I am a freeloader in the anime world

After the man stepped into the light curtain and disappeared, Sakuta Azusagawa took the Tang sword handed to him by the man and walked out of the convenience store without even taking the items he had already paid for.

However, after Azusagawa Sakuta walked out of the convenience store and looked at the intersection in front of him, he was a little confused.

"Go straight."

Suddenly, a voice sounded in Sakuta Azusagawa's ears. It sounded clear and moving, but there was a sense of impatience and urgency in the crispness, just like... just like a girl who was anxious to go home and find evidence of her boyfriend's cheating.

When he came out of the convenience store, the terrifying and weird feeling that appeared after the man in Confucian clothes disappeared had already made Azusagawa Sakuta frightened.

Frightened by the sudden voice, Sakuta Azusagawa was stunned where he was, just like when the man in Confucian robes appeared just now.

"Go straight!" The clear female voice seemed to be irritated by Azusagawa Sakuta's behavior of standing still, and her tone became sharp.

“The knife… the knife is talking?!!”

At this time, Sakuta Azusagawa finally realized where the source of the sound came from. It was not some other strange person, but the Tang sword in his hand, which was sheathed. However, in the weird atmosphere around him, the appearance of a talking sword seemed even more weird.

Although the scabbard was very gorgeous, and Azusagawa Sakuta could even say that he had never seen such a beautiful scabbard before, at this moment, in the current environment, the luxurious emerald on the scabbard was like an eye, staring at Azusagawa Sakuta closely, and suddenly, Azusagawa Sakuta, who was already frightened, felt even more fearful at this moment.

"What are you looking at? Is it weird for a knife to talk? Also, please don't stare at my clothes like that, you pervert!"

The knife didn't notice that it was putting too much pressure on Azusagawa Saki, and continued to talk to itself.

"..."

Sakuta Azusagawa didn't say anything, but just looked at the knife in his hand and then at the trash can outside the convenience store.

"If you dare to abandon me, you will completely disappear from this world from now on! Stay in this hidden place forever!"

The knife was shouting loudly.

If the knife could move freely, Azusagawa Sakuta was sure that it would put the knife on its neck like the man in Confucian robes. Of course, not only Azusagawa Sakuta thought so, the knife also thought so in its heart.

Because it was the first time it encountered a bastard who wanted to throw it into the trash can.

"Why do you want me to go straight? Is your master there? The terminal of the Enoden? Or, where do you want me to go on the Enoden?"

Azusagawa Sakuta asked, but in his heart he was thinking about what it had just said.

What does it mean to completely disappear from the world?

"You fool!"

The knife spoke again.

"Didn't you just see the convenience store clerk disappear in front of you? Now, not only the convenience store clerk has disappeared, but everyone in the world you can see has disappeared."

The knife said so.

Azusagawa Sakuta stopped and looked around. The streets were empty. Just as the other party had said, there was not a single person.

"The clerk might have been taken away by the man in Confucian clothes, and the others might just be..."

Azusagawa Sakuta stopped talking and swallowed the word "coincidence" at the end, because he saw a roadside restaurant. In the restaurant, freshly prepared meals were placed steaming hot on the tables inside the store, but there was no customer at any of the tables. Of course, not only customers, but even waiters were missing.

"Want me to explain to you the principle behind this?" Dao's voice sounded somewhat proud.

"Please keep your introduction as short as possible."

Sakuta Azusagawa started moving again, running in the direction Dao indicated.

"I don't know if you believe in supernatural phenomena, but I think you do. After all, you are a psychic, so you must have encountered other supernatural phenomena. However, even if you haven't encountered them, you must have heard of urban legends such as 'invisible people', 'people from the future', 'body swapping', or 'wounds suddenly appearing on the body', right?"

The knife said so.

"So the current situation is the kind where 'all human beings in the world suddenly disappear, leaving only one person'?"

Azusagawa Sakuta said.

"It's not that exaggerated. According to the Sakura Country, you can understand it as the word 'God Hidden'. The 'God Hidden' you are experiencing now only covers this area."

"God-hidden place?" Azusagawa Sakuta repeated the word, "Oh, right, the man in Confucian clothes just mentioned the place of God-hidden place."

Almost everyone in Japan is familiar with the term "kabuki". Anyone who has a little knowledge of the legend or can access the internet knows the term.

However, it was precisely because everyone knew it that Azusagawa Sakuta was surprised, because when everyone knew this word, it was just a legend.

"In fact, the term 'God's Hidden Land' is just to match your identity as a Sakura Countryman. In other countries, it can also be called the mirror world or something else. For us spirits, the inner world is the most appropriate name. Of course, we call the world where normal people live the surface world."

"I see." Azusagawa Sakuta exclaimed.

"There's a saying that goes, the end of science is theology. For some people who believe in science above all else, we are just phenomena and creatures that have not yet been categorized by the concept of science. The same is true for the other world..."

The knife seemed to have forgotten that Azusagawa Sakuta wanted it to explain Kiyokiri in a few words.

"I don't quite understand."

Since no one saw him anyway, Azusagawa Sakuta climbed over the street railing, stepped over the flowers, and took a shortcut to enter the Enoden terminal.

"From a scientific point of view, your current state is like Schrödinger's cat. When no one is observing you, you are in a superposition state of both life and death. In this superposition state, you can see cities that do not exist for other normal people. From the perspective of the other world, it is as if a god has blocked your existence, and you have entered another world."

"If its existence is covered up, will it completely disappear?" asked Sakuta Azusagawa.

"Although the scope of this hidden place is not large, for you whose existence is hidden, it is a maze that you can never get out of. People who disappear in the maze will be gradually forgotten by the surface world, unless someone can observe you through the surface world. It's like Schrödinger's cat. As long as no one observes it, the cat will always be in a superposition state of both life and death."

"Is this the Hidden God?"

“This is the Hidden God.”

"Then your master is here too?" asked Sakuta Azusagawa.

"For some reason, the master turned into a spirit, so he was pulled into the other world. But for some reason, the master is not in an unobservable state, and it was forcibly pulled into the other world and became an alien, and will be rejected by the other world."

The knife said so.

"What's the reason?" Azusagawa Sakuta continued to ask.

"It's a very complicated principle... hurry up! In order to exclude my master, the other world has begun to forcibly eliminate my master's existence!" Dao's tone suddenly became hurried.

"Varied......"

Before Azusagawa Sakuta could finish his words, he saw a young man holding a cross inside the Enoden railway terminal, and opposite him was a humanoid monster with huge claws rushing towards him.