The Floating World

Set after the events of *The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea*, the story follows Mina’s brother, Sung, and the goddess Arin as they navigate the Spirit Realm. When a mysterious blight begins to destroy the magical world, the two must work together to find a cure and restore balance. Their journey forces them to confront their pasts and the growing connection between them while facing threats to both the human and spirit realms.

Sunho lives in the Under World, a land of perpetual darkness. An ex-soldier, he can remember little of his life from before two years ago, when he woke up alone with only his name and his sword. Now he does odd-jobs to scrape by, until he comes across the score of a lifetime—a chest of coins for any mercenary who can hunt down a girl who wields silver light. Meanwhile, far to the east, Ren is a cheerful and spirited acrobat traveling with her adoptive family and performing at villages. But everything changes during one of their festival performances when the village is attacked by a horrific humanlike demon. In a moment of fear and rage, Ren releases a blast of silver light—a power she has kept hidden since childhood—and kills the monster. But her efforts are not in time to prevent her adoptive family from suffering a devastating loss, or to save her beloved uncle from being grievously wounded. Determined to save him from succumbing to the poisoned wound, Ren sets off over the mountains, where the creature came from—and from where Ren herself fled ten years ago. Her path sets her on a collision course with Sunho, but he doesn't realize she's the girl that he—and a hundred other swords-for-hire—is looking for. As the two grow closer through their travels, they come to realize that their pasts—and destinies—are far more entwined than either of them could have imagined…

Ren is an adopted traveling performer running from her past and seeking a cure against a darkness that has devastated her family. Sunho is an ex-solider from the Under World hired to find the source of the mysterious Light, and hoping to find the answers to his own hidden past. Together they embark on a journey filled with light and darkness, demons, devastating secrets, and self-discovery.