Reaper goes through a whole ritual to climb into bed that night, but it's ruined anyway when Shin bursts into the room and frightens him.

Out of breath, Shin asks if this outfit is better than the one he was just wearing, and Reaper can't tell that he changed clothes at all. Shin holds up a book and asks, completely straight-faced, "Does this book go with this outfit? She's going to keep summoning me, and no matter when or where, I want to appear smart and flawless."

Reaper asks who this person is, but Shin just tells him to focus and imagine that it'll be the outfit he wears to leave this house in, and suddenly Reaper perks up and gives him an enthusiastic two thumbs-up.

Shin moves on to modeling CD vs. record, wanting to know if it's better to go with classical or k-pop. Reaper bursts his bubble by saying that kids listen to audio files nowadays.

Shin doesn't even get past the door with his giant paintings.

Shin creeps up onto Reaper's bed and pulls back the sheet, marveling at how he sleeps like a dead person in a coffin. Reaper wails to be allowed to sleep, and then we fade to morning, when he wakes up with a granny sleeping cap on his head and a flower-print blanket.

"I'm going to kill him," Reaper grinds out.

Shin chuckles to himself, and Reaper comes out to collect his laundry.

He grabs a pair of underwear and starts to sing the children's song,

"The goblin's panties are strong. The goblin's panties are smelly~"

Shin warns him peevishly to cut it out, but Reaper continues and wonders what you'd have to do to your underwear for there to be a whole song about it.

"Was it manly?" Reaper leans down to ask. Shin screams at him to stop it, and Reaper just pleasantly returns to folding his laundry.

Nephew Deok-hwa comes by to check on Uncle Shin on a stormy day, and finds him curled up in bed and looking so defeated. In a very dramatic tone, Shin reverts to his formal speech and tells Deok-hwa that it's time for him to hear the truth about his family and Shin's tragic fate. Shin tells him not to be surprised, and then takes a deep breath and says, "I am actually..."

"A goblin?" Deok-hwa interjects, stealing all of Shin's thunder. Deok-hwa says he's known since he was six, given the whole I-summon-you-gold thing (in traditional lore, a goblin has a magical stick that he uses to summon gold at will).

In flashback, we see Shin sitting before piles and piles of gold bars that he made appear. Little Deok-hwa knew then that Shin wasn't his real uncle.

Back in the present, Deok-hwa says stuff like this is why he couldn't possibly not know... and we cut to his view of Shin, floating in the air like a genie. Deok-hwa worries about him accidentally showing his magic in front of others, while Shin is focused on one thing the fact that Deok-hwa has known he was a goblin since he was six, and has used banmal with him all this time.

Shin floats higher and higher, and lightning strikes in the sky. Suddenly scared, Deok-hwa tacks on a little jondae at the very end to appease his uncle.

At the chicken shop, Sunny is happy at the sudden rainstorm, given that there are no customers anyway, rain or shine.

Ji Yeon is downcast because she doesn't have an umbrella, and Sunny offers her one of her many umbrellas, and tells her not to bother bringing it back.

Sunny goes to get her fortune read by a shaman, who sighs that she's an orphan with no luck, and warns her against a man in a black hat. Sunny just hopes that the man in the hat is very handsome. 

Shin stops Reaper on his way out, and Reaper says he's headed to the dry cleaners, indicating the "dry clean only" tag on his hat.

Shin says, "I've felt this every time, but that hat is a very good plan... to look ridiculous in front of the dead for the last time."

Reaper huffs but says the hat is how the dead recognize him, and also how he prevents the living from seeing him.

Shin says "It's a good thing the living can't see you. It would be very embarrassing."

Shin is pleased at getting the last word, and then proceeds to sit there with his smarty pants props, just waiting for Ji Yeon to summon him.

Ji Yeon puts a protective coating on her autumn leaf to give as a gift, and her friend calls it old-fashioned. She says it's okay because she's giving it to someone old, and when her friend asks if she has a boyfriend, Ji Yeon calls it a thank-you gift for helping her get a job.

Ji Yeon blows out a match and says that she has a present for Ajusshi. But when she looks up, it's not Shin, but Reaper who's there to see her. She reaches up to her neck and says she forgot her scarf, just like the last time she saw him.

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