Kokdu: Season of Deity (꼭두의 계절)

By chance,

do you know...

my mom?

I know her too well.

You and your mom.

Gye Jeol!

Mom!

Mom!

M-Mom, Mom!

Mom...

Mom, Mom!

Mom, wake up!

The path of a dead person led by the voice they miss the most.

The path of a dead person led by the face they miss the most.

Gye Jeol.

While the poor dreams of the dead that they couldn't leave behind

- You are the arson! - cut me endlessly

like forsaken blades,

and while I was praying for all of this to end...

That song was like

a rain shower in the middle of a severe drought.

Gye Jeol.

I've led the dead for as long as I can remember,

but this is the first time I'm receiving a gift from a dead person.

What do you mean by a dead person?

Since I received a gift from you, I should pay you back.

Ask me for anything you would like.

Shall I make your path to the afterlife a flower road?

Or shall I help you end your endless cycle of being reborn as a human being?

It's not so bad to live as a wind,

being freed from a physical body.

Then,

instead of for myself,

could I make a wish for my daughter?

Daughter?

If you ever get to meet my daughter,

please indulge her in my stead.

Whatever she asks of you,

please do it for her at all costs.

Indulging her...

When your daughter meets me, she will not be alive.

It breaks my heart to think

that such a young child

will grow up too quickly because her mom passed away so early.

Whether it's in her afterlife or current life,

I would like for my daughter to have

at least once in her life

someone who would do anything for her

like her mother would.

All right. I promise.

When I meet her, I'll grant whatever she wants.

Really?

You will do everything for her, right?

Do not worry.

A god himself cannot break the promise he made.

By chance...

do you know...

my mom?

I know her too well.

You and your mom.

From a long time ago.

You said you didn't know her.

When I asked you last time, I'm sure you said you didn't know her.

Do Jin Woo would not be able to know all of this history of fate.

Only Kokdu knows this.

Jeong In Joo.

Born in the year of the Blue Dragon.

She died at the age of 37.

You really know my mom?

H-How? Where did you meet her?

I met her on the path that all of you would have to embark on.

Path?

You must have been ill when you were younger.

My mom was an emergency medic.

Didn't you meet her because you were hurt?

Well, it's true that I met her when I was hurting...

Since on that path, I was always hurting and in agony.

Humans who are facing their end shamelessly pour out all of their sorrow and resentment to me.

That's why I thought your mom was strange.

She must've had so much to say, but all she did was sing a song.

Kokdu, you were a crybaby, right?

Crybaby?

Do you even know what that pain is even like?

Yeah. I'm sure it was painful.

Kids are all like that.

They cry like the world's collapsing from just a thorn in their hand.

Kids? Seriously...

I was like that, too.

I don't know if it was because it hurt or I was sad about it. I just couldn't stop crying.

But whenever I would cry like that, my mom would sing.

For some strange reason, I would feel comforted whenever I heard my mom sing

and get sleepy.

Gosh, how much of a fuss did you make

that my mom would have sung to calm you down?

So, your mom...

was comforting me then.

My mom...

was really pretty, right?

She looked like you. I can see it seeing you like this now.

Come on.

As the eldest daughter, I took after my dad.

If I had taken after my mom, I would have been pretty.

Think of it as a good thing.

Beautiful things fade quickly.

Only ugly things last long.

You should be able to live a long life. You may even set a record.

Thank you for those good words.

I want to live a long life.

I don't want to bloom prettily for a season and fade like my mom.

Then the people who are left behind would hurt for too long...

What's there to be hurting?

Forgetting is one of the talents human beings have and also their only privilege.

Just forget it all.

- Thank you. - About what?

- Because I told you to forget? - Because you remembered.

Thank you...

for meeting my mom,

and remembering her,

and talking with me about her.

It's so fascinating.

Even though you talked like that, I didn't really believe you.

I guess we are fated to be.

It's probably not fate.

That song was like a shower of rain in the middle of a drought,

and I just got a bit drunk in that rain.

If I had to put it in words,

you are like a drunken accident caused by getting drunk in that rain.

Look at this guy!

How could you call a person a drunken accident!

Then,

if this isn't fate,

then what is the fate that you are thinking of, Kokdu?

Seol Hui.

Seol Hui?

Your only savior?

Oh, right. Did you find her?

I thought I had found her.

I believed that only one person could command my every move...

not knowing that I was just caught in the pit I dug for myself.

You said you don't even know her face,

so how does he know if I'm not her...

Shall I check right now?

- How? - Let's kiss.

What!

Where did those Black Bear Gang members go?

If they loved drugs so much, they should just take it themselves!

Why are they messing with other people's lives!

Stop the car.

Excuse me?

I told you to stop the car. Didn't you hear me tell you to stop the car!

What the hell is he up to at this hour...

Kokdu, What's wrong?

Kokdu, are you feeling ill?

I'm pretty sure I hit someone...

There was an accident

and I think I hit someone, but I don't see the victim.

Where am I?

This is near Gwaebang Mountain.

Please come quickly!

Kokdu.

Kokdu, you saw us hit someone, too, right?

Kokdu?

Geez...

Hurry up, hurry! We need to take off right now!

We'll be there in a minute.

You fucking son of a bitch.

How dare you call the police on me?

The police...

should be here soon.

I told you I'm leaving the country right now.

So long.

Hey.

Who's that bastard?

Damn you.

Are you crazy, you asshole!

Hey, you go.

Geez.

If you want to kill them, kill them with your own hands!

Or just kill me instead!

Wow, of course, meat like this

tastes good when it's dripping with blood.

Gosh, all this...

What's the point of this being an A++ grade? Because of that picky Kokdu,

we eat it cooked completely well done!

He sees blood every night. Do you think he'd want to see blood again?

How sick of it must he be?

Even if you're uncomfortable, be patient.

Soon, Master Kokdu's curse will be lifted,

and you can eat meat however you like.

Hey, do you think that curse will be lifted that easily?

Han Gye Jeol has to tell Kokdu that she loves him for the curse to be lifted.

Do you think that's going to be easy?

I love you.

Why are you suddenly confessing love to me?

Do you think it'll be that difficult to hear those words from Han Gye Jeol?

If that was so difficult,

how do people get married and have children?

Honey, our baby wants to eat sirloin.

Hey, to be blunt, is Kokdu an ordinary guy?

His personality is shit, and he murders people like it's nothing.