Ji Yeon goes to fill out an essay application at a university and Shin arrives to pick her up with a bouquet of flowers.

 Ji Yeon walks around campus and stops to stare at the baseball team, and freezes when she sees a ball hurtling right at her in the air.

(GOBLIN 도깨비 Soundtrack 07 Various Artists - Small House On The Beach 바닷가 작은집 starts playing in the background as Ji Yeon and Tae-hee starts talking. )

She braces for impact, but a glove swoops in to catch the ball just inches from her head, and she looks up to see a handsome oppa standing over her. She smiles and then seems to recognize him "Tae-hee oppa?" He recognizes her too and says she's gotten prettier and taller, and pets her on the head. (Ji Yeon's crush)

 (GOBLIN 도깨비 Soundtrack 16 Various Artists - God's Supper 신들의 만찬 starts playing as a jealous Shin scoffs and makes the clouds thunder.)

  In the distance, Shin drops his flowers and scoffs bitterly as he watches the whole exchange. He wonders jealously if that baseball player is the lunch date 29-year-old Ji Yeon was waiting for in his premonition, and clouds roll in as lightning strikes overhead. 

At home, Deok-hwa tries to get Shin out of his funk, but he just lies in bed and mutters, "He touched her hair. I wanted to break his wrist. She was flirting and twisting her body." He whines that he should've just had him play piano so that they wouldn't have met, and Deok-hwa doesn't understand a word he's saying.

   Ji Yeon comes out of the shower and tousles her hair, thinking of Tae-hee oppa with a big goofy grin on her face. 

(GOBLIN 도깨비 Soundtrack 07 Various Artists - Small House On The Beach 바닷가 작은집 starts playing as Ji Yeon plays with her hair and remembers her moments with Tae-hee.)

She flashes back to her childhood when she'd been a little girl waiting outside the batting cages and admiring him. She didn't know then that Shin was in the batting cage right next to Tae-hee, and thought that the ajusshi was super annoying for cutting off her view of her Tae-hee oppa.

She takes out her ice cream cake, and Shin zaps everything over to his side of the table and announces that he's going to eat it all by himself. "I want to eat ice cream because it rained. Because it rained," he says, clearly wanting her to ask about it.

    He hoards the cake like a little boy and she calls him petty, and finally asks why he's depressed. She guesses that it's because of the sword, and wonders if it's supposed to be pulled out at all, saying that they tried kissing and loving and nothing worked.

     He argues that she didn't mean the "I love you," and she counters that he didn't mean it either. She says he has a weird personality, and he says the same of her, but she says defensively that she's young. Shin says "So what? You're going to get old and I won't! I'm going to stay young and beautiful!" 

(Omg this couple's bickering 😭😭😭😭.)

She points out that not getting old doesn't exactly make him young, and says she saw her first love today and has no room to see Shin as beautiful. He sputters, "What love?!" She brags that Tae-hee oppa is really good at baseball, and Shin crows that he's so awesome at baseball, she doesn't even know. 

Ji Yeon  says "Is this how you are going to treat me now? I hope you take the best photo of your life with this bluetooth speaker" , Ji Yeon storms away to her room and Shin yells "Don't ask me to take a picture of you".

He then proceeds and tries to click on the speaker only to realise that she fooled him.

The next day, Shin storms into the baseball team's locker room and demands to see Tae-hee, who comes out in slow motion like Shin's about to fall in love with him too. Shin grouses without any introduction "How can you.....look like this? You're the best looking guy here!"

Tae-hee seems to recognize him and asks if he doesn't remember seeing him when he was a little boy. Flashback to the batting cages Little Tae-hee saw Shin swinging wildly next to him and tried to offer some batting pointers. 

   Shin insisted that he didn't need any help, so Little Tae-hee had asked if he wanted to make a bet.

It's not like a goblin to ever pass up a wager, so Shin agreed that the first person to hit ten balls would get a wish granted. And then he proceeded to get his ass kicked by the young Tae-hee, who was way better at baseball, even then.

   After winning the bet, Little Tae-hee ran home and found that his piano just up and vanished, just like he had prayed for years before because He wanted to become a baseball player.

And back at the batting cages, Shin played for real when no one was around to watch, hitting homeruns without breaking a sweat. 

Shin says to himself "It feels nice to lose sometimes and help the humans."

  In the present, Tae-hee asks if he isn't the same ajusshi, though he thinks it's weird that Shin hasn't aged a day. The only thing Shin can do is deny it, though it doesn't seem convincing.

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