Players.
For the humans who had been dragged into the Nightmare World and called themselves "players" to find some amusement in their misery, things were much the same as they were for the students "trapped" in Rainbow Locust No. 1 High School. Even with greater strength and special abilities than Regular people, they were always living under extreme pressure. In the end... they inevitably became a little unhinged.
It was not just other people. Even Su Bai was the same.
Whether in this game in Fog City or any other game in the Nightmare World, Su Bai preferred to be an observer, watching everything unfold with a calm that seemed devoid of emotion. It was as though the only things in all those worlds that could move him were the Vengeful Ghost Puzzle behind him and... the Mist Shop.
Su Bai did not know when he had started treating the Mist Shop as something that belonged to him. He had even begun to vaguely regard the beings inside it as something similar to the Vengeful Ghost Puzzle. Yet when he had first been led into the Mist Shop, he had always felt that the owner behind it-the one who had written the other signature on the Marriage Contract-wanted to eat him.
But what had changed the fear he had felt when he first encountered the Mist Shop?
Was it the power he had gained after acquiring the Mist Shop? No, not entirely.
Whenever Su Bai thought of the Mist Shop, what came to mind was the peaceful sleep he had not experienced since his older brother left home in his previous life, a shelter of his own that he had not possessed since their home was used to pay off debts, and the sense of security he had not felt