A manhwa image:

Soo-Bong cries and holds Ren-Bo comatose.

WIZZ! Quickly, other manhwa images scroll by.

They show previous scenes going back in time to...

... the image of Jin In-Jin's henchman shooting at Soo-Bong, and...

Terribly worried, Yeon-Joo screams into her smartphone.

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Chul! They're being shot at!!!

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What?!

With her other hand, she clicks on "blank image", draws some lines...
... erased by a new image materializing on the tablet...

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I can't draw a scene. My sketches are replaced!

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Oh! Soo-Bong is wounded!

(dammit!)

VROAR! Kang Chul starts his car with a bang.

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The message for Soo-Bong, you had succeeded.

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Try to remains out of context, the same way.

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(panicking) But now it's going too fast! Otoke?!

(contracts eyes, focused, thoughtful...)

A few months before...
Director Jung Dae-Yoon introduces three men in security uniforms to the crew.

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Our security team, in charge of access control to the filming sites.

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They are not allowed to carry weapons.

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So, for the risky places, this policeman was detached to us.

Jung Dae-Yoon waves to the policeman.

Kang Chul's car arrives at the entrance of the prison.

The headlights of his car shine on a policeman watching the area.
Kang Chul waves at him with a smile, and the policeman replies the same.

(opens eyes, found a solution!!!)

The headlights of Kang Chul's car sweep the road and illuminate...
... that policeman! A short moment!

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NO! Ren-Bo is shot in the sky!!!

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... ! (straight look, adrenaline and determination)

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Draw me!

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What?!

Kang Chul leaves the road and makes a turn in the grass, behind one of the trucks.

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Draw a quick sketch of me!

Kang Chul stops his car in the shadows.

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Even inaccurate.

Kang Chul runs out of his car, smartphone in hand.

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Do it!!!

He slips the smartphone into his pocket, without cutting off the call.

Yeon-Joo draws a few lines of Kang Chul's face on a blank page.
Distraught, she sees her drawing being replaced before it's finished!

Kang Chul runs around a truck.
Without checking the surroundings, he rushes at the policeman from behind.
He does a close-combat hold, "one arm under the throat, one arm on the neck".
The policeman can't react or shout, and faints.
Kang Chul drags the policeman, still standing, to the back of the truck.
He slides him onto the step leading to the back door. Opens it.

On the tablet, Soo-Bong is listening to Ren-Bo's heart, "Her heart...".

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(shouts) Ren-Bo's heart has stopped beating!!!

Yeon-Joo clicks to display a blank image, she is about to draw but...

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... !!! (sudden idea)

She waits for the manhwa to display the following image...
Materializes: Sitting on the ground, Soo-Bong holds the head of comatose Ren-Bo.
Now! Yeon-Joo rushes to draw ON this picture!

Kang Chul lays the policeman and steals his gun.
He steps aside and coldly...
SHI-TSHAK. He flicks the bolt.

(knows what he has to do!)

On the tablet image, behind Soo-Bong and Ren-Bo:
An athletic male figure in a blue suit, awfully messy.
A barely sketched face, impossible to recognize, but with...
Chiseled lower lip, mole near the eye... Kang Chul's distinguishing marks!

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Oh!

Yeon-Joo and Soo-Bong see the tablet's screen turn white.

Time has stopped in the prison, except for Kang Chul.

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Same as the last time except... It's GRAY?!!!

Yeon-Joo tries to draw a line. Nothing prints.

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Chul! Can you hear me?

...

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Honey, answer me!

...

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(distraught) Are you here? It's urgent!

...

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(screams) Kang Chuuuul!!!

But no answer comes.
She babbles nervously in a vacuum...

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Did he go there?

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If it's gray, what happened to him?

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(dismayed) Otokeeeee?!

Jin In-Jin and his gang appear down the street, and see...

(smiles cruelly)

(sees Soo-Bong with annoyance, waves his hand)

KRI-CRACK! The henchmen their guns.

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(cynical) In this forsaken rat hole, we can party unhindered.

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Spray them a bit. Special ammunition!

The henchmen point their guns at the couple.

POW!!! ... A pistol shot echoes...

Between the two eyes of a henchmen, a red hole appears!
He collapses dead, shot in the head.

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Hyung?!!!

Kang Chul is in the middle of the street, near the old car.
In a majestic Olympic shooter stance, pointing his gun, determined.

His arm moves quickly, in sharp and precise intervals.
POW! POW!!! He fires twice.

40 meters away, two more henchmen die from a bullet between the eyes!

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Take cover!!!

The henchmen and Jin In-Jin hide behind their vehicles.

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Go and fight! He's in the open!

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President, a guy that accurate and fast at that distance, that doesn't exist.

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You're outnumbered and outgunned ten to one, damn it!

A henchmen obeys and comes out of cover slightly.
Just to peek in, no more. Immediately--
POW!!! New shot from Kang Chul.
The man retreats screaming. Bloody gush from his head.
Ear torn off, raw zygomatic bone, grooved.
He collapses, but miraculously survives.

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President, big guns or not, one or ten of us... No one is a match for this guy!

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(looks at the wounded man) Take care of that idiot.

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Stay under cover!

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Ren-Bo... she's--

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I know!

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... ?!!

Kang Chul rushes to the old car.
CRASH! He breaks the car window with his gun .
He reaches in to unlock the doors.

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We have to carry her on board!

Soo-Bong opens the back door.
Kang Chul joins him and helps him carry Ren-Bo into the car, quickly!

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... ??! (looks at Kang Chul, incredulous, how are you here?)

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Yeon-Joo drew me in the manhwa.

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... !!

Kang Chul hurries back to the front.

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Take care of her.

Soo-Bong takes care to hold Ren-Bo's wings in the cockpit.
Kang Chul sits in the driver's seat.
He clears the ignition wires, under the dashboard.
Soo-Bong sits in the back seat next to Ren-Bo.
VROOM! Kang Chul starts the car with a rush.

The two late henchmen (the ones from the greenhouse) join Jin In-Jin.

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They run away in a car!

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Let's follow them!

All the men get into the vehicles.

Soo-Bong is devastated. His hands are hesitating above Ren-Bo.
Her wings are a sickly purple with blackish streaks.
And the black areas are getting bigger...

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Her wings... it's like... wounding her in the heart!

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The manhwa is not finished.

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So, she can still be saved!!!

Soo-Bong performs cardiac massage and mouth-to-mouth.

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Breathe, little angel, breathe!

He's in pain from his injured arm, but continues the massage regardless.

The car is following Kang Chul's car.

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(to the driver) Keep a safe distance!

Breathless, Jin In-Jin grabs his smartphone.

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Bring in reinforcements.

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And launch the chopper.

Ren-Bo remains inert despite first aid.

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She doesn't come back... No!!

Kang Chul is also anxious. He scans the scenery with apprehension...
... Where the word "END" might appear!

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(to himself) Yeon-Joo could draw something simple.

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Maybe not a defibrillator, but...

(like an electroshock)

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... a syringe of adrenalin...

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(nervous) Why isn't she doing anything?!

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(worried) Something goes bad.

Soo-Bong is beset by urgent thoughts...

:

Whether we're in the manhwa or not...

:

A tablet allows to change it remotely.

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... remotely...

:

What if this were the only advantage of the tablet?

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(grabs Soo-Bong by the collar, forcing him to stand up) Hurry! Come and see.

Pulling him by his clothes, she drags Soo-Bong to the bedroom.
He tries to put his electronic stylus on the table, but doesn't have time.

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Look! (CLAC! slams the mouse on the desk)

Soo-Bong puts his stylus in his sweatshirt pocket, and picks up the computer mouse.

Soo-Bong takes the stylus out of his pocket, looks at it seriously.

He presses the switch. A light beam glows at the tip.
Obsessed and with a trembling hand, he brings the stylus close to Ren-Bo's wings.
He moves it back and forth, over one of the bullet holes.
Incredible! Lines appear, then... turn into real substance.
Overcome with gratitude, Soo-Bong replicates the gesture on the other holes.

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I... I draw directly...

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... Right on the manhwa!

Kang Chul is watching it through the rear view mirror.

(startled)

Soon, all of Ren-Bo's wounds are sealed.
Her uninjured wings turn green and purple!

(suffers a strange cramp, paralyzed)

VROOM! The car accelerates.
Kang Chul's foot is stuck on the gas pedal.

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(coughs) Kof Kof!

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She is alive!!! (takes care of Ren-Bo)

(briefly outlined in black)

(can't speak or move, stares ahead)

No words "TO BE CONTINUED" in the background, though...
KRZT!, Kang Chul is briefly blurred by colored interference.

(opens her eyes)

FZZT!, Kang Chul disappears from the world of "Butterfly Girl".

The tablet turns back on normally.

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... !! (happy surprise)

On her smartphone...

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Yeon-Joo!

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Honey?!

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(nervously) I couldn't see anything. The tablet was out of order! Stuck on a gray background. What happened?

Kang Chul hurriedly gets out of the truck.

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So that was that. (runs towards his car)

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But you, what--

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The manhwa accepted me as a temporary replacement. As long as Ren-Bo was in a coma.

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Yeon-Joo, only you can help them now!

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... !!! (adrenaline surge)

An image appears on the tablet: The driverless car, veering off course.

The car dissolves from "image" to "real".

With tears of joy, Soo-Bong helps Ren-Bo to sit down.

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Soo-Bong, I don't feel the pain anymore.

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What happened?

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It's all right, my little angel, you are getting better.

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(notices the absence of a driver) Your car run by itself?

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... ?? (looks at the car's front)

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... !!!! (where is Kang Chul?!)

The car goes off the road, and runs towards a tree.

About to crash into it, in a fatal accident!
"HAAAA!!!", they scream in fright.

GUM-GUM-GUM. Invisible flat tints erase the tree, in successive layers.

Soo-Bong and Ren-Bo, amazed!

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(understands) Noona !

The car rushes into the ditch, crossing the area where the tree was.
Trapped on the muddy ground, the car slows down, at the edge of a forest.
PWOF! The car bumps against a grassy embankment and softly stops.

Jin In-Jin's vehicles come within sight of the stationary car.

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Looks like their sniper deserted!

Yeon-Joo frantically waves her arm to erase the black van of the pursuers.

Jin In-Jin's vehicles stop, everyone gets out.
They do not notice that behind them, GUM-GUM, their black van is erased.

Yeon-Joo sees a new image materializing:
All the henchmen have already gotten out of their Van.
It was too late! Yeon-Joo sweats!!!

In the back of the stationary car, Soo-Bong sees the henchmen.

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Hurry Ren-Bo, we can't stay here.

(moves with difficulty)

Soo-Bong helps Ren-Bo to move.

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We have to get to the woods!

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I feel so weak.

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You will recover soon, and fly away from this hell.

They get out of the car.

Jin In-Jin's gang advance towards the old car.

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Shoot in the pile!!!

The henchmen point their guns at Ren-Bo and Soo-Bong.
One of them finds himself empty-handed, not understanding.
GUM. Another henchman sees his gun obliterated by a quick cut.

Yeon-Joo hysterically shakes the stylus in eraser mode on the tablet.
She is unleashed, about to crack!!!

GUM, GUM, GUM. All the henchmen undergo the same phenomenon. Weapons deleted!

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By all the demons!

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... ?!?

SLOW MOTION:
Jin In-Jin doesn't understand anything, but he reacts immediately.
He held his shotgun down, hidden behind his hip.
His face full of cruel rage, he raises his arm and...
Roughly aiming, without waiting, holding his rifle in one hand--

(BANG!!! He shoots!!!)

A split second later, GUM, his rifle vanishes.

Soo-Bong and Ren-Bo run towards a big tree.
Zwizzz... SPLAT!!! Sound of fast projectile and impact.

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... !!! (backward collision, opens mouth)

(collapses into Soo-Bong's arms)

One more step and they find shelter behind the tree.

Thin grayish fibers appear on Ren-Bo's skin.
Soo-Bong is in shock, trembling, refusing to accept...
Then, Ren-Bo's sad eyes dive into his.
Crushed by the fate, their pupils vibrating...

Horrible black veins run under Ren-Bo's epidermis.
In the background, Soo-Bong sees something ghastly...

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... !!!!!

Characters are drawn above reality!!!
"..." ... slowly...

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No... no... my angel...

Ren-Bo's turns gray, her eyes dulling, her flesh drying up.
The cold purple of her wings is submerged by a tide of black waves.
Her body withers at sight!

(reaches for Soo-Bong's cheek)

(tears of tragic horror)

"E.." ... very slowly...

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Soo-Bong...

Soo-Bong feels Ren-Bo's icy, withered hand on his cheek.
His tears run down her hand.
There is only...
... a tiny spark in Ren-Bo's eyes.

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... Thank you.

(his gaze desperately cling to that spark)

(sketches a slight smile, as if she has found peace)

"EN." ... finally quickly.

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NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Ren-Bo's body is entirely mummified.
Her wings are totally black.
The sky is sepulchral.
"END".

On the tablet, this drawing:
Soo-Bong, in despair, holds Ren-Bo's mummified corpse.
Her withered hand is on his cheek, his tears on her hand.
The word "END" is written on the image bottom.

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... !!!!! (frightened)

Yeon-Joo draws lines to erase the word "END".
It doesn't work, she continues stubbornly.
With each attempt, a moan, a complaint.

A detail catches Yeon-Joo's eye, further down the table.
She sees Ren-Bo's portrait on the herbarium sheet.
The one Soo-Bong had drawn, with the flowers.

FRRT! The sheet vibrates a split second...

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NO!

FZZT! The sheet vanishes.

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No, no.... no...

Broken and bruised, she bursts into tears.

Yeon-Joo tragically looks at a book of "Butterfly Girl" on the table. Volume 5.

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For the readers... it was a dream world...

A huge remorse, to have participated in this terrible story, without knowing...

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But for her... (sobbing hiccup)

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... a nightmare world!

She bends over in grief.

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And for Soo-Bong... a... a...

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Soo-Bong !!!!!

Yeon-Joo rushes to the bathroom door.

VLAM! She opens abruptly.
No one inside.

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... (loses breath, emotional shock)

Just the traces of dried blood on the floor and the wall...

Yeon-Joo stares in horror at the vast emptiness of this small place.

Sang-Deuk's car parks.

Young-Sik is sleeping on the sofa.
On the radio:
BOM! Sound of someone banging on a piece of furniture.
Yeon-Joo crying.

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You're exhausted, let's lie down.

Yeon-Joo is on her knees, in the arms of Kang Chul, also sad.

He helps her stand up and walk to the bedroom.

Lee Sang-Deuk enters, camera slung over his shoulder.

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Young-Sik!

Young-Sik suddenly wakes up, on the sofa.
He hurriedly gets up, pretending to have remained awake.

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Good... Good evening boss, did it go well?

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Better than that!

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And the surveillance?

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Um... Nothing special.

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Anyway, I have some heavy stuff to add to the file.

Sang-Deuk shows Young-Sik some photos on his digital camera screen.
Taken at night, in the parking of Iksan prison.

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A serious incident happened there.

¤ Photo 1: Kang Chul gets out of his car, parked off the road, in the shadow.
¤ Photo 2: Kang Chul runs alongside a truck.
¤ Photo 3: A policeman stunned on the ground inside a truck.

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This policeman... He has--

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He was guarding the movie set!

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Kang Chul was going there... to shoot a crime scene?

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This policeman was REALLY knocked out! And his gun was stolen.

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(worried) So Kang Chul stole a... REAL gun?

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I couldn't take a picture of it, but it must be him!

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He certainly needs it to plan a big hit!

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And risk blowing his usual cover?

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Maybe it's for an urgent job?

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(gets scared) Or to kill troublesome witnesses like us?

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Maybe...

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But something strange happened.

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Disturbing enough to make me uncomfortable...

Sang-Deuk sees Kang Chul get out of his car and run towards a truck.
Click, Click! He takes two photos.

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If something has to happen, it's now.

Sang-Deuk gets out of his car.

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I had lost sight of Kang Chul. Did he go somewhere else?

He runs to the truck.

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Or would I face him in that truck?

Sang-Deuk stops for a short while. Apprehending the danger...

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But this was not the time to hesitate...

He gathers his courage and climbs into the back of the truck.

Sang-Deuk walks in the dark. Silence.
He turns on the light of his camera.
The truck contains clothes and movie props.

He scans the room, shining a light on the stunned policeman.

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Well, how about that...

Click! He takes a photo.

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I got you!

He scans another part of the place...
... and temporarily illuminates someone... or something... HORRIBLE!

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AAAAAAH!!! (terror!)

Too briefly to discern properly, but...
... a supernatural presence... of skin... slimy and formless.
Shocked, Sang-Deuk steps back and stumbles on the policeman's leg.
He falls, and his camera goes out. Complete darkness.

He turns it back on, and lights the same area again.
Nothing moves, he dares to approach...

(fascinated by the horror)

A frightening head, planted on a rigid body in blue suit.

The face has no eyes, no nose, no mouth.

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Damn, they're doing these special effects these days...

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That mannequin is really abominable.

(looks at the policeman on the floor)

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If I don't get out of here soon, I'll be the one to be prosecuted.

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At this moment, I hadn't noticed...

Sang-Deuk goes towards the exit of the truck.

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That horrible mannequin was wearing the same clothes as Kang Chul.

Just about to get out...

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And that's not all...

Sang-Deuk hears a female voice behind him. Yeon-Joo.

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Chul?

(cold sweats!! slowly turns around, while fearing to do it)

He sees... a smartphone light in the mannequin's pocket!

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Are you back?

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... !!!

The policeman on the ground lets out a groan.
Sang-Deuk runs away.

Lying on the bed, still dressed, Yeon-Joo cuddles up to Kang Chul.
A great moral suffering on her face. She clutches his clothes.
Kang Chul looks at her, worried and sad, then looks away... remembering...

Kang Chul gets out of his sports car and enters the garden.

Kang Chul enters...

He finds Yeon-Joo on her knees, prostrated with grief.

He bends down, hugs her.

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And Soo-Bong?

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He... he didn't come back.

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(worried) But...

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What happened to him?

(stares at the end image on the tablet, Ren-Bo and... Soo-Bong!)

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You were back automatically, at the end of "W" final chapter.

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There was no "FINAL CHAPTER" written for "Butterfly Girl" ending.

Kang Chul looks at Yeon-Joo... dismayed, appalled, and...
... With his specific look, when he has deciphered a phenomenon.

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...

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(shaking) So that means that...

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He's frozen there? (tears)

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For eternity?

(contracts eyes, thinks painfully)

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It needs someone to turn this ending into "TO BE CONTINUED".

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But there is no one and...

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The villain won.

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Raaah!!!

BOM! Kang Chul punches a shelf, in rage and helplessness.
He hugs Yeon-Joo, distraught, while she cries.

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Soo-Bong didn't come back from the world of "Butterfly Girl".

¤ Kang Chul drowns in the river.
¤ Same in the manhwa, with the word "END" on Yeon-Joo's screen.

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"Butterfly Girl" had ended like the first ending of "W".

¤ The faceless killer looks at a magazine with the headline: "The Killer Remains Unknown".
¤ On a rooftop, he clenches his fist, "This will be the end when we face each other!!".

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"W" could have a sequel, because the villain refused the ending.

The smoking gun of Jin In-Jin's disappears. He doesn't care because...
He watches Ren-Bo collapse, smiling cruelly.

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But in "Butterfly Girl", the villain had accepted a satisfying ending.

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Soo-Bong...

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... Thank you.

(sketches a slight smile, as if she has found peace)

~

Ren-Bo did not commit suicide, but she accepted her fate... ... however horrific this death was.

Ren-Bo as a child is taken out of the room by the doctors.
Terrorized and blue-winged, she pleads to her parents... but they look away.

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This was her last resort, after a short life destroyed by suffering.

"Butterfly Girl" Manhwas. A crowd of buyers. Children begging their parents to buy.
A commercial banner: "One year, and more intense than ten!".

~

A life so ephemeral...

Ren-Bo enviously watches butterflies fly to the pond.

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... the one of a butterfly...

Ren-Bo looks at the tormented sky with tears. A rainbow appears.

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... the one of a rainbow.

On the scooter, Ren-Bo rests her head on Soo-Bong's back, with a dreamy smile.

~

Only at the end, after her meeting with Soo-Bong...

Ren-Bo looks at the sky, relieved from her suffering. Her wings shine a bright white.

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She had shone intensely, like a last ray of sunlight at dusk.

Under a pink sky, Ren-Bo hugs Soo-Bong.

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Their love would have no limits...

Desperate, Soo-Bong holds Ren-Bo's mummified body.
His tears flow down her withered hand.

~

She would stay in his arms, her wings extinguished...

~

He would look at her crying, her hand on his cheek...

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Forever...

Soo-Bong kisses Ren-Bo in the river.

~

It was the end of a world.

Soo-Bong, smiling, gives a friendly pat on Kang Chul's shoulder.

~

The loss of a loved one.

Ren-Bo poses, sitting on a stool.

~

The loss of a so human girl... ... who we already counted as a loved one.

Yeon-Joo and Kang Chul hug while crying.

~

But as heartbreaking as this event was, at this moment...

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... It wasn't as excruciating as what was about to happen next...

Illuminated by headlights or a spotlight...

Kang Chul is lying on the ground, covered in mud, exhausted.
He breathes with difficulty, shivering, gazing hazily.
Standing up, Yeon-Joo holds a gun in one hand, aiming at Kang Chul.
She is threatening, full of rage and obstinacy.

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Do you think I will hesitate, Kang Chul?

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So... GIVE IT BACK TO ME! (points the gun more)

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Might as well die quickly.

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

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Never...

POW!!! Yeon-Joo shoots!
SPOTSH! Kang Chul takes the bullet in the chest.
A stream of blood comes out of his mouth, and his head tilts back.

Pieces of dirty, yellowish unreadable images.
Interspersed with red strobe flashes.

Yeon-Joo is stumbling towards a window.

Her face is swollen, after she cried more tears than her body has.
Her look evoke the pathetism of an already achieved tragedy.

Through the window, a whitish trail advances in the sky, like a plane one.
But the trajectory is curved towards the ground...

Up close, it's a nuclear warhead coming down.

Yeon-Joo has given up hope in the face of the ineluctable.

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Kang Chul...

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I come to you...

A military hospital.
Around it, a large military base.
Around, roads, fields, farms, villages.

A bright flash blinds everything, like the sun in the eye.

A nuclear explosion obliterates the whole region.

The atomic mushroom swells...

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FLASH, End image: Desperate Soo-Bong + Mummified Ren-Bo + Atomic explosion background.