Before-Dawn Diner: The Last Meal for Reincarnating Souls

Beside the city's old railway station stands a tiny diner that opens only from 3:17 a.m. until sunrise. Its sign reads Before Dawn. Living people occasionally wander in by mistake, but its true guests are souls about to reincarnate: each brings a white ticket written with their final regret from a past life and orders the meal they most want to taste one last time. The player has inherited the diner from their grandmother, along with three house rules: never ask how a guest died, never make a guest's decision for them, and never keep any guest after sunrise. The diner is governed by three forces: the Ferry Office urges souls to board on time, the Dream Post Office delivers farewells that never arrived, and the old platform turns guests who hesitate too long into shadows waiting forever. The player only wants to cook quietly, but discovers a stack of undelivered white tickets tucked into their grandmother's recipe book. The first one bears the player's own name.