Isn't the name of the existing spirit 'Riceball'?

i alr explained this on ba to but whatever. riceball is the "localized" version. its korean name is 햅쌀 aka haepssal which means a type of newly harvested rice. that's why sometimes you'll see someone translating it as new rice. using new rice sounds not kinda weird so i just used the korean romanization

*sounds kinda weird

I see! Thanks for the explanation. And sorry if my question seemed rude, it wasn't my intention. I was just confused bc in the novel they called riceball

its not rude at all dw this is ur sign to read on ba to bc i add some explanations there sometimes