Because World of Ghosts was overcrowded, it was a world where the dead and the living swapped places.
Well... it really made no sense.
Adam scratched his head.
By that logic, World of Ghosts would need to accommodate every life form that had died since the first living being. Even counting only humans, it would have to be a place unimaginably larger than Earth.
And now it had swapped with humanity. Who knew who had gotten the better deal?
More absurdly, he discovered that many people later entered World of Ghosts voluntarily. Some had already been outcasts in reality, while others did so because there were fewer and fewer people left in the real world.
When they walked onto the streets and found the city had become empty, with no one producing anything and no one working, even if they could endure the loneliness, they could not sustain every part of survival all by themselves.
Adam stood in Nara. As far as he could see, there were barely any living things besides deer. The scene rather suited Sakura Country's aesthetics and philosophy.
"Boring..."
He opened a pack of biscuits and fed one to the deer that approached him, then flicked another deer on the forehead when it tried to butt him. Adam left that nonsensical world.
After all, things like ghosts had nothing to do with curses.
As he continued exploring, Adam encountered one wondrous world after another. By now, he could confirm that this region was essentially made up of Sakura Country's supernatural horror stories.
Most of them involved ghosts and monsters, such as the unforgettable Red Woman Hong Yi, the formless children's resentment known as Po Ji Mo, the famous Hachishaku-sama, and so on.
Those ghosts and monsters might have been famous, and perhaps powerful in their respective