The Beast Who Asks
Ep. 4

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2026-06-15

Cast: Keon

A silence with no room left to breathe.Untitled #2Three days.Untitled #3Your shoes. I heard it took three days. …Rian told you.Untitled #4Is it okay if I'm the one who finds out? Why won't you just say it. Directly.Untitled #5I was afraid it would weigh you down. It's heavy even without you saying it. Even now.Untitled #6Untitled #6Untitled #7It wasn't the third time. It was the fourth.Untitled #8My hand moved before I could think.The fourth retreat never happened.It's just the cold. Nothing more. …But my fingers were already counting that warmth.Aren't you cold? No. …I see.Untitled #12The gap between them hadn't closed. Still, their hands were touching.I never knew when sleep had come.Between night and dawn, the light of the thresholdUntitled #15My hand… was gripping his sleeve.Untitled #16He wasn't asleep.Untitled #17Fine. Just a numb arm.Untitled #18You should've pulled away if it went numb. I thought you'd let go. Couldn't.…My breath stopped.Untitled #20Pull it away. Okay.Untitled #21For the first time, a direction not along the ridgeUntitled #22Something rose up, then sank back down under its own weight.Untitled #23…I'll make breakfast.Beneath what was extinguished, something still aliveUntitled #25What about Rian? I made sure he didn't come.Untitled #26Last night, the two of us being alone… it wasn't a coincidence.At the edge of the bench, a pair of shoesUntitled #28For three days… they've been sitting here.Untitled #29When did he even look at my feet? No one else's. Mine.Untitled #30Getting cold. Here.Untitled #31…The mountain path's rough. You'll hurt your feet. You've never even measured my feet.Untitled #32…At the well. When you were taking your shoes off.Untitled #33Thank you. …Yeah.Untitled #34Why'd you leave it without a word? If you were going to give it to me. Because what if I handed it to you and you didn't take it.Untitled #35If I left it, you wouldn't know even if you didn't take it. Not because I've never been given anything— but because I've been given something and lost it.Untitled #36The empty space between us, drifting toward a place long deferredUntitled #37…Doesn't it fit? It does.Untitled #38It means nothing. Just the past. …But my ankle kept counting every degree of that warmth.Untitled #39Only the shadow was one handspan short.Untitled #40Is Rian coming up soon? …Around noon.Let me do it. You said your arm was numb. This much, I can handle.Untitled #42Like last night — I didn't pull away.Untitled #43…Before. Once, before. …No.Untitled #44If you can't say it. Why did you make those shoes, then. Three whole days.Untitled #45Untitled #45Untitled #46There was a time. I made shoes for someone. Before. For someone else.Untitled #47That time too, it took three days. On my way to give them. On that road, I couldn't bring myself to.Untitled #48Stopping just half a step short — that wasn't a flaw. It was a wound.Untitled #49A single sound of presence told the end of dawn.Untitled #50It wasn't that I failed to give them — I was the one who put them on.Untitled #51I'm wearing them. Right now. …I saw.Untitled #52It's not that I couldn't give it to you. Not this time.Untitled #53Say it again. This time, don't stop.Untitled #54Without leaving me anywhere to run — he truly looked at me for the first time.Untitled #55You.Untitled #56You said you picked it up at the corner. Yes. I picked it up.Untitled #57Not given. Picked up.Untitled #58That person. They went far away. While I was still hesitating.Untitled #59So that's why I couldn't reach out. If I reach out and it's too late — I won't survive it a second time.His arm was the one going numb, yet it was always me who couldn't breathe.He said it'd be around noon. But the dawn passed too fast.Untitled #62Even my footsteps couldn't shake him loose.Untitled #63Geonyul. …You don't have to stop.Untitled #64More than just refusing to take it back.Untitled #65Last night, I didn't know what came next. This time, I think I do— and my breath went shallow.Untitled #66Even with fear still burning inside me— still, you.Untitled #67This time, he himself—Untitled #68…Because I don't want it to be too late.It wasn't that I couldn't pull away. I chose not to.…Geonyul.Untitled #71Come up. We need to talk. Whether that 'talk' was for Rian, or the words still half-unspoken— I couldn't tell.The one word that would follow 'I don't want it to be too late.'Untitled #73As if saying he would be there. Just once.