Chapter 386 - Soliloquy
Someone is watching someone else, who is hugging their knees.
It is a void between nothingness, filled by an all-encompassing blank.
A small chamber of oblivion where looking up or down is equally meaningless.
How many fragments of consciousness, falling one by one, still remain?
Or perhaps, is that merely an illusion—that any still do remain?
Has the existence I call 'me' already vanished like foam on a wave?
I wanted to see the stars, I thought.
I wanted to see the sky, I kept thinking.
Just one more time… I want to see the moon. An impossible wish, for all eternity.
Someone is watching 'me' hugging my knees like a child,
'me' hugging my knees like an adult,
me hugging my knees like a person—
In the distant, precious memories of someone sinking into a colorless world,
the whisper of 'Red,' which had nestled close to 'White,' flickered to life.
Dream or reality, it resounded, echoing through that tiny world.