Ep 3. Back to the past

Two Worlds Apart

Ep 3.

Back to the past

Comic World  (What was in ep 1. Was all of Hong Joon's Past and in this ep. I will explain it thoroughly.)

“SPLASH,”

Hong Joon was hanging over the Khan River with a strange-looking guy holding him tightly so that he wouldn't fall down into the river.

“Hold on tight, I won’t let you go down, ANYONE come here and help,” Mingi said (Strange-Looking Guy helping Hong Joon up).

“Let go of me, Why are you helping me?”

“Do you think I care if you asked me to or not? I won’t just watch and see how you die in that dark and cold place.”

“But, I want to die, let me go.”

“Don’t even think about it. Your life is not in your hands anymore, if you continue to hurt yourself you will end up in a psychology office to fix your thoughts.”

At that moment many people came to help Hong Joon. They all pulled him up and made sure he wasn’t hurt.

“Don’t ever do that again OK, No matter how hard your life is you have to hold on to yourself and make sure you don’t fall apart. And know that there are many people around the world with even worse lives than you have right now. I don’t know what happened to you or how hard it is for you but just know that there will be at least one person in this world that loves and cares for you.” One of the people that helped Hong Joon said.

Hong Joon looked down, embarrassed of what he had tried to do just now. He thought of what that lady from the crowd of people said to him just now.

Hong Joon’s Mind

\~ What if my parents are alive? What if I just am missing the small clues left by the murderer. What if I just let go and can’t bring myself together.\~

“Want me to give you some advice?” Said Mingi to Hong Joon while the big crowd of people started to shrink one by One.

Hong Joon kept quiet and did not reply to Mingi’s question.

“I can be your friend and help you with your problems but first you need to tell me what your problem is.”

“You think I would tell a stranger what I have been going through? Do you think that I would trust you, someone who I met for the first time?”

“Yes, I do, and I trust that you can change your thoughts and feelings.”

“Well guess what you are wrong,” 

“I don’t care if you trust me or not or if you think I am good or bad. I will share what I have gone through and I won’t ask for anything in return simply just to keep going and think of what you are doing before you do it.”

“Why are you being so nice to me?”

“Because I know what you are going through right now. I also know that you are going through a lot and right now you are depressed and are angry. That is why you are being so negative.”

“Who even are you? How do you know so much about me?”

“I saw you on the news and saw everything. I have been through the same thing. I witnessed  My mother’s death and my father blamed my mother’s death on me and sent me to prison when I was young. But no one believed that I saw my father kill my mother. I am now 25 and I am over everything, I am as strong as I could ever be.”

“Sorry to hear that, aren’t you scared and at least a little bit suspicious about me? The news says that I killed my parents and have many other intentions too. What if I kill you on the spot?” Asked Hong Joon asked.

“Hhhh, I am not scared, I trust you, not the news. Even if the news says something doesn’t mean it is true. And most of the time 50% of it is fake. I am on your side and if you do kill me I would think it is fate.”

“Thank You for your time, But now I have to go.”

“Wait, do you have something important to do? If not, I can share one of my tips and I can help you find the murder of your family.”

“Can you help me?”

“Yes, and I will do my best,”

“ Fine, I will tell you my story and you have to make sure to not share it with anyone and also to not go back on your words.”

“You got it, I will not go back on my words. You can trust me.”

Hong Joon told his story to Mingi. Mingi was very traumatized by his story and at that moment he understood why he wanted to die. But Mingi knew that he had to help him get around this big problem and overall give him a better life.

“How about we start working and when we get enough money then we will open our own company and we will use that company to help us find out who the murderer is and how we can compensate your parents and siblings. So technically with all of the company's shares and popularity, we can get the trust of other people so they will help us and maybe we can find a way to find other small parts of your family’s death.” Said Mingi making a plan. 

“I agree but, I think we should first go to my home and find some clues so we can first get all of the lies out of this case. Also, I will show everyone how fake Detective MinGU really is.”

“Yes, you are right. I should have thought of that before anything else. And detective MinGu right, is he a bad guy?”

“Yes, He is a detective who only cares about money and popularity. He somehow found a fake recording of me and my family and sent me to jail.”

“Don’t worry we will get back at that detective.”

They both go to Hong Joon and his family's home and they feel a weird aura. 

“Mingi, right?”

“Yes, right”

“I feel weird right as I step foot into this house, I am a demon hunter and I feel that there has been a demon in here. I started hunting for demons after I turned 12 because I was one of the people who saw a demon rip off the hand of my classmate and I was terrified after that time so I became a demon hunter. All of the people I told never believed my words when I said “I saw a demon” so I gave up that thought. But now I have awakened and I want to take revenge on my family and my friend. If I am correct a demon might have killed or even hid my family away from me.”

“You are a demon hunter? I never thought demons were real but when you told me about the weird aura or something, I feel weird too.”

“We have to find some more clues.”

2 years later

After years of studying and building their own company they finally managed to build their own company and now Hong Joon is 24 years old. He had gotten a lot done, he even got his title for the best detective back and also has won the heart of many people and now everyone trusts that he is not the killer of his family. Hong Joon was still finding a way to meet a demon so he could ask if it were them who took or killed his family but there has been no progress in finding a demon for the past 2 years.

Then one day he went to the hospital because his friend Mingi has broken his arm and he wanted to check on him since he has gotten a really serious fracture. 

“Mingi, how are you? Are you feeling better?”

“Yup I am much better. How is the work in the company going? Is everything going okay without me?”

“ Don’t worry everything is fine and also I have had many complaints about people needing a detective to find out someone from the news company letting out false information about a new case.”

“ Aaaayyy, Why are there so many bad guys in this world?”

“Phone Buzzing”

“Oh, I have to take it. It is my uncle’s number.”

“Alright see ya.”

“Hello”

“Hong Joon, if you want to see your family again, come to the top of the building in 10 min or else they will die.” Said the old and powerful demon

“Who, Who are you? How did you get my uncle’s phone?”

“I am the demon who you were looking for all this time.”

Hong Joon hung up the phone and quickly ran up the stairs of the hospital to get to the 15th floor. The elevators were not working so he had limited time and he had to rush. 

“All this time I was looking for clues of the Murderer but I found none it was all like a flawless kill but I thought there had to be at least one mistake and I was right the killer was not a human or else how could they leave false evidence that I killed my family and leave no other clues behind. I was right, it is a demon. I have to hurry or else I may never see the faces of my Mom and Dad and siblings ever again.”

Hong Joon rushed up the stairs and finally he was at the top. He went outside and called the same number again. 

“Where are you?” said Hong Joon panting.

“Hahahahahahahaha, You made it, I guess I have no other choice but to… KILL YOU!!!” Said the demon holding a knife by Hong Joon’s Throat.

“You lied. Where are my Parents? I will kill you if you do something to them. Do you understand?” 

“Hahahahahahah, Hahahhahahah you still think you can be so arrogant even when facing death? Let me tell you your family is alive and they are in my home, Trapped, None of them have the right type of souls I need so I came to take yours!!!”

“Yahhhh” Hong Joon broke out of The demon’s hands and took his knife.

They kept on fighting, in the end, the demon used his power to keep Hong Joon still and stabbed him to take the soul and saw that his soul was still not the right one, The demon was angry as he has never been, he has been looking for this soul for 18 years and still, he couldn’t find it. So angrily he stopped using his power and threw Hong Joon off the building!!! Hong Joon managed to hold on to the edge of the building while the demon disappeared into thin air!!!

Hong Joon was yelling for help. He was weak and tired at that time because of the stab that went across his whole chest. He saw a Mirror-like thing opening up and a hand coming out of it. He held the hand and pulled it so it could help but it suddenly disappeared. (Joo Hee comes into the comic that way and the teleport thing disappears because the door to the real world closed and she appeared in the comic world).

Authors Note:

Hi guys, Hope you are enjoying this comic so far. I am trying really hard to improve because I am a young writer who is very busy. I try to add time to write and sometimes it is very hard for me so the episodes might take 1-3 weeks to update. I am trying my best, and so far I think I am getting the hang of it. This episode might not be the most interesting because I tried to explain everything going on in Hong Joon’s life as quickly as possible so I might have not explained some things too well. I hope you will stay with me until the end of the Novel and see what happens to both characters. If you have any additional questions about this episode or anything about this Novel then please let me know I will try to get back to you as soon as possible. (Try to comment in the comments of the episode or in my messages for the fastest reply. Thank You for reading make sure to come back in a week or two for newly posted episodes.

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