第2話

あらすじ

日本語の要約がないため、Englishで表示しています。

出典に基づく · バージョン: v1 · オリジナル

A nameless black-haired woman awakens without memories and is escorted by Nona to Quindecim. Nona assigns her as Decim's assistant and explains that the bar receives pairs of people who died at the same time. Arbiters restore their memories gradually, place them under extreme pressure through games, and decide whether each soul will be reincarnated or sent into the void. The woman observes Takashi and Machiko's darts match from behind the scenes, seeing both the mechanisms that inflict pain and Decim's detached interpretation of their behavior. After the couple leaves, she challenges his judgment. She believes Machiko's affair was a single regretted mistake and that the baby was probably Takashi's. In her reading, Machiko lied at the end so that Takashi could reject her and enter the next life without remaining consumed by jealousy or responsibility for their deaths. Decim is surprised that he may have mistaken a self-sacrificing performance for cruelty and apologizes, though the judgment cannot be reversed. The assistant's empathy introduces a perspective absent from the formal system: actions shown under artificial terror may not reveal a simple moral essence. Elsewhere, Nona reads a picture book called Chavvot, which appears connected to the woman's missing identity.