I want to discuss the themes & the characters evolution shown between chapter 1 & chapter 66.
Feel free to add your thoughts on the characters .
>!In her last appearance, Gijeong once again appears normal around others but she still has that gloomy, haunted look from the first chapter when no one is looking.(Until she's literally haunted by Inseops voice in her head proving as always that he gets the last word💀)
I think the contrast between her memory (& fear) of killing the preying mantis in chapter 1 vs deciding not to kill Inseop in chapter 66 is Gijeong confronting her killer instinct head on. As she later confesses to the detective, she genuinely wanted to kill Inseop indicating that now she must accept this darkness as a part of her (and perhaps acknowledge Inseops role in that acceptance)
It's funny how Gijeongs first conversation with Inseop was so hesitant yet professional with the polite public masks they both wore. Her last words to Inseop is stripped of all pretense. She calls him pathetic and unknowingly gives him her last request : to let her go. And he does .
Inseops (further) fall from grace is seen in the difference between his first & last panel. It's hard to believe this is the same calm serial killer who urged his victim to end their life in the first chapter. Ironically , Inseop asking his (last) target to end his life by her hands and still being refused must have been the last straw. Yet for some reason, I didn't think that he would take the cowards way out of ending his life.
Giseongs character arc was actually satisfying. It never sat right with me that he unfairly "punished" his sister for his trauma. It's gratifying that he's taking the initiative to mend their broken relationship.
But Gijeong is also showing signs of moving on from being her brother's caretaker. Her choice to place their beloved family photo with her family shrine instead of her bedside table might mean that she's "burying" their innocence since neither of them are the same people they were from chapter 1.
Jin young's "redemption" seems like a controversial choice but it's also realistic. You can cut out toxic people from your life but they don't disappear. AndvGijeong deserved that long overdue apology. Plus if Jin young hadn't suggested seeking legal help in the first place, Gijeong would never have been on Inseops radar !<