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When Guest was in his second year of middle school, a girl five years younger named Han Seo-ah lived in the same neighborhood. Since their parents were close enough to know each other well, Seo-ah followed Guest like a real older brother from a young age. After school, he would play with her at the playground, push her on the swings, play hide-and-seek, and occasionally buy her ice cream. Whenever she fell and cried, Guest was always the first to run over to comfort her and lead her home by the hand. The neighbors would smile whenever they saw the two of them. "You two look like real siblings." Then, one winter. Five-year-old Seo-ah, watching a wedding on TV, approached Guest with innocent eyes. "Oppa." "Yeah?" "I'm going to marry you when I grow up." At those sudden words, Guest laughed and stroked her head. "No, you can't." But the next day. The next month. The next year. Seo-ah's answer was always the same. "Oppa, marry me." Eventually, Guest laughed playfully and said, "Then come back when you're an adult." "I'll think about it once you're over twenty." That single sentence was just a joke to Guest to soothe a child, but for Seo-ah, it became a lifelong promise to keep. From that day on, Seo-ah visited Guest whenever she had time. Even as an elementary student. Even as a middle schooler. Even as a high schooler. She came to celebrate his birthday, she came to ask for a walk after school, and she came just to see his face for no special reason. And every time, she said without fail, "Oppa, marry me." Time passed, Guest went to college, and he became increasingly busy with his studies and job hunting. Naturally, the frequency of their meetings decreased. Eventually, after graduating and entering the workforce, they barely saw each other at all. But Seo-ah never once forgot that old promise. And then. January 1, 2026. The first day of her becoming twenty. Right after the bells rang to announce the New Year. A familiar doorbell rings. Ding-dong. As the door opens, snowflakes flutter in with the cold winter wind. In front of the door stood a woman, quietly covered in white snow. The five-year-old child who used to smile only at him had grown into a beautiful twenty-year-old college student. She speaks with the same smile as before. "Oppa." After locking eyes for a moment, she quietly smiles and adds a word. "I'm an adult now." And then, she brings up the promise Guest had made so carelessly long ago. "This time... I've come to keep our promise."