Kokdu: Season of Deity (꼭두의 계절)

Noona!

Noona...

Noona!

No...

What happened...

Kokdu...

Kokdu, your face...

Who...

are you?

- Kokdu. - You know I'm not asking your name.

Are you a ghost?

Are you a spirit?

Are you an angel or a demon?

What in the world is Kokdu?

I am the god of the dead,

and the death that everyone wants to avoid, fears,

and does not love.

That's me.

Whatever that is...

it means that you are not human.

Just think of it as a god saving face.

How could you compare the god of the afterlife to a mere stick!

I'm telling you that Do Jin Woo can't come back!

Kokdu is alive and well like this here, so how could he return!

You're right...

You said it from the beginning...

that you weren't human...

You said that you weren't Do Jin Woo.

I was too caught up with what was visible and couldn't realize it.

Then Do Jin Woo...

W-Where is Do Jin Woo?

Did you kill him?

Did you kill him and pretend to be him?

I didn't kill him. He just died.

All I did was

borrow his empty body whose spirit departed.

You said you're the god of the dead.

You said you're the king of the afterlife.

Why are you in front of me looking like a man? It makes no sense!

Because it is the wish of human beings.

Just like how it is the wish of human beings

for someone not to die, get hurt, or disappear,

it is also the wish of human beings for someone

to die, get hurt, or disappear.

Who would ever wish for something like that...

When you encounter an evil you can't escape,

when you suffer from injustice you are powerless to deal with...

haven't you ever wished that the god who made the world like this

would fix everything for you?

You've never felt like someone needed to die

in order for you to live?

No way...

The child abuser

and the rapist... did you kill them all?

No, right?

You didn't.

There's no way you would have done that...

You are...

The Kokdu that I know is such a good person.

It's not true, right?

Tell me it's not true!

Han Gye Jeol, look at me.

I am merely Kokdu.

From the very beginning to now, I have been the same person you know.

My personality is nasty, I'm whimsical, and I talk harshly.

I'm not a good person,

but I'm also not a monster.

- Please don't cry... - Don't touch me.

You might be a god, like you said.

You've probably never cried because life was hard,

and you've probably never run away because it was too much to handle.

You've probably never seen your family die before your eyes

and gone mad because of it.

Since you don't even die, death would have been so easy for you.

It was because death was easy,

that you could talk about other people's deaths so easily.

Such an inhumane heart feels like a monster to me,

and so...

I've grown afraid of you...

You asked me what I think about you, right?

I'm sorry for my late reply.

I...

Kokdu, I...

Lov-

As despair,

evil,

and eternal darkness,

I shouldn't have

hoped for a ray of light.

Turn off the light.

You should eat something...

I told you to turn off the light!

Am I a joke to you now too?

Do you find me funny for breaking down, unable to control my feelings?

Why didn't you do something

if you were going to be like this?

Then what?

Should I have strangled her since I'm a monster?

You should have told her

that you've been hurting

and afraid.

You should have told her that every day for a thousand years was

so painful and torturous that you wanted to die.

You should have blamed her, saying "How could you criticize me when this is all your fault!"

She doesn't know Seol Hui.

She wouldn't remember even after she died.

How could I explain and get upset at someone who doesn't remember anything?

I thought about it many times...

about what would happen once Han Gye Jeol finds out everything,

about how much she would despise me.

But today,

she looked sad.

All she did was cry.

I saw how sad she was, but I couldn't even tear up.

My heart hurt so badly like it was being torn apart, but no tears came to my eyes.

and yet, no tears came to my eyes.

Maybe in the process of killing all those people,

did my heart die, too?

Or have I really become a monster...

I can see why she'd be afraid of me.

I can see why she'd find me despicable.

Since I am despicable in my own eyes, too...

I will see my child grow

to be 20 and 30 years old

with you.

Really?

But on one condition.

Even if I were to turn into a horrible monster,

don't abandon me.

How could you do this to me...

How dare you!

How dare you promise me a future!

How!

Gosh, Noona. I'm hungry!

I starved all day today. Let's eat.

Let's quickly eat.

Hurry! Hurry up and come out quickly!

I'm sorry.

You're ill...

I must've been out of my mind.

You know that I'm really patient, right?

So, holding in my hunger is nothing to me,

but that damn kidnapper

wouldn't give me anything to eat all day!

That bastard...

If he kidnapped you, he should at least feed you something.

I'm just saying...

What kidnapper feeds you?

That's not kidnapping. That'd be like he was raising me.

Will this be enough to replenish your strength?

What should I make for dinner?

Should I fry some oysters and fresh ginseng for you?

You see, you see?

You realize how precious I am after I disappear, right?

So be good to me while I am here.

Rather than fixing your brain* after you lose your cow.

- Fix what? - Your brain a bit.

But why do they say fix your brain after losing a cow?

Does it mean to fix your mental state?

I know, right?

I want to know, too.

How do you fix your brain a bit?

If you know, then tell me. So, I can make tons of money.

That's not right?

If it's not, then forget it.

Can't believe you're this stupid. That's why you got had twice!

You should just quit your police job.

How could you protect anyone when you can't even protect yourself?

Hey, hey! Do you even know how cowardly he attacked me?

Because it was me,

it ended with just a few band-aids.

He did what to my younger brother?

Attack you from behind?

Whoa!

Let me just catch you!

I'll kill you.

Now you seem more like Han Gye Jeol.

What?

You being bold and crazy like this is the noona that I know.

Is that something you should say to your noona, who feeds you well?

- I should beat you to death before you- - Hey.

Whoever he is, don't kill him.

- What? - Then I would have to arrest you.

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

Hey...

How could you be so heartless...

I'm your family, so you should go easy on me.

You said that if families hide a criminal,

it doesn't count as a crime of concealment.

I'm a cop.

That doesn't apply to a cop.

So...

don't do anything bad.

If you did,

don't get caught.

Why?

Do you, by chance

have something to tell me?

No...

I don't.