Summary

In Chapter 25, Jun-oh returned to Sokcho and told the narrator she should move to Seoul with him. She told him she could not leave her mother, and he replied that she could come with them. The narrator said she did not want to live with her mother. Jun-oh told the narrator he loved her and they sat together in silence. They made love, despite the narrator's warning that there was someone next door.

In Chapter 26, the next morning, Kerrand saw Jun-oh and looked startled. Jun-oh made a comment about Kerrand's nose, and the narrator said that if he was going to get plastic surgery, he should have his nose done to look like Kerrand's. Jun-oh told the narrator she had changed. The narrator saw the girl with the bandages in the lounge removing her bandages. Underneath were “wounds weeping as the skin was...