Third-person POV
After the meeting, Uo returned to his supermarket, the Gotou Grocers, to do his job. He restocked 2 shelves with shampoo and soaps after the last supplies sold out 10 minutes before his arrival. As he looked at the break room through the aisle, he remembered that dark, rainy day when he finished of the owner of Gotou Grocers, 23-year-old Takajō Gotou.
[Flashback to 3 years ago…]
On that rainy day, Takajō refused to succumb to his death 24 hours after Uo gave that dreaded death notice to him. In that alleyway, Takajō seemed to be standing on his two feet with some mild chest pain. Uo was agitated, while Takajō smirked at him. "No…I won't die…death creature. I know you're not a human, but I won't die from that stupid notice!"
Snapped and desperate, Uo brandished a knife from his suit pocket and pointed it at him. "For the prosperity of the state…" he growled like a monster.
He lunged at him.
Takajō was surprised. "Hey, wait, man! This isn't-"
He was tackled to the ground, and Uo, possessed by the spell of Kal to the Ikigami State, stabbed his heart and chest several times while yelling, "For the prosperity of the state! For the future! For security!"
After his 20th strike, the spell broke, and he realized what he had done to the poor young man.
His weapon clattered to the concrete floor, and he started to tear up while looking at his hands, which were full of blood.
"I understand…" Takajō coughed some blood while smiling at him, "...the so-called prosperity of the state, right? Well, I guessed the spell broke, wasn't it? Well, uh, thanks, I guessed…"
As Takajō closed his eyes and passed away, Uo sobbed hard, clutching his body while disrespecting the cleanliness of his suit and tie.
"No, no, no!" he choked as he leaned his temples against Takajō's forehead. "NO!!! Your life is precious! Please, don't die! Wake up! I did not mean that! NO!"
When he sobbed harder, the ground beneath the alleyway shook, cracked, and sealed the rift in the space of 11 seconds.
"His life…" he kept on sobbing, "...life so precious, so beautiful, so sacred, yet I took it away just for the state…"
He then ripped open Takajō's chest to try to retrieve the burst out nano capsule implanted into his heart.
Blood was everywhere while he kept on digging up the lifeless heart of the young man.
When he did find the nano-capsule, Uo smashed it on the ground and used his right bare hand to crush it.
"Fuck you, evil tech!" he hissed at the broken, deadly technology. "You took people's lives just for the wretched bureaucracy! I hated you! You evil technology!!!"
But this won't bring Takajō back.
And then, Ren walked up to Uo and said to him with sincerity and equal remorse, "I am sorry, Uo, he did not make it."
The rain still poured down like a funeral shroud.
After Takajō's funeral, Uo took his last name, Gotou, and reopened the Gotou Grocers to the public for Takajō's memory and an act of main Ikigai for Uo. Uo is now Uo Gotou, a supermarket manager for Takajō's life and the lives of his poor, unfortunate victims. He can feel Takajō's spirit lingered around the aisles of the supermarket.
He, like Ren, crossed out Takajō's name on the copies of the death notices and wrote the word "Nobody" in the defiant and bold strokes of kanji, and he tossed the papers into a public bonfire at night.