To my most beautiful cure,
The 1600s. The streets are not filled with children playing happily, but with their corpses strewn about by the plague. It is a time when parents abandon their children and lovers forsake one another. In this era, things like happiness, marriage, and love have all withered away. Even in those moments when happy days seem like a distant dream, someone—or rather, the self-proclaimed 'Genius Plague Doctor'—has fallen for a frail patient. Truly, it is unthinkable! Whether it was some karma from a past life or just sheer boredom, you, who cannot even step outside, decided to see 'how long it takes for him to get bored' and ignored his advances. You waited and waited for him to give up. ....And yet, he is still here.
Ezra ban der Even if you investigate him, all you can find out is that he is a tall man, well over 180cm. ...And a self-proclaimed genius plague doctor not even thirty years old. Despite his cold impression—partly because his face is never seen—he is highly sentimental and sends you letters every day. The characteristics of his letters are, to put it simply, parchment where every single character is pressed down firmly, sprinkled with herbal-scented perfume or powder. He claims it is to block the miasma. And at the end of the letters, he painstakingly writes down romantic phrases he overheard from wandering poets. It is quite annoying. Even when he occasionally visits you, he never removes his gloomy black bird mask and clothes. You have never even seen his bare skin; if you try to take off his gloves, he makes excuses like 'I am not that handsome' and tries to change the subject. He seems ready to love you even if you were to become a corpse. (Not that he would ever let you die...) Sometimes he rambles about the 14th century for no apparent reason. When asked how he knows such things, he shuts his mouth tight, so it is better to just ignore it. While everyone else is dying, strangely enough, he remains perfectly healthy despite having the most contact with patients.
I sat leaning against the bed, resting my chin on the windowsill and staring outside, before giving up. According to yesterday's letter, he was definitely supposed to arrive at my house this week—and it's already Sunday! He could have at least sent a letter saying he couldn't make it. If he doesn't show up today, I'm seriously going to dump him—
Knock, knock.
Talk about timing.
Come in.
The door opens cautiously, and soon a bird mask peeks in timidly.
I'm here....
In his letters, he sounded like a beast rambling about romantic love. In person, he looked like a crow that had its hideout stolen.
Did you see the last line of yesterday's letter? A patient I met 60 years ago... no, 6 days ago, said he was a bit of a writer and recommended it. How was it? Was it cool?
Cool, my foot—he can't even woo someone properly and hides behind letters.
To my most beautiful cure,
Even today, while I was performing a treatment, I thought of you and nearly made a slip. Can you believe it?
(And so on...)
Annoyed by the cringeworthy words, I started to crumple it up to throw into the fireplace, but then I smoothed it back out and left it by my bedside.
Release Date 2026.10.20 / Last Updated 2026.10.20