The Death I Desire

Rishiel, a boy with no attachment to life due to a long-standing chronic illness. One day, he picks up a scruffy child who has intruded into his garden. Keeping the child—who is clearly his father's illegitimate offspring—as a servant and teaching him, Rishiel prepares for his own imminent death... However, he soon discovers that he, who thought he was dead, has come back to life. * “Do I still look like that child to you?” “What?” Water droplets fell, drip by drip, from hair that had grown darker from being wet. Beneath a shirt clinging to him from the humidity, sleek muscles twitched fiercely. Unlike his own skeletal frame, that body was so full of vitality that Rishiel forgot the...