COULD IT BE
THAT WE'RE STARTING RIGHT NOW?
JUST FROM A PLAYFUL PROVOCATION,
MY FACE TURNS RED AND I'M FLUSTERED...
I CAN'T BELIEVE HOW EXCITED I GOT.
?!
STILL, YOU REALLY STILL
DON'T KNOW UP FROM DOWN,
SEO-UN.
SEO-UN.
NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU STRUGGLE,
YOU HAVE TO TAKE THIS MEDICINE.
THAT WAY YOU...
NO.
I SAID LET GO!
LET ME GO!!
GASP!
MASTER
HAAH...
MASTER?
HK!
MASTER.
AGAIN...
IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN.
A SYMPTOM THAT USED TO APPEAR OFTEN BACK THEN.
WHAT ON EARTH...
MASTER
BREATHE,
PLEASE BREATHE.
WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU LOOKING AT BEYOND THAT?
HAAH...
ARE YOU...
CALMING DOWN A BIT?
UGH
YOU BASTARD...
NEVER AGAIN...!
NEVER DO ANYTHING
THIS LEWD AGAIN!
OF COURSE.
SINCE IT'S MASTER'S WORDS,
I'LL LISTEN WELL.
DON'T BE COCKY
AND ANSWER PROPERLY.
HONESTLY!
DO YOU TRUST ME THAT LITTLE?
...IT'S BEEN FIVE YEARS.
FOR FIVE YEARS, EVERY YEAR,
I HELD ANCESTRAL RITES FOR YOU.
YOU, WHO I THOUGHT WAS DEAD, CAME BACK COMPLETELY FINE,
WITHOUT GIVING ANY EXPLANATION,
AND YOU JUST SHOW ME HUMILIATING SCENES ONE AFTER ANOTHER-
HOW CAN I BELIEVE YOUR WORDS!
Hand it over
THEN I’LL MAKE A FIRM PROMISE.
I’LL STOP THE LEWD ACTS I SHOWED MASTER.
INSTEAD, MASTER, WATCH OVER ME BY MY SIDE AS WELL.
WHAT? WHAT KIND OF NONSENSE...!
EVEN IF ONLY OUT OF CONSIDERATION FOR MY DEVOTION,
IN BEING DRAGGED AWAY IN MASTER'S STEAD...
PLEASE STAY BY MY SIDE.
FINE.
THEN...
IT WILL ONLY BE FOR A TEMPORARY WHILE.
YES, THEN
I'LL PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU TO STAY RIGHT AWAY.
FIRST, LET ME TIE UP YOUR HAIR, SO PLEASE TURN AROUND.
DID YOU...
RESENT ME A LOT?
STAY STILL.
IT KEEPS COMING UNDONE.
TELL ME.
WHILE I'M BY YOUR SIDE,
WHAT KIND OF THINGS YOU WENT THROUGH OVER THE PAST 5 YEARS,
AND HOW YOU SURVIVED,
EVERYTHING!
WHICH PLACE DO YOU PREFER?
WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?
I WILL TELL YOU.
WHERE SHOULD I TELL YOU?
NO, WHAT I MEANT WAS GRADUALLY FROM NOW ON...
THE DESK WOULD BE NICE,
OR HOW ABOUT THE BED
THAT STILL HOLDS WARMTH?
I'LL TELL YOU ONE BY ONE RIGHT THERE.
AFTER LEAVING MASTER'S SIDE,
THE FIRST YEAR, MONTH, AND DAY,
I ENCOUNTERED A STORM ON THE WAY TO THE MAINLAND,
AND I THOUGHT THAT WAS THE END OF ME.
WAIT,
WHY ARE YOUR CLOTHES...!
DIDN'T I TELL YOU?
I'M TELLING YOU I'LL EXPLAIN EVERYTHING
ABOUT HOW I SURVIVED.
STARTING TONIGHT,
FIRSTHAND.
An intimacy that begins with playful teasing leaves Seo-un embarrassed and excited, but the tension turns into a crisis as he resists the medicine. As his master, struggling to breathe, is addressed as "Master," an old symptom resurfaces. Once calmed, the enraged master forbids any insolence and demands answers from the student he believed dead for five years. The student promises to stop his insolence and asks to stay by his side; the master temporarily accepts and asks him to recount the last five years. The narrative closes with a bed-related innuendo and a tense promise tied to the memory of a storm.
