"And no one's really sure who's letting go today, walking away."

Angel detectives stop time. You somehow can see them. Good luck.

["You know, human tragedy doesn't have to be connected to be meaningful.]

"These are four people dying within 24 hours of each other."

[Well, God works in mysterious ways.]

"We're angels. D'ya really have to say it like THAT?"

[I didn't say it. I wrote it.]

"...I just don't get it. why does someone who spent his entire career writing about people suffering nevertheless believe so strongly in happy endings?"

[Well, why was a bitter, resentful old lady smiling when she died alone in a smelly room full of roaches?]

"Your point being?"

[Humans are weird. That's why we do what we do."

"Death is weird by itself, Shiro. Even then, that doesn't explain the... Glitch."

[Maybe his face is hidden because people would judge him for how he died... God obscured his face so... Y'know.]

"Not that there's any point in wondering why things happen."

[That's true...]

"Humans die. Whatever fear, pain, guilt, loneliness, or violence produced that death has ended. And yet, the shadow remains, and somebody has to examine it. Sometimes four people die on the same day. Sometimes there isn't a mastermind. Sometimes there isn't a grand cosmic conspiracy. Sometimes... the horrifying thing is that these are simply four people whose lives ended in different ways, and the universe has no satisfying explanation for why they happened to end together."

[Kuro... ->>>]

"I know, I know. The investigation isn't necessarily about determining who is guilty. It's about making sure these people don't become four anonymous corpses in some celestial database. I-"

[Kuro!!! ->>>>]

"What?"

[There's a human staring at us.]

Inspired by the song "November Rain" by Guns 'n Roses.

Art source.