Editing City Series:Volume7 Layer 1 (section)

===Record 119: Someday Surely===

'''02/19/1999

'''5:59

Now, it was time to erase my memories.

After all, I just had too much stuff that would be a bad idea to remember. People often say it’s better to remember things, but the mind of a second year in high school was as sensitive as the final hair on a bald old man’s head. Even as a member of the Chancellor’s Officers, killing someone was just too much.

Beyond my closed eyes, I heard the Professor as he got to work.

“Your memories won’t be completely lost. All I can do is seal them. Is that okay?”

“It doesn’t really matter.”

“You just answered, didn’t you? Looks like don’t have enough anesthetic. It’s injection time~”

He stuck me with the needle. …And wasn’t that an awfully leading question?

Well, whatever. …Um, what had I been thinking about?

Had I forgotten? But it had only been a second ago. Wow, did I really have amnesia?

“I’m going to randomly draw out the fragments of the past inside you and then seal them. Your life will be zapped before your eyes. Enjoy that until the surgery is over.”

I could hear someone’s voice. But what were they talking about? I wasn’t sure.

Still, I was worried about you. To you, I was…yeah, I was pretty sure I had destroyed someone important to you recently. I didn’t know what that meant though. Not anymore, anyway.

The next time we met, would you be able to understand me when I didn’t understand myself?

Author Comment:

Once, my friend actually had the anesthetic not kick in before surgery. The doctor made a bad pun, so my friend made a tsukkomi. Without another word, the doctor gave him some additional anesthetic.