Ji-hyun starts feeling woozy, and then her soul pops right out of Yi-kyung's body. In the middle of the park, in the middle of the day. Oh, crap.
Min-ho asks if Yi-kyung's okay, but all he gets back is a "Who are you?" But before things can get too complicated, (and damn, too bad) In-jung arrives to discover Min-ho here "with that woman." He drags her away to talk, leaving Yi-kyung confused and alone.
Ji-hyun calls the Scheduler in a panic, but Kang has been keeping an eye from afar, and swoops in to save the day. Gawd, I love Kang as the big bleeding heart hero. I mean, don't get me wrong-I ALSO love petulant, petty Kang. But this Kang is so sweet.
The Scheduler drags Ji-hyun away, calling her a troublemaker (hey, takes one to know one, buddy) and Kang reassures Yi-kyung that everything is okay. She recognizes him, which does calm her down, but as she looks at her surroundings, she has a momentary flashback...
Oh noes. More tugging of the heartstrings. Damnit, Show.
Yi-kyung and Yi-soo walk hand-in-hand in their high school uniforms, looking like the cutest couple there ever was. She says, "Oh no, what am I going to do? This place is so pretty."
Yi-soo: "What am I going to do?" And she finishes his thought: "...because I'M so pretty?" Haha. I'd barf if you weren't so cute. They walk along and then disappear, like a momentary hallucination.
In-jung demands to know what Min-ho is doing here with Yi-kyung, and asks if he came here with her. He doesn't directly answer her, but ends up running off to check on Yi-kyung because he's worried about her, leaving In-jung stewing and totally rejected. I sense some deep-seated issues about to surface with this one.
Meanwhile, the Scheduler gives Ji-hyun a talking-to, and she worries what'll happen if she can't get back into her host body before midnight (the official penalty is one day per minute that she's late). But there's at least one loophole for today: this wasn't her fault, getting ejected in the middle of the day, so she won't be getting that penalty.
But that makes Reaper Boy wonder what made Yi-kyung wake up. He guesses that there's something about this place, and that bringing her here has triggered something significant for her. Dude, you have no idea.
He consults his reaper smartphone, which tells him that in the case of the host waking up in the middle of the day, he can make her believe that the entire day was a dream. The cost: another of the 49 days shaved off. Ji-hyun pouts that she's already used a day, but they're pretty much out of options at this point.
They run to catch up to Yi-kyung, who is walking along down the path where she and Yi-soo had once walked. She instinctively just follows a young high school couple, as if in a trance, and Kang follows silently behind her.
Ji-hyun and the Scheduler catch up, and then as all four of them walk along, Yi-kyung sees two kids at a table with tarot cards and stops. That triggers Kang's memory, and then he flashes back...
After their magic club had picked partners, he and Ji-hyun were assigned to raise money for a charity by setting up a tarot card booth in that park. Ji-hyun works tirelessly trying to get people to stop, while he just sulks off to the side, all the while stealing glances at her.
After singing to get people's attention (which of course embarrasses Kang to no end), one couple, a pair of kids from another school, finally stops at the table...
O.M.G. It's Yi-kyung and Yi-soo! Dude, I assumed they were tacitly connected because they lived in the same so-called "reaper district" as adults, but it didn't even occur to me that it might go back as far as high school.
And there they are, our main foursome, all dressed in high school uniforms, all alive, and staring right at each other. My mind, she is blown.
Ji-hyun coaxes them to pay 5 bucks and pick a card, and Yi-soo hesitates saying that it's a hoax. Ji-hyun swears it's not, and Yi-kyung wants to play for fun, so he agrees. As he pays, Ji-hyun notes a few things: he's got worn sleeves, and she carefully reads Yi-kyung's nametag, and sees that they've come up from another town.
