Ji Yeon returns to the same door that led her through the portal, and pleads for Canada to still be on the other side.

But it's no longer a portal and she just ends up in the restroom, where fairy godmother Samshin Granny (still in her beautiful young lady guise) is washing up.

Ji Yeon doesn't recognize her, but Samshin Granny takes in her appearance and asks if she's a senior, pretending that it's the tired eyeballs and the uniform that were a giveaway. Granny hands Ji Yeon a bag of spinach and tells her to share it with her family.

Ji Yeon is met with more abuse when she gets home, and Aunt snaps at her to hurry up and cook them dinner. Ji Yeon sighs at the empty fridge and remembers the spinach, so she rolls some kimbap. Her cousin comes running out to tattle on Ji Yeon when she discovers the Quebec guidebook in her bag, and Aunt whaps her over the head repeatedly with it, accusing Ji yeon of planning a getaway with Mom's insurance payout. Ji Yeon cries that it's just a memento.

Aunt is distracted for a moment when one cousin goes to cut the kimbap and cuts her own finger instead, and then the other cousin takes a bite and immediately starts to choke. Aunt runs over to her kids, and Ji Yeon grabs her guidebook and dinner before running out the door. 

([Goblin Ost Part11] And I'm Here - Kim Kyung Hee starts playing in background for a short while as Ji Yeon cries on the steps)

She sits outside trying not to cry, alternating between mouthfuls of kimbap and wiping her tears away.

Shin lies awake in bed going over what he knows about Ji Yeon-she has the ability to summon him and can follow him through portal doors, but she can't see the sword in his chest.

He wonders what she is, and then suddenly remembers her "I love you" and says aloud in his formal old-timey speech, "Moreover, if she meant those words, it is most vexing." His foot shakes and his teeth rattle, and he finally darts up in bed and declares that curiosity always defeats dignity.

He tosses dignity aside and shows up in the street where Ji Yeon is pacing back and forth. He stammers that he's very busy and acts like he's totally put out that she summoned him here, and Ji Yeon says she really didn't summon him this time. (Cue awkward silence)

He lies through his teeth that she called him here, and asks if she wasn't thinking about him just now. He looks nervous as he waits for her answer, but she confirms that she was, and Shin runs with it.

Ji Yeon asks if merely thinking of him will summon him too, and Shin mumbles that the rules aren't really clear, but he's very sensitive to these things. He asks the nature of her thoughts about him, and Ji Yeon says that she thought she'd be happy living in Canada, and that made her think of him.

She says that he was wearing expensive clothes and might even own that hotel, but she'd wondered why he looked so sad. Shin doesn't answer, and instead asks why she's pacing around so late at night. Ji Yeon says she's waiting for her family to fall asleep. Shin walks with her for a while and says that he's walking to digest his food, so she shouldn't misunderstand. She points out that he's said that three times already.

Across the street, Ji Yeon's mean-girl classmate sees them and texts her friend to say that Ji Yeon is with a man in his thirties, who must be her sugar daddy.

She gets ready to take a picture of them, when suddenly the car door she's standing behind shoots open and knocks her off her feet. The girl is about to complain to the person inside the car... except there's no person inside. Shin doesn't even glance her way, and the girl runs crying home to mommy.

Ji Yeon continues her job search, and walks inside yet another chicken shop (the help wanted sign at this one says they're looking for "someone who will be like family" ). She's immediately struck by the beautiful woman sitting inside the empty restaurant-this is SUNNY (Kim Soo Min), who tosses her hair expertly and then asks if Ji Yeon wants chicken to-go.

Ji Yeon says she's here for the part-time job, and Sunny tells her to sit, though she says that she can't remember the last time she's had a customer.

Sunny is a bit odd, only half-listening to Ji Yeon and mostly sighing over and over about how she can't remember the last time someone ordered a chicken or asked for more radish.

Sunny asks direct questions like, "Are you poor?" and when Ji Yeon says she's a senior in high school, Sunny just says it must be nice to be young. It's like she has no linking logic between her thoughts, and Ji Yeon can barely keep up with the changing conversation.

For no discernable reason, Sunny declares that today will be their Day One, and gives Ji Yeon the job.

Ji Yeon leaps from her chair, overjoyed, while Sunny just sighs dispassionately over the lack of customers for the millionth time.

Ji Yeon clutches her new nametag happily and thinks about Shin, calling out to him in her thoughts. She whirls around expecting him to show up, but he doesn't, so she resorts to lighting a match and blowing it out.

Shin appears before her, steak on a fork, mouth hanging open mid-bite. She marvels at the expensive food he eats, and he asks if she can't call and make appointments like a normal person, and think of him. He means for her to be considerate, but she changes the meaning and complains that thinking of him didn't work this time.

Ji Yeon adds that she's interested in promising the future though,

and says again, "I love you!" Shin bites into his steak and stomps off.

When Shin returns to the house waving his fork in the air, Reaper watches him warily and decides that he must be crazy.

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