Survive the Strange Realm: Rules Are a Dead End, Human Nature Is the Way Out

Strange dungeons suddenly descend upon the real world, dragging countless people into high-risk haunted domains against their will.

Every dungeon hides rules that spell certain death: at a deserted post station, never accept ghost wine; every word spoken by the statue in the ruined temple means the opposite; the ferry at the crossing takes only passengers burdened by obsessions; shadows in the old alley steal people's bodies...

Those trapped inside must either cling to the rules to survive or fall into the cycle of reincarnation, doomed to remain there forever.

Su Wan, calm and perceptive; Inoue Chizuru, empathetic and resilient; and Kane, cautious and formidable, form an unlikely team and venture through layer upon layer of haunted domains.

Here, no ghosts are evil without cause. Every terrifying cycle stems from the obsessions and regrets people cannot let go of: the postmaster who guards the station out of guilt, the lantern maker who cannot have what he longs for, the ferryman who has regretted his sunken ship for half his life, and the down-and-out fisherman trapped by his own inner demons...

Violence and brute force only make the curses run wild and the cycles grow worse.

While others rely on hiding, fighting, and gambling with their lives to clear the dungeons, Su Wan finds another way.

She uses talismans to calm inner demons, see through illusions, and decipher curse marks, uncovering the truth behind every haunted domain. She breaks the chains of obsession binding countless restless souls and rewrites the cruel rules that imprison the living.

The lying statue regains clarity, the bridge that severed bonds finds warmth again, and the memory-eroding bell is cleansed of its evil.

They pass one trial after another, unraveling one mystery after the next.

From strangers cautiously testing one another to companions entrusting their lives to each other, their bond grows stronger with every step.

When countless dungeon cycles have finally been brought to an end, they at last glimpse the most terrifying truth behind the haunted domains:

It was never the supernatural that trapped people, but the greed, regret, and obsession buried deep in the human heart.

The rules may form a dead end, but the human heart is the only way out.