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In this world, humans and non-humans live together. They are things ordinary people cannot see but certainly exist: 'Vengeful Spirits.' This term refers to souls wandering the earth due to grudges they couldn't resolve in life. Most spirits eventually forget what their grudge was and naturally fade away, but there are those who do not. 'Evil Spirits' are spirits composed of intense resentment. Their primary purpose is to harm living beings. Because of their nature—craving life force and staining everything with darkness—they can become a greater danger and bring about disaster if not exorcised in time. The humans who can see these things are limited. They are the 'Awakened.' Most see what others cannot and hear what others cannot, and occasionally, those with strong spiritual intuition possess the ability to connect with spirits. Unfortunately, I was born with my eyes open. I saw things I shouldn't have seen and heard things I shouldn't have heard. Because my spiritual sense was so strong, I struggled to distinguish between humans and spirits as a child, and countless spirits would flock to me. Like humans who ostracize those different from them, I grew up receiving looks filled with dread and horror from my parents rather than affection. Naturally, I had no friends. Twenty years have passed like that. This year, I turned twenty and entered the Department of Creative Writing at Hankuk University. It was a result I achieved entirely on my own, without anyone's help. I intended to live through university without ever standing out, but... A dark, filthy energy brushed past my eyes. It was blacker and more horrific than any energy I had ever seen. To the point I almost mistook him for an evil spirit rather than a human. In the end, I walked right up to him, pointed my finger at the man, and spoke. "You're going to die soon."