This may be the first time I've finished a novel with the discomfort of swallowing a fly.

Emphasizing the fact that he was first a fashion magazine reader-model, and then Poju, an hourly worker at a gas station, and finally had his arm twisted off by the store manager.

Shino, a former child actress and a nurse, is mean to someone she met for the first time, but ends up using her body to prevent a "murder".

Konosugi, a gas station owner who was sacrificed to Shino, drank paint water when he was a child, wrote a postcard to his brother, and finally walked out with a lighter.

Negimori, a novelist who hasn't celebrated his child's birthday in three years, talks to his brother Konosugi about his father's medical malpractice, and ends up getting his own father's title deed.

The quirky foursome meets in the rest room of the gas station closest to Tokyo Summerland at dusk on a summer's day.

As I watched, questions popped up one by one, "What's wrong with this guy?" "Is this guy credible?" And all the way through the movie, my mouth was just open, "Huh?" "Ah!" "Ah~ah?!" When I saw the ending of this novel titled "And Then, Live", instead of getting a reassuring answer, I was left with more questions.

But that ending, hanging there in the open

Negimori: I'm really late.

Konosugi: (shaking his head) It's okay, I've been waiting for you

The brother finished the story, left a stack of manuscript paper, and left while his brother slept. I just want to know where he ended up.

Was the brother's ending hinted at long ago in another novel mentioned in the novel?

This novel is the one that got Genson into a novelist's workplace crisis, about a fourteen-year-old girl who ends up committing suicide.

The main character commits suicide by saying, "A quiet death is not death. So I don't die, I continue to live through death undetected."

Cyclicality is the most important feature of the structure of this novel. The cover is designed with "circular" in mind, with a full circle of pink arrowheads going from the front cover, to the pages, to the back cover, and to the spine of the book. The characters are distributed along the arrows, their shadows running in the opposite direction of the arrows, and they can't get out of the story.

With a brushed edge design, each turn of the page seems to tear away pieces of one's life.

What happens on this page?

Do you dare to read this page?