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The light grows and we begin to make out shapes and words. We're in a dimly lit transit center, in a world of faceless, sexless shadowy figures who walk slowly and nearly soundlessly. We hear shuffling and a train station whistle. Then our entity gets some surprising news, from a short gray-haired boy dressed in a school uniform of white shirt, blue tie, gray jacket and shorts. The boy, Purapura, excitedly tells our faceless mute protagonist, "Congratulations, you've won our lottery. You're the sinful dead soul of one who made a terrible error." Makoto has won the chance to discover what that terrible error was in a limited time he has back on earth. Yet our protagonist isn't elated by the news and still has its thoughts are projected against a black screen. "Are you an angel?"

Purapura (Michael) tells him, "If you think I am, then I am." Angel or not, Purapura is a guide. He's not a kindly guide like George Bailey's wing-wanting Clarence of "It's a Wonderful Life" nor the anxious first timer from "Heaven Can Wait." Later, we'll see that he can get angry and even a bit jealous. He'll appear to our protagonist from time to time, but remain unseen by the others.