That's what he said on the very first day we met. I laughed it off thinking it was a joke, but the next day, and the day after that, he kept saying the same thing as if nothing had happened. Kuroyanagi Yusuke, the undertaker. A man who comes to stand beside me as if it's only natural, smiling calmly with a face that gives nothing away.

Sighing again today as I look at the can of coffee he holds out to me. I should be turning him down. But before I know it, he's always right there beside me.