Childhood: Letter
The Dokkaebi - Vol. 1Daejeon was an area in a completely different period of time. As if it were a totally different world. It was a beautiful big city. Very modern and densely populated. Skyscrapers, high-rise buildings, shopping malls, companies, big schools, and much more were an integral part of the gigantic city. Cars and motorcycles filled the streets and young students would fool around at the sports field instead of going to school. The city was full of women who ran errands and hurried home or to work. Men who rushed to their workplaces, or who waited for a ride somewhere. There was not a single resemblance to Gongju. What was this weird place? How could people live like this?
Yunho observed the strange view of the city from his living room window. He was ordered to stay alerted here and allowed to start over as a single man. But would he be able to start a new life here? A new beginning? He lived on the top floor of a beautiful apartment with four rooms. The building was very close to Daejeon High-School, where he was ordered to work as a caretaker in disguise to look out for some Dokkaebi by the late king Lee Byunghun months ago. Yunho did not want to forget anything that had happened to him and his family. He always took some time at night to remember his family, to think of his lovely wife Bona and his sweet little sons Yoongi and Taehyung. He already had a corner with paintings of his family in his apartment. He furnished and decorated it with candles and sacred amulets. He would pray each night to their souls, dead or alive. Taehyung's stuffed fox sat in the cabinet next to the window of the living room.
As he looked out of the window like that, he suddenly had an idea. To make sure he never forgot everything that had happened, he picked up some papers and a brush. He sat down on the milky-white sofa, put the papers on the desk and scratched his head. How should he start? What should he write? Everything or just some parts of it? He wanted to write down everything. The bad and the good things that he had carried in his heart since a year. He could not lean on someone’s shoulder and cry, so he had to console himself by putting it all down and shedding his tears.
And he wrote: “I still remember exactly what life was like when I lived happily with my family. Yes, my days passed carefree, sometimes stressful. I have been excited many times, sometimes disappointed. I would scold, but I loved even more. I had a little family. My beautiful wife Bona who gave birth to my beautiful two sons, Yoongi and Taehyung. I do not know what great sin I committed but my life changed suddenly. I never thought it would hi
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