Otis Bennett is a sixty-year-old editor crushed beneath decades of grief, trauma, addiction, and isolation. After surviving an abusive childhood and the devastating loss of his younger sister, Otis drifts through life emotionally numb, convinced his fate has already been decided. Everything changes when Levi Nagisa arrives; charismatic, unsettling, impossibly observant — and not human. Beneath his polished exterior exists the Cosmos of Despair itself: a godlike being who feeds on hopelessness, manipulates reality through illusion, and views humanity as both entertainment and sustenance. Their relationship begins as psychological fascination, evolves into dangerous intimacy, and slowly transforms into something neither of them fully understands.