"Oppa, now that you're out, what are you going to do?"
Shi Joon shrugs, "I'm not sure. I guess I'll ask the Prosecutor's Office if they would take me back? It's one of the only things I know."
"If not?"
He laughs, "Why, are you offering me a job, Superintendent Yoo?"
She starts with a, "No, it's an offer to let you –" she pauses before asking, "Oppa, how did you know? I was going to surprise you with my double promotion."
Shi Joon points at her lanyard on the mantle before Shi Hyun 'o's in understanding.
"Like I said, Oppa, it's an offer to let you mooch around the house. Write a book, and take time off to get back up to date with the world first or something like that. Though, I'm sure we could do with a police officer like you."
Shi Joon mulls it over, "Take me as your assistant then?"
In all honesty, Shi Hyun thinks her Oppa's brother-complex is making a return, but she lets him tag along. She protects him too
Teaches, guides, corrects.
[ "Prosecutor Yoo, this definitely wasn't the work of a kindergarten child. The headlight was removed and the plastic sheet attached using hot glue. I very much doubt that this was a prank."
And they were targeted.
Shi Joon knows it.
Shi Hyun is in a coma and he is… angry.
He hasn't gone home to eat tofu yet.
At least this once.
Once more.
He walks into his sister's police station to report to her overseeing officer to explain her absence – the overseeing officer is extremely understanding and arranges for a guard for her room.
For once in his life, he's open about it, "I have many enemies, officer-nim. I was imprisoned for murder. They nearly got my sister. I'm currently investigating, please help me."
The officer is so sympathetic, protective of his own like Chief Moon was and Shi Joon's heart… aches a little.
"Of course, they targeted one of our own. Of course we will investigate. I'll contact you immediately when I have news."
He has a vision in broad daylight, money passing from a hand into the Chief in front of him and his heart… shutters.
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He turns over the gun in his hands.
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He presses a kiss to Shi Hyun's forehead.
"Oppa will protect you, Shi Hyun-ah. Even if it's not the way you would approve of."
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He had his own investigation in the same time that the police office was turning on its head trying to account for a missing gun in time for a spot-check.
Shi Joon is quick.
He kills that man and returns the gun with a gloved hand, stuffing it under a cupboard and blowing dust over it.
The spot check goes fine.
Nothing else happens.
Shi Joon doesn't go back to ask for news. The Chief never contacts him back.
A mastermind behind the operation, a new branch of the Elders that had an actual head – not like the hydra before.
A new kind of system, a new group trying to dominate their country. He cut off the head.
Later on, he reads in the news that the officer whose gun he borrowed, died.
The header reads, "Cop dead in chase after murderer. Despite firing in self-defense, the police officer was tragically stabbed to death after running out of bullets."
And yet. No one counted the number of bullets, or didn't care, or didn't think it was relevant.
Shi Joon knows.
That is the price paid.
Shi Hyun wakes up.
He's happy. It's enough. He is satisfied.
Rather than for the world and the world alone, he worked once, for the sake of his own world.
His own.
He held her in his arms and she asked, "What's wrong, Oppa?"
He presses his lips to her hair and murmurs.
"Nothing. I'm just glad you woke up." ]
Shi Joon doesn't have visions anymore. He's not sure if that's a blessing or a curse, but instead, he has nightmares.
Perhaps it is the universe trying to repay him, allowing him to foresee the future surrounding him and Shi Hyun, having saved the world once.
Shi Hyun shakes him awake, "Oppa, wake up, it's just a dream."
He shoots up and out of the bed, her name on his lips and his hair matted with sweat, breathing only calming when he realises that she's – still there.
"Oh, Shi Hyun-ah…"
Another bad dream, another bad… future?
Shi Joon wants to keep his promise.
("Oppa, hajima, jebal," – she hiccups and his breath caught. Stop, please
Like an idiot, he nearly lowered his gun.
"Shi Hyun-ah, mianeh." He shot first.
I'm sorry.)
"Shi Hyun-ah, will you bring me around tomorrow? Like take the day off and just bring me around so I can regain my bearings at least around home?"
She looks at him like she knows and he asks, "Have you been drawing, recently?"
She shakes her head, "I haven't had any sketches in years. But I've been drawing casually though. Would you like to see?"
Shi Hyun stays home the entire day.
They don't even go out, Shi Joon spends the day lazing about and drawing with his younger sister.
She's still using trusty black ballpoint pens.
Shi Joon draws the lighter-hearted scenes of his dreams – all the little details that would give him away.
He paints them both in the hospital, the night he kissed her forehead before leaving – painting Shi Hyun's bedside objects on a hospital side-desk, replacing the hospital bed light with their ceiling light.
Shi Hyun cocks her side ways to make sense of it and she laughs, "Oppa, what sort of slanted reality are you painting?"
Shi Joon, more traditionalist, feels the ridges to the oil paints after they dry on the canvas – smiling like he knows a secret his younger sister doesn't know.
She hugs him from behind as he does the dishes and washes their paint brushes all in the same sink, wheedling, "Oppa! Tell me…"
He tosses over his shoulder, "I forgot what the light by your bed looked like so I looked up and drew the ceiling light."
In the next moment he remembers, Shi Hyun draws him a quick sketch, detailed and full of little ideas – "Oppa, let's go on a holiday, far away from here. I'll take out all my off days and we can travel to clear your head."
Every detail is drawn by Shi Hyun consciously – Shi Joon's dreams do not help.
[ A hundred and one possibilities from an aeroplane that falls out of the sky to a ship that sinks to a robbery gone wrong.
Shi Joon is becoming paranoid and he's going nuts. ]
Then, Shi Hyun turns the page, eyes smiling, but a little tired.
"And we'll come home safely, back to jobs and everyone around us will be okay."
Each detail careful to show that all the different people in each screen are happy and safe and protected.
[ He dreams pleasant dreams. ]
What is going on?
When he wakes up, he doesn't remember dreaming.
She leaves him a little cartoon drawing by his bedside – he wakes up at 8 like the prison bells, Shi Hyun probably left the house just a couple of minutes ago.
She drew a cartoon of them talking very earnestly.
She captions the drawing with, "Honesty, always. I promise."
His dream hits him.
[ Shi Hyun, speaking to a shopkeeper, the aged-up uncle who owned that knick-knack shop –
A van rounding the corner of the street and taking her off the street as she left. ]
Shi Joon is out the door and down the steps, barefoot and disorientated but he can't just do nothing.
Shi Hyun is his emergency contact and he prays, the street comes into view.
Slowly cruising down that same road, the white van in his dream.
Pick up, please, Shi Hyun-ah.
Even as he runs to match pace with the van, he's mentally noted the number plate and model.
He can see her now, standing in the doorway of the shop and pulling out her phone from her back pocket.
"Oh, Oppa, what's up?"
"I just woke up," he says, trying to catch his breath.
She laughs into the receiver, a gentle, sweet sound.
"Mhm. Did you see my note as well?"
"Yeah I did, Shi Hyun-ah. Will you be free this afternoon? I think we should talk. I'm sorry, Shi Hyun-ah, I just didn't get to tell you but – "
He cuts himself off.
Why am I suddenly confessing?
"Ah… Yeah I'll be back soon, stay at home and wait for me, okay, Oppa?"
The van has been forced to move on.
Shi Joon sags in relief.
He follows behind her at a careful distance, but as she turns to walk back to their home, Shi Joon is forced to move ahead.
He trusts that his dreams are accurate on threats and countering them will be enough.
In exchange, another lady was kidnapped, just a few doors down.
Shi Joon is okay with that.
Next chapter will be on the status of their abilities, hope people want to see a season 2 as well!