7 one: Is there any cure?

[That night after Dae Ju lost his sense and fall on the snowy ground]

He suddenly woke up. His eyes turned red. Every vein of his neck came out. He was looking scary. Too much scary. It was that look before Dae Ju came in this body. He walked to his home. Slowly but his body was heavy. He reached his destination. He knocked at the door. But nobody was opening the door. He continued knocking hardly. Lina was inside but she wasn't opening the door willingly. She wanted to give him a punishment so she said loudly,

"Stay outside! You don't need to come home." But when she noticed that he was knocking without stopping for even a second, she came to the door and opened it. She yelled at him,

"Why? Is it a nightclub or what? Do you think you can come when you wanted to? Where have you been that long? If you don't answer me, I will not let you enter." She blocked his way and was standing in the middle of the entrance.

"Move!" he ordered her with his scary face. She couldn't see his face due to darkness.

"Answer me first. Or else, just stay outside," she said like a dad was asking his daughter where was she and what was she doing.

"Move!" he pushed her and threw her away and enter inside. Lina falls far from there and got hurt in her forehead. She looked at him and got afraid. She could see his that scary look before the accident. But she thought, he was drunk nothing else.

"You are drunk!" she said surprisingly and she didn't expect him this look suddenly. He went to the living room and sit in the couch.

"Give me food. I am hungry," he said. Lina couldn't understand what she should do but she brings that cake which he wanted to eat in the morning. When she was gonna put that in front of him, he takes a look at that and looked at her with his scary, red eyes.

"What is these?" he seems very angry.

"It was that cake which you wanted to eat. You ate it in breakfast too," she replied with a very low voice.

"Don't you know I don't like sweet things?" he shouted. But this time, his style was totally different. But Lina knows his this style. So, she got afraid and moved backward.

"But, you told me earlier that you want that so....." her voice was too low and she was hesitating while saying this. She took it back.

"Bring anything else," he ordered her.

"I have just sweet things nothing else." she moved backward and said.

"What? Don't you know I will come home? Why you didn't prepare the food?" he gets up and went to her. He seems very angry with her.

"You already have dinner before going out. So..." she was moving backward and he kept coming to her. He was looking so angry that he turned red. Seeing him like this, she walked backward. But he kept going near to her.

"Y-you s-should r-rather go to sleep." she got so afraid that she couldn't say anything clearly.

"You will teach what I should do and what not?" he got fired and suddenly choked her neck. She dropped the plate and it falls on the ground and the plate has been broken.

"Leave me! It's hurt! What happened to you?" she couldn't talk because she gets hurt on her neck. He grabbed her tightly and pluck her up to finish her without any reason. He couldn't bear her anymore. She is his only enemy and if he finish him now, he could lead a peaceful life.

"Why you are doing this to me?" she asked with a very unclear voice. She was trying hard to exceeded herself from him. She kicked his belly strongly so that he will leave her. By getting hurt, he got angrier and threw her away as she was a doll and he doesn't need her anymore. She fall on the small table which is kept near the couch. The glass of the table broke and the broken pieces cut her leg, arm cheek and many places. She wanted to get up but she couldn't as she got hurt in her leg. It started bleeding from her injured places. He didn't stop here, he came to her and pluck her up again.

"Do you think you can deceive me that easily? I know you wanted to escape from me. That's why you hire him! You think I will never get you, huh? I will not let you live in peace! None of you! I will finish you here and then I will finish him." seems like his eyes will come out from the eyeholes. Lina was like a doll to him. He beat her up until he get tired. When she nearly lost her consciousness, he left her not because he was done but because he was tired. He went to upstairs and searched for water. He saw a bottle of water which was almost filled with fresh water. He took it and drank the water.

Dae Ju opened his eyes suddenly. He was afraid and shocked. He never imagined this could happen. His whole body was trembling. His heart was going to blast and he couldn't understand what he just saw. Was it real or he just freaked about it? Did he really pull his hand on her? Did he really hurt her that badly? How could he do that?

"No! No! It was not true. It didn't happen! It was a nightmare!" he moved backward while trembling out of fear. His eyes were not straight. They were just moving here and there.

"Calm down!" the guy said to him and come near to him. Jheong Woo was surprised but he couldn't say him anything because he didn't know what happened to him. He put his hand on Dae Ju's head and start mumbling again. He slowly starting to calm down though he couldn't understand what he just saw was real or not.

"Was it real? Please tell me that it wasn't real, please!" Dae Ju looked at him and begged him to change the truth. But alas! He couldn't change the past or the future. All he can do is give a cure or suggestion.

"You did it with these two hands and this body." when he finished reading in a foreign language, he said Dae Ju and went back to his seat.

"What happened? Why you are behaving like this?" Jheong Woo came to him and asked. He was gonna touch him.

"No! Stay away from me! I am a monster! Yes, I am not a human anymore! You should stay away from me!" he said to Jheong Woo without looking at him. Jheong Woo got afraid and moved aside.

"What's wrong with you? What did you see? Tell me! Though I can't help you it can at least help you to feel light." he said to console him. But who listened to whom? When a man found himself guilty and there is no way to fix that, he can never forgive himself and how many times people wanted to make him understand, he would never understand until they don't want to. He was still breathing heavily. Though he didn't want to believe what he saw he has no other choice. He wished that the day could be delete from his life somehow. Now he could understand why she was behaving like this! She really saw a monster's cruel face. It was not her fault but, was it his fault? He didn't think it like that. All he can think, it was his fault. Though, he had been possessed he should have control the body. But he let the evil control this body and he thinks he should have been more careful. He was careless about himself and that's why he forgot to pour some drop of that water in his bathtub. If he had been a bit more careful, that evil can't come to him and possessed in the body.

Jheong Woo looked at the guy with questionable eyes as he couldn't understand anything.

"It will be alright. I have to find a way to catch the evil soul. As I don't know anything about it now, you have to lead your life very carefully." the guy was calm but Dae Ju was not. He stood up and went outside as he doesn't want to listen to anything.

*How can everything be alright? He already has done too much which can't be fixed. How can he face Lina now? Can he ever forgive himself? He had no idea that his silliness could cause this much trouble! Will Lina ever wants to see his face again? What will he answer to her? Why he did that? Because he was drunk? No way! A man can't fall so down after getting drunk! And the truth was, he wasn't drunk at all. And if he tried to tell her the truth, she will never believe him. Then, how can he say that everything will be alright?* he thinks in his mind. He was confused about what he felt. Should he become angry on that guy or himself? Or should he be sad upon himself? He has no idea. He wanted to forget everything and just went into his real body. But he couldn't forget about it. He kept reminding Lina's traumatic face and begging for her life. Suddenly he noticed that his cheeks got wet by his tears. He couldn't bear her that poor face anymore. He sat in the middle of the street. He holds his head with both of his hands and bends down. The tears which he holds for way too long have been burst. He was groaning as he got hurt. He really got hurt in his heart that has no cure.

"He is in a traumatic stage. You should stay beside him. I will give you a cure for his problem. Listen to me carefully." the guy said to Jheong Woo.

"What should I do?" he came closer to him so that he can hear him clearly.

"He drank the holy water and that's why the evil escaped from the body. And I am sure it can't come again very soon. As the water was a temporary solution, he made the mistake and let the soul come to the body again. But this time, I am gonna give you a piece of yarn. You have to tie it on his arm. He will refuse it first but you have to make him understand and put it on his arm. And you have to be careful while tie this. It shouldn't be loosened. If it dropped by him any time, the evil can come back in the body again. So be careful with it." saying this he gave him a piece of thick yarn which was black-colored.

"I understand." he took it and bowed to him. He stood up and almost left but the guy stopped him.

"And listen,"

"Yes?" he asked.

When he came outside, he saw Dae Ju sitting on his knee in the middle of the street. A car was coming from far but seems like he wasn't bothered by it. Jheong Woo ran to him and the car was also coming to him with speed. Within a few minutes, Jheong Woo went to him and pulled him with himself. Though his body was heavier he tried with all his energy to save his friend. And he succeeds to pull him into the roadside.

"Are you crazy?" he said loudly. Why you came? Let me die! I don't deserve this life anymore! I am a monster! Let me die!" tears were still dropping from his eyes. His voice was very unclear.

"Do you think it will fix everything if you die now?" he asked. He was angry with him but he couldn't shout at him as he felt pity for him too.

"Then what can I do? What you say me to do? How can I face her now? Can I ever forgive myself? You can never imagine what I saw, I mean, what have I done! I nearly killed her!" he shouted with his broken voice. This time Jheong Woo has no reply he just looked at him with pitiful eyes.

"Come on, man! Don't become so hopeless! I am sure there is a way. We just have to find it! And until you don't tell me what you just saw, I can never understand! And also, I can not be able to help you. So, stay calm and tell me." he wanted to comfy him but seems like he got more disappointed and hopeless by hearing him. He told him everything with his unclear and broken voice while sitting on the roadside. And the more he was hearing the more he got astonished. He has no idea what he should tell to console Dae Ju. This time he seriously gets hurt by his friend as he loves Lina as his younger sister.