episode_0113

Do-hyeon is already dead.

According to Yuri, Do-hyeon passed away quietly in the hospital room.

It happened last year.

“Dohyun’s funeral was also held quietly. Because I asked my family for a favor. I think he didn’t want people around him to know he was dying.”

“Are you going to hide your illness from Mina until the end?”

“Yes. Do-hyeon trusted Mina even when I last saw him in the hospital room. I believed that I was a strong girl who could forget about bad guys.”

“… … Ha.”

The survival rate for patients with Lou Gehrig’s disease is approximately 20%.

About 80% of patients pass away.

Do-hyeon passed away after spending several years in the hospital.

However, even at the moment of death, Do-hyeon did not want Mina to know about his death. The funeral was also held secretly, so only a few people knew that Do-hyeon had died.

Now I understand why it was so difficult to find Do-hyeon’s whereabouts. It was difficult because even his family worked together to hide the news of his death.

“I also saved all the messages I received from Dohyun here.”

Yuri took out her phone and showed us the messages Do-hyeon had sent when he was alive. Messages from as many as 7 years ago were saved on my phone.

[Yuri. I’m really sorry, but I’d like to ask you to act like a lover. If I don’t do this, I don’t think Mina will abandon me. You can’t ask a college graduate to take care of a dying person, right? Mina should live her own life.]

In addition, there were many texts from Do-hyeon.

Sarah and I could no longer argue with Yuri.

Sarah looked at the text and made a bitter expression.

“Wouldn’t it have been better if I had been honest with Mina? If you hadn’t hidden your illness… .”

Do you think things would have been better if you had been honest about your illness?

I thought a little differently.

“To be honest, is there anything that can get better? Even so, it’s not like a dying person can come back to life. Maybe it would have been best for Mina to treat her lover as a bad guy and forget about him.”

“But you couldn’t let go of your regrets and committed suicide!”

“That’s right.”

I looked at my hands.

Mina, now a ghost, was inside my body.

Mina must have also heard all the secret stories Yuri told her.

My hands were shaking uncontrollably, as if I was in shock.

It wasn’t really that I had hydrocephalus. Mina’s feelings of sadness were being conveyed to me.

“Why are your hands like that all of a sudden?”

Yuri looked at me with a puzzled expression.

I put my hands down on the table and forced a smile.

“It’s nothing. Anyway, you didn’t steal someone else’s lover. I’m sorry for saying something harsh earlier.”

“Well, it’s true that I did something bad. Those who came here after receiving a favor from Mina can do so.”

“Thank you for telling the story. Could you please give me your contact information? I want to talk about people who passed away later.”

“I’ll teach you.”

Yuri gave me his contact information and left the hospital cafe.

Sarah and I came out of the hospital after a while.

We talked as we walked outside.

“What should I do now? I heard that the couple who needed revenge was actually a disguised couple and the man was already dead?”

“So. Things got really messy.”

The condition for becoming a saint was originally to take revenge by tormenting the couple of Do-hyeon and Yuri.

But Do-hyeon is already dead.

In fact, the two weren’t really dating, but were just acting for Mina’s sake. It was not a situation worthy of revenge.

I tried talking to Mina.

“Mina? You are hearing our voices right now, right? What are you going to do now, Mina?”

I’m sure you’re not going to keep insisting that you won’t be possessed, right?

Am I going to have to live like this forever, with this evil spirit clinging to me?

“Are you going to continue to be possessed?”

I got goosebumps for a moment, but Mina didn’t act that viciously.

She was definitely different from the demons we had met so far.

“Ugh.”

I started to feel like something was leaving my body.

To be exact, on the chest area where the T-shirt is worn.

A nun’s veiled head emerged from above my chest.

Sarah said in surprise when she saw that.

“Jinwoo! Mina is coming out of your body.”

“G, is it true?”

“You can see the soul. The ghost is releasing its own possession.”

The ghost is releasing its own possession.

It was my first time experiencing something like this.

Soon, along with the nun’s head, the body connected to the neck came out.

It was a ghost dressed as a nun. The moment the ghost’s arms and legs came out of my body, my possession was completely broken.

My heavy body became lighter and my vitality returned.

The nun ghost that came out of my body stood silently on the street.

That was the real Mina.

When we first met, she imitated Hongryeon, but now we can see her real face.

I spoke to Mina right away.

“You’re Mina, right? Have you decided to stop harassing people now?”

… … .

There was no answer.

Mina just stood there with a stunned expression on her face.

“What happened with Do-hyeon and Mina turned out to be unfortunate. However, even if I continue to remain in this world, my regret will only deepen. We will host Cheondojae, so let’s go together.”

It was then.

Mina, who had been silent, spoke out loud.

I heard a ghost’s voice.

━━What have I been doing all this time?

“Don’t blame yourself too much… .”

━━I was blaming Dohyeon oppa without knowing anything… Just commit suicide like a fool… .

Mina’s voice was full of regret.

━━My brother loved me until the end, but he couldn’t repay his love.

It’s repayment.

Do-hyeon must have wanted Mina to live happily without knowing anything.

The sight of Mina now becoming a ghost was an ending that Do-hyeon did not want.

A pitiful laugh came from Mina.

━━Cheondojae, right? Does a kid like me deserve to go to a good place and be happy? I think it would be better for him to live as a miscellaneous ghost and then be exterminated.

Mina stepped away from us.

It meant that he would not attain Buddhahood after receiving Cheondojae.

Are you trying to punish yourself?

Mina wanted herself to be unhappy.

“Stop!”

Sarah and I ran towards Mina, who was moving away. I wanted to talk calmly, but I couldn’t.

━━I am sorry to everyone so far.

Mina left a single apology and disappeared without a trace on the side of the road.

I quickly turned on the EMF meter, but there was no signal.

It means that Mina has gone far away from us. It seemed like he was able to move in the blink of an eye as his strength increased by sucking in yang energy.

“I missed it!”

“Hmm… ”

Sarah and I ran for a while and stopped on the side of the road.

The possession was broken, but Mina was lost.

I was safe now, but I couldn’t let the incident end like this.

Because I couldn’t make Mina become Buddha.

“Where did it go?”

“Let’s first search through Jongno-gu. Even if it was a ghost, it wouldn’t have gone that far.”

We started looking for Mina, who had disappeared.

But even after a day, Mina could not be found.

The search continued for several days after that.

*

It was around the time that Jinwoo and Sarah were looking for Mina.

The Mina they were looking for was wandering the streets aimlessly.

━━Grudge

Mina was able to go anywhere quickly when the sun went down and night fell. Unlike when I was a miscellaneous ghost, my soul moved at a fast pace. This was because he absorbed some of Jinwoo’s positive energy and gained spiritual power.

‘… I feel my strength getting stronger.’

As she wandered the streets, Mina felt her strength becoming stronger.

It was amazing to Mina that she appeared and disappeared suddenly and disappeared. When you wish to go there, the soul disappears and then appears in that place.

It’s not just the ability to move quickly.

Aside from that, she gained spiritual abilities, but Mina didn’t really care.

‘But what’s the use of all this?’

Even if he became a ghost and became stronger, he was of no use to Mina.

It was not possible to come back to life, nor was it possible to save Dohyeon. The most they could do was torment the living.

How many days have passed since I started wandering the streets?

There was no longer any trace of Jinwoo and Sarah pursuing him.

Mina spent time in a daze on the busy street.

As I keep thinking about my memories with Dohyeon.

Since her death, Mina has seen other ghosts spending their time in a daze.

I wondered why they were so dazed, but now Mina understood their feelings. They were all ghosts caught up in memories of their days when they were alive.

Now Mina was no different from the ghosts.

‘Oppa Do-hyeon! You must marry me later.’

‘Where should we have our wedding?’

‘Of course I believe in Catholicism, so I have to do it at the cathedral!’

Countless days with Dohyeon passed through Mina’s mind.

The day I confessed at school, the day I went on my first date, the day I had my first kiss… .

Those were happy days.

A smile appeared on the lips of Mina, who was standing on the side of the road. Now that I was immersed in memories, I was able to forget the pain for a moment.

As time passed, day and night changed, and passers-by quickly appeared and disappeared. Mina was just remembering memories in a daze.

Then there was a moment.

A woman’s laughter echoed loudly nearby.

Mina, who was obsessed with the past, woke up from her delusion. Then the happy scenery disappeared and Mina saw the cold concrete floor.

I don’t know how much time had passed, but it was now a dark night.

“Ahaha.”

What woke Mina out of her daze was the sound of a female student in school uniform laughing.

A female student wearing a school uniform was walking down the street at night with a tall male student.

The two seemed like good lovers.

Mina overheard the conversation between the student couple.

“Let’s go to the amusement park this weekend.”

“Is that so? Sounds fun.”

The female student giggled next to Mina, wondering what was so good about it.

“See you tomorrow!”

The male and female students waved at each other and parted ways.

Mina felt jealous when she saw the happy-looking female student.

That girl had everything that Mina had lost.

A living body, a loved one.

━━Ugh

The moment Mina realized this, she felt a crazy impulse.

I had the urge to destroy that girl right now.

Murderous impulse.

━━Huhhh

Mina had never committed murder before.

It was because he hesitated to kill people.

But at this moment, Mina felt a great temptation. The negative emotions that I had barely suppressed exploded. It was envy and jealousy toward the living.

Before I knew it, Mina was chasing after the short-haired girl.

A female student entered a quiet, deserted street.

━━Jijijik

The nearby streetlights blinked all at once as if they were broken.

The female student stopped and muttered with a puzzled expression.

“What… ?”

The distance between the female student and Mina became completely closer.

At that moment, Mina stretched out her pale hand and grabbed the female student’s neck.

“… … Ugh.”

Then the girl couldn’t breathe. Mina’s strength became stronger and she was able to directly interfere with living people. It would have been easy to strangle a female student to death.

“ugh. Noood

The female student let out a gasping sound.

little bit more.

If you hold on any longer, you will die.

But Mina ultimately failed to kill the female student.

This was because there were two people who appeared from opposite sides of the road.

“Go there! Mina.”

“I finally found it.”

It was Jinwoo and Sarah.

The two people she thought had ostracized appeared in front of Mina again.

Jinwoo and Sarah searched for several days and found Mina.

Jinwoo picked up the knife and aimed it at Mina.

“Let go of that kid right now.”

Only then did Mina come to her senses and let go of the girl she was strangling.

The female student collapsed on the street and fainted.

━━Ha, ha, ha

Mina was breathing heavily as she looked at her pale hands. The feeling of almost killing someone just moments ago was so vivid that it scared the soul.

I almost gave in to temptation, as if the devil was whispering to me.

━━How did you find me?

” Finding ghosts is our job.”

Jinwoo said while looking at Mina.

“I’m glad I found it before it was too late. You haven’t committed murder yet.”

━━I’m going to be killing people soon. I feel like I’m going crazy.

“So, I will expel you.”

━━Do whatever you want. Because I have no intention of running away.

Mina gave up running away from Jinwoo and Sarah.

If I ran away and stayed in this world, I would only become a murderous evil spirit.

It would have been better to be ordered by two people before I went crazy.

Jinwoo and Sarah approached Mina holding a knife.

Mina quietly knelt in front of them like a person awaiting execution.

Now everything is over.

Mina thought so.

… … .

But why?

Jinwoo and Sarah did not give orders right away.

“Mina, do you think it’s all over now?”

━━My life is over.

“Because I can never meet the person I love again? Do you really think that everything ends when you die? You are probably already experiencing the afterlife.”

What is that boy trying to say?

Mina couldn’t understand it at all.

Does this mean that we should not think that it is the end because we will soon go to the underworld?

Even after death, Mina’s life continued.

But it wasn’t the life Mina wanted.

Listen or not.

Jinwoo continued talking in front of Mina.

“What would it be like if you could meet your loved one again? Is it still over?”

What if I could meet Do-hyeon again?

If so, Mina’s life was not over.

━━You say I can meet Dohyun oppa again?

“Dohyeon, I loved you until I died. I loved him so much that I even cheated on him. Do you think a man like that will have no regrets when he dies? He died alone in a hospital room without even seeing the woman he loved?”

Those who harbor resentment cannot go to the underworld and become ghosts.

Just like Mina.

Do-hyeon, who lost Mina, must have felt the same resentment.

━━What is that… ?

It was when Mina was embarrassed and was about to ask.

Sarah came forward and spoke.

“We didn’t just chase you for a few days. We were also looking for the whereabouts of the dead Mr. Dohyeon. I contacted Mr. Yuri and found out where the body was buried. Mr. Do-hyeon’s body was not cremated but buried in a cemetery.”

When the body is burned, the person’s soul leaves for the afterlife.

This was because the custom of cremation was a traditional rite of worship.

However, if the body is buried in a cemetery, the soul can remain in this world.

It was said that Do-hyeon could remain in this world like Mina.

Mina urgently asked Sarah.

━━Where is the cemetery where your brother is buried?

“It’s a cemetery in Dongjak-gu. We’ve already been there. And then I met Dohyeon.”

I met Dohyeon.

What he meant was that Do-hyeon really remained in this world.

Mina immediately wanted to leave for the cemetery where Dohyeon’s body was buried.

But there was no need for Mina to leave.

“You don’t have to go to the cemetery. Because we brought him here.”

Because Jinwoo and Sarah came prepared with everything.

Preparing to turn a ghost into Buddha.

“Nam Do-hyun! You can come out now.”

Jinwoo called Dohyeon’s name loudly.

At that very moment, a young man appeared silently behind Mina.

It was a young man wearing a pure white shroud.

━━It’s ridiculous.

Mina turned her head and looked at the young man.

The young man she could never forget reappeared before Mina’s eyes.

Short-cut hair.

A soft look.

That young man was definitely Dohyeon.

His face looked gaunt, but there was no way you could recognize him.

Dohyeon looked at Mina and slowly opened his mouth.

━━It’s Mina.

Do-hyeon’s voice, who had become a ghost, reached Mina.

━━Dohyeon oppa?

━━Yes, it’s me… .

7 years.

It was a time when a man and a woman who had broken up could not meet again.

After a long time, the lovers met again.