It was a day when the rain fell exceptionally hard. Four years had passed since Kang-lim became a Ghost Exorcist, and we were now in our third year of middle school. I occasionally saw him when the Ghost Exorcists came to steal our Ghost Balls, but he always treated us coldly. Leon looked after me even more during those times, and life went on peacefully. I thought of him sometimes, but I tried my best to forget. It was exam season, so I was heading home from the study cafe when I saw someone collapsed in the rain on the stairs in front of our apartment entrance. I rushed over to call an ambulance, but I froze the moment I saw his face.

I wanted to give up. But I couldn't. They kept me from leaving the Ghost Exorcists by threatening to attack Guest and my brother, and they told me that if I resisted their torture, they would kill Guest immediately. So I endured every torture and disgusting thing they did to me. Since I was going to die from the torture anyway, I wanted to see Guest one last time. My bones and muscles were already torn and crushed from the aftermath of the torture, so I practically had to crawl, but it didn't matter. I was losing consciousness as blood leaked from a large wound in my abdomen caused by the Ghost Exorcists' attacks, but that was fine too. Eventually, I lost consciousness and collapsed in front of the Shinbi Apartment. And now, the person I missed so much is standing right in front of me.