Reaper passes his usual pedestrian bridge on the way home and picks up a discarded business card on the ground. It's an advertisement for a loan shark, but he notes the person's title jealously.

He's caught off-guard when Sunny approaches, and he's so panicked that he throws his hat on and makes himself invisible. Sunny naturally thinks of him when she's on the bridge, and complains out loud that the jerk isn't answering his phone, and wonders what his deal is.

Reaper just watches her with a stricken expression and thinks, "I'm a grim reaper." He thinks sadly that grim reapers must act on command, but Sunny interrupts his thoughts by suddenly announcing that she's going to kill him because her pride has been wounded. She calls him right then and there, but ack, his phone rings out loud and she can hear it.

He doesn't even notice at first because he's so transfixed by the ring on her finger, and scrambles to shut his phone off. Sunny gets scared and looks around, accidentally slipping on an icy patch. Just as she's about to fall, she stops, suspended in mid-air.

Cut to:

Reaper crouching below her, holding her up on his back. Well that's awkward. It terrifies her and Sunny goes running, leaving Reaper to watch her go with a long sigh.

Sunny runs into work and asks Ji Yeon between heaving breaths if she believes in ghosts, and Ji Yeon glances nervously at the two ghosts standing near the counter before saying that that would be absurd.

Sunny brushes off her strange encounter and remembers to tell Ji Yeon not to come to work for the next few weeks, to focus on her college entrance exam.

Shin sits at home contemplating what Ji Yeon wants from him, and then recalls her saying that she'd like him to be happy while she was living there. He wonders if that's what she wants, thinking it a tricky thing to do.

(GOBLIN 도깨비 Soundtrack 08 Various Artists - When The Time Stops 시간이 멈출 때 plays in the background as Shin stands outside the bookstore looking at Ji Yeon and thinks to himself.)

     He waits outside the bookstore for her to pass by, and as she walks toward him with her head buried in notes, he looks at her thinks to himself, "Life is walking up to me. Death.... is walking up to me. From life to death, You.... do not grow weary as you walk to me. Then all I have to say is something like this , I'm not in sorrow. It is good enough. It has to be."

    She sees him and is a little touched that he watched her approaching for so long. She asks if he sees anything different in her now, remembering that he said he couldn't see her twenties and thirties before. Shin lies that he still can't.

He says that usually he can see a person's fortune and misfortune, but with her he can't. She figures that it's because she's a missing person, and prefers to think of it positively, that she gets to determine her own future.

She stills wishes she could know how she'll be when she's twenty and thirty, and Shin says, "You'll grow up just like this-prettily." She jokes that she can't be pretty every day and probably has an ugly day or two. He counters that it could be an ugly month or two.

   As they walk, she asks if he has particular rules for the people he becomes a guardian to, and he says no-he just chooses based on his mood day by day, and tends to help children more than adults.

He explains that when he was at his most distant from the world, a child was the first person to reach out a hand to him. He flashes back to the moment the little boy who looked just like Deok-hwa asked to serve him back in Goryeo.

(GOBLIN 도깨비 Soundtrack 02 Various Artists - Butterfly 나비 starts playing in the background when Shin gets a flashback of the little Deok-hwa's ancestor.)

Ji Yeon asks why he saved her mother when she was an adult, and he says that he was weak-hearted then because he was drunk, plus, the person her mother was asking him to save wasn't herself.

Ji Yeon is suddenly overcome with tears and says, "That you were the one who answered her cry to be saved-it just seems like such a miracle." She cries happy, grateful tears and he stares at her for a long moment before raising a hand to pet her on the head.

She smiles and then says he's not supposed to press her head like that, but caress the hair softly. She shows him by reaching up and petting him on the head, and he's just lost in the moment for a while, looking into her eyes.

(도깨비 OST Part 3 Guardian (Original Television Soundtrack) Hush by Lasse Lindh - starts playing in the background as Shin and Ji Yeon starts patting each other's heads.)

He comes out of the reverie and pulls away brusquely, saying that today must be one of her ugly days.

( God he is too funny 😂😂😂😂😂)

She runs after him in a huff, but her mood lifts when they get home and she discovers that Shin put up a Christmas tree for her. She tells him that she was being selfish before because she thought he'd kick her out if she pulled out the sword, plus she thought maybe he'd become prettier and meet a prettier girl.

She stops to ask, "Aren't you going to say you're not?" , Shin says "Do I have to?" .

She announces with a smile that she'll make him pretty, because if he's making the request, it can't lead to a bad result. She asks where they should do it and he panics.

"Today? Right now?" Shin asks. She rolls up her sleeves right then and there, and Shin hurriedly pretends to answer a call while running out of the house.

He goes straight to Reaper's tea room and asks for liquor before sharing the big news. Reaper asks if Ji Yeon knows what pulling out the sword means, and Shin says no, adding that he's worried because she likes him a lot.

Reaper doesn't buy it, and Shin argues that Ji Yeon asked him to marry her as soon as they met and said, "I love you," putting him in a really awkward position. "She has no reason not to like me," Shin points out.

Reaper counters that there are plenty of reasons, like their enormous age gap, and says the second she goes to college she'll meet a gazillion young, good-looking boys. Shin says"What, that 900 years? So what?".

Reaper tells him to stop shortening his age, saying that he's 939, but Shin says he's actually got an early birthday, so he's really technically a year younger. Both boys actually start laughing at that.

Shin says this is better than liquor and then says wistfully, "She's the only one who can make me die, but she keeps making me live. It's funny, isn't it?". Reaper reminds him that he lived well before meeting her too, but Shin thinks it's strange that he can't seem to remember that.

(도깨비 OST Part 6 Guardian (Original Television Soundtrack) Who are you by Sam Kim - starts playing in the background in Shin starts remembering his times with Park Ji Yeon.)

He lies in bed that night remembering every time Ji Yeon ran up to him calling him Ajusshi, and he says aloud in his room, "Stop calling me. Stop calling me, Park Ji Yeon. Let me go."

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