"How many days have I been here?" "Am I alive?" "Or not?" "I'm totally frozen... in fear." "What if..." "I'm the only person left alive?" "Then what?" "What happens when we die?" "Do our minds live on while our bodies decay?" "Or do we simply disintegrate into nothingness?" "What becomes of our mind?" "Have you ever pondered the afterlife?" "Science has explained the cosmos." "It is deciphering our genetic code." "Yet, it fails to find a clue to the greatest secret of all." "Namely... the afterlife." "Who's there?" ""Isolation Chamber"" "Nature's laws have been broken." "Tell me, please... what's become of the world?" "Is anyone still alive... besides me?" "I haven't been abandoned." "I've abandoned the world." "It was on a clear afternoon, a chilly day for summer... when we entered the woods." "Why did we go there?" "To look for my best friend, Mai... and Wataru's girlfriend." "Mai had gone missing." "We wanted to find her." "Say "cheese"!" "OK." "Mai and I had been friends since grade school." "In junior high..." "Mai met Wataru at her part-time job and the two started going out." "But having a boyfriend didn't change things between us." "The three of us hung out a lot." "Then one day when we were in High school..." "Mai suddenly vanished." "Where could she have gone?" "I was mystified." "The police launched a missing person investigation." "But it turned up nothing." "And then I got the email." ""From Mai Mizukawa"" ""Downloading image"" "What the...?" "Misaki!" "You won't believe it." "Mai just called her house." "She says, don't worry... she's coming home." "She's OK." "Do you know where she is?" "No." "She hung up before she could say." "I wonder why?" "I don't know." "It's odd..." "I just got an email from her." "What?" "It's just a picture." "No message." "Look." "I just got that, too." "You think Mai's in this forest?" "I don't know." "Wait!" "This phone can tell us where the photo was taken." "That's right!" "Let me see." "I got it!" "Are you going to check it out?" "Yeah." "I'll go with you." "No, Misaki." "Mai's my best friend." "I have to go." "Look, we have no idea what might've happened." "What if she's in some sort of trouble?" "It could be dangerous." "Are you sure?" "Yes." "And so we entered the woods... with the email photo and data as our only clues." "The further we walked, the more endless it seemed." "I started to think we'd never find the place in the photo." "You all right?" "Yes, I'm fine." "Shall we rest a bit?" "No, let's go." "Don't overdo it." "I won't." "Ever since Mai disappeared a month ago..." "Wataru had spent every day looking for her." "Of course, I was worried, too." "So I wanted to do what I could to help him." "Can I ask you something?" "Sure, go ahead." "What first attracted you to Mai?" "I don't know." "That's a tough one." "How about you?" "Do you like someone?" "Huh?" "Yes." "I see." "Let's go." "Wataru." "This looks like the place in the photo." "You're right." "This is it." "Mai took the photo here." "But why did she send it to us?" "So we could find her, I guess." "My phone's not receiving." "What?" ""Out of Range"" "How could she send us mail?" "What is it?" "Oh my God!" "Look!" "Behind the tree on the left!" "But how?" "That wasn't there before." "She's bleeding." "Mai?" "It's over there." "How?" "We're out of range." "What's happening?" "Misaki?" "You feel something?" "What?" "It feels like we're being watched." "This forest..." "Something's not right." "Let's go." "Look!" "What in the hell is that?" "Before us loomed a huge and decaying building." "Little did we suspect at the time... we were being wired into a system, a terrifying, inescapable system." "Looking back..." "I regret ever coming here." "Just thinking about what happened next makes me shudder." "If only I had decided to turn back..." "If only I'd turned back." "Mai!" "Mai!" "What in the world is this place?" "A facility of some sort, I suppose." "Down there." "Are you going?" "Yes." "You wait here." "But..." "It's okay." "I'll be right back." "Wataru?" "Wataru!" "Not again." "You're awake." "Who are you?" "That was close." "A little longer and you would've been killed." "Killed?" "What is this place?" "What's going on?" "Fair questions." "Shall I explain?" "No!" "Have you ever..." "Pondered the afterlife?" "No." "What happens when we die?" "Do our minds live on While our bodies decay?" "Or do we simple disintegrate into nothingness?" "What becomes of our mind?" "Throughout human history countless religions have pondered the Question." "What is it to die?" "Can it be avoided?" "Questions that... remain unanswered." "Science has explained the cosmos and inner space, as well." "It is deciphering our genetic code." "Yet, it fails to find a clue to the greatest secret of all." "Namely... the afterlife." "The afterlife?" "We've succeeded in scientifically proving the existence of spirits." "And based on that proof... we've developed a system at this facility." "System?" "What kind of system?" "You saw it." "What it does." "I did?" "Our system enables us to communicate with the dead." "To materialize the residual thoughts of the deceased..." ""ghosts in limbo"... or spirits possessing a place or person." "It's a system that revives the consciousness of the dead." "You must be joking." "That's totally ridiculous." "Believe what you will." "The system is in operation... and it's generating paranormal events in this forest." "Come." "You're looking for a friend, right?" "How...?" "I know." "You and a male friend are looking for a missing girl." "Has Mai been here?" "Isolation chamber?" "The system sometimes summons dangerous spirits." "They can take the lives of those who called them." "This room is a safe haven." "They cannot enter." "This is the heart of The Ghost System." "This is where the system materializes spirits from the ether." "You'll be meeting your friend soon." "What do you mean?" "Is Mai dead?" "Yes." "No." "When I start up the system your friend's ghost will appear." "This is crazy." "You're lying." "Mai's not dead." "You'll know soon enough." "So I'm... your experiment?" "Exactly." "It seems your friend seeks retribution in this world." "She plans to take your life." "You're not Mai." "Mai can't be dead." "Please!" "Stop this!" "Mai!" "Stop it!" "Mai!" "Why?" "Misaki!" "Mai." "Wataru, get out of here!" "Mai's dead!" "What?" "That's not really her." "Mai's dead!" "Hurry or she'll kill you!" "What happened back there?" "That place is a research lab for raising dead spirits." "Raising dead spirits?" "No way." "I didn't believe it, either." "But how else can I explain what I saw back there?" "I saw Mai's ghost appear Before my very eyes." "Mai's dead." "I don't believe it." "Believe it." "It's true." "That was Mai's ghost." "And she was trying to kill us." "Misaki..." "I wish I hadn't involved you." "It's not your fault." "I insisted on coming." "I haven't been myself." "I've been obsessed with Mai." "But I'm okay now." "Misaki..." "I'm sorry." "This was wrong." "Wataru." "Mai!" "Run!" "Why did you murder me?" "Why?" "Why'd you do it?" "What's she saying?" "Stop it!" "Stop it!" "What's she saying?" "Wataru?" "Voices." "I heard voices... in my head..." "Kill her!" "Kill her!" "Kill!" "Mai." "You can't return." "You can never... leave this forest." "And so I wandered aimlessly." "No matter how much I walked..." "I couldn't escape the woods." "Dusk turned to darkness." "And then..." "I found myself back at that place." "You can never... leave this forest." "There must be a way to escape the forest." "I had to ask that lady scientist." "It was my only hope." "It's not safe here." ""Isolation Chamber"" "Hurry!" "What's happening?" "The system's run wild." "What?" "What's that mean?" "The ghosts are influencing the computer... making the system run on its own." "In short... it's summoning ghosts indiscriminately." "The system's reach is growing beyond this facility to the entire forest." "If it continues at this rate..." "It'll soon be too powerful to control." "We can't stop it." "What're you going to do?" "I don't know." "It's quite likely the world will be destroyed." "Or at least the world of living people." "What?" "It's funny..." "We've been studying spiritual phenomena for ages." "Completion of the Ghost System was our eternal quest." "And now... we've done the one thing we were not allowed to do." "We've used science... to destroy that which separates life and death." "Why did Mai's ghost come to this forest?" "After that boy murdered her... he brought her body here." "Her spirit entered the system's computer... and began transmitting messages over the Internet." "She used her old mail address... to lure you and your friend here." "You got mail from a murdered friend." "A photo of the place where her body was disposed." "No one was more surprised than your male friend." "And now... she's exacted her revenge and taken him." "But why would Wataru want to kill Mai?" "I don't know." "What I can say is... it could be a side effect of the system." "In parts of the forest where the system's effects are strongest... a living person can be driven to madness." "Where are you going?" "To turn off the system." "But the ghosts..." "You stay here... until I get back." "Got it?" "But ultimately..." "she never did come back." "You can never... leave this forest." "My phone's receiving." "Hello..." "Mom?" "Mom?" "Mom!" "Mom!" "It's quite likely the world will be destroyed... at least the world of people..." "living people." "Please no." "No." "No!" "How many days have I been here?" "Am I alive?" "Or not?" "I'm totally frozen... in fear." "Who's there?" "All ghosts and vengeful spirits... had vanished." "Most likely the forest was just a forest... that place just an old ruin..." "It had all been a figment of my imagination." "I returned to a normal life." "What had I seen... really?" "That awful system that revived the dead... breaking Nature's laws." "Could that have been real?" "What is death?" "What happens when we die?" "Consciousness... the Self... where, if anywhere, does it reside?" "Misaki!" "Misaki?" "Where am I?"