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Following "The Life of the Disliked Matsuko" and "The Hundred Years' Law", Japan Mystery Writers Association Award winner Yamada Muneki's new masterpiece! When consciousness leaves the body, am I still me? We abandon our bodies and gain eternal life, but we no longer know who we are. A technological innovation in the field of consciousness transmission shakes the boundary between life and death and opens the door to eternal life for mankind. Shortlisted for the 7th Futaro Yamada Award. Selected as the Best 20 in the 2017 "Amazing Japan Awards" novel category. In the future, humans have invented an artificial body that can store consciousness - a proxy body. The surrogate body has become an epoch-making invention in the history of medicine. By transmitting consciousness into the surrogate body, people who are seriously ill can use the surrogate body to work and live normally while their physical body is hospitalized. One day, an accident broke the peaceful life of body adjuster Hatta Teruaki. The body of a proxy user he was responsible for suddenly died, and the proxy he controlled disappeared mysteriously. Only then did Yata know that a group of people who depended on the body had gathered in the world. They stole the body and tried to use it to gain eternal life! But these body dependents gradually find that they have been facing a problem that can never be solved: Are they still themselves after abandoning their own bodies?
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