(Kim's reminiscence)
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The two of them get in the back seat of the cab again.
Joon-san, leaning back against the seat, seems to be absent‐minded.
Kim looks at him ,trying to speak something, but ends up saying nothing.
Who knows what to say to comfort him?
All they can hear in the car is the voices on the radio.
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Kim opens the door to the hotel room where Joon-sang has stayed.
Joon-sang slowly walks on the carpet then stops.
Kim calls out to him:
"Well, I have to go to the office for now. I'll be back and have dinner with you."
"Ok" Joon-sang replies with his back to Kim.
Kim gathers his thoughts, then speaks to another man's back.
"If you wish, you can even return tomorrow, earlier than planned. I mean, to the United States."
Joon-sang nods and says yes.
Kim leaves, hearing him mumbling:
"Thank you, Kim-seonbae..."
Kim, silently walking out into the hallway, closes the door and sighs heavily.
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That evening, at the hotel restaurant.
Joon-sang eats dinner with Kim, who has returned from Marcian.
Joon-sang stops sipping his soup and says.
"I'd like to reschedule my return trip. Could you rebook my fight?"
Kim also puts down his spoon, thinking this is to be expected.
"Well then..." Kim, brightly responding, pulls out his notebook and flips through the pages.
"How about a flight tomorrow morning? Is it hard to take the earliest one, isn't it?"
"No, not tomorrow." says Joon-sang.
"Rather late. I'd like to postpone it for a day."
"!?"
It isn't supposed to, Kim thinks.
"Postpone?"
Nodding slowly, Joon-sang says:
"Yes , There is another place to go...or the house I wish to stay in."
Kim looks blank for a while, then mumbles.
"Are you saying that one on the island?"
Joon-sang smiles sadly.
"Yes. Yoo-jin's"
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