Vanishing Time: A Boy Who Returned Page #3

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when we're grown-ups?

Hey, Yeo Sung-min!

I told you not to break that!

No use bringing that up again.

Let's try leaving the island.

Time might pass there.

Try harder!

It's just not working!

I told you!

Su-rin, are you going to

believe my story?

We found footprints

of an adult male!

The footprints are that way!

Move!

You stay inside!

Tell everyone to come this way.

- Wait.

- Yeah?

It's all a lie.

What's a lie?

That the man said

he was Sung-min?

Everything-

I never met such a person.

Why did you lie?

I'm sorry.

How to go out of your body

The probability of meeting aliens

Must be another world down there

Su-rin, we failed to leave the island.

Now, we're just wandering

the island.

What are you doing?

I'm counting the days from today.

- The date?

- Yeah.

I add one day

whenever we wake up.

What for?

It's frustrating not knowing

how many days passed.

I'm bored to death!

Are you okay?

Where's Tae-sik?

Wait, I'll bring him.

Sung-min!

Don't go too far.

Hey, what are you doing?

Jae-wook's looking for you!

Wait, after I finish this.

It's awesome.

You should read it, too.

Hey, Jae-wook!

We found some great stuff!

Hey!

Jae-wook!

Hey!

Hey!

Ryoo Baa-Wonk?

If I came sooner,

would Jae-weak

have been any less scared?

Wake up!

That's the first time

I saw Tae-sik cry.

So I felt I should

stop myself from crying...

Let's keep these

and give them to

his parents later.

Su-rin, in here,

every day is the same.

Today is the 1974th day

but nothing's ever changed.

Tae-sik and I are doing okay.

As we have plenty of time

we're even studying.

Men should be masculine.

Adonis Complex.

The competitive ocean

and the uncontested ocean...

Red ocean and blue ocean.

You really memorized all that?

We should learn something.

We won't be going to school...

And to prepare for the future

we're also earning money.

Tae-sik, doesn't she look like Su-rin?

Su-rin?

I don't remember her face.

Do you?

I am scared

that I'd forget

everything in the past.

Even what happened with you.

- How many days?

- 2142 days.

Hey, come here.

You remember

how to do this?

5 years and 317 days.

We were 14 years old

when it happened.

It means

we're going to be 20 soon!

People say you're a grown-up

when you reach 20!

Meaning we could return soon?

Sung-min!

What do I look like?

A bit similar to

how I looked then?

When I wondered

who might recognize me

I could only think of you.

When can you say you're a grown-up?

We're way older than 2O now.

But no matter how long we wait,

time won't flow.

Tae-sik's getting strange lately.

But I'm okay.

Because I believe we can return.

You know...

what matters most is to believe.

You asked me to carve you.

- It's me?

- Yeah.

When you are

fully immersed in something,

subjective time flows faster.

Mihaly's 'Flow Theory.'

It's good to feel time pass,

you try it too.

I wish I could live well here

like you.

We'll escape,

once we become adults.

We're more than 20 now.

We're grown-ups.

We're big!

But 20 was just our guess.

Then when is it?

Tell me when!

If we turn 30 or 40...

If only you didn't break the egg.

I think we'll end up dying here.

Just like Jae-wook.

I will return.

I can return.

I don't think like Tae-sik.

I'm going to make it!

I can return.

Su-rin, I'll go back.

I will.

I can make it.

I can do it.

I can return!

Tae-sik!

The moon has changed!

Tae-sik!

Where are you?

Since then...

I've searched for him

all over the island.

Tae-sik!

Does he know

that even if it's just a little

the moon has started to change?

Su-rin, I finally found Tae-sik.

Realizing I won't have to

look for him any longer,

I feel strangely relieved.

Maybe nothing at all changed

in the first place...

Maybe it's all my mistake.

It's all over, Su-rin.

This book...

I read it through.

Sung-min!

I'm sorry.

I'm really sorry.

Will other people believe

that I'm Sung-min?

Don't worry.

I'll help you.

It's from the neighbor's dashcam.

He drove the car

off the island that morning,

but after seeing the news,

he checked it.

I'm sorry!

I didn't think it would fall.

I'm not used to it.

PUBLIC SHOWER:

I can see little Sung-min

with your hair like this.

Ma, I'm Sung-min.

Time stopped suddenly.

I grew into a man there.

No, make it more convincing.

Is there anything you can say

to grab their attention?

Sang-chm,

when we were 'm 3rd grade,

we fought over a Nintendo,

and dropped it in the pond

behind the school.

R was Baa-week's.

So we promised

to keep it a secret

until we saved up

to buy him a new one.

But we never did.

He'll probably run away.

Like I did.

You think I'm an idiot?

You wrote this.

No.

Tae-sik never cries.

I've never seen him cry.

He's not that kind of person.

Don't fake things

you don't even know.

Hey, it's all true!

I swear on my mother in heaven.

Why swear on a dead person?

What?

They must all be dead.

My dad said that.

Sung-min is not dead!

Don't joke about my friend.

It pisses me off.

WANTED:
SUSPECT OF

HWANO ISLAND KIDNAPPING

REWARD:
$30,000

My mom is 39.

It's not right to be

older than her.

Sung-min,

let's get off the island.

Time might flow

outside the island.

There must be something

we can do.

Sung-min.

Sung-min.

Yea Sung-min...

What are you doing here?

Why are you here?

Go before you get caught.

I'll drop by in the morning.

Don't want to be alone.

What is it?

Is something wrong?

It's all my fault.

I broke the egg

and made them all die...

Should I be living on

without them?

You took the egg

because I was curious.

It's not your fault, Sung-min.

Don't blame yourself.

Su-rin.

Oh Su-rin, open up.

Su-rin.

Yes, one minute!

I need to go back to

the construction site.

Why don't you stay at home, okay?

Invite a friend over

if you're bored.

What is it now?

Damn...

What is it this time?

What did you do?

Why is your daughter

talking nonsense?

What do you mean?

Su-rin...

told my kid a strange story.

She said Sung-min is back.

But that he's become an adult.

Same thing happened to Tae-sik

but he's gone, she said.

I told you my girl

is not well now.

MY apologies.

Last time she made a false report.

Mister.

Do you know

what people are saying?

Your company is trying to cover up

an accident caused by the explosion.

Su-rin knows it too,

but can't talk about it.

Ma'am, don't just believe

what you want to believe.

Why are you making up stories?

Don't hit him.

Dammit!

He doesn't care about the others,

his girl is alive!

You know all the paths

in this island by heart?

Yes, as I wandered around.

How-

Right, I figured out

how old you are now.

Listen, after about 8 years,

you saw the crescent moon.

Then there was a full moon

when time flowed again.

It takes the same time

from a full moon to a crescent,

as a crescent to a full moon.

That means about 15 or 16 years

might have passed.

Anyway...

it means you're not 30 yet.

If you saw Sung-min again

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