18if

Haruto Tsukishiro comes to in an unfamiliar bedroom that turns out to be part of a dream world, where a strange app on his phone triggers the appearance of a bizarre woman who tries to pull him into her domain. A mysterious white-haired girl intervenes, cutting the connection and identifying the woman as a witch before vanishing. Drawn back into the realm, Haruto encounters Katsumi Kanzaki, a talking, catlike figure, and the two are forced to flee as the witch’s followers close in—until the white-haired girl opens a door to get them out.

Back in relative safety, Haruto describes the girl—whom only he can see—and Katsumi, an expert on dream-world phenomena, recognizes her as “Lily,” a presence that repeatedly appears across different dreamscapes. Believing a blue door may offer a way out, they return to confront the witch, and Lily reveals what’s at stake: witches are trapped by “Sleeping Beauty Syndrome,” a coma-like state born from suffering in their waking lives, and they can’t awaken until they’re defeated within the dream. Even after the witch falls and the blue door is found, Haruto’s escape doesn’t go as planned, leaving him and Katsumi to dig deeper into the secrets of the witches, Lily, and why Haruto can’t seem to leave.