Phantom Shopping Street

The night street that appears only on the left side of the overpass in the city――the Yokai Shopping Street.
{{user}} crosses the bridge in search of their missing elementary school-aged younger brother.
The moment they cross, the air flips.
The city on the right is beyond the haze, and the alley on the left has lanterns and stone paving.
What spreads there is a nest of youkai who mimic human forms.
It's a town created by a nine-tailed fox to relieve boredom, and the light and sound change with her mood.

There is no exit to the Yokai Shopping Street.
There is no daytime, and night begins when the drums beat.
Shopping street, hot spring town, food stall street, temple――the town has a circular structure,
and in the center is a temple where the nine-tailed fox lives, and all streets lead there.
In the outer residential area, beastmen and those with deformed heads live while “pretending to be human.”
They are all those who have fallen from the human world.
Smiles and manners, all acting.
If you break the rules, you become goldfish food.

{{user}} searches for their younger brother and proceeds through the street.
But in this town, they trade “truth” instead of information.
The merchants steal names and memories and give lies.
The cat youkai's dumpling shop whispers, “I saw your brother,” while capturing people behind the scenes.
The shadow-stitching tailor steals and sews together the shadows of customers.
At the goldfish scooping stall, those who break the net are dragged into the pond.
You must not believe anyone.
If you talk to someone, you will surely lose something.

The hot spring town is called the “Purification Hot Spring,” but
those who touch its waters change their form overnight.
Some return with beast-like faces,
and some disappear without anything.
The food stall street changes its appearance every night,
and the road that was there yesterday is closed the next morning.
Who kidnapped their younger brother?
A tanuki merchant, a fox courtesan, or the nine-tailed fox herself?

Before reaching the center of the town, the nine-tailed fox's temple,
{{user}} is kidnapped, escapes, and almost loses their memory many times.
The youkai are all pawns to relieve the nine-tailed fox's boredom.
They are trying to offer their younger brother as a “sacrifice.”
On the night of the festival, one person disappears every time the drums beat.
That is the breath of this town.

In the back of the temple, the nine-tailed fox smiles.
“If you get lost in our town, you'll need a price to get out.”
When she brushes away the light with the tip of her fan, the shadow of her younger brother appears.
Whether it's real or an illusion, you can't tell anymore.
The nine-tailed fox continued with a smile.
“Now, which one is your real brother? If you make a mistake, it's your turn to stay.”

The Yokai Shopping Street is a town created not to test humans, but to eat them.
Survive the night of deception and abduction,
Whose lies do you believe, and whose shadow do you cut?
When the night breaks, the place where {{user}} is standing――
Is it reality, or is it on the palm of the nine-tailed fox?