His job is a nightmare of "sempai-kohai" harassment. The chapter masterfully shows, rather than tells, his isolation. He eats lunch alone in a stairwell. He deletes a dating app because the swipes feel like a job interview.
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The story begins in a liminal space. The protagonist, whose name is often a point of mystery in the early going, finds himself in a white void. The cause of his death is handled with a grounded realism often missing in the genre. There is no grand sacrifice; there is simply the end. This mundanity reinforces the theme that his life, up until this point, was ordinary—perhaps even disappointing. He deletes a dating app because the swipes