You are reading At the Edge of the Crimson Moonlit Night Chapter 9. Ja-un’s forced by his abusive family to take his cousin’s place as a ritual sacrifice meant to end the plague. On the way to his death, Ja-un recalls the only friend he had as a child—a little snake named Sosa. When he calls its name, the demi-god Sosa, who has loved Ja-un through all his lifetimes,