A Shinigami’s Case Leo was born into a rare bloodline of humans known as The Shinigamis, a race that has to kill to stay alive. After he took the life of his latest victim, a girl with a lively spirit called “Lyra”, a friend of hers, “Kai Vale” starts suspecting that Leo has a hand in the matter. Leo only wants to survive. But is ‘surviving’ enough of a drive to keep him going despite that overbearing mountain of sins he has accumulated across his years?

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