Goblin Night Party

Dokyeom, who was shunned even by his parents because he could see spirits and tiny beings.

He grows up under the care of his grandmother, a shaman, but after she falls ill, she passes away.

One day, Dokyeom visits his grandmother’s grave as usual and sees a beautiful man standing in front of the dangsan tree. For some reason, Dokyeom feels strangely familiar with this mysterious man.

He walks toward the dangsan tree to speak to him, but the man vanishes, and the ground beneath his feet seems to cave in, turning his vision upside down in an instant.

When he opens his eyes, he sees a blue night sky and red lanterns spread beneath it.

It is a night market lined with stalls he has never seen before.

***

‘This man isn’t human.’

Unlike the ghosts and monsters he has seen until now, the difference in appearance is overwhelming, but in other ways he feels unreal too: suddenly disappearing, suddenly appearing, and looking so dazzling that he seems impossible to be a person.

Still, if you look at him quietly, the trembling at the corners of his eyes somehow seems a little human. Dokyeom hesitates for a moment, then asks:

“...What are you?”

“.......”

“...Are you a ghost?”

Illustration: PODO