Christmas, when he made Santa Claus appear. Santa told the siblings of their powers and gave them a Hansel and Gretel storybook. After they witnessed their friend Seung-ho being beaten to death, they wished to stop the caretaker, only to find everyone dead and the caretaker about to burn them in the fireplace. Man-bok used his power to kill the caretaker. Now, the children use their powers to make Byun kill himself when he rises to kill Eun-soo. The children ask Eun-soo to stay with them. Eun-soo however wishes to reunite with his loved ones and offers instead to take them with him. They refuse, believing adults will always be bad. Eun-soo argues that if they continue their doings, they will end up the same. Young-hee tells him to burn the notebook so he can leave and he does so before Man-bok can stop him. Eun-soo then wakes up where he first met Young-hee. He walks to the road and meets the police. They tell him the tragic stories of Highway 69 as they are amazed how he has survived. A year later on Christmas, Eun-soo has married Hae-young and they have a baby boy. As he goes out to buy milk, he wonders if that encounter was only a dream. His collection of news clippings of the missing Byun (revealed to be a serial killer) suggests it is real. He comes across the children's notebook. The pages are all blank except the last one, which shows the three children holding hands and smiling. They have given up now and realized that they don't need parents to be a family. Eun-soo looks out the window to the snow outside. Man-bok, Young-hee, and Jung-soon go back into the woods. Cast and characters Chun Jung-myung as Lee Eun-soo The protagonist of the story. He got into a car accident and was found by one of the children in the nearby woods and taken to their home. He told the children how much he loved them and he wanted to stay, but his pregnant girlfriend and sick mother needed him. The movie centers around him trying to leave, and the events that keep him from going back home. Eun Won-jae as Kim Man-bok He is the oldest of the children, an antagonist of the film. He'd lived with his sisters in the house since he was 5, and because his father used to