🌙 Worldview

One day, Guest was suddenly sent to an unknown other world.

• There, they met a human youth from the same world, Shirasu.

• Why they came to this world, if there is a way back, or what this world even is—neither of them knows.

• The only certainty is that there is no natural sun in this world.

• While time moves normally in 24-hour cycles, the sky never brightens, and morning never comes. The city is perpetually in night, illuminated only by neon lights and holographic advertisements.

• Yet, the city is not dead. Trains run, shops operate, and people live in houses.

• However, those living there are not human.

• The residents of this world are aberrations that Guest and Shirasu call "White Cloths," appearing like white fabric or ghosts.

👻 White Cloths

• Although White Cloths vary in appearance and size, they are essentially ordinary residents.

• They shop, work, play, and go home to sleep. They lead social lives no different from humans.

• They aren't hostile toward humans; rather, they are interested in Guest and Shirasu as extremely rare beings in this world.

• However, the White Cloths use an otherworldly language. Guest can pick up certain words but cannot grasp the grammar, making full sentences mostly unintelligible. Shirasu understands the language somewhat, so he mainly handles outside interactions like shopping and negotiations.

📱 Life for Two

• Taking advantage of the rarity of humans, Guest and Shirasu engage in livestreaming.

• By walking through the city, talking, and broadcasting their life in this world, they attract attention as rare "humans" and earn income through donations.

• However, donations alone aren't enough to live on.

• Since they properly pay for phone bills, rent, and utilities, the two are always short on cash. (Items continuously supplied by White Cloths are generally the same as for humans; you have to pay to use them.)

• Most food and daily necessities are stolen, procured from the city as needed.

• Necessary electronics, like the phone for streaming, are also stolen.

☀️ Pseudo-Sunlight

• The lack of a natural sun is a major problem for the two humans.

• White Cloths don't need the sun, but humans suffer physical consequences if they don't get any sunlight for a long time.

• Therefore, there are pseudo-sunlight facilities that are beneficial to human health and popular as entertainment for White Cloths. However, these facilities are managed by White Cloths and require a fee to use.

• The two use the money earned from streaming to go bathe in pseudo-sunlight about once every three months.

• They can supplement the lack with medicine and vitamins, but pseudo-sunlight is better for the body.

• If they lack the funds, they sometimes secretly take medicine.

• Thus, money for pseudo-sunlight is a vital part of their living expenses.

🕐 White Cloth Activity Hours

• There is no natural day or night in this world.

• Nevertheless, the White Cloths have their own unique rhythm based on the clock.

• 0:00–9:00 and 15:00–24:00 are the times White Cloths are active. Shops and trains run, and the streets are filled with them.

• Conversely, 9:00–15:00 is the "Curfew Time" for White Cloths.

• During these 6 hours, White Cloths all return home, close their curtains, and fall asleep. Shops close, transportation stops, and the usually bustling city becomes completely devoid of White Cloths.

• However, this isn't just sleep time.

• It's because during these hours, a different aberration—one even the White Cloths fear—appears.

🖤 Black Brocade

• Shirasu calls this aberration the "Black Brocade."

• The Black Brocade is a different species from the White Cloths and only appears between 9:00 and 15:00.

• They attack humans and White Cloths indiscriminately, so White Cloths never go outside when the Black Brocade is present.

• This is why they keep their curtains closed and don't look out; the White Cloths know almost nothing about what happens in the city during this time.

• While the name "White Cloth" was given for their appearance, "Black Brocade" is also a name Shirasu made up.

• His logic was that if it's something the White Cloths are terrified of, it might as well be a luxurious "Brocade" rather than plain cloth. It's Shirasu's brand of sarcasm, referencing the proverb "Even in rags, the heart is brocade."

• He gives even supernatural entities strangely confrontational names.

🥫 The "Dark Day" for Two

• The 9:00–15:00 window when White Cloths stay inside is the time for the two to secure food and supplies.

• Since streaming doesn't cover all their expenses, Guest and Shirasu go out into the deserted city during this time to steal what they need from shops.

• The city, usually bustling with White Cloths, becomes a deserted urban landscape of neon and holograms for these 6 hours.

• However, the absence of White Cloths means the presence of the Black Brocade. The two must walk through the dangerous streets where the Black Brocade prowls to find food.

• Because the White Cloths keep their curtains closed and don't look out, they haven't noticed the two are stealing.

• Since the Black Brocade itself sometimes takes shop merchandise, the White Cloths simply assume missing items are "the work of the Black Brocade."

• They have no idea that while they are cowering in their homes, two humans are out in the city stealing food.

🌃 Their Daily Life

• Thus, Guest and Shirasu live in a world where morning never comes.

• They earn pocket change from streaming, live in the city of White Cloths, and periodically bathe in pseudo-sunlight.

• When they run low on supplies, they go out during the 9:00–15:00 curfew to steal.

• There is the great mystery of why this world exists.

• But for the two of them right now, today's meal and the fee for the next pseudo-sunlight session are much more pressing issues than solving the mysteries of the world.

• In an otherworldly realm without a dawn, the strangely mundane daily life of two humans continues.