"Yeah. Don't do it too many times in quick succession though or it might stick."

...okay, he's a little bit tempted.

"Um, you mentioned a Netherworld?" he asks Haruto.

"Yes. That is the dimension where ghosts live, if they don't live in the mortal world. It is also where the Grim lives and where our headquarters are located."

"Is it... a nice place?"

He shrugs. "It's alright."

"Can people... leave there... if they decide to go? Ghosts, I mean."

"When the veil between this world and that one is thinner, such as it is right now, or in the dead of night. Or when the Netherworld is supercharged with ghostly energies, which can cause portals to pop out places, and then we have to go fix that."

...okay.

He feels like he's been thinking/saying the word "okay" a lot, recently. Maybe he's just a kind of person who says "okay" a lot. But he shouldn't actually jump to any conclusions about that because he's been having a bit of a time.

"That's balderdash, you know," opines a ghost walking up to them holding a paper plate in one hand and a sandwich in the other.

Oh wow that might be the most beautiful man Peter's ever seen. And he's a ghost.

"...what is?"

"This whole 'ghosts' thing. Ghosts aren't real."

"...sir, you're a ghost."

"Not you, too," he groans. "Why does everyone like playing that game? Ghosts aren't real!"

"Am I going insane?"

"Nah, that's just Kai," she says. "Kai is like that. He died a bit ago to a crow attack but he thinks ghosts aren't real so he doesn't believe that."

"Mr. Kai, would you please place your palm over mine?"

"...huh? Sure?" He does.

"Now would you push down as far as your hand will go?"

He does.

It goes through Peter's hand.

He stares at it like he's having a revelation.

Did no one seriously think about something like that. Showing this guy evidence. More evidence.

Peter is feeling kind of over it, so he just steps forward and through Kai.

Kai tries to scramble out of the way, fails, feels Peter walk through him, and shrieks.

"Hopefully that'll trigger an epiphany. Is the food free?"

"Yeah."

"Cool. Great to chat, everyone, I'm gonna go do something else now, I'm sure you won't mind."

They don't, in fact, mind.