The Marrying The Grim Reaper
Chapter 06: The D (Kwak Dong Il)
Dong-Il invites Gyu-Sik to rest in a minimarket.
"Hahh, it's so hot." Gyu-Sik wiped the sweat off his forehead.
"You've worked hard, drink it." Dong-Il gives cold canned juice to Gyu-Sik.
"Thank you." Gyu-Sik sipped the juice.
"What's your job?" Dong-Il asked suddenly.
"Emm. a unique job." Answer Gyu-Sik.
"When I was young I worked as an employee at one of the vehicle insurance companies.
I work as a salesman, my sales performance is very good. In the second year I was promoted to the position of head of the unit, but a friend of mine brought the insurance money I was supposed to deposit into the bank." Dong-Il tells of his past.
"..I had to bear all the losses, I sold the car and had to move out of my apartment.
At that time I had a lover, we were planning to get married the following year, but she finally left me."
"..From then on I worked odd jobs until I finally chose to be a scavenger."
Gyu-Sik faithfully listens to Dong-Il's story.
"You.. I'm sorry, I mean grandpa doesn't have a brother?" Ask Gyu-Sik.
"No, the people I know all stay away from me for fear that I'll lend you money."
"Waaah, humans are complicated, they have hearts but they don't have them."
"Yes, that's how humans are." Dong-Il sipped mineral water.
"Grandfather.is there something you want to do before you die?"
"Hemm. there really is."
"Say, Yumi is so anxious to make Grandpa happy, she might grant you that wish." Gyu-sik.
"I want to take a picture in a neat dress. At least in my old house there'll be pictures of me in decent clothes."
"Okay, then after meeting Yumi we go to the photo studio."
"Today?"
"It has to be today." Answer Gyu-Sik firmly.
"True, who knows today is my last day." Dong-Il sipped his mineral water.
Gyu-Sik fell silent.
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"Grandfather..here.." Yumi waved both hands so that Dong-Il and Gyu-Sik knew of her whereabouts.
Dong-Il and Gyu-Sik approach Yumi.
"Have you waited a long time?" Ask Dong-Il.
"No, let's go cake to the bungeoppang tavern." Yumi holds Dong-Il's hand.
"You hungry already?" Ask Dong-Il.
Yumi nodded.
"Lee Yumi. Dong-Il's grandfather wants to take pictures in neat clothes." Suddenly Gyu-Sik speaks.
"Hmm? Really cake?"
"Yes, I want a picture of me wearing neat clothes in my old house later."
Yumi again felt her heart break.
"Alright, then let's go to the photo studio."
"But we're going to eat bungeoppang?!" Gyu-sik Protest.
"I'm full already." Answer Yumi.
"How the hell? Plin plan your attitude? Just now you said hungry is full, you son of a bitch!" Gyu-Sik feels very hungry, in his brain is already imagined bungeoppang.
"But grandfather photos are more important than bungeoppang!" Yumi doesn't want to lose.
"But my stomach is important too! I walked a long way and worked hard helping grandfather!" Gyu-Sik and Yumi get into a small quarrel.
"Have been.. already.. we ate bungeoppang first new to the photo studio, how Yumi?" Dong-Il mediates Yumi and Gyu-Sik.
"Yes cake."
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"Why are you like a child?" Dong-Il sits between Yumi and Gyu-Sik in the cold war.
"I? No cake." Gyu-Sik disagrees with Dong-Il's words.
"Then you're saying I'm like a kid??" Yumi felt unacceptable.
"I didn't say it like that, you admit it to yourself."
"Hehehe... It's funny to you guys, so this is what it's like to have grandchildren, huh? It's nice to hear this kind of unimportant debate." Dong-Il smiled, he felt happy.
"Did grandpa feel good?" Too compact, Yumi and Gyu-Sik ask simultaneously.
After enjoying the bungeoppang the three of them went to a photo studio not far from the bungeoppang tavern.
"Grandfather.here there is also a clothing rental, so grandfather does not need to buy it." Yumi directs Dong-Il to choose the clothes he likes.
"really? So it could be cheaper, huh?" Dong-Il is excited.
"True cake, and there is also a hair and face styling service, so that the photo can look better."
Dong-Il helped Yumi choose a dress and then tidied her hair and started shooting.
"Look at his face." Gyu-Sik whispers to Yumi.
"Yes, he looks happy." Yumi and Gyu-Sik stand behind the photographer observing Dong-Il who is shooting.
Yumi shed tears, "Ah. shit. I really can't help it."
"Hold a minute, you could cry all over the house. I'll keep you crying until your heart feels better."
Hearing the heartfelt words of Gyu-Sik makes Yumi find a bit of happiness amidst her grief for Dong-Il.
"Yumy.. Gyu-Sik. come here." Dong-Il asks Yumi and Gyu-Sik to approach him.
"Picture the three of us." Pinta Dong-Il to the photographer.
Yumi and Gyu-Sik stand behind, while Dong-Il sits down.
FLASH..
"Picture them both." Dong-Il walks over to the photographer and asks to take a picture of Yumi and Gyu-Sik.
"No need.." Gyu-Sik wants to walk but Yumi holds her hand.
"Just do it." Yumi whispers to Gyu-Sik, finally Gyu-Sik stands back next to Yumi.
"Attent." The photographer's assistant removes the chair in front of Yumi and leaves Yumi and Gyu-Sik docked until their arms are stuck together.
"Smile. three. two. one.."
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"It's funny your expression, hehe.." Dong-Il flips through the photos with Yumi and Gyu-Sik.
"Grandpa. let's eat." Take Yumi.
"Come on. I want to eat crab soup. You know that shop that sells good crab soup?" Ask Dong-Il.
"You know, but we need to take the subway, is that okay, cake?" Ask Yumi.
Dong-Il nodded.
Yumi, Gyu-Sik and Dong-Il enjoy a day together. Yumi wants to make Dong-Il's last day into a beautiful memory that he will bring to another realm.
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00:00 Seoul time.
Yumi, Gyu-Sik and Dong-Il are enjoying a warm tea in the courtyard of Dong-Il's house.
Yumi saw the number 1 red tattoo turn into 0.
Yumi holds back her tears, Gyu-Sik signals to Yumi not to show her sadness.
"I'm really happy to see you guys. God still loves me, when I was a little I was met with good people." A happy face bolt clearly on Dong-Il.
Yumi and Gyu-Sik just smiled.
Drap. drape..
A gloomy aura started to come.
Yumi and Gyu-Sik turned their heads towards the back when they heard the sound of footsteps.
It turns out that a grim reaper who took Dong-Il's life came.
"Hoamm. I'm so sleepy." Dong-Il fell asleep on the floor.
Yumi cried silently, she could not bear to see this procession.
Yumi and Gyu-Sik see Dong-Il's spirit out of his body.
"It turns out I'm dead." Dong-Il's spirit saw his body lying on the floor.
"So you know that?" Ask the Spirit of Dong-Il.
Yumi and Gyu-Sik nodded.
"Thank you for giving me happiness at the end of my life. I'm asking you to cremate my body, no need to make a funeral, no one will come. Use the money in my closet, if there's any leftover you use to buy a bungeoppang. I'm saying, you guys gotta get along and take care of yourself." Dong-Il's last smile was very warm.
"Han Gyu-Sik, timjangnim leave a message for you. He said you'd have to hurry, if you didn't want anything weird to happen." The angel of death said.
"All right." Answer Gyu-Sik.
"Follow me." The angel of death guides Dong-Il's spirit and then they are lost.
"Ka. kekkk….." Yumi sobs while holding Dong-Il's body.
"We must carry out Dong-Il's grandfather's request, strengthen Lee Yu-Mi." Gyu-Sik pats Yumi on the shoulder.
To be comtinued..