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    “He’s coming...” she whispered to herself.


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    Frozen, Yuna slowly fell back into Hwan-nun’s waiting arms—his butterfly knife impaled between her third and fourth vertebrae, straight through the left lung.


    Flesh and bone caved beneath his heel. He continued stomping on her a few more times, her death-rattles gradually turning into strangled, drowning gurgles, then finally silence.


    Hwan-nun crouched behind the dumpster, his feet inches from Ji-hyun’s face.


    He clung to Yuna for a long time, utterly alone in the dark, the only person who had ever loved him taken from this world.


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