Concrete Samsara

A disillusioned crime novelist from the Yamato Federation completes his final novel about a bid-rigging conspiracy that consumes an idealistic investigator. When the fictional dead protagonist materializes in his shabby Tokyo-esque apartment, they are both plunged into a living nightmare that mirrors the novel. Haunted by the text he wrote, the author must traverse the real-life underbelly of public works corruption, where every keystroke he once typed now bleeds into reality. Caught between a duty to redeem the lives he callously scripted and the chilling discovery that he himself is entangled in the actual scandal, the boundary between creator and creation collapses. This is a tale of metafictional reincarnation, exploring whether a man who has only ever written about sin can salvage the most tenacious fragments of humanity from the ruins of his own words.