Editing Mushi Uta:Volume 9 Chapter 3 (section)

== 3.00 Bursting of the Bubble ==
A large stake driven inside the sparkling jewel case.

Or perhaps it was a tower made of jewels.

A towering round building was wrapped in neon lights.

It watched the building from the upper sky.

Just like always, it followed the girl it liked.

While watching over her, it was able to find a nostalgic figure.

The person wearing a worn-out suit and coat.

Yet in its memories the man had been wearing a much neater outfit. It also had no idea why he was hiding his head with a cloth. Even so, based on the coat, the suit, the leather shoes and the wristwatch, there was no doubt he was the same person.

There was another familiar person.

The woman in evening dress.

She always accompanied the suited man. However, in the past she hadn’t floated in the air with such a pale face and looking much like a ghoul.

Why did they become like this?

What made them into such monsters?

Seeing nostalgic people revived nostalgic memories.

Thinking about it—the scenery of the town seemed much more washed out then when it had known it.

Was this entire country changing?

Then what about itself?

Feeling a certain doubt, it tried looking at its own reflection on the glass window of the building.

Reflected there—was nothing but a monster.

A carapace separated into several fragments and exposed nerves connecting them. Buried in the largest fragment was like a combination between a human eye and compound insect eyes; a grotesque object.

''Oh, right. I have also changed—

Why had it changed?

Before it changed, how was it?

It couldn’t quite recall anymore.

Until it did, it would watch the girl it liked and the nostalgic people—

It acquired this clear will and decided to observe the rampaging people below.