For a man who crossed the threshold of the underworld to step onto the soil of the living world again is nothing less than a direct defiance of the laws of heaven. Gyeong Sip-pal, having crossed the Sanzu River and stood before King Yama only to return, still smelled of death-blossoms, his fingertips only just beginning to regain the warmth of the living.

I have returned.

I have come back to you.