What happened to the other hunters?
Spoiler tagged because I'm going to bring up mid to late-game stuff here. You've been duly warned
I'm with Lycoris again in my current run, and I'm running around the Bureau Castle area since it counts as part of the Undead Forest and you can't explore half of it in the Past (that's a gripe for another day). It's the one place in the whole game where you can encounter NPC hunters in the Present and, except for the two who are a boss fight at the end of the Observation Outpost dungeon, all the hunters you see are ghosts. They're all dead. The two living hunters who make up that one boss fight don't survive their encounter with the player, and the Bureau Castle is completely closed off and silent
What the hell happened to all the other hunters? Where are they?
When Present NPCs mention you being a hunter, they don't seem shocked by you existing, so obviously you aren't the only one running around, but where are the others? Shouldn't there be at least one or two NPC hunters around you can talk to? Why is the player alone in the world? I have so many questions