They look at the white rift, tearful with tragedy.
Ren-Bo is in Soo-Bong's arms. She has calmed down.
Fairy Spark has disappeared in the meantime.
Chul-Moo is in Yeon-Joo's arms. She cries silently.
Termitanor's head and 4 legs emerge fully... !!

The white hole behind Ren-Bo has widened.
GrrZzztt... She crackles, briefly translucent, outlined with strokes.

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(devastated) Noona, whatever the outcome. Let's keep drawing.

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(mortified) Yes, let's draw until the end...

They sit down and get back to work.
Ren-Bo stops crackling, solid.
She takes Chul-Moo in her arms.
She watches them draw sadly, mauve wings.

~

Kang Chul, look at this, quick!

Su-Ran holds out her smartphone to Kang Chul, showing a manhwa page:
¤ A giant fantasy triceratops emerges from a white hole, in the crossover. (Ep44)

Kang Chul focuses on the white hole, and now that he sees it in two dimensions...

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?! (... an idea comes to him)

-

The same thing happened over there.

Kang Chul scrolls to the previous page on the smartphone:
¤ A draftsman (50s) sketches the same triceratops on his drawing table.

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... !!! (closes his eyes, remembers...)

Do-Yoon and Kang Chul are in front of a large portal, white and luminous.
Kang Chul puts his hand into the dimensional portal, then withdraws it intact.

-

A portal similar to the ones I know. Just very white and more fluid.

Kang Chul looks at Mi-Ra's drawing:
¤ Their faces in profile, looking at each other.
Him in white on black background. Her in black on white background.

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The more intense the shadow, the more intense the light.

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(thinks) This place is a crossroads. The imagination of all artists...

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Then why is it dark? Shouldn't it be crowded with artists' creations?

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Form is only what emerges from darkness.

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Or maybe... the creations don't stay here? They join the artists after being born here?

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(!!) Yes!!! All manhwas are born here. But then the realization happens elsewhere.

-

That would explain why this place remains virgin. Every drawing must start with a blank page.

:

A blank page! (scrolls, looks at the white hole of the Crossover)

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.... (hanging on his reactions, hope for a solution)

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(mutters) Inside it's dark... But luminous seen from outside. (revelation!)

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... ???! ("and? and? is this going to save us?")

Kang Chul reactivates his smartphone, but without speaker.

-

These white holes are breaches open onto the Imagination!! In two dimensions, at the forefront of all reality!!

-

How is this going to help us?

:

Two dimensions? At the forefront?

Yeon-Joo sees Termitanor's abdomen emerging.

-

This monster is almost out!!!

-

How does XYZ manage to defeat Termitanor?!

-

He never managed to defeat it! It's the manhwa's concept to hook readers! All the readers wonder when he'll finally kick its ass!

-

... ! ("shit!")

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(falters) ... So?

-

(to the pilot) LAND THE HELICOPTER, QUICK!!

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... !!

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Why?!!

Kang Chul looks at them in a way they will never forget in their lives.
Terribly tragic, hollowed and reddened eyes, from which tears bead.

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This world is doomed. We must evacuate.

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(ultimate terror) Arglh... No... No. (river of tears)

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(like a guillotine blow) OH My God!! ... Aah... Aahh... (tears!)

-

At least you will survive...

-

(bursts) Boo hoo hoo hoo hoo.... Aaarah... Boo hoo hoo...

-

(suffers hell) 8 billion human beings volatilized into space. (grimace of grief) And we are powerless to stop this.

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(on the smartphone) The real world is condemned. I am going to summon all of us into W.

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But... the Crossover is not published in W?! What will happen to Ren-Bo?!!

-

(tense) Arrhh... ("of course") ... In the crossover then? (doubt, worried) But under the permanent threat of the Narrator?!

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Whatever, but decide, before my little white hole back there widens!

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WAIT!! (stops drawing, stands up)

-

??!

-

??!

-

??!

-

??!

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??! (crazy, looks at Kang Chul)

-

??! (crazy, looks at Kang Chul)

Slowly, Soo-Bong raises his stylus "OSM" toward the white rift and Termitanor.

-

What are you hoping for? It's 500 meters from here!!

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(uncertain, guts on fire) Distance doesn't matter.

He traces a series of strokes in the air, torn with anguish about the outcome.

-

It's in two dimensions, as if it were within reach, in front of reality!

A transparent and reflective substance materializes over the rift and Termitanor!

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(wide eyes, stunned) Omo!!! Omo!!! Omo!!!

-

(wide eyes, stunned) I think I peed myself.

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(points at his diaper) Peepeeee!!!

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(series of nervous and liberating sobs) It's like drawing on a blank page!!

Soo-Bong traces other strokes in the air...
... forming ribbons covering the rift, a net preventing Termitanor from getting out.

-

What's happening?

-

Honey! (said by reflex) It's incredible! Soo-Bong is closing the rift by drawing in the air!

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... ?! (remembers...)

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Like Ren-Bo's wings, in "Butterfly Girl"?!

Since the smartphone is not on speaker...
... Su-Ran and Captain Ryu are confused listening to him, crazy with anguish and uncertainty.

-

Yes!!! But how is this possible? The rift is disconnected from the tablets!

-

It hasn't changed its nature, it remains a manhwa phenomenon!

-

(mortified) For heaven's sake, what's happening?!!

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(mortified) Aaah, I'm going to die, I'm going to die... Kang Chuuul!!!

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(of course, doesn't answer them) (on the smartphone) And how is it progressing now?

~

They are gathered around a burned house, and-- OH?!!

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(!!) "Oh" - What? I receive you badly. Speak.

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?? (impatient)

~

... There is the corpse of a giant spider, 10 meters wingspan.

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(!!!) Huh?! (looks at Kang Chul, stunned)

(nods "yes yes yes", eyes closed)

-

It's Ok, Captain!

She hands him her smartphone to show the image of:
¤ The giant spider climbing the facade of a building. (Ep41)

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(doesn't connect) How would this be Ok?!

~

There's something else, Captain.

(distress, "not another crazy thing, please")

~

... well... it has been closed by... pieces of adhesive tape.

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(!!!!) Adhesive tape... ("impossible!") You mean... SCOTCH TAPE?!!

~

Affirmative, Captain. Like office tape. Transparent, a bit yellowed, with chiseled cuts.

(gloop, swallows his saliva... stares into the void, overwhelmed......)

FLAP-FLAP! Ren-Bo flies ten meters above the pavilion.
She scans the street leading to Sung-Moo's:
Zombies are running toward the pavilion where they are taking refuge.

-

(lands) Zombies are still coming to bug us.

-

The tablet tears are heading toward them. They are going up the current.

-

Bah, should I teleport us elsewhere?

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One second, don't move my angel.

He waves his stylus OSM above the white hole behind Ren-Bo.
Adhesive tape materializes and quickly the hole is sealed.

-

Woo! Cool! Thanks Oppa.

Suddenly, Vooofff... they are blown by a wind from the sky.
WHOP-WHOP-WHOP... Helicopter#2 is hovering above them.

(Agent Bae and Captain Ryu have put their sunglasses back on in the meantime.)

~

Hyung, can you hear me?

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Yes, Soo-Bong.

-

I managed to seal Ren-Bo's white hole!

Chul-Moo looks out the window, the pavilion garden below.

-

(sad) Auntie Jae-Jung...

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?! (hears Chul-Moo) ... Wonderful, Soo-Bong.

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(aggressive to escape the suffering) Don't you have power outlets?! Our tablets are almost out of charge!!

-

Of course, Madam. Look on the side, under the seat.

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(annoyed) And avoid shaking this thing! We can't draw in these conditions!

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I'm doing my best, m'dam.

Soo-Bong passes his stylus "OSM" over the tears coming out of the tablet.
They shrink into thin luminous threads.

-

Ah ah!! I'm going to cut them at the root!

~

Is everything going well on your side?

-

Well, as you can hear... With this draftsman waving his pencil in the void...

~

... There's a rather weird atmosphere on board.

~

It's an electronic stylus! And I'm using it to tape inter-dimensional tears!

-

Is Ren-Bo okay? Is she translucent?

~

(?) Ren-Bo... The butterfly girl?

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??!

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Yes.

~

I don't know, she's not in the cockpit.

-

!! (annoyed) I ordered you to exfiltrate ALL of them!

~

That's not it, Captain... She's following us by her own means.

-

Her own means?!

Pilot#2 turns to look back, at the window...
Ren-Bo is flying twenty meters behind the helicopter!

-

(smiles) She's flying twenty meters behind us.

-

(removes his sunglasses in shock) !!!! ...... (stares at Kang Chul, "no way?")

-

Ah ah!

Kang Chul isn't listening, preoccupied with an uncertain hypothesis.
He decides, not wanting to leave any doubt.

-

Pilot, we're going to make a detour.

-

... ?

Helicopter#1 flies over the Garden where Yeon-Joo and the others were.

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(annoyed) God damn it!! What was the point of sending Helicopter#2, if we're coming here too?! While we have other people to exfiltrate!!!

-

Kang Chul, is it so hard to tell us what we're doing here?!

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.... (closes his eyes, remembers...)

Kang Chul concentrates, as if to succeed in a summoning.
He opens his eyes, looks at the garden... Desert, no one here.

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(disappointment and sadness) Aaah... I wanted so much...

-

(moved by his sadness) What, Kang Chul?

-

(downcast) We came here for nothing.

-

(fed up) You didn't need to specify that...

-

Captain, someone is signaling us in the street.

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!!!!!!!! (rushes to the window)

In the street, Jae-Jung is signaling to the helicopter!!

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(holds his head under the emotion) Oh... Ooh... Oooh!!!

He turns to Agent Bae and Captain Ryu, crying with joy!!

-

She was indeed in W, but here!!!

Agent Bae and Captain Ryu remove their sunglasses, shaken by his emotion.

-

(shakes his head, cries and laughs at the same time) Shit, oh shit...

-

Waaah... You told everything in reverse-flashback! I love it!! It really happened like that.

-

(disenchanted) I didn't understand anything...

-

(finger on mouth, nods) I think I got the thread but... There's like something missing in your explanation.

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You kept the best for the end, right? How did I get into W? You summoned me?

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No, I didn't even know you were at home.

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(?!) AH! ("mystery"... searches) Yes, that makes sense, Kang Chul summons people to the same place from one world to another, and I didn't arrive at the replica... so... Ren-Bo? ... Or even... The Queen of Darkness? Mmmh... (bug) In W?

(annoyed)

-

It's actually--

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(raises hand, "stop") TAH! No Spoiler... I'll find out...

(impatient)

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No need, I'll explain.

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Ah no! You can't be that frustrating?!!

(frustrated to death)

-

Hey, this will make up for what you make me suffer. (wink)

-

(big eyes) I warn you, I'M GOING TO SULK!!

-

(exasperated) SAY IT OR I'LL DROP YOU ALL FROM THIS HELICOPTER!!!

-

(smiles) Aye aye, Milady. I don't feel like practicing free fall without a parachute.

-

Tsss... If I find out before we crash, that'd suit me!

-

Here's the best... (tells...)

-

At that moment, I had already summoned Yeon-Joo into W. So, Chul-Moo summoned the only remaining person: YOU!

-

(!!!) You're saying your son summoned me?!!

-

You are the first person he summoned in his life. I was far from imagining he would have this ability, and so early.

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(moved) ... The first person... (hard to realize)

-

(moved) Like Ren-Bo able to choose her destination, he has his own particularity: summoning the people he cherishes closest to him. That's why you weren't summoned in the replica garden with the others, but next to him.

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(overwhelmed by emotion) You're saying this one-year-old baby... even though I barely know him... but who already cherished me like his auntie... SAVED MY LIFE?!!

Jae-Jung tries to hold back as much as possible... but her tears are already flowing.
Kang Chul grabs her shoulders in a comforting way.

-

(tear in eye) Yes, my son, just one year old... This little monster... This future action hero... He saved a precious life: YOURS.

-

Ooh... (wants to hold back but...) Oh shit. (tears!)

-

(on the verge of bursting) Agh... Kang Chul... (sob) You're unfair... You use... Agh... outdated Tear-Jerker tropes... Ah - AH - AHHHH. (breaking point)

(takes her in his arms, lets himself go to emotion)

-

(bursts into tears) Boo hoo hoo... Boo hoo hoo hoo....

-

(one tear, pats her back) Aaah... Screenwriter Song... Just use that in one of your scenarios.

-

Boo hoo hoo hoo hoo.....

Yoon-Hee and Wang Shin wait, sitting on a low wall.
He wears a splint on his arm and a bandage on his clavicle.

Do-Yoon waits standing at the edge of the roof, a fresh bandage on his hip.
(The bandages come from the Penthouse pharmacy.)

-

Why the hell does he want us to wait on this deserted roof, and in the middle of the night?

-

We're starting to freeze here, it's been over an hour!

-

(annoyed, without looking at them) President Kang certainly has a good reason!

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Tsah! A good reason out of my ass.

-

(amused, pats his shoulder) Oppaaa...

-

Am I wrong?

-

(makes smacks toward him, in the air) sMmhk... sMmhk... Of course you're right!

-

Let's just wait longer...

-

Ha-Haaa, I can't stand waiting any longer like this.

-

(naughty smile) Oppaaa... We can just make the time more pleasant?

-

?? (turns to see them)

Yoon-Hee sensually places her plump arms on Wang Shin's shoulders.
Wang Shin, Ouch!, pain in his broken clavicle.
Yoon-Hee, Oops!, removes one arm and places her hand on his thigh, caressing.
She makes a naughty pout (Aegyo). Wang Shin, !!, big smile.
He slips his mouth into her appetizing neck and gnp... gnp... nibbles it.

-

(pleasure) aHmm... aHmm.... aHmm.... (in rhythm with the nibbles)

-

(gnp) Yum... (gnp) Yum... (gnp) Yum...

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.... !!! ("not this?!")

Dismayed, Do-Yoon turns around and prefers to look at the city roofs...
... but he has no choice but to hear them.

~

OoWaaaahhh... ~You really touched me here? (pretends) ~How dare you?! It's illegal!

~

Where? Here?

~

AaWaaahhh...

(annoyed)

~

Or there?

~

AoMMmmAWaaAAaaahhh...

:

(very annoyed) This guy, really! A broken clavicle, and he still thinks about that.

-

(sulky Aegyo) ~You know all my weak points! (taps his nose) ... Mmh? (Tap) ... Mmh? (Tap) ... Naughty rascal~.

(grits his teeth, eyes squinted)

~

But I know yours too!

~

Ah-Ooooh... I won't last long.

(exasperated, won't last long)

~

Wait, take this off me, otherwise you'll be embarrassed.

~

Hu-huuu... You're really hot, after all.

Do-Yoon, exasperated, decides he must stop them!
He points an accusing finger in the air.

He turns around and points it at them, ready to shout, but--
Voshhhh... They are all blown by a powerful wind, coming from...
WHOP-WHOP-WHOP... A helicopter, above.

And it's no longer night!!! They have just been summoned by...

... Kang Chul, looking at them through the heli window.

-

... !! (articulates "Oh", shocked seeing...)

... Do-Yoon, shocked, finger pointed at Wang Shin and Yoon-Hee.
The couple is lying on the ground, entwined, groping each other!
Yoon-Hee's shoulder is bare, no bra strap.
Ooops!! The two rascals get up and fix themselves quickly.

WHOP-WHOP-WHOP... The helicopter lands.

Kang Chul opens the door, signals them to come.
Do-Yoon hurries under the blades and wind. He enters and--

-

(!!!) ... Screenwriter Song?!! ("unbelievable") You survived?!

Jae-Jung makes two "V"s with her hands and joins them to form a "W".

-

(big smile) PLOT-TWIST!!

Do-Yoon, !!, also sees Captain Ryu and Agent Bae in the heli.
He sits down, in the fifth of the six seats.

-

(awed seeing the heli) We're going to travel in this flying chariot.

-

Hurry! (pushes him)

Wang Shin enters the heli.
Kang Chul grabs him to place him on a seat.

-

.... !! (surprised seeing Jae-Jung)

Yoon-Hee puts a foot in the heli and--
Bip-bip-bip... Red light in the cockpit, "Weight overload".

-

(sees Yoon-Hee, embarrassed) Hum, Captain, this aircraft accepts only 6 passengers.

-

(offended but amused) AH- They've already pulled this on me in an elevator, but never a heli!

-

(gets out of the heli) I'll go by car through W.

Yoon-Hee gets into the heli, but again--
Bip-bip-bip... Red light, "Weight overload".

-

Heol...

-

(diplomatic) Hum, is it 6 or 5 passengers?? I don't remember...

-

Should I go through W too?

-

(gets out of the heli) Leave it, I'll go.

-

Agent Bae!

-

Kang Chul will need me to find our secure Villa.

-

(annoyed) I count on you to have a correct attitude.

VLAM! He slams the heli door shut.

-

?

At the moment Su-Ran turns toward Kang Chul--

KZZT! (?!) She notices it's night. Teleported into W!

-

Let's hurry. (trots toward the roof entrance)

-

(disappointed) Tsss... (trots after him)

-

(stunned, happy) Jae-Jung, we all thought you--

-

(raises hand, "stop") I know - I know. (nods) The problem is that everyone is going to talk to me individually. (thinks) How would I remove this kind of repetition in the script?

-

?!

-

(idea!) An ellipsis! (takes out her smartphone and shows it)

-

??!!

-

(radiant) We'll pretend I called everyone!

-

(holds his forehead, weary, mutters to himself) Are they all crazy in this clique?

-

(stuck to the window, amazed) Everyone has a cart-that-rolls-by-itself. Why don't they use flying chariots? Is it reserved for nobles? They all look stuck down there.

He sees below: a Seoul avenue, blocked by traffic.

Little traffic. Kang Chul's red sports car speeds.

Kang Chul, thoughtful and serious, drives at full speed.
Speedometer at max, "300 km/h".

Su-Ran removes her sunglasses and puts one sleeve on her lip, seductive.

She gazes at Kang Chul in admiration, then admires his details:
His long hands, his elegant clothes, his face again, his eyes.

She turns her head the other way articulating "Whoaaaa"...
... seems to think about "How do I hook up with a guy of this caliber?".

She inhales deeply, then exhales slowly. Blown away!
She searches for how to approach him... The extreme speed gives her the idea.

-

At this speed, we'll arrive before the helicopter.

(no answer)

-

There is no speed limit in W?

(no answer)

Su-Ran articulates "Oooo-kay", not the right approach. Becomes determined.

-

Besides that, are you married? A girlfriend?

A resolutely aggressive tactic, but one that catches his attention.

-

(pained, painful memory... wonders if he'll answer...) Agent Bae, I thought you had read the manhwa?

-

I read it, but between fiction and reality, who knows...

-

(serious) Forget that kind of questions for now.

-

....... Aaaah... Women are so complicated...

-

... ?!

-

But you know, there are some exceptions? Rrrrreally very simple women. You find them among those who did the army.

Kang Chul, "a come-on so outrageous it's funny".
By reflex, it escapes him--

-

(chuckles) Ah-a.

-

(smiles) At least I made you laugh. Mmmh... There seems to be an expression about that, "halfway to bed", something like that.

-

(smiles) Aigoo...

Helicopter#1 slows down and descends, away from Seoul.
At the window, Wang Shin sees a sparse upscale suburb.
Then gradually, he perceives the details of the NIS Villa...

A high perimeter fence, topped with electrified barbed wire and cameras.
Beyond, a large park, where NIS guards patrol.

~

The fortress seems well protected.

In the center, a sumptuous villa with about fifteen bedrooms.

~

Oh! It's also a real palace!

Satellite dishes and radio antennas on the roofs.
Ren-Bo is perched at the top, watching for the heli, sitting on a chimney.

~

Ren-Bo is here, I guess Yeon-Joo and Soo-Bong too.

WHOP-WHOP-WHOP... Helicopter#1 is 5 meters from landing.
On the Villa porch, KZTT! Kang Chul and Su-Ran materialize.

-

(happy to have arrived before the heli) Woo!!! Kang Chul! High Five One! (raises her hand)

(laconic... PAF!, slaps her hand)

The helicopter barely landed, Captain Ryu gets out and trots toward them.

-

Glad you didn't drag. Good work, Agent Bae.

-

Even a rabbit wouldn't have had the time, Captain.

-

(points at the door) This famous Ren-Bo is inside?

FLAP! Ren-Bo falls from the sky and lands right in front of his nose!

-

(startles) ??!! (hand on his gun by reflex)

-

(to Kang Chul) Yewww... You're so late that I had time to visit everything. It's full of wardens who absolutely insist we don't hang around anywhere.

-

(weary) ... ?! (notices she is holding two syringes of green liquid)

-

(curious) Excuse me, miss... Your wings, are they real?!

:

(blasé) This one looks like a real blockhead!

-

Mister soldier boy, how could I fly if they were fake?

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(!) Incredible. (leans to look at a wing)

He gets closer and closer and sees the wing turn from green to orange...

-

(amazed) Plus, they change color?!

The wing turns red and... FLAP!!! He gets hit by a big wing blow!
Pof! He falls on his butt. Immediately, Ren-Bo leans over him.

-

?!

She smiles, steals his sunglasses, and puts them on her nose!

-

(takes out a makeup mirror to look at herself) Yo! Classy.

-

Yah! Give that back!

He gets up and tries to catch her, but--
SHAF! FSAH! Luminous flash. She teleports to the helicopter exit.
She welcomes Do-Yoon and Wang Shin by handing them the syringes. (Miracle remedy, Ep42)

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..... !! (stunned, jaw dropped)

-

(mocking) I think you got blown off, Captain.

-

Captain, instead of playing with Ren-Bo, come and take stock.

-

(mutters) How come, me playing...?!

-

(directive) Organize the capture of zombies near our former house. Contact your detention centers. Have them isolate the zombies in small groups. This will reduce the risk of breaches toward the Imagination.

-

... !!

-

Don't involve the director of your organization. He might be controlled by the Queen of Darkness.

-

That's why he ordered me to bury my investigation...

-

Form an elite commando team, operational in less than 4 hours. Only your trusted men, ready to accept this paranormal situation. Limit the number of other people involved. Choose safe people, otherwise they'll take you for a lunatic, good for the psychiatric asylum.

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... !!!

-

What else? Ah. You yourself, get ready for combat!

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!!!!

-

("goodbye" with head) Crom. (Crom = On that)

Kang Chul turns around and heads to the villa entrance.
Petrified with disbelief, Captain Ryu watches him walk away...

-

Agent Bae, do we have recent recruits?

-

(?!) No change in staff, Captain.

-

Then why does the NIS have a new DIRECTOR?!!!

-

... ?!

-

(offended) He might as well have ended with "DISMISSED"!!

-

Captain, if you read "W", you'd know who you're dealing with.

-

A guy who takes "a bit too much" advantage of the situation?!

-

Just the habit of being obeyed, even by the police, because he always decides everything. He's a kind of superhero: superhuman intuition, will and intelligence. But he always respects the law, fights for justice, and helps the authorities. Such a man is a precious ally, let's not disappoint him!

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(detects her excessive admiration) Agent Bae, as far as this man is concerned, try to stay professional! And bring me those damn manhwas so I can read them, God damn it!!!

Kang Chul enters a huge living room. (size of a billiard room)
Several sofas, a desk with a computer, lots of space.
A huge dining table, where Yeon-Joo and Soo-Bong draw on the tablets.

Soo-Bong has no bandage on his arm.
Kang Chul notices an empty "healing" syringe on the table.

Yoon-Hee arrives and whispers in Yeon-Joo's ear.
Yeon-Joo becomes excessively emotional.
She leaves, while Yoon-Hee replaces her on the tablet.

-

(arrives near the tablets) Put the turbo on. Intensify the conflict!

On the tablets: images of war invaded by white tears.

-

(horrified) The other world will be devastated! Thousands of deaths?!!

-

Hyung?!! Other monsters are going to come out of the tears! And I can't seal them from here. Would Ren-Bo have to take me there?!

-

Too risky. Give it your all. It won't be long.

Reluctantly, they comply and draw faster.
FLIP-FLIP... Ren-Bo flies low and comes near the tablets.

-

(appalled seeing the drawings) You're destroying my world?!!

-

(without looking at her) Ren-Bo, go get Captain Ryu and Agent Bae. They must see what is about to happen.

-

!!! (wings red in a flash)

Teeth clenched, she raises her fist to hit him in the back, but finally...

-

(outrageous grimace) SPFrrLrrLpLERK !!! (spits in his neck)

SHAF! She disappears. Luminous flash.

-

Aish... (wipes his neck)

Yeon-Joo waits, turned toward the entrance.
Jae-Jung enters, distracted, without really looking...

-

This girl, really... CUT CUT CUT! Her endless logorrhea of nonsense, must be cut imperatively from any script. Tah! I should write a course on the subject. (finally sees Yeon-Joo) ... !!!!

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..... (terribly sad, devastated)

-

.... (worried, "why is she in this state?")

Yeon-Joo walks toward her staggering and--
She collapses to her knees and rubs her hands. (posture of asking for forgiveness)

-

Forgive me Seonsaingnim, forgive me, FORGIVE ME FOR EVERYTHING. (bursts into tears) Boo hoo hoo hoo....

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?! (confused) ... Yeon-Joo... Don't be so dramatic... Hum... I mean, it would be Ok in a drama, but here?

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(heartbreaking!) Boo hoo hoo... I should be DEAD IN YOUR PLACE!!

Wang Shin, Do-Yoon, Captain Ryu and Agent Bae have just entered, surprised by the drama.

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(!!) Yeon-Joo, I'm here, I'm not dead. Everything is fine!

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(rage, despair) NO IT'S NOT FINE!!! What do you know to decide if it's fine?!! I DON'T DESERVE TO BE FORGIVEN!!!

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..... !!! ("shit, now I'm getting yelled at")

Everyone here is moved by her distress, but without understanding her excess, and finds nothing to say.
Yeon-Joo continues to cry pitifully, curling up in solitary grief...

Cha Yu-Sun dissolves from "Image" to "Real".
She passes her hand on her forehead, as if to feel for fever.
In evidence: her gold, ivory and ebony wedding ring.

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Are you ill, Queen of the black infinity?

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No. Just impatient to arrive... (looks ahead) ... Where the sea meets the mountains.

Cha Yu-Sun dissolves from "Real" to "Image" on the computer, close-up:

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Where the sea meets the mountains.

Kang Chul, !!!, notices the gold, ivory and ebony ring.
By reflex, he caresses his own.
He rereads the text bubble... closes his eyes, searching his memories...
Kang Chul opens his eyes, !!, just found it.
He scrolls to the next page, but disappointed, sees another scene:
¤ A battle in the Capital.

Shortly after, Cha Yu-Sun enters the jet toilets, closes the door.
SWROMPH! Puff of shadow, she becomes Mi-Ra.
She sees her tortured face in the mirror... exacerbating with suffering.

Brank!! She punches the mirror and cracks it.

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(moral pain scream) RAAAAaaaAAAAaaaahhhh !!!

Brank!! Brank!! Brank!! Fist blows in the mirror, which dislocates little by little.

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RAaaAAahh !!! (Brank!!) RAaaAAahh !!! (Brank!!) RAaaAAahh !!! (Brank!!)

Mirror demolished, fist bleeding, she collapses.

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(ultimate tearing) RAaaAAAAAHHHHH... (crying crisis) Boo hoo hoo hoo... (moans) Ghaa-haa... Boo hoo... (rasps) Arrahh... arahh... Boo hoo hoo...

An emotional distress at its paroxysm, more extreme than Yeon-Joo's earlier.

Kang Chul, as if connected: without knowing why, his guts knot.

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(pain, clutches his heart) Arrgh... (a tear without realizing)

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Kang Chul?

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(surprised) Oh... (recovers, quick)

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It's... Hum... for an embarrassing subject, but--

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Do you want to talk about your script mistakes for W?

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Yah! They are not mistakes in the absolute! It's just that... it no longer corresponds to the real situation. But also, I'm going to help you finish the manhwa!

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No need, I already have a plan. And I have no confidence in your stupid scenarios. If you want to make yourself useful, just become Chul-Moo's official godmother.

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... !!!

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It saddens me, but my son adores you. Be his real auntie, that way you'll explain to his grandmother why he went into W before his majority. Good luck!

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(scandalized) !!! (shouts, quick) You may be the real Kang Chul, but you are still a LOUSY ACTOR! Incompetent in storytelling! Your lame plan will inevitably be full of PLOT-HOLES! My best student, Oh Yeon-Joo, asked me for help at the cost of her life, SO I'M GOING TO HELP HER!!! I will not only have to fix your AMATEUR DISGUSTING script dripping with "As you know" or "On the nose", but also write the FINAL DRAFT that ends this fucking manhwa! (shouts) So in all friendship, GO FUCK YOURSELF!!!

Furious, Jae-Jung leaves without giving him time to answer.
She passes near the main table and Yoon-Hee, on her way out.

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A story where everything is explained this time, and without flashbacks, please!

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... ?!

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I've seen all your dramas, so I know what I'm talking about.

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(leaves muttering, moody) I don't see what's so complicated to understand about my dramas...

SUDDENLY--
An intense yellow light floods the room!
Jae-Jung turns around and, !!!, sees this light bursting from Soo-Bong's tablet.

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(worried) HYUNG!

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(rushes) CAPTAIN RYU! AGENT BAE!

They rush, worried.

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Contemplate the face of the enemy.

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... Why is he coming?

The yellow light diminishes...

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(cruel smile) I pushed him into his last entrenchments. But this bastard took longer than expected to decide.

The yellow frame, then the Narrator's face, draw on the tablet.

Terrifying for those seeing it for the first time: Jae-Jung, Su-Ran, Captain Ryu.
They startle in fright hearing the cavernous voice, with endless echo.

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Kang Chul, this is not the idea I had of your character.

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You just fear for your ass.

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Annihilating an entire world doesn't pose a moral problem for you?

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We control the situation in our world. You are incapable in yours. You are the only one at fault.

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I doubt destroying an entire reality to reach me is your intention.

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You understand now? Why your actions will end up destroying the only place where you can subsist?

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So, you want to negotiate a truce?

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(incisive) There is nothing to negotiate. You have no other choice. Cease all hostility definitively and we will do the same.

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I accept this agreement. Especially since it was becoming tedious. It would end up boring the readers.

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(disgusted) What readers? You turned them into zombies!

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Not all were reading at that moment. Many remain. It's normal, with such a fascinating story.

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Oppa! (points at her tablet)

Kang Chul looks at the drawing: Fighter jets turn back in the sky.
With a Narrator frame: "An armistice has been signed, the royal troops withdraw".

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(smiles cynically) He appeared on one tablet to allow us to check on the other. He wanted this agreement before coming. Yoon-Hee, make the fighting stop on our side.

Yoon-Hee draws quickly: A general shouting an order to the soldiers.
His text bubble: "Cease combat! The war is over. It's the armistice!"

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Perfect, I appreciate agreements where both parties respect the clause. I will no longer try to seize the Crossover by force, but...

:

("shit") He already has another plan... Say it, scoundrel.

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... in your world, I detected a secret scientific laboratory. It seems located in the underground bunker of an organization called NIS.

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... ?!!

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Be there in 4 hours. I have something fun to show you.

The tablet goes to sleep mode, the Narrator is gone.
Silent dread reigns in the room.

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So... It's over? We no longer have to draw like crazy?

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Yes. However, one person will have to stay on guard, to check.

"Ooohhh..." Yoon-Hee, Soo-Bong and Yeon-Joo all sigh with relief at the same time.

~

We had just spent 48 crazy hours, drawing non-stop...

The feeling that a few minutes have passed.

Everyone feels relaxed, except...

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(worried) Kang Chul, how does he know our laboratory? Has he found a new way to attack our world?!

(no answer, thinks)

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Bluff. Given how he loves to hear himself talk, he's a bullshitter!

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He has the strange habit of telling the truth. He never makes empty threats. And when he acts, it's always worse than what we could imagine.

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... !!

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(so painful, devastated) Oh shit... But what does this threat mean?

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No idea. Let's just prepare this meeting. And focus on the means I asked you for.

Further away, Yeon-Joo admires Kang Chul with sadness and nostalgia.
Then, suffering, she remembers...

The white tears have greatly diminished, we see clearly:
Scattered fires, dead, destroyed vehicles, but the city is calm, except...
The triceratops and the giant robot continue the fight, exhausted, both mortally wounded.
On a gigantic white hole, transparent tape materializes.

On a distant hill, with a view of the capital...
Soo-Bong waves his stylus toward the white hole and seals it.
Next to him, Ren-Bo nervously stands guard, blue wings.

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This should be the last one. You won't have much longer to stress, my angel.

(The scene is silent at the beginning.)
A commando of a dozen soldiers is around the large table.
Their gear is piled in the room, as well as military equipment:
Machine guns, rocket launchers, drones, grappling hook pistols, etc.

Captain Ryu explains the situation to them, showing the tablets, the manhwas, "Butterfly Girl"...
The men are stunned, some struggle to believe, but believe the captain.

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(proud, but so weird to say) Gentlemen, you will be the first elite unit in history to conduct an operation in another dimension.

FSAH! Luminous flash. Soo-Bong and Ren-Bo appear.
"Ooooohhh..." Clamor of surprise from the commando soldiers.

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Please, miss, could you--

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Yep, I know! Do weird stuff, to make your ninjas believe something that's obvious anyway. They've already done this to me!

FLIP-FLAP! She flies in front of the stunned soldiers.
Poc! Hits her head on the ceiling. Too abrupt flight!

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Ouch!! (rubs her head, mauve wings)

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Ah ah ah!

Some soldiers smile and chuckle.
Ren-Bo, !!!, orange wings... red. She jumps and...
FLA-FLA-FLA... A technique to flap wings fully, in hover.
VOSHHHHH... All objects fly away. The soldiers and Captain Ryu are blown.
They fall a few meters further or crash against the wall, mouth deformed by the wind.

SHAF! Ren-Bo disappears. Luminous flash.
The soldiers regain their senses, time to overcome disbelief.
They look at each other amazed, like "so all this is true".

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(dubious, looks around) Where did she go?

FSAH! SHAF-FSAH! SHAF-FSAH! SHAF-FSAH! SHAF-FSAH! SHAF-FSAH! SHAF-FSAH! SHAF-FSAH!
A storm of ultra-fast luminous flashes, everywhere around them. One flash per commando!

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PFwoAh Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah!!!

They only realize after... Each has been decorated with an object from the villa.
Bowl of noodles on head, bra covering the face, toilet brush in the collar, etc.

Finally, everyone bursts out laughing with Ren-Bo...

Further away, seated at the desk, Jae-Jung watches this with interest, serious.
Then she consults on the computer... "Butterfly Girl - Volume 1".
She scrolls through a few pages, until she becomes intrigued:

Jae-Jung consults the next page, surprised:

¤ Ren-Bo (6 years old) and other majorettes. Poster in the gym: "Majorette Contest".
¤ Ren-Bo juggles the baton around her finger. Speed effect. Fairy Spark blown in the air.
¤ A panel showing her phenomenal mastery, several movements at once:
Ren-Bo jumps, throws the baton, catches it behind her back with the other hand, then spins it.

¤ Podium. Ren-Bo, winner, does an Aegyo. The other two finalists, disgusted by her wings.
Mr. Coccinelle holding a sign: "She is the best. The others are just jealous of her talent".

Jae-Jung thinks, finger on mouth...
Further in the room, we see...

Wang Shin, holding a modern Sniper rifle.
A commando soldier shows him how it works.

Wang Shin loads a magazine, activates the bolt, checks the sight.
Correct execution. The soldier nods approval.
He signals Wang Shin to follow him outside to shoot.

Further away... in the sofa, Kang Chul asleep.
His eyelids twitch, he dreams...

In a sunny meadow, Kang Chul tenderly holds Mi-Ra's hands.

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(joyful) Make love to me as if it were the last time.

Kang Chul approaches to give her a kiss but--
GNAP!!! A monstrous mouth swallows Mi-Ra entirely.
Kang Chul, !!!, surprised, terrified.
The meadow has become the plain of the dead, a charnel house full of Joseon soldiers' corpses.
The sky has become the giant face of the Narrator, Mi-Ra in the void of his mouth.

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NOOOOO !!! (screams in horror as he sees...)

... The mouth closes, chews Mi-Ra, crushes her, reduces her to pulp.
Then the mouth drools, a black drool, like viscous oil.

The black drool accumulates on the ground in front of Kang Chul, petrified with fright.
The drool gradually transforms... into the obscure silhouette of the Queen of Darkness!

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That was the last time, naive idiot...

Red light in the abdomen. SPROTCH!! The shadow arm shoots out!!
Zratsh!!! It perforates Kang Chul through and through, tearing out his heart!

Kang Chul opens his eyes and suddenly sits up!
He clutches his heart, breathing with difficulty...
He stands up and walks with long strides toward the bay window of the terrace.
Su-Ran observes him from further away... and follows him.

In the other sofa, Yeon-Joo is asleep.
Her eyelids twitch, a painful dream...

Yeon-Joo is in the Imagination, a gun in hand.

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I HATE YOU!

In front of her, Mi-Ra, petrified in a tense zombie posture.
Eyes wide open and absent, a trickle of drool.
POW! Yeon-Joo coldly shoots her in the forehead.

Sprash! Mi-Ra explodes into mirror fragments...
... each fragment reflecting Yeon-Joo's hateful face.

Behind Yeon-Joo, surprising her:

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Who are you?

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?!!

Ren-Bo becomes catatonic, gray wings, absent eyes...

SHAF! Ren-Bo disappears. Luminous flash.

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(worried, confused) Where are you going? Why do you say--

Hornets come out of nowhere... circling Yeon-Joo, without attacking her.

Yeon-Joo, ??!, sees that the hornets fly further, as if to guide her.
She follows them and sees a big swarm of hornets clustered.
They disperse, revealing...

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... !!! (horrified)

... the bloated corpse with reddish abscesses of Mr. Teddy Bear!

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Is it you who killed me, Yeon-Joo?

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(panicked) No! No!!

Mr. Teddy Bear returns to the Void. Immediately, someone else next to it.

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These deaths, this manhwa that self-publishes... You know why, Oh Yeon-Joo, don't you?

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(disoriented) Editor Park... Why are you here?

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I'm scared, Oh Yeon-Joo... Tell me, I'm not going to die too?

BRASH!! A cinder block falls and smashes Editor Park's head!

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AAAAAH !!!

His corpse returns to the Void. Next to it, a new person.
Do-Yoon, with a gaping bloody hole in the abdomen, through and through!

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(looks at the hole) Is it the Queen of Darkness who did this to me?

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(stunned) do-yoon... agh... do-yoon...

-

Or is it you, Oh Yeon-Joo?

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(supplicating) No, no, how could I?

Do-Yoon volatilizes into dust. Next to it, a new person.

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(aims his gun at his own temple) You are a respectable woman, and I appreciated you, Oh Yeon-Joo.

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(trembles with worry) Captain... Stop... Put away that weapon.

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Then why did you suicide me?

POW! He shoots himself in the head!

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!!! (half crazy, cries) I have to get out of here...

She takes a step but-- her leg blocks! She looks--

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!!!!! (horrified)

Su-Ran has grabbed her foot, lying on the ground in a pool of blood.
She has her skull burst, brain crushed, all bones in her body broken.

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This is not a suicide. Why do you believe this lie?

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Agh-Agh... No... No...

She forces and frees herself, runs further, but blocked by...

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Unnie, we were happy.

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Didn't we have the right to be?

They volatilize like ghosts.

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(nervous breakdown) ArraAAhh... STOP! STOP! (pulls her hair)

~

(behind her) I don't hold it against you, Noona.

Yeon-Joo turns around, terrified seeing Soo-Bong.
He has his abdomen open from top to bottom, organs exposed, bleeding.

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It wasn't entirely your fault.

SPLASH! He explodes in a rain of blood and flesh.

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(hysterical) AAAARAAH.... ARAAHHAAA...

She runs like a madwoman, continuing to scream hysterically...
Up to the horizon, corpses of soldiers or civilians, charred or killed by weapons.
"Yeon-Joo... you killed me." All declaim the same litany, when she passes nearby.

She continues to run, eyes closed, hands over her ears...

When she stops and opens her eyes, there is only the void.
She wanders, devastated...

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Where am I? ... Don't leave me alone... in this hell...

~

(behind her) Mom!

(!!) Yeon-Joo turns around, and sees Chul-Moo further away, smiling.

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(happy, tears) My baby... (terrible presentiment) But... You shouldn't be here... Not you...

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Mom!! (trots toward her, joyful)

VROSHH!! A fiery breath rips all flesh from the baby. Immediately--
SPROSH!! His skeleton is pulverized into charred particles.

Yeon-Joo, !!!, traumatized, demented...
... then, desperate, resigned... resumes walking.

She wanders, empty eyes, walking like a zombie...

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Where are you... Where are you...

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I am here, Oh Yeon-Joo.

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(hope) Chul! (torrent of tears) ... (worried, sees blood on his chest, shirt holed)

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If you had really loved me, you would have understood... You wouldn't have killed me either, Oh Yeon-Joo.

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!!!!! (ultimate horror, sees:)

FFfffff... Kang Chul decomposes into dust, until completely annihilated.

Kang Chul, alone on the terrace surrounded by gardens.
Head lowered, he cries, hand buried in his hair.

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(choked voice) I'm going to finish this, very soon, so wait for me.

Bae Su-Ran observes him from the bay window.

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(looks randomly, lost and broken, in tears) One way or another, we must reunite, absolutely.

He closes his eyes, sighing the weight he has in his heart.
Su-Ran hugs him from behind!!

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??! (opens his eyes)

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(places her head cutely on his shoulder) Didn't I already tell you? We have rooms...

Kang Chul, too surprised to react immediately, then outraged by this impropriety.
He sweeps Su-Ran's arms away brutally and turns to scold her, but--
She throws herself at his neck and kisses him!!!
Kang Chul, wide eyes!

He wants to push her face away, she holds him back with one hand.
He pushes her, she resists!
She forces the kiss like a starving woman...
... Until he puts more force and expels her.

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(angry) Agent Bae!!! Are you a child?!!

-

Now that we're intimate, just call me Su-Ran.

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(bitter) You do whatever you want, right? Don't give a fuck about what others feel.

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Look at yourself. You've come out of your dejection. Was there another method effective enough?

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... ?!! ("crazy, but a bit true")

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If one day you need to forget, I will be able to comfort you. In my own way, I will make you a little happier, without a price to pay.

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(knot jumping in stomach, nervous release smile) There are times when you do charge?!! I thought you were a soldier.

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(smiles tenderly at his joke) Since you're better, let's go back in. Your friend Jae-Jung has something to tell us.

Seated on the sofa, Yeon-Joo cries, psychos and trembles.
Traumatized by the terrible nightmare she had.

~

(from the big table) Yeon-Joo, come!

(!!) Yeon-Joo wipes her tears, tries to compose herself, only succeeds halfway.
Captain Ryu comes to get her, worried about her state, removes his sunglasses.

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Yeon-Joo, with all these recent ordeals, it's normal. (empathetic smile) Don't feel sorry for being disturbed.

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(extinguished voice, devastated) Thank you, you're right. No matter if I'm seen sad, given the state of my marriage...

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.... ! (concerned, sharing her situation)

Yeon-Joo stands up and joins them, without trying to mask her suffering.
Everyone is around the big table, including the 12 commandos.
Soo-Bong loads an image on his tablet.

-

Hyung Kang, a scene you missed, while you were sleeping.

¤ An official statement from Queen Cha Yu-Sun, from her private jet.

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The armistice has been signed, but our country will remain a royalty! In return, a court of ministers will be elected by the people. I have spoken!

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(joyful) This time, it's certain! Peace will hold in the Crossover.

-

..... (detects a problem, suffers)

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(waves a script booklet in the air) I have the solution for the manhwa. Your analysis was wrong and didn't respect narrative continuity.

-

(painful) What exactly?

-

At the beginning, you thought the Crossover was two worlds. With two protagonists on equal footing, without link between them. And so, that we could resolve each one's objective to conclude.

-

What changed?

-

The manhwa started tearing, proving it is one single world, indivisible. So, a classic narration, with an inevitable conflict between the two protagonists.

-

Ren-Bo must confront the Queen of Darkness?!!

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No! No, not that?! (frightened, tears, mauve wings)

-

In addition to concluding her sentimental story, of course.

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(cannot accept it, shakes "no" with head, but uncertain) Resolving each one's objectives should still work?

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Not according to the basics of the story. "The Queen of Darkness" is based on perpetual confrontation. Butterfly Girl is the ultimate opponent of the Queen of Darkness. Everything leads to this emblematic fight. Even the title of the crossover, "Butterfly Queen in the Dark".

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What to call something like that?!?

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We don't care. A random thing that gives an idea of the mix.

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(to Yeon-Joo) Unnie, this title was decided a bit too quickly...

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... (guilty and sorry)

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The title implies that Ren-Bo claims the status of Queen... However, there can only be one Queen.

-

"Butterfly Girl Vs Queen of Darkness", that would be a good movie poster.

-

(depressed) So we fall back into this framework. Butterfly Girl the good one, the Queen of Darkness the bad one. And one of the two must necessarily die...

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Yes.

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I don't see what problem that would pose. It's only fair that the bad one dies.

(looks at him with contempt, anguished, heart tight)

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(bursts into tears) Boo hoo hoo... I can't do that... Boo hoo... I don't know how to fight and she kills like she breathes... Boo hoo... I can just flap my wings and she has terrifying superpowers. No matter how strong I am, I'd be too scared... Boo hoo... And I could never kill someone. Boo hoo hoo...

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(squeezes her shoulder to comfort her) You don't have to, my angel. No one will send you to certain death.

-

You understand why this poses a problem, Wang Shin?!

-

(!) If the Queen of Darkness won, what would happen?

-

(indignant at the lack of rigor) What sense does this question make?

-

(annoyed) Would it end the manhwa?

-

There remains the anteriority, like Ren-Bo. It will end if the Queen of Darkness also fulfills her objective.

-

(devastated) Since the failure of our previous plan, she has no objective left.

-

(worried) You're right... And if she is unable to finish the manhwa... then the Narrator has twice as many reasons to help her?!!

-

Boo hoo hoo... I can't take this monster anymore... Boo hoo... He killed my friends... Boo hoo... I wish he would disappear... Boo hoo...

-

Assuredly, a monster resolved to only write "Tell don't show" must rot in hell.

Ren-Bo's heartbreaking sobs end up making Yeon-Joo, Yoon-Hee and Soo-Bong cry.
Kang Chul also cries, but for another reason...

In the armored glass cell, Editor Park's zombie, gray diamond eyes.

Captain Ryu on the phone, next to Kang Chul, who looks at the giant screen displaying:
Soo-Bong next to a tablet, in the big living room of the Villa.

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(weary) God damn it, check with the other centers. (hangs up)

-

What is it?

-

A zombie escaped. No one knows how. No alarm. Nothing on security cameras.

-

?! (would like to think about it, but--)

-

Hyung!!

The yellow light bursts from the tablet, then the yellow frame forms.
Finally the Narrator appears.

The sound of his cavernous voice comes from the screen.

-

Kang Chul, you don't need to look at me on this tablet. We can see each other directly.

Kang Chul looks at Editor Park's zombie:
Zht! His gray diamond pupils become yellow.

-

This cell is armored, don't expect to get out.

-

I have no intention of attacking you. I made a discovery and I wanted to share it with you. Isn't that the purpose of a scientific laboratory?

-

You have an experiment to show?

-

Yes, a blood-curdling experiment. Admire the show.

~

President Kang, a drawing appears on the second tablet!

The camera in the Villa changes angle and shows the second tablet. The drawing:
¤ A man dressed in Joseon style walks in a construction site. His face is Editor Park's!

-

I found it appropriate to choose one of your acquaintances, as experiment subject.

A new drawing forms.
Kang Chul looks at the screen, !!, macabre stupefaction.

A NIS cameraman films this drawing on the tablet:
¤ BRASH!! A cinder block falls and smashes Editor Park's head!

Narrator frame:
"The regulation helmet is however recommended on a construction site."
Yeon-Joo widens her eyes, trembles frantically, even more than horrified...

-

I'm scared, Oh Yeon-Joo... Tell me, I'm not going to die too?

BRASH!! A cinder block falls and smashes Editor Park's head!

A last drawing on the tablet:
¤ Editor Park on the ground, skull burst gushing blood, DEAD!
Kang Chul looks at Editor Park's zombie in the cell.
(?!) He sees the strange supernatural substance of his face evaporate.
Editor Park stops being a zombie, regains his nose, his eyes, his mouth.

-

(holds his skull with both hands, surprised) AAAaahhh.....

-

He becomes himself again, like Oh Sung-Moo?!

(??!) Editor Park removes his hands from his head. Realizes he doesn't suffer.
He looks around, disoriented... but with a smile of relief.

-

A magnificent phenomenon, with the right dose of false hope.

-

?!!! (looks at Editor Park, worried)

Editor Park quickly becomes translucent, senses something abnormal, but...

... before understanding, he volatilizes into a myriad of supernatural dust, ANNIHILATED!

-

(removes his sunglasses in shock) My God...

-

You were right, Kang Chul. Like Oh Sung-Moo, but at his ultimate moment.

-

(horrified, confused) This is impossible. He should have just become himself again?

-

That's the difference between a main character and a secondary character. Unfortunately, as an extra, his death won't move many people. But I have nothing against gratuitous deaths that spectators don't give a fuck about. It's a common stylistic figure to establish the supremacy of a villain. I have nothing of such a role, reserved for characters, but since you see me that way.

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(rage!) Filthy sadistic monster! I'm going to abolish you!!!

-

Thank you for this beautiful anger scene performance. Readers will love it! Alas, I am incapable of feeling sadism. It seems attractive. Do you want to know how I discovered this? It's the funniest! Remember, our intense battle in the National Assembly. (tells...)

BODOM-BODOM-BODOM !!! The turret fires dozens of shells per second at the rebels.

Despite the carnage, the revolutionaries continue to enter.

~

There were some of my souls in the lot.

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This is my ULTIMATUM, Kang Chul. Deliver Ren-Bo to me, or I will annihilate an extra PER MINUTE! There are 50,000. Annihilating them all will take 833.33 hours, that is 34.72 days. Admit that you have plenty of time to decide!

(cold anger)

-

No! You cannot assassinate real human beings... (unthinkable) ... for a stupid comic book?!!

-

Nothing is real. Nothing is human. Only characters exist. But we're discussing, we're discussing, and already two minutes since the last. TWO!

-

It doesn't amuse me to do this to such loyal readers.

-

(cracks) STOP THIS, YOU FILTHY TERRORIST!!!

-

Why? Has Ren-Bo arrived in the Crossover?

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(seethes, teeth clenched) Yes Captain Ryu... A terrorist of a level you've never fought before... And together, we are going to eradicate him!!

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As expected, you care about deaths that spectators don't give a fuck about. The only deaths and the only emotions that interest them are yours, those of the main characters. Even if I killed millions of people, it would only serve to reinforce your own dramatic effects.

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(curses, all emotions out) Mental patient, failed artist, disturbed mind, hack writer, simulacrum of--

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I hope for a good performance from you of the hero in doubt, since you are confronted with an epic blackmail of classicism: the famous hero's dilemma. I await Ren-Bo in the Crossover... IN ONE MINUTE FROM NOW!

Kang Chul and Captain Ryu look at each other, contracted by the feeling of urgency.
Captain Ryu looks at the clock, "02:00am", tick-tock the seconds.
Then, he looks at Kang Chul again...
... traumatized at the idea that every minute of hesitation translates into a real death.
Kang Chul, gnawed by doubt, takes a resolution "no choice anymore".

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FLASH, End image: Narrator + Kang Chul anguished but resolved.