Elsewhere, an elderly man dies in a hospital bed, accompanied by a woman who holds his hand until the very end. Shin gets dressed in a black suit and ignores Reaper's teasing about whether he's headed to a wedding or a funeral.

("Is that why they call marriage digging your own grave?" Reaper wonders aloud.)

Shin asks Reaper how his English is, and says that he needs his help today.

Ji Yeon heads home to her giant suite and looks around, hoping to see Shin. She tries to focus on her homework but can't stop wondering why he's suddenly cut off communication, and finally ends up on his doorstep, demanding for him to stop avoiding her and let her in.

She threatens to light the ginormous candle she's carrying with her, as if the size will somehow give the summons bigger impact. She doesn't light it though, and wonders in a shaky voice if she's still supposed to do nothing but wait, and how long.

The old man who just died approaches the Reaper's teahouse, but it's Shin who sits there waiting for him. As he comes through the door, the old man transforms into a young boy-the same boy that Shin helped in Paris in the sixties. Shin says it's been a while, and the boy marvels that Shin hasn't aged a day.

Shin asks why he didn't write down the answer that he gave him for the math test he was taking the day they met, and the boy says that no matter how he tried to solve that math problem to get the answer, he came up with a different one every time. So he wrote down the wrong answer anyway, saying that it was a problem he couldn't solve.

Shin replies, "No, you solved it well. Your choice alone is the answer to your life."

The boy smiles to finally realize what that meant, and Shin praises him for becoming a lawyer and helping lots of people in need. The boy says he wanted to repay Shin for the sandwich, and says simply that he didn't really have another choice once he knew that Shin existed.

Shin counters that he gives lots of people sandwiches, but very few progress the way he did. He says most people just linger in the miraculous moment and demand another miracle once they know he exists.

"You are the one who changed your life. And because of that, I always rooted for you," Shin says warmly.

The boy smiles and says he always knew, and then asks where he's going next. Shin instructs him to go back out the way he came "You can go through the door you entered the afterlife is on the other side" The boy reaches out for the door handle and turns back to look at Shin one last time, back in his old man form. And then he walks through to the other side, where a staircase that stretches up into the heavens is waiting for him.

Shin thanks Reaper for the help today, and Reaper asks why he bothers doing stuff like this, when it's not like someone makes him do it.

Shin says, "Because if I didn't, I wouldn't be cool."

Shin stands around waiting in what looks like Ji Yeon's lobby, when his hands start to smoke. Ji Yeon puts down the candle she just blew out in her suite and asks where he's been and why he's avoiding her. "Am I an abandoned wife?" she asks. He insists that he was busy, but she calls him out on being avoidy, and tells him to go ahead and try to run away.

"I'll blow all of these out!" she cries, pointing at the hundreds of candles she's got lit behind her.

Shin just asks where she got all these candles without money, and she says Deok-hwa oppa bought them for her. He grouses at that.

She asks why she can't live in one of the many empty rooms in his house, admitting that Deok-hwa oppa told her they were empty. 

(He grouses again, and I can't tell if it's because of what Deok-hwa did, or the fact that she keeps calling him oppa. lol 😂😂😂😂)

Ji Yeon argues that she's been waiting for days, and asks if the rain was because she made him depressed. He lies and says no, but she says she's prepared herself to hear anything from him. He counters that he's the one who needs to prepare himself, not her.

He pops open a beer and asks if she's eaten dinner.

Ji Yeon ignores him and muses, "I said I can see the sword, and now I can't see you. This isn't why I told you."

She asks if they can't prepare for whatever is coming together, but again he changes the subject and suggests room service.

Ji Yeon sighs and says "Since you're changing the subject , I'll go easy on you"

( '10cm'- "My Eyes" (내 눈에만 보여) 'Goblin' OST Part.2 starts playing in the background as Ji Yeon and Shin starts talking in the convenience store)

She finally relents and agrees to dinner, though she turns down fancy room service in favor of convenience store snacks. He finds it adorable and offers to buy her everything in the aisle, looking tipsy after a second beer.

He insists on walking her home afterwards, and Ji Yeon asks about her wish to get a boyfriend-can she not date other men if she's the goblin's bride? Still drunk, Shin says that he's not really behind the idea, and tells her not to expect a boyfriend in this lifetime.

Ji Yeon says "Why not?"

Shin says "Because I don't like it."

(Oh, I like drunk goblin. 😂😂)

She gets mad and asks why "Do you like me?" He hesitates and gives the world's most half-hearted "no" in response, and Ji Yeon counters, "Your no is quite often not a no."

She asks how he's lived up until now, and he says, "I lived waiting for you." Taken aback, Ji Yeon changes the subject and wonders if it rains when he's depressed, what happens when he's happy. Perhaps his good mood makes flowers bloom, she wonders, but he quickly denies it. He confirms that he can fly though, and promises to show her next time.

Ji Yeon asks how many brides he's had before her, and he stops to look at her and says, "You're the first and the last." She says that even if she were the first, how would he know that she's the last? "Because I've decided that you are," he answers.

She asks what happens to him if she decides not to be his bride, and Shin says he won't be able to pull the sword out, because only she can do that. "I have to pull the sword out in order to..." he can't say the truth, so he ends with, "To be pretty!"

Ji Yeon says it must be like all those old fairytales, where the prince finds true love and so the frog becomes a prince, the beast becomes a prince, and the goblin becomes... a broom. She doesn't like that one, and decides they'll wait until they need a broom to pull out his sword.

(GOBLIN 도깨비 Soundtrack 04 Various Artists - When You Open The Door 문을 열고 나가면)

Ji Yeon says " Let's pull it out on the first snowfall "

Shin says with a smile hiding pain and sadness " Okay , let's do it then "

(The way he smiled while saying this got me crying , The fact that he didn't want her to feel his sadness😭😭😭)

On her way to school the next morning, Ji Yeon sees people milling about taking pictures, and looks up to see her street lined with unseasonal cherry blossoms.

(Haha ,That liar, he totally blooms flowers when he's happy! 😂😂)

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