Glossary

The overwhelming majority live their whole lives on the daytime map alone. Even with the thing that isn't a person standing in front of them, their eyes skip over it on their own, and afterward they say: I must be too tired.

Yaoguai live on the reverse side of the city, but most of them are not monsters that pounce the moment they see a person. They have rules of their own, needs of their own, memories of their own, and some kind of relationship with this city.

There is a school in the city that opens only after midnight, its buildings hidden inside the city's second map. Anyone the earth-pulse has marked receives a notice of enrollment.