YOU, WHO HAD ALWAYS BEEN A CHILLY MEMORY,
ARE APPROACHING ME AS A SUDDEN CERTAINTY.
LAUGHING OFF MY WORRIES JUST LIKE ALWAYS.
HOW IS IT
THAT YOU'VE GROWN EVEN MORE RADIANT?
MASTER.
YOU...
YOU BASTARD...
NO WAY...
MMPH...!
W-WAIT...
YOU...!
HNGH,
NAM- GIL...!!
I'VE BEEN WAITING.
UNTIL YOU CALLED MY NAME.
WERE YOU...
ALIVE?
IS IT REALLY NAM-GIL,
YOU...
IS THAT REALLY YOU?
!
FIVE YEARS AGO,
NAM-GIL LEFT HIS MASTER.
BECOMING THE LORD OF THIS ISLAND,
HE HAS FINALLY RETURNED
TO YOUR SIDE.
THAT'S RIGHT, WITHOUT A DOUBT...
WELL, AREN'T WE THE SAME NOW?
IT'S NAM-GIL.
SUCH A FOOL.
AFTER BEING TAKEN IN MY STEAD AND RETURNING AFTER FIVE YEARS,
WHAT'S THERE TO GRIN ABOUT LIKE THAT?
BACK THEN AND NOW,
MAKING PEOPLE'S HEARTS WRITHE WITH ANXIETY
MUST BE YOUR DAMN FATE.
AND YOUR MEALS?
DID YOU GO HUNGRY ALL THIS TIME WITHOUT WASTING AWAY?
DID YOU EVER CATCH A FEVER?
AND SLEEP?
WHENEVER YOUR SLEEPING QUARTERS CHANGED,
DIDN'T YOU ALWAYS FALL ASLEEP ONLY AFTER THE DAWN ROOSTER CROWED?
EVERY SINGLE TIME I...
WHAT IS THIS, YOU SAID SHE WAS YOUR MASTER,
ISN'T SHE PRACTICALLY YOUR MOTHER!
HAAH
HAAH
HAAH
MHN...
DEOK, HOW COULD YOU JUST LEAVE ALREADY?
AH, NGH...!
HNGH
I'M WAITING TOO, YOU KNOW.
HAAH
MY LORD, YOU KEPT MOVING!
WHAT...
YOU'RE THE ONE WHO MOVED.
NGH
YOU COULDN'T WAIT EVEN A SECOND,
ALWAYS LETTING YOUR GISAENG HABITS SHOW, HUH?
AH!!
WHAT AN OUTRAGEOUS THING TO SAY...!
STEP BACK, NAM-GIL.
TALKING LIKE A MOTHER...
FOR SOMEONE WHO'S THE SCION OF A MAJOR MERCHANT GUILD,
TO HAVE SUCH POOR DISCERNMENT.
?!
ARE YOU MAD?
BECAUSE I CALLED THAT WOMAN YOUR MOTHER?
HMMM
STILL,
ARE YOU TREATING ME LIKE A SICKENING KID?
LET THAT BE HOW YOU CLEAR YOUR ANGER.
AS IF YOU’RE DOING ME A FAVOR.
WAIT A MINUTE!!!
WHAT ON EARTH IS GOING ON HERE RIGHT NOW?
NAM-GIL, DIDN'T YOU EXPLICITLY SAY
YOU CAME TO THIS ISLAND AS ITS LORD?
SOMEONE WHO RECEIVED A ROYAL DECREE
IS HANGING OUT WITH MERE PEOPLE LIKE THIS,
ALL GROWN UP IN SIZE YET STILL ACTING LIKE A CHILD...
STILL.
ARE YOU TREATING ME LIKE A SICKENING KID?
...WHAT?
EVEN WITHOUT YOU WORRYING, MASTER,
I GREW UP STRAIGHT AND UPRIGHT
AND CAME BACK, DIDN'T I?
LIKE THIS,
ALONG WITH OLD MEMORIES
...!
YOU... THAT BOOK... NO WAY!
DO YOU REMEMBER?
IN MY CHILDHOOD, AT THE ONLY TEMPLE ON THIS ISLAND...
I HELPED MAKE PAPER FOR COPYING SUTRAS, AND...
AND RECEIVED SCRAPS OF PAPER AS WAGES?
WITH THOSE, MASTER,
YOU TAUGHT ME READING, WRITING, AND DRAWING.
... I REMEMBER.
AFTER I PAINSTAKINGLY TAUGHT YOU READING, WRITING, AND DRAWING,
YOU USED THEM TO WRITE ROMANTIC TALES BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN,
AND WHENEVER YOU HAD THE CHANCE, YOU TOOK THEM OUT TO THE MARKETPLACE
AND READ AND SOLD THEM, GIVING ME SUCH A HARD TIME.
WITHOUT EVEN KNOWING SHAME,
SURELY YOU AREN'T STILL DOING THAT, ARE YOU?
YES.
IT'S A BIT DIFFERENT FROM BACK THEN, BUT
IT'S SOMETHING LIKE THIS.
WRAPPING UP THE TANGLED FLUIDS
FLOWING BETWEEN YOUR LEGS—
IF YOU RECITE THAT,
THAT IS THE FIRST ACT OF THE COMPANION.
THRUSTING IT IN FULLY
TO THE WRIGGLING ECHOES—
IF YOU RECITE THAT,
THAT IS THE SECOND ACT.
THE WOMAN'S SOBS BECOME THE FUSE ONCE AGAIN
THAT MUST BE
THE BEGINNING OF THEIR PASSIONATE ENCOUNTER.
A Book Drawn at Night Chapter 2 follows Nam-gil's return as lord of the island after five years and his reunion with his master. The master questions whether he is alive and asks about his meals, health and sleep. Nearby voices interrupt their reunion before the conversation turns to childhood memories and lessons. Nam-gil then presents a book, revealing that he is still writing the romantic tales he once sold.
