Like always, Hyun was walking home together with his childhood friend. But this time, it was different. They were walking back home from the cemetery. His father had just passed away and with his mother dying right after giving birth to him, he is now alone.
Walking back, no words were spoken, it was dead silence. The reason for the silence not because of the death of his father but because they both knew that he was inevitably going to have to be recruited to the defence force, as he was now an orphan. Being recruited as a teenager meant that he was certainly going to be in the patrol in his town, looking out for any activist movements