Comics boxes with street sound effects and voice over.

C#1. Ren-Bo and Soo-Bong are on a sidewalk next to a green space.

C#2. Across the street, a shopping alley.

C#3. Soo-Bong smiles and points to the shopping alley.

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This way, Ren-Bo.

C#4. Ren-Bo looks at him with a dreamy smile. Pink wings!

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C#5. Ren-Bo takes Soo-Bong's hand.

C#6. Ren-Bo and Soo-Bong walk down the shopping alley, and...

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(cheerful) I often come here to buy things.

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Hey hey, I thought so...

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(points to various stores) Here, clothes. There, they make good ice cream. Here, toys.

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(points to a hi-fi store) And there, they have great stuff that kicks .

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... ?

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I thought you'd be more interested in that. (points to a florist store)

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... !!! (upset, wings turns red)

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Abominable! Only sadistic scum would run such a museum of horrors.

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... ?!

Behind the store window, a young and pretty salesgirl sees them passing by.
Ribbon in her hair, dress with hearts drawning, sweet and innocent smile.

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(shouts at the salesgirl) Assassins!!!!!

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... !!!

Ren-Bo quickens her pace, and leaves Soo-Bong.
He looks at the salesgirl, puzzled.
The salesgirl takes a flower, puts it next to her hair, and squints.
A way to say "Hey, this girl is totally crazy"!
Soo-Bong hurries to catch up with Ren-Bo.

Soo-Bong and Ren-Bo cross the street when...
VROOM! VROAAR! VROAM! Motorcyclists come from all the streets around.
Motorcycles also block the shopping alley. Soo-Bong and Ren-Bo are surrounded!

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... !!! (frightened, wings turning blue)

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What an idiot!

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It makes sense for the characters to go to an already drawn place.

(looks at Soo-Bong, desperate, tear)

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I should have chosen the unknow street.

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I screwed up.

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Soo-Bong! (holds onto Soo-Bong's jacket)

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Being scared won't solve anything. (unexpected adrenaline rush)

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No matter how many of them...

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... They won't touch a single Ren-Bo' hair!

(weeping)

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I'm ready to kill the first one who comes!

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Don't worry, Ren-Bo.

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... (cries, tries to hope)

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So, he wants to be a knight, the runt?

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Bring the equipment, we'll patch her up, his girlfriend...

The es pull out indelible markers and paint cans, and...
Razors, hammer, nails and cutters!

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(to Ren-Bo) Dirty little fly, you thought you were beautiful?

(undergoes)

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(to Soo-Bong) And you, woodlouse, we will crush you definitively.

(anxious but resolute)

Further on, a high-school girl looks at Ren-Bo with contempt, holding a paint can.

(his gaze is drawn to the lamp post)

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This lamp post...

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A lamp post that is much too thick.

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No, thick, exactly as I drew it.

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For a specific reason...

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What's wrong with him?

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He does not dare to move, so much he pees in his pants.

(doesn't hope anymore)

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A line of force. The three! The foreground!

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It's too crazy to succeed...

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Maybe not. This frame already exists.

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Ren-Bo!

(pulls herself)

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Hold my hand firmly, and get ready to run.

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... (attentive, takes his hand)

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Now!

They run towards the lamp post.
It's the only way the students don't block.

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Yah!

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They'll just get in the center!

Soo-Bong and Ren-Bo arrive near the lamp post.
Here lies a supernatural phenomenon, reality is torn apart.

Only Soo-Bong can see the dimensional slot.

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I can't believe it.

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Jump with me!

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(stands up) Where am I?

Yeon-Joo and Kang Chul go next to Soo-Bin.

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Seonsaingnim, do you feel better?

Soo-Bin is suddenly frightened by a memory.

Soo-Bin looks at the tablet with fear.
Features draw themselves, creating the manhwa.

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... !?!! (terrified)

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The tablet! The tablet draws by itself!

Kang Chul grasps Soo-Bin's shoulder, to reassure her.

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Soo-Bin, you scared yourself for nothing.

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But I assure you, the tablet--

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A wallpaper. You have seen an animated wallpaper.

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Soo-Bong uses a screensaver, programmed with images of the manhwa.

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Oh, what a jug!

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I feel so stupid. I caused you some trouble for that.

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It's all right, Seonsaingnim.

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For a moment, I imagined that--

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Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!

She faints again, and falls into the sofa.
Kang Chul and Yeon-Joo turn around.

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(stares in the void, realizes he's back)

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(look down, remembers)

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Why did I do that?

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Why?

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(lowers his head sadly, lost in thought)

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Soo-Bong, what is it?

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Soo-Bong, get over it!

Kang Chul shakes him, in vain.

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(fed up) I'll read the manhwa, it'll be easier.

The image switches to frontal view and...

Ren-Bo and Soo-Bong dissolve from "image" to "real".

They jump and KLOFZ!, they disappear in the rift, which bursts like water.

The rift's strange substance clouds and breaks down into primary colors.

Inexplicably, Ren-Bo and Soo-Bong find themselves in the middle of the sky.

They scream loudly, as they fall.

Instinctively, Ren-Bo flaps her wings and grabs Soo-Bong by the jacket.
He clings to her, both hands around her leg.
FLIP-FLAP-FLOP!
Ren-Bo's wings flap with an irregular rhythm, but enough to slow their fall.

Next to the shore, where the water is shallow...

They fall at moderate speed from 20 meters high.

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Aaaaaaaah!

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Hiiiiiiiiiiiii!

SPLASH! They dive into the river!
They come out of the water, spit out and splash around.

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Soo-Bong, are you all right?

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Yah! It worked! Wow!

They stand up, water up to the waist.
Soo-Bong smiles at Ren-Bo and waves Ok.

Dazed, Ren-Bo shakes her head. Without effect, she remains sceptical.

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But... what are we doing here?

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Why were we up there?

Soo-Bong becomes serious, worried.

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I just created a monster mess in this manhwa.

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Everything will be published?

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Before I worry about that, can I at least go home?

Soo-Bong's endemic cowardice starts to take over.

("is he freaking out again?")

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With this 6 year gap, I have no idea what's going on.

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Unknown phenomena until now... I can no longer trust anything.

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Soo-Bong, are you hurt?

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What about her? She is safe now, but she has ten times more reason to be suspicious than Kang Chul had.

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I have no choice.

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I have to go home!

{MANHWA INSERT - Soo-Bong thinks of a picture of W.}

Yeon-Joo slaps Kang Chul in the clothing store.

Soo-Bong raises his hand and prepares to give a slap.
Ren-Bo thinks they're gonna clap their hands over a high-5-one.

Ren-Bo smiles and also raises her hand.

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No, it's rotten, I can't do that to her.

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Even if it might work with her...

CLAP! Finally, Ren-Bo claps his hand.

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Yah! You scared me!

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Ren-Bo, I can't stay here.

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You're not gonna leave me here, at least?

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Whatever happens, don't worry about me.

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My life is elsewhere. You have to forget about me.

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But...

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Before I leave, I will do something surprising.

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This should not be misinterpreted.

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I hope you won't be too angry...

Soo-Bong approaches Ren-Bo, grabs both her arms and... kisses her!

Transfixed, Ren-Bo opens her eyes wide! Fish kiss!

Her wings turn bright pink, with hints of orange and red.
Soo-Bong moves away from Ren-Bo. The red blurs the other colors.

Ren-Bo remains amazed, as if she saw Santa Claus in the sky.

Soo-Bong looks anxiously around. "Where is the chapter end?!"

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What? It doesn't work?

{RECALL INSERT - Clothing Store (day).}

Yeon-Joo kisses Kang Chul, "TO BE CONTINUED" appears in the store.

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Yet, it's the ultimate resort!

(wings entirely red, she goes from stunned to coldly furious)

(looks everywhere, nothing in the background, anguish)

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(dismayed) This is a joke!!! Not after having--

(SPAF! she slaps Soo-Bong hard)

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... !!! (ouch!)

Above the water, luminous letters appear on top of reality.
Only Soo-Bong can see them.

(relief, joy, takes a deep breath)

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... ?!! ("he finds it funny, this idiot?").

"TO BE CONTINUED" is now fully displayed.
PLOOF! Soo-Bong dives underwater.
Ren-Bo scans the water...

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... ?! ("wouldn't it be easier to apologize?")

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... ??? ("but... what is he waiting for to return?")

A young man with glasses looks coldly at the river and Ren-Bo.
He stands next to a blue sports car, parked on the shore road.

PARK SIN-MOO, 20, Ren-Bo's future husband.

He holds a bouquet of flowers, whose roots are delicately coated.
His hand loses all strength, and the bouquet falls on the ground.

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Soo-Bong, what is this plagiarism?

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Can't you find your own twists and turns?

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A girl like Ren-Bo, it's not complicated to move otherwise!

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Hey hey hey. (nervous and tragic giggling)

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... ?!

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There's really no way to make that kind of kiss without a slap.

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Whether before, or after...

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(his face distorts, like a victim of intestinal colic)

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Bah... Soo-Bong, what's the matter with you?

Soo-Bong clings to Yeon-Joo's dress, like a beggar.

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Noona, I have to face the facts... (Noona = Older girl: sister, friend or lover)

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I'm a coward! Meuh-euh-euh.

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It's the first time I see him worried about that...

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... !

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What did I look like, in front of her?...

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Ren-Bo? Is it that much of a problem?

(looks at her tenderly)

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Tell meeee... OPPA Soo-Bong! (familiar language)

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I've never seen a girl as beautiful as her!

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As alive, as sensitive, as funny.

(SPAF! she slaps Soo-Bong hard)

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... !!! (ouch!)

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And I ruined it! Boo-hoo-hoo...

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It's what makes you so upset?

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You're not gonna fall in love with her that quickly?!

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I will do everything to see her again!

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You've done everything to get away, and you already want to go back?

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Aaah... I know how pathetic I am... Snif.

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You barely know each other.

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I've known her by heart, since one year!

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With butterfly wings, she is condemned to stay in a manhwa...

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Why are you harassing me?

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You two didn't embarrass yourselves to do it...

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Bouah ah ah aaaaah.

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It must be love at first sight...

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The kind of whimsical exaltation leading to a disturbed mind, but no more real feelings.

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You exaggerate, everything is blurred in these cases... He is sincere.

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Soo-Bong, there is no need to ruminate. Anyway, it doesn't depend on you.

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Only she can invoke you there. If she forgets you, you won't go anymore.

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My life is elsewhere. You have to forget about me.

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But...

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I just told her to forget about me! Raaah ah ah.

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Soo-Bong, don't be so worried, come on.

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Would she forget you, after what you've been through?

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Of course, her thoughts are like butterflies.

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An endless chain of irrationalities...

Kang Chul kneels down and puts his hands on Soo-Bong's shoulders.

He speaks firmly and quickly, so that Soo-Bong cannot reply.

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You should be worried about going back instead, because that's most likely.

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Your destiny is at stake. You have neither the age nor the time to react like a teenager experiencing his first heartache.

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...

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The impossible has happened again. We must understand the reason, the nature and the consequences.

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So listen to your Hyung! Right now, you need to make your head work, not your heart work!

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It's... it's okay, Hyung... snif.

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Pfuuuu!

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(looks at Soo-Bong's wet hair) A quick blow of the dryer would refresh your thoughts.

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Soo-Bong, first, help me put Soo-Bin in the guest room.

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Ok, Hyung.

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Look like she's gone to make her night.

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That's good!

Soo-Bong and Kang Chul carry Soo-Bin, taking care not to wake her up.

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Let's rank our questions in order of importance.

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The most important is how a new manhwa came to life.

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We never knew how "W" could already come to life. It's just absurd.

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Probably a combination of many variables. An isolated case, not reproducible.

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Like an alchemical reaction, a coincidence, or the Big Bang.

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An alchemical reaction...

Soo-Bong is drunk, in front of his graphic tablet.

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I would eat her, if she eats me too!

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I think I said the magic formula that triggered all this.

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Ultimately, it is a paranormal phenomenon. It doesn't make much difference with magic.

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No, there is no formula or magic. An unexplainable phenomenon is not necessarily magical.

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The human soul is a universal mystery... without magic.

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... ?! (what's the point ?)

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Exceptionally, the mind could influence reality.

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It's vague, I couldn't make a pink rabbit appear in front of me.

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... (what to answer to such a biased logic)

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We could make a list of all the variables we know.

Oh Sung-Moo holds his electronic stylus, thinking about his next drawing.

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A genius author with a strong personality, totally devoted to his work.

Kang Chul hugs Yeon-Joo on the bed. Loving glances.

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A hero with an unfair fate, wanting to be free and find love.

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A parallel world configured as a copy of the manhwa world.

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But... with an infinity of parallel worlds... There is inevitably one that adapts to each manhwa!

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So... all manhwas can become alive?

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Maybe, but hundreds of manhwas would already be alive.

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And... what if this were happening today?

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Omo!

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It promises...

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My intuition is to need an extraordinary context.

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If it were that simple, it would have happened already.

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And why "Butterfly Girl"? It's crazy that such a fanciful world exists!

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Cities without proper names, a changing sky of any color!

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Yes, I would have preferred more logic.

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Thus, the phenomenon would only be possible between identical worlds.

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Maybe the classification of parallel worlds is messy?

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Or rather, classified according to a logic different from common sense.

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Although this is still speculation, I will note this variable.

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Affection! Soo-Bong has always been attached to Ren-Bo.

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My father was also attached to you. Or at least, he was obsessed with you.

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He projected his desires onto me. There is indeed a variable related to the emotional bond.

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All authors do that!

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With the same intensity? I don't think so.

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A feedback loop!

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What is it?

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A new variable that comes to mind.

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... (jaded)

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Oh Sung-Moo's manhwa had an unprecedented success.

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The readers' collective consciousness could have helped it become real.

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(ironic) With these 3 new variables, "W" is no longer a mystery!

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But that doesn't explain the mystery of "Butterfly Girl".

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Ah, it all looks like drunken theories!

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... !! (slightly offended)

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Hey hey... I declaim this kind of philosophy, when I'm drunk.

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That, and the scientific order of power, between superheroes...

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My head is going to explode.

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It's not a coincidence this happens to a manhwa drawn by you two. We are connected to the phenomenon in an unknown way.

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(to himself) Sung-Moo's house is haunted.

(uncomfortable, worst calamities will fall on us)

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At this point, we won't know more.

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Let's focus on more concrete puzzles.

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Come and see, Soo-Bong.

Kang Chul goes to the graphic tablet.

Kang Chul scrolls through some drawings on the tablet.

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Soo-Bong, how did you do that?

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I stopped thinking normally, and thought like a cartoonist.

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What difference does it make?

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Ah! People think that a comic strip is a series of frames.

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But truly, it's a composition.

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Like a classic painting? Rembrandt or Goya, for example?

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Yes, but extended to the entire page.

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... ?! (intrigued)

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In a comic strip page, no frame is independent.

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I've read a guide on this, but it's hard to apply.

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Soo-Bong has years of experience. How does it work?

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The structure uses lines of force.

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Elements of different boxes connected by the same darkness or lightness.

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This reinforces the tension, and facilitates the transitions.

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Comic book designers are very good at this.

Soo-Bong grabs an American comic book on the shelf.

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It's a collector's item, designed by Gene Colan.

He chooses a page at random.

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See? That character who goes up the stairs?

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... (attentive)

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His movement is amplified, in the same diagonal as the next box.

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The arch serves as a movement curve when he is crushed by surprise. The rifle in the diagonal blocks him, reinforcing the threat feeling.

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This suggests stronger effects than the content of the isolated boxes.

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Thanks to the general composition.

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So... You moved on to the next box? Directly?

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Yes, this box has a tree in the foreground, in the lamp post's line of force.

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To guide the reader's gaze one box to the other.

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That's the only reason I designed these two set elements.

Yeon-Joo displays the two boxes on the tablet.

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That's right, look.

The top frame shows the lamp post, and Park's car driving away, with Ren-Bo in the back seat.

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(points to the top box) There, the lamp post!

The bottom frame shows the Han River bank. Sin-Moo and Ren-Bo get out of the car.
In the foreground, a tree in the extension of the lamp post, same density of ink.

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(points to the bottom box) And there, the tree! As if the lamp post was the continuation of the trunk.

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Unbelievable.

Kang Chul scrolls the next image on the tablet.
At the riverside, Sin-Moo and Ren-Bo moved, holding hands, flowers and hearts around.

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Next, the scene where they confess their love.

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Yes, it was the last chapter ending of volume 2.

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I copied and pasted this scene to draw the epilog.

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So you arrived in the manhwa at the beginning of this chapter.

Yeon-Joo clicks on the tablet's menu and select an image.
Ren-Bo walking on the village street, with the title "Chapter 20".

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Manhwa began to rewrite itself from there.

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The published version!

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If it's identical to the live one, it should be fine.

Kang Chul takes out his smartphone to scroll through the pages.

(snide smile)

(embarrassed)

(painful to see this again)

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Mr. Ladybug! Time was slowed down when he appeared.

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A new phenomenon?

Kang Chul scrolls the pages and shows the boxes with Mr. Ladybug.
Soo-Bong is absent from the scene. The previous box shows him lying in the grass.

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(confused) Yet I was looking at him and moving while he was there.

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The other characters never see him, he is out of the story.

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The manhwa preserve its context naturally.

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Nonsense data is deleted if possible.

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Nonsense data? (awful! that's what I am)

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Your thoughts don't appear, it limits the damage.

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I am still too secondary...

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If you become a main character, your nose will really explode! Plus, you've replaced the hero on the main stage.

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Hyung Kang, I can't let this happen again.

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What do you mean?

Soo-Bong knelts down.

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... !!

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Hyung, I know I'm a nobody.

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A coward, a wipe, a quitter who runs away before thinking.

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A poor guy you should be ashamed of.

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Come on, Soo-Bong, I've never misjudged you.

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I never demand more of ordinary people than they can afford.

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No, you don't say it, but I know what you're thinking!

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For you, anyone must surpass themselves.

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And I have never made an effort.

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... (admits with a smile)

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Why do you depreciate yourself like that?

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Soo-Bong, I don't recognize you anymore.

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Neither do I.

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Hyung, you said I would go back there?

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There is a high probability, yes.

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I don't want to be as useless as I was earlier.

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I don't want to look weak in Ren-Bo's eyes.

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Hyung, I have a favor to ask you... Teach me how to fight!

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... ! (pleasantly surprised)

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But you weren't useless, you saved Ren-Bo!

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You even found a new feature of manhwa!

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Yeon-Joo, that's true, but it's about something else.

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Do you understand me, Hyung?

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Of course, Soo-Bong. And I'm ready to help you.

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When... when do we start? How long will it take?

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Learning to defend yourself effectively takes years.

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If you are involved full time, it will take 3 months to learn some basics.

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3 months? But I could be back there in less than 3 days!

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Or even in less than one hour!

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There is no miracle.

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Martial arts are a matter of time and practice.

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Whether you go back or not, you will have to be persistent.

Soo-Bong looks down, depressate.

Suddenly, Soo-Bong gets up. He looks up to the sky and in a breath of air.

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I know!

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Huh?

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Spending 3 months to train is not interesting, right?

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I wouldn't say that...

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It took you only 2 pages in "W"!

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You can't imagine--

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Hyung! You could train me in "W"!

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The 3 months there would be less than half an hour here.

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Ah ah ah ! It's like the time room, where San Goku trains in DragonballZ!

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Soo-Bong, "W" is finished. Now, time there flows at the same speed as here.

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As soon as I came back here after the end of "W", the two worlds synchronized permanently.

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Then, every time I traveled in "W", I spent the same time there as here.

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Oh, damn it...

Soo-Bong collapses on a seat, and loses the desire to talk, depressed.

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Honey, come and see for two minutes.

Yeon-Joo goes to the kitchen, followed by Kang Chul.

(The kitchen is in the same open space as the living room.)
They speak in low voices.

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Maybe there is a way...

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... (recalls)

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Do you think it's too risky?

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Everything will be risky from now on.

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I don't think he's motivated just to show off.

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Soo-Bong really needs to know how to fight.

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He wasn't even able to defend himself against students.

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"Butterfly Girl" is less scary than "W", but there is also danger.

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And impossible to know when and how this manhwa will end.

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Our last attempt was without consequences.

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Except we didn't fully understand how it worked.

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Even one year later...