[Urban supernatural · Yokai workplace · Superpower awakening · Growth-oriented heroine · Hilarious daily life · No CP · Warm ensemble cast]
After failing my twenty-third job interview, I got hired at a yokai company where I’m the only human.
The boss is a beautiful nine-tailed fox. The security guard is a three-hundred-year-old zombie. The cleaner is a water ghost whose tears can flood a mountain. The cafeteria cook is the Stove God, banished to the mortal realm. And the man-eating plant at reception even bites my ID badge.
Other people get an ID badge when they start a job. I got superpowers. Immobilizing people, controlling things, creating illusions, running fast: one by one, they’re handed to me. My salary jumps from eight thousand to thirty-eight thousand, climbing by leaps and bounds.
I thought I’d spend the rest of my life working among yokai, making snarky comments, and getting by in peace.
Then yokai started disappearing around the city, vanishing overnight along with their shops. A group called the Blazing Plains Society began hunting yokai across the country, and they specifically named our company as a target.
What I never expected was that the truth behind my abduction at age six, Director Bai’s bloody case from ten years ago, and the mole at headquarters who’d been bought off all pointed to the same thing…
It turned out the fragment of spiritual power inside me had never been a free gift.
The yokai risked their lives for me.
Now it’s my turn to protect them.
“They’re my coworkers,” I said, holding the man-eating plant from reception. “If you want to lay a hand on them, you’ll have to get past me first.”
