The elders often say that the world of the living and the underworld of the dead never fully closed off from each other. A hazy gray rift remains between them. Those who die violently, burdened by terrible grievances and unable to draw their final breath, cannot leave this world cleanly. Their obsessions get caught in that rift, trapping them in the realm of the living.
These are debts the living owe to the dead. Whether it's a guilty conscience from murder for profit or a fateful entanglement brought on by accident, if no one steps forward to settle the debt, its deadly retribution will cling to the living debtor through this rift between life and death, refusing to let go until one of them dies.
Follow the ancient antiques street south of the city, where the sun never shines, all the way to its end, and you'll find a dilapidated pawnshop. A mottled sign hangs above its black-lacquered wooden door, bearing three characters: The Eerie Pawnshop.
This pawnshop never accepts gold, silver, or precious treasures, nor does it take ordinary cash.
It specializes in taking on the debts owed to the dead that linger among the living.
Whether it's a sinister antique stained with blood, a yin talisman containing an evil spirit, or an invisible, untouchable karmic debt that has nevertheless caused someone's death, once those involved come to its door, The Eerie Pawnshop can take the rotten account off their hands and redeem the living person's life.
