MC was introduced as an actor who decides to play as an NPC in order to gather more information about his situation. He fools not only the ghost and NPCs, but also the players who was looking for the ghost and him.

After the first instance, he loved the feeling of acting as the NPC and completely immersing himself into the roles. In all honesty, he doesn't care about winning in the instances and just wants to act.

ML was introduced after the first instance as someone who is an experienced player that is being hunted by his enemies and allies alike. He has good instincts and is really sharp. He knows how to differentiate an NPC from a player but has a hard time with the MC.

He meets the MC in the second instance and while he has some suspicions, he never knew that the MC is a player until the MC defeated the ghost in the end.

• The first instance is about how the NPC adjusts to his role.
• The second instance is about how he controls his microexpressions (since he's playing a blind character)
• The third instance is about how to make ad libs and understand his character (since he's playing a demon character who has great authority amongst the other demons).

MC is an actor that just wants to keep acting. Despite his abilities he tried not to be overly OP, He really did try to limit his other ability and rely only in his acting, observation & logic skills but the game was being very malicious to him from the start, so when the instances get harder he had no choice but to unlock his secret one by one in the moment of danger.

He has a seriously bad childhood, a mix of child abuse from his mother and the origin of his secret, makes it that he cant express his emotions except when acting (which is ironic cause its also part of the reason, also his special abilities are tied with his emotions). Because of this altho he has a gentle persona outside, in reality he is very indifferent (except for food), low maintenance & likes to be low key.

But despite his apathetic & expresionless face, luckily ML is keen on facial expression changes & always recognize & find him (lol not really but its hilarious when he fails to recognize him in the game instances). ML is quick to notice & gets interested in MC which is showed in the arcs & in MC's challenge.

ML is a wolf in sheeps clothing type of gong but he was very sweet, smart and cheeky which made him a suitable partner for MC. ML did pester MC at the start that looks like a momentary interest/fascination but ML really does see thru MC's expresionless face thru his eyes. He acts clingy/overbearing but he really doesnt push MC about anything (except the first date & first time, MC thought he's in top XD) and accepts him as he is. The story showed very few moments of them together in desolate corner but every one of them is heartwarming specially when they started to sort of live together.

Desolate Corner is an infinite flow system that selects people who have directly or indirectly (intentional or not) cause other people's death & didnt get punishment. There's a lot of gray area in the selection process, so the players are mixed with real people with bad morals & ordinary civilians.

Which is why MC & ML entered here after death. MC's past and reason will be explained thru out after the first few arcs but ML's past and reason is showed on the very last arc: MC's challenge.

The officials of desolate corner saw MC as a threat from the start because of his secret ability but what they didnt know is that if they just left him alone, he wouldnt even think of using it and rebelling but of course as long they dont touch & restrict MC's freedom cause he doent like being controlled.

Also the reason why the officials seem like they dont want more players to survive is because desolate corner has a popolation capacity and they really need to purge players in order to accept and accomodate new comers. On the premise that this people are not sinless they really didnt care who or how many of them are purged. So its kind of a pickle for the old players because not all of them deserve to die and get their existence erased.

So they are the antagonist, and they did show maliciousness to the players but they are just doing their job altho I still dont get whats the purpose of desolate corner, maybe I missed something but I still dont get why they make/send the players to an obssessed ghost's world to collect their card. Survive or die is just the elimination process but that one is a cycle question paradox.

Im guessing since these people have "sinned" they cant be reincarnated and are stuffed here but since there's no recycle, except if you win the top 10 challenge, they have no choice but to be indescriminately purged.

Desolate Corner is just like a new purgatory for specific people that has an unpolished system. It's just unfortunate that there are also people that arent hopeless mixed in. And thats what they showed at the end of the main text, at least theyre willing to fix the system and made lenient changes to the selection process and only choose people who really deserve to be there and gave a way out for old players that still wants to live.

Desolate corner had a contact with a higher world system and wanted to employ MC.

MC pretended to be an NPC and succeeded. Rural setting, the grandmother is the ghost and pretended to be the monk.

MC pretends to be a blind NPC. Modern setting, the ghost is the takeout delivery guy.

MC is the top demon (he's a crane demon) who is invited to a big banquet. Ancient fantasy setting, the ghost is the baby in an egg that was born from the MC's blood.

MC is on an island as an NPC with an inconsistent identity. I forgot who the ghost was, but the manor owner is the ship.

MC is the "Scarlet Witch" with healing abilities and urges to feed on blood. Fantasy monster setting, I forgot who the ghost is, but the MC releases this shining gem to give hope to the world or something.

MC is an NPC in a society with a hierarchy similar to ants. Tbh, I kinda skimmed this one, soooo... The ghost was a noble, I think?

made the VR thing and how that works

important roles that were crucial to the plot

recute him

Even if the MC doesn't try to get the ghost card by solving who the 'murderer' is, he always ends up getting it.