Play with the Demon

Suffocate

Its already been a month that he had been hospitilized after the incident. He barely able to sleep well since that day as his mind keep playing the scene of him finally able to kill the evil dentist with his own hands every night in his dream. The psychologist that help him to overcome the trauma had actually help him a lot. But still, there is a part of him that refuse to wash away that memory easily.

To say that it had haunted him since the day he was hospitilized is only the partial truth. Its hard to admit, but he actually enjoyed the feeling of warm blood flowing down his hands when he slit the dentist's throat. It feels like a victory. The biggest achievement that he ever done through out his 25 years living. The survival. The ability to skip death despite surrounded with serial killers that had attempted to kill him for few times. He overcome all of those and he was the only survivor.

Now, he finally had been discharged from the hospital. He have no plans. He does not feel like went back to Busan either. His girl friend, Jieun refused to meet him. She was having PTSD and meeting Jongwoo somehow give hard time for her. Now, he basically has nowhere to go. Walking freely and only directed by his gut, he found himself standing in front of Eden Resident.

The view of the empty building gives him shiver just like when he first time seeing this building back then. The place is just as horrendous as before. The only difference it has is that poorly hanged police line that was being placed on the entrance to prevent intruders after the incident.

Jongwoo pull that police line and step inside. Its already been a month. He sure the case had already close and nobody ever come to this place anymore since all the evil residents here had all died in that incident.

When he reach the third floor, the stinky smell of old blood evade his nostrils. Triggered by the smell, a flash of memory came wash over him. He remember their eerie laugh that he hated so much back then. It seems like he still could listen to their laugh from distance. As if their wicked soul is mocking him.

He enter the hallway of their apartment and walk slowly through it. He does not know why he is there. Nobody who is in their right mind who had experience what he had went through would go to a place that leave them scar like him. Maybe he just wanted to make sure that all of them had really died. Maybe he wanted to take his belongings before he went back to Busan. Although he did not care much about them anymore. Or maybe, this is just an excuse for him to feel the chills from the adrenaline rush that he had felt before when he murder the whole residence.

The whole residence.

He was sure he had killed them all that night. And he made sure that nobody knows about it.

Because all of them deserve to die.