Oh, you misunderstand. He’s not dead.
I apologize, English isn’t my first language. I flatter
myself to think I speak it well, but I’ll occasionally misuse the specific
idiom, not understanding what phrases are taken to mean other, unrelated
phrases in the common tongue. I hope it didn’t cause any serious
misunderstanding or stress.
He’s very much alive.
I simply refer to him as “The Late” because he’s constantly
late, for everything.
A crime for which I intend to kill him. THEN he’ll be “The
Late” in the way you’d taken me to mean, yes, but not one moment before…
