My Demon: Episodes 13-14
by alathe
Our demon would love everybody to know that he can’t do any paperwork at this time. He’s too busy with a much more essential job: being our heroine’s husband! However sadly, our leads can’t simply dangle up their hats and be joyful. Tragedy lurks across the nook for them each — or possibly it’s already arrived…
EPISODES 13-14
Gu-won is hellbent on rewriting his love story with Do-hee. 200 years in the past, it might need been a tragedy, however now? It’s going to be pure rom-com. Do-hee may be very a lot of his thoughts; so far as she’s involved, the one factor they ought to fret about is celebrating Christmas collectively! (Okay, granted, she’s successfully the bride of Devil, however they’ll make it work.) Alas, with 4 complete episodes to go, it’s too early to be gunning for a fortunately ever after. After witnessing a close-by automobile accident, Do-hee can’t assist however dwell on previous trauma — her dad and mom are by no means removed from her thoughts.
A part of Do-hee feels frightened at being so joyful. To Gu-won’s concern, she’s fast to bury that a part of herself in work. When she falls asleep at her desk, he visits her desires, the place she wanders a darkish woodland, crying out for her dad and mom. A lot as he longs to, Gu-won can’t give them again to her. All he can do is substitute her nightmare with a happier fantasy. Do-hee wakes to desires of adorning a Christmas tree along with her dad and mom, Madam Ju, and Gu-won — and virtually desires to remain asleep.
Gu-won is set to make her waking world simply as vibrant, one dramatic gesture at a time! Sadly, earlier than he should purchase half a flower store, he finds himself inconveniently on hearth. Yup, it’s that point once more. Our demon, nonetheless frivolously aflame, makes an attempt to speed-run his method by way of a deal, solely to be interrupted by the ever-faithful Perilla Seeds and Scallions! To their credit score, they take the revelation that their boss is a fiend from hell in good stride. Life is fleeting, however the love of thirty or so gangsters is everlasting. And so, when Gu-won calls for that they abandon their lifetime of crime, they hardly hesitate. With enthusiasm sufficient to place the heroes of Wok of Love out of enterprise, they pledge to embark on a culinary profession… and within the blink of a watch, the Sunny Spot Rice Soup Cafe is born.
Mercifully unaware of all these shenanigans, Do-hee is greeted with a dorky, devilish grin, and an armful of flowers. Gu-won made certain to purchase each single form of plant symbolizing happiness — and even wrote a cheat sheet on the again of his hand to recollect which particular sort of happiness each represents! There’s just one factor Do-hee can say within the face of this wonderful overkill. I really like you. Gu-won, completely punch drunk, returns the sentiment.
Sadly, one other menace looms on the horizon: household dinner. Suk-min is discouraged by the conclusion that — even along with his powers as chairman — trampling over employees’ rights is proving trickier than anticipated. Nevertheless, he’s hit on an answer. Gathering all of the relations he hasn’t but murdered, he tells them that it’d make life simpler for him personally if they only, y’know, handed over their shares to him. Fairly please with a lightly-veiled menace on prime? Do-hee’s response is to silently stroll out. She could have retreated from this struggle, however she’s no pushover. Seok-hoon is equally scathing. Su-ahn? Uh, she… she’ll get again to him on that.
No extra Mr. Good Assassin, guarantees Suk-min. After leaning on Mirae’s board, he implements a sequence of horrifying adjustments. The Industrial Accident Compensation Committee, a progressive measure introduced in by Madam Ju again when such issues had been uncommon, is disbanded after bogus reviews of fraud. In the meantime, a slew of full-time contracts are axed, changed with part-time jobs. When Seok-hoon objects, Suk-min instantly threatens to prepare a movement for his dismissal.
Do-hee wastes no time: livid, she storms into Suk-min’s workplace. This irresponsibility, she says, proves that he’ll by no means stay as much as Madam Ju’s legacy. Incensed by this, Suk-min can’t assist however resort to literary reference — which proves his undoing. The hen fights its method out of the egg, he replies, insisting that he has surpassed Madam Ju. It’s the identical factor he mentioned in his texts to the murderer. Do-hee, horrified, addresses him by the code identify below which he killed his personal mom: Abraxas.
The place on the earth is Gu-won? Sadly, engaged on one other grand gesture. Beforehand, he’d been inclined to say good riddance to his misplaced demonic guide. Nonetheless, loath as he’s to consider himself as a vacuum cleaner, Do-hee did say she needed to know him higher… and so, he resolves to supply her along with his phrases and circumstances. That is how he finally ends up confronting Se-ra, who has been hospitalized on her abusive husband’s command. Discover that ebook for me, he tells her, and it’d simply be your ticket out of hell. Se-ra makes her determination. Suk-min, she declares, is the one who killed Madam Ju — along with his personal son.
Presently, Suk-min is intent on taking yet another factor from Do-hee: her religion in Madam Ju. With a nasty look of willpower, he broadcasts to Do-hee that her dad and mom’ deaths had been no accident. They had been brought on by his mom. He was there the day they died. He made a secret recording. Astounded, Do-hee listens to a tape of the dialogue Madam Ju had along with her dad and mom earlier than they died. A proposal this huge doesn’t come usually, claims a youthful Madam Ju, indignantly. She’s reduce off by Do-hee’s father. I’ll expose every thing, he says. You permit me with no alternative.
After they left, smirks Suk-min, my mom drove after them. Afterwards, Mirae Electronics grew to become the Mirae Group. Your dad and mom’ blood laid the muse. Numbly, Do-hee accuses him of mendacity — at which level, he grabs her by the throat. She tries to shake him off her, to no avail. However fortunately, our demon arrives within the nick of time, seizing Suk-min, and transporting all three of them to the dizzying heights of the clock tower. Right here, he dangles Suk-min over the sting, while Do-hee seems to be on in horror.
You possibly can’t kill a human, sneers Suk-min, who’s been doing his demonic homework. However Gu-won scoffs. He doesn’t must. Quickly, Suk-min will beg for demise. As for a deal? Please. It’s throughout: Se-ra has gone to the police, and even now he’s being investigated for his welter of crimes. Suk-min’s eyes slim. I can nonetheless flee to hell, he broadcasts. Struggling in opposition to Gu-won’s grip, he pulls free — and lets himself drop.
This time, it really is over. However our heroine feels something however free. She will’t cease agonizing over Suk-min’s accusations: doubting Madam Ju, and torturing herself. Throughout a protracted, stressed evening, Gu-won holds her, and she or he calls out his identify simply to remind herself that he’ll reply. I’m right here, Do-hee, he replies with out fail. However he’s at a loss for tips on how to assist her. Bok-gyu, contemplating the issue, thinks they must each do their greatest to overlook. Higher imperfect happiness than the painful fact.
Do-hee can’t convey herself to assume that method. Lifeless ladies inform no tales, it’s true — however their monks simply may. And so, she and Gu-won pay a go to to FATHER MICHAEL (Website positioning Sang-won), Madam Ju’s confessor. He provides a single, chilly look to Gu-won. Hackles rise on each side. He does certainly have data — however he insists that he communicate to Do-hee alone.
Full of rage, Madam Ju did drive after Do-hee’s dad and mom that evening. Each automobiles swerved, dangerously quick, as Do-hee’s father (Kim Younger-jae) sped again house to see his daughter — earlier than it was too late. Then, chaos, as each automobiles flew uncontrolled, and the one containing Do-hee’s dad and mom went careening throughout the street. Do-hee’s mom (Woo Hee-jin) was bloodied and unmoving, however her father remained alive. Then, our demon entered the scene… to gather on his deal. Madam Ju dragged herself out of the automobile simply in time to see Gu-won exit, having despatched Do-hee’s father to hell.
Do-hee maintains her composure as she exits the church. She smiles at Gu-won, telling him Suk-min was mendacity. It’s solely after they get house that she locks herself within the lavatory, activates the faucet, and cries like her coronary heart is cut up in two. Gu-won, listening to her, goes straight again to Father Michael — who is aware of precisely who he’s. Go away Do-hee, he instructions. The second I noticed you, I knew you had been the satan that Madam Ju noticed. Gu-won, in a second of real shock, thinks again to that evening all these years in the past — and realizes that the tragedy he fears has already come to go.
He hadn’t remembered. As God tells him on the clock tower, it’s not unusual to overlook. People put on out so shortly. This is the reason he needed to determine it out for himself — on the finish of the day, she controls so little or no. People, she tells him, are all the time one another’s private hell. In the long run, there’s nothing Gu-won can do moreover comply with Do-hee to Madam Ju’s grave, and watch her grieve afresh.
Do-hee, in the meantime, is set to know. Why did her father make that deal? She tries to nook Bok-gyu for solutions, however he sends her to attend in Gu-won’s workplace… sadly, triggering one other sequence of deeply ill-fated occasions. A lady barges into the workplace. Ten years in the past, she made a contract with Gu-won; now, earlier than it expires, she’s right here to beg for her life. Do-hee, hiding within the again room, witnesses Gu-won’s complete indifference — his scorn, as he waves a hand and watches her die.
She doesn’t see him stoop to the ground, weary and defeated. As a substitute, she turns to see the girl’s clock disintegrate into flame. For the primary time, it hits her what the clocks are for. Every, a contract like her father’s. She runs from the workplace, practically crashing into Seok-hoon on the best way out, hardly capable of disguise her panic. Right here, Gu-won sees her, and begins in her path. Do-hee flinches. He stops. Later, exhausted and depressing, Do-hee curls up in her workplace, nonetheless refusing to inform Seok-hoon the explanation. All she is going to admit is one factor: the individuals she loves have develop into her hell.
When she lastly leaves, Gu-won is ready for her on the road outdoors. Let’s go for a stroll, he says. Determined, Do-hee takes his hand, bites her tongue, and tries to faux. She talks about restaurant bookings. She talks about adorning the Christmas tree. However Gu-won can’t bear it. Slowly, he turns to her. I don’t assume, he says, haltingly, that we will spend Christmas collectively. Then, gently, he pulls his hand away from hers. Do-hee doesn’t transfer. Jeong Gu-won, she calls, softly. There isn’t a response. Jeong Gu-won, she says once more — and once more, to no avail. Lastly, she turns… and sees nothing by any means. My salvation, she finds herself pondering, has come to an finish.
Of us, even scripting this recap, it hurts once more. Now that’s — I hate to say it, however we’re all about ironic echoes this week — the way you write a tragedy! The difficulty is, realistically talking, I can’t see a world through which our OTP come again from this. Absolutely, all Do-hee will be capable to see in Gu-won any longer is the person who condemned her father to endure? In need of descending into hell and pulling him up into heaven single-handed, there’s no making amends — and even then, it’s hardly sufficient. Plus, contemplating the foreshadowing we’ve needed to do with dad and mom making sacrifices for his or her youngsters, I believe Do-hee’s father struck some form of deal for her security.
Nevertheless, let’s take a minute to marvel on the tour-de-force that’s Kim Yoo-jung. She did an distinctive job at conveying Do-hee’s grief! While I’m admittedly not essentially the most stoic on the subject of unhappy dramas (the subtitle to my recaps may as properly be Alathe Cries at Every part), I used to be weeping alongside along with her in that loo. Maybe there’s a method to untangle this internet, however, to my thoughts, it is a maybe-in-my-next-life-we-can-be-together form of deal. That, or there needs to be some severe deus ex machina in retailer… and God appears disinclined to intervene. This drama is coming collectively superbly, in all its wonderful distress — and you may’t say we weren’t warned. Right here’s hoping they’ll stick the touchdown!
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