Inside boy's dorm

Hoseok comfortably sat on his chair, a diary resting peacefully on the table in front of him. His eyes were focused on the words written by his parents, right after when they eloped back to the human world. His mom essentially helped her father in writing these texts for their future generations.

Maybe his father knew that things could go wrong in the future, his heart clenched at the faint memories of his father as he read the diary.

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➳┃❋ The land of fox spirits is located in the hidden depths of the woods.

➳┃❋ They are blessed with magical powers and their abilities increase as they age and gain more wisdom.

➳┃❋ They can shapeshift, teleport and communicate through their minds.

➳┃❋ Apart from these abilities, they are known for hypnotism, which signifies the reason for memory loss of humans, who witness them transforming.

➳┃❋ They are the creatures infamous for their conceited and deceited morals.

➳┃❋ The elixir flows like a potion inside their bodies and is their source of energy and power, it solidifies and takes the shape of a bead when in an outer environment.

➳┃❋ It comes out of their bodies once in their lifetime, when a gumiho is going through a ripening phase, to remind them of their mere existence, the reason for their birth, their deeds to raise them to higher grades of spirituality and to carry on their race.

➳┃❋ Once the elixir comes out, they get a complete hold of their powers and invest their spiritual energy in either good or bad deeds.

➳┃❋ Some of them make use of their ancient powers by becoming guardians of the forest and the species inhabited there even if it includes humans, but some use it for their trickeries.

➳┃❋ The mischievous gumihos use hypnotism to lure humans inside the forest, seducing them and eventually killing them for human blood.

➳┃❋ Their tails become more prominent as they age and their number can decrease to one for a newly born gumiho.

➳┃❋ Royals are the most powerful among them and hence bear the weight of maintaining peace and harmony.

➳┃❋ One can distinguish between a gumiho and a royal gumiho by the colour of the bead/elixir flowing inside them.

➳┃❋ Their ages can extend from 100 years to 1,000 years, a fox spirit reaching an age of 1000 is considered very old yet the most knowledgeable one among them.

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His father was about to get converted, but before he could do so, a tragic ending waited for him. On one sad day of foggy winter, Hoseok and his father were happily crossing the road. Hoseok's little fingers clutched his forefinger tightly, and an overspeed car appeared out of nowhere. The driver's negligence and recklessness shattered their life within seconds.

It all happened in an instant, the human male got hit with full force, and when little Hoseok's eyes opened, he found himself under him, his one hand firmly shielding his baby's head and the other on his small body, keeping it closer to his. Blood flew ceaselessly from his head as Hoseok glanced at his closed lids.

Taking him to the hospital didn't work as he was already gone in the successful attempt to save his life. The traumatic experience still lives fresh in Hoseok's mind and soul.  He still remembers the shock and disbelief that engulfed him while lying in the middle of the road, in his father's embrace.

Since then, every aspect of daily life became a reminder of his absence, from the empty chair at their small dinner table to the silent cries of his mother that whispered through their home. His gumiho mother, who left her home behind, was left alone in the human world.

From then, Hoseok lived with changing identities, from living as Jung So-Jun, a teacher at a nursery school in a distant town to selling fish in the countryside for ten years. And finally, Jung Hoseok, the name given by his father, an archaeology student.

Being an underrated field of intellect, his identity was perfectly not cared about as his hybrid age of eighty-six still resembled the human age of early twenties. He chose archeology with the sole intention, but now he knew it could provide him with a living for a few more years before he decided to change his identity once again.

Only if you were present to guide me on different paths of this world.

His train of thought was interrupted when the room's door creaked open and Jihoon walked in and proceeded to lay on his bed.

"You're here?"

"No, I am still in the lecture hall,"  Jihoon mumbled in a tired tone, making Hoseok half chuckle at his dried humour.

Jihoon got up from his position and asked and carefully glanced at Hoseok before he spoke, "By the way, have you seen Y/n? I haven't seen her for two days."

"N-no how w-would I know?"

"I called her many times, but her phone is switched off."

"Oh! N-now I remember, Kyla was telling professor something bout her, that she left for her hometown," Hoseok reluctantly added.

"Why? And without even giving a call to me?"

Hoseok shrugged, and turned around, not disturbing Jihoon from his deep thoughts.

I'll leave after meeting Mom, Hoseok thought.

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In the Gumiho land

Namjoon left Taehyung behind the closed walls of the castle and made his way towards his house. The sudden urge to teleport subdued as fast as it arose when he realised the exhaustion that would come after, with his contemporary inability to teleport long distances.

He walked down the streets of the surreal gumiho land, letting his mind relax by the surrounding beauty adorned with an enchanting display of glitter that sparkled and shimmered in every direction.

Crossing the bustling market, he reached the open lands in between, left for other species accompanying them on this land, the air was filled with a delicate iridescence as if a million tiny diamonds had been scattered across the landscape.

The creatures that inhabited the land were equally adorned with enchanting glitter. Beetles with their glistening firm shells, and their soothing sounds. The tulips that gleamed, on both sides of the walking lane. He increased his pace, and sizzling rays of ultraviolet glared through the sky, making beads appear on his features.

He removed his trench coat and opened the first two buttons of his black shirt.

Upon reaching the mansion, his mind was preoccupied with rising solutions to various problems. He then stepped towards his part of the house, quietly. Crossing Jin's room, but his steps soon got stuck in his tracks when he saw the view beside him.

The window joining the bathroom was open and there stood Y/n with just a thick, fluffy cloth swathed around her body. Droplets of water kissed every inch of her fair skin, and her chestnut hairs, shined with wetness, were parted to one of her shoulders making her neck even more appealing. With her dainty back, Namjoon realised that she was indeed a human.

Taehyung's words rang inside his brain as he kept staring at her back. His legs started moving on their own, in her direction as if stuck in her trance.

She bowed down to whatever she was continuing to do, the towel curling around her legs reached a bit above where it should've been.

Stop right there Namjoon!

Namjoon scolded himself inside his head, in an attempt to regain consciousness. Removing his gaze, he headed straight towards his room making her aware of his presence.

Y/n gasped and glanced back from the abrupt closing of a door. She panicked realising what her rival might have seen. She proceeded to quickly cross the window and entered the room. Bringing her cleaned pair of house helper's clothing which included a brown jeogori and trousers of the same shade, she went straight to the bathroom while crossing the window, this time closing it.

Why is he back so early? Here, it feels like I couldn't even breathe properly for a second and something happens.

She thought, opened the bathroom door and stepped into the garden, "Who's foolish idea was this to make a bathroom door open in the yard?"

"How dare you insult our master!?" A voice echoed in her ears. She turned around to glance at the owner of the voice but found no one in her range of view.

"Look here, you girl!"

Gazing down, her eyes caught a view of a small boy standing with his frowned brows, chubby cheeks and pouting lips, "Cutie! Who are you?"

"My name is Jo Gon, not cutie!"

The little boy said while sulking, which made Y/n cooed and raise her hands to caress his cheeks, but he slapped them away, "Don't you have manners! You are a girl, you can't touch me without my consent."

"Consent!?" Y/n's jaw dropped at his words.

"Yah Jo Gon! Where are--, here you are! Come here!"

Briefly after, his mother came in their direction and, within split seconds she twisted his ear lobe. Mrs Jo started scolding him for his mischievous doings, and how he once again slipped away secretly, without informing her, to roam around here and there.

"Y/n, please don't take his nonsense seriously. He is becoming mischievous with each passing day, I don't know from where he's learning these nonsensical dialogues," she said, her eyes reflecting a sight of apology and tiredness.

Inside his room, Namjoon rolled his eyes hearing the muffled voices of Y/n and Mrs Jo talking with each other.

She's an idiot! Who in the world bathes with a window opened? Did I just lose control over a human or was it because of some kind of spell her sender did to help her in the plan?

"It makes sense, cause how can I lose control over a mere human when I never lost it in front of my kind," he spoke to himself, satisfied with his reason, he stood up and headed straight towards the bathroom.

"It's okay, Mrs Jo, he is very cute already," Y/n responded while smiling. Mrs Jo nodded before she left while dragging a whining Gon with her.

While on his way to take a bath, Namjoon crashed into something soft. Y/n let out a gasp as he held her by her small waist. Her half-dried locks smelled like vanilla, and Namjoon's eye landed on her thin rosebud lips, shifting towards her button nose, which held a beauty mark, and then her shining, small, soft eyes which were peering into his.

Namjoon was left off guard by the unexpected encounter and released her from his hold, making her fall on her back.

"Agh!" Y/n exclaimed from the sudden thud on her spine while Namjoon remained silent and proceeded to move towards the bathroom.

"Apologise!" Y/n retorted from the back.

"It's your fault."

"Seriously?! You dropped me intentionally and this is all you gotta say? Jerk!"

"First of all improve your talking skills because that's not how you talk with your master."

Y/n scoffed before adding, "Now listen to me, you fool! I'm not going to follow any of your orders and you're not my master."

Namjoon scoffed as well and gritted his teeth, "Then you'll be in trouble because you don't know how much I hate people who don't follow orders."

"I will be honoured to be on the top of your hate list," she blurted and a smirk began to form on the edges of her lips.

By the look on Y/n's face, Namjoon's insides raged in anger as she started walking away from him.

"Stop right there! You low-born filthy human! Did your dirty human parents never tell you the meaning of respect?" Namjoon turned around to incorporate fright in her through his raging irises, but instead, he felt a sudden thud on his face which made him fall in his tracks.

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