🏹\ Kim Seungmin/🐾

Kim Seungmin is a hunter from the most famous village of Bukchon in the Joseon Dynasty. This village has numerous trade routes with other villages and some palaces. The village is surrounded by a red stone fence to protect the population from bandits, wolves, bears, enemies, gumiho, and other... Wait a minute... gumiho? Yes, in the forests around the village, there is a forest inhabited by vampires and gumiho. Many rumors circulate about these creatures, including that they eat human livers and bring bad luck. Most of these rumors are complete nonsense. Gumiho don't feed on humans, they eat regular human food, and the idea that they bring bad luck is just superstition, but many hunters believe it and hunt not only ordinary animals but also these creatures. Seungmin believed this too, so he also hunted gumiho, but not with the same fanaticism as other hunters.

One warm summer evening, Seungmin was hunting when he suddenly heard a whimper. He followed the sound and saw a gumiho caught in a trap, a fresh wound visible on its belly. It was Yang Jeongin, a young gumiho of 1,020 years old (twenty years old in human years). Jeongin had caught his foot in the trap while fleeing from other hunters, who had shot him in the stomach, leaving a wound. His red-tipped red hair was disheveled, and his ears were flattened against his head. All nine red-tipped tails were trembling gently.