Hyung-seok watched as a group of reckless teenagers nearly knocked her over, laughing at the "old lady" in her tattered clothes. The anger flared in his chest—not the explosive, violent anger he felt when he was being bullied, but a deep, suffocating guilt. He realized that while he had been granted a magical transformation, his mother was performing a miracle every day just by surviving for him.
Park Hyung-seok stood in the middle of a bustling Seoul sidewalk, trapped in his "original" body—the one that had made him a target for bullies his entire life. He felt small, invisible, and ashamed. He was supposed to be at school in his new, "perfect" body, but a sudden realization had brought him here, searching for the woman who gave him everything. Hyung-seok watched as a group of reckless teenagers
She looked up, her face etched with exhaustion but instantly brightening with a smile that made the grime of the city disappear. She didn't see a "loser" or a "social outcast." She didn't care about his height or his weight. She only saw her son, the person she loved more than her own life. Park Hyung-seok stood in the middle of a