So It Goes
Chapter 5
Revaluation
(epilogue)
You always won, everytime you placed a bet
You're still damn good, no one's gotten to you yet
Everytime they were sure they had you caught
You were quicker than they thought
You'd just turn your back and walk
As he walked away, loyal to the last, Jeong Hyeop contented himself with the thought that it was what Han Seo would have wanted.
After all, those that can, adapt. Those that can't, die.
You don't win by staying the same.
They were dead, but he remained. And who would tell his story when he was gone?
Who would remember it?
And who would care?
What would his story hold?
Jeong Hyeop smiled a sad soft smile. Let the loneliness come, let the tears and joy in. He'd played his role, loyal to the end, in their story. Now he was free. Free to be the star of his own life.
Jyeong Hyeop took a deep breath of the cool night air, and began to hum a little song. He had loved them, and they were gone. To him they would remain, eternal, unchanging. In his old age, perhaps, he would tell their story to his children, and it would become tragic, immortal, mythic. And they would ooh and ah. But they would remember, in the end, that he had lived. Because he hadn't played the game.
Jeong Hyeop laughed, and looked around the city. Perhaps he would get out of the family. Perhaps he would become a teacher. Perhaps he would never have to use the bloody tools of his trade again. He had dreams, and the future was waiting.
He shook his head once more, as if at the folly of dreams, or in one last moment of mourning, as he walked away into his own life.
He never looked back.
You're still the same
Moving game to game
Some things never change
You're still the same
Fin
- - -A/N: to be honest, I hated the ending of the HBW comic. Hated hated hated. Hence my version here. I found many things about the actual series to be problematic. But the ending was the worst. I firmly believe, that no good outcome could have come from that situation. Moreover, I do take some issue with the implication that in the end, Ha Ji is the villain, and that all the strife is due to her selfishness and refusal to let Han Seo go. It felt contrived to me, the way her 'stupidity' began to be revealed as a lie, when, in the very beginning, she'd been sincerely stupid, but by the end, we are asked to accept that she's always been manipulative. I don't buy it . I agree that Han Seo is a victim, but I see Sinn Uoo as being more of a bad guy than Ha Ji, or even Han Seo. But anyway. There it is. And if anyone knows what I'm talking about and wants to debate, or whatever, email curdled(dot)milk(at)gmail(dot)com. Yeah, you know what to do to make that email go, don't you? - - -