mortality / desperation / (shogi) brinkmate

(obsolete) mortal / desperate, frantic, with all one's might

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

(archaic) the world in which people live; the world, society

human, person, human being / personality, character / (Buddhism) literally meaning: "human society", referring to one of the six realms of reincarnation in Buddhist cosmology.

(dated, rare) a place devoid of people

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

as one wishes, in a way that one wants

(と〜) thinking that […] (with the next clause explaining that the truth is contrary to expectations)