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    His hand reached into the toxic, bleach-scented sludge and sipped it. He was engulfed in the realization of how easily he could tip over and never take another breath, until a frantic thought pierced his skull.

    *No! No, Saiki, no, stop!*

    Drinking that river water was a guaranteed death sentence. Caught in the act, he did the only logical thing. His eyes rolled back, and he let his body drop, collapsing completely limp onto the ground to fake a faint.

    The government initiation was brutal: survive 365 days in the wasteland to earn extraction. After a year of ruthless culling that weeded out the weak, the surviving classmates are now trapped in a bunker, battling starvation, grief, and highly toxic weather. To earn their right to come back home.

    To keep the camp's crumbling morale from shattering completely, Aren and Teruhashi place their most unapproachable classmate on a strict 24/7 suicide watch rotation.

    What they don't know is the true nature of Saiki Kusuo's death wish. He isn't actively trying to kill himself, he just believes he doesn't deserve to live. Weighed down by a crushing secret guilt, Saiki is burning away his own energy to secretly keep them alive.

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