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As such, it goes like this – Suguru Geto takes his last breath on the Uji Bridge, but it is not the conclusion he expects. Instead, it’s a footnote. Because moments later, the audience calls for an encore, and he gasps like a newborn. He takes his first breath, again, and this will be Mark II. He has as little choice in it as he did the first time, when his mother’s cryptic pregnancy came to fruition on their kitchen floor.
The first thing he notices is the afternoon sky. It’s still bright with sun and broken up by infant clouds, all of which have moved a little to the east since he last saw them. The wind is lazy. March is coming to a close, and the scent of sakura is teasing at the horizon.
The second thing he notices is a boy. He’s sitting on the balustrade, chewing a wad of strawberry gum. He has string-bean limbs and hair as pale as lilies. His tea-shades are too dark to see behind, and there’s a plaster wrapped around one of his thumbs. Beneath the hem of his basketball shorts, a pair of grass-stained knees.
“Yo,” he says.
(In which Death is a teenage boy, and Suguru is forced to live ad infinitum.)
Series
- Part 2 of The Monster Mash