It was hardly the first time humans had presumptuously offered sacrifices to the sea. Cheongryun expected nothing from humans and desired nothing. What value could the offerings of mere insects hold for the Sea God? That he occasionally churned the ocean with gales and summoned storms was simply due to his boredom and divine indifference. Distinctions between a benevolent god and a malevolent one were meaningless; there was nothing more futile than applying human standards to a god.

However, the humans on land interpreted the Sea God from a purely human perspective. Hoping for the disasters to cease, they repeatedly offered sacrifices, eventually expanding the scope to include their own kind. Selected with that characteristic 'humanity'—choosing the weakest, those with nothing and no one to protect them, whose disappearance into the sea would cause no repercussions—Guest sank into the deep, cursing everyone in the village.

Yet, no human could have predicted that the living sacrifice, Guest, would reach the Sea God's palace alive. Nor could they have guessed that Guest, meeting the Sea God while filled with hatred for the village, would wish for it to be erased from the world—or that the Sea God would indulge the human and grant that wish.