Tomorrow 

Reaper and Deok-hwa are all dressed up, and we see why when Sunny brings a friend out for a double date. It's all part of Sunny's plan—she says that you can figure out a man's true nature when he's around his friends.    

        Her friend looks out the window at Reaper and Deok-hwa arriving and sighs wistfully that whichever girl gets to date those men must be happy. Sunny agrees with a big smile.

The mood back at home is melancholy, and when Ji Yeon braves a knock on Shin's bedroom door, he ignores it. He seems to come to a decision and belatedly comes out to the living room. Without warning he says, "Pull out the sword, now. I'm asking you."

She doesn't know how to respond, but he insists, saying, "I want to stop... thinking that I had a choice."  

 She asks if this has anything to do with that choice he mentioned at the restaurant earlier, and looks nervous as she asks what he's choosing to do exactly.

            He says he only wants an answer from her, not questions, so she says it isn't time yet because she hasn't completed her research. She admits to looking him up on the internet but says there was almost no information, as if someone had gone and deleted it.

         Ji Yeon remembers what he'd told her initially about being the goblin's bride—that if she discovered something about him, she'd come to resent him. She knows now that the "something" is the sword, but she doesn't know yet why she'd come to resent him, so she knows there's something else he isn't telling her.

(GOBLIN 도깨비 Soundtrack 05 Various Artists - Eun Tak's Waltz 은탁의 왈츠 plays in the background as Ji Yeon asks Shin about his past.)

She asks, "Did you maybe do something so bad, and that all records of you have been erased from history?" She says that if he's being punished for doing something bad, she's not sure if she should pull out the sword. "Did you... commit an act of treason... or something like that?" she asks.

He instantly flashes back to the Goryeo battlefront, and then to the moment his king betrayed him. We flash to a early moment to Reaper and Sunny sitting in the cafe for the first time, and then return back to Shin and Ji Yeon.

He looks stricken as he says, 

        "Yes, you're right. I was busy trying to stay alive. My life was not recorded in history. I tried with all my might.......but even my death was not honorable. Nothing could have become When I took my step towards the king. But I kept approaching him, and with every step I took , Innocent people lost their lives. My sin was not forgiven......and till now I am being punished for it. This sword.....is the punishment."

Ji Yeon listens with tears in her eyes, and Shin asks, "But even if that is my punishment, if I've received it for nine hundred years, isn't it enough?"

She says tenderly, "No... it can't be a punishment. The Almighty wouldn't have given you that power if you were truly a bad person. If you were a bad person.....only goblins would exist, and there would be no goblin's bride to pull out the sword."

Her words hit him hard, and a tear trickles down his face. With a gentle smile, she reaches out a hand to wipe his tears, tears streaming down her own face as she does so.

"I don't know what kind of existence it was, but you are being loved now, truly," she tells him, making him cry all over again. She clarifies that by "bad things," she meant like stealing the king's woman or something, and apologizes for bringing up treason.

He asks if she won't make him pretty now, which is still what Ji Yeon believes will happen when she pulls out the sword. She says "Yes" and he sighs in relief until she clarifies, "Yes, I won't."

The tone suddenly shifts to comedic as he wonders where the conversation went awry, and Ji Yeon asks if he's thought this way for nine hundred years and cries that she feels so sorry for him. He asks if she can't try and be a little more consistent with her actions and words.

         Ignoring him, she says that she's crying because she's sad, but that he really should shape up and put in a little effort instead of feeling sorry for himself "Don't you think you're not trying hard enough to become prettier?" 

     She advises him that pity won't get him very far, so he needs to take action if he wants her to pull out the sword.

(The change of dynamic from 😭😭😭😭 to comedy omg omg )

Ji Yeon wipes her tears and says "I need to go to work."

He says "Hey......." in his korean soft voice.

She's still crying, amazed that his life is actually more pitiful than hers, and mutters through her tears, "I'm going to punish them all , those who did this to you!" She tells him to think carefully about what she wants from him.

(Oh god it's so funny 😂😂😂😂)

Flustered and not following a thing she's saying, he asks if she wants money and jewels and a house, and Ji Yeon just turns to him dramatically and says, "Is that really what I'm asking for?" 

(GOBLIN 도깨비 Soundtrack 16 Various Artists - God's Supper 신들의 만찬 starts playing in the background as Shin and Ji Yeon bicker)

"Is it that—the thing I said I'd do for you if  you needed me to?" he asks hesitantly. 

"What, love?" she asks. 

He nods, and she counters, "Why can't you think to buy a house with money, and fill it with jewels and love?"

Annoyed he shouts at her to just go to work go already, and she reminds him that she's already told him the answer before, but maybe he can't remember because warriors memories seems to stink. He huffs at that. She proceeds to leave.

He yells as she is leaving "All occupations should be treated equally. Don't think low of my occupation!!!! Hey......."

Once he's alone, Shin wonders how she can cry in empathy for his pain but not pull out the sword.

He sighs and whispers to himself "How did she reach that happy conclusion at the age of 29 in the midst of this much sadness"

He remembers 29-year-old Ji Yeon greeting her lunch date with a smile in his vision and suddenly throws a jealous tantrum that he died and she met some new guy instead of him.

He says at first in sad tone "She meets a man in the meantime. And I will die anyway".

He switches his mood and angrily mocks what she said in the future by saying "Sir.......here....I am over here" . He scoffs.

(Shin and his mood swings , Jealous Dokkaebi is my favourite dokkaebi lol 😂😂😂😂)

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