Introduction: Some souls move on. Some refuse. And some are forced to stay.Artemis Bartholomew IV always wanted to be a reaper. She thought it was about guiding souls. She was wrong.The Bureau of Afterlife Affairs doesn鈥檛 guide. It processes.Lost souls are treated like paperwork鈥攕tamped, filed, forgotten. There鈥檚 no guidance, no closure. Art wanted to help, but instead, she was expected to follow orders, mind the red tape, and keep her head down.Until Yusuke Ikigai appeared.A bitter musician who died too soon. A man with unfinished business and nowhere to go. Art should have let the Bureau handle him.Instead, she did something reckless.That was her first mistake.She created The Art Bar.A hidden space in limbo where souls could take the time they needed to accept their deaths and pass peacefully.Now, the Bureau is watching. And they don鈥檛 let things go.Art is given a choice:? Keep the bar, but sacrifice Yusuke to the system.? Save him, and lose everything she built.Because in the afterlife, the hardest thing to do isn鈥檛 breaking the rules.It鈥檚 letting go....