Chapter 1 (1/2)

Life is but a brief journey

No matter how much wealth you boast of as a rich man

No matter how much envy you collect as an unrivaled beauty

No er of God

As long as you are human, death does not discriminate

And that is why an accident happening to one girl was by no means one that shook the universe

It was si unable to escape as she reached the end of the road

The people will simply lament, It’s much too soon for her, how cruel

“——However, it seems like you are not so nor where this one ends, from the other side——”

・・・

Yuna’s ordinary days suddenly disappeared

One afternoon, identical to any other, center of town

It was a truly nondescript day as she made her way to the market to stock up on medical plants

So happened to her

If you think on it twice, it will rise to the surface with vivid clarity

The heartrending cries of the people The high-pitched whinny of the horse’s voice The big, horse-drawn carriage loo in front of her eyes

And then, her entire body as it was caught by the ireat blow…

——I was run over by a carriage and killed

Yuna ca

It was only a o she was at a loss and in a daze, duained her caluessed what had happened to her body

Such a short life, she thought I only lived for 18 years There was still a lot I wanted to do, or rather, perhaps it is better said that the things I have accomplished were far too few It’s not like I wanted to spendespecially noble, but I can’t help feeling this sense of incompleteness

(Perhaps it is because of lingering attachments that I have come to this mysterious place?)

She took another look at her surroundings

——Nothing after all Just an empty world Blank as far as the eye could see, up and doere the exact same Yuna had been left by herself in a completely white world

(Oh, dear Lord)

Not knohere to focus, she vacantly looked around Exactly because of that, there was no sense of progress being made

(Err, what am I supposed to do in this situation? Is this perhaps the netherworld? That placed called Heaven? It feels coh… What am I, Yuna, supposed to do all by myself? First I died, and now I’ve come to this unfathomable place Or should I ask, why did I have to die in the first place? Even though I lived such an ordinary life, why? Was I so deeply stained by kare, O God——)

“OK, OK, that’s enough”

Yuna had been slowly but steadily falling into a state of confusion, when suddenly a woman’s voice–quite indifferent–spoke to her That voice, which did not see happened, snapped Yuna back to her senses

“Huh?”

Yuna turned her head around in surprise and ht of the beautiful woolden and abundant hair Eyes an almost transparent blue Her body was clad a soft, white dress, and on her back were huge wings——ahh, an angel in the flesh, no doubt

“Ah, um, uh, um”

“I understand”

What did she know? Why did she have to give Yuna the short shrift?

“Ehh—first things first, nice to meet you, yeah?”

“Ahm, eh, uhh”

“Names don’t really elica Seen by huel? It’s my job to deliver the souls of humans who have died in the human world to His side”

“Uh”

“I think you get it, but you were hit by a carriage—a total disaster”

“Uhh…”

Yuna calmed down little by little as the truth was shoved under her nose by this third party

“And then your departed soul was so far gone I ended up using my powers to transfer it here”

“This is…”

“Neither Heaven nor hell It’s a void where nothing exists”

“Then what should I—”

“Relax I don’t plan to keep you here for all eternity I th, so I created this little white roo you here”

Lend—th? Someone already dead like me? Yuna knit her brows in confusion

“You just look like a coh”

Angelica took glie, for she htly uneasy face

“Saint Celiastina, do you know of her?”