Nippon, Osaka.

Osaka was a natural port, and it was a city that one would have to pass through in order to reach Nara prior to the advent of air travel.

This wasn't a very lavish city, and due to the geographic constraints of Nippon, the roads weren't very wide. There also weren't many cars and tall buildings, and during the day, the streets were very quiet. However, after work, the city would welcome a peak where countless people emerged from the office buildings, and only from that time onward would the city truly be alive.

Osaka Port was one of Nippon's five major ports, and tourists would arrive at the southern port of Osaka, while the rest of the port was primarily used for shipping containers. However, unbeknownst to everyone, a section of the port that had never been used had been opened in secret on this day.

It was 12 AM, midnight.

There was a passageway in Osaka Port, at the end of which was the sea and a coral reef. On either side of the passageway was a statue of Sea God Watatsumi, and they were attached together by a thick shimenawa. This type of rope would usually be found strung up in front of a shinto shrine, but for some reason, it was present here.

It was said that crossing over a length of shimenawa would take one to another world, and the shimenawa here was red, which was completely different from its white counterpart that was normally found in front of shinto shrines.

White paper human cutouts were adhered all over the length of the rope, and they...