Parasocial

(Have fun guys!) Nina wakes up to start her livestream and checks messages: her mom disapproves, a café has a new menu, and her ex Rikiya wants to reconnect. After eating food left in her fridge, she prepares her setup, launches her avatar, and begins streaming. A difficult game frustrates her, so she downloads another from a chat link. It’s a horror puzzle where she finds hidden numbers to escape. After clearing it, her chat panics—her real face appears instead of her avatar. She ends the stream and receives a threatening message telling her to keep playing. That night, a doorbell rings but no one is there, and a creepy note appears. The next day, despite no virus being found, she gets more disturbing texts. While taking out trash, a strange policeman warns her about danger, and a silent figure appears nearby. Later, her friend Asuka visits and takes her out, but ongoing messages manipulate Nina into distrusting her. Rikiya fuels this by showing a suspicious photo of Asuka with a man in black, leading Nina to block Asuka. Back home, Nina’s computer glitches and her avatar voices dark thoughts. A man breaks into her home, and guided by eerie phone messages, she kills him. As she tries to escape, a black-eyed Asuka appears and stabs her. Nina wakes again, as if reset, and seeks help from the policeman, who suggests the stalker and hacker are the same but offers little help. She reconnects with Asuka, who explains the photo and reassures her. Asuka leaves briefly to get food while Nina streams again. The new game mirrors real locations near her home and leads her to her own apartment, where she sees herself. After ending the stream, private recordings of her are shown on her computer, proving she is being watched. Terrified, she must decide who to trust.