By Motoro Mase
Episode 3: The Pure Love Drug
Act 2
Kazusa’s landlord finds out about the Ikigami and calls Katsumura. Kazusa has about 17 hours left at the time Katsumura gets the news. He dithers a bit before calling her.
Kazusa picks up but their conversation does not go well. Kazusa ends the call by hanging up on him. She’s still angry at him. She tells him to keep working and not worry about her. Katsumura is torn but for a while he continues to work.
One of the other guys in the shoot lets him know about how Kazusa filled in for him when he collapsed and was put in the hospital. He calls his boss and finds out from him that she also talked his boss into not firing him for abusing drugs.
Katsumura gets off the phone. He is still torn but he is also overwhelmed by what she did for him. He decides he has to leave and be there with her.
This was very well told for a middle chapter. It didn’t feel at all like just a bridge between the beginning and the ending. It was a powerful read all by itself. The visual storytelling probably had a lot to do with that.
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