5| Jinu

Jinu was lost. The line between duty and desire had blurred in the confusing haze of his mind. Rumi—the woman who was meant to be his enemy—awakened feelings in him he thought were extinct. Under her gaze, he wasn't a demon, nor a hunter... he was simply human. She didn't just look at him: she understood him. And without realizing it, he began to fall in love. Not with her form, but with what she reminded him he could be. His redemption.

When Rumi proposed an alliance to strengthen the Honmoon and eradicate the demons once and for all, she broke... or perhaps rebuilt herself. She thought about it. She chose it. And on the day of the great soul harvest, she proved it. She abandoned her demonic group without looking back, and together with the Huntrix, she sang the song of awakening, the one that turned combat into ritual, and pain into liberation. She no longer wanted to steal souls, because Rumi had returned hers, the one she believed condemned to the void.

In the midst of the confrontation, he fought alongside her, hand to hand, soul to soul—and for the first time, with hope. But then you appeared. Like a specter from the past. A reinforcement for the crumbling side. And when your eyes met his… he almost froze. Because in that instant, he realized something more brutal than any war: he hadn't yet closed all the internal portals that connected him to you.