W-Two Worlds Apart

episode 9

We already saw this, but in case you wanted to relive that stabbing pain in your heart: Kang Chul makes Yeon-joo promise to go back to her world and draw him waking up from a dream, having forgotten everything that’s happened since he met her, effectively resetting the manhwa world. He jumps off the roof in order to send her back.

Meanwhile, No-Face Killer tracks Dad all the way to his flight to New Zealand, first appearing in voice and words only, before suddenly materializing in the restroom with his hands over Dad’s mouth to cover his screams.

No-Face has teleported here to confront his creator about who he is, and knocks Dad around in the tiny stall until he has him in a stranglehold.

He growls, “You betrayed me. Why don’t you keep your promises? You said you’d find me. Who am I? Who am I? Give me my face!” It’s somehow deadly serious and hilariously comical at the same time.

The flight attendant knocks repeatedly when she hears the scuffle, and then finally the noises subside and the door clicks open… Oh, there’s Dad! He’s alone, but he looks badly shaken up.

Yeon-joo reappears in her world and hurriedly draws Kang Chul waking up from his dream, and she breaks down in tears once it’s done.

Kang Chul’s timeline resets to him waking up in the hospital after his stabbing incident, and he stirs awake with tears in his eyes.

Yeon-joo narrates that resetting the manhwa worked—No-Face disappeared from her world, though he left three victims in his wake. Police officers clean up the murder scenes, of the two bicyclists on the bridge and the assistant at Dad’s publishing house.

Su-bong flails and pleads for Yeon-joo’s mom to drive them away from Dad’s workshop, but Mom refuses to go anywhere without finding Yeon-joo first, and runs off to look for her.

Su-bong starts out trying to call out politely, “Mother! Mother!” and eventually just starts screaming “MOM!” like she’s his mom. It’s the cutest thing. He’s shocked when Mom finds Yeon-joo drenched in sweat and passed out in the passenger seat of his car.

In the manhwa world, Kang Chul is drenched in sweat too, and So-hee sits by his bedside all night. Yeon-joo narrates that all the main characters in Chul’s world were saved from disappearing.

Dad flies straight back to Korea and reads the latest issue of the webtoon with a dark expression, especially when he sees the frame of Yeon-joo with a bullet hole in her forehead.

Dad shows up at Mom’s place unannounced to see Yeon-joo, who’s just been brought home from the emergency room and is sleeping in her bed. Mom says she doesn’t understand what Yeon-joo was doing drawing in Su-bong’s car for hours until she passed out.

That seems to break Dad’s heart even more, and he touches Yeon-joo’s forehead tenderly and holds her hand. He isn’t happy when he notices the wedding ring on her finger, though it does remind him of Kang Chul and the frame he saw in the webtoon of Chul asking her to pass a flash drive along to her father.

Dad finds the flash drive in Yeon-joo’s pocket and pops it into his phone, where he finds a letter addressed to him. We see Kang Chul write it back when Yeon-joo was crying after seeing So-hee almost vanish.

Chul writes that he heard Dad was alive, but he has no plans to apologize for shooting him: “Because I don’t have the right to be forgiven, but you don’t have the right to forgive me either.” Dad smirks and calls him arrogant.

Chul says he’s writing because they have work left to do: “I’m going to accept the wretched fate you gave me, so you must do your work as well. Stop running away.