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Everything is quiet. A few lights: garden, pool, living room and bedrooms.

A NIS agent stands guard, on the patio in front of the garage doors.

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Behind the guard, a furtive silhouette steps out of the shadows... Kang Chul!
He neutralizes the guard with a combat hold, and knocks him out.
Then he drags the unconscious guard into the darkness of a thicket.

---

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We move away from the garage door, and glide from the patio toward...
... the glass bay of a lit bedroom, on the ground floor.

~

Would there be a plot-hole?

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In the bedroom ransacked by Kang Chul...
Jae-Jung reads the manhwa on the computer. (put back on the table)

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A plot-hole that would have allowed defeating the Narrator...

She scrolls through images of the cyclone ravaging the city, and Ren-Bo in the hurricane.

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... and avoiding all those deaths?

Then, images of Ren-Bo facing the fighter jets.

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(disappointed) Mmmh... Until the end, it seems coherent...

She ends on this image:
¤ A large asteroid in space, planet Earth in the background.

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The asteroid dissolves from "Image" to "Real", motionless in space, threatening Earth.
SUBTITLE : One hour earlier.

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From the entrance of the hall, Do-Yoon calls out to Kang Chul.

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His lips have been sewn shut! And Ren-Bo is alive!

Kang Chul heard but doesn't react, looking sadly at Mi-Ra.
Do-Yoon curses and leaves, leaving them alone together.
In the dimness, they are haloed in pale yellow light, a ray coming from the roof.

Kang Chul smiles slightly and leans over Mi-Ra.
He gives her a soft kiss, with the tip of his lips on hers.

When he straightens up... She opens her eyes!!
Like Sleeping Beauty!
Kang Chul, ... !!!, the unexpected finally happens.
Joy rises in his heart like a tidal wave.

Mi-Ra, ill at ease, looks around.
A disturbing feeling, like enduring the obvious.
She ends up seeing him, without joy.
Rather an immense sorrow, like someone who has lost everything.

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(doubts) Are you really here? Do you see me? Are you okay?

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(on the verge of crying) ... Yes.

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AAAH! (joy and relief)

He holds her in his arms.
Him wildly happy, and her terribly sad...

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She is dead.

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No, Ren-Bo is alive. Everyone is fine.

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The woman you love is dead.

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... ??!! (separates from her, looks at her, confused)

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FLAP-FLAP-FLAP! Ren-Bo flies toward the Capital (Seoul).
Following the released nervous tension, she lost it.
She harangues the sewn-mouth Narrator.

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(ridiculous Aegyo) ~Narrator, we're buddies now. ~Right, buddy? ~We're not gonna fight over the peccadilloes of the past?! ~We're gonna tell each other little enchanted stories? ~Right, pleeease...?!

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... ?!!

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Hello? Hello? ... ~Why aren't you answering me, buddy? ~Did the plumber seal your nonsense faucet?

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MRRgrRggrr... !!!

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(hand to ear) ~What, how? What did you say? Articulate! AR-TI-CU-LATE... A-E-I-O-U... a-blabl~A, a-blabl~E, a-blabl~I, a-blabl~O, a-blabl~U?! A-BLA-BLE-BLI-BLO-BLU-BLA-BLE-BLI-BLO-BLU-BLA-BLE-BLI-BLO-BLU...

(lozenges vibrating with discontent)

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(perfect rapid diction) She sells seashells by the seashore. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. Red lorry, yellow lorry. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? Pad kid poured curd pulled cod. The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick.

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... !!! (powerless)

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The woman you love is dead.

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How could you be dead? You're here, you're fine. Get a grip, come back to yourself!

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(cries) She gave you her last farewell, remember...

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(tragic) That's the ultimate moment you had together. The last memory you'll keep of her.

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..... ?! (confused, anguished, "this makes no sense")

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Then, she was killed.

(doubts, remembers...)

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(?!) That means that... You stopped being the Queen of Darkness?

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(pathetic) And now, all that's left is... (disgusted with herself) Me, Moon Mi-Ra.

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(takes her by the shoulders) What does it matter? I don't care that you have superpowers. (tormented) You're with me, that's all that counts!

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(unbearable, cracks) Boo hoo hoo... Boo hoo hoo hoo....

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(overwhelmed, wounded voice) Mi-Ra...

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(drowned eyes) You don't understand. And the most terrible is that it's me who has to tell you.

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(lost, like a nightmare) Tell me what... what terrible thing... because it would be you?

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(desperate) I still love you just as much but... There's no one left for you to love.

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(tears, denial, but senses a truth) Mi-Ra, that makes no sense. I love you as I've always loved you, and I will always love you.

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(resigned) Oooh, you need proof? It's very simple...

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...... !! (dreads this proof)

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A kiss that I would give to the one I still love. A kiss like the one you would give to the one you loved.

Kang Chul embraces her... looks at her for a moment...
... with a growing, awful apprehension.
Then, they kiss, a beautiful kiss like their very first......

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FLAP-FLAP-FLAP! Ren-Bo flies over the Capital, playful.
She overwhelms the Narrator with quips, as he had morally tortured her before.
(She remembers his words poorly, so her imitations are not exact.)

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(falsely serious imitation) Where aaare you? Where aaare you? REN-BO, I will sea-rch for you, I will fi-nd you! I've got a flyswatter and a bowl of citronella waiting for you! BOO!!

(unable to show emotions, forces himself to stay calm)

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(theatrical) Manhwa, why don't you ask me to go back to my mother? (grandiloquent gestures) Why, ManhwaaAA, don't you ask meeeEE? WhyyYY?! WhyyYYY??! WhyyYYYY???!

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MrGGhG!! (hit! existential stupefaction)

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(shrill voice of a shriveled dwarf) Where's my "to be continued", I want my "to be continued", I don't want "end", I want "to be continued", not "end", not "end", I don't like "end", I like "to be continued", I want to marry it.

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MrrrgghMrghh... (unbearable, retinas vibrating with anger)

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(whiny kid voice, rubs eye as if wiping a tear) Boo hoo... I've got stuff that flies better than Ren-Bo, but she broke them. Boo hoo hoo... my little planes, she broke all my toys. I'll tell my mommy Manwha and she'll get scolded. Nanny nanny boo boo!

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MRgRh! MRgRh! MRgRh! (face clenched, crazy)

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(deep voice) In spAAAce, I'm gonna make a FART! A -BIG- Fart!! Big enough to asphyxiate myself in my own stench, inexorAAAAbly!!!

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MMMGGRRMMRGRMM!!! (nuts to the last degree)

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Mi-Ra and Kang Chul experience their kiss.
Her: a river of tears, intense pleasure and torment.
Him: face clenched... He opens his eyes, interjected, remembers...

Kang Chul, !!!, widens his eyes in fright.

Nothing of what he felt the first time, nor the times after.
He doesn't even know WHO he's kissing anymore!
So he breaks the kiss.
He sinks into the throes of a suffering at its beginnings, but already unbearable.

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Agh... Who... Who are you?

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(pitiful) Mi-Ra... Just Moon Mi-Ra.

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(trembles, looks everywhere, totally confused) Where is she? ... Where? ... Where is she? ... Where did you go, my love?

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(broken to the extreme) Agh... I told you... She's dead...

The loss of the loved one, loved for millennia, no one can accept it.

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(traumatized, breath cut) Agh... no... (moans, extinguished voice) ... nooo... no... nooo... (torrent of tears)

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(nebulous gaze, searching) I know that you stayed together a very long time... in that other dimension... Imagination... but I barely remember... a few fragments of that eternity... as if someone else had lived it.

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(mad with pain, places hand on Mi-Ra's belly) Who was there? It was you. She's necessarily here, in you. You couldn't have disappeared. It's impossible.

In memory of an infinitesimal reminiscence of their wedding:
Mi-Ra raises her hand, showing her gold, ivory and ebony wedding ring.
She has the sad intuition of what must happen:
kKrkzZz... The ring crackles, briefly immaterial, in front of Kang Chul!!

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(eyes bulging) ah... AAahh... No... NOo... (looks at his own ring)

Ffffff..... Both rings annihilate... return to Imagination...
The end of eternal, mythological love, no one can endure it.
At the paroxysm of the rending, Kang Chul shakes in epileptic jolts.
He cannot even scream, eyes wide like those of a dead man.

He reaches his hand toward Mi-Ra's cheek and sees an illusion:
The Mi-Ra he loves, divine, radiant, smiling.
And when his hand touches her cheek...
Fffff... That Mi-Ra is annihilated into dust.

His hand now caresses the cheek of a miserable, dull, grimacing Mi-Ra.
A Mi-Ra who suffers as much as he does, trembling in her desperate tears.
But Kang Chul doesn't see her. There is only the void under his hand.
A vertiginous fall into the bottomless abyss of absolute solitude.

Once fully realized the immensity of the desolation...
... finally, he can scream and cry with all his heart and all his soul.
Mi-Ra screams in grief and cries with him, pressing his hand against her cheek.

But neither can console the other of their distress.
For him, she is a stranger, and the one he loves has ceased to exist.
And for her, he is the man she loves, but who loved another.

---

FLAP-FLAP! Ren-Bo hurtles toward Sin-Moo's apartment.
ZOOM, she sees him: he looks outside, at his glass bay.
She stayed playful, as if excited by twelve coffees.

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Nobody's ever busted their ass that hard over a romantic book breakup. After all the shit I went through, I'm not gonna screw this up !

She dives toward the glass bay, with no intention of slowing down.
Instead, she raises her staff...

---

Sin-Moo looks at the yellow sky, worried, when...
(!!) He sees Ren-Bo charging like a kamikaze and--
CRASHHH!!! The glass bay explodes!
The shards pulverize the furniture and ravage everything, except Sin-Moo.

-

!!!

FLIP-FLIP! In hover in the apartment, Ren-Bo screams hysterically:

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YOU!!! (points her staff at him) You reek of cold wrecked anus! You've got corpse grime under your nails! You've got bits of maggots wriggling between your gums! You've got cockroach puke breath! You eat your nose boogers, and you collect the dried poop pellets stuck to your ass hairs!

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(?!!) But--

FLASH! A luminous burst from the staff cuts his protest. He is blinded.

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Pathetic depressing guy who crushed my morale for years pretending to help me. I'm dumpin' ya, I'm ditchin' ya, I'm firin' ya, I'm zappin' ya, I'm tossin' ya in the sewer! Go get eaten by dogs, jump off a bridge, immolate yourself by fire. 'DON'T CARE!!!

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(recovers from the dazzle) You don't--

FLAP! She lands and--
POC! She plants the tip of the staff on his chest to interrupt him.

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I don't love you, I never loved you, I will never love you, and while we're at it, I hate you, I've always hated you, and I will always hate you! AH!! Not forgetting the magic formula: I NEVER WANT TO SEE YOU AGAIN!! And where I'm going, I'm 200% certain I'll never see you again!

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(desperate) Ren-Bo, it's not--

GRzZzZzt!! Electric shock from the staff. Sin-Moo collapses unconscious.

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Bonus: no endless psychodrama!

FLAP-FLAP! She flies out of the apartment...

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The infinite yellowish lozenge vibrates for the last time, in the ethereal unreality.
Hyper-dimensional fractal webs envelop it, like a spider's cocoon.
Zitz! A cross-shaped flash from the center of the lozenge, like a cathode-ray monitor switching off.

All color has disappeared, leaving only black and gray.
There are no more floating letters, no more movement.
The center of the lozenge has become a zone of absolute nothingness.

---

FSHA! FSHA! FSHA! Yeon-Joo, Yoon-Hee and Soo-Bong appear, with their tablets.

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!!!

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(!!!) It ended? How? (looks around) And Ren-Bo?

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...... (cries with joy, too solemn to answer)

Yoon-Hee and Soo-Bong smile placidly, too relieved to answer.
Impatient, Jae-Jung rushes to the computer.
She selects "Episode 46 - Final Chapter".

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FSHA! FSHA! FSHA! FSHA!... The commando soldiers materialize on rocks.
FSHA! FSHA! FSHA! Further away, Wang Shin, Do-Yoon and Captain Ryu.
FSHA! Kang Chul appears on his knees on the shore, in the waves that come and go.

Splaf! He strikes the water, or Spat! the sand, when the swell has withdrawn.
He screams and cries when it's the water, and moans in agony when it's the sand.
The heart-breaking lament of a man who has lost more than a life allows...

Do-Yoon is overwhelmed, Wang Shin mixed.
Captain Ryu is focused on another urgency:

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(calls on the smartphone) Send the helicopter. North of Sokcho.

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Disorder, overturned books, a broken chair...
Standing next to the table... Young-Sik's faceless zombie.
Ffff.... A supernatural substance dissipates from his face.
He regains eyes, nose and mouth, becomes human again.

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... ?! (disoriented)

He looks around without understanding... notices his empty table, neither tablet nor stylus.

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(!!) My tablet?! My precious?!

He searches everywhere, floor, shelf, under the table... without finding.

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(catastrophized) No! Noooo!!! My preciouuuuuus...!!

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They are all here, discussing in groups, except Ren-Bo and Kang Chul who are absent.

Su-Ran, Wang Shin and Yoon-Hee:

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(photographs Wang Shin with her smartphone) Don't move. Kimchi!

(takes a serious, proud and dignified posture)

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(FLASH!) ... And the butterfly girl? She'll also need identity papers.

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(gulping a cup of ramen) Slluurpp... (talks with full mouth) She's gnot here.

-

(?!) Where is she then?

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Baaahh... (shrugs, clueless, "I dunno")

Jae-Jung, Yeon-Joo, and Do-Yoon:

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(mimes quotation marks with her fingers) Yeon-Joo, it bothers me to admit this to you, but "to a certain extent", I realize that "if you nitpick a bit", my adaptation of W is not "exactly faithful" to reality, or at least "not line by line". And this "little" lack of rigor bothers me.

(spaces out, so relieved by the end of the manhwa)

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I know, you're thinking "Hey, just tweak the script a bit", or "Ah ah ah, screenwriter Song is the best, she'll fix that easily". But that would make a bunch of retcons, because the budget is too limited to reshoot the scenes already filmed.

(not listening, blissful and absent smile)

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(?!) Oh I get it, it's ancient history, and you've dropped the drama.

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Ask President Kang. It's important to him. He'll agree to chip in for the budget as much as needed.

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(sighs) Aaah... Having to ask him that, after-- (?!) But where is he? Did he leave the Villa?

Captain Ryu and Soo-Bong:

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What's Ren-Bo doing? Did she stay in the other world?

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(worried) I don't know. Probably.

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Was she at least okay?

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(stressed) Yes, yes, she was doing just fine.

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Your tablet had switched off, how can you be sure?

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(anxious) The published version! We see her on the published version!!

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Is that reliable? That thing corrects things weirdly at publication. And if she was okay, then why didn't she come back?

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..... (psyching out, sure of nothing)

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These dimensional trips, do they still work, once the manhwa is finished?

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(tormented) YES! You saw it yourself, with Kang Chul!

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Ok, it works for W, but does this principle work for other manhwas?

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(exasperated) Why would it work differently?! DAMN!!

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Kang Chul told me there are plenty of exceptions, with unknown variables. Have you already seen other manhwas end like that, to confirm it?

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..... ("no other manhwa", dying of anxiety)

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The fairy who stayed here was annihilated, do you think that could have a link?

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(cracks) STOOOOP making me CRAZY!!!

FSHA! Light flash. Ren-Bo appears and--
Spof! Bing! Paf! Blang! A pile of objects falls on everyone:
Clothes, flower baskets, toys, herbariums, records, gardening tools, etc.

The super sound system appears on the floor, except--
POK!! Captain Ryu gets the left speaker on the head, and--
POK!! Do-Yoon, the right speaker!!

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OUCH!!!

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TADAA!! I was sick of taxing you guys. So I grabbed some stuff from my place.

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(touches his head, sees blood on his fingers) Good Lord! I survived a battle in another dimension, and I'm gonna die from catching a sound system in the face!

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(massages his head, placid like Droopy) It always falls on me.

Soo-Bong rushes to Ren-Bo and Hug!, takes her in his arms.

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(cries with joy) My angel, I was so scared, so often.

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(moved, tears) But you were there, without you I-- ??

Ren-Bo notices that the others are worried, staring at the entrance door.
She stops the hug and turns to see, !!! Soo-Bong too, !!!

Kang Chul stands at the entrance, cadaverous.
He aims at them with his pistol and approaches sinisterly!!!
He is mad with morbid pain, carrying a satchel and a heavily laden canvas bag.

Ren-Bo, overwhelmed, lets silent tears flow.
Kang Chul, drunk with grief, aims at Su-Ran then Captain Ryu.

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You two, slowly take out your weapons, and throw them 3 meters away.

Su-Ran and Captain Ryu know they have no chance against him.
They comply, take out their pistols with their fingertips, and throw them.

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(calm) Kang Chul, how about you tell us what the problem is?

Kang Chul sets down his heavy canvas bag, takes out a second empty bag.
He sets the empty canvas bag, open on the floor. Then he aims at Captain Ryu!

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The tablet I had in the helicopter. Throw it in this bag.

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Kang Chul, we won't offer these tablets to the government as a special weapon. We know the danger. You don't need to threaten us!

Yes, that's why Kang Chul takes these precautions.
But he doesn't care about answering them or justifying himself, only his will counts.
Captain Ryu grabs Mi-Ra's tablet from the table, and throws it in the canvas bag.

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Yoon-Hee, your tablet.

-

But... It's already wrecked?! It short-circuited because of--

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(aims at her) THROW IT IN THIS BAG!!!!!

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!!! (so shocked that she immediately goes to grab her tablet)

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... !! (would like to protest, angry, but...)

... for the first time in his life, another man scares him, Kang Chul!
Wang Shin feels it viscerally:
Kang Chul has nothing left to lose and could react in a crazy, unpredictable way.
A destroyed soul, with a superhuman capacity to kill, that it's better not to provoke.

As Yoon-Hee throws her tablet in the bag...

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(aims at Soo-Bong) Your tablet.

Reluctantly, Soo-Bong takes his tablet from the table.
Then he throws it in the bag.

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(pained to see him like this) Hyung... You don't need to--

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(aims at Su-Ran) The tablet I asked you to recover from our destroyed house.

Su-Ran goes to get a small tablet placed on the desk.
Soo-Bong's old W tablet, with a talisman stuck on the back.
She throws it in the bag.

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Oh, and of course... (approaches Soo-Bong) Soo-Bong, your stylus.

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(whiny) Hyung, please, it's a gift from--

Kang Chul sees the stylus sticking out of Soo-Bong's front pocket, and--
Zip! He grabs it, checks the "OSM" signature on the tip, and throws it in the bag.

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(annoyed) That doesn't belong to you! Stop taking from others what they hold most dear!!!

Kang Chul, without even getting angry, just devastated, points his pistol at Ren-Bo!

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(grimaces, bitterness, sorrow) You're the one who took Mi-Ra from me. (ends in a sob)

Ren-Bo, !!!, notices his calm and desperate look, finger pressing the trigger.
SHAF!! She disappears. Light flash. Just when--
POW! Kang Chul fires!!! Actually, he aimed aside.
However, even this feint overwhelms his lost mind with guilt.

Everyone in the room, !!!, total shock.
Kang Chul, tragic, realizes the murderous absurdity he almost committed.
Then, mind shattered, he points the pistol at his own temple!

-

(empathy, alarmed) Hyung...!

Kang Chul presses the pistol against his temple, about to fire!!!
Yes? No? Presses harder, like a psychopath. Yes? No? Yes!!!
He scares everyone here! He really seems to want to fire.
But he sees the bag filled with tablets...
The moment to end it hasn't come yet.

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(lowers his weapon) I have to take care of this first.

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.... !!! (cannot accept that he kills himself)

---

Sitting on the roof, Ren-Bo looks down:
Kang Chul carries his two bags, followed by the others.
They stop on a tiled area, near the pool.

-

(sorry) He's gone crazy...

BRANG! Bag filled with tablets thrown on the tiling by Kang Chul.
He takes out a gas can from his satchel.
Shlaf-slhaf... He generously sprays the bag, remembering...

~

The Narrator didn't force me to draw duplicates.

He takes out another can, Shlaf-slhaf... sprays, until drowning the bag in gas.
The others stand around him, looking at him with empathy.
A solemn atmosphere of mourning, of definitive conclusion...

Kang Chul takes out a lighter and Skritsh! lights it.
By the lighter's flame, in chiaroscuro, he pronounces the funeral oration...

-

W and its consequences are definitively over. There will never again be a living manhwa. Even after an eternity, the Narrator will not wake up.

Kang Chul throws the lighter into the bag and--
VRoOoff... The bag catches fire.
They see inside: the tablets disintegrate, the plastic melts into bubbles.
Soo-Bong's "OSM" stylus disintegrates first in the flames.

The canvas of the bag chars.
There remains a mound of plastic and metal on fire.

Kang Chul, motionless, watches the flames dance...
Hypnotized in his solitary grief, eyes of infinite sadness.
Then, one after the other, they leave... leaving him to his mourning.
Only Yeon-Joo remains, heart tight, for him, for her.

The flames flicker and die in Kang Chul's eyes.
He takes out a fire extinguisher from the second bag and--
VrShhhhh... He sprays to finish off the dying fire.
There remains only a shapeless mound of carbonized matter.
Even the electronic components have melted, except the metal carcasses.

Kang Chul takes out a sledgehammer from the second bag and--
BRANG! BLAM! BRANG! He brings it down on the mound, repeatedly...

---

Blang! Sledgehammer thrown to the ground by Kang Chul.
There remain only blackened rubble, dust and deformed bits of metal.

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Chul... Let's go sleep... You'll feel better tomorrow. (grabs his elbow to lead him)

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(resists motionless, absent eyes, pathetic) (to himself) Where to go? Hell is everywhere. So here or elsewhere...

He draws his pistol, brings it to his own head...
Yeon-Joo, !!!, grabs his arm to stop him.
Zak! With the other hand, Kang Chul grabs Yeon-Joo's torso, and pushes her away.
He keeps her at a distance, and slowly, he raises the pistol toward himself...

Yeon-Joo, ... !!, horrified, the certainty that he's going to do it, in front of her!!
As he places the barrel on his temple, she notices he doesn't really look at her.
His eyes ravaged by grief focus further, already looking beyond.

Yeon-Joo, !!!, sees his finger pressing the trigger. No time to convince him!!

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(screams) YOUR SON!!!!!

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!!! (stops his finger)

His hand and the pistol tremble...
Tetanized by the contradictory inner conflict, grimacing in pain, he lowers his weapon...
His arm falls, his hand loses all strength and Sklang!, the pistol falls to the ground.
Eyes lowered, tortured and appaled, while he still holds Yeon-Joo at a distance.

-

(tears) Chul. Everything is over. The manhwa is finished. She has disappeared.

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.... (intense suffering)

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I know it will take you time, but you have to live... to take care of your own... Your family, me and Chul-Moo. (tells...)

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Keep the promise you made me two days ago.

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.... !! (sudden rage)

Woshh... He throws Yeon-Joo with a wide gesture.
SPLASH! She falls into the pool!!
Barely does she get her head out of the water, incredulous--

-

(bitter) A derisory promise that you tore from me millennia ago? (screams) Don't be ridiculous, OH YEON-JOO!!!

-

!!!

Kang Chul leaves without turning around, walking toward the living room glass bay.
Yeon-Joo watches him leave, disgusted...

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Do-Yoon looks through the glass bay:
Yeon-Joo paddles in the water, Kang Chul approaches the villa.

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Aish! (painful but relieved to admit...) She managed to dissuade him... My turn to do my part.

Kang Chul enters, Do-Yoon in front of him, but he doesn't see him.
He is incapable of seeing anything, even at point-blank range.
Kang Chul takes two steps, and disoriented...
... a step in another direction... a step elsewhere... ??
He stops, lost, doesn't know where to go. His life no longer has meaning.

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President Kang.

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(finally notices him, strangled voice) Hyung? (tears in his eyes)

Kang Chul loses all strength and collapses on Do-Yoon.
Snap! Do-Yoon catches him in his arms.

-

(heart-breaking crying fit) AaRaah... Boo hoo hoo... Boo hoo...

-

(pats his back, moved, smiles tragically) President Kang, you look pitiful...

-

Agh... Every second... every little second is a calvary.

-

Then let's do the only thing to do, in these circumstances.

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(smiles painfully while crying) Like in the good old days, Hyung? ... Before... before...

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(nostalgic smile, tear in eye) Yes, like in the good old days, Kang Chul.

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In the pool, Yeon-Joo suffers martyrdom.

-

(broken voice) I only had that left, this promise you made me...

She looks at the water tragically, shaken by sobs of grief.

-

(tears) You can't. Not after what I suffered. Not after going so far to find you again. (cracks)

Schlaf! She hits the water, crying with rage and despair.

-

(Schlaf!) Having endured all these trials, (Schlaf!) all these deaths, (Schlaf!) and my mistakes that almost caused more deaths!!! (Schlaf! Schlaf!)

For Yeon-Joo, it's the drop of water overflowing the pool...
SpLAsh-SpLAsh-SpLAsh-SpLAsh-SpLAsh! She beats the water frantically.

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(hysterical) YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO BREAK THIS PROMISE!!!

She calms down, panting, wanders her afflicted eyes at random... and...
She notices the pistol on the tiling. The one Kang Chul dropped.
Yeon-Joo... troubled... looks elsewhere... then looks at the pistol again... !!

---

Do-Yoon and Kang Chul are seated at a table...
... cluttered with ten already empty Soju bottles!
Kang Chul drinks from the bottle, empties it entirely.
"Burp°" He grabs a new bottle of Soju.

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(fed up, stops his arm) President Kang, that's not how we drink!

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(totally drunk) Hyung! Hic°... Your bar, Hic°... It's shit!

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(embarrassed) Aish. I don't know the bars of the real world.

The bar is filled with shady types.
In the middle, a gang of a dozen thugs.
They are standing or sitting around a large table, listening to their leader.
(Kang Chul is too far to hear their conversation.)

In the seat of honor, the gang boss is a big one-eyed disfigured brute. (Ep25)

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(points to his eyepatch) With a pen... (tells...)

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A fucking...

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... pen!

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So then, you killed her, Hyungnim??! (Hyungnim: Older gangster boss, connoted "Big brother")

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I couldn't see anything, and on top of that, that hysterical bitch kept at it. I've never met such a nutcase. All that for a toilet stupid thing.

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Woo... We should recruit her.

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I got bled for nothing at that shitty convention. It disgusted me from reading comics.

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Aaah... So that was why?! That's a pity, Hyungnim. That was the only thing that relaxed you between two fights.

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First time I was a victim, but I still did jail time!

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Shit, that's disgusting.

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I learned that this psycho had killed someone, a week ago. I wonder how it didn't happen earlier!

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Shit, this girl's heavy. So did she go to jail, Hyungnim??!

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(disgusted) Not even, fuck! She inherited a big company instead. A little sob story on TV, and it was settled.

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Fuck! Where's the justice?! And then, it's us they call scum?

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The biggest scum have their asses nice and warm in armchairs.

The thugs are disturbed by a shout from:

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THIS BAR IS A RAT HOLE!! ... Hic°

They notice Do-Yoon and Kang Chul's suits.

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See? That kind, with nice suits.

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What the hell are these idiots doing here?

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Aigoo, 'don't give a shit. (drinks his glass)

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Ren-Bo discusses with Su-Ran and Captain Ryu, wearing their sunglasses.

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It's nice here, it's big, it's pretty. You don't mind us squatting here?!

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Out of the question. This residence is reserved for cover missions, witness protection, or operational preparation.

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WaAh?! Our place got destroyed! You're not gonna put us out on the street?!!

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Miss Flip-Flap, the secret services, is that a joke to you?!

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Agent Bae, it's ok. Their situation complies with the regulations. If you'd read them, we wouldn't have to suffer your poorly-fucked teen psychodrama.

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Mpff!! (vexed, leaves)

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That said, I gotta fix up the garden, 'cause right now, your idea of lawn everywhere, it's moldy. Oh! We'll also have to ditch the guards. I don't feel like getting watched while I take my shower, or bumping into these stubborn goons at every wing flap!

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(!!) Hey, you shouldn't exaggerate too mu--

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All that gave me an appetite. (SHAF!, disappears, light flash)

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... !! (feeling of having been scammed)

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Jae-Jung eats a bowl of Jajangmyeon.
FSHA! Light flash. Ren-Bo appears.
FLAP! Involuntary wing beat jostling Jae-Jung--
Splaf! Face plunged into her bowl!

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Aish!! Can't you be careful? (grabs a towel)

Indifferent, Ren-Bo opens the freezer.
She takes out a wrapped ice cream, brand "1000 stars".
Consternated, Jae-Jung wipes her face full of Jajangmyeon sauce.

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Hey, where's your magic staff? (familiar tone)

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(annoyed) Ajumma! I'm not gonna cart that thing around 24/7, I stashed it in a cupboard!

(?) Jae-Jung notices Ren-Bo's white-luminous wings.

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And your wings, why do they stay luminous?

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(blasé) Bwaaahh... That's how it is.

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(convinced) There's a plot-hole!!! Fairy Spark was disintegrated! You should have been disintegrated with her??!

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(!!, shocked) She wants to disintegrate her to resolve a plot-hole?!

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(weary, sigh of buzzing lips) Prrrplplplpl.....

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Where is that fairy now? Was she really annihilated?! And all that mess with the luminous wave, what was that??!

Scratch! Ren-Bo opens her ice cream, covered in sparkling icing sugar.
She ignores Jae-Jung, and admires her ice cream, eyes sparkling with light.

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(?!) Yah! We're supposed to get an explanation?!!

SHAF! Ren-Bo disappears. Light flash.

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... !!!

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Seonsaingnim, I think she found you boring, with your questions.

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(vexed) A manhwa with such a dumb scenario?! Don't expect good sales!! (sulks and leaves)

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Aigoo...

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Sitting on the roof, Ren-Bo holds her ice cream, under the starry vault.
She opens her hand in front of her, as if Fairy Spark were going to appear on it.
Instead, Ffff... Ren-Bo blows on her ice cream and...
... the sparkling icing sugar disperses like spark powder on her hand.

Then she opens her hand toward the sky, putting it back to the wind.
The icy powder flies, blends with the bright stars in the night.

Ren-Bo, eyes sparkling with light, looks at the sparkling starry vault.
She sketches a nostalgic smile, but no sadness...

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Captain Ryu worries, seeing Yeon-Joo depressing on the sofa.
He takes off his glasses and sits next to her.

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Are you okay, Yeon-Joo? Can I do something to help you?

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Chul-Moo, my son? I haven't had time to take care of him.

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He's sleeping. One of our nurses is taking care of him.

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(sad smile) Thank you, I--

BRRZ! Her smartphone rings, "Do-Yoon". She picks up.

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.....

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(!!) WHAT?! Kang Chul??!

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?!

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Where?! How?!!

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And on top of that, he swiped my super-car.

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I'll find him! (hangs up)

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A problem?

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Captain Ryu, can I borrow one of your cars?

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Sitting on the roof, Ren-Bo sees a car leave the garage.
Yeon-Joo at the wheel. The car rolls toward the residence exit.

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Mh? Alone? At this hour?

SHAF! Ren-Bo disappears. (She's going to get information inside.)

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On the outskirts of the villa, Yeon-Joo's car turns onto an avenue.
FSHA! Ren-Bo appears in the sky and locates Yeon-Joo's car.
At the wheel, Yeon-Joo seems to know where she's going, determined.

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Looks like she knows where Kang Chul is...

FLAP-FLAP! Ren-Bo tracks the car from afar.
Yeon-Joo drives on an avenue leading to the Han River.

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Do-Yoon's car is parked on the right lane of the bridge.
The car is empty, the passenger door open toward...
... the bike path, the pedestrian crossing, then... the bridge railing.

On the other side of the railing, Kang Chul stands ready to jump!
He cries, drunk, and leans holding the rail with one hand.
With the other hand, he punches into the void, ranting.

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Nothing makes sense anymore. I can't live without you! Do I have the right to die and join you? Is that right, like this?

A CYCLIST (20s) pedals on the bike path and spots him.

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Shit... Another one... Damn bridge.

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But join you where? You're not even in the afterlife! You died without having existed!! Was it an imaginary love?!

Kang Chul doesn't even notice the cyclist. (Same goes for the rest of the scene.)
Cries, heart-rending sobs, trembling, feet poorly placed.
The cyclist parks his bike nearby.

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Ajusshi! This is not the right place for a crisis of conscience!

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Or then, do I have to keep living? How long, 50 years? Yes, that's a ridiculous time. 50 years, what is that?

The cyclist goes to the railing, but hesitates to grab Kang Chul.
It's risky. He's agitated, moving with every tirade, one foot in the air.

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Better go question yourself in a bar, over a drink!

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Just two months, compared to what we lived together?! Two little months. It'll be over quick, just the time of a forgotten dream.

Kang Chul punches into the air, and Zip!! his foot slips accidentally.

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?! ("shit!")

With the momentum, his hand holding the railing lets go. HE FALLS!!!

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Aish!!

He plunges into the river. SPRASSHHH!!! Big spray of water.
The panicked cyclist scrutinizes, but the water is dark in the night.

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On the other side, downstream from the bridge...
Flof!! Kang Chul sticks his head out of the water, surprised to be alive.
He swims toward the bank, without success. The strong eddy pushes him back.
So he lets himself float doing the dead man's float.
He admires the stars, carried by the current...

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(tragic laugh) Ah ah ah... The circus scarecrow was right... I don't die falling from this bridge. I'll jump from here every day!

But these wide rivers are unpredictable, the water capricious.
Countercurrents brutally flip Kang Chul!
He swims to pivot, comes back to air, stabilizes...
Shlaf!! A treacherous turmoil engulfs him temporarily!

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(coughs) Kof-kof!! (worried)

The river tosses him relentlessly, threatening his life...

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FLAP-FLAP! Ren-Bo sees Yeon-Joo's car rolling toward the bridge.

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(?!) My little finger tells me something about this bridge. (remembers...)

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YES?! It's his favorite suicide spot! (delighted by her discovery)

ZOOM... She sees Do-Yoon's car and a cyclist on the bridge.
SHAF! Ren-Bo disappears. Light flash.

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The cyclist, smartphone to his ear, waits for emergency services to answer.
FSHA! Light flash. Ren-Bo appears in front of him.

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... !!!! (drops his smartphone from the shock)

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Did someone fall from the bridge?

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... Uh... Yes?

SHAF! Ren-Bo disappears. Light flash.

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... !! (dumbfounded)

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A violent whirlpool engulfs Kang Chul!
He surfaces, panicked.
Barely time to breathe, engulfed again!

FLAP-FLAP! Ren-Bo scans the river from the sky, but everything is dark, so...
FLASHHH! Her wings shine so intensely that she becomes a sun in the night.

Kang Chul surfaces one last time.
Unable to breathe, he is engulfed again.
Only his arm emerges out of the water...
... sinking little by little... elbow... wrist... hand.

The river entirely lit, ZOOM... Ren-Bo detects him!!!
SHAF! FSHA! She teleports above and grabs his hand!
She hauls him out of the water with both hands.

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(blinded) An angel? Am I dead?

Ren-Bo scans the surroundings, sees the bank and--
SHAF! They disappear. Light flash.

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FSHA! They appear above the tall grass of the bank.
Ren-Bo drops Kang Chul. He falls lying near a muddy path.

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Kof! Kof! Kof! (spits out the water accidentally swallowed)

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(relieved) Pfwoo... I don't have to do mouth-to-mouth. (luminosity of the wings decreasing to normal)

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(comes back to his senses) Ren-Bo?

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Your Ex wants to see you. She'll come get you.

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("annoying") Just take me back to the villa.

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No Señor! Or she'll throw a fit. Bla-bla-bla, "Ren-Bo, you only do what you want", Bla-bla-bla, "What others want, you don't care?". A whole drama for nothing. You should just take advantage of the wait to sober up.

He's about to retort but-- SHAF! She disappears. Light flash.

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Aigoo... (lies down comfortably, head relaxed, drunk)

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Yeon-Joo drives, enters the bridge...
FSHA! Light flash on the back seat. Ren-Bo appears.

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(surprised) WAAAH!! (loses control)

IiikKk-Iiik... The car sways, then Yeon-Joo stabilizes it.

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The second on the left after the bridge. You'll find him on the bank.

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Ren-Bo!! You almost caused an accident!

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(annoyed) I would have preferred "thank you".

SHAF! She disappears. Light flash.

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Yeon-Joo's headlights light the muddy path...
... then blind Kang Chul, lying in the grass.

The car stops, Yeon-Joo gets out.
She walks and stops a few meters from Kang Chul.
He shivers and breathes with difficulty, exhausted, haphazard gaze.

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It was useless to come.

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(sad) Remember your promise... (tells...)

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That stupidity again?

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... !! (hurt, but instead of crying...)

Yeon-Joo takes out a PISTOL and aims at Kang Chul!
(It's Kang Chul's pistol, that fell near the pool.)

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You have until ten to keep that promise.

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(contemptuous) You're imitating me on top of it...?

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1... Give me back my love, Kang Chul. Like you promised.

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Love on demand... What dumb manhwa did you read that in?

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I don't care, if it's the only way.

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I was this close to ending myself. What difference.

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2... You'll make me a murderess. I'll go to prison and no one will raise your son!!

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It'll be entirely your fault. I won't even suffer from it, once dead.

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3... You swore that we would find our simple happiness again. You built a family with me. You have to assume it!

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But... we weren't made for each other, Oh Yeon-Joo.

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4... GIVE ME BACK MY LOVE!!!

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I never loved you... Never loved with all my heart and all my soul.

The more he rebuffs her, the more she fills with rage and obstinacy.

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5... You think I'm going to hesitate, Kang Chul?

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Then... GIVE IT BACK TO ME! (aims the pistol more)

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Might as well die quickly.

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GIVE IT BACK!!! (holds the pistol with both hands)

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Never...

POW!!! Yeon-Joo fires!
SPOTSH! Kang Chul takes the bullet full in the chest.
A flood of blood comes out of his mouth, and his head falls back.

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