'Why is this considered a boon?' Kaede had never understood the obsession with arriving in a new world after death. If he died, he wanted to stay dead. And he knew he could be an asshole at times. Perhaps that was all he was, really. So it made sense that his transferral to a new world ...

"You know my eyes, Kanao." "Am I lying?" [===] The most deplorable is Icarus, not he who fell, but who was not told to the truthful end. Not once ever have they spoke of what became of the boy who fell, not his body in the sea that became the foundation of life. There was every meani...