Baiguiyuan Baigui is the child of a hungry ghost.
On the day his mother finally achieved Buddhahood, Baiguiyuan, the only hungry ghost with reason, temporarily took her place and became the Ghost Mother of Hell.
It sounds like a good thing, but in reality...
As the temporary Ghost Mother, Baiguiyuan has to wear women's clothes to maintain the traditional image, study Buddhist scriptures by heart, master instruments like the mokugyo and the hollow drum for funeral rites, and nimbly dodge weapons like spiked clubs that suddenly come flying at him.
Worst of all, since he's the Ghost Mother, all his older brothers, younger brothers, older sisters, and younger sisters have become his children in name!
There's barely enough to eat, and there's so much work. This ghostly life is so hard!
I'm just a kid who's over two hundred years old and weighs over a hundred pounds, and I've never even been in a relationship! Why do I have to become a mom and take care of a bunch of giant babies older than me?
I only want to look after well-behaved little ones!
This lousy Hell isn't a place for ghosts to live. Baiguiyuan decides to run away.
The first time he escapes to the human world, he has bad luck.
In a mountain ravine, he runs into a group of swordsmen dressed in haori of various colors. They see Baiguiyuan, shout "Evil spirit! Draw your swords!" and attack. Baiguiyuan is utterly worn out.
The second time he escapes to the human world, misfortune follows him.
He runs into a few superpowered high school students on the street and nearly gets exorcised on the spot as a monster by the black-and-white duo leading them. Baiguiyuan gets a splitting headache.
The third time he escapes to the human world, bad luck is right by his side.
Sometimes he runs into a White Tiger on the loose, sometimes the God of Death appears. Even in a peaceful place certified by the spirits, he manages to meet a middle schooler with flames sprouting from his head, as if fate had brought them together.
Baiguiyuan is too tired even to feel pain anymore. If there's no place for me here, there's always somewhere else. This isn't going back to Hell, it's a strategic retreat!
He has barely stepped through Hell's gate when he spots the one-horned assistant official looking around with a spiked club on his shoulder.
Baiguiyuan's back foot: ...
Oh, I just remembered, there are plenty of good little ones in the human world too. As the Ghost Mother, it's only right for me to go raise some kids!
Baiguiyuan Baigui turns around and runs.
Baiguiyuan's mother is the real Ghost Mother. Baiguiyuan was only brought in to fill the position so that Hell's signature attraction wouldn't fall into disrepair.
Theme: I just wanted to write something silly to entertain myself.