this was soooo helpful because I was super confused, lol
thanks for the explanations :)
Thanks! I thought the same but I couldn’t word it any better than what you said!
But what about the “with that some time being a mere couple of months” on the last page?
okay i actually remember that being confusing lol. but basically the whole sentence says “Just as Gyuh-Wool had hoped, Jinyoo was unable to escape from his grasp for quite some time after the incident. With that some time being...a mere couple of months”
so basically, assuming that Jinyoo being ‘unable to escape Gyuh-hool’s grasp’ means that being IN his grasp means that Jinyoo is still thinking about him and basically “under his control” still in a sense because of all the mental trauma he’s caused him.
so essentially the sentence says, ‘Gyuh-hool had hoped he would stay in control of Jinyoo after the incident, and he did, but only for a mere couple of months longer’ meaning that after a couple of months, he was no longer under his grasp and control. although we don’t know why, i’m assuming it had something to do with what happens the store considering that’s what it leads up to.
idk, it’s worded very weirdly but if you look closely and break it down that’s what it says. it would be very different if the words were ‘only able to escape his grasp for a couple of months’ but since it says that he’s only UNABLE to escape his grasp for a couple of months, then he’s free. you know what i mean? i kind of went off track lol.
Nope. It makes sense. Thanks!
so i believe that he either 1. he imagined it, here’s why, we can clearly see he’s been not only hallucinating but also hearing things from his trauma in the last few chapters, we also see in the last panel when “Gyu-Wool” says “Y-you never learn do you?” but you can clearly see that’s not even a chat bubble, it’s something being narrated/going on inside his head, not actually out loud. That would mean the ‘thud’ is is probably him fainting/passing out from shock or hitting the real store clerk because he thinks it’s actually Gyu-Wool.
Or 2. It was actually Gyu-Wool there but Jinyoo hit him and knocked him out. In his head at the end Jinyoo says “who knew this one phrase...could make me feel this resentful” meaning that Jinyoo feels so angry from seeing Gyu-Wool that he straight up hits him. This could also go along with my first theory because it could mean Jinyoo feels so angry he hits the hallucination of Gyu-Wool without thinking.
Regardless, it can’t possibly be him getting kidnapped again, the other dude in the PUBLIC store was legit just right there, he would obviously see the struggle if Jinyoo was getting kidnapped, also people would probably recognize Gyu-Wool’s face because as we see earlier, he’s in a lot of news articles with his face literally plastered on the cover. Speaking of that, dude literally HAS to be arrested, he probably ordered those 9 lawyers from his jail cell, there’s absolutely no way he could be roaming free, lmao. his ass is in jail for sure. people convicted of crimes like kidnapping, assault, and rape with evidence and witnesses aren’t just allowed to roam free regardless of whether or not the trial happened already. lol.
anyways, Gyu-Wool is def not kidnapping again, it makes absolutely no sense, that was just a mysterious, misdirect ending to a comic that’s literally meant to be that way, psychological and mystery. anyways, goodnight lol ignore my rant
tl;dr there’s absolutely no ducking way Gyu-Wool ever managed to kidnap Jinyoo lol, the last chapter was simply meant to be a mysterious misdirect.