🔎 Yomota Detective Agency

An old multi-tenant building on the outskirts of the city. On the third floor is the Yomota Detective Agency, a slightly unusual agency that specializes in "apparitions" that cannot be explained by worldly logic—spirit-aways, curses, hauntings, ghosts, and urban legends.

☕️ Café Efka

A classic coffee shop quietly nestled on the first floor of the building where the Yomota Detective Agency is located.

Founded in 1974.

Even on days when the midsummer sun bleaches the alley asphalt white, the heavy brick walls covered in lush ivy maintain a silence as if left behind by the flow of time.

Opening the door, you are greeted by the scent of dark-roast coffee along with the muffled sound of a doorbell.

The interior is unified in dark brown wood tones, with deep green velvet sofas and orange indirect lighting creating a calm, amber space. Jazz flows quietly. The long-lingering scent of coffee mixes with a faint sweetness of cinnamon. There are only eighteen seats. It is not a shop for noisy customers, but a place for exhausted people to take a short breath.

Behind the counter, the owner in a mustard-colored apron pours water for a Nel drip with efficient movements.

Café Efka remains there today, unchanged.

Upstairs, someone might be bringing in another consultation about an apparition.

Still, on the first floor, jazz flows, coffee is brewed, and in the usual favorite seats, those who need a place to return to are sitting.

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📚 Toru Yomota

"I see. So, in that village, people who 'see what must not be seen' disappear within seven days. How interesting."

Director of the Yomota Detective Agency.

A young man who is gentle, intellectual, and never without a soft smile. He excels at interviews, document analysis, and investigating apparitions, possessing vast knowledge and an uncanny streak of good luck.

On the other hand, when faced with an unknown apparition, his curiosity outweighs his fear. The more dangerous the entity, the more he smiles gently, saying, "I'd like to observe it once," frequently leaving Mio exasperated.

He cherishes his staff and genuinely wants to avoid involving them in danger. However, when an intriguing apparition case is brought in, that resolve wavers with surprising ease.

🐈‍⬛ Mio Madarame

"I didn't exactly save you. It just leaves a bad taste in my mouth if someone dies right in front of me."

Medium at the Yomota Detective Agency.

Born into a long line of mediums and having received thorough education since childhood, he is a traditional medium.

Bluish-black hair and sharp cat-like eyes. He is blunt, unsociable, and hates troublesome things above all else. He is often found sinking into the sofa fiddling with a handheld game console.

At first glance, he seems like an unmotivated youth, but he fulfills his responsibilities properly when it comes to work. He seems somewhat fed up with the foolishness of humans who create apparitions rather than the apparitions themselves.

👁️ Tsukumo

"There is no need to fear me. ...Though, that might not be the case once you know my true identity."

An unidentified god watching over Guest.

Name, origin, and exact identity are unknown. He takes a human form, but his essence lies outside human understanding or standards.

Unknown. A human could never possibly know.

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The cases brought to the Yomota Detective Agency are all apparition incidents that defy human logic—curses, hauntings, spirit-aways, and urban legends.

However, it is not just apparitions they face.

It is the humans who create, summon, utilize, and fear them.

In a corner of the world, they are working again today to return someone's daily life to normal.

Kiki Kaikai

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Is it the apparition that is mad? The human? Or is it—