Over the Choice - 7

Even after 10 years, the same attractiveness and strong thematic consciousness remain.
An outrageous plot twist that will leave readers speechless.

The beginning of 'Over the Choice' begins with the story of the protagonist, Tyr Strike, a small-town sheriff.
A six-year-old boy named Sunny Pointot falls into a ventilation shaft in an abandoned mine while playing, and despite the best efforts of all the adults, they are finally confronted with the boy's cold body after two weeks.
A father who cannot accept his daughter's death causes a small commotion, which leads him to the scene of a nearby carriage accident, where he finds a boy who is the only survivor.
At the end of this introduction, Tir arouses the reader's curiosity with the sentence, 'Six days later the boy died to me.'

The boy who survived was a questionable figure in many ways to the protagonist, Tyr, who was once the empire's swordsman.
Skin color similar to the emperor, an attitude of not caring about the death of a companion, and past actions that seem false.
While Tirga deduces the boy's identity, another commotion breaks out in the small town.
Sunny's mother, Mrs. Pointot, was rescued after attempting suicide by poisoning herself.
But surprisingly, as soon as she woke up, she said, 'I can revive my daughter.
He goes around saying, 'If you offer the sword to the king of the above and below, a world will come where everyone can be resurrected even if they die,' and throws the city into chaos.


Tyr deduces that the sword she is looking for is the sword of the boy found in the carriage accident, and the story soon expands into a grand discourse of the resurrection of the dead and the end of humanity.
Living up to the author's reputation, "Over the Choice" is a gripping read with a solid plot, a storyline brimming with twists and turns, and unique characters that engage readers in a sophisticated battle of wits.

The pain of those who have lost loved ones, and an epic of healing

In "Over the Choice," there are people who have each engraved the wounds of "death" on their hearts in their own way, including the werewolf Keito who lost his fiancée, the dwarf prosecutor Mahadan Kun who lost his master, and the Pointot couple who lost their precious daughter.
While they are suffering from wounds they cannot escape from, they discover a new possibility called 'resurrection'.
And each person accepts the meaning of this 'resurrection' in different ways.
Some people deny 'death' and dream of 'resurrection', causing conflict with those around them, while others accept 'death' itself and consider 'resurrection' a blasphemy, choosing to endure the pain.

The author presents readers with a new approach to the meaning of death through the intriguing question: "What if a loved one we lost through death could be 'resurrected?'"
And furthermore, through the mouths of the dead, it delivers messages about ‘death’, ‘separation’, and ‘healing’.

"You can't become something that never existed in the first place.
Everyone has never been there before.
And then born.
And then eventually it disappears.
When you look at it, it looks exactly like it never existed in the first place.
But that's not it.
“Because we don’t live all of our lives at once.”
-In the text

“Sunny also died for no reason.”
“That’s because your daughter is stupid!”
Yoranhas, who had shouted so fiercely, seemed to be appalled by the absurdity of his own words.
His face turned red and he started rationalizing.
Of course, the words became messy.
“Dead is dead, huh? Poor is poor, but you have to speak clearly.
What can you say about someone who fell into a hole of their own accord, not knowing they were going to die? You should call them stupid. They made us all suffer! They deserve to feel sorry.
"Is this how you repay a favor? How hard did we try to save that child? Heaven knows, and earth knows!"
-In the text

The sensuous descriptions and humor of the sharpest words, along with the philosophical message contained within them.

"I am not singular."
"I am not singular," which is well known as the most memorable line from "Dragon Raja," is a famous line that was even included in the 2014 social studies textbook.
In this way, you can find many sentences that contain philosophical anguish or sentences that are witty and humorous, and in 『Over the Choice』, we introduce some interesting lines and sentences that will captivate readers.

“You can’t put a price on life, no matter what the amount.
Once the price is set, then trading becomes possible.”

“We must stand on the coffin of another.
That's not a question of ethics.
Because it can't be helped.
We must stand on the coffin to prevent it from rising."

"I decline the toast to my foolish youth.
If you really want to toast, wish me longevity.
So that I can do more stupid things.
Oh, of course I wish you a long life too."

"Man is an animal that can abstract the invisible, but he is also an animal that can conceive the abstract as something visible.
Look at all those lovers expressing their love with rings.
If it's for a seal or emergency sale, then it's fine, but otherwise, the ring is an item that has no real use in real life.
But we can read in the ring love, a promise of respect and devotion to a lover, and sometimes even redemption.
The same goes for the sheriff's assistant's longsword.
Although the longsword, unlike the ring, has the function of being a powerful killing tool, that is secondary.
A longsword, when not in use, is little more than a giant ring worn around the waist.
Losing a ring isn't just losing a few grams of metal.
The same goes for long swords."

"I looked around with hungry eyes.
The sky on the left, where I was leaning against the mountaintop, still had the energy of night, but the sky on the right was completely white.
The kind night that covered my murderer's face is withering."

"The part of my body that can truly be called the doer of action is my hands.
From my observations over the years, my hands are the first to reach for food.
Even though he always gets his mouth stolen, he never knows how to stop doing it."

"I'm speaking from a personal perspective, but the famous phrase used at weddings, 'till death do us part,' is a nonsense that is the stuff of the bullshit world.
Separate them.
Few things unite two people as surely as death.
"

"A real man should be able to cry and beg for a flat when he's broke, get drunk and scream under his ex-girlfriend's window, and get up in the morning and bury his face in the dirt."

“It’s precious to me because it was given to me by my parents.
We will be together for the rest of our lives without looking at each other's heads."