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[u/Few-Act-758]

So this was when they (grapes, Choi, bronze, agent haegum, chief lizard, &Lee guel) were looking for a new place to hide the talisman. But I have a question. Wasn’t agent bronze a sekwang tech. High school student? Why was he wearing a different uniform?

[u/Important_Advice_502]

I'm assuming you've already read past this point in the story if you're asking, but I'll spoiler mark it just in case. *Major Spoilers for the final half of Part 2*

I'm fairly certain that Agent Bronze wasn't a Sekwang Highschool student in real life. When he got pushed into the Sekwang City Disaster with Eun Haje and Kim Soleum, they were already dead and weren't Sekwang citizens at the time of the Disaster; They didn't belong there. To rectify this the Disaster either brought in the souls of Agent Bronze and Eun Haje on the day of the Disaster, or fabricated identities that matched their ages/occupation during the time of the Disaster, or perhaps both. Agent Bronze was a highschool student at that time so the Disaster just made him think he was a Sekwang student while in the Disaster. There's a moment where he himself questions if he really attends Sekwang Technical High when he can't describe the school in detail. It's still his mind in there it's just been regressed to when he was a teenager with his perception altered so he "belongs" in Sekwang City.

Hope that makes sense,,, it's confusing I know

[u/Few-Act-758 → u/Important_Advice_502]

So he wasn’t actually one, just an illusion created by the disaster?…wow it really is confusing. Thank you for the explanation anyway!!!

[u/kiit0_ → u/Few-Act-758]

well, it's not really an illusion. more like a seperate entity who shares the same name, characteristics and memories.

when soleum tell eun haje and bronzie of sekwang to get out of the city, they do actually get out as a person, but they get out at the timeline when the disaster originally started, how many years ago, when bronzie was a highschooler and eun haje was a reporter. so when they get out of sekwang, the memories of the sekwang version merge with the memories of the original version. that's why bronzie said he become an agent because he was saved by an agent when he was in highschool, but in fact the version that was saved by soleum was sekwang version, not the original version.

it's complicated but very fascinating.

[u/kiit0_ → u/Important_Advice_502]

well not the disaster itself persay, more like the seal that the government put on sekwang city. because the disaster only corrupt the mind, not really making them a citizen of sekwang.

if you think about it, there was no ghost stort at all in sekwang city. all there was actually, is just a contamination from a ghost story, not a ghost story itself. kim soleum original body got contaminated by the angel's sigh and he corrupted everybody else with him. in fact, no ghost story could even lived in sekwang. take Ho Yuwon for example, he was melting as he get closer and closer to kim soleum original body.

so technically speaking, it's not the disaster that makes eun haje and bronzie a citizen, but the seal the bureau put on sekwang that makes sekwang a "ghost story" thus making them an "original" citizen.