Doctor Demon

"Tight!" Miyoo pouted, feeling suffocated under the group hug. Her brothers instantly let go but hovered around their mom.

"Mom, my album sold out a million copies!" Minyoon claimed happily.

"I topped maths again," Yoonmin nodded. "And made a billion dollars in profit."

"I'm not interested in all that!" Gayoon sighed. "I want to know…"

Her eyes fell on the girls who were now on alert. Gayoon's smile disappeared and she was curious about them.

"You must be Soobin," she said, her eyes narrowing on Soobin. With Miyoo still in her arms, she walked towards the girls.

"K-Kim Soobin!" Soobin stammered. "I-I am…"

"Dating Yoonmin," Gayoon finished for her. "I-"

"I really really like Yoonmin!" Soobin blurted, her face turning red. "I m-m-may be poor and not so g-g-g-good looking but I really like him! And my f-f-f-feelings are genuine which isn't on any b-b-b-bank statement so please don't make me break up with him!"

Gayoon blinked in surprise. What was this girl talking about?

Miyoo whispered something into Gayoon's ear, Her mother frowned and turned towards the culprits in question.

"You told them that I will check their bank statement?" She scolded her sons. "Why would you scare the poor girls? Is this how you treat your girlfriends?"

"I'm not anyone's girlfriend!" Baekha claimed.

"It was a joke!" Yoonmin pouted. "We were just having fun!"

"APOLOGISE TO HER!" Gayoon demanded. "NOW!"

Miyoo snickered at her brother's expression. Soobin was clueless but glad that she did not have to show her bank statement in order to date Yoonmin. She did not own a bank account anyway.

"Sorry," he mumbled.

"Good," Gayoon said. She smiled at the girls and said, "Thank you for putting up with these two. They're a handful but really nice boys."

She patted Yoonmin's head, making him blush.

"Mommy, pat me as well!" Minyoon whined.

"Me too!" Miyoo whined.

"Ugh! And you guys scared me into believing that your mother was a monster," Magrod spoke up. "I'm glad she's alright for a human being."

There was a deathly silence following his words. Gayoon stared at the stuffed alpaca, her expression unreadable.

"That's a talking alpaca doll…" she began. "Please don't tell me…that is the demon?"

"Err…"

"Uhh…"

"Mom!"

Gayoon turned around to find her eldest daughter standing at the doorway. Without a word, Jina rushed to hug her mother as tight as she could.

It was as if she was hugging her mother for the first time but Jina could not explain how much she missed her. The strong and tough Jina was crying with happiness, looking like a little girl who had found her favourite toy again. Jina received a call from Jongin who told her of her parents' arrival.

"My big baby!" Gayoon chuckled. "No more nightmares for you, okay? Mommy is here. But there is something we need to address…"

She let go of Jina. "Your boyfriend," Gayoon said. "We need to talk about him."

…

Hobin had just parked the car outside the twins' condo. Jina told him to rush to their place but she did not mention the reason she was going there all of a sudden.

Is everything alright? He wondered. Hobin got out of the car and was walking towards the building when a voice spoke up.

"Doctor Ohm Hobin?"

Hobin paused in his steps and slowly turned around. A tall man with greyish brown hair was standing behind him. Hobin froze in shock.

"Auburn haired young man who is a doctor and also half demon," Minho stated, directly looking into Hobin's eyes. "And can read memories upon touching people. That's you, isn't it?"

Hobin did not speak but was staring at him with many unspoken emotions. This man…the one who saved his soul.

"I'm concerned about you and my daughter," Minho went on, careful to keep a distance between him and Hobin. "I usually respect her decision but after our last encounter with a demon, I think that it's best if you stop your relationship with my daughter-"

"Twenty seven years ago…you changed someone's life," Hobin said. "Can you change his life again?"

Minho frowned. "What are you-"

"The Bunny Dance at the mall is still the coolest thing I've ever seen. When I was scared and running for my life, there was a man in a bunny costume who reached out to me and said that everything was going to be okay."

Minho was now confused but something was stirring in his heart. Bunny dance? The mall? There was only one person who saw him doing the Bunny Dance at a mall so many years ago.

But this lad is barely twenty five, he thought. And the dance at the mall was twenty four years ago…

"That monster caught me at that time and killed me," Hobin whispered. "But someone saved my soul. A man who loves money but has a soft heart. A man who made sure I was happy in my last moments on Earth. That man…was you, Mr. Hwang."

"Who are you?" Minho slowly asked. Hobin took a deep breath. "How did you read my memories?"

"I didn't read your memories," Hobin revealed. "These are my memories. I'm the boy whose soul you saved. The boy whom you met alive at the mall's washroom but found wandering as a ghost at your private property. The boy whose life you couldn't save but you saved his soul. I…I am Kang Shinho."

Minho was completely shocked. How was this possible? This boy did not even read his memories!

"No way," he said. "Shinho is dead! You must have read my memories some other way and-"

"Do you really believe that, Bunny Uncle?" Hobin asked in a simple, yet painful way. It was the same pain that Minho had heard many years ago in Shinho's voice. For a moment, Shinho's innocent face flashed in front of him and he was reminded of the innocent child who had come to him for help.

"I came back," Hobin revealed. "I was reincarnated and I came back. Even if I'm not fully human, I came back for Jina. Only you know about this. I could've told her about my final secret but I didn't because you deserved to know it first."

He was not sad nor pleading. He knew that Minho might not believe his words but he was being honest. Minho was frowning at him but he could see that the boy was saying what he believed.

"You and I have a lot to talk about," Minho finally said.. "Follow me."