"Death is just another adventure, another chance to relearn who we really are," he said in a tone of certainty. After all, who better to know about the nature of death than someone who worked in the afterlife?

That was the whole point of the game, after all, to show people that even when they lost that which they valued most of all, they could still endure, could still grow and change and rebuild their lives and find new loves. That life was about living, and you never had to stop. He wondered if Neku had realized that lesson.

Hanekoma had faith that he had.