The Untangle Spirits

Chapter 4 : The Jeoseung Saja (Grim Reaper)

“You’re Appa is sick.”

“Hae Nim, Wol-ah, I know that you hated me for taking your Omma place. But never in my heart would I ever lie to myself that I do not care for you. I raised you since both of you were 4 yours old, I look at both of you as my son.” said Secretary Shin as she was holding both Hae Nim and Wol hand at the entrance door of their house.

Hae Nim look at Secretary Shin and said “I will take care of Appa, I would hire the best of the best Doctor to cure him. So Ms. Shin… Please settle down a bit, I have worked to do at the office and I’m already late. I got to go now.”

As for Wol, he just kept silence and walk away without saying words to Secretary Shin.

“Honjail ttae boda weroun ggutobtnun shigan soge gathin got gata, norul tathago shipji anha urin gati michyogana bwa, I’m going crazy crazy, I sarang soge we just goin crazy…”

Wol kept on miming the song in his Ipod that was sung by Se7en, he became tired and sit at the road wiping his sweats with his towel. He’s been running for almost half hour thinking about secretary Shin word just now and also his father being sick he just couldn’t concentrate on doing exercise that instead of continuing his jogging, he walk straight away back to his house.

“Wol-ah…” said the dokkaebi that suddenly appear, floating in the air in front of Wol.

“Ya! Dodok! Don’t ever do that to me, how many times I have to tell you not to appear in my sight like that. You’re scaring me.” yelled Wol like he was talking to the wall which make the maid looked at him feeling confuse and quickly apologize as she felt that she was being yelled by him.

“You’re not supposed to treat your maid that way Wol. You make them scare.” Tease the dokkaebi as he floating in the air with a fan on his hand.

“Look who’s talking now. You made me look crazy in front of her you fool!”

“Easy young master, I just wanted to say goodbye to you.”

“… Are you going somewhere?” Wol replied while he was picking an outfit from his closet.

“I found a new human I can clinging to. So I decided to leave your Appa side.” Wol still ignoring the dokkaebi and try to concentrate searching for the best outfit he wanted to wear.

Floating in the air, the dokkaebi slowly land his leg on the ground and said “I am just a dokkaebi, I don’t have the power to see his life span. All I did was brought reward for him as he let me felt his eagerness in gambling.” “Beside I’m just a low level demon… You see him don’t you? The Jeoseung Saja? He is a grim reaper, one of the spirits of underworld that rules by a King name King Yeonma.”

He couldn’t find nor arranged a sentence to say to the dokkaebi. He was trying to cover his teary eyes, with a mixed feeling he took a cigarette from the desk near his closet and said: “Is he really dying?” said Wol in a lower voices.

“That was the main reason of your Appa sickness, the things you’re holding now… This is why I hate clinging with human for so long. They were given a short life but never appreciate the times they were able to breath. Blind by the wealthy and the paper that you called money?” tease the dokkaebi again.

Instead of lighten up his cigarette, he stood up and look outside the window he realize that compare to the pain he was given, he was the only person he had known as his Appa.