I See the Sword

The loan shark screeches the car to a halt, seeing something peculiar in the distance. One by one, the street lamps explode, sending everything into blackness except the car's headlights.

Off in the distance, two tall figures appear in the haze, gloriously backlit as they slooow-motion hero-walk toward the car.  (Our Sexy boys Gong Yoo and Lee Dong Wook , I am sweating 🥵🥵)

The loan sharks wonder, 

"What are those guys? Men in black or what?"

          Then the headlight bulbs explode too, darkening the scene further. Goblin and Grim Reaper seem to vanish, and one scared loan shark urges the other to punch the accelerator.

The car squeals forward, and as it does, a bluish-green light cuts through it, right down the middle. 

They try to make sense of the things when one half of the car goes one way, carrying the loan sharks, and the other half of the car goes the other, carrying Ji Yeon.

Shin reappears in the road carrying his flaming goblin sword , and he tosses it away to retrieve Ji Yeon's scarf.

When the car comes to stop, the Reaper stands casually by the car but Ji Yeon is scared of him too .

She grabs her stuff, takes his offered hand, and stumbles out of the car. Kim Shin holds her upright and asks if she's hurt. Bored, Reaper  walks away and the car falls over!  which makes Ji Yeon jump and turn into Shin's arms again.

Shin asks whether she is okay , When she finally recovers her words, she asks incredulously,

  "Am I okay? That's what you ask? After you split a car like that?"

Shin just tells her to wait here, but she chases after him to ask if he means to kill those loan sharks. She doesn't believe his denial and points out that Reaper came along, and surely he wouldn't have come to save her. Reaper agrees that her logic makes more sense.

Shin assures her that he won't kill them—he'll just show him his anger, so that they'd wish they'd died instead. 

He finds the loan sharks begging for help, trapped in the car that has tipped over. Shin delivers their fate For two days, this road will disappear from the map, making it impossible for anyone to help. "You'll hurt like death but you won't die," he states.

  "In two days, fortunately, you'll be found by the police. You can pay for your crimes at the police station. Be thankful you won't have to pay for them with me."

Then it's Reaper's turn to step up, and he informs them of the story they will now believe The two loan sharks fought, saw nothing else, and will never make up.

Afterward, as the three walk down the road, Ji Yeon's comments are snippy, as she's still ticked off at everything that's happened. She asks pointedly if they don't have a car, and whether she's dead and on her way to the afterlife, and whether they'll be killing her now.

Reaper beams a glare at Shin and telepathically asks when they'll be getting their gratitude for saving her life. He keeps complaining until Shin finally yells at him to be quiet—and Ji Yeon whirls around with hurt eyes, thinking he'd just told her to shut it. 

We notice Reaper wags a finger at Shin, enjoying his discomfort.

Then Ji Yeon gripes about how there aren't even any passing cars on this road, and stomps off. Reaper gleefully reminds Shin whose idea it was to make this road invisible for two days.

As they sit at a restaurant afterward, Ji Yeon asks why Shin hasn't left yet, and he replies that he will soon. She asks how he came tonight when she didn't blow out a flame, and

 he says, "It's like I just heard you. Save me, something like that." 

She says she thought it to herself, and he says she must be the type to think very loudly.

She says he didn't have to show up, and he says, "I didn't have a reason not to come."

                   She concedes an earlier point he made about her living her life like it's a freebie, and explains that he saved her mother's life and her own, so she's been okay to live that way—she got to be born, and meet her mother.

"So I've decided not to hate you now,"  She announces. "If we met again, I wanted to say that. Although you probably hoped we wouldn't meet."

She gets up to leave him with the food, and Shin stops her to ask, 

"I didn't eat this, but I'm supposed to pay?" 

Ji Yeon protests that she didn't eat either, and moreover, she doesn't have money.

Shin says he'll pay if she stays and eats. That mollifies her a bit, but she's still a little snappish and says she doesn't want to eat with him, and requests her dinner wrapped to go. 

"See, you do hate me," Shin notes.

Back at his goblin mansion, nephew Deok-hwa gives Shin the skinny on Ji Yeon and her horrible family. Her mother's death left her with a hefty 150 million won (about $150 grand), but being a minor, Ji Yeon can't access the money on her own, which is why Aunt is keeping her. Shin asks him what he was holding and he gave his picture to Shin saying he looks real nice in it and for some random reason Shin throws his picture to the ground with all his might and Deok-hwa looked sad for a while.

(This is so funny lol)

Hearing that Deok-hwa did the legwork to collect this info, Shin tells him,

"I'm shocked to see you have uses." 

Deok-hwa asks why he's interested in these people, Shin and replies, "I mean to punish them."

Deok-hwa can't see why punishment would involve two gold bars and whines to be given some too , He says "Haven't I committed a lot of sins? Don't I deserve a thousand punishments?".

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