Doosik’s Eight Pack's Favorite

if you are curious as to why you may have gotten a notification but see nothing new:

in short, someone took it upon themselves to upload a piece of a fanart as a new chapter. it’s confused/upset many and also upset the fanartist terribly bc they didn’t want this to happen. the fanartist does not allow reuploads of their work, esp to a translation site of all places. people were able to take it down quickly so please take this as a reminder: DO NO UPLOAD FANARTS. this site is a place to upload official works only. leave it to the translator to do the uploading of new official chapters as they always have, they usually upload on the same day anyways. rest of us just wait patiently. so in short, there is no new chapter at the moment, a mistake happened but it was fixed.

(i will also address some other confusion in my own replies.. if u seen none under this it’s bc mangago is bugging out and won’t let me post the whole thing which is why i have to do it in parts smh)

so...i'm planning to visit ginger bitch tonight..with a baseball bat. anyone in? <3

if you’re as confused as i am about the plot (past, present, future) then i recommend this timeline!! it explains everything and i’m not confused anymore, in fact, i’m ecstatic because of the last part of it!!

https://zhanxixis.tumblr.com/19daystimeline

DID YOU KNOW?
blue whale's anus can stretch approximately
three and a half feet making it second biggest asshole after red hair guy (gold digger)

Homosexual in the sheets
Homophobic in the streets

It's amazing how some ppl claim Taku was with Haesoo out of the goodness of his heart, and wanted to "save" him from an unhealthy relationship i- like what now?? Reading comprehension where???
Taku got interested in Haesoo after seeing his story about his step brother: he wanted to mess with that relationship. Taku's exhibition themes were: Loss / Love —a choice he thought Haesoo would be so *perfect* for due to his relationship with Joowon. No, it was never about Haesoo's wellbeing lol. There’s literally a scene where he implicitly tells Haesoo to think of Joowon for the photoshoot, right after their breakup, and thinks: “I knew he was hurt, but I wanted to see something more”. He wasn't trying to make Haesoo feel better, but instead he was intrigued & captivated by Haesoo’s hurt and pain over Joowon. He even admits in the end, after he grew attached to Haesoo: "From the start Haesoo only had eyes for one person. Perhaps those unwavering eyes were what I loved most” -- proving how transfixed he was by Haesoo's feelings for Joowon.

Taku says in his character interview from the start that he's "opportunistic" when it comes to relationships. Example: him comforting Haesoo crying... it parallels Taku's ex-bf being comforted by him & getting upset cause Taku is just PRETENDING. It's the same w/ Haesoo. He didn't do that with genuine feelings, but just as a "habit" like Haesoo says. Taku also said, “it felt good to see you sad” and how he knows hes selfish but its cause he likes to feel needed. So him chasing after Haesoo wasnt sincere, but self-interest & intrigue (“I wanted to see the kind of story he writes when im gone” HELLO??).

There's multiple metaphors about it too (lmaoo not me writing about the metaphors when ppl can't even get the blatant text of Taku saying MULTIPLE TIMES how he's "not a good person" and that he likes Haesoo for selfish reasons... but anyway the metaphors are interesting to me <333). First his photography: Taku always focused on the frozen images and what's within the lenses, instead of life in the present. He captured what he wanted & ignored the rest. Second: the candy. He says all relationships are the same to him: just "sugar/additives despite the different colours". He doesn’t like the taste of bitterness, only the sweetness. It ALL shows how Taku only wanted the good and superficial things in life. He selfishly liked to be needed by someone else, but without any of the burden of real feelings. It’s only through letting himself get attached to Haesoo & realizing Haesoo’s pretend love isn’t enough for him, that he describes Haesoo’s kiss as "bitter".

Honestly I know how upsetting it is to see your ship sink. But if you step back and read carefully: you realize that Yeongha literally built Taku's character to GET HEARTBROKEN and experience the bitter things in life,, because he'd been so numb to that feeling otherwise. (It makes me curious abt Taku's backstory honestly. like what made him this way??)

I honestly can appreciate Taku as a fictional character because I do find him interesting and layered. But I am TIRED of ppl claiming he was incredibly sincere and cared about Haesoo so much. Idk if some of y’all skipped these parts, or chose to ignore it... but pls do see the following examples of Taku's manipulative and selfish behavior, and taking advantage of Haesoo:

Exhibit 1 - He wanted to use his sex tape to guilt trip Haesoo in their relationship. He said: “I hoped that guilt would bring you to me”. It only didn't happen cause Haesoo turned down publishing the sex tape. It was not that Taku backed away and stopped himself because he realized how fcked up his actions were. It made Haesoo uncomfortable and weirded out too,, pretty sure this can count as sexual/workplace harassment lmao

Exhibit 2 - In chapter 96’s flashback Taku says "i just want to read the story he writes about me when i'm gone” (his friend calls him an asshole too lol). This is a throwback to Leo telling Joowon over the phone about how Taku uses his models for his work, and then tosses them aside with little regard. He was planning the same with Haesoo, until he later got “attached”. that’s karma ig~

Exhibit 3 - Haesoo expressed that he was unsure/not ready for a relationship. Yet literally RIGHT AFTER his quasi breakup with Joowon, Taku is pressuring him like, "I'm still waiting for an answer". It's weird cause Haesoo's wounds are fresh from his breakup, and Taku is NOT stupid. He knew this and persisted. Haesoo shouldn't have agreed and that's his own fault (HS is not entirely a victim here lets make that clear). Meanwhile Taku? He was flat out taking advantage of Haesoo's broken emotions.

Exhibit 4 - Quote: “It must have been painful for him no doubt, but I still wanted to see more". This was Taku's thought during a photoshoot with Haesoo, which later made Haesoo cry at the exhibition (Chapter 92/93). Taku told Haesoo: "think about having sex with someone you love, but you can never see them again". This was RIGHT AFTER Joowon and Haesoo's big separation. To inflict emotional pain in your partner, and then say you were interested in seeing more? Bruh no… just no.

Exhibit 5 - Quotes: “Every time I saw how sad you were, it felt good.” “You were lonely. You need me because of your unhappiness.” —Chapter 58. This is from Taku's monologue of how Haesoo’s unhappiness made him feel good, because he felt depended on by Haesoo for comfort // hs get away from this man pls haha

Exhibit 6 - Another quote: “If I can’t beat him [jw] one-on-one, then I at least want you [hs] to feel bad” —Chapter 66 ...Can Taku stop wishing for Haesoo depression, like he's already sad jfc

Exhibit 7 - "I want to bury inside the void he [jw] left in you. And later I'll push him aside however I can." ...honestly this quote struck me as Taku taking advantage of Haesoo's heartbreak and being hella 'opportunistic' (btw: Taku called HIMSELF that in his interview in chapter 5 so I mean... lol). Maybe that's just me though idk.

Exhibit 8 - In Chapter 84 when Joowon's scandal broke out, notice how Taku starts texting "are you okay?" to Haesoo, then deletes it and instead tells him to stop caring about Joowon? This moment said a lot to me, because it's the fact that Taku is SO AWARE of how Haesoo must be feeling, but he purposely chooses to ignore that and cares more about winning and keeping him away from Joowon. Kinda struck me as the opposite from Joowon's phone call after Haesoo's modelling news dropped in chapter 68. JW asked Haesoo to not do the exhibition because he knew its not what HS wanted (he is right: haesoo always wanted to be known for his writing not his face, and felt crappy abt it all day). But when Haesoo said he was fine, JW told him he'll always be on Haesoo's side even as a hyung/friend. He made it so clear how he cares the most about HS simply being okay, even after Haesoo left him.

Exhibit 9 - Taku tells Haesoo he hopes he has a hard time with Joowon after their breakup (Chapter 99). It felt wrong to me cause Haesoo genuinely apologized and gently let him down in their breakup... but Taku tries to make Haesoo feel worse. I honestly understand being spiteful towards exes who mistreated you in some way. HOWEVER with this relationship: it seemed to highlight Taku’s selfishness. Taku is out here acting like Haesoo wronged him for simply not liking him back in a 1 month TRIAL relationship. As if he wasnt the one who initiated and *insisted* on their relationship. As if he was unaware of Haesoo’s feelings for Joowon. As if Taku didnt say it was better that they use each other. Him wanting to make Haesoo feel bad over this is wild considering all the conditions of their relationship and his past manipulation too.
((Also, Taku in this scene to Haesoo: “Sorry I told you I'm not a good person” … Like sir, if you know you’re not a good person, THEN FIX IT. Joowon spent almost 40 chapters self-reflecting n trying to correct the mistakes he made, when he never *intentionally* wanted to hurt Haesoo lol. Meanwhile some Taku fans: “omg he’s a good person that was wronged. haesoo never deserved him!” lmaooo))

///end of examples

Anyway I’m gonna have to start sending this to some of y’all who selectively read Taku’s character to all hell. He was really manipulative with Haesoo and had some bad intentions. And when Taku grew to stop being a robot and showed “real feelings” getting all attached to Haesoo and liking him more than he expected, he was STILL selfish and wanted Haesoo to suffer for him. He didn’t get enough development to stray away from that, but imo that’s exactly why he’s the second lead
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Basically Cain is going to war with satan for a reason we don’t fully know yet

somehow Cain got shot in the chest with a bullet from and weapon from heaven and it has been draining his power and magic. By going back to hell using his door Gyeong joon (blue hair MC), he could replenish his magic but it wasn’t stoping the bullet from going deeper into his heart.

Sid ( white haired demon) appeared to be Cains trusted right hand man but he is actually a traitor and a spy for satan. Earlier in the series Cain gives Sid a necklace that works as a gps to find people. Cain tells Sid to use this necklace to find the rumored doctor who has stayed in the human world. He wants to find the doc so he can removed the bullet from his chest. But since Sid is a traitor he gives the necklace to that weird pervy blonde demon so he can kill the doctor preventing Cain from being able to heal.

The weird pervy blonde demon kills the doctor and delivers the head to Sid to prove that the doctor is dead not aware that what he killed was a clone not the OG.
Realizing that someone from satans side is after him the doc shows up at Gyeong joon’s (blue hair MC) house to meet with Cain to aid him in the fight against satan, but Sid told Cain that the doctor was dead ( tbh I didn’t understand the conversation between the three that well) but basically Cain found out Sid betrayed him and they started fighting.

Cain puts up a barrier to protect Gyeong joon (blue hair MC) and in the process dies. Sid goes in to finish Cain off but has to flee because Cain starts sucking up all the magic in the area ( this is his bodys response to try to heal).

His attempt at self healing isn’t effect because of the bullet in his heart so the doctor try’s to remove it using Gyeong joon’s (blue hair MC) Soul and an energy source to pull it out. It was a risky procedure since the doctor had never done it before but in the past the doctor also loved his door but his door died so when he saw how heart broken Gyeong joon (blue hair MC) was when Cain dies it reminded him of himself in the past and decides to help. (Cain is technically dead but not in our human sense of dead, his soul entered something like a form of limbo so as far as we as readers are concerned he’s still alive)

During this process Cain and Gyeong joon’s (blue hair MC) consciousness connect to each other and since they were interrupted last time form have steamy love time they decide to go ahead and get it on right there and then (cuz I mean why not, it’s not like they had something better to do)

As the bullet gets closer to being removed Gyeong joon (blue hair MC) soul can’t take the stress and starts to get damaged essentially killing Gyeong joon (blue hair MC) in the process which is why his consciousness fades when he was in the middle of talking to Cain. Cain realizes that if they continue any further then Gyeong joon (blue hair MC) will die and cuts the bullet in half, ending the procedure early. Cain still has half of the bullet in his chest but since he removed half of it some of his power is returned to him.

Cain realizes the by being with Gyeong joon (blue hair MC) he will only put him in danger so he tells the doctor to tell him that Cain abandoned him and that he’s free ( since Cain “died” Gyeong joon (blue hair MC) was released as Cains door). Cain also orders the doctor to protect Gyeong joon (blue hair MC) since it’s likely he will be targeted (Gyeong joon (blue hair MC) doesn’t know this since he thinks he was thrown away by Cain. There whole conversation is interrupted by the demon with the steampunk glasses attacking them to bring their head to satan (don’t forget that the doc the the red hair demon are both considered fugitives) the red haired demon tries to protect everyone with a shield but fails and some of those energy blast get past the sheild.

Luckily for them the little eye ball demon that was used as an bow turned into a bird and saved them. During all this Cain is on a rampage killing tons of demons flooding out from hell and looking for Sid to kill him.

And that’s where we are now, I tried my best to hit all the major plot points but I left out any for the romance stuff. if you have any questions regarding that just ask and I’ll try to answer them

To anyone who has forgotten the plot or is confused by it, the texts below maybe can help you.

(Disclaimer: Everything written here may not be 100% accurate but I'm pretty sure it's at least has an accuracy of over 90%)
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This is basically the gist and what has happened so far:

- Demons can only enter our world through Doors which are humans.

- Joon becomes Cain's Door.

- Cain is a powerful demon who is at war with another powerful demon(?) named Satan.

- Cain can't defeat Satan because of the bullet in his heart which was shot either by Satan or Satan's subordinate. The bullet was from the fusion of weapons from heaven and hell.

- The bullet has significantly reduced Cain's power which is why he instructed his subordinate, the albino bitch Sid, to find the demon doctor that can fix this bullet injury.

- Cain gave Sid a special compass to help him find the demon doctor.

- Turns out that Sid is a traitorous bitch so now there are other demons messing and is after with the couple i.e. Cain and Joon.

- Sid became a traitorous bitch because he believes that Cain is not fit to be the lord of hell because he's too "soft". That and it's also possibly because of that weird demon parasite(?) or his multiple personality entity inside Sid that's is quite possibly influencing him too.

- JinYeong is Joon's bestie, who is secretly in love with him.

- Sid for some reason becomes infatuated with Jin Yeong so he tricks him into having sex with him, then he eventually kidnaps him and keeps forcing him to have sex with him.

- The Demon Doctor, named Aaron, has a clone that was killed by a demon (it's the demon that uses those bondage/rope thingies. Let's call him Bondage Demon.). The Bondage Demon was Sid's subordinate who Sid gave the compass to and instructed to find and kill the doctor.

- The Bondage Demon succeeded at locating and killing the doctor but he did not know that it was only a clone. The real Aaron thought that the attack was probably caused by Satan so he went to his friend/ally, the Pink-haired demon named Gael to find Cain to seek allegiance and protection from Satan.

- Aaron and Gael arrive at Joon's house to apparently help Cain and in doing so gain his alliance and protection.

- Both Aaron and Gael are afraid of Satan and they are hiding from him in our world, well Gael is, Aaron probably have other reasons.

- Aaron is actually the demon doctor that Cain has been looking for but Cain doesn't know that.

- Both Gael and Aaron used to be on Satan's side. The reason for their current state is still unknown.

- Sid suddenly arrives unexpectedly at Cain and Joon's home and Aaron recognizes him as the employer of the killer of his clone.

- Aaron is thinking of a way to prove to Cain that he is the doctor that he's been looking for since Cain is skeptical due to him meeting many fake doctors in the past and his trusted subordinate, Sid, reported to him that the real doctor was killed (it was only his clone that was killed.)

New/Recent stuff:

- Aaron concluded that if he proves that the compass is not with Sid, then Cain will know that Sid actually did betray him, that's why Aaron basically said to Sid "Where's the valuable compass that Cain specifically gave to you bitch?".

- Sid got caught now.


That's basically it.




BONUS SPOILER





Jinyeong, MC'S best friend, highly resembles the dead previous lover of Aaron the Demon Doctor. Jinyeong is highly likely the reincarnation of Aaron's former lover. Aaron's previous lover was also his door and maybe that's also the reason why he is stuck in our world. So Jinyeong x Aaron is endgame, they were always meant to be since 500 years ago.