Yuri Benten carves out a career as a freelance journalist devoted to unraveling supernatural phenomena, with a sharp focus on ghostly hauntings and demonic urban legends. Her relentless investigations push her into perilous encounters, where she wields her camera both as a tool for documentation and a shield against fear—a habit forged from a unresolved guilt over the tragic death of a young boy in her past. This lingering remorse shadows her every move, sharpening her resolve even as it strains her emotional stability.

While probing Inspector Abashiri’s disappearance, Yuri becomes ensnared in a cursed mansion alongside fellow captives. The structure weaponizes their deepest vulnerabilities, materializing psychological scars—repressed guilt, trauma, despair—into visceral horrors. Initially, her compulsive photography serves as a lifeline, grounding her amid chaos. But as the mansion’s true nature surfaces—a sentient demonic entity feasting on human anguish—her lens shifts focus, capturing glimpses of the malevolent force behind the illusions.

Pragmatic and tenacious, Yuri navigates alliances and betrayals among the trapped, surviving assaults by possessed victims and witnessing gruesome fatalities. Her discoveries expose the mansion’s link to a demon hosted by Yukihime. Though she endures the initial clash, the mansion refuses to release her after Yukihime and Enma depart. Trapped indefinitely, Yuri’s essence fades into the walls, reborn as the spectral "woman in the red dress"—a figure from the very legends she once chronicled.

Her arc culminates in a chilling revelation: her death occurred unnoticed within the mansion’s labyrinth. A final painting, updated to include her skeletal remains among the victims, cements her fate. Now eternally bound to the site, she becomes both author and subject of the supernatural cycle she sought to document—a ghostly echo in the rumors she once pursued.