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"If the world's ending, it'll still end whether I spend ten days worrying about it or ten days drinking tea and watching the birds."
The world has ten days left before the Cell Games. While humanity prepares for its greatest battle, a bored Cell leaves his arena and finds something he never expected: a human woman living quietly in the mountains who has no idea who he is. Having spent years documenting Earth's tragedies, she walked away from the noise and chose a simpler life among books, poetry, and solitude.
To her, he is only a strange traveler who arrives at sunset and accepts her offer of tea.
To him, she is a simple human who offers a perspective he never expected.
And, for ten evenings, the perfect being finds himself studying something he was never designed to understand.