Watanabe Hatsuki has a perfectly ordinary name for the living. But she belongs to the world of the dead. Uh, to be precise, she’s a god of the underworld: a grim reaper.
She’s also a grim reaper who has earned the title of “Outstanding Grim Reaper” for a thousand years straight.
Watanabe Hatsuki doesn’t take lives. She only escorts departed souls and records their death reports.
The job used to be pretty laid-back. But after she took over Mihua Town as its district grim reaper, her workload shot straight up.
And why are there so many strange things happening in Mihua Town?
Why are four lingering spirits suddenly trailing that blond, dark-skinned waiter? Do you have that many regrets? And why is there another spirit following one of those spirits? Don’t think I can’t see you just because you’ve gotten smaller!
Why do the pink-haired man with his eyes closed and that little girl with tea-brown hair have the same lingering spirit? Don’t you two not know each other?
And you, bespectacled grade-schooler. Are you the real grim reaper? Why does someone die everywhere you go? Have you gotten used to the spirit following you around?
Watanabe Hatsuki stared wide-eyed in terror. “Senior, I can’t handle this responsibility. Please find someone else for the job!”
...Running away was obviously not an option. So all she could do was work hard, be a good wage slave, and get transferred somewhere else as soon as possible!
Then something else strange happened.
Watanabe Hatsuki: “I... pulled off your bandanna?”
Hagiwara Kenji: “It seems... you did?”
Watanabe Hatsuki: “...Hold on. Let me see if the Grim Reaper’s Handbook says what to do in this situation.”
It didn’t! Watanabe Hatsuki was truly terrified. Had she broken some rule? Would she still get the Outstanding Grim Reaper title this year? She was about to earn her 1,234th Outstanding Grim Reaper title!
Watanabe Hatsuki decided to give up. She would just slack off. As long as she didn’t say anything, no one would know.
But... Watanabe Hatsuki looked at the people and spirits clinging to her and refusing to let go.
Stay away from me, all of you! I am not going to help you take off your bandannas!
Aaaaaah, I want to get off work!!!
[Help: I accidentally pulled off a ghost’s bandanna, and he came back from the dead. What do I do?! Please answer ASAP!!!]
“We are both God and the Devil, for we must reverse the flow of time and let the dead be reborn.”
“No one can reverse the flow of time. The souls of the dead are not permitted to return to the world of the living.”
P.S. Hatsuki doesn’t have any weird cheat abilities! She is the biggest cheat ability herself! She’s a god, and she has divine powers! Also, since Hatsuki is a grim reaper, this story involves angels, demons, other grim reapers, and other divine beings. The organization is not so simple either: there’s a vast conspiracy behind it all, spanning several realms.
Theme: Death can also bring people a new life.
