Killing Stalking
The Art of Taming A Tiger
Summary Story: MC had a new neighbor which is ML. ML is psychic and has the power to defeat evils spirits. One day, MC accidentally gets himself stuck with one of ML's belonging, a bell bracelet. Ever since then, MC could see supernatural things that heavily distrubs him in his daily life. He interacts with ML with the prospect that he helps ML and his companion tiger to send off spirits so they could get rid of the bell bracelet from him. The cat-tiger is a drunkard deity from heavens which was punished from heaven to send off spirits in earth so he could return. This tiger asked ML for help in exchange that he will grant ML's wish and now the MC's wish to rid off the bracelet. So now they embark on a journey where they rid of spirits. And along the way, the two fall in love with each other and then started dating. ML's backstory : ML's parents didn't have children for long and so his mother prayed or did a ritual which resulted with ML being born with strong vessel, this reason gives him the power to counter spirits and also see supernatural things. ML's parents died when he was in middle school. One day, he meets a new classmate who was possessed with evil spirit. The reason was because the kid was sickly and so his parents resorted to having an evil spirit keep him alive. ML befriends this kid but it was the spirit who wanted to take over ML's vessel. In the end, ML ends up unlocking his power & killing the evil spirit one day. This causes the kid to die and ML traumatized that he had caused someone's death. Wanting to rid of his power, ML looked for ways until he met the cat-tiger, then they continue to work together. MC had a brother who went missing two years ago. He asked ML for help when ML finds out from his grandma(a shaman) that his brother does not exist. MC backstory: Back in the past, the lord of the underworld and Lord of the earth brawled who will rule over hell or earth. They used two flowers as a match, whoever's flower grows more beautiful will win. The lord of earth was careless and so his flower almost withered when he exchanged his to the lord of hell which was much stronger. The lord of hell concedes and accepts ruling over hell despite the underhanded victory. The two flowers were siblings, the younger one which was loved gave some of his soul to his brother so his withered older brother could live. The younger flower also asked the lord of hell to take his brother as the Lord of earth wouldn't take care of him. Loving the sibling love the two had and the courage of the younger flower, he took them both to the underworld. Soon, the older meets the deputy lord whom was lonely. He says he will provide company which cause the deputy to be affectionate of him. But as time passes, the older gets unwell. Once again, the younger uses his soul to make the older well. But this was a forbidden technique and causes the younger's health to deteriorate. The older was mad at the deputy who used this method knowing the consequence but the deputy cared more for the older. So, older asks the lord to return to earth so his brother could get well. And so they did. But the deputy was enraged that the older left so he desperately looked for methods that could make him return. And in the process, cause the younger brother to lose his life. The older was punished to work for the deputy for 100p yrs. Along those yrs, the older looked for his younger's reincarnation when one day he did find the younger at 7 yrs old, who was supposed to die. The older saves the younger from his distended death and ran away to hide. This was forbidden and thus when the older was captured again, he was forced to stay in the underworld. His younger brother who was reincarnated did not know of this & looked for his brother. Back to present, the reason why MC has the bell is because of the deputy. The deputy wants to use MC to get the older to stay with him forever. MC's life is half alive because of the incident wehn he was young, when ML heard from deputy that MC will die soon. ML was obliged to help the deputy to collect spirits to elongate MC's life. But later on, the older who was stuck in the underworld and ML realized that the deputy needs to be defeated instead of trusted. So, they did. In the end, the deputy is defeated and the underworld is balanced as the older takes lead in arranging the problem. MC has his bell changed into a removable bracelet by the lord of earth. And ML still by his side. Review : Characters — The character design is pretty common but still nice. Personality wise, I love both the MC and ML. They have very peculiar personality that creates this very soft and amazing dynamic between the two main. In terms of character development, I love how they both grew from their fears, and I love how they were able to find comfort in each other. Another I liked about this story is how very smooth and non dramatic the two character's relationship are. Like the moment they fell for each other, they just smoothly dated each other. And that's just soo fluff. I absolutely adore a non toxic couple, and mainly this is because the ML is sooo green flag. This is despite him protecting MC somewhat for his desire to have MC stay with him for longer. But like that's normal because no one wants their loved one to die haha. The MC is just great! I love a funny and lovable MC. His backstory from the past makes me love him more, his a child who would do everything for his brother. Speaking of his brother, I absolutely love the sibling love relationship they have. It was so sweet and heartbreaking. The fact that it transcended time, because they still consider each other brothers in MC's next life. Like MC did not even think his brother is not his real brother after knowing the truth. For the side characters, I love the cat/tiger deity the most, he was so adorable & funny. And the others were also quite funny and lovable. For the villain of the story, they actually made me sad because all he had done was due to loneliness and as he deserved, he didn't get a happy ending. I don't know if he fell in love with MC's brother or he was just obsessed with not being alone. But I am sure that MC's bother wasn't in love with him rather it was empathy. Storyline — This was so good and enjoyable. There's no toxicity, many fluff and soft moments. It isn't one of your overly mysterious and dramatic manhwa. It's more of fluff and comedy with light mystery but it's so done well with it's genre of deities and ghosts. Absolutely love the past backstory part. And how the main couple's relationship flowed from strangers to finding comfort from each other to lovers. And they have a pretty healthy one. Ending — Bet there's still extras. The ending is actually not bad, it didn't leave me unsatisfied. I knew this story is more light with how it's written so I wasn't really expecting a heavy ending so this was fine. Others — The art is cute and nice. Love the comedy in this story. If I have one thing to point, I wish the MC knew that his memories of the past was erased from him by his brother and others that he was kept in behind because I just think it's right to do so, but it's also okay if he doesn't know. Also, I wish there was more explanation to ML's power.
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