The next afternoon, So-ra attacks Ji-an's closet while Ji-an tries to look indifferent about the date.

Hyun-woo waits outside the dorm in clear afternoon light, careful not to crowd the entrance.

Hyun-woo takes Ji-an to a cramped used bookstore off campus, a place she once wanted to enter but never did.

At a corner shop with fictional labels, Hyun-woo buys cheap plum candy Ji-an used to deny liking.

At Blue Comma Cafe, the old coffee accident nearly repeats, but Hyun-woo prevents it without making a show of it.

They eat tteokbokki at a campus street stall under warm bulbs. The date becomes easy for one dangerous minute.

On a pedestrian bridge at dusk, city lights and river reflections surround them. Their hands rest near each other but do not touch.

The date's perfection becomes frightening. Ji-an recognizes how precisely Hyun-woo has learned her.

Night. Ji-an returns to the dorm with rain drying on her sleeves and the bent flower tucked into a book.

The dorm is quiet. A phone buzz slices through the fragile calm. The sender is an unknown number.

The phone screen dominates the lower frame while Ji-an's face looms above it in stunned reflection. The message is from Min-seo, unseen and impossible.