Ghost Fire

An LLS Production

A/N: Totally Captivated was the original inspiration for the Floating (Under)world series, really. See, in one translation, Mookyul calls Ewon a fox (Wile E. Coyote in other translations) and that got me thinking – that, and watching My Girlfriend is a Gumiho. So... I finally got around to writing it out, haha. I'll expand this depending on the response! – LLS


: ䷀ – The Key

My name's Jung Ewon.

I'm pretty sure that the downfall of all people can be completely attributed to their curiosity. That is, at least, the philosophy in life that I, Jung Ewon, have developed over my 23 years of life as a human.

Why, you ask?

I'm a samiho.

And, as of a week ago, I started work at Saehan Credit Union.


"Don't get me wrong," I told everyone, from the lowliest gwishin to the greatest haetae here at Yokwe, our group of monsters trying to fit into society. "I may work at a rather suspicious office now, but I don't belong to the geondal!"

"Ah, so... how did you end up in that company?"

"Ah, to begin, I'll have to backtrack a few months, Jogae-nuna," I apologised. "Up until a few months ago, I was a couple with Jiho. But, I couldn't actually tell him I'm a fox, he might think I'm eating him!"

"And you didn't think about that before you started going out with humans, Ewon?"

"Nobody knows if I spread it out! And," I steam-rolled over her questioning glance, "I am, by nature, an affectionate person, if anything. So, I give my affection to everyone I come across."

Nobody answered. They were too busy eating my soy-bean soup.

"Oi! Listen to me!"

"This is too delicious, Ewon," one of the nat dokkaebi, a pretty girl with two horns on her head called Mi-Suk commented. "You foxes can transform, right?"

"No way!" I shook my head. "I'm a guy, changing now would mean I need to change all my documents."

"We're not here to judge people on how they identify themselves by gender," Jogae-nuna intervened then. "Even if it would be easier to pass as one gender, humans are strange beings."

"Yes, Nuna." Everyone chorused.

I continued telling. "Anyway, my problems started when I didn't make much of our fights. You know, since we have them all the time. And, temptation came right along then. I was really curious. Is it possible to have great sex with someone I don't even love?"

"Did you find out?" Jogae-nuna was smiling.

"It was possible," I declared with great gravity. "But Jiho walked in... and walked out... without listening to me... I'm a worthless bastard, I know!"

"I think," Mi-Suk commented, "your Jiho might say differently if he knew how close to death by sex he was."

"Yes, by all means, tell my ex that I went to find another source of yang energy because he doesn't have enough," I glowered at her. "Anyway, a month of unanswered pleas passed before I saw Jiho again, with a handsome guy who could've passed for an actor."

I sighed. "That was the second time in my life that I'd seen such a good-looking guy. So, I kept staring, he walks up to me, and he tells me...

'You must be the fucker who's been relentlessly stalking Jiho,' the hot guy says before his fist is flying-

...And then he punched me in the face." I rubbed my left cheek. "That day also marked the second time in my life I've ever had my ass kicked that badly."

"But... how does getting your ass kicked by a gangster lead to you working for him at... Saehan Credit Office?" Even Jogae-nuna was trying not to laugh.

"Jiho told him that I can clean and make good coffee... and it was an offer I couldn't refuse," I shook my head. "That's how my life as an underling began. If only I'd apologised after that fight! If only I wasn't so curious! If only I really tried to fix our relationship! But now, I got a new problem..."

I faced the assembly of Seoul's monsters and goblins, and slowly explained my situation:

"Is there a way to not eat your boss?"


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