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Chapter 10 - SKULL ISLAND (2)

It looks like Rang is on the island

Meanwhile in the woods, Yeon treats Ji-ah's wound with some herbs. She complains his hands are too hot, and her skin looks like it's burning from the inside. Suddenly a scaly pattern runs up her neck.

Ji-ah grabs him by the throat.

"It's me. The one you've been waiting for.Why did you kill me?"

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12 hours Before

The fisherman who was with Pyeong-hee's father when he died, was desperately chugging any water he can find. He searched everywhere but there was not even a single drop of water , he ended up drinking out of the toilet, but he suddenly begins struggling and drowns. Rang standing beside him plucks a straw doll marked with the character for "death" and the man's photo out of the sea.

Later, Ji-ah examines his body. Adding to the mysteriousness of him drowning in the toilet , is the fact that he was on the boat that capsized with Pyeong-hee's father.

Yeon enters in and complains of a rotten-fish smell, as his nose was very sharp and sensitive, he found a clump of hair gripped in the man's hand. Disgusted, he passes it to Ji-ah and notes it smells kind of like Pyeong-hee's blanket.

Elsewhere, Pyeong-hee sits by the water and pricks her finger, the drops of blood landed on two of those straw death figures and a photo of the three survivors from the capsized boat where her father died.

When Ji-ah shows Yeon an article about the survivors, he speculates and says they'll all die. Ji-ah drags him along to stop it.

At his house, the hammer wielder hears Pyeong-hee's father call out to him and screams at the headless apparition before him.

The other fisherman desperately stuffs himself with food and begins to choke. Yeon busts into his house and wrenches a knife. Yeon threatens to break his fingers one by one if he doesn't tell him what happened on that boat

The man explained that a storm hit, and Pyeong-hee's father drowned. The other three were floating in the sea, but he can't remember what happened after that. Before Yeon started breaking fingers, Ji-ah took over, guessing that it was terrible waiting on that raft for 28 days to be rescued; even they had nothing to eat , he and the other fishermen didn't look skinny but they were looking healthy like they properly ate their meals.

As she detailed what must've happened, to the men near death on that raft. The truth was that they'd been starving and dehydrated was more that 3 weeks. Pyeong-hee's father tried to encourage them to live, and they turned toward him with a dangerous gleam in their eyes. They all said they don't want to die and they all...ate him.

Ji-ah and Yeon came to that same conclusion, and the man shakes and repeatedly says he didn't do it. Except the truth was he and the others did indeed do it. He laughs in a deranged way and points his knife at Ji-ah, calling her "meat."

Yeon shoves him away and stands between him and Ji-ah. Abruptly, the man begins choking and drops to the ground, dead. Ji-ah pulls his hand away from his mouth – there was a clump of hair.

Elsewhere, Rang approaches Pyeong-hee and asks how she intends to repay him.

Meanwhile at the Afterlife Immigration Office, Taluipa angrily screams to know who's messing with her list. A warning flashes on her ancient computer, showing an unlisted death. And it's not the first time this has happened.

On the island, Ji-ah checks out the final survivor's home and notices a folk painting that creeps her out. The other survivors had that same painting too. Yeon comes in, munching on snacks. Ji-ah takes issue with his blasé treatment of death, but he's too conditioned to it to care.

Ji-ah reasons he must've experienced at least one death that affected him...Yeon stares at her face and thinks of Ah-eum dying in his arms. Ji-ah pulls him out of his thoughts and have him look at the painting of the Dragon King.

Yeon comments it doesn't resemble him at all; they took a "leadership seminar" together. Pfft....Back on topic, Ji-ah points out that the dragon in this painting is missing its feet. Yeon notes that makes it a snake. It is perhaps an Imoogi (legendary serpent), Ji-ah readily agreed