In the process of retrieving Sang-un’s past life memories, Hwal confronts a confusing moment in recent episodes of Bulgasal: The Immortal Souls.
Surprising character developments also arise in the story. Along with that, revelations seal enthralling momentum ahead of the second half of the series.
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Bulgasal: Immortal Souls Episodes 7 & 8 Key Moments
Hwal confronts an oddity on the bulgasal he’s chasing in her latest reincarnation. The rebirth of his soul to twins with one already killed by the vicious bulgasal Ok Eul-tae, he needs to make Sang-un recollect her memories.
Tracing Sang-un’s Previous Life
Do-yun and ajumma Hye-suk bring the items they shopped just as Si-ho and Detective Kwon finished the former’s checkup. Bringing Sang-un to a place, Hwal revealed to her the details of her most recent past life when she was named Kim Hwa-yeon.
Hwa-yeon was dubbed as her parents’ murderer and was later captured and killed by Ok Eul-tae. Faking hear death to evade Eul-tae, she ended up being murdered anyway.
Meeting Hwa-yeon’s family’s neighbors to help with Sang-un regaining her memories, the two learn about how the village has been seemingly cursed with unfortunate fires happening all over.
Hwal suspects the monster gapsangoe who burns people to death as the possible culprit of the recent fires in the village along with the fire pinned at Hwa-yeon.
Detective Kwon starts digging information about Ok Eul-tae and gets a lead about the city Mayor’s involvement. He is the same person who wrapped up his case 15 years ago and he is also behind the abrupt investigation closing that involves Si-ho’s abductor.
Against his junior’s advice not to chase after the mayor, Detective Kwon still proceeds, discovering Ok Eul-tae’s house in the process.
Ok Eul-tae’s Friend
Recollecting his memories about the fire 50 years ago, that is where Hwal rescues the young Hye-suk trapped in the burning house. She still manifested the seer ability of the sage he interacted with in his past life.
Back at Hwal’s house, Si-ho makes a reading of ajumma Hye-suk’s past life and discovers she previously had an encounter with her.
Deducing a son of a shaman in the village as the possible monster, Hwal and Sang-un were accidentally led to the real gapsangoe. Splitting the tasks, Hwal went after the shaman’s son who went to their accommodation to stop him from doing his mother’s order to kill Sang-un.
In a surprising plot twist, Ok Eul-tae is actually friends with Do-yun. The latter was also planted to spy on Hwal so his brother can proceed with medical treatment.
When Eul-tae learns about where Hwal and Sang-un went, the villain panics knowing they might meet the gapsangoe.
At that same moment, Sang-un who was asked by Hwal not to enter the room of the gapsangoe, enters the room when she heard the monster mention knowing Ok Eul-tae’s weakness.
While choking Sang-un, the gapsangoe reveals she has a strange connection with Ok Eul-tae. That when Ok Eul-tae killed her 50 years ago, blood flowed from his stomach as if he was the one in pain.
Gasping for air, Ok Eul-tae also shares the same pain. Thankfully, Hwal arrived in time to stop the monster from choking Sang-un.
Ajumma Hye-suk Reveals Ominous Words
The trip to recover her memories has had Sang-un summon her strength to apologize to Hwal even when he’s bluntly refusing it. She also voices out how she empathized with him losing the will to live. Sharing she used to feel the same, she now has something to look forward to since Si-ho is pregnant.
When they reached home, the place was transformed into a normal living space. Just then, ajumma Hye-suk goes on a trance spewing cryptic words of trouble that will befall if the one who lost memories regains them.
Detective Kwon who brought beef for Si-ho speaks with Hwal and Sang-un about his discovery on Ok Eul-tae. Hwal chides him on his dangerous move which caused an exchange of verbal dispute. Sang-un assures Detective Kwon that they will find a way to defeat the evil bulgasal especially when she gets her memories back.
Later, Detective Kwon and Hwal go for a drink since the latter wants to know why the detective is bent on finding more about Ok Eul-tae. Detective Kwon reveals how the case 15 years ago was closed when a man owned the crime he obviously did not commit.
He has deduced based on recent developments of how it might have been orchestrated by Eul-tae. Moreover, his junior also lost her life because of the case., and he thinks she died in his stead.
However, he didn’t confess to Hwal how he lost his sister to a bulgasal when he was young.
Hwal Shares His Cursed Life
Unable to sleep, Sang-un finds Hwal who was just getting back from his engagement with Detective Kwon. Pushing to know ajumma‘s veiled thoughts earlier, she insists on knowing more reasoning out that it involves her.
Left with no choice, Hwal shares the prophecy about his birth by a shaman, who has since been entwined to his karma just like the rest of the people in his house.
Getting the picture of how she will put everyone in peril if she retrieves her memories, Hwal responds it’s likely to happen so they have to be careful and he will investigate how to proceed.
The next day, Hwal visits his birth father’s reincarnation after seeing his picture and learning he’s the husband of Detective Kwon’s junior who died. Resembling what happened to his past life, he lives as an alcoholic after his wife’s death. All the things he wasn’t able to tell his father in his past life was told by Hwal to his father’s reincarnated self.
With a dampened mood, he sees Sang-un waiting for him so they can talk about ajumma‘s scary prophecy. But Hwal reminds her of their relationship and speaks about his earlier encounter with his father. Asserting the possibility of that precarious prophecy to happen, Hwal advertently declared the risky situation.
Their conversation gets halted when Si-ho appears. Without no choice, Sang-un confesses to Si-ho that she is the “person without memories” that ajumma Hye-suk was referring to.
Two Contrasting Conversations
Sang-un asks Si-ho to cover for her and goes to the hospice where Hwa-yeon’s sister, Go-bun is. She learns how Hwa-yeon warned the whole village about the fire.
Meanwhile, Detective Kwon continues to chase after Ok Eul-tae but was found out easily. Planting new information on Detective Kwon that there’s another bulgasal, he also asked him to tell Hwal that his patience is running out.
Ordering Secretary Kim not to touch Detective Kwon, the assistant rear-ends the latter and uses his phone to contact Sang-un. After getting a phone call from Sang-un, Hwal goes to the rendezvous point where the detective is being kept.
Apparently, Secretary Kim is another reincarnation of a monster who holds a grudge on Hwal’s soul. Do-yun calls Eul-tae to inquire why he kidnapped Detective Kwon making the former realize his monster assistant went against his command.
Finding Detective Kwon hanged in a tree, Hwal battles the cunning Secretary Kim who used poison to subdue him. Mustering his strength, Hwal pulled the rope to free Detective Kwon as the latter tries to shield his body to protect Hwal.
Knowing Hwal’s weakness, she motions to kill Detective Kwon, but Ok Eul-tae arrives to kill Secretary Kim.
Running scared because of Hwal, Detective Kwon panics and attempts to call the emergency hotline for help. But Ok Eul-tae stops him since Hwal can heal on his own.
Learning Hwal is also a bulgasal, the realization hits him as he is engulfed with doubt on which bulgasal killed his sister.
An Unexpected Reunion
Taking advantage of their lone time, Ok Eul-tae blabs about his initial request to team up. Just then, Sang-un enters the scene with Ok Eul-tae rambling about the possibility of Hwal having grown fond of her already.
Warning Hwal of how he might end up the same way as his family that was killed 600 years ago, Sang-un refutes Eul-tae’s claim. She declares not murdering Hwal’s family and it is Ok Eul-tae who really did it.
Bulgasal: Immortal Souls Episodes 7 & 8 Musings
With relevant characters, settled in one roof, the direction of Bulgasal: The Immortal Souls moves to unravel the answers to our questions. In particular, its trajectory is to align the past and the present.
Do-yun’s connection to the villain really took us by surprise, and he is definitely a crucial character to watch out for in the succeeding chapters. Likewise, the gifted women housed in Hwal’s house – one reading the past and one foretelling the future fortifies the supernatural elements of the narrative.
The painting at Ok Eul-tae’s house hints at a possible connection between him and Sang-un when she was still a bulgasal. It is further strengthened by the words of the gapsangoe on their strange connection.
Adding to that, Go-bun’s words support the notion of how Hwal might have not been aware that it was not the bulgasal he killed who killed his family, but “dark hole”.
This episode successfully made an argument to have apprehensions in case Ok Eul-tae is saying the truth. Again Lee Joon’s impeccable portrayal every week surely impresses the viewers tuning in to this series.
Who’s telling the truth between Eul-tae and Sang-un? Will we get more details about their lives as bulgasals in the next episode?
The interesting plot thickens past the middle mark of Bulgasal: The Immortal Souls. Don’t miss the exciting episodes every weekend on Netflix!
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