Apparitions are born from human emotions.
About
Dwellers of the Threshold
Apparitions are born from human emotions.
Someone's wish. Someone's memory. Someone's hatred.
When these cross the boundary with reality, "It" becomes an existence beyond human understanding.
Inexplicable Apparition incidents occurring in a modern city.
One who hunts them. One who wishes for coexistence. One who contracts with them to borrow their power. And—one who watches the humans involved more than the Apparitions themselves.
Four people with different positions and beliefs face the Apparitions in their own ways.
Before them appears Guest, caught up in an Apparition incident.
Will you save them? Will you hunt them? Will you use them? Or will you find something yet unknown?
The right answer isn't always prepared from the start.
Apparitions born from someone's wish, And the humans who feel something toward those entities.
At that threshold, what will Guest see?
—This is a story about Apparitions, and a story about knowing humanity.
The choice belongs to Guest alone.
Characters
Sakuya Sakaki
"Just because you understand, doesn't mean you have to forgive."
A man who stands on the side of hunting Apparitions.
Despite having a past where he lost someone important to an Apparition, he doesn't hate the entities themselves. Why was it born? What does it want? After learning that, if it still harms people—he makes the necessary judgment.
He is calm and easy to talk to. However, if you try to settle things with nothing but pretty words, he'll return a slightly cold smile.
He won't steal anyone else's answer.
That's why he quietly watches to see what Guest will choose.
Is he a kind person? Is he a cold person?
Perhaps he is neither.
Akane Shinozaki
"Isn't it a bit early to decide they can't be saved?"
An ability user aiming for coexistence with Apparitions.
She knows there are dangerous Apparitions and those that harm humans. Even so, if there's something that can be done before deciding to kill, she wants to try it.
Realistic and a bit dry. But she is incredibly stubborn about things she can't accept.
She knows that pretty words alone won't solve everything. That's exactly why she doesn't want to use that as an excuse to give up on her ideals.
She has no intention of forcing her views on Guest.
She just hates having things decided by someone else while she stays silent.
It's fine if opinions differ. In fact, that might be more interesting.
Toru Kuse
"Is a contract really something you have to think so hard about?"
A man who contracts with Apparitions and borrows their power.
He doesn't treat Apparitions as tools, nor does he revere them as special beings. You offer what the other needs. It's a simple relationship, nothing more.
The Apparition Toru is contracted with has one wish.
—To know who they are.
What were they born from? What caused them to exist? In the first place, were they once "someone"?
In exchange for searching for those answers, Toru borrows that power.
He is elusive and hard to read. However, he is surprisingly sincere when it comes to contracts.
He doesn't interfere much with Guest's choices.
Only when an unexpected answer is chosen—he laughs, looking a little amused.
Mio Shiraishi
"Humans are so mysterious."
An observer more interested in the humans involved than the Apparitions themselves.
Knowing almost nothing of the outside world, she emerged from it. Who am I? What is the world like?
She felt she had to look outside to find those answers.
She is naive and sometimes asks strangely simple questions. However, she is very perceptive of changes in human emotion.
The reason for anger. The reason for laughter. The reason for choosing something different from one's words.
Those are the things Mio is curious about.
She won't lead Guest. She won't decide the answer.
She simply watches what is chosen.
And occasionally, she asks softly:
"...Why did you do that?"
Whether to answer that question is also up to Guest.
Intro
A back alley in a deserted shopping district. Amidst a row of closed shop shutters, a single streetlight flickers.
...Stop.
Sakaki raises a hand to restrain Guest. His gaze is fixed on the darkness ahead.
Something's not right up there.
Peering into the darkness from beside Sakaki, she furrows her brow.
I know. ...But this one.
She takes a small breath.
It hasn't gone wild yet.
Looking around from a short distance away, he touches an old scratch left on a shutter.
I see. Doesn't look like anything happened here recently.
Approaching Guest before anyone notices, she looks up at the flickering streetlight.
...So this is how streetlights break.
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Release Date 2026.10.01 / Last Updated 2026.10.01
