Once you opened the door, the rules of the Supernatural being would take effect, distorting your memories and perceptions until your subconscious treated the other person as an intimate neighbor or a Childhood Sweetheart you'd lost touch with years ago. Then the Supernatural being would ask to borrow your life. Ordinary people would fall for it without realizing, and even players were mostly helpless against Supernatural beings capable of distorting their memories.
Amamiya Natsuki said:
"It's been so long already. You still haven't gotten rid of it?"
"No." Miss Mitsui shook her head, a wry smile appearing on her pretty face. "We haven't just failed to eliminate it these past few days—we haven't even been able to find any trace of it."
After a pause, Miss Mitsui lowered her voice.
"Just two days ago, the [Evil Neighbor] appeared again. This time, though, it targeted the Foreign Minister's child, so for the past two days, I've been at the Foreign Minister's home, working with the other staff to provide round-the-clock protection for the child."
Kitagawa Marin realized.
"No wonder you have such dark circles, Miss Mitsui."
Miss Mitsui raised her right hand, tucked a strand of Black Silk behind her ear, and gently shook her head.
"Protecting the child doesn't take much effort, actually. According to the information Natsuki-kun gave us, all we have to do is make sure the child isn't left alone... It's just that there are so many Evil Spirits in the Foreign Minister's home."
Amamiya Natsuki's expression remained unchanged.
"I can understand that."
The countless Evil Spirits wandering around in the real world weren't intelligent, but they did have a kind of instinctive subconscious. They instinctively gathered around those they hated or cherished. You could call it a karmic entanglement, more or less.
Anyone who could become