Darkness bit a chunk out of the sunset-dyed sky, scattering the orange hue into oblivion and blanketing the world with nighttime.

Seol Jihu blankly stared at the city left in the darkness of the bygone sunset.

‘This place…’

Where was it? And why was it in such a visible mess?

Seol Jihu stood in place for a long time before moving forward, staggering as though he was dead drunk.

All sorts of scenery flashed by his eyes. A dirty mother and daughter, sitting on the side of the street with a small tin can in front of them, and Earthlings walking by them with indifferent looks.

A mother feebly looking up at a passing Earthling, a boy begging on his knees pleading to a man to give something back, and the Earthling kicking him away in disgust.

An old woman flailing her arms in the air while being dragged out by an Earthling pulling on her hair.

An Earthling screaming at a woman to pay off her debts, Earthlings harassing a Paradisian woman calling for her mom.

Earthlings standing in front of a show window, ignoring the ruckus around them and commenting on the soulless women on display.

Paradisian women already sold to customers, enduring dirty looks and inappropriate groping.

“!”

Seol Jihu suddenly stopped in place. He turned his gaze to a dark alleyway, his eyes immediately filling up with doubt.

A small corpse was spilling out of a trash can that fell to the floor.

Seol Jihu’s eyes trembled. No matter how he looked at it, the corpse couldn’t have been alive for more than a few months.

Suddenly, a splitting scream rang out, followed by loud slapping noises. But no one paid any attention to the horrible sound.

In fact, the sound of giggling only grew louder. They were disregarding...