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A horrible face...

I've never seen anything like it...

What are you saying?

What did you see?

The Forbidden Room

Forbidden Room? What's that?

Is that...

The room with the red tape?

Don't dare go in there!

Please,

tell me

What happened?

I'm cold

Yabe...

Are you OK?

''Exit''

Harue

Hi

I don't really use the library much

Couldn't find the way out

Phantoms

You're reading this?

Yeah

Is it related

to your work in the lab?

Yeah

Huh...

Do you have a minute?

What? Sure

Come

Isn't it strange?

Yeah...sort of...

Almost like ghosts, right?

You're right, they're like ghosts

Sometimes, these turn up

At first,

they look like the other dots

What are they?

I don't know

A bug?

No

That website...

What?

Oh, what happened with that?

Nothing...yet...

Huh...

But I think they're related...

I'm sure they're related

You think?

Let me know if anything happens

Yeah, sure

Karasawa san

I need you to check this

Yes

And you are?

My friend, Kawashima

Huh...

The grad student, Yoshizaki san

Hello

I forgot to give you my number

Oh, right

Call me, OK?

Right

Anytime, OK?

Yeah

Thank you

''Everyone dies, therefore there's no

logical reason for ghosts not to exist

''How many ghosts have...

existed since prehistoric times?''

Do you see it too?

Sure you do,

because it's really there

Who is that?

You'll have to catch him to find out

Start right now,

and you might succeed

Have a go?

What?

Why don't you, right now?

He disappeared

I see

He must be a student...

I don't know him

Maybe you're right.

Sorry I encouraged you

See you

Wait a minute

Just what was that?

I'm cold...

The spirit...

Or consciousness, the soul,

whatever you want to call it,

it turns out the realm they

inhabit has a finite capacity

Whether that capacity

accommodates billions or trillions,

eventually, it will run out of space

Once it's filled to the brim,

it's got to overflow

somehow, somewhere

But where?

The souls have no choice

but to ooze into another realm,

that is to say, our world

Maybe, at first...

it started with

something really simple

Once that realm

reached critical mass,

any device would have sufficed

Thrown it together with

the means and materials at hand

That's how I see it

Excuse me, do you have any tape?

Anything'll do, some tape

How's this?

Thank you

After many hours or days,

or many weeks, it finally happens

Through that process,

it spreads around the world

But now they're no longer

the faint presence they began as

You saw one yourself

I don't believe your stories

Right, sorry, it's all hypothetical

Thanks for the tea

Are you OK?

Just fine

But if this really happened,

there's no turning back

No matter how simple the device,

once the system's complete,

it'll function on its own,

and become permanent

In other words,

the passage is now open...

that's how it looks

Hello

Oh, I see, our boss isn't there?

Yes, I understand

If he does stop by,

Will you pIease ask him to call us?

Yes, thank you very much

Michi,

what do you think is going on?

Why's everyone disappearing?

Oh, hello, this is

Sunny Plant Sales calling

Thank you for your business

Is our boss there

with you by any chance?

Oh, I see...Thank you, and excuse me

I'll go look for him

Wait, Junco, wait

Yes, hello...

Boss?

Help

Yabe!

Are you Yabe?

Yabe!

Help me...

Help me...

Help...

Help...

Junco...

Junco!

Junco, no!

Junco!

Are you OK?

Are you OK?

Help me...

Help me...

Help me...

Junco!

Look, I'm right here

I'm right here, it's OK

Excuse me

Karasawa Harue tel: 090-4079-2677

What are you doing, Harue?

You're dripping wet!

They went away...

They've all disappeared...

They always do...

I have to run away...

Run away somewhere...

Harue! Hey, Harue!

Listen, Harue! Harue!

Calm down! Harue!

Thank you...

I always wondered

what it's like to die...

From when I was realy little...

I was always alone

Any parents or family?

Sure, but they're irrelevant

Right...

That after death,

you live happily with

everyone over there

Can we stop talking about this?

But it may be true

Sure, but...

Then in high school it dawned on me

you might be all alone

after death, too

There's no way to know

How could you?

The idea was so terrifying

I couldn't even bear it

That nothing changes with death,

just right now, forever

Is that what becoming

a ghost is about?

You can't mess with that

It's really bad

What have ghosts got to do with us?

Besides, we're alive

Then, who are they?

Are they really alive?

How are they different from ghosts?

In fact,

ghosts and people are the same,

whether they're dead or alive

It's not right. It's wrong

They're all crazy

Nobody knows

what happens when you die

All this about ghosts, but I won't

believe in them, even if I see one

But I do know

that I'm definitely alive

and so are you, Harue

That's for sure, right?

So I don't want to think about

the fact we'll die someday

Just maybe...

In 10 years, or at least

while we're still alive,

they'll invent a drug

that prevents death

Then, we could live forever and ever

Of course you might think

I'm crazy to say that, but...

I'd rather bet on that

You want to live forever?

Yeah

That sounds like fun?

Yeah...That's what I think

Huh...Maybe I've got it all wrong

No...

It'll turn out just like you say

I'm sure

What?

Ghosts won't kill people

Because that would just

make more ghosts

Isn't that right?

Instead, they'll try

to make people immortal

By quietly...

trapping them in their own loneliness

Help...

Help...

Junco, It'll be OK

It'll be OK

OK...

I fell asleep...

How do you feel?

Yeah

Something to drink?

How about some coffee?

Michi...

What?

Am I just going to die like this?

Of course not

That's right...

I'll just keep on living,

all alone...

What?

No

Junco!

Junco!

Junco!

Junco!

Why! Why!

Junco, don't go!

Junco!

Mother?

Mother?

Mother!

I'll be right there

Harue...

Harue! Hey...

Kawashima...take me with you

I'm scared to be alone

Take me somewhere

OK, sure

Where to?

Somewhere far away

Out of Order

Sh*t, let's just go!

There's no one...

No...

Where did everyone go?

I'm here

I'm here beside you

Even if,

there's no one else, it doesn't matter

We are both definitely here

Guess that's true...

What happened?

I've got to go back!

What? No! We've come this far!

But this is the end of the line

That's not true. It'll start moving

I'll go check with the driver.

Come with me

OK, but promise you'll

wait right here

I'll be right back. Promise

Harue!

The Forbidden Room

Construction Materials - red tape

I'm...

Not alone...

Harue,

it's me, Kawashima

Harue! Listen!

Listen, what do you say to this?

The two of us live together

That way, we can always be together

If we keep living alone,

we'll just get worse and worse

because we're weak

We'll balance each other out

How about living that way?

Would you try it with me?

What do you think, Harue?!

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