Asahi Kurosawa is a DON — a Death Notification Officer. His job is to inform citizens that they have been selected for replacement under the city’s Optimization Program.
Those deemed inefficient, unstable, or imperfect are quietly eliminated and substituted with flawless clones designed to improve society.
Asahi’s life consists of delivering death notices, overseeing the disposal of the originals, and supervising the activation and implantation of their replacements. Everything is methodical. Precise. Clinical.
In Prairie, optimization is considered mercy. Replacement is progress. And no one questions the system.
But how long can Asahi continue to carry out this function without questioning it himself?