After Running Away from the Monsters' Homeland

I'm getting ready to rewrite this. If I don't finish it, I won't be able to sleep... ( )

>> My romance-addled brain is acting up. Let's indulge in a little leg appreciation and have a casual ship.

Blurb

As a native of Nightmare Town, Ren Dong's neighbors climb onto the ceiling in the middle of the night to cosplay as Spider-Man and wish her goodnight. The butcher puts on a pig's head mask and plays a pig demon. Even the stone lions at the gate chase people around at night, while all she ever does is play dead.

She feels so stressed that she boards a train in the middle of the night and leaves town.

Ren Dong finds a new job, and her daily routine makes her feel like she's back in her hometown.

She sleeps in a haunted mansion, then gets dangled upside down outside the window by spider silk in the middle of the night. In a daze, she sees her old neighbor standing inside the window and waving at her.

Neighbor: Hey, human! Why didn't you invite me to swing with you?

Ren Dong: ?!

She works as a ticket seller at an amusement park. A faceless creature dressed in human clothes wants to scan its face to get in for free, then asks her for a bucket of popcorn and a Coke.

Ren Dong refuses and snatches its hat.

She works the night shift as a security guard at a hospital. A monster in a hospital gown blows cold air by her ear, pretending to be an electric fan.

Monster: Here comes a little spooky breeze~

Ren Dong slaps it without looking. The next second, she clutches her swollen hand and dances on the spot.

Some time later, Ren Dong tearfully tells her teammates that she's run into something evil. Her teammates say nothing and just keep tugging at her pants.

Her teammate, pinned to the ground by shadows, clings tightly to Ren Dong's thigh and cries even louder than she does: