Responses
I don’t know if you remember, but after the scene where they meet the mantis disguised in a monk, it says that he’s the one who will kill youngdo. It’s such a beautiful but tragic story, they all succumbed to their fate. But with the last panel I can tell for sure that giju and youngdo reunited in the afterlife.
Such a beautifully told story with such a confusing last few chapters. I know it was quite metaphorical and a lot was taking place in the MC’s sub conscious, but I wish it was clarified.
I think there are so many possibilities that it’s hard to say exactly what’s real.
One possibility is that he’s actually in a mental hospital and Young Da came to visit him when he was older. I think it’s possible the the old man actually didn’t kill Young Da because he recognised him when he caught the statue.
When Young Da meets Giju, he meets Giju as a child. I think Giju has reverted to a childlike state at this point.
But because of maybe schizophrenia, all these things come to him in a fragmented fashion. When his mother encourages him to dive further down I think he’s escaping reality and hiding deep into his subconscious. I think he was always slowly losing his mind, but Yuju dying finally drove him mad.