Introduction: "The world is full of ghosts. We have little choice but to accept that we will, one day, become them. We will be a distant knock in the attic, the phantom just at the edge of the mirror, the thing you swear you saw in the corner of your eye."In an alternate reality of Earth, ghosts are ubiquitous. Society has fashioned itself around the fact spirits of the dead haunt places, objects, and even people. Ono Yumatori joins the International Echoic Research Foundation to better understand his personal predicament and fulfill a self-set quest. In a world haunted, he has a second chance to unravel the mystery of The Road Less Traveled. With time and training, he'll have another chance at the entity that made him who he is.He died once on the Road. He vows to find it, understand it, and possibly, stop it....