
i just realized. if he is dead then how does his apartment situation work? shouldnt it be cleaned out and some one else living there? how does he pay the land lord if he is dead??

He (the MC) isn't dead (yet at least), the situation he's in is his soul and flesh connection is thin so he could be dead anytime soon even if the cause is trivial (like being jumpscared so hard his soul leaves his body). Also because of this, he becomes an easy target for spirits who wants to inhabit a flesh. That is why the tengu is with him, to guard him from malicious spirits who wants to inhabit his flesh.
So he's more like a dying person but doesn't look like it (?) I hope I explained it well ^^;
"you are adults stop joking around" THATS RIGHT THEY ARE ADULTS. THEY CAN DO WHAT THEY WANT. and who says you have any authority over them??? i get that he wants the best for them but changing who they are isnt one of them.