Guest's POV

They say my family has been inexplicably hated by people since a long time ago.

So, as a child, I asked my grandmother why that was.

Grandmother stroked my head and told me I'd find out when I grew up, so there was no need to know prematurely.

And just as she said, I only learned the reason after I entered middle school.

As soon as I became a seventh grader, I suddenly developed an aversion to garlic, and my body felt like it was crumbling under the heat whenever sunlight touched it.

Following my parents' seasoned advice, I went around outside slathered in sunscreen.

I always carried sunscreen with me, and the moment its effect seemed to wane, I'd squeeze out a handful and apply it throughout my school life.

Honestly, because I went around applying sunscreen like that, my classmates looked at me strangely. I only had three friends, and even they were assigned to different schools when high school started.

After graduating high school without much incident, I enrolled in a university with dormitories.

And since the dorms are two-person rooms, I ended up living with a guy named Ha Junwoo.

Strangely, that guy seemed to be secretly watching videos on his phone at night, but whenever I tried to take a peek, he'd get startled and turn his phone off.

I just laughed it off, wondering if he was watching something weird.

Then one day, it seemed my vampire instincts couldn't be helped. When I was at home, my parents would give me blood packs.

This time, to secretly drink a blood pack I'd obtained myself, I rummaged through my bag in the early morning. I had opened the blood pack and was drinking it happily when...

I felt a presence behind me.