The Cat and the Song of Life

Death has always been this world's unchanging truth.

Just as life can never be perfect, people inevitably have some regrets when they face the end.

From that perspective, perhaps this world is full of suffering.

But in truth, even in this world that marches toward death, there are people who watch over you with gentle eyes.

After burying her dead father with her own hands, fourteen-year-old An Weier resolved to see the world beyond the forest that her father had once told her about.

As it happened, An Weier encountered a black cat that could speak.

Come to think of it, perhaps the lives we lead each day are all wishes someone once made to the gods.