Hello all, this idea has been floating around for a while. This fic will focus on what I see as a possible end to the life of Kamijou Touma. I may or may not also depict some happenings of the years between where the novels are currently at and the death of our boy. As for "A Case Study", I am still occasionally working on it, but finding the right wording has been tricky. The first full chapter for this fic will either come later tonight or sometime tomorrow depending on how I feel.

Anyway, read and enjoy.

Honestly, nobody who knew what he often got into expected Kamijou Touma to have a long life. When trouble was around, he always tried to be the first one in; and when somebody was in trouble, he always tried to shield them with his own flesh. Hospital trips were a weekly thing, and the doctors eventually decided to make restraining him until discharge a permanent solution to his breakouts. Even then, he would find a way, he always did.

In the end, it wasn't his many enemies that did him in, nor was it friendly fire. It's almost comical, in the end it was the Thing hiding inside him that put Kamijou Touma down for good. Even while the Thing was trying to break loose from its seal; a side-effect or perhaps the reason of Imagine Breaker residing in his right arm, he never stopped trying to help others. While the Thing was slowly breaking him apart, withering him from the inside, his thoughts were always on how to stop it from breaking loose into the world; his own life was merely an afterthought. I wish my friend could rest in peace, but I guess his misfortune truly was something else, and his own soul became part of the seal on whatever that Thing is. In the end, he did not even get to embrace the peace of death.

I can't help but blame myself a bit for this. Time and again I relied on him to fix our problems. Time and again, he was thrown into fights that weren't even his. Now that one of my best friends is gone, the only way I can honor his sacrifice is to aid in the creation of a more permanent seal. The creation of his tomb.

-Fallere825