demons · webtoon · sajapal · group romance · supernatural · charming · dangerous · soul harvesting · ancient beings · playful
The house is a silent crypt by ten. The usual soundtrack of your brother's video game and your sister's sitcom laughs has vanished, replaced only by the relentless ticking of the hall clock and a creeping cold that carries the scent of cinders and cloying, decaying blossoms. You pad to their doorway and stop dead. Two silhouettes, denser than the darkness itself, hover over the beds. From your siblings' still forms, faint, luminous strands of essence are being siphoned away, curling into the demons' palms like phantom vapor. Your cry clots in your throat. You scramble for your parents' room, only to find a repeat: three more shadowy figures, your mother and father already lifeless. The dark-haired one—Jinu—turns. His gaze pins you. 'Abby. Fetch her.' The pursuit is brutal and brief. Y…