The Honmoon had been sealed.
The demons had been banished.
The demon King Gwi Ma had been defeated.
The world should have been safe.
But Mira and Zoey couldn't celebrate.
Because Rumi was gone.
The last thing they remembered was Rumi screaming as the collapsing Honmoon dragged her into the darkness.
"I'm half demon."
Those had been Rumi's final words before she disappeared.
Mira and Zoey tried their very best to hold Rumi. But the demon realms pull is stronger than them.
Mira had refused to accept them as goodbye.
Neither had Zoey.
So when the last remnants of the Honmoon faded, the two demon hunters stood before the dark rift that had formed where Rumi had vanished.
Zoey stared into it.
"Mira..."
"I know."
"We don't know what's on the other side."
"I know."
"We might not come back."
Mira tightened her grip around her weapon.
"Rumi is still our friend."
Zoey sighed.
"Yeah."
She stepped beside Mira.
"Even if she's half demon."
Mira nodded.
"Especially because she's our friend."
Zoey inhaled deeply.
"Then I guess we're coming to the demon realm to rescue her."
Mira nodded.
"Let's go rescue our friend."
Without another word, they jumped.
Into the unknown. Into the Demon Realm.
They landed hard.
Mira rolled across a field of black stone and immediately stood.
Zoey landed beside her.
"Okay."
She looked around.
"Definitely not Seoul."
The sky above them was crimson.
Massive floating rocks hung in the air.
Dark mountains stretched endlessly across the horizon.
And somewhere in the distance, something screamed.
Mira raised her weapon.
"Rumi!"
Her voice echoed.
No answer.
Then-
Clap.
Clap.
Clap.
Someone applauded from the darkness.
"Well, well, well."
Mira froze.
A familiar figure emerged.
Baby.
Behind him came Mystery.
And then Abby.
Their demon forms were unmistakable.
Zoey's expression hardened.
"It's the Saja Boys."
Mira raised her weapon
"You guys"
Baby smiled.
"You actually followed us here."
Mystery tilted his head.
"That's either incredibly brave..."
His smile disappeared.
"...or incredibly stupid."
Zoey raised her weapon, looking each demon over
"Wait. There's someone missing. There were 5 of you, minus Jinu there should be 4 left."
She looked at Mira "We'rent there two pink-haired Saja Boys?"
Mira realized it too.
"Romance."
Zoey nodded.
"The light-pink haired one, the one always flirting with you."
She placed her attention back to the demons.
"Where is he? Is he hiding somewhere?"
Baby smiled.
"You don't get to talk about him."
Abby said nothing.
He was staring directly at Mira.
His expression was filled with fury.
Mira slowly raised her weapon.
"Tell us where Rumi is."
Baby laughed.
"You think you can give us orders?"
Zoey stepped forward.
"We're taking her home."
Mystery's eyes narrowed.
"You're not taking anyone and you're not leaving here alive."
He suddenly disappeared.
Zoey barely blocked his attack.
CLANG!
She stumbled backward.
Baby attacked immediately afterward.
Zoey jumped over him.
"Two against one?"
She smirked.
"You boys really haven't changed."
Mystery appeared behind her.
"You're still arrogant."
Zoey spun around.
"I'm confident."
Mystery attacked. Zoey blocked.
"You know..."
Mystery's grin returned.
"...I've been thinking about something you said."
Zoey frowned.
"What?"
Mystery leaned closer.
"Your final words to me."
Zoey's eyes widened slightly.
Mystery whispered-
"You're just my type."
Zoey froze.
Baby burst out laughing.
"Oh, she remembers!"
Mystery's grin became wider.
"You said that right before you tried to kill me."
Zoey blocked another strike.
"I was mocking you!"
"Were you?"
"Yes!"
Mystery attacked again. Zoey ducked.
Mystery followed.
"You didn't look like you were mocking me."
Zoey kicked him away.
"You were trying to kill me!"
"And yet..."
Mystery caught her weapon.
"...you still called me your type."
Zoey yanked it free.
"I was being sarcastic!"
Baby laughed.
"Keep telling yourself that."
Zoey glared.
"You two are insufferable!"
Mystery smiled.
"And you're my type too."
Zoey's face reddened.
"Shut up!"
She charged.
Meanwhile...
Mira barely had time to react.
Abby was already in front of her.
He swung. Mira blocked.
The impact sent her sliding backward.
"Abby!"
He attacked again.
"You."
Mira blocked.
"You think you can come here?"
Another strike.
"You think you can walk into our world?"
Another.
"After what you did to me?"
Mira jumped backward.
"The Namsam Concert?"
Abby's eyes burned.
"You humiliated me."
"You endangered innocent people."
"You defeated me!"
Mira tightened her grip.
"You were a demon attacking humans. You were going to kill them."
"You made me look weak!"
Abby charged.
Mira blocked him again.
But this time, Abby overpowered her.
He slammed her against a stone wall.
Mira gasped.
Abby grabbed her by the collar.
"Do you remember?"
Mira struggled.
"Let go."
"You beat me in front of everyone."
His grip tightened.
"You cut me. In my abs!"
"That's what you're angry about? I stopped you."
"You embarrassed me."
Abby raised his fist.
"And now..."
His eyes glowed.
"...I'm going to return the favor."
Mira closed her eyes.
Then-
BOOM!
The demons stopped. They recognize that demonic aura.
Abby was thrown across the ground.
Mira fell forward.
Someone caught her.
An arm wrapped around her waist.
A familiar voice whispered beside her ear.
"Don't touch her."
Mira's eyes widened.
She slowly looked up.
Romance.
His demon eyes glowed golden.
His expression was cold, possessive, and unsettlingly calm.
Abby slowly stood. Laughing.
"YOU. So you were ok. All this time we thought you really was gone."
Romance didn't look at him.
He was staring at Mira.
His eyes traveled over her face.
Her shoulders.
Her arms.
Like she was something he owned.
"Are you hurt?"
Mira tries to push herself away.
"Don't touch me!"
He didn't listen, he just tightened his hold on her.
"We keep meeting like this."
"Let me go! Keep your demon hands off of me"
He smiled faintly, and reluctantly let her go.
"You're safe now darling."
Abby stared at them.
"What are you doing?"
Romance finally looked at him.
"What does it look like?"
"You're protecting her?"
"Yes."
Abby laughed bitterly.
"She is our enemy!"
Romance's smile remained.
"I know."
"You fought her!"
"I know."
"She defeated you!"
"I know."
"She didn't even hesitate when she killed you!"
"I know."
Abby's expression twisted.
"Then why are you protecting her?"
Romance looked back at Mira.
His smile turned unsettlingly soft.
"Because she chose me."
Abby stopped, confused.
Mira blinked.
"... What?"
Romance continued as though he hadn't heard her. "She chose me. Out of all of us, she picked me. She was able to kill me." He touched his chest.
"and she didn't even hesitate."
His eyes grew distant.
"She looked at me..."
He smiled.
"...and didn't let me suffer."
Mira frowned.
"That doesn't mean-"
"She loves me."
Mira's jaw dropped.
"I do not! I absolutely did not say that!"
Romance looked at her.
"You don't have to."
He smiled.
"I already know."
Abby stared at him in disbelief.
"You've gone insane."
Romance didn't deny it.
Instead, he looked almost pleased.
"Maybe."
His gaze returned to Mira.
"Maybe I have."
He stepped closer to her.
"What's the difference?"
Mira backed away, visibly irritated.
"You demon! stop twisting everything I do into something it isn't."
"You saved me."
"You were defeated."
"You killed me."
"So you won't be a threat and continue harming innocent people anymore."
"You looked into my eyes."
"Because I was trying to kill you!"
"And you did it."
Romance smiled.
"That's love."
Mira's expression snapped.
"No! That's the entire opposite! And I don't love demons. I hate demons."
Romance shook his head.
"That's what you tell yourself."
Abby's anger grew.
"You're actually delusional."
Romance finally turned toward him.
His expression changed.
The lovesick smile disappeared.
"If believing she loves me makes me delusional..."
His demon aura exploded around him.
"...then I'll happily remain insane."
Abby stepped forward.
"She doesn't belong to you."
Romance's eyes narrowed.
"Yes, and she belongs WITH me."
"She is a demon hunter."
"Yes"
"She is Mira."
"Yes"
"She is ruthless."
"Yes"
"She was trained to kill us."
"Yes"
"She hates demons."
"She doesn't hate me."
Mira opened her mouth.
Romance immediately looked at her.
"Do you?"
Mira hesitated, then scoffed.
"I hate demons. That includes you."
The words hit like a blade.
Romance went still for a fraction of a second.
Then he smiled again, but it was sharper now.
"See?"
Abby clenched his fists.
"You're embarrassing yourself."
Romance laughed softly.
"Maybe."
Then he stepped in front of Mira again, blocking her from Abby's view.
"But She's MINE! I'm protecting her."
Tilting his head sideways, he looked at softly Mira.
"You may deny me as much as you want, but soon, very soon, I'll make you realize how much you love me."
Mira blinked, dumbfounded by his words.
Abby didn't waste a second, he attacked Mira.
Romance blocked him with one hand.
The impact shook the ground.
Abby snarled.
"Move!"
"No. I told you I'm protecting her."
"She is mine to punish!"
Romance's eyes flashed.
"You don't get to hurt her."
"She defeated me!"
"And?"
Romance smiled.
"Then try fighting her again."
Abby stared.
Romance leaned closer.
"But before you reach her, before you fight her, before you try to kill her..."
His voice became dangerously quiet.
"...you'll have to go through me first."
Abby's eyes widened.
"You would fight your own brother, you're own kind, for a human?"
Romance glanced at Mira.
His expression flickered-something possessive, something unstable.
"She isn't just a human."
Mira groaned.
"Oh, here we go."
Romance smiled.
"She is the most beautiful creature I've ever seen."
Abby appeared angrier and frustrated.
"You lived for centuries, yet you act as though you haven't seen a woman before."
Mira's face flushed with anger.
"Demon, I don't care what you think you see. I don't care what you think you feel. I don't love you!"
Romance didn't pay attention to her words, he just continued talking.
"She is brave."
"Stop."
"Fierce."
"Stop it!"
"Kind."
"Stop."
"Pretty."
"Stop it!"
"She's so breathtakingly beautiful and I just can't resist."
"Ugh."
"Enchanting"
"I said Stop it!"
"Perfect."
Mira covered her face in frustration.
Zoey, who had just finished knocking Baby away, looked over.
"Uh..."
She stared at Romance.
Then Mira.
Then Abby.
"Did I miss something?"
Mira shouted-
"YES! -he's insane!"
Romance smiled proudly.
"Am I?"
Mira glared at him.
"I said I don't love you."
"Really?"
"I said I hate demons."
"Yes."
"I'm going to kill you!"
"Perfect."
"I said I'm not yours!"
Romance tilted his head.
"oh you are, and you keep talking to me."
Mira looked like she might explode.
"That's not how any of this works!"
Romance looked at Abby happily.
"She loves arguing with me."
Mira snapped-
"I don't love you, I can't even stand you!"
Romance smiled.
"You're blushing. That's close enough."
Mira screamed in frustration.
"I absolutely am not blushing! I'm angry! You're a demon!"
Romance smiled wider
"And your a demon hunter. Opposite's attract."
Abby looked genuinely horrified.
"You've really gone crazy. You're deranged!"
Romance nodded.
"For her?"
He looked at Mira.
"Absolutely! And if loving her is wrong, then I'm willing to take the risk."
Nearby, Mystery wiped blood from the corner of his mouth.
Zoey stood opposite him.
Baby was beside him.
"You're getting predictable," Zoey said.
Mystery smiled.
"And you're getting nervous."
"I'm not nervous."
"You're blushing."
"I'm angry!"
Mystery laughed.
"Because I reminded you?"
"Reminded me of what?"
Mystery stepped closer.
"Your final words."
Zoey groaned.
"Don't."
"You're just my type."
"Stop saying it!"
"You said it."
"I was trying to distract you!"
"It worked."
Zoey blinked.
Mystery smiled.
"I thought about those words every day."
Zoey's expression softened for half a second.
Then she shook her head.
"You're a demon."
"So?"
"You've hurt people."
"I know."
"You tried to kill me."
"You survived."
"That doesn't make it romantic!"
Mystery shrugged.
"Didn't say it was."
He smiled.
"But I liked hearing it."
Zoey stared at him.
"You're impossible."
"And you're also my type."
Zoey screamed.
"BABY!"
Baby laughed.
"Don't look at me. You created this problem."
Mystery charged. Zoey blocked.
Their weapons collided.
For a moment, neither moved.
Mystery whispered-
"Say it again."
Zoey's eyes widened.
"Never."
"Please?"
"No."
"Just once."
"No!"
Mystery smiled.
"Then I'll make you say it."
Zoey pushed him away.
"You wish!"
A massive roar suddenly shook the Demon Realm.
Everyone stopped.
Mira and Zoey looked toward the horizon.
"Rumi."
Zoey nodded.
"She's alive."
Mira lowered her weapon.
"Where?"
Romance pointed toward the enormous black palace visible beyond the mountains.
"The Demon King's fortress."
Mira immediately stepped forward.
"Then that's where we need to go."
Romance blocked her path.
"No!"
She looked at him sharply.
"What now?"
"You can't go there."
"We're rescuing Rumi, and you can't stop me."
"Oh, I could. Easily actually. But lucky for you I don't want to hurt you." He looked at Abby "And I don't want others hurting what's mine."
Zoey prepared to fight.
"I guess we need to wrap-up here, to rescue Rumi."
Baby laughed at her words.
"You think you can defeat us? You're in our territory."
Romance glared coldly at Baby. That shut him up.
"It's suicide."
Mystery calmly spoke.
"Gwi Ma's there."
Mira pushed Romance out of her way.
"I don't care what you think. I'm not trusting a demon's judgment."
Romance stared at her.
"You just don't understand."
"I understand perfectly."
Mira looked toward the fortress.
"She is our leader."
She looked at Zoey.
"And our friend."
Zoey nodded.
"No matter what she is."
Mira looked back at Romance.
"Half demon or not..."
She tightened her grip on her weapon.
"She's one of us! And we're not leaving without her."
Romance stared at her.
And that strange, unsettling smile returned-like her rejection only made it worse.
Mira noticed.
"What?"
"Nothing."
"You're doing that face again."
"What face?"
"That creepy smile."
Romance smiled wider.
"I just realized something."
Mira sighed.
"What?"
"You really are perfect."
Mira groaned.
"Oh, no."
"I really can't resist falling for you."
Zoey, Baby, Mystery and Abby stared at him.
Romance looked toward the fortress.
Then back at her.
"Don't worry."
He stepped beside her.
"I'll get you there."
Mira raised an eyebrow.
"You will help us? Why would you do that?"
Romance's answer came immediately.
"Because wherever you go..."
His eyes softened in a way that made Mira visibly uncomfortable.
"...I go."
Mira shook her head.
"You're not leaving my side, are you?"
Romance smiled.
"Never."
Zoey whispered to herself,
"This is going to be a long rescue mission."
Romance looked at the former Saja Boys with cold indifference. A look so cold, scary and deranged that sent chills down their spines.
"Don't get in my way." he spoke softly.
With that he turned his back on them and guided Zoey and Mira towards the place where they will rescue Rumi.
Behind them, Abby watched Zoey, Romance and Mira disappear toward the fortress.
His fists clenched.
His anger had become something darker.
He had lost to Mira once.
Now Romance, who they had always protected, had chosen her.
And Abby wasn't about to forgive either of them.
Above the Demon Realm, the crimson moon began to glow.
And inside the Demon King's fortress-
Rumi heard the distant sound of battle.
She opened her eyes.
"Mira... Zoey..."
A faint smile appeared on her face.
"I knew you'd come."
But behind her, Gwi Ma smiled.
"They came."
His eyes glowed.
"And now..."
He turned toward the entrance.
"...we shall see how far friendship can survive in the Demon Realm."