Kokdu: Season of Deity (꼭두의 계절)

Gye Jeol!

Gye Jeol.

Gye Jeol!

What just happened?

Kokdu.

Your face...

Who...

are you?

I'm Kokdu. - I wasn't asking your name.

Are you a ghost?

A spirit?

An angel or evil being?

What the heck is a kokdu?

The deity of the dead.

Death everyone fears and wants to avoid,

and nobody will come to love.

That's me.

So whatever you are,

you're not a human being.

Just think that a deity was trying to save his face.

How could you compare a deity to a piece of wood?

I said Do Jin Woo couldn't come back!

Kokdu is alive and well right now. How could he come back?

That's right.

You told me from the beginning.

That you weren't human.

That you weren't Do Jin Woo. You did countless times.

Bewitched by your appearance, I failed to notice it.

Then Do Jin Woo...

Where is he right now?

Did you kill him?

Did you kill him, then pretend to be him?

I didn't kill him. He just died.

I simply borrowed...

an empty body with no soul.

Weren't you the deity of the dead?

Weren't you the king of the underworld?

So why are you in front of me wearing a human's mask?

It makes no sense.

Because it's a human being's wish.

Just as it's a human's wish for someone...

not to die or get hurt or vanish.

It's also their wish for them...

to die or get hurt or vanish.

Who on earth would wish for those?

When you faced inevitable wickedness...

and suffered from irrationality you couldn't do anything about,

did you never want the deity who made the world such a mess...

to solve it?

Was there never a moment you thought you could live...

only if someone died?

Don't tell me...

The child abuser...

and the sexual offender. Did you kill them all?

No, right?

It wasn't you.

You couldn't have done such a thing.

You...

The Kokdu I know is a warm-hearted man.

You didn't do it, right?

Say that you didn't!

Look at me, Han Gye Jeol.

I'm just Kokdu.

I'm the very person you knew from the start until now.

I have a dirty temper.

I'm capricious. I have a foul mouth.

I'm not warm-hearted.

But I'm not a monster.

Please don't cry.

Don't touch me.

As you said, you might be a deity.

I doubt you ever cried because life was hard.

And I doubt you ran away from the exhaustion of dealing with it.

You never saw your family die before your eyes, did you?

That was why you never lost your mind.

Since you never died, death must have been easy.

Because death was easy,

talking about someone's death must have been easy too.

That inhuman mind of yours feels monstrous to me.

And so,

you scare me now.

You asked me what I thought of you.

I'm sorry for not giving my answer sooner.

I...

Kokdu, I...

love...

I am despair,

evil,

and everlasting darkness.

I shouldn't have hoped...

for a ray of light.

Turn off the lights.

You need to eat something.

Just turn off the lights!

Do you think I'm a joke too?

Do you think I'm a joke since I'm falling apart from my emotions?

If you were going to be like this,

why did you just sit still?

What else would I have done?

Should I have choked her like the monster that I am?

You should have said...

that you have been hurting...

and that you were afraid all this time.

You should've said that you wanted to die...

because each day was hard and painful for a thousand years.

You should've blamed her when she was blaming you...

because it was all her fault.

She doesn't know Seol Hee.

She would never remember.

How can I make excuses or blame her...

when she can't even remember?

I've imagined it over and over.

"What will happen if Han Gye Jeol found out about all of this?"

"How much will she despise me?"

But today,

she seemed sad.

She cried the whole time.

And as I watched her feel so sad,

I didn't shed a single tear.

I felt like my heart was being ripped out,

but I couldn't cry.

Maybe after killing so many people,

my heart has died as well.

Maybe I really have become a monster.

I can see why she's afraid of me.

I can see why she's repulsed by me.

Because I'm repulsed by myself too.

I will...

see my child...

turn 20 and 30 years old.

Really?

But there is a condition.

If, by chance, I become a terrible monster,

don't abandon me.

How could he do that?

How dare he?

How dare he promise me the future?

How?

Gye Jeol, I'm hungry.

I didn't eat all day.

Let's eat.

Come on. Let's go eat.

Come on. Hurry up.

I'm sorry.

You're still recovering.

I must've been out of my mind.

You know that I'm a very patient guy, right?

So I don't mind waiting to eat even when I'm hungry,

but that darned abductor guy...

wouldn't feed me all day.

That jerk.

If he abducted you, he should've fed you at least.

Hey, I'm just saying.

What kind of abductor feeds his victim?

That would be more like raising me than abducting me.

Would this be enough to regain your strength?

What should I make you for dinner?

Should I deep-fry some oysters and fresh ginseng for you?

Look at this.

You finally realize how precious I am once I was gone, right?

So be good to me while I'm around.

As they say, don't fix your head after the horse has bolted.

Fix what? - Your head.

By the way,

why would you fix your head after the horse runs off?

Does it mean you have to be more alert or something?

I know, right?

I want to know too.

How can one fix one's head?

Let me know if you find the answer.

I could make a truckload of money, then.

Is that not it?

Forget it, then.

You're so stupid. That's why you were hurt twice.

You should just quit being a cop.

Who are you going to protect when you can't even protect yourself?

Hey, do you know how sneaky that guy was when he jumped me?

If it had been anyone else,

they would've been in much worse condition.

How dare he do that to my brother?

He jumped you from behind?

If I ever get my hands on him,

I will kill this guy.

You're finally acting like yourself.

What? - You're an absolute psycho.

That's the Han Gye Jeol I know.

Don't talk to me like that. I'm the one who's feeding you.

Do you want a taste of my wrath...

Hey.

Whoever it is, don't kill anyone.

What? - Then I'd have to catch you.

I don't want to meet my family member as a murderer.

Hey.

You're so harsh.

You should go easy on your own family.

Didn't you say that family members could hide the culprit...

and not be charged with harboring a criminal?

I'm a police officer.

That rule doesn't apply to me.

So, don't do anything bad.