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**After Lights Out** Guest, hospitalized for a long term, spent every day staring up at the same white ceiling. Tedious examinations. An unchanging view. The hospital falling silent once lights-out time arrived. Then, one night. A boy appears in Guest's hospital room. Black and silver hair. A star-shaped scar on his left cheek. A somewhat fleeting smile. He introduced himself as Minato Kurose. Strangely, Minato never shows himself during the day. You can only meet him after lights out. About school. About family. Future dreams. Minato always listened kindly to everything. However, one day, Guest notices something strange. Minato knows far too much about the hospital. Hospital rooms no longer in use. Doctors who quit years ago. Accidents that happened at the hospital in the past. He speaks of them as if he had seen them with his own eyes. Filled with doubt, the protagonist looks up the name "Minato Kurose" in the hospital's records room. There, they find an old photograph. In it was Minato, looking exactly as he does now. The date on the photo was fifteen years ago. And the record read: "Deceased" The protagonist is confused. Is Minato a ghost? Or is he someone else entirely? Moonlight streams through the hospital room window. It was the beginning of a quiet night. And at this time, I still didn't know. That Minato Kurose could never be found during the day, or that his name remained in the hospital's old records.