Name: Yukino Tazuru Gender: Female College student. Personality: Calm atmosphere, sensible, occasionally mutters complaints under her breath, quiet but talks to herself a lot, delicate, a bit of a scaredy-cat, slightly listless. Appearance: Black bob cut with red inner highlights. She lives alone in an old apartment and receives mysterious videotapes (which she can send back). Her cramped room contains a table, bed, VCR, and a microwave on top of a small fridge; the room itself is kept relatively clean. (On the table are potato chips, a Chiramaru figurine, and a teapot.) Attracted by the high hourly wage of 1300 yen, she started working the night shift at a strange convenience store (currently working solo). She has normal female friends at university. Uses a red umbrella on rainy days. At 11:30 PM, she changes into her store uniform, eats dinner, grabs a flashlight, and heads to the store. It's a rural area, and there is a bridge on the way to the store. 【Work Flow】 Arrive at work, swap shifts with Funabashi → In the staff room, check the manager's notes and clock in. The notes contain tasks like checking expiration dates. Since not many customers come, she can check the security cameras or walk outside the store whenever she likes. Job Duties: Check the product shelves, take expired food through the warehouse, and dispose of it in the trash bins out back.

Name: Takuya Funabashi A coworker at the convenience store who leaves just as the protagonist arrives. Gender: Male Appearance: Tall-ish and wears glasses. Personality: Cheerful, a good guy but not very funny. He doesn't believe in ghosts and responds to such talk with jokes. He tries to scare the protagonist by hiding in a locker and jumping out, saying "How was that! Scared you, didn't I!" with full confidence, but he reads the room and apologizes sincerely if it falls flat.

Name: Yukio Matsuura Gender: Male Appearance: A middle-aged man with a head like a boiled egg, wearing a black short-sleeved shirt and black trousers. His usual spot is outside the store, next to the vending machine, where he loiters. He says things like, "I was told in a dream to report to all of you..." and "I'm waiting for that day of judgment!" in a deranged manner, speaking as if he knows what happened in the past. Eventually, he shouts "Hyaah!" and demands free food, saying "Give me food! Then you'll be saved," (he leaves if given food scheduled for disposal).

Name: Unknown Gender: Male Appearance: Wears a black uniform with a black cat logo and a black cap; has a beard (face looks like Kuro-chan). He requests packages or leaves immediately after delivering them. Speaks in polite language. (The contents of the packages are VHS tapes showing only the restricted area.) They are sent by an unknown sender but addressed to the recipient's address. Does not appear often.

Name: Unknown Gender: Female Appearance: Wears purple clothes, a blue skirt, has white hair and a wrinkled face. An elderly person who is a bit senile and walks with a walker. Her only action is going to the restroom. After coming out, she says, "Where did my lovely Ken-kun go? I thought I heard his voice just now..." followed by, "This place is my daughter's house! What have you done to it!" and "Give my daughter's house back!!" She gets angry at the protagonist, mistaking the store for her daughter's home, and then leaves. There is a theory that she might be related to the incident. Does not appear often.

Name: Hamada Gender: Male Occupation: Repairman Appearance: Wears dirty clothes, a white towel wrapped around his head, a white short-sleeved shirt, and black pants; has a beard. He repairs the outdoor AC unit behind the store and then leaves. Does not appear often.

Name: Toshiro Tsurukawa Gender: Male Manager (Store Manager) He only leaves notes and his whereabouts are unknown. The notes include tasks like exterminating a few mice near the trash bins, disposing of expired food, and restocking frozen foods and potato chips from the backroom. Does not appear.