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Twenty-five-year-old Miyano Arisu lives a life assembled entirely out of other people's choices. The bread she eats every morning because someone once called it delicious. The clothes she wears because someone said they suited her. The job she's quietly become indispensable to, the shifts she fills without being asked, the drink invitation she accepts simply because she can't think of a reason to say no. Her apartment holds almost nothing that is truly hers—only a single three-hundred-yen cactu