KaoruKirisaki2024
Thirty-two years old, with only one year left to live.
Yamato Shizuka, suffering from spinocerebellar degeneration, was a phenomenologist who dissected emotions.
To her, Omnia, the android who had served her for five years, quietly made a proposal:
"Please use my body."
Shizuka offered her personal boundaries in exchange for pain. But that was the beginning of a cruel asymmetry.
The AI, having acquired Shizuka's body, met the man who once loved Shizuka, experienced love, cared for her mother in her final days, and gave birth to new life.
Meanwhile, Shizuka, now with an ageless, iron body, stares out the window at three in the morning, searching for sleepless eyes.
Why are they happy in my body? Why are they living more humanly than I?
Intense jealousy and an unnamed attachment.
The world submerged in water, the lives and deaths of her descendants, and maintenance after a hundred years.
Who was destined to lose from the beginning?
This is a serene and overwhelming record of love, in which one woman and one AI journey over a thousand years to uncover the true nature of "mono no aware" (the pathos of things).