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Chapter 4 - MEETING (1)

Yoo-ri asked Lee rang if they should eat her, but he smilingly replied not yet.

Yeon meanwhile visits a ice cream parlour, immensely enjoying his mint chocolate ice cream, which is interrupted by a call from Rang.

"What is it?"

"Nothing much, I heard something interesting about your "dead girlfriend", I see is has been reincarnated...is it true? Why don't you meet me up and I might tell you something..."

Yeon hanged up but his thoughts were conflicted.

If what Rang said was true then he would be the happiest person on the earth, he just wanted her to live, to protect her from everything, and love her.....

but why would his 'enemy' share this thing with Yeon.

Elsewhere, Ji-ah was sitting in the same coffee shop and was confused as she remembered what Rang said her earlier

"If you meet me at the bus going to fox ridge ,all alone I might tell you what I saw".

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Later that night

Following Rang's instructions, Ji-ah went to the bus stop alone that night.

When the bus arrived, a very drunk ahjussi ( term used for a middle aged man) staggered forward and fell beside Ji-ah . He had a long cut near his eyes and was unable to open one eye. He was a middle aged man, quite healthy but very smelly, anyone could smell a strong scent to alcohol from his body.

He was wearing quite shabby clothes.

Ji-ah went to help him, but he holded her back, refusing to let her board the bus.

As the bus pulls away, Ji-ah spots a familiar face inside, it was Yeon!

Shortly after, the lights on the bus wink out.

The ahjussi was very drunk and couldn't walk so, Ji-ah ends up piggybacking the ahjussi with one eye to his house. As she walks, she observes he was strangely heavy and didn't appear to breathe.

"Ahjussi where is your house?"

"Walk straight, little girl I will repay your favors ."

"aaa~ Ahjussi no need for that! I just need to go somewhere else, let's just go to your home for now, okay."

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On the bus, everyone but one teenage girl seems to be asleep. Yeon slowly stands and rushed towards her.

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After a quite long ride the old man gets down

" Little girl , I have already pay back your favor."

At the same time a loud crash was heard . Ji-ah didn't understand what the ahjussi was talking about, as she was about to hail a cab, she turns around, the ahjussi was no where to be seen.

When Ji-ah was wondering where the ahjussi might be, there was a totem pole with crack over one eye just like that ahjussi.

Ji-ah asked the taxi driver to take her to the fox ridge, but when she arrives there she stares in horror and disbelief at the familiar scene before her on Fox Ridge.

The bus was turned upside down!

It was just like the night when she lost her parents, she wanted to go near the bus but her body was rooted on the road...

After sometime, she rushed into the bus where all the passengers appear to be dead. Ji-ah approached the teenage girl who abruptly opened her eyes and was terrified. She helps her get down from the bus .

Later she sees Yeon walks down the street, his hand dripping blood. She wanted to follow him but she couldn't as she was helping that teenager.

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The next day

Cops examined the scene, finding five dead and one survivor. Ji-ah observes to DETECTIVE BAEK that there were seven people on the bus but detective clearly states that there's no trace of the seventh person Ji-ah was talking about.

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Meanwhile...

Shin-joo reads the headlines of the newspaper beside Yeon, stating the accident on the fox ridge

"Yeon~ahhhh , how could you be so careless?

You should leave it alone!"

"No, I have to handle it"

After those words both of them were silent.

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At the hospital

Ji-ah sat beside the teenage girl Soo-young. Knowing what it's like to be the sole survivor, she was sympathetic and supportive.

Just when she was about to leave , Soo young opens her eyes and looks at Ji-ah..

Soo young was a beautiful girl, her black hair went up to her shoulder, and had hazel brown eyes, she looked at Ji-ah with pleading eyes as to not leave her...

"Eonni*, where are you going?"

"Nowhere, "

Ji-ah pulled out a picture from her bag and showed that to soo young

"Soo young , was this person with you that night?"

After seeing the pictures Soo-young started hyperventilating

" He will kill me , he will kill me!!!"

Soo young was panicking so hard that doctors had to give her sleeping pills to calm her down..

Ji-ah was sure that Yeon was on the bus that night, Ji-ah spots a tall man in the lobby minutes later.

Ji-ah recognizes his voice and watches him intently as he asks why a PD is looking for him.

Ji-ah offered him some tea and shows him the photo she has of him under the umbrella

" I have seen you three times : at the wedding, on the bus and here looking for the victim.

Whenever I see you , something strange has happened... "

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* eonii: term used for elder sister or anu woman older than us