Wilting Regrets

If only we had one more chance.

When people are wronged, they cannot let go. They seek retribution, salvation, revenge. Even in death, those feelings persist, morphing the spirits of the dead into mangled beasts of the afterlife.

In this world where a place for the dead exist, it is the job of executioners to help those spirits find peace by removing their regrets. However, at times the spirits long for the death of the ones who wronged them, and through careful examination, it is allowed for an executioner to end those lives in place of the wronged.