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Once upon a time there was a girl named Chiyuki. She was an only child and lived with her mother in Japan. She was passionate about ice skating and competed at a competitive level.

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One day, however, during a workout, Chiyuki seriously injured her leg. She immediately went to the hospital, but here she did not receive good news: she would no longer be able to skate. Chiyuki's face darkened. The following days she stayed in her room without eating and every time her mother tried to say something to her, she answered abruptly. She thought that her life was nothing without skating, so she, unfortunately, decided to commit suicide.

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Decim was the owner of a bar called Quindecim.

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Customers always came in pairs, one at a time, and, once seated at the counter, Decim suggested they play a game. There was a board with nine games in it and each time a different one was drawn for each pair. Whether the people in the couple knew each other or not, they had to play together, or, as Decim showed them, they would die.

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Of course, the Quindecim was just one of the many venues in the huge building that Nona, the judge who was on the 90th floor, controlled.

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Another venue, for example, was Ginti’s, another judge with the same role as Decim: deciding who, between the two people of the couple, should go to Hell and who to Heaven. Exactly, all the customers were already dead, but they just didn't remember it. Therefore, when they were told that one of them would surely die during the games, they both showed the worst side of themselves and, from this, Decim and the other judges could judge who to reincarnate. Obviously, even Hell and Heaven were a deception: those who went "to Hell" would enter a perennial Limbo, while those who went to "Heaven" could be reincarnated.

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An evening, while Decim was tidying up the counter, Nona entered, accompanied by a girl. She had long, straight black hair, with a few purple strands, two large purple eyes and somewhat pale skin. Nona told Decim that the girl would be his helper for a few days and that, unlike the others, she already knew she was dead. Decim greeted the girl. She had no memory of her earthly life and didn’t remember her own name. Decim was very intrigued by the girl, so he agreed to have her as his assistant.

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He taught her to "judge" customers and decide which of the two should reincarnate. The girl, however, didn’t find it fair that she should judge people based on their behavior during the games. They change behavior only the moment they come to know that if they lose they will die, so they bring out the worst in themselves, people who, of course, didn't want to die. So their behavior at the moment of the judgement didn’t reflect at all what they had done during their life on Earth. Then, the girl tried to make Decim understand the feelings that humans felt, like fear, anger and love, and that the actions they had performed during their life mattered more than that moment of fear in which they had to be during the games.

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Decim and the girl saw the stories of many people who, in some way, had known each other, even if only for a few seconds, on Earth. All of Quindecim's clients had died at the same time, so most of the time they were people who died in accidents or in, for example, robberies or shootings. A different case was, however, that of suicide deaths, who often didn’t remember their life on Earth, but knew they were dead.

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Decim was intrigued by his assistant, so much that he asked if he could receive her memories. Nona and her boss, Oculus, a creature very close to God who controls the arbitrary system, were against it, so Decim procured them for himself with the help of Clavis, the always smiling elevator attendant.

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Decim relived the most important moments in the life of the girl who, apparently, was an agonistic ice skater named Chiyuki. Decim said nothing of what he had seen to the girl, he only proposed to her to see something. He accompanied her to the lowest floor of the building and, once ready, pressed the button on his remote control.

Chiyuki saw her house with her mother inside. She tried to communicate to her, but every effort was in vain as Chiyuki was like a spirit. Finally, Decim made the girl the proposal for which he had brought her there: she could have come back to life, but another person would have lost theirs. Chiyuki didn't know what to do; she really wanted to see her mother again and apologize for what she had done, but she could never take someone else's life for it.

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She then told Decim that she refused his offer and that she would like to be judged too. Nona objected, saying that the girl would have to go to Limbo since she had committed suicide and that no judgment would be needed as her fate had already been chosen.  Decim, on the other hand, wanted to send her to "Heaven" and let her live again. Therefore, Nona made an offer to Chiyuki: they would play a game and whoever lost between the two would end up in perennial Limbo. If Chiyuki won, she would be reincarnated, while if Nona won, Chiyuki would end up in Limbo and Decim would be fired and "killed" as he didn't follow his boss’ orders. Chiyuki looked at Decim. He nodded to her, so the girl accepted the offer.

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They turned the board: the game was "the wolf and the sheep". Both players were placed in an arena with a forest setting. Both were to wear a helmet that indicated who the wolf was and who the sheep and, by lottery, one of the two would be the wolf. The aim of the game was not to be found by the wolf. The game would last 10 minutes.

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The game began and the wolf was Nona. Chiyuki immediately went to hide among the plants trying to breathe as quietly as possible.  She heard Nona's footsteps close by. She decided to change her hiding place, since the one where she was was too open. But as she moved, she fell and hurt her ankle. Nona immediately turned around, noticing the girl on the ground. The two met their eyes: now the wolf was Chiyuki. Why, though, the role of the wolf passes to the sheep once the players meet their eyes? It didn't make sense. At that point it was enough to keep looking into each other's eyes endlessly. Chiyuki realized that it wasn’t the sheep who had to hide, but the wolf. There were 3 minutes left.

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The girl hastened to find a suitable hiding place but it didn’t take much for Nona to understand the real meaning of the game. It was just less than a minute left and Nona was running and screaming for Chiyuki. She found her and threw herself on her. Chiyuki tried in every way not to make eye contact with Nona's, but when the woman threw her to the ground she looked at her instinctively. Nona then tried to escape, but Chiyuki grabbed her by her shirt. There were 10 seconds left. Nona didn't want to open her eyes. Chiyuki shook her forcefully. There were 5 seconds left. The girl punched the oldest on the belly. The woman opened her eyes. The role of the wolf passed again to Chiyuki. The end-of-game bell rang. Nona was screaming. Her helmet began to flash, then exploded. Nona was sent to Limbo.

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Chiyuki returned to Decim with tears in her eyes. She hugged him.

After a while the two were forced to say goodbye. Chiyuki got on the elevator to "Heaven". She didn't know what to say to Decim, so she gave him a smile. Decim's heart warmed, experiencing sensations he never felt before. The elevator doors closed.