It was rather blatant. Maru recalled what Giwoo did as he sat on his bed. He was practically telling him to watch. The guy who suddenly left for a long period of time to ‘make a phone call’ suddenly came back and revealed that he had a girlfriend before continuing the call inside so obviously. Kang Giwoo said that it was no problem because he trusted the people there. A robber with a knife saying “I won’t threaten you with this” might be more believable than that. The eyes that looked at Gaeul on the screen did not belong to a man who had gotten himself a new girlfriend. While Maru couldn’t see his heart, he was convinced that Kang Giwoo hadn’t given up yet; that in fact, his obsession had become a sort of paranoia and was burning intensely within him.

To classify, Kang Giwoo was ‘socially strong.’ Whether he wanted to or not, his environment would not let him stay ‘weak.’ Anything he wished to have would have entered his hands, leading him to believe that ‘anything he wished for can be his’, a proposition that no ordinary person could dream of. The proposition should have...