conference Room.

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(worried) This has just been published. (hands the mini-tablet to Yeon-Joo)

(takes the mini-tablet)

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(desperate) Cartoonist Oh, I don't know what to do. I've got the Moon company on my back. An army of lawyers with unlimited financial resources. I'm doomed.

(looks at him, sorry, then scrolls through the manhwa)

¤ The President of the Republic points to the head of the Constitutional Council.

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The council has just validated the constitutional change. Our country is now a monarchy.

¤ The crowd in the room is astonished. Opinions divided: the satisfied, the dissatisfied and the skeptical.
¤ The President of the Republic extends his hand up the stairs.

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Please acclaim our Queen Cha Yu-Sun!!!

¤ Cha Yu-Sun descends the stairs, smiling triumphantly.

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The appearance of this main character is an additional legal charge against me.

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(confused) What does Moon Mi-Ra want? To force you to concede the copyright of "Butterfly Girl"?

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Oh, it's worse than that, read on...

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She wants to go back to the Joseon era?!

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This crossover will end up being identical to "Queen of Darkness".

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So the "Butterfly Girl" universe will be wiped out?! (horrified... remembers...)

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Do you publish the episodes?

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("ouch, the question was bound to come up") No! I swear I don't!

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(disappointed) After all, I'm compelled to believe you.

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.... (surprised, expected an argument)

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Do you have any idea what happened earlier?

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... !! (curious but dreading to hear...)

Publisher Park rushes to his assistant.

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Go back to the administration interface.

She logs in and in the list...
All three episodes of "Butterfly Queen in the Dark" are online!!

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(?!) I don't understand... I just deleted them?!

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Do it again!

She ticks off the episodes and deletes them. Empty page.
Click! Editor Park clicks to refresh the page.
All three episodes are present again!!

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?!!

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... (increasingly frightened, remembers...)

{RECALL INSERT, W Ep06 - Comics Studio, Meeting Room (day).}

Publisher Park and his assistant look at a mini-tablet, serious.

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(worried) Let's contact Professor Oh's daughter anyway?

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It's not the right time to tell her. Her father is dying.

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All the more reason, it could help the police.

(looks at the mini-tablet, confused)

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(frightened) There's something creepy about it.

On the mini-tablet, the image of Kang Chul shooting Oh Sung-Moo.

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(irrationally scared) The manhwa is haunted!

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... !! (absurd, but on second thought...)

{RECALL INSERT, W Ep06 - Comics Studio, Open space (day).}

The police are looking for clues around the corpse of the night assistant, strangled to death.
Further away, Publisher Park and his assistant look on, in sadness and fright.

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It's like "W"! When the manhwa ghost killed Hae-Na.

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... !! (crazy, but about to believe it)

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Episodes coming out of nowhere. Produced while the author is in a coma!

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She says the ghost of the manhwa made Oh Sung-Moo disappear at the end. And that now, that ghost will kill us in turn!!!!

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... ("this time, catastrophe... no more way to hide it.")

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Cartoonist Oh, you were deeply involved in "W". Tell me what's going on!

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(looking for a spiel) A... A set-up certainly...

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... ?! ("is it plausible?")

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A computer hack... Moon company technicians... ... To get you down faster.

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(desperate) They want my company dead!

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.....

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(angry) This Moon Mi-Ra makes a good impression in front of the cameras... ... but she's a ruthless monster, and Publisher Kwon is kissing her ass!!!

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(sympathy for him but her real problem is...) I'll stop the "Butterfly Girl" universe from disappearing!!!

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(tears welling up) They want to ruin me, even kill me!!!

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(takes his hands, looks him in the eyes, moved) I'm going to do the impossible to prevent this.

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(looks at her, moved, she seems so sincere) ... Could you really do that?

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(serious) As if my life depended on it.

(smiles painfully without believing it, but comforted)

Mi-Ra hands a credit card to the restaurant manager, without looking at him.

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Pay for the damage with this.

(takes the credit card)

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And add the price of your silence, I don't want a scandal.

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Certainly, Miss Moon, thank you for your indulgence.

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... (pensive...)

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(like to a servant) Take me to the bathroom.

In front of the ladies' room door.

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(opens door) The staff toilet.

Mi-Ra enters, but before closing the door...

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Go away, I'll find my way back.

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(bends) Understood, Miss Moon.

Mi-Ra checks that nobody else is here.
She looks in the mirror and...
SWROMPH! A turbulence of shadows, Mi-Ra becomes Cha Yu-Sun.

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Having to reconstitute this court of hypocritical, scheming bastards. What a pain... but without it, my power as Queen won't be sustained.

PFWOM... Cha Yu-Sun disappears in a puff of shadow.

WOMPF... Cha Yu-Sun materializes in a puff of shadow.
The toilets have a half-modern, half-Joseon appearance.

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(looks around, surprised) Mh?

Cha Yu-Sun walks into the vast hall, half-modern, half-Joseon.
People bow to her, greeting respectfully.
Some are dressed Joseon-style, others modern, and some both.
Cha Yu-Sun looks at their clothes and the architecture of the place.

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(annoyed) Those idiots should have applied my decree to the official buildings first!

In the amphitheatre, rows of benches filled with modernly dressed politicians.
Across a podium, at a gilded lectern, the Prime Minister speaks into a microphone...
... He's HIS EXCELLENCE, but dressed in modern clothes!

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... and as for the vote to--

VLAM! Cha Yu-Sun opens the double door to the modern-looking room.
Immediate silence. Followed by numerous "Mama"... "Mama"....

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(looks at the room) What's this goddamn boardroom looking so shitty?!

They stand and bow in greeting as she walks to the central podium.

:

(looks at the people) I demanded they dress traditionally. I'll have to subdue this clique of morons!

She flaps her hand at His Excellency, as if swatting away a fly.

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Get lost.

His Excellency leaves her the lectern, and goes two meters away.
Cha Yu-Sun speaks to the assembly, in front of the microphone.

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(angrily) What's with those scandalous outfits?!! Get changed! Immediately!!! (harshly) Get it?!!

Strangely amused reactions in the room, stifled laughter.

:

(??!) How dare they!

Politicians point at her, smiling, mocking.

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(shouts) Obey your Queen!!!

"Ah ah ah!", "Oh oh oh!", Great bursts of laughter from all the politicians.

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... ??! (feels humiliated)

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Forgive me, Mama... but why should we obey you?

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(?!) What... What do you mean?!

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(points to the desk) You have no more use than the gilding on this lectern.

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!!! (outraged)

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You're just an extra!

FZ! Cha Yu-Sun feels something in her hand, ??!
A piece of paper has just appeared! She reads it:
"Most sincere regards, Queen of nothing. - KYH"

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... !!! (feeling fooled)

Cha Yu-Sun switches from "real" to "image" on Yoon-Hee's tablet.

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Hi hi hi! What a cuckold face she has!

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I don't know if President Kang would agree...

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Who cares? Unnie Yeon-Joo agrees. Seonsaingnim gets what she deserves, for the evil she did to me!

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I've always sucked at history and politics. I didn't even know what a constitutional monarchy was.

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That's a shame, when you're drawing a historical manhwa.

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Bah! Watching dramas... is that enough for this?!

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AaAh! It doesn't matter. The important thing is that your drawings were able to thwart HIM.

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For the first time, I feel like a stylus is mightier than a sword...

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Pfwah ah! Kang Chul scared us for nothing. All we have to do is erase what this monster and witch are doing.

Cha Yu-Sun walks, escorted by six shadow killers disguised as Joseon nobles.

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Erase the national assembly and create a traditional royal palace nearby.

In the air, the yellow frame takes shape, time slows down, the Correspondent appears...

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It's no use, Moon Mi-Ra It'll be an exhausting, sterile, pointless battle.

Cha Yu-Sun stops, while her bodyguards are frozen.
She doesn't notice that further on, buildings are losing their precision...
... that other passers-by in the street become simplified sketches.

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(annoyed) Don't argue, just do it!

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Since you really wish it...

KLAM! Sound of front door closing.
Yeon-Joo, !!, looks... Kang Chul enters.

(relieved, he's not hurt)

(serious, pays little attention to people, goes next to Yoon-Hee)

Wang Shin looks at Kang Chul, annoyed, but Kang Chul doesn't notice.

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Anything new, President Kang?

No answer, Kang Chul just looks at the tablet:
A drawing of Cha Yu-Sun humiliated in the National Assembly.
Through this drawing, it's Mi-Ra he sees, and she's suffering.

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(sad and tragic) A constitutional monarchy.

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(worried by his tragic expression) Was this a bad idea?

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It was the right thing to do. No obstacles to changing the manhwa?

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None. He doesn't seem to be able to thwart us.

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So keep going... We have to put pressure on her... (so painful) ... The only way to end this.

Kang Chul heads for the bedroom.

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Honey! How did it go with her?

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(stops, doesn't turn around) Badly.

Wang Shin sneers contemptuously, "It always goes badly with her, silly."

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Yah!!!

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I await your apology.

Kang Chul turns his head slightly, coldly annoyed.
Without answering, he goes into the bedroom.
Wang Shin clenches his fist, wanting to punch him... "This asshole doesn't even apologize!"

Cha Yu-Sun enters this typical Joseon court, accompanied by her six bodyguards.
Satisfied at first, she sees gardens, the royal council building, but in front...
... sitting in a deckchair, under a parasol, wearing sunglasses... Ren-Bo!!
Slurrrrrp! She sips a drink through a straw. Ice cubes, mint, lime.

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(!!!) ... (annoyed) What are you doing here, mosquito?!!

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(in Spanish) obvio, ¿no? Bebiendo un mojito, bacalao. (SUBTITLE: Obvious, no? I'm sipping a mojito, cod.)

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!!! (mad with rage)

Suddenly-- GUM-GUM-GUM, flat strokes obliterate the royal council building!!

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??!!

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While enjoying the water park!!

Large colored lines appear in the courtyard, next to Ren-Bo...
... materializing a large swimming pool... Then bleachers.

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(screams) Beat her up!

The six shadow killers rush towards Ren-Bo.

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(mocks, imitating Cha Yu-Sun's haughty attitude) Oh gno gno gno... gn'What are you doing here, gn'mosquito. gn'Beat her up.

As the killers reach Ren-Bo--
SHAF! Ren-Bo disappears, flash of light.
FSHA! Flash of light, Ren-Bo appears right next to Cha Yu-Sun.

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PRRLLRRLLRRLL!!! (sticks out tongue, vibrates loudly, sputters)

Cha Yu-Sun takes a shower of spit in the face!!! Exasperated--
SWROMPH! Shadow turbulence, she becomes the Queen of Darkness. But immediately--
SHAF! Ren-Bo disappears, light flash.

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(shouts) Shit!!!

A dolphin pops its head out of the pool, and "Ik Ik Ik Ik Ik" squeals.
He looks at the Queen of Darkness, seeming to mock her.

SWROMPH! Shadow turbulence, the Queen of Darkness becomes Cha Yu-Sun.
"Ik Ik Ik--" The dolphin freezes, time slowing almost to a standstill.
The Correspondent's yellow frame finishes taking shape next to Cha Yu-Sun.

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I told you, Moon Mi-Ra, it's useless.

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(wipes away the spittle) ... I can't leave things like this.

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I've come up with a plan to solve the problem.

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(worried) ... What?

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It involves only me. But it will be radical and definitive.

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..... (frightened)

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Pfwah ah ah!!!! This witch took my mouth pee in the face!!

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(pointing at Ren-Bo) This girl is more annoying than a mosquito. Cha Yu-Sun must have suffered a lot.

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Yah!!! (raises hand, as if to slap Wang Shin, but is joking)

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(looking at his tablet) I had no problem erasing his drawings and descriptions.

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(looking at her tablet) And by quickly drawing something simple, no problem either.

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Of course!! It's not the big moo-monster it seems. It's like a diplodocus. Impressive at first sight, but in truth, he eats grass.

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We can definitely beat them now!

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It's going to be long and hard. Having to draw non-stop.

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What else can we do?!

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President Kang has to convince Moon Mi-Ra.

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(sighs) ... (female intuition, "I don't want him to meet her again").

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Yeon-Joo, it's the only way.

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(hateful) This scumbag will figure it out herself. We just have to destroy "Queen of Darkness" in the Crossover.

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Yeah, that's right, Unnie!! Pwhi hi!!

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Spoken like a true housewife!!

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.... (can't say anything, but sympathy for Mi-Ra)

(Kang Chul and Mi-Ra sad and lonely as the day passes.)

Mi-Ra walks to her bed.

:

I don't have the courage to go any further today.

She collapses into bed... the sobs come...

:

Whether it's me, Cha Yu-Sun or the Queen of Darkness... ... We're nothing but a dirty mop.

She clutches her pillow, buries her head in it.

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(crying hard) boo hoo hoo hoo.....

She doesn't notice it, but briefly KRZZT! she blinks once...
... becoming translucent and diverted by black lines.

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A better deal about the manhwa. I don't know what your plans are, we need to sort this out.

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!! (disappointment)

Mi-Ra puts her index finger on Kang Chul's mouth, "shut up".

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(looks at him despairingly) We'll remain enemies over this. I don't know how it will turn out, and that terrifies me.

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.... (doesn't dare say anything)

Kang Chul continues to remember...

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What's the story about?

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Cha Yu-Sun and Wang Shin are in love. But he fights her as Queen of Darkness without knowing it.

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(?!) ... They're in love and enemies at the same time?!

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Moon Mi-Ra is crazy to write such an absurd scenario. Even in fan-fiction, you don't get anything that dumb.

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Ah, it could be even dumber... ... if Wang Shin knew she was the Queen of Darkness.

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Hyung, I'm really dumb.

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... ??!

Mi-Ra depressed in bed.
Dirty face. Her black makeup runny from tears.

:

I'm a slave to it. But if I tried to forget him... ... it would devour me, it would destroy me.

-

President Kang, why are you alone and depressed? It's not like you.

:

(hand on forehead, so painful) Yes Hyung, nothing is like me these days.

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There's nothing to worry about. We've got the manhwa under control.

:

It's my heart that's not under control.

Do-Yoon approaches, to look Kang Chul in the eye!

-

Whatever the frightening nature of our enemy... ... we can thwart him, time to really end it all!

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Time... He just needs time. A day, maybe two.

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... ?!

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I can feel it in every fiber of my being. He's going to strike, in ways we can't imagine.

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... !! (worried, Kang Chul's intuition is infallible)

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Leave me alone, Hyung.

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He says he doesn't want to be disturbed.

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..... (suffering)

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(carefree) Aaah! Hyung Kang will find a solution. That's for sure!

:

A cursed couple... good and evil together...

:

A dark romance.

Mi-Ra looks at her smartphone, contact "Kang Chul".

Finger ready to click to call him, but she remembers...

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If you want to see me again, you'll have to beg by crawling.

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!! (mad with rage)

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(bitter) Bastard... Fucking bastard... ... How could you talk to me like that.

Annoyed, stubborn, she puts the smartphone down.

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(pretentious, belittling) Ridiculous. So ridiculous coming from you. I thought you were an expert, but you're just a moron with half a brain.

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(screams) Scumbag!!!

In a flash, her eyes become luminous and smoldering, a halo of shadow around her.
WOOSH!! She stands up, sending the table flying across the room with a slap.

:

... (remembers same thing...)

:

If she honors her promise, I'll honor mine. If not... I'll stay in this pitiful state forever.

Kang Chul hesitates again to call Mi-Ra, staring at his smartphone.
It's driving him crazy... He both wants and doesn't want to. Torture!

Mi-Ra stares at her smartphone, anxious, but an idea comes to her...
... she smiles salaciously, doubts, but as she thinks about it more...

... YES, she's found a way to solve this. A dirty way.
Her tears flow, without crying. Relief from hours of tension.

As Kang Chul looks anxiously at his smartphone...
Ting! Notification! He looks... "Mi-Ra" and a PIG emoticon.
An involuntary spasm, deep in his belly...
... as he opens the message, tears flow even though he's not crying.
Relief from a tension that has lasted several hours.

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(exasperated) This can't go on!!! (goes to the bedroom)

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Noona... (in vain)

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I've never seen such a bad husband as this cad.

Yeon-Joo enters, determined, but stops when she sees Kang Chul...
... He smiles as he looks at his smartphone, tears on his cheeks.

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Honey!!

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(without flinching, looks at her... sadly) ... Yeon-Joo.

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It can't go on like this! What's happening to you, why are you like this?

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....

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It's not just the problems with the manhwa.

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You're right. (tragic smile)

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... !!!

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You deserve to know. We'll talk about it tomorrow morning, when I come back.

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(?!!) ... Come back??! Tomorrow??! About what--

FZZT!, Colorful interference, Kang Chul disappears!

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......... (increasingly lost and depressed)

KZZT! Kang Chul materializes. He looks around...
... no ordinary people, but "modern" shadow killers.
Stationed at various points in the park, the parking lot, around the building.
An army of bodyguards! Discreetly protecting their Queen!
Kang Chul heads for Moon Mi-Ra's building. The guards look at him but do nothing.

Kang Chul arrives at Mi-Ra's apartment.
Four modern shadow killers stand guard.
They let him pass, as if they weren't here.

Kang Chul scrutinizes them... They're so strange...
... They come from nowhere and yet they think, they live.
Creations of the woman he loves... absurd, like the manhwa, like his love.
Kang Chul opens the door and enters...

Kang Chul, from the darkened entrance, looks into the living room...
... No light, except candles on the floor and on the furniture.
A shamanic ritual atmosphere!

By the sofa, Mi-Ra ON KNEES, motionless, impassive...
... or rather Cha Yu-Sun, because that's how she's dressed and styled.
Dimly lit by the flickering candlelight.

Kang Chul, ??!... Click! He tries to turn on the light... None.
Click! Click! He tries uselessly again, the electricity has been cut off, perhaps.

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Mi-Ra?

She looks at the ground, seems to be in a trance... Kang Chul worries.

Kang Chul emerges from the entrance shadows, steps towards her.

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Mi-Ra!!

No answer, she's like a statue in chiaroscuro.
He stands close to her...

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What's the matter with you?

(looks at Kang Chul, expressionless)

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... ??!

(removes hairpin, her hair unfurls, majestic)

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... (can't solve her riddle, "is it Cha Yu-Sun or Mi-Ra?")

Then... !!! ... She prostrates herself at his feet!!! Complete submission...

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?!!!

A sensual position, back arched... erotic even...
... She reaches for Kang Chul's feet.

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If you want to see me again, you'll have to beg by crawling.

She flattens herself further to the ground... CRAWLS!! Grab his feet.

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... !!! (appalled, can't believe she's actually doing it)

She CRAWLS more, sticks her head against his calf, kisses his feet!!!

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... !!! (outraged, can't accept she's degrading herself like this!)

No shame, no self-respect, insanity!!

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... !! (confused, regret, rage, "is it because of me or...??")

She straightens up, still on her knees, looks at him.
Kang Chul, !!, sees in her eyes... Insolence and defiance!!!
... She's not doing this just because of him! "Maybe... A trap?"

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(direct stare) I beg you, do with me whatever you want.

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!!! ... ("a trap... of a special kind.")

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(no modesty, provocative) I won't refuse you anything, no matter how despicable.

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!!!! ... (has never met such indecency)

She waits for his amazement to dissipate, as if she knew...
... what he's thinking, what he's feeling, what he's going to feel next!
Kang Chul is unsettled, anger to desire her, shame, inner conflict, but...
... the painful feeling that her trap is perfect, that she has bewitched him!!!
Now indistinct fantasies stir within him, an increasingly insurmountable lust.

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In your manhwa, you say you like what's rated 19+. (scornful) That sounds like a ridiculous boast.

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!!!!! (goes crazy, looks at her like "fucking burning bitch")

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.... (smiles viciously, knows what she provokes in him and loves it)

(brutally grabs her hair, behind her head)

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Mmhh... (moans, pain and pleasure) ... SO, is it true? Or are you just a limp affabulator?!!

Kang Chul is terribly distressed by his feelings, his desires...
... The woman he loves is unhealthy, immoral, depraved, but irresistible.
He's beside himself, his impulses unleashed... Exactly what she wanted.
He's got to make her pay!! And the only way to punish her for this insolence...
... Is to make her suffer a pleasure far more intense than she ever imagined.

Brutally, Kang Chul pulls on her hair, forcing her to stand up.
No resistance, no moans despite the pain.
She submits because that's what will turn him on the most!!
He suffers for not being able to resist her, but fuck that!

He forces her onto the sofa, dragging her by the hair...
... like a Joseon slave, mistreated by an intransigent nobleman.

He tosses her onto the sofa, she lets out a lustful moan and then...
... He lies on top of her, crushing her!! But immediately--
She puts both her legs around his waist, to prevent him from escaping, and--
SWROMPH! Shadow turbulence, Cha Yu-Sun becomes Mi-Ra!

We don't see any inappropriate details, but... SHE'S NAKED!!!
Kang Chul realizes... runs his hand up and down her body...
... her arms, her torso, her hips, her legs... She's completely naked!
It was a trap premeditated down to the last detail.

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... !!!! (now finds out how mischievous her trap was)

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(eye-to-eye) Give me the proof.

Their faces inches apart, breaths exchanged...
... she opens her mouth, looks at him naughtily, "kiss me". But--
(!!) Exasperated, Gnap!, he bites her lip, to the point of bleeding!

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AAHhh!!

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... (carnivorous smile)

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... !! (appalled, about to get angry)

Now he's the one who knows how she feels, and is going to feel!
She swallows her anger, sheds a tear of pain. She begged for it.

She looks at him with submissive eyes, enticing. Ready to accept anything.

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Whatever you do with that mouth will hurt.

Immediately, she kisses him!! Passionately!!!
Her pleasure is much more intense than her pain.
A kiss of blood... dripping from her lip... which Kang Chul tastes.

... She enters, unfolds the bandage, when--
Tululu-Tululu! Her smartphone rings. She looks at who, we don't see.
But a problematic call. Apprehensively, she picks up.
... (a man's voice)

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Yes.

...

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(feigns ignorance) About what?

.........

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(so painful) ... ("what should I say to him?")

....

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..... (difficult but, "should I answer?")

......

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(decides) The truth is difficult, but I have to tell you that--

KZZT! Colorful interference, Kang Chul materializes.

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!!! (finally!) ... (on the phone) I'll call you back later!!! (hangs up)

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(sees her, notices her injured finger) ... Yeon-Joo, wha--

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I won't ask you what you were doing last night.... ... But yesterday you wanted to tell me something important!!

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... (calm, now ready)

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I know you're going through something.... ... something strange, confusing, BUT WHAT?!!!

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Whatever problems it might cause in connection with manhwa... ... I had no choice, the lie was unbearable, I had to tell her.

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... (wait, impatient!)

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(sad) Sorry I didn't mention it sooner.

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... ??! (exasperated)

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The truth is difficult, but I have to tell you that--

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AAAAAAAHHHH!!! (yells from the living room)

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AAAAAAAHHHH!!! (yells from the living room)

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!!!

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!!!