The screen froze into a monotone still shot and the ending soundtrack started playing.

“I really like this song,” said his wife as she took her head off his knees.

Maru cautiously stretched his legs out. He asked as he massaged his sore legs,

“How was it?”

“It feels like it’s deviated from the story that it’s led until now. It’s not to the point of being not understandable, but I still think that Changsik’s change was a little too drastic. Of course, the end is approaching, and I’m sure you needed some kind of new conflict. It wasn’t to the point that made me think ‘this isn’t right,’ so I think the responses should be okay?”

“So it’s on a level the viewers will be able to accept?”

“There has been plenty of foreshadowing in the previous episodes, whether it was through Daecheol’s speech or through Changsik’s monologue. An unstable ego rushing to end the case is something that’s plausible, but the way it happened leaves some room to be desired. But considering that there are only 2 episodes left, I guess this was for the best. It’ll be too sudden if that happened in episode 9 and then episode 10 concluded everything.”

“Do you think it would’ve been better if we removed some of the episodes and focused more time on describing the main character’s psychology?”

“If you did that, you might get the...