Sayako (1,800 extra)

Yamamura Sayako walked out of the airport.

She was in her twenties, tall with long legs and a sweet face. Dressed smartly, she was currently looking down at her phone.

The screen displayed all kinds of news from G City.

They were mostly tabloid-style, stuffed with gossip and rumors.

Sayako wore a solemn expression as her finger kept scrolling.

She paid little attention to celebrity scandals, instead looking toward some more unusual categories—the gathering places of paranormal enthusiasts.

[The Doll House at Sanhai Amusement Park is making strange noises at night!]

[The Braid Girl has appeared again on the mountain road!]

[An unknown tycoon is frantically buying haunted houses and cursed lands...]

[Midnight! The legend of the Exorcist Taxi!]

"Pretty girl, here to travel?"

At the airport taxi stand, a driver greeted her enthusiastically. "Let me help you with your luggage."

"Thank you!"

Yamamura Sayako bowed at a perfect ninety degrees and answered in the local dialect, every word crisp and authentic.

"Oh? You're from Japan? Haha, have fun."

The driver was quite talkative.

"Actually, I'm not here to travel. I'm here to find someone."

Yamamura Sayako gazed at the taxi as it drove onto the overpass and at the buildings outside the window. Her expression grew grave.

"Find someone? Who?"

As he turned the steering wheel, the driver said, "It's easy for people to hide out in the shantytowns here. Bankrupt people, debt dodgers, all kinds of lowlifes. It's too dangerous for a young woman like you to go there... And..."

There was one more thing he did not say.

As a place notorious for frequent paranormal incidents, one or two outsiders disappearing here was perfectly normal.

And more often than not, they vanished without a trace—neither living nor dead!

"My... brother!"

"He must have run into some