The Beast Who Asks
Ep. 3

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2026-06-14

Cast: Keon

What was left where the laughter fadedUntitled #2This time, a joke left unfinishedUntitled #4Untitled #5Not running away. Was that meant for me — or for herself?Untitled #7The rain... stopped.Untitled #8"Don't eat dinner too late."Untitled #9I knew without even taking it out to look.Untitled #11Below the mountain, the string still there.Untitled #12My fingers moved before my mind did.Untitled #13It had no weight, yet it felt heavy.Across the yard, the last room — the apothecary.Untitled #15"You got caught in the rain." "The two of you were under the eave."Untitled #16"Sit down. Stop standing there like your legs gave out."Untitled #18They always stay in that far end room. Ten years now. Never moves, even when others are empty.Untitled #19Why? No idea. Never asked.Untitled #20But since you showed up, we eat dinner together. Keeping a seat empty... for someone who'd come.Untitled #21"Don't eat dinner late" — the words had overlapped.Untitled #22That frozen moment kept rewinding.Untitled #23Every time, half a step short.Untitled #24Restraint — or fear.Untitled #25This time, didn't bring it up.Evening. The courtyard.Untitled #27"You didn't eat late."Untitled #29In my soup alone, there was no radish.Untitled #30"Why." "……Nothing."Untitled #31There'll be fog tomorrow.Untitled #32How do you know? When the ridge is sharp at dusk, fog rolls in at dawn. You learn, after years up here.Untitled #33Ten years?Maeryeong sure talks a lot.Untitled #35I didn't say much. Just that we've shared the same car for ten years, and... And? ...There's no 'and.'Untitled #36I already know everything Maeryeong said. ...Then why ask. I want to hear it from your lips.Untitled #38...I said I'd keep the seat empty. A seat for someone who might comeUntitled #39Again, half a step shortUntitled #41...Why. A touch means nothing to some people. Not to me. Once I touch you, I won't stop there.Untitled #42You're someone who'll go back down.Untitled #43What hides inside those words — things I've never let out As if to prove it, a pocket rangUntitled #44Answer it. I don't want to. Not wanting to and not having to are two different things.Untitled #45You not running, and me not reaching— Which one's harder. I know.Untitled #47Not reaching means wanting to.He wasn't asleep either.Untitled #49Eight. Piled up.Untitled #50Next Friday. Right around the corner.Untitled #51That's why he didn't reach.One hand, the cold city. The other, a fleeting warmth.Just as he said.Untitled #54It wasn't only me who wasn't sleeping.Untitled #55"You didn't sleep." "Neither did you."Untitled #56"You said the fog would come. It really did." "Ten years, you said."Untitled #57"Drink it. The dawn air'll wreck your stomach."Untitled #59……Thank you. Yesterday she pulled away. Today, she let it stay.Untitled #60Those shoulders... were trembling.This time, I took that half-step.Rrrring— It wasn't vibration. It was a ringtone.Untitled #63Answer it.Untitled #65You said you wouldn't run.Untitled #66The third ring — I let it go unanswered.Untitled #67Before it disappeared, I finally opened my mouth.