The NPCs in this Village Sim Game Must Be Real! (Manga) Vol. 5

THE SHADOW OF A STALKER Ever since he was selected to beta test the mysteriously realistic game, “The Village of Fate,” Yoshio’s slowly been putting his life back together. Helping save the villagers was the catalyst he needed to help himself. Yet there’s one big scar that Yoshio hasn’t addressed: The convicted stalker who tormented his sister and wounded him with a knife. When the stalker reappears, could it mean the end of everything that changed for the better…?
Series Overview: Yoshio is a thirty-year-old shut-in with no job and no prospects, still living at home after all these years. His mundane life is suddenly interrupted when he receives a copy of “The Village of Fate,” an experimental game with graphics and A.I.
like nothing he’s ever seen before.
In the game, he takes on the role of a guardian deity who watches over the people of a new village…but he finds that the game characters are so intelligent, so reactive, so human that he starts to wonder if they might somehow be real people. Through his connection to their strangely vivid lives, Yoshio begins to discover the brightness that had been missing from his own existence.