A lot of people didn't like this issue because it really comes off as fluff and a recycle of bits and pieces of Volume 1 and 2, but it okay. Just brings the intensity of emotion down after 3 solid emotional issues that have you questioning the intentions of your government.

Kengi is at the helm again giving the letters marking people for death. The first guy is a teacher. His backstory is he had a great teacher and grew up wanting to be just like his teacher. Having achieved that success and wanting future students to idolize him as he did his teacher, one thing leads to another and his students turn on him. As he's trying to clear his name Kengi gives him the letter, which makes dude have a nervous breakdown while trying to reach his students one last time. The second chick has a interesting backstory. In a world where people wait to see if they live to see 24 before committing to having kids we get a teen mother who married the guy who knocked her up - being so young with a new husband and child her marriage is on the rocks while both are building bonds in their own way with the kid. Then Kengi drops the letter and it becomes a race for each to make sure they can prove to the other that the kid will be taken care of once she's gone.

This issue is less emotion of Kengi and what he really thinks about things and more about his numbness dealing with these extreme cases where he is powerless to give people a different outcome.




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