A twenty-year-old with little hope for the future discovers a shop that buys lifespan, time, and health. This is a story dealing with the ensuing consequences.
1 Volume (Complete)





I will try to be brief. I've read the (light) novel with the manga next to it so as to have the manga provide me with some visualization. It was great for that.
The manga offered me the visualizations which I sometimes couldn't envision myself, be it that of the scenery in the story or that of the characters' conduct and appearance.
It helped me immerse.
I feel like that reading this through the novel is possibly the better approach because perhaps the sentimentality better develops as reading a novel is not as easily turnable into scrolling through pages at speed as it is when reading a manga.
There are painful things in this story, things "everyone" would appreciate having had a different conclusion. It is what it is and it's what makes the story what it is.
Don't read the spoiler below unles you've read the story as I'll talk about what I think of with the previous sentence. Also, I will make a spoilerish comparison with Yui Narumi from Ao Haru Ride.
Himeno.
Everything about her turned out to be difficult to process and accept.
I feel like she was not treated fairly by the story, but that's what makes it realistic. She mildly reminds me of Narumi Yui from Ao Haru Ride in the way of how sad the story is for them, though Yui's story is not nearly as disturbing and difficult to accept.
Kusunoki not having pursued Himeno in any way after he got to know everything was sad for me, but understandable. The thing is.. Kusunoki was genuinely Himeno's whole world, or at least the last thing she'd cared about, the person she thought there was salvation in. For her it was him just like for him it was her. Her soul was torn in some way by what her future yielded to her and the reason why she's stuck in my mind is that I believe that she could have been fixed. Perhaps if there'd been no Miyagi he wouldn't have given up on her. Yes, even with the knowledge of what the future had been. Simply look at what turned out of his life as compared to what it would've been. That means that any change was possible.
How this story ends makes for good seeds of thoughts which will make me feel like I'm suffocating when they enter my mind as I'm trying to fall asleep. I will never have such perfection, and the two who've found it, only have 3 days before they are gone. But when I'll think of Himeno, there will be none of that suffocating feeling, I will feel anxiety, I will be afraid of what became of her life and what became of her in that life. She is how real life works unfortunately.
Poor Himeno, what a tragic character!!
It's a great story and it ends with making me feel like I'm suffocating and making me feel like crying, with an ephemeral point, at least for me.
This is a very beautiful light novel. It portrays a really nice message of making each day meaningful, and not getting hung up in others opinions. The title is a bit misleading but it will make sense and it makes the novel and its ending even more satisfying.
(Possibly needs a tragedy tag?)